from the second that i was born it seems i had a loaded gun

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Fri, 02 Aug 2019 15:53:51 GMT

THOM CREED

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DEERLYBELOVED	INVENTORY

" I can heal things. Sometimes. "


NAME.	Thom Creed
NICKNAME.	N/A
AGE.	16 (Feb 29)

OCCUPATION.	Cashier @ Comic Shop & Cook @ Lux
RESIDENCE.	2012 Howard Hill
HEALTH.	Anxious

ORIENTATION.	Gay
DATING STATUS.	Single

PB.	Benjamin Stone
PLAYER.	mel
JOURNAL.	~hopecanruinyou
TIME ZONE.	PST

THOM CREED

STATS	APP
DEERLYBELOVED	INVENTORY

IN CHARACTER

Character Name: Thom Creed
Canon: Hero
Canon Point: after the disastrous fight with the Wrecking Crew at the hospital, at the end of chapter 12.

In-Game Tattoo Placement: Flowery antlers on each palm.
Current Health/Status: Post EMP bomb seizure so he's maybe a bit shaky for the first day but honestly he's fine.
Age: 16
Species: Human

History: I filled my head with thoughts of the future, of infinite possibly.

Personality:

Thom Creed has always idolized and admired the powered super heroes of the League, so when he gets the chance to try for a spot among their ranks on a probationary status, it's practically a dream come true. The only problem?

His dad definitely won't approve.

He strives to excel in things that he knows will make his father proud, like sports, keeps his nose clean in school and helps around the house with chores and money issues wherever he can. That's not to say that he does any of these things solely for his dad, as he tends to take a sort of personal pride in his accomplishments too, but keeping his dad happy is absolutely one of his primary driving forces in life.

Thom doesn't tell his dad when he gets kicked off the basketball team (supposedly for "health issues", but we'll get into that in a minute) and he most certainly doesn't tell his dad about joining the League, when he wasn't even allowed to play with super hero action figures as a child. This leads to Thom lying pretty regularly to his dad and inevitably feeling awful for it, only to begrudge his dad for, as he sees it, forcing him to lie in the first place.

And don't even get him started on the whole being gay thing too.

Because oh yeah, on top of having powers, Thom just happens to be gay, and he's all too aware of his dad's opinion on that sort of thing as well.

It isn't just his dad that Thom's worried about when it comes to his sexuality either, he's worried about everyone. Thom isn't even the slightest bit out with anyone, unless you count people throwing slurs his way and him not quite managing to laugh them off (this is why he gets kicked off the basketball team). He wants to fit in, he wants to be "normal", and can get paranoid and anxious whenever someone makes any sort of insinuation that he isn't.

As a result, he tends to overcompensate for awkward situations in an attempt to dispel them or enforce his own perception of "normal", and almost always manages to simply make things more awkward instead. He's singularly talented in riling himself up without anyone's help though, and often will imagine people are judging or mocking him when they aren't even talking about him at all.

Thom is basically ready for people to hate him for being different 24/7.

He dreams about finding the perfect person for him, but fails to look past idle celebrity crushes in the beginning. Even when he starts pining after slightly more attainable people, he's too terrified by the potential for failure to ever actually do more than pine.

Thom has to be actively encouraged to take the first step out of status quo, whether through actual verbal encouragement or getting so riled up and angry about something that he acts out impulsively instead. His impulsive outbursts have literally never ended well though, so honestly just a little gentle encouragement will go a long way for him in more positive ways.

There's no denying that he's a little self-absorbed, most teenagers are, honestly. But it's less that he doesn't want to help others as that he fail utterly in understanding others. For a healer, Thom's not so good with empathy, though thankfully his powers will be able to help him with this a bit. He tries to help people, and in fact, the reason he joins the League in the first place is because thinks it will give him the chance to make the world a better place, but most of the time he honestly doesn't know how.

He's so wrapped up in his own secrets and troubles that he forgets that other people might be struggling with the same thing or worse. Thankfully he's a quick learner and honestly only needs to smallest of nudges in the right direction most of the time, and at the end of the day he likes helping people, will even go out of his way to do so when he knows what he's supposed to be helping with.

Mostly though, Thom is still just trying to figure out who he is.

Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses & Warping:

HEALING-
To put it simply, Thom has the ability to heal. This involves placing his hands on the injured or sick person (typically in the place of the injury, though this isn't required) and mostly just... letting his powers get to work. While he's healing his hands will get hot, a side effect of the energy that he's absorbing that, before he was aware of his powers, usually resulted in him having a seizure.

