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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: mi
AGE: 21+
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〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Tom McNair
CHARACTER AGE: 21
CANON ORIGIN: Being Human UK
CHRONOLOGY: Post series.
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Random roommates please!
BACKGROUND:
Under Biography.
Being Human takes place in a modern world like our own, but one that is shared (unbeknownst to normal humans) with supernaturals. It focus on the trinity of werewolf, ghost, vampire. Tom (and his father, Anthony McNair) arrives as an outsider, believing the stories that his dad told him and looking for "the pack" to find his place in the world. George and Nina, the main werewolves of the story, take an interest in him because of Nina's pregnancy and the story that Tom was born a werewolf himself. Mitchell, our vampire, takes an interest because he's been told that he will be killed by a "wolf shaped bullet", aka a werewolf.
But after running some tests and asking some questions, Nina shares the truth that she's discovered with Tom: McNair is not his real father and he was not born a werewolf. He was turned by him as a baby, on a night of a full moon, the night that McNair also killed his parents. Although the two reconcile, the living arrangement at Honolulu Heights starts looking really good to Tom after a life as a vagabond, living in a van and hunting vampires. This feeling only intensifies after McNair is killed by the vampire responsible for his lycanthropy, Mitchell finds his real wolf shaped bullet, and Nina is murdered by vampires. There are a lot of empty rooms in the bed and breakfast, and Tom ultimately occupies one, taking on the role of the main werewolf when George also dies and makes Tom promise to stay with his ghost friend Annie and the baby.
The house doesn't stay vampire-less for long. Another trinity of ghost, vampire, werewolf arrives at their door, drawn there by the baby Eve. There are those on all sides who believe her to be the War Child, a human savior who will bring about the end of the vampires. Tom thinks it's rubbish, but Annie clings to it desperately. When Leo, the elderly werewolf, dies and crosses over with Pearl, it leaves the vampire Hal without a home or a family for the first time in fifty-five years. He stays at Honolulu Heights, which seems the first of many attempts by a mysterious young woman to put the baby in mortal danger.
Tom and Hal could not be more different, with each coming from different backgrounds and having a natural distrust of the other. But through working and living together, they slowly became best mates against those odds. Tom also experiences another first - puppy love with another young werewolf named Allison. But the romance is short-lived when he realizes the ways in which he was changing her, and he convinces her to return home to her parents.
But there were still problems. The Old Ones, the most ancient and powerful of vampires, are due to arrive on Barry Island. As a tribute to them, a vampire named Nick Cutler decides to out the werewolves using Tom, so that humanity will turn against them and turn to vampires as their saviors. Nick pretends to be Tom's friend, a good vampire who wants the bad ones and Old Ones done away with as much as Tom does, who sees this as a way to protect Eve. What Tom doesn't know is that the strange young woman before has made contact with Annie, and revealed herself to be a grown-up Eve who's died and came back through Purgatory with some crucial details about how exactly she brings about the downfall of vampires and saves humanity: in order to do this, she must die. As long as she lives, humanity does little more than pin their hopes on her as a savior, and the world becomes a much darker place.
The house struggles with this information, and Tom's plan is to blow up the Old Ones, along with himself. But Annie, finally accepting the truth and her mission, uses the bomb to blow up herself, Eve, and the Old Ones.
Tom and Hal are left to carry on, along with Alex now, a young ghost who was killed by Cutler because of her budding relationship with Hal. After Hal completes his blood lust detox (which is largely just Tom keeping him tied up in a chair and feeding him mashed bananas), the two get new jobs at a hotel with a dangerous occupant. "Captain Hatch" is actually the devil, trapped in an old man's body after Hal failed to complete a ritual that would've destroyed him. It's the devil who is responsible for the curses of all supernatural, and it's the conflict between werewolves and vampires especially that feeds him. In Tom and Hal, he sees the opportunity to free himself. He starts manipulating them, turning them against each other. As a result of this chaos, the devil starts growing stronger once more.
The biggest conflict arrives with Natasha, a new girl working at the hotel that Tom falls for. Hal, back on the blood again, also makes arrangements to feed from her. All this stems from the manipulations of Mr. Rook, head of a human but falling organization that's dedicated to protecting humans from finding out about the supernatural. While Alex is getting closer to the truth of who and what Hatch is, Tom and Hal start going for each other's throats, even more after Natasha is manipulated by the devil to kill herself and make Hal look guilty for it. From this, the devil grows strong and rises again.
With the three of them separated, the devil goes on a rampage through the city and starts preparing for the Apocalypse. Just as the trinity comes back together and starts preparing the ritual that would destroy him, the devil attempts a deal of sorts. He offers each of them a personal heaven, their lives free of their curses. The devil takes the wolf from Tom, and offers him a dream life with a pregnant Allison. But together, the three of them realize one thing that the devil hadn't counted on: no world can be perfect when the three of them aren't together.
Upon their return, the ritual that would weaken and temporarily stop the devil is smashed. But he's forced to flee his vessel anyway when Rook puts a bullet through the old man's head. Ever tricky, the devil finds a new vessel in Rook himself. Attempting the ritual one last time, Tom, Hal, and Alex kill him and find their curses removed.
...Or do they? A post series epilogue reveals that the whole thing was actually just another of his tricks. The devil is still out there for the trinity to defeat.
PERSONALITY:
Tom is simultaneously a sweet young man, a trained killer, and a thing of nightmares, packaged in a singlet and a pair of cargo shorts. Which face you see all depends on who you are and when you meet him.
