Thomas McHale
From Changeling Venue
| Seeming | Beast Skitterskulk |
|---|---|
| Court | No Court |
| Freehold | Ring of Roses |
| Player | Joey "Puppy" Greene |
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Overview
Alias(es): Piper
Real Name: Thomas Leonidas McHale
Age: 24
Concept: Thieving friend of all things experimented upon.
Entitlement: None
Physical description: Piper stands 5'5" when standing straight, something he seldom does. He is slight and slender in both mien and mask and has a severely injured left arm, always bandaged. That arm tends to twitch and spasm without Piper's control and he'll frequently have to use his good hand to fight that one back to the lay at his side and calm for a bit.
Mask: He appears as a drab, pale blonde haired white-male in his middle 20's. Exceptionally non-descript and with nervous, quiet movements. In this form his arm manifests as simple burns and scars and he uses the excuse his house burned down when he was a child
Mien: He appears as a strange combination of rat and human. With a twitching pink nose and blood-red eyes staring out from the heavy dusting of fur that begins at his temples and his cheeks and vanishes dwon the back of his shirt. A bare, swaying tail trails behind him, twitching when he gets excited. In his mien his arm appears to be scarred by chemicals, fire, and slashed through with electrical burns. It still moves and twitches, violently at times.
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Character Information
Known History
Basic Timeline:
1955 - Born in the abject poverty of the worst parts of Atlanta
1960 - Orphaned by his drug-addict mother and left to die in the streets
1960 to 1970 - Lives on the streets of Atlanta as a homeless boy. Its here he learned to steal, to fight and to hide.
February 14, 1970 - Vanishes without a trace from the alleys of downtown Atlanta. Captured by a fey calling itself 'Doctor' and subjected to horrific psuedo-scientific experiments. Two years passed for Piper, but time whirred by in reality and upon his escape he climbed from the 20 gallon soup pot of the now abandoned soup kitchen he once frequented. It was now 2000.
February 21, 2000 - Re-entered society as best he could, using the abilities stolen from The Gentry to thieve and steal enough to keep him alive.
2001 - Joined the freehold of Atlanta and served it as a seldom-fighter and often-thief, obtaining in 'trade' the simple things people just had to have.
Current Activities: Cultivating his relationship with Atlanta's rats, a process he calles 'networking' and continuing to sustain himself with petty theft of 'things people don't need'.
Merit Details:
Background:
Motley
He considers Alice Little his mate and his motley.
Allies
Jingle - He considers what he refers to in his diary as "The Sweet Dancer" an ally and a friend. He keeps the rats out of her dance studio.
Enemies
Character Inspirations
My pet rat Hera (may she rest in peace) and a hodge-podge of Frankenstein, anime, and my own twisted imaginings.
Soundtrack
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Beck - The Little Things That Kill
Quotes
"My arm is ok, right Alice?" - Piper
"He better keep his hands out of my stuff without my permission." - David Burke
"Well, he's sworn to the Freehold. That's all I got to say about that really." - Gilded
"Goodness is eternal in his heart, though not always present in his actions" - Jingle
"So quiet is Thomas, more quiet than the libraries; they'll never even hear his voice until they listen with their eyes." ~ Holly Poppet
"I once gave Piper my shoe. He gave it back when Renn asked." - Rocky
Rumors
The electricity that was used on him is still in him and on occasion he'll bring it out, though it terrifies him to do so.
He is able to locate any object or item with the number "231" scrawled upon it.
His eyes never blink.
His Keeper took him during his execution via electric chair for a 23-person serial murder spree. To this day, the county sheriff where it happened won't talk about what was left in the chair when it was all over.
Categories: Beast | Skitterskulk | No Court | Atlanta