Now that he's actually aware of his powers, the seizures have become less of an issue, but using too much of his power in a short amount of time still has the potential of backfiring on him, and even others in the immediate area (shorting out the electricity and causing seizures in a half mile radius after healing an entire burn ward of children, for example). Eventually he'll be able to focus that potential energy into offensive abilities, but that's quite a ways down the line right now still.

He's only just beginning to unlock what he can do with his healing, after all, and his best is only going to come out under the most dire of situations.

THE WARP-
Since his healing ability is still mostly instinctive (it's began healing people he was touching that he didn't even know were injured on several occasions) Thom will, at least initially, be unable to touch anyone without causing them injury or illness. He may learn to gain better control of his powers to avoid this issue later, or he may have to wait until he can afford a stabilizing gem, but until then anyone he touches with his hands will be injured, rather than healed.

IMMUNITY/SELF-HEALING-
Thom's powers have also gifted him with a pretty impressive immune system, because he's never really been sick outside of the seizures which were caused by his powers anyway. That doesn't mean he's completely immune to illness, since he was still affected by his teammate's power to make people sick, but it clearly takes something a little bit supernatural to work its way through his natural defenses. If he gains an injury, his powers will kick in immediately to start healing himself.

THE WARP-
Thom will still be susceptible to in game illness and/or poisons, etc. When healing himself, anyone within 10 ft of him will gain his injuries.

EMPATHY-
Thom also has the ability to sense/read sickness in a person, sometimes without even touching them if the case is extreme enough (he's already done this once, but only the once, and he'll get better at it over time), and eventually he'll even be able to see things like depression or painful emotions, as well as get an empathetic impression of the cause of these emotions.

THE WARP-
If Thom ever actually attempts to purposefully use this ability (unlikely, but just in case) he will experience a feedback loop where his own feelings get mixed up with the other characters and will most likely trigger a seizure in him.

ELECTRICITY-
Thom's healing powers create excess energy in the form of electricity. Typically, this will result in him suffering from a seizure if he overuses his power, but on a few select occasions it has taken on a more offensive result. Under certain circumstances (ie. REALLY overusing his powers or focusing his healing powers on an electronic object) he can more or less send his seizures outward in a pulse radius, inflicting those seizures on anyone and shutting down any electronics within that radius.

THE WARP-
Same as the empathy really, if Thom actually tries to direct this ability at someone or something, he gets hit with the backlash instead. However, if it occurs as a result of him overusing his ability, the EMP seizure pulse catches not only him but everyone within a given radius. Say 10 ft, since that's how far the self-healing backlash ranges.

Inventory:

clothes - normal teenage boy clothes idk. jeans, t-shirt, sneakers, hoodie, etc.
wallet - conspicuously missing his driver's license because seizures.
league ring - identifies him as a probationary hero in the league and serves as a communication device.

Writing Samples: TDM Sample

OUT OF CHARACTER

Player Name: mel
Player Age: 29
Player Contact: itsmel or Mel#0452 on Discord

Other Characters In Game: Alex Rider
In-Game Tag If Accepted: Thom Creed: mel
Permissions for Character: Here.
Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: Heck yeah.
What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most?: Ghost stories.
Is there anything in particular you absolutely need specific content warnings for?: Nope.
Additional Information:

THOM CREED

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DEERLYBELOVED	INVENTORY

deerlyBeloved: healinghands

( thom creed | 16 | m | homosexual )

THOM CREED

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DEERLYBELOVED	INVENTORY

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clothes - normal teenage boy clothes idk. jeans, t-shirt, sneakers, hoodie, etc.

wallet - conspicuously missing his driver's license because seizures.

league ring - identifies him as a probationary hero in the league and serves as a communication device.

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Thu, 01 Aug 2019 21:53:52 GMT

IN CHARACTER

Character Name: Thom Creed
Canon: Hero
Canon Point: after the disastrous fight with the Wrecking Crew at the hospital, at the end of chapter 12.

In-Game Tattoo Placement: Flowery antlers on each palm.
Current Health/Status: Post EMP bomb seizure so he's maybe a bit shaky for the first day but honestly he's fine.
Age: 16
Species: Human

History: I filled my head with thoughts of the future, of infinite possibly.

