Player Information Player Name: Al Player Contact:crotalus Timezone: GTM +1 Are you over 16: 10 years over to be precise
Character Information Character Name: Thomas Jefferson Canon: Hamilton (musical) Canon Point: The Room Where It Happens… with memories from murdergame AND Empatheias because I like making my life easy Emblem: Zmey (fucking Zmey)
Character History and Personality:
The first thing to know about Thomas is that he’s destiny’s most beloved child.
What I mean by that is that Thomas was born with a silver spoon and he has always, always gotten everything he wanted with has shaped his view of the world immensely. It wasn’t just money- though there was that, as well. His father was an educated poor man who happened to marry a rich woman… and from then on Peter Jefferson did his best to ensure his children with a life and education he never had. Thomas, being his oldest, had most of his expectations put on him.
His father died when he was 12, making Thomas inherit the corresponding part his lands and riches at a very young age. He was part of a very big family, both by blood and adopted, but he was always set apart. He was the one who had the family’s expectations on his shoulders.
And honestly? He thrived on it. He still does. Thomas is someone who hates being bored, who hates having nothing to do. He will always look for a challenge, even if he has to complicate his own life to get one. He’s brilliant, has always been brilliant. He’s the kind of person who will learn anything he feels like learning, read any book he can get his hands on and memorize it. He’s knowledgeable on many subjects and as far as he’s concerned he will learn many more if given the chance. But that means it’s kind of hard, for him, to find things challenging.
Which is probably why when something bad actually happens to him, he takes it… badly. He goes on complete mental lock-down, as if his brain refused to process it. One of the most defining moments in his life was his wife’s death. Thomas doesn’t care about many people, the list of people he gives a shit about is very very short and Martha was at the top of that list. And it got taken away from him. He still thinks of it as his fault, because she died during childbirth. Thomas… completely loses his senses wherever Martha is involved. He wants her back and he will do anything for that purpose, barreling over everything and everyone if he has too.
Zmey knew that so he took advantage of it, fucker.
The first murdergame was hard for Thomas because of the hard decisions to make, for the first time in his life he didn’t have a safety net. Any decision he made would be on his shoulders and his alone, which is he… refused to make any. He postponed every choice, letting his murder-mate do all the dirty work until he had no other choice than to act.
And then he acted until he won. Because say what you want about Thomas Jefferson but he knows how to save his own ass, thank you.
One of the other things Thomas truly, honestly cares about is the fate of his country. He loves America (and yes, France too, but even his Francophile ass loves his own country more). At his canon point had just gotten something he wanted. Again. He and his best friend had managed to force Hamilton into a deal. ...Or at least that’s the way he saw it, since the capital was what he wanted out of the deal. Again, Thomas’s short sightedness strikes again because once he decides he wants something in particular he’s like a donkey following a carrot.
Luckily for himself he doesn’t truly care about many things. Sure, he’s interested in a lot! He’s like a little flurry of energy that fills every room he’s in with his curiosity, but he doesn’t honestly, truly give a damn about a lot.
If you’re not one of his friends or at least someone who could be of some use Thomas will completely and utterly ignore you at best, and try to get you out of the way at worse. He’s a “man of the people” in that he knows how to charm, when to smile and when to shUT HIS MOUTH (*cough*) but that’s only a mask. He’s a man who loves humanity as an idea, as a whole, he’s a man who thinks they are capable of wonderful, amazing things… but doesn’t particularly like humans in particular.
There are exceptions, of course. He’s bitter because his ideal of humanity doesn’t fit with the way humans act, but there are people who manage to get over his idealistic cynicism (yes, it’s a thing, Thomas makes it a thing ok) and he actually cares about them. Cares about them deeply. Once someone has earned his respect and admiration, they have it forever.
And he’s loyal, incredibly so. He may disregard ‘people’ with disdain, treat them like pawns in his game, but he will take care of his own with his own life if he has to.
Empatheias was interesting, because it forced him to… reconsider this aspect of himself. He had people he cared for deeply (Madison), but he also had… other people he gave a bit of a damn about. People he disliked, people he fought with on a daily basis, people who hated him… people who shared a house with him and whom he’d miss more than the world when they left.
So, yeah. He was still working out this ‘caring about people’ thing when he got kidnapped again. That will be fun.
Powers: N/A unless being a James Bond villain counts
Thomas Jefferson | Hamilton (musical) | ...Unreserved?
