Thomas

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Status: Supporting

A friend of the crew: fit, unreasonably calm, glowing faintly with the aura of someone who probably drinks kale smoothies on purpose. He walks into Chino’s apartment uninvited, talks nobody into anything because nobody needs talking into it, and brings the Kumité invitation that starts the whole mess. Ingrid’s boyfriend, and the reason the night turns into a hostage situation.

Description

The group’s straight man by default: the only person in any room who reads the note, follows the kid, and says you know it’s a trap, right, and goes anyway, because it’s Ingrid. Diplomatic where it counts (pays the duck vendor’s asshole tax without blinking, asks Chuy for a leg after). Handles being chained to a concrete wall with the same even tone he handles everything else.

Role in Volume 01

In Big Trouble in Chinatown, Thomas brings the crew to the underground Kumité, covers Chuy’s duck-related fines, watches the fights, and gets the kid-delivered note: We have your girlfriend. Ha Ha Ha. He chases the messenger into a brick building, walks into the trap with Chino, and spends the back half of the story shackled next to him and Ingrid while General Pain uses them as leverage against Hugo. His big heroic beat is restraint: he lets Chino’s chaos do the talking, vomits heroically in the chain reaction, and walks out intact.

The Adventures: Volume 02

• The Man of Iga: Hosts the park barbecue, fights the Man of Iga with light blasts, and grabs the warrior’s sword mid-battle. Coordinates the cargo-ship assault telepathically and watches General Pain explode.

Relationships

• Ingrid: his girlfriend; the entire plot runs on his refusal to leave her behind.
• Chino, Homeboy, Chuy: his crew for the evening; he herds them the way you’d herd cats with rocket launchers.
• General Pain: his captor; Thomas meets him with defiance and a vomit.
• Uncle Rob: fellow attendee; no direct business, just shared chaos.

Notes

• Your show. Do you. Thomas cedes the floor to Chino mid-hostage-crisis, which tells you everything about their dynamic.