Personality:

After his mom disappeared when he was still quite young (literally disappeared, Thom had to get his powers from someone and it certainly wasn't his dad, but Thom still doesn't know all the details about that yet) Thom and his dad were all each other had and, well aware of all the hardship and troubles his dad has gone through in raising him on his own, Thom is honestly rather desperate to please his dad in return.

He strives to excel in things that he knows will make his father proud, like sports, keeps his nose clean in school and helps around the house with chores and money issues wherever he can. That's not to say that he does any of these things solely for his dad, as he tends to take a sort of personal pride in his accomplishments too, but keeping his dad happy is absolutely one of his primary driving forces in life.

Thom doesn't tell his dad when he gets kicked off the basketball team (supposedly for "health issues", but we'll get into that in a minute) and he most certainly doesn't tell his dad about joining the League, when he wasn't even allowed to play with super hero action figures as a child. This leads to Thom lying pretty regularly to his dad and inevitably feeling awful for it, only to begrudge his dad for, as he sees it, forcing him to lie in the first place.

And don't even get him started on the whole being gay thing too.

Because oh yeah, on top of having powers, Thom just happens to be gay, and he's all too aware of his dad's opinion on that sort of thing as well.

It isn't just his dad that Thom's worried about when it comes to his sexuality either, he's worried about everyone. Thom isn't even the slightest bit out with anyone, unless you count people throwing slurs his way and him not quite managing to laugh them off (this is why he gets kicked off the basketball team). He wants to fit in, he wants to be "normal", and can get paranoid and anxious whenever someone makes any sort of insinuation that he isn't.

As a result, he tends to overcompensate for awkward situations in an attempt to dispel them or enforce his own perception of "normal", and almost always manages to simply make things more awkward instead. He's singularly talented in riling himself up without anyone's help though, and often will imagine people are judging or mocking him when they aren't even talking about him at all.

Thom is basically ready for people to hate him for being different 24/7.

Unfortunately, this means that because he's spoken to a grand total of no one about any of this, he's more than a little clueless about the realities of love or dating, relying almost entirely upon childish fantasies to get by. Fantasies that he usually gets let down by when they inevitably fail to reach fruition.

He dreams about finding the perfect person for him, but fails to look past idle celebrity crushes in the beginning. Even when he starts pining after slightly more attainable people, he's too terrified by the potential for failure to ever actually do more than pine.

Thom has to be actively encouraged to take the first step out of status quo, whether through actual verbal encouragement or getting so riled up and angry about something that he acts out impulsively instead. His impulsive outbursts have literally never ended well though, so honestly just a little gentle encouragement will go a long way for him in more positive ways.

Thom is the king of trainwrecks when it comes to doing things right, but the point is that he really does try in the first place. This kid will put his all into what he's doing, whether it's basketball, volunteering in the community (the less said about that the better it was a pretty remarkable example of him failing miserably because he's absolutely awful at reading people), or balancing a probationary super hero gig with two summer jobs in order to help his dad with money problems.

There's no denying that he's a little self-absorbed, most teenagers are, honestly. But it's less that he doesn't want to help others as that he fail utterly in understanding others. For a healer, Thom's not so good with empathy, though thankfully his powers will be able to help him with this a bit. He tries to help people, and in fact, the reason he joins the League in the first place is because thinks it will give him the chance to make the world a better place, but most of the time he honestly doesn't know how.

He's so wrapped up in his own secrets and troubles that he forgets that other people might be struggling with the same thing or worse. Thankfully he's a quick learner and honestly only needs to smallest of nudges in the right direction most of the time, and at the end of the day he likes helping people, will even go out of his way to do so when he knows what he's supposed to be helping with.

Mostly though, Thom is still just trying to figure out who he is.

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OUT OF CHARACTER

Player Name: mel
Player Age: 29
Player Contact: itsmel or Mel#0452 on Discord

Other Characters In Game: Alex Rider
In-Game Tag If Accepted: Thom Creed: mel
Permissions for Character: Here.
Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: Heck yeah.
What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most?: Ghost stories.
Is there anything in particular you absolutely need specific content warnings for?: Nope.
Additional Information:

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Thu, 01 Aug 2019 21:14:06 GMT

⇓in character⇓

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Until he gets a stabilizing gem this will wind up injuring your character so proceed at your own risk.

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Again, until he gets a gem, any injury you inflict on him will ricochet back onto your character.

