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Personality
Thomas has always been one that isolates himself from others, having much to say, but the wisdom to remain quiet. He's highly intelligent and spends the majority of his free time studying in the library, an unlikely place to be approached by others. He's has a problem with interacting with others, not sure how to make himself liked among others. He's always recieved good marks in his classes, especially Defense Against the Dark Arts. He's been known to have a knack for the subject.
Thomas's sense of humor isn't the greatest, either, he's more serious and doesn't exactly understand when someone is joking. People have told him jokes before, but instead of laughing, he would just give them a queer look because he thought they were intentionally messing with him to get a rise out of him.
He struggles with this, having quite the problem with getting along with those that are able to break through his social barrier. It's no secret he has very few friends, and whether or not this is entirely his fault, it's just the way things have been.
His endearing solitude might have either been caused or created his distaste for a large portion of not only his peers, but for others in general. He feels like even among other wizards and witches, that he is different. That he is easily misunderstood, though he makes no attempt of trying to prove himself to others. Thomas isn't the most confrontational person, but if backed into a corner, so to speak, he would not hesitate to strike at those that threaten him. Unlike others with a darker personality like Thomas's, he doesn't feel as all others are inferior to him. He just wishes bad things upon them a lot of the time.
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History
Thomas was born into a dysfunctional family in Brooklyn, New York to Carolyn Erener. Carolyn was a prostitute who had gotten pregnant by one of her regular costumers, who was never seen again. Not wanting the burden of having a child, she dropped Thomas off at her parent's house. She eventually moved away, somewhere in the south where she would die a few years later after having contracted AIDS.
His grandparents were extremely hard on Thomas, forcing him to do hard labor around the house, such as fixing the plumbing, or repairing the roof of their old, run down house, despite being a child and having no previous experience with carpentry or plumbing fixtures. Even without this experience though, Thomas was always able to accomplish the tasks that were given to him, which would most likely be impossible for other children. Although his grandparents took no notice of his out-of-the-ordinary qualities, being as they were often intoxicated, banishing Thomas to his bedroom, he had developed a practice of his abilities.
The first act of violence happened when one day in Thomas' 5th year in elementary school, a kid named Rufus, who made no attempt to mask his dislike for Thomas, proceeded to pressure him into a fight on the school playground. Along with the adrenaline of the other students egging the fight on, Thomas felt his first real furious feeling bubble up inside him. He took this feeling and without laying a hand on Rufus, he had caused him great pain. Without going into much detail, Rufus had to be sent to the hospital and even though Thomas hadn't touched him, he was expelled for beating up Rufus.
His expulsion led to an uproar among his grandparents, who were surely going to give Thomas a harsh, long lasting punishment. Afraid and unsure of what would happen to him now that he had been expelled from school and that his grandparents were angrier with him than they have ever been, Thomas ran away. An eleven year old boy, on the mean streets of Brooklyn, alone, he was scared, but Thomas felt safer out on his own than back with his family. Miraculously though, a man had taken Thomas in after seeing him digging through a trashcan for food one night. This man was no ordinary man, however. He was a wizard. And, as Thomas would soon learn, so was he.
This man told Thomas of a school where children like him went and learned magic together. He told him that he was just the right age and that he could go there the following year, if he wished. He even went as far as offering Thomas a place to stay for his summer holidays, though to his slight surprise, he declined. Thomas thanked this man for everything he did, but he knew that if there was such a place as Gaol, that he could help himself from here on out. But, as it were, he stayed with the man until he had received a letter, inviting him to Gaol, the Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Since his departure from the man, Thomas has not seen or spoken to him since, and he feels no remorse for not making an attempt to contact him. After his first couple years within Gaol, Thomas feels as if he has still not found his place among the other students, therefore he has a reputation for being a weird, quiet kid. Not having a past altercation with anyone at the school, though, Thomas's bottled up emotions are beginning to boil over and it's only a matter of time that he bursts.
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