His default setting is that of a boy in a grown man's body. Tom has an innocence about him. Childish things appeal to him, namely things that were missing from his own childhood. He had his first birthday party and cake at the tender age of twenty-one. And he gets along well with children, even catering to the whims of bratty little ghost boys. Like a child, Tom also holds nothing back when it comes to honesty or emotion. When a cashier at the store thought that he was Eve's father (and flirted with him, which Tom was oblivious to), Tom ended up rambling about the bad men who'd killed her parents and his father and his fears that they might come for Eve too.
Tom might seem a little on the slow side to those who don't know him well, but he isn't particularly stupid. He has moments of being the most level-headed of the household, such as never believing that Eve was more than just George and Nina's baby. But when you're raised in a van in the woods with only your father to talk to, there's bound to be a few gaps in your education and social skills. Technology and how to talk to girls are weak spots for him. So he's rough around the edges, sure. But Tom took everything that McNair did teach him to heart and some of those things are more important than good grammar. Growing up in the woods is no excuse for bad manners, after all. Some of his mores might be a little outdated, especially when it comes to women. Tom does his best to be polite and a gentlemen, but sometimes it just comes across as patronizing.
McNair loved and protected him from many ways of the world, but not everything that Tom learned was quite so innocent. A lot of what Tom knows is centered around survival: fighting, stealing, explosives. More than anything he was raised as a soldier in the war against vampires and is frighteningly good when it comes to killing them. Sharpening stakes is practically a hobby to him, and he's named his favorite ones. His prejudice against vampires didn't lessen after the man who raised him was killed by one. He made an exception for Hal because of his years of "sobriety" and his willingness to try. The two eventually became friends, proving that he could actually get along with one.
"Just picked it up off McNair. Always be kind and polite and have the materials to build a bomb."
-Anthony McNair, Father of the Year.
Tom's an emotional person, lashing out when he's angry and breaking into tears when he's hurt. He's also naive, and everything together makes him easy to exploit if you know his weaknesses. He grew up being told stories about "pack", a family made up of other werewolves where he and McNair belonged. It was just one of many stories that the man he thought was his father told him. The hope of the pack took the edge off of the loneliness, but the search for it was really just a cover for hunting vampires. The man who told him sweet stories about his mom was actually the werewolf who'd killed his parents and infected him. He was also manipulated by a vampire named Cutler and later by another werewolf, because he again wanted to believe the things that they told him. Tom has had to learn the hard way that not everyone is as honest as he tries to be.
Tom is a protective and selfless when it comes to people (or ghosts or vampires) that he cares about. He was willing to strap bombs to himself for Eve, or willing to remain in a nest of vampires to protect her. Even before that, when Tom and Nina and George were trapped in a caged "dog fight" just minutes before the full moon, he offered to kill George and then let Nina kill him to protect her and her unborn baby. And if that's not enough, he spoon-fed mashed banana to a cranky vampire, all in the name of friendship. Family and belonging is something that Tom longs for, whether it's the pack that his father would talk about or the family he was making with Allison in the dream that the devil offered him. He finally found that family with Tom and Alex, strange as it may be.
He has a wolf inside him, but it's the only thing that Tom has ever known. He wasn't actually born a werewolf as he first believed, but he has been one since he was a baby. Growing up he was told that it was a blessing instead of a curse; a broken boy gets stronger with the mending. He even makes a comment that he never felt frightening before when Alex first meets him while he was in his werewolf form. But there are times when it makes for a convenient scapegoat. When his self-esteem took a dip, Tom blamed the curse for making him dumb and unsuccessful. Tom is always looking for ways to better himself though, which gives him something of a competitive streak with Hal. Whether it's getting a girl's number or being Employee of the Month, Tom strives to do his best, especially if he thinks it would make his father proud.
POWER:
Puppy Powers:
Tom is a werewolf, infected as a baby by his adoptive father McNair. One night a month, with the full moon, he transforms into a large wolf-like beast. The transformation is extremely painful: internal organs shrink and even shut down, bones break and reform. Fangs and claws and fur grow. When the mind is finally lost, that's when the man (or woman) becomes a monster. Tom has no memory of what he did after he returns to his human form.
Werewolves are extremely aggressive and powerful, possessing strength many times beyond that of a normal human. They also have heightened senses of hearing and smell and enhanced healing. Werewolf blood (at least in the BH universe) is also toxic to vampires.
Buffy Powers:
While not actually a power, Tom has been trained as a soldier, so he knows how to fight. Even in his human form, he's shown to be able to snap a vampire's neck without breaking a sweat. His transformations have left him physically tougher than the average human.
He also knows how to make explosives out of fairly ordinary stuff.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[Tom looks nervous. He's not used to speaking in front of an audience, on camera or not.
Unfortunately, this video doesn't come with subtitles. But he at least starts out trying to speak properly.]
Er...hello. My name's Tom McNair - big 'm', little 'c', big 'n' and then...
[He spreads his hands wide, hoping that will explain the 'air' part. Maybe he should've written this out on index cards first after all. Tom lets his arms drop to his sides, grinning softly as he continues.]
Right, so I wanted to thank someone for the new job 'n all. It's good though, I ain't used to just swanning around all day. I can hardly believe it. I ain't even got a CV, but I've done lots of odd jobs, most of 'em dirty. I was an assistant manager for a fancy hotel once. Had a badge and everything, A-s-s M-a-n spelled out right across it so everyone knew I was in charge when Hal weren't around. I'll do me very best though, for the the city and everyone.
[He thinks for a moment longer before giving the camera a bright grin and a thumbs up.]
Yeah, so cheers.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
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FINAL NOTES: n/a