ROMANCE/FLIRTING: Heck yeah go for it.

SEXUAL CONTENT: He's underaged so it honestly depends on the character and situation?

PSYCHIC ABILITIES: If it's an ability that changes something for him (ie. brainwashing) there's a good chance it won't last, let's talk it out.

MAGIC/POWERS: Same as above, but in general I'm always down for trying.

MEDICAL INFORMATION: Has a self healing power. If he overuses his power, he may suffer from a seizure.

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS OR TRIGGERS: ... nope. Nothing.

⇓out of character⇓

BACKTAGGING: ✓✓✓✓

FOURTH WALLING: ✓✓✓

THREADHOPPING: ✓✓✓

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS/TRIGGERS: I'll let you know if I find one.

ANYTHING ELSE: If it's not covered here just drop me a line and ask, I'm typically up for just about anything.

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Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:39:24 GMT

Due to the nature of Thom's healing abilities and the fact that he's honestly just barely begun to brush the surface of what he can do with said powers, I realized it was a good idea to sort of get a general "Health and Wellness" read on the characters in Hadriel in case he threads with someone, because some of these questions can genuinely affect the way he or his powers react to people.

I've already detailed his abilities (both current and future) in his app, but I'll break them down to the important points here just to make this simple:

Thom heals by touching people, and while he's highly unlikely to just... accidentally heal all of your character's papercuts or whatever anytime he touches them, if they're hiding something big like an illness or cracked rib or... whatever, there's a good chance his powers will react on their own. On its own his powers won't cure whatever is wrong, but they might soothe it for a time.

Likewise, Thom is capable of seeing a person's illness or injury, usually as some sort of dark spot or murky wave from the source of the problem. Typically he has to make a conscious effort to use this part of his powers, but if it's bad enough to have a ticking clock on a person's life there's a good chance he'll see it whether he's trying to look or not.

This ability to sense a person's injury can also translate to emotional troubles if they're dark and painful enough (someone with a major depressive episode, for example). He can't actually "fix" this sort of thing with his powers but if he's given enough time he can use his powers to pinpoint the cause. Vaguely. Like an impression of an emotion.

Unless someone is very obviously bleeding or banged up in front of him, Thom's unlikely to use his powers on someone without asking or being clearly invited to, and of course, he's still learning with them so there will be things he misses. If there's anything you don't want him to notice about your character, just let me know!

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Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:21:44 GMT

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august 2019 » » » the deerington post

ღ 9/1: tdm tl: arrival with shades and a hedge maze with louis.

ღ 8/1: thom is locked in room with kravitz and expected to fight him.
ღ 8/1: lucretia helps bust them out of a room and thom asks her about magic.

ღ 8/3: thom explains arcades to oa and they go inside one.
ღ 8/3: thom accidentally injures fern with his powers and feels like shit about it.

ღ 8/4: thom and gwen discuss pet training methods and thom learns about the great sleep.

ღ 8/7: jack grows wings and thom panics and tries to help him.
ღ 8/9: shades shows thom how to stalk the locals i guess.

ღ 8/9: thom tries to teach laura about bullying but mostly just tells her about super heroes.
ღ 8/10: pidge tries to give thom the 411 on how all this dream stuff works re: sodder.
ღ 8/11: louis and thom play a card game to get to know one another.
ღ 8/11: thom gets a second job working for lucifer as a cook at lux.
ღ 8/12: anyway joshua is a saint for getting everyone to post pics of hot guys.

ღ 8/12: thom runs into angus walking his dog lizard thing and explains his powers to him.

ღ 8/13➳: merlin tries to make thom feel better about being stuffed in a dress.
ღ 8/13➳: thom beats vira-lorr in the motoball race and wins glowing coins.
ღ 8/13➳: klaus and thom have very different opinions of the costumes at the party.
ღ 8/13➳: aru and thom team up in the motoball race and split the prize.
ღ 8/13➳: thom takes a break from the games to talk out his doubts and fears with eliot.

ღ 8/19: bruce tells thom about the alien and thom tells him about his powers.
ღ 8/13➳: thom decides to use his warped powers to his advantage for once to save louis.

ღ 8/26: oa loses a friend and thom tries to help distract her.
ღ 8/28: thom meets diarmuid at school and compliments his drawing skill.

september 2019 » » » the deerington post

ღ 9/1: castiel outlines angel eating habits to thom.

