Tommy Shepherd

🦋 OOC Information

Name: Marie 
Contact: seemarierun
Age: 21+
Other Characters: N/A
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🦋 IC Information

Character Name: Tommy (Thomas) Shepherd. NOTE: Arguments can be made that his name should be Tommy Maximoff (at least in spirit), but while he considers himself a Maximoff, he'd still SAY Shepherd and that's what counts. 
Age: 17
Canon: Marvel Comics (616)
Canon Point: End of Young Avengers Volume 2.
Character History: Here you are!
Canon Abilities: Tommy is a speedster capable of supersonic speed and various applications of said speed, including:

Superhuman Speed: Tommy can run, move and react at superhuman. His steady average running speed is 761 mph, which he can maintain for 4 hours. He can hit much higher speeds, but for a greatly reduced length of time (yet still sufficient to beat Billy's teleportation spell to Genosha and search the whole island). His average speed is sufficient to allow him to run on water or up walls.

Molecular Acceleration: Tommy can speed up the molecules in solid objects by shaking or vibrating the object, causing the object to explode.

Intangibility/Phasing: When vibrating his own molecules, he can walk/run through solid objects.

Superhuman Stamina/Reflexes/Durability/Perception/Etc: His entire physiology is essentially rewired to allow him to operate at the enhanced speeds. Everything from this reaction time (5x greater than the average human) to how much of his caloric intake is actually utilized to his body not producing the chemicals that cause muscle fatigue is geared to him being fast all the time. His skeleton and musculature are capable of withstanding not only the high-speeds, but also impacts at said speeds.

Protective Aura: Tommy has an invisible aura that protects himself, and seemingly whoever he's carrying, from having their clothes burned off by the air friction.  You're welcome, rescuee.

Potential nerfing, if needed: Remove the potential for redonkulous speeds and limit him to supersonic.

Inventory: Boy showed up in his supersuit and nothing else.

🦋 Personality

Option 2

NOTE: I went with writing in the style that I would for Tommy's headspace or dialogue, but avoided using first person. 

1. Long

You don't understand what long is.  So comparisons will help.  Tommy will explain, ad nasuem, at a speed that will leave you, but not him, breathless.

Imagine you had to run halfway around the world over the next four months. 249,010 minutes.  4150 hours at your best speed.  173 days, and you don't even get to pee on that timeline.

Be reasonable, you say.  That's not a reasonable scenario.  It doesn't have to be reasonable.  Tommy isn't reasonable.  The timeline is what the equivalent it would take for a normal person to replicate Tommy running to the island of Genosha and searching it before his twin brother could teleport there would take you, if we assume Genosha was halfway around the world.  Doesn't even really account for the actual searching he did when he got there.  The trip and the search took the same amount of time it took his twin brother to teleport there.

When he's using his power, Tommy doesn't operate on human definitions of long.  Everything is long, when your mental and physical capabilities allow you to move and make decisions in nanoseconds.  Tommy experiences that time.  He thinks and acts in that time; it's everyone else that's standing still.  

It is arduous.  It's a trial by fire.  It is Sisyphean, because it will never get better.  He can either make the choice to never indulge in his powers again - which he won't.  He loves his power.  He loves what he can get with it.  He loves being special and the ego boost - oops, tangent.  Anyway.  What makes long long isn't Tommy.  You're the problem.  Because flip that around.  One minute for you can be 173 days for him.  And that is long.

2. Friendly

This is where you expect something about warms smiles, open hearts and kind words.  Live laugh love.  Fuck that.  That might be friendly, but it's not what you get from an actual friend.  Friendly is bullshit.  It's for church ladies. 

You want to know what friendly actually is?  That ly suffix is what, as if?  In the manner of?  In the manner of a friend.  What you do, how you act, what you say in the manner of a friend.  You find them when they're shutting down and let them talk.  You grab a coffee with them because they're preferable to being alone and not everyone is.  You boost them up.  Sometimes, you tear them down a bit for their own good.  You're honest with them - you can't call yourself a friend if you're not being yourself or lying to them.  You can soften things for them.  Or try, anyway.  Tommy's not great at that, but he doesn't mean to hurt anyway.

Friendly should mean all of that.  It should mean how you are when you think you might actually let someone in. That superficial shit that everyone thinks of when you say "friendly"?  It's not real.  You can say all the right things with a smile on your face, and not be friendly at all.

3. Dance

 It's what you do when no one's watching and your favorite song is blasting.  It's what you do when everyone's watching 'cause you look great and you're really feeling yourself.  Do it alone, if you have to.  Do it with others if you can.  Around them, with them, doesn't really matter.  You'll feel the energy in the room.

 Maybe you're one of those people that's too self-conscious to dance, even by yourself.  You should think about working on that.  If you can't dance by yourself, alone, with nobody around to judge you - what else are you keeping bottled up?

It doesn't matter if you don't have rhythm.  Most people don't.  They're probably too busy worried about what you think about how they're dancing than to realize that you're worried about what they think. As long as you aren't Morris dancing, you'll fit right in.  It's all in your head.  How you look changes with how you think you look - and how you want to look.  Dance is only confidence in motion.

There's nothing wrong with people who dance as art.  You work that long at something, you deserve to be the best.  But people have been dancing for thousands of years.  It's not that complicated, so don't make it complicated.   You can stand around asking everyone what their thoughts are on dance, or you can dance. You're missing out.  Where's your FOMO?

4. Child

Someone under the age of 13.  What?  Who cares if it's not the legal definition?  It's the mental definition.  Look, take him and his friends.  You can't lump them in with a 6-year-old.  There's oceans between them.  That's why minors' sports have age brackets.  He's a teenager.  Basically an adult at 17. 

There can be like.  Nuance.  A 5-year-old super genius is hard to label.  They can outthink most adults, but they're also very into dolls.  "Child" doesn't seem to cover adult intellect without adult emotions and experience.  Child-ish and childish, so child wins out, but you'd still warn somebody that the kid is either annoying or weird.

But that's what the word means and that doesn't fully explain what it means to Tommy.  He's been in a few situation where he's been the subject of the world child.  At sixteen.  It rankles.  Emphasis on rank.  People don't get to dismiss him as a child after what adults put him through.  It's bullshit.  He takes care of himself - nobody does that for him.  Children don't have a job, or feed themselves, or worry about if they have enough pairs of underwear without holes to get through a week.

5. Cow

Moo?  I don't know, man.  Do people have thoughts about cows?  Dairy farmers, sure.  And Jainists, Buddhists, and Hindu.  So that's what, 1.7, 1.8 billion?  But the other 6 billion people - no wait, there's something in Judaism about a red cow.   Besides that, most people don't have thoughts about cows that aren't right in front of them.

Unless they're militant vegans or something.  OK.  Fine, some people have thoughts about cows.  That doesn't mean anything.  7% of Americans think that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.  Just because people have thoughts doesn't mean they have to be good ones.

Cows are dumb.  They have 4 stomachs and big eyes.  They're supposed to be pretty chill. They get to stand around and eat all day, and everything's great until the farmer decides it's time and that's it for the cow. They'd have a great life, if it wasn't for people.  Which is true for a lot of things, including people.  We'd all have a great life if it wasn't for people

🦋 Fae Court

• Spring Court
• Autumn Court
• Dawn Court

Ability:  Yes, but they either have no ability of their own, or they refuse to trade theirs away; they will buy their court's ability on credit. I love new powers shenanigans.

🦋 RP Samples