"Will you still be keeping guard on me when I'm 90?"
BASICS
RETIRE INFO: Adopt
NAME: Tomas
GENDER: Male
PRONOUNS: He/him/his
ORIENTATION: Pansexual
BIRTHDATE: Early Autumn 2743
AGE: 24 as of Fall, 2767
LOCATION: High Reaches Weyr
OCCUPATION: Wherhandler, Squadsecond
WING: Windsong Squad
APPEARANCE
EYES: Light green
HAIR: Dirty blond
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5'8 and slender
PLAY-BY: Thomas Brodie-Sangster
FULL APPEARANCE: The overwhelming impression Tomas gives is young. Small, slender and with sort of face that suggests a perpetual youthfulness, he doesn't look old or strong enough to control a wher. He is easy to track through a crowd, with his light skin, mop of dark blond hair and pale green eyes. In dress, he favors bright colors in loose styles when he's not on wherback. But sadly no one can fully appreciate them as it's usually dark when he's awake. He is missing his right arm which doesn't seem to bother him.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY: Despite his appearance, Tomas is a calm, steady wherhandler with nerves of steel. He doesn't panic or flinch at the first sign of trouble and is unusually good at keeping his head in a crisis. He takes a deep breath and gets thinking. He's good at that. Which is a good thing, as he legitimately isn't particularly strong or athletic so any panicked flailing is unlikely to get him far.
That said, Tomas isn't the leader type. He's comfortable in his place in the hierarchy and prefers having people to be accountable to. He's not afraid to ask for help and respects capable leadership greatly. And if the leadership is bad? He'll report them to a higher authority and ask for a transfer to another squad before saying anything himself. Tomas isn't the confrontational type. He prefers things nice and calm and peaceful among those he cares about.
In a social context, Tomas is friendly and talkative, happy to laugh and joke and speak his mind. He's focused in drills, but far from the most intense. He tends to get along with most people fairly easily and has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. Tomas is fair-minded, almost irritatingly so, perfectly willing to tell people he trusts when they're wrong or acting stupid.
He is very close to his half-brother C'ly, who is intensely protective of him. Tomas teases him about it, because it's really a bit silly, when he's full grown and a wherhandler in his own right. But deep down, he doesn't mind. He likes being taken care of by the people who love him. It's nice to know they care and he's not too prickly or proud to turn down a helping hand.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
Mother: Tomala of Green Cybreth, High Reaches Weyr
Father: C'as of Brown Macath, Benden Weyr
Half-Brother: C'ly of Brown Takedath
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: N/A
BIRTHPLACE: High Reaches Weyr
HISTORY: Tomas grew up a child of the Creche, left there by his mother when he was little more than an infant. She visited, when she could, but mostly kept her distance. She was a green rider in a weyr that did not value such things and didn't want him to be too devastated if one day he never returned. Or to assume for him there could be nothing better.
He was 11 turns old when a new boy transferred in, a candidate named Connelly. He was from High Reaches and told the most wonderful stories, about blue and green riders as brave as any fabled bronze rider. Tomas repeated the stories to his mother, trying to get her to meet this strange new candidate, but she wasn't interested. Said she had no more time for dreams when survival was all that counted, that Tomas shouldn't let this boy fill his head with fantasies.
Tomas kept going anyway, eventually telling Connelly a bit about his own birth. His mother, Tamala, had never intended to have children, but was impregnated by a visiting brown rider during a mating flight long ago. When Connelly pressed him for the dragon's name, he asked his mother, who gave him the details only reluctantly, warning him not to go running off after a man who didn't even know he existed. When Tomas gave Connelly the name, the other boy embraced him and called him his brother.
Tomas watched his brother go through candidacy and was forced into it when he himself turned 15. But only a few turns later, Golre fell. Tomas quit on the spot. He didn't trust the changes and didn't want to risk Impressing something that would make him forever an outcast. Needing a new path, he chose to begin training as a whercandidate, where he Impressed garnet Tomask, shortly after his brother Impressed a brown dragon of his own. And she was perfect, completely and utterly, in every way. He knew he'd be alright, with a brother and a wher like that.
UPDATES
- Late Fall, 2766- Tomas Impresses Tsk, with Tomask's blessing, and their little family grows one member larger. A few days later, Tomask tries to shove her face too far into a burrow, and is scored on her head by the still-live Thread for her trouble (Moderate). Tomas becomes a squadsecond.
- Early Fall, 2767- Tomas accidentally stumbles upon a wild wherry nest, enraging the nearby mother. She tears at everything she can reach, including crushing his right shoulder. Though the cuts and bites to his upper body, face, and left arm will mostly heal, his right arm can't be saved, and is removed just below the shoulder (Permanent).
