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PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Matthew
ARE YOU OVER THE AGE OF 18? Yep!
CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Thom CreedSPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES / FURTHER EXPLANATIONS
PREFERRED JOURNAL:sanator
CANON: Hero - Perry Moore (Novel).
CANON POINT: After a press conference in which Thom is forced to come out publicly as homosexual despite a homophobic society, thus publicly shaming himself and his father, in order to save the life of a supervillain wrongly accused of murder.
AGE: (17 canonically) Would like to age him up to 18 (see below!)
BACKGROUND: Wikipedia
WISH: Thom wishes that his society would be more tolerant of homosexuality! It would be a particularly fervent wish as Thom was forced to publicly come out as homosexual and the repurcussions were massive: he was removed from the league of heroes, his father grew to hate him (if only in Thom's own perceptions), he was the target of discrimination and became instantly recognisable to everyone in his city.
FIT: Thom is a superhero with a strict code of ethics and the desire to do good in the world, to the extent he works as a volunteer for the local community centre helping immigrant kids with their literacy and later tutoring higher levels of education to help disadvantaged kids, but more importantly Thom is a healer; he has the ability to see psychological and physical pain and more importantly the ability to heal it. He's also a romantic dreamer with a tendency towards fantasising about perfect a perfect romantic life with members of the league of heroes. With that in mind I think Thom would fit both sides of the game's concept. His contribution would take similar forms: helping those in need, committing 'hero' deeds, healing those who might request it (even though its to his own detriment at times), generating the 'positive energy' through acts of intimacy both platonic and sexually). [Canon examples of Thom's desire to help people would, for example, include spending his own college savings on a member of his squad's chemotherapy / healing a hospital burns unit full of children / tutoring literacy in children]
CONSENT: Thom is very much interested in the idea of consent and freedom of self. One of the main examples of this is that Thom himself was devastated when his canon villain enslaved the minds of every superhero in the League of Heroes in order to attempt to explode the planet to return to his own home planet- Thom was responsible for breaking the villain's mind control and was ready to sacrifice himself in order to do so. Thom wouldn't break someone else's consent either, as is seen multiple times throughout the book- he attempts to heal Ruth's psychological pain and immediately stops when asked, he keeps Scarlet's secret about her sickness despite being threatened by his squad leader.
POWERS/ABILITIES: Thom is a superhero, which in his canon is similar to a mutant and passed on through birth in Thom's case as his mother had the power of invisibility. In Thom's case his healing is seen in multiple ways
- Seeing Sickness/Pain - Thom seems physical and psychological pain as a stain on a character's aura. If he focuses intently enough he can pinpoint what their issue is, especially when it comes to the physical. Pychologically, if Thom focuses hard enough he can get a 'sense' of the memory/idea the pain is causing for example if its heartbreak as seen in the novel.
- Invincibility - Thom cannot get sick himself, nor can he be injured as his healing ability can be directed upon himself. Its seen as a 'fire' or 'light' that starts to heat up the moment he suffers an injury. He severs the tendons in his own legs in the novel, ruptures his femoral artery, walks through a cavern made of spiked glass, breaks his neck, ruptures internal organs. He's still learning how these powers work in the novel however and doesn't achieve full 'invincibility' until the end of the novel.
- Healing - Thom is able to heal a great deal of injuries but not all of them. Things he's healed in the novel: broken bones, severed limbs, varying degrees of burns, common illnesses, bruising, minor injury, complete obliteration (he was able to knit someone's molecules back together), a dead plant, cancer. He wasn't however able to heal someone who'd been completely impaled on a tree branch because he was still learning his powers.
- Energy Transmutation - Thom is able to transmute the energy he gets from healing himself and others in order to give himself super strength, speed, super senses, flight. This power will probably not be used while in Cuddle City unless an event occurs where Thom is required to heal on a massive level as I am not taking him from the end of the novel.
SAMPLES: Prose Sample with Clary | Texting thread with Snart
AGE: - this could conceivably done by taking him from a canon point after the events of the novel but I'd prefer not to do this as Thom changes drastically in terms of power towards the end of the novel, becoming what is referred to in the book as an A-Tier hero. I think the ambiguity of his age in the novel would make it easy enough to view him as 18- he's a high school senior that is offended by the idea of playing Basketball with the Junior's squad after being kicked off the team. Although Thom's emotional maturity in the beginning of the book is questionable (he's a closeted gay man in a broken home, his father the world's most hated superhero and his mother completely absent) he develops rapidly during the book and especially once he becomes a probationary member of The League of Heroes thanks to the influences of the people around him. I don't think it would be a huge leap either, ageing him by a matter of months as he refers to himself in the book as getting 'closer to eighteen' - His ideas on consent and his sexuality are both mature enough to be considered adult, not only is Thom a superhero that follows a strict code of ethics, in a moment of desperation he's also able to pose with enough maturity to convince a stranger at a gay bar that he was in college before admitting that he was underage.
ANYTHING ELSE? Nope!