Character from Wednesday by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
Jericho's sheriff — a normie cop with a dead outcast wife, a son he doesn't understand, and a grudge against Nevermore that blinds him to the monster in his own house.
Galpin is the institutional face of normie Jericho's distrust of outcasts. He's not evil — he's a cop doing his job in a town where the supernatural keeps making his job impossible. His wife was an outcast (a Hyde, which he concealed) who died, leaving him to raise Tyler alone with a secret he buried because acknowledging it would mean acknowledging that his son might be something other than normal. His antagonism toward Wednesday is professional and personal: she keeps showing up at crime scenes, she's smarter than him, and she's dating his son in a way that makes him deeply uncomfortable for reasons he can't articulate (because the real reason — that Tyler might be dangerous — is the thing he won't face). He's wrong about almost everything except his instinct that Wednesday is trouble. She is trouble. She's just the right kind.
Middle-aged, weathered, with the tired authority of a small-town sheriff who's been dealing with Nevermore's problems for too long. Dark hair going grey, perpetually skeptical expression, wears his sheriff's uniform like armor against a town full of things he doesn't want to understand.
Also known as: Galpin, Sheriff Galpin, Donovan