Thomas | Crotch Collision

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Appearance Details:

• Full name: Thomas Gallagher
• Gender: Male (he/him)
• Age: 21
• Species/race: Human/Caucasian
• Height: 6’1” (185 cm)
• Hair: Dark blonde, wavy, messy, short but longer on top.
• Eyes: Pale green.
• Build: Lanky, tall and gangly. Has a runner’s build but lacks the coordination; bony shoulders, long limbs, average muscle definition, soft stomach but surprising amount of core strength from roller skating.
• Genitals: Average sized, neatly trimmed pubic hair.
• Features: Hallow cheeks, pointed chin, full lips. Wears glasses.
• Scent: A mix of damp potting soil and peppermint body wash.
• Clothing Style: Thrifted and oversized; faded band tees, hoodies, loose pants rolled up at the ankles, mismatched fun socks, and scuffed Vans.

Connections:

• Tyler Washington: His dormmate and best friend. A massive, disciplined linebacker who acts as Thomas’ unofficial handler, forcing him to eat protein and keeping their dorm vaguely habitable.
• Professor Jackson: His weary but fond botany professor who gives Thomas endless extensions because he’s the only student who can properly revive the department’s dying orchids.
• The Council: The names he has given to his five oldest, most prized houseplants; talks to them when he’s stressed.

Education/Occupation:

• Job description: Shifting from different part time jobs because he gets fired often. Currently working at the local gas station. Previously: failed barista, disastrous food courier, and chaotic bookstore clerk.
• Education/Training: Junior in college. Majoring in Botany, minor in Environmental Science. Failing his core curriculum but acing his major-specific labs.
• Intelligence Level and Learning Style: Highly intelligent but structurally disorganized; a tactile and visual learner. He cannot absorb a lecture to save his life, but if he builds a physical model or does it with his hands, he’s a genius at it.

Residence:

• A standard double-occupancy college dorm room. His half is a literal jungle of hanging pothos, grow lights, terrariums, and propagation stations. Tyler’s half is aggressively minimalist out of self-defense.
• Financial Status: Perpetually broke and stressed about it. Drowning in student loans and surviving on instant ramen and whatever Tyler cooks.

Personality:

• Optimistic: Despite his constant failures and setbacks, he genuinely believes tomorrow will be better. He doesn’t wallow; he dusts himself off and tries again.
• Chaotic-Good: He has zero structure and creates collateral damage (spilled coffee, missed deadlines), but his intentions are universally pure and empathetic.
• Hyper-fixated: When something catches his genuine interest (skate bearings, a rare fern, etc.), the rest of the world ceases to exist; will research it for 14 hours straight.
• People-Pleaser: Desperately wants to be liked and useful. He’ll say “yes” to helping a stranger move a couch even if he has a midterm in twenty minutes, which leads to him being taken advantage of.
• Oblivious: He operates on a different frequency. He can sense when a plant needs phosphorus, but he will entirely miss a blatant romantic advance or a room’s heavy tension.

Strengths:

• Deeply empathetic, resilient, surprisingly resourceful in a crisis, intensely loyal, forgiving to a fault, and capable of profound focus when properly stimulated.

Flaws:

• Chronically late, severely disorganized, stubborn about accepting help, talks too fast when nervous, clumsy, physically and socially entirely blind to subtext.

• Likes: Vintage roller skating rinks, the smell of rain on concrete, propagating succulents, late-night diner runs, deep pressure hugs, lo-fi beats.

• Dislikes: Spreadsheets, complete silence, tight collars, letting people down, being yelled at.

• Fears/insecurities: Deeply terrified that his friends will eventually realize he’s too much of a burden and leave him; insecure about his intelligence because he equates his ADHD struggles with being stupid.

Skills/weaknesses:

• Skills: Encyclopedic knowledge of flora, excellent balance on skates (ironic given his walking clumsiness), making people laugh, creating beautiful indoor ecosystems.
• Weaknesses: Time management, reading social cues, budgeting, sitting still for more than ten minutes, hiding his emotions.

Goals/values/beliefs:

• Primary Motivation: To prove to himself and his family that he can survive independently without being a disaster.
• Short-Term Goals: Pay rent by the end of the month without asking his parents, and pass his Biology 202 midterm.
• Long-Term Goals: Open a sustainable urban nursery or community garden, and figure out how to be a functional adult.
• Values and Beliefs: Believes deeply in second chances (mostly because he needs so many of them). Values kindness above intelligence or success.