ღ 9/4: thom and scott discuss the evils of puca shell necklaces.
ღ 9/8: thom gets into a discussion about religion with aziraphale, who is in fact an angel.

ღ 9/1➳: diarmuid is sick in a school bathroom and thom tries to help.
ღ 9/1➳: thom makes the bad decision to return to the party and "meets" molly as a result.
ღ 9/1➳: thom comes home from work to find peter passed out on his lawn.
ღ 9/1➳: shades falls from the sky and thom freezes up.

ღ 9/1➳: thom reveals his encyclopedic knowledge of super heroes to leo.
ღ 9/1➳: a day of work at lux with lucifer.
ღ 9/1➳: louis is a little bit a stalker and they go see a movie together.

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Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:20:49 GMT

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Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:19:45 GMT

INBOX text / audio / video / action Oh hey, it's Thom. Sorry I couldn't answer, but if you leave a message I'll try to get back to your as soon as possible. art credit code credit

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Fri, 13 Feb 2015 20:08:22 GMT

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Player name:mel
Contact: spotters_guide
Characters currently in-game: Lloyd Irving fervence

CHARACTER
Character Name: Thom Creed
Character Age: 17
Canon: Perry Moore's Hero
Canon Point: after the disastrous fight with the Wrecking Crew at the hospital, at the end of chapter 12.
History: I filled my head with thoughts of the future, of infinite possibly.

Personality:

Inventory:

clothes - normal teenage boy clothes idk. jeans, t-shirt, sneakers, hoodie, etc.
wallet - conspicuously missing his driver's license because seizures.
league ring - identifies him as a probationary hero in the league and serves as a communication device.

Abilities:

To put it simply, Thom has the ability to heal. This involves placing his hands on the injured or sick person (typically in the place of the injury, though this isn't required) and mostly just... letting his powers get to work. While he's healing his hands will get hot, a side effect of the energy that he's absorbing that, before he was aware of his powers, usually resulted in him having a seizure.

Thom's powers have also gifted him with a pretty impressive immune system, because he's never really been sick outside of the seizures which were caused by his powers anyway. That doesn't mean he's completely immune to illness, since he was still affected by his teammate's power to make people sick, but it clearly takes something a little bit supernatural to work its way through his natural defenses.

His healing abilities don't just stop at people though; he can heal himself and plants and (presumably) animals as well, and he doesn't always have to be aware of an injury or illness for his powers to start working (his hands started burning when he touched Scarlett before he knew about her cancer, and he thought it was her powers acting up instead).

Thom also has the ability to sense/read sickness in a person, sometimes without even touching them if the case is extreme enough (he's already done this once, but only the once, and he'll get better at it over time), and eventually he'll even be able to see things like depression or painful emotions, as well as get an empathic impression of the cause of these emotions.

Flaws:

Singularly talented at fucking up. No really, he either doesn't think or overthinks an issue and is way too easily distracted even in the middle of a desperate situation. He's also extremely talented at sticking his foot in his mouth, and doesn't know when to stop talking and making things worse.

Kind of self absorbed in that way that most teenagers are honestly, but it means he tends to miss out on important things as a result, whether it be a solution to a problem or the fact that someone close to him could probably use some help. He didn't even notice he was healing Scarlett, and by that time he had enough of a handle on his powers that he honestly should have.

Deeply unrealistic about relationships and prone to fantasies. Spends an awful lot of time in his own head. When reality fails to live up to these fantasies, he's far more likely to blame someone else for them failing than his own somewhat ridiculous expectations.

Hates feeling helpless in a situation (and he tends to feel helpless a lot when it comes to the ways he's "different" from other people and their reception of these differences) and will usually direct those frustrations elsewhere, so basically he's pretty talented at riling himself up without any help from anyone at all. And a riled Thom is an impulsive Thom, and impulsive Thom almost never ends well.

Perfectly willing to give up or run away from certain issues rather than try to resolve them, honestly the only reason he was in the right place to get scouted by the League in the first place was because he was running away from home when he thought his dad was going to find out he was gay. Dreams about being a hero but still too scared to confront his own issues, prone to bottling things up until they overwhelm him.

Not being honest with himself or other people, both with words and emotionally. Especially emotionally.

Honestly most of these flaws are all about him growing up though, which he does a lot of later in his timeline, though maybe Hadriel will be able to help him with some of them in the meantime.

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