#thomas lasky

Tortured Lasky a little bit for @poisonheadcrabsalesman . He’ll be fine I think

• Loooves old timers. Cars, motorbikes, aircraft, etc

• Has a WWII BMW motor bike somewhere

• Has addictive tendencies

• Do NOT let him gamble. Ever.

• Lwk kinda scared to become an alcoholic. Drinks veeery rarely

• Has gotten into more bar fights than he'd ever admit

• He has also gotten a lot more speeding tickets than he'd ever admit

• Lwk always gets anxiety when driving a car, but is also crazy uncomfortable not driving, especially when he has to sit shotgun (Corbulo still haunts him hardcore)

• Got taught by Captain Keyes on Luna and very much looked up to him

• May or may not have had a crush on him

• Was extremly scandalised the day he found out Capt. Keyes and Dr. Halsey had a daughter

• Really comfortable with nudity

• When he's on leave and just chilling at home, he's gonna be walking around naked

• Def sleeps naked at home

• He runs sooo hot

• He 100% wears parfume of duty (Blu de Channel, trust)

• Very well groomed in general

• Blushes really easily

• Full body blush too

• Has mastered the art of puppy eyes

• Wishes he could hug his mom more often

• King of gossip. He knows all the tea.

• Because he is so charming and nice, people tell him their buisness all the time

• Keeps telling the Chief to call him Tom instead of Sir/Captain. The Chief refuses.

• He and Sarah get up to no good all the time. They may or may not have put some graffiti somewhere on the Infinity

• He was really upset when Del Rio called him "Mister" Lasky for the first time

• Del Rio had him make his coffee. He may or may not have done something with it a couple of times.

• He HATES having to sleep alone in a bed

• So cuddly. Also a blanket stealer

• General Black is his sleep paralysis demon

• For the first few days at Corbulo he thought General Black was really attractive. He was his bi awakening.

• Lwk kinky. He would not mind being stepped on

• Grinds his teeth alot

For @holyshonks who so kindly gave me the prompt. Here is Lasky and Roland playing chess 3 days after Axios, 8 days before Halo Infinite, and 1 day before Roland's 2nd birthday for those keeping track at home. Character study written in one sitting at ass o clock.

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December 4, 2559

Three days of meetings, plans, and arguments has Captain Thomas J. Lasky sinking into his chair at his desk with exhaustion. Like a puppet with its strings cut, he goes boneless for a moment, head back and eyes shut before his back starts to complain and he thinks better of it.

Surrounded and outnumbered… His mother's words during their chess game have him ruminating on how long it will take him to solve this problem and how long he actually has. Time is running out and the plans are coming together, but is it enough?

The Created, the Banished, Covenant splinter groups, too many players on the field, too many openings, and not nearly enough pieces left to sacrifice.

"He sat there for a while, and in that time, would have given anything to be anyone in the galaxy other than Captain Thomas Lasky. To have fallen in any number of the battles that had claimed so many of the people he cared about. Opening the top drawer of his desk, he pulled out a collection of service tags connected to a shard of alien alloy from a Mgalekgolo shield. A macabre but necessary keepsake from the day the Covenant had attacked Corbulo. Their names were all there. Dimah, Junjie, Walter… Chyler. At least a dozen others had been added to the chain in the years that had followed, but those four—along with Cadmon—had been the first. He wondered how many more would become part of the collection. He was grateful to be distracted from his inner thoughts when Roland’s holographic avatar appeared at the end of his desk."

-Axios, Waypoint Chronicles Volume 1

5 dog tags (Corbulo Cadets + Dead Bro Cadmon) plus a minimum of a dozen more spanning the time between Lasky being age 16 to 50, a timespan covering the Human-Covenant war and near-genocide of the human race.

I'm glad he keeps it in a drawer, he could not carry 17+ dog tags and a chunk of alien shield on his person without looking insane. PLUS! How does he get the dog tags? Is he making copies? His brother exploded, his classmates were killed on a then glassed planet? Dimah fell/got exploded in a space elevator??? This is the man who when meeting a food writer on a top secret ship at a bar hands Arturo Bustamante a flag from his glassed high school. Is this man so sentimental he's doing grief arts and crafts in his spare time? We don't know anything about Lasky beyond what we're shown and right now it's an always grieving man who stands around and gets to say a line and look off into the middle distance before a cut to black that lasts for 5 real years.