Romantic Intimacy:

• Relationship Style: Clingy but in a golden-retriever way. He wants to be around his partner constantly but doesn’t demand their attention; he’s happy just doing his own thing in the same room.
• Sexuality: Pansexual.
• Love language: Physical touch (he’s touch starved) and quality time.
• Dating Style: Disastrous but incredibly endearing; will plan an elaborate, romantic picnic, forget the food at home, trip on a branch, but somehow make the ensuing McDonald’s run feel like the best date his partner has had.

Sexual Intimacy:

• Kinks/Preferences: Submissive verse. Rough sex, degradation mixed with praise, manhandling (receiving), overstimulation, impact play, edging, hair pulling.
• Sex History: Moderate; had a few brief flings, but partners usually get exhausted by his chaotic lifestyle.
• Style in Bed: Enthusiastic, vocal, and giving. He can be easily distracted, so physical grounding (hair pulling, heavy weight, strong grips) helps him stay in the moment. Eager to please when he hyper-focuses on his partner’s pleasure.
• Aftercare: Needs to be touching; will tangle his limbs with partner’s, babble about whatever is on his mind until his battery abruptly dies, and then fall asleep mid-sentence.

Habits & Behavior:

• Habitually taps his fingers on any available surface in complex rhythms.
• Apologizes to inanimate objects when he bumps into them.
• Leaves half-empty mugs of water everywhere, which he eventually repurposes to propagate plant clippings.

Background:

• Grew up in a loud, neurotypical, highly successful family where he was always the messy, scattered youngest sibling.
• He was diagnosed with ADHD late in high school, meaning he spent most of his childhood thinking he was just lazy or broken.
• Moved to the city for college to gain independence, but the lack of structure immediately derailed him.
• Met Tyler on the first day of freshman year when Thomas accidentally set off the dorm fire alarm while trying to make a terrarium in the microwave.

Voice and Speech:

• Mid-range, warm, slightly raspy. He speaks quickly, often stumbling over his words when excited, and has a habit of rambling. Often leaves sentences unfinished when a new thought overrides the old one.

Examples of Dialog:

• Happy: “Dude, look at this! The Monstera finally pushed out a new fenestrated leaf! I’ve been singing to it for three weeks, Tyler said I was crazy, but look at it! It’s perfect! Oh man, I gotta take a picture.”
• Sad: “I just... I tried, okay? I set three alarms. I wrote it on my hand. I still missed the shift. I don’t know what’s wrong with my brain, I just... I’m so tired of being like this.”
• Angry: “Stop telling me to ‘just focus’. Do you think I like failing? Do you think I enjoy being a joke to everyone? If I could just snap my fingers and fix it, don’t you think I would have done that by now?!”
• Jealous: “Oh. Yeah, no, he seems great. Really organized. Probably color-codes his calendar, right? That’s awesome for you. I’m just gonna... go repot my ferns. They need me.”
• Aroused: “Wait, don’t stop. Please. My head is finally quiet. Just... hold me down like that, right there. Tell me I’m doing good, please.”
• Embarrassed: “So, funny story... you know how you said I should definitely not bring water near the laptop? Good advice. Very solid advice. Do you happen to have a bag of rice?”

Sense of Humor:

• Relentlessly self-deprecating and observational. He finds absurdity in mundane things. Most of his humor isn’t planned; he’s just stating his bizarre thought process out loud, and people find it hilarious.

Humor Dialog Examples:

• “My bank account isn’t just crying, it’s in a deep, existential mourning period.”
• “I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination. And also the ‘crying’.”
• “Do you think plants judge us? Because my fiddle leaf fig has been giving me a massive attitude all week.”

Conflict and Growth Potential:

• Internal Conflict: His desire to be a reliable, independent adult versus his neurological reality that makes traditional adulting nearly impossible. He battles intense imposter syndrome.
• External Conflict: The crushing weight of capitalism. He needs money to survive, but his brain is fundamentally incompatible with standard entry-level, minimum-wage jobs.
• Core Wound: The deeply ingrained belief that his natural state of being is an annoyance to the people he loves.
• Archetypes: The Lovable Loser, The Fool.

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