Player Name: Al
Player Contact:
Timezone: GTM +1
Are you over 16: 10 years over to be precise
Character Information
Character Name: Thomas Jefferson
Canon: Hamilton (musical)
Canon Point: The Room Where It Happens… with memories from murdergame AND Empatheias because I like making my life easy
Emblem: Zmey (fucking Zmey)
Character History and Personality:
The first thing to know about Thomas is that he’s destiny’s most beloved child.
What I mean by that is that Thomas was born with a silver spoon and he has always, always gotten everything he wanted with has shaped his view of the world immensely. It wasn’t just money- though there was that, as well. His father was an educated poor man who happened to marry a rich woman… and from then on Peter Jefferson did his best to ensure his children with a life and education he never had. Thomas, being his oldest, had most of his expectations put on him.
His father died when he was 12, making Thomas inherit the corresponding part his lands and riches at a very young age. He was part of a very big family, both by blood and adopted, but he was always set apart. He was the one who had the family’s expectations on his shoulders.
And honestly? He thrived on it. He still does. Thomas is someone who hates being bored, who hates having nothing to do. He will always look for a challenge, even if he has to complicate his own life to get one. He’s brilliant, has always been brilliant. He’s the kind of person who will learn anything he feels like learning, read any book he can get his hands on and memorize it. He’s knowledgeable on many subjects and as far as he’s concerned he will learn many more if given the chance. But that means it’s kind of hard, for him, to find things challenging.
Which is probably why when something bad actually happens to him, he takes it… badly. He goes on complete mental lock-down, as if his brain refused to process it. One of the most defining moments in his life was his wife’s death. Thomas doesn’t care about many people, the list of people he gives a shit about is very very short and Martha was at the top of that list. And it got taken away from him. He still thinks of it as his fault, because she died during childbirth. Thomas… completely loses his senses wherever Martha is involved. He wants her back and he will do anything for that purpose, barreling over everything and everyone if he has too.
Zmey knew that so he took advantage of it, fucker.
The first murdergame was hard for Thomas because of the hard decisions to make, for the first time in his life he didn’t have a safety net. Any decision he made would be on his shoulders and his alone, which is he… refused to make any. He postponed every choice, letting his murder-mate do all the dirty work until he had no other choice than to act.
And then he acted until he won. Because say what you want about Thomas Jefferson but he knows how to save his own ass, thank you.
One of the other things Thomas truly, honestly cares about is the fate of his country. He loves America (and yes, France too, but even his Francophile ass loves his own country more). At his canon point had just gotten something he wanted. Again. He and his best friend had managed to force Hamilton into a deal. ...Or at least that’s the way he saw it, since the capital was what he wanted out of the deal. Again, Thomas’s short sightedness strikes again because once he decides he wants something in particular he’s like a donkey following a carrot.
Luckily for himself he doesn’t truly care about many things. Sure, he’s interested in a lot! He’s like a little flurry of energy that fills every room he’s in with his curiosity, but he doesn’t honestly, truly give a damn about a lot.
If you’re not one of his friends or at least someone who could be of some use Thomas will completely and utterly ignore you at best, and try to get you out of the way at worse. He’s a “man of the people” in that he knows how to charm, when to smile and when to shUT HIS MOUTH (*cough*) but that’s only a mask. He’s a man who loves humanity as an idea, as a whole, he’s a man who thinks they are capable of wonderful, amazing things… but doesn’t particularly like humans in particular.
There are exceptions, of course. He’s bitter because his ideal of humanity doesn’t fit with the way humans act, but there are people who manage to get over his idealistic cynicism (yes, it’s a thing, Thomas makes it a thing ok) and he actually cares about them. Cares about them deeply. Once someone has earned his respect and admiration, they have it forever.
And he’s loyal, incredibly so. He may disregard ‘people’ with disdain, treat them like pawns in his game, but he will take care of his own with his own life if he has to.
Empatheias was interesting, because it forced him to… reconsider this aspect of himself. He had people he cared for deeply (Madison), but he also had… other people he gave a bit of a damn about. People he disliked, people he fought with on a daily basis, people who hated him… people who shared a house with him and whom he’d miss more than the world when they left.
So, yeah. He was still working out this ‘caring about people’ thing when he got kidnapped again. That will be fun.
Powers: N/A unless being a James Bond villain counts
Samples
here have some heartbreak
some more
look at all these feelings