Thomas Thomas II
[Unnamed Step-Mother]
Young Lord Thomas Thomas Thomas, The Second is an elite vanguard mage of White Sea, a prominent officer within the Estrelle Airwolves, and a highly capable operative within the Bloodhunter network. Carrying the incredibly rare genetic imprint of a Smoke Dragonkyn, Thomas commands absolute control over high-density smog, ash vectors, and thermal vapor clouds. Balancing a brilliant, calculating operational mind with a deeply vindictive streak against his domestic house, Thomas serves as a vital strategic bridge between the magical guilds of Bosco and the industrial skies of Estrelle.
Biography
Early Years & The Lacrima Incident
Thomas was born into the high-society nobility of Estrelle, the only child of Lord Thomas and his first wife—a highly accomplished clockwork maker mage. From infancy, Thomas was an anomaly; while most newborn aristocrats severely struggled to breathe within the thick, smog-filled industrial atmosphere of Estrelle, the young boy thrived in it. Recognizing his native comfort with atmospheric carbon, his mother quickly identified his awakening magical core and began instructing him on emotional restraint.
When his powers first manifested as a toddler, Thomas delighted in spitting compressed spheres of soot and smoke at household objects. To protect him from political exploitation, his parents aggressively concealed his abilities. He spent his early childhood insulated within the private estate gardens, reading beneath a magnificent Estrellan Peach Tree cultivated by his mother.
This peaceful existence was shattered when Thomas was six years old. A professional slaver circle ambushed the estate, abducting both the young lordling and his mother. During his agonizing captivity, rogue alchemists forcefully spliced a high-tier **Smoke Dragon Soul Lacrima** directly into his physical origin. His mother was brutally killed during the operation.
Following his rescue, the traumatized, silent boy spent days retreating beneath his mother's peach tree. It was there that he met his first cousin, Corrin Abernathy. The newly anchored dragonkyn soul inside Thomas instantly recognized Corrin's genetic signature, permanently marking her as absolute kin. Her presence provided the sole anchor that kept his fractured mind from falling feral.
Domestic Warfare & Drug Testing Protocols
Following the tragedy, Lord Thomas remarried. The new step-mother harbored an intense, vocal prejudice against Thomas and his maternal lineage. When Corrin’s immediate family was later killed in a separate disaster, Thomas openly wept and begged his father until Lord Thomas relented, legally establishing Corrin as a protected ward of the estate.
This created an irreversible, toxic rift within the household. Driven by a vindictive need to antagonize his step-mother, Thomas dedicated his teenage years to driving her entirely up the wall. He intentionally frequented the seediest "dives" and maximum-security taverns within the industrial slums to embarrass the family name.
During this rebellious era, Thomas established clandestine, informal contracts with the city's black-market recreational drug manufacturers. Utilizing his dense, highly resistant Dragonkyn physiology, Thomas acted as a human test subject for new chemical compounds before they hit the streets. Operating under the logic that any batch capable of harming a Dragonkyn would instantly terminate a standard human, Thomas used his feedback to forcefully manipulate the underworld. His high-stakes testing effectively kept lethal, poisoned, or chemically unstable recreational drugs completely off the streets of Estrelle, saving thousands of lower-class lives.
Flight to Bosco and Bloodhunter Induction
Eventually, the localized domestic warfare and the hunting of his kin forced Thomas to break his chains. Escaping the country alongside his gryphon, Red, he crossed the borders into the Kingdom of Bosco. His lethal mastery over smoke vectors and high-velocity aerial maneuvers caught the attention of the state's black-operations networks, resulting in his direct recruitment into the Bloodhunters.
Red: The First Bond
A profound turning point in Thomas's physical and emotional development occurred when he was twelve years old, during an era when he was completely losing himself to deep, consuming grief over his mother's murder.
During an excursion into the high-altitude breeding aeries of Estrelle, Thomas crossed paths with a young avian predator that had been cast out by its pack. The creature was a Gryphon named Red, who had been born as the absolute runt of his litter. Exceptionally small, weak, and physically vulnerable at the time, the young beast was facing starvation.
Sensing a perfect emotional and spiritual mirror in the isolated animal, the twelve-year-old Thomas stepped forward. In an instant, a rare, profound cosmic bond ignited between the young lordling and the runt gryphon. They chose one another unconditionally, anchoring their life forces together.
Over the subsequent decades, Red defied all biological constraints imposed by his early development. Nurtured by Thomas's high-density smoke currents and specialised diets, Red completely outgrew his runt phenotype, maturing into a **colossal, magnificent crimson apex predator**. Featuring brilliant fire-red plumage, an immense wingspan, and absolute aerial dominance, Red functions as a co-equal combat partner to Thomas. He flew alongside Thomas during his escape to Bosco, seamlessly navigating high-altitude Bloodhunter deployments and operating as an unbreakable extension of Thomas’s own will on the battlefield.
Trivia & Personal Habits
- Story-Telling Defiance: Whenever Thomas is kidnapped by political rivals, he completely refuses to fight or beg. Instead, he drops into a completely flat tone and drones on with hyper-detailed, never-ending, and deeply monotonous stories. This psychological warfare is so intense that his abductors routinely drive him back to the Pradesh estate and turn themselves in to the authorities just to escape his voice.
- The Peach Tree Sanctuary: Despite his global Bloodhunter travels, Thomas maintains an absolute reverence for the specific peach tree his mother raised him under, considering its fruit and soil to be hallowed ground.
