Thomas Nichols

Name: Thomas Nichols
Gender: Male
Age: 36
Birthday: Jan 1
Sexuality: Straight
Special Characteristics: This is gonna be a longish list:
1. Missing left eye, instead he has a 'golem's eye' which is simply a stone sphere carved to resemble an eye. It has no special powers and works just like a normal eye except for three things: It does not feel pain, it can be removed (Though it stops working and he can no longer see from it until it is replaced) and it can move independently from his other eye. His depth perception suffers a bit from this but otherwise his vision is about average.
2. Missing his right ring finger
3. Body is covered in various scars with the most notable of these being a long gash going horizontally over his left eye and stopping just short of his right, everything from the middle of his left forearm down is mostly scar tissue due to a severe burn injury, and a portion of the right side of his body is all scar tissue also due to a severe burn injury. It covers a small portion of his neck, his right shoulder, most of his arm, and a small portion of his chest.

Personality:
Thomas is an extremely cheerful person, no matter the situation he is in, and believes in living life to it's absolute fullest every day. There's no time to worry about tomorrow. Despite his simplistic 'party all the time' attitude, he's a fairly crafty person and always ensures he has some plan and a trick up his sleeve before rushing into battle.

Inbetween jobs and parties, Thomas enjoys inventing new types of fireworks. His dream is to be able to adapt his fireworks to be able to harness the power of all types of magic. Due to the... unstable nature of such things though accidents are frequent and the price for tampering with such things is fairly obvious. It doesn't help that when he does manage to create a new type of firework that doesn't just explode in his face at the work bench, his idea of giving it a test run means to simply wait and use it in his next battle which has, on more than one occasion, backfired horrendously. While the constant misfires have claimed a finger, an eye, and his hearing in his left ear, it also has given him a rather high tolerance for pain.

Fate and Fortune
Thomas has a completely unshakable belief in fate and fortune. He believes that certain points in life are already planned and there is absolutely no power that can ever change this, like death. When it is your time to die there is absolutely nothing that can save you and vice versa, if it is NOT your time to die, then there is absolutely nothing that can kill you. If you are meant to die on September 10th at 12:37 AM, then that is when you will die and there is nothing that can stop that from happening. However, and this is where his belief of luck comes in, HOW you die is completely up in the air. The lucky souls die a quick and painless death. A heart attack in their sleep from having one too many chocolates after dinner. The unlucky souls die a painful drawn out death, like from being captured and tortured by a dark guild.

In battle Thomas' attitude and outlook on life doesn't waver a bit and he will cheerfully banter with the opponent, reminding them that they should live life to the fullest because their death is already set. His belief in fate makes it so he has no fears about death and his high tolerance for pain can make him a tough opponent that will continue attacking until rendered unconscious. He relies completely on his fireworks in battle and has little to no hand to hand combat skills.

Thomas has no issues taking orders from someone else and will follow any and every order, even if it is to kill someone. If he thinks there is a better way to go about something he will not hesitate to point it out or correct flaws with any plan given to him. However the leader makes the final decision and if they chose to ignore his input so be it.

As a leader Thomas can be hard to keep up with. In most situations he simply makes a plan for the first few steps and makes the rest up as he goes along.

Likes:
Festivities: Food and drinks, games, dancing, music, celebrations for any and every occasion.
Good luck charms: No matter how far fetched or how obscure it may be, anything that is said to bring luck immediately grabs his attention
Explosions: The bigger it is, the more debris sent skyward, the more colors it has mixed the better.
Night/Darkness: The darker it is the brighter fireworks seem.

Dislikes:
Funerals: Or anywhere a group of people gather to do anything that isn't a party
People who take life too seriously: People who can't loosen up every now and then and just enjoy living
Seafood: It's just nasty

Motivations:
Power: Simply to become more powerful. It is the root of all things, everyone wants power. It's what you want to do with it once you obtain it that separates the good from the evil.
Fate: To show people the truth of the world, that their time has already been decided and they should stop being afraid of death. No matter what they do, death will come when it is there time. They should lighten up, enjoy life while they have it and not worry about tomorrow so much.
Fireworks: To expand his collection of fireworks and to hopefully be able to harness all types of magic.
Fears:
Absolute Darkness or blindness: A darkness so thick no light could penetrate it. He would barely be able to go for a minute in such condition before breaking down and absolutely losing it.
Bad Luck: Things going wrong for no apparent reason, spells backfiring, everything working out for his opponent but nothing seems to work for him.
Isolation: What fun would a party be if you were the only one there? Being completely isolated from all other forms of intelligent life messes with his head and causes him to talk to himself and imagine things.

General Appearance


Height: 6ft 1in
Weight: 220lbs
Hair: Short and messy black hair, some sections are longer than others due to the fact that he cuts his hair himself only for the purpose of 'keeping it out of the way'
Eyes: Dark Green
Skin Tone: Light
Appearance: He wears a thick, brown trench coat with a high collar. It seems that, at some point in time, the coat had an intricate design on it but it has been worn out over time. Underneath the coat he wears brown pants that seem to be made of the same thick material as the coat, with suspenders, a dark gray short-sleeved shirt, and black steel toed boots. Around his neck is a multitude of necklaces, each with a different charm attached. The charms are of all different sizes and origins but are each meant to bring good luck. (The charms don't actually have any magical properties to them, so whether they actually work or not is highly debatable. Thomas certainly seems to believe they do.) He has a white cloth wrapped around his head to cover his missing eye. When out on mission he also wears a pair of thick black gloves and a fox mask, but removes the bandages covering his eye.

Guild/Council

Guild: Eclipse Soul
Tattoo: On the bandages over his eye, and carved into the "golem's eye"
Rank: D

Character approved. Well done!