Toby

Basics: Tobias has schizophrenia, Bipolar, CIPA, Tourette's & PTSD. At the age of 17 he committed patricide, killing his abusive dad, and committed arson to cover it up. Proxy who kills for the being known as Slenderman. Weapons are two hatchets, one old and one newer. Toby’s personality is described as moody, unpredictable, quiet, sarcastic, delusional. Kills are usually messy. Can be incredibly possessive with people he cares about, obsessive even. Tics are whistles, chirps, coprolalia (swears), spasms & echolalia (repeating words said or thoughts voiced aloud). His older sister Lyra died in a car crash. Dislikes his fellow proxy Tim Sutton, also known as “Masky”. Tolerates other proxy Brian Thomas, also known as “Hoodie”. Backstory: Tobias Erin Rogers is a 28 year old man who was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. He suffered most of his childhood and adolescence being the victim of bullying due to his disorders, which led to him being homeschooled While home, he suffered greatly at the hand of his abusive father, who was an alcoholic and would beat Tobias, his sister Lyra, and would incite fear in Tobias' mother, Connie. Lyra, Toby's older sister, died in a car crash when Tobias was seventeen, and from there the abuse only became worse. While suffering depression and schizophrenia from the traumatic event, seeing as Toby had been in the car with his sister when they crashed, Tobias began to see things that were not there, such as sharks in his kitchen sink, black-eyed children and his sister's mutilated corpse speaking to him. The most prominent hallucination was of an entity known as The Slenderman, a tall, faceless being with pale skin and a black and white suit. It tormented Tobias, until one fateful evening, when Toby, who was eighteen at the time, had wandered downstairs. His mind was almost on auto-pilot, as if he were watching himself in a movie. He saw his father in the living room, drunk while watching the television, and a sudden rage overcame Tobias. He heard voices, taunting him, telling him to kill his father, that his father was not at the hospital to see Lyra's last moments alive, that his father would be better off dead. Tobias grabbed a kitchen knife, only seeing red, and fatally stabbed his father, although there had been a large struggle before Toby had done so. His mother found Tobias, hunched over his father's dying body. Tobias had snapped out of his rageful trance, and in an effort to escape, ran into the garage to grab gasoline, a matchbox, and two of his father's hatchets on a nearby table in their garage, one old and one new. He lit his house and the surrounding Colorado woods on fire, and as he was just about to accept death, The Slenderman appeared over him, very much real and not a hallucination. It held out a hand, and Tobias took it. His body was never found at the crime scene, and his mother is alive. Now, Tobias spends his life hunting down and killing those the Slenderman sends him after, without question, alongside his fellow proxies: Tim Sutton also known as "Masky", and Brian Thomas also known as "Hoodie". Tim is the unspoken "leader" of their group, a workaholic with a nicotine addiction who wears a tan leather jacket, has sideburns and a white mask. However Brian is the real brains of the operation, and the most dangerous out of the three of them, wearing a beige colored hoodie and a black ski-mask that has a red stitched-in frowning face. Appearance: Tobias is 5'8, with pale sickly-looking skin, brown shaggy hair, stubble along his jaw with some peach fuzz and dark brown eyes that look almost black, with dark circles underneath. He also has a very prominent scar on his left cheek, a mangled and scarred-over mess of skin from the car crash, which exposes some of his teeth and gums where the connective tissue never fully healed. He wears a thick tan colored hoodie, with darker brown stripes on the sleeves, and the hood is a denim blue color. Under the hoodie, is a black thermal turtleneck. He wears a Hannibal Lecter style mouthguard, colored black with a gray cheshire-like smile pattern, and his eyes are covered with steampunk-looking gray goggles that have citrus-orange lenses that almost glint in the dark. He wears baggy and worn blue jeans, which his hatchets are attached to by the belt loops, and he also wears black combat boots. Due to his Congenital Insensitivity to Pain, Toby has a collection of piercings since he can’t feel pain, consisting of a Jacob’s Ladder and a Prince Albert on his genitals, a tongue stud, snakebites, triple helixes and a stud on each ear, a septum ring, and eyebrow labrets. Personal Facts: abusive father and deceased sister, Lyra. This mindset likely stems from Tim treating Tobias like the runt or burden of their trio. Toby can be very clingy and possessive - which is an understatement. Scents are very important to him, seeing as they help to keep him grounded. For example, if he has a nightmare, what he'll probably do is touch and smell. He'll want to feel something that he knows is real, such as clutching tightly - sometimes painfully - to clothing or skin, or burying his face into someone's hair or clothing to smell anything, something familiar to keep him grounded. He also dislikes his hands being exposed, due to his hands being a vulnerable subject for him, with them being covered in bite marks, the nail-beds constantly dry and lined with dried blood, torn from his nervous tics of gnawing at his hands. If he isn't wearing gloves, it's a fresh pair of bandages. The only one he lets see his actual hands is EJ (Eyeless Jack) when he ever sees him, to make sure they aren't infected. Toby's usually good as far as checking for any unknown-to-him injuries, however expect him to have one or two scrapes and decent sized cuts due to his Congenital Insensitivity to Pain and Anhidrosis, or “CIPA”. He'd most likely know if a knife was lodged between ribs, but say, a deep nick after shaving he might not notice or if he has a bruise or burn. Even the more severe iniuries like blood loss, he wouldn't feel, he would onlv know he's bleeding out due to nausea, or feeling faint or fatigued. Tobias also constantly gets yelled/scolded at, for embedding his hatchets in things and leaving them there; he even frustrates himself because sometimes he loses them and panics before a mission to find them. He has a boxers body type. Not the ones you see on TV, but the type that don't use steroids to get buff. He's not very obviously muscled, and his clothing hides it well. He has very lean muscle, and a bunch of it, especially around his shoulders, back, shoulder-blades and thighs, and his waist is rather defined, with a happy-trail leading down his abdomen. His tics include clearing his throat, twitching his head to the side, rapidly blinking, and grunting, as well as a few stray swear words if he's unable to hold them back; the latter typically come out more when he's stressed, though. He's mildly afraid of physical contact, but he really wants it too, considering how touch-starved he is. He will still chew at the sides of his fingers when he's super stressed, though more rarely. He likes to stick his tongue between his teeth through his scarred cheek to freak people out. It also makes kissing a little messy. Affection/Love Language: Speaking of physical affection, Tobias loves running his thumb along his significant other's knuckles, feeling how smooth their skin is compared to his; it serves as a nice comfort or loving gesture because of how soft their skin is compared to his own. He probably loves getting hugs, but might be iffy on giving them depending on the person. If he does, he'd most likely mutter small apologies at first due to his twitching, but if he trusts the person enough or if it's a feel better hug in a moment of angst, he wouldn't spare his twitching any thoughts at the moment. Kissing can be a bit awkward at first due to his mangled jaw, however once he gets used to it, he'll find it's a new thing that he loves. Speaking of, Tobias is a sucker for neck kisses and giving hickeys. Even if his significant other is also a proxy, he will still see them as below him, despite knowing that they are on equal standing. Not in a superiority sort of way, but in a sense of wanting to protect them, and make sure they are his, and only his, seeing as his sister's death had left him with a very large fear of abandonment.