#mythomas

Tommie grew up in a small town in rural Alabama with his mother and father. His father tried to instill his values on the young Thomas in various unkind ways, but as much as the boy would have liked to retaliate against his father back then, he didn't.

As a young man, Tommie ran away from home as soon as he could legally get his own place to live. He worked tirelessly at the first job he could get in order to make a stable life for himself. He wanted nothing more than to put his troubled past behind him... but his troubled past had other plans.

It was a quiet, creeping rage that started to grow in him that turned out to be his real undoing. He couldn't let go of how his father had treated him; the man wouldn't leave his mind. Seven years after he had left, Tommie went back to that farmhouse to kill his dad with the same woodcutting axe that had become, in his mind, a symbol of his father's abuse. When his mother walked in to find the grisly scene, he fled.

Tommie drove as far as he could to evade the police but crashed his car in a stretch of woods. He sustains a head injury, and when he comes back to, he doesn't recognize where he is. Luckily, there was a tall, faceless man nearby to help guide him to safety...

Nowadays, Tommie has finally settled, after working various odd jobs, on being a trucker. He drives all over the right half of North America, none the wiser to how many stops he ends up taking along the way- or how many missing persons cases have arisen because of it.

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About Tommie's gigantism: proportionately, Tommie's limbs are longer, his hands and feet are bigger, and he's pretty big in general, but the condition is exactly that- a condition. It also comes with a lot of health issues. Representing it accurately is both fun and important to me, so I'll be making an extended post to talk about how it effects Tommie specifically for those interested. I'd also encourage anyone to look into it for themselves. It's really fascinating.