"Please don't do anything crazy."
-Tommy Jarvis, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
BASICS
RETIRE INFO: Dragon - Adopt / Character - Retire
NAME: Tom, called Tommy
GENDER: Male
PRONOUNS: He/Him/His
ORIENTATION: Bisexual
BIRTHDATE: Fall 2746
AGE: 29 as of 2775
LOCATION: Fort Weyr
OCCUPATION: Wherhandler /Journeyman Harper
WING: Dawn
APPEARANCE
EYES: Light blue
HAIR: The borderline between orange and blonde, fluffy and light to touch, has one piece of hair that always curls down in the front no matter how much product he puts in it
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 6"2, tall and muscular
PLAY-BY: Thom Mathews
EXPY SOURCE: Tommy Jarvis (Friday The 13th)
FULL APPEARANCE:
Tommy has a strong, square jawline with a cleft chin and beige skin. Sometimes, depending on the week he had been having, deep dark circles can be seen under his eyes from sleep deprivation. He usually has this sort of dazed-neutral look on his face, while in reality, he is very alert. He has a few little scrapes, nicks and dings on his body, but none of them are very prominent or worth mentioning.
Even if the weather is boiling hot, he always wears layers of clothing. His favorite (and only) denim jacket over two shirts is his staple at this point, he could be recognized from miles away because of it. Blue is his favorite color and he always wears something blue every day.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Tommy is, in short, a dork. But, he is a dork who knows how to get what he wants and will do whatever it takes to get a means to an end, within good reason. He would not hurt anyone without a good reason and is quite gentle, he is very sweet and kind, but when someone rude tries to contest his actions, he is unafraid to back down from a fight.
He's got a bit of a funny bone, he likes telling jokes, but he knows when it's time to get serious and when it's time to be funny. Besides this, when he is around somebody that he likes romantically, he gets both of two ways at the same time: A) flirty, and B) awkward. It can be perceived as cute if the time is right.
He suffers from nightmares of those he loves dying, as well as those about Threadfall. Sometimes, he has panic attacks when things dealing with Thread come into play, but he craves to help people continue to live their lives and not have to deal with loss like he had. He bucks it up and pretends to be okay for everyone, bottling up his emotions.
HISTORY
FAMILY: Malcon of Brown Roysith (father, alive, but who cares), Tracie of Green Fellarith (mother, deceased), Patrishe (sister, alive)
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: (optional)
BIRTHPLACE: Fort Weyr
HISTORY: (TW for abandonment, death)
Tommy never really knew his dad, he had transferred to another weyr and left the rest of his family at Fort. Though it wasn't uncommon for families to not stay together, Tommy still resented his father for leaving them. Still, life went along well for the boy, his older sister, and his mother, he couldn't complain much. At least, he couldn't until his mother's death. Tommy was just eight years old and his mother was killed during Threadfall. He knew it was her duty to fight the Thread, but, it was also her duty to come home every night. If losing his mother wasn't bad enough, his sister left him to transfer to another weyr. Patrishe couldn't handle the pressure of raising her little brother, even with the help of everyone else at Fort. The phrase 'it takes a village to raise a child' didn't ring true in her mind. Tommy was distraught and alone and suffering from nightmares, the Mindhealers thought he needed something to do to aid him. They realized that he may need better care than he was receiving at the moment, and they thought that the best way to do this was to send him off to a Hall. Thinking of which could have been the most child-friendly, they sent him to Harper Hall.
He seemed to make some amount of progress there, it took time, but he made progress. He calmed down, to a degree, things like that never fully leave your system, things like that stay until you're an old man, but he learned to contain it enough that people thought he was okay. Tommy was taught to be a Harper, and he thrived in it. He shoved himself into learning, trying to get his mind off of his childhood. It's all he had, it's all he might ever have, he might as well enjoy it. He ended up graduating to become a journeyman a few months after he turned 21. Tommy felt as if he this was the time to go back home, there was nothing left for him at the Hall. The Hall was a second home to him, in fact, he lived there for the majority of his life, but it wasn't somewhere he'd like to stay at forever. Fort Weyr was home, Fort was where he could and would live. So, as soon as possible, he left for Fort.
Being a journeyman was... fine. He sang, taught when needed to, filled whatever rolls they needed him to fill, that was his job, it was fine. It was okay. It was either completely boring or exhausting. Somedays there was nothing to do so he plucked away at whatever instrument he had at his disposal, somedays he had to teach an overactive class with no lesson plan in the slightest. It was driving him off the deep end. He needed something that wasn't going to make him want to pull his hair out every day, maybe just some of the time. He became a candidate. That would switch things up, that would give him something new to do. He'd just have to wait and see.
