Some people say that Tommy looks a lot like TOM HARDY. His faceclaim is negotiable, although this skeleton is currently UNAVAILABLE.
Working at a bowling alley and arcade isn’t his dream, but it works for him. Tommy Kane doesn’t have dreams, at least not the good kind, so he pays his bills in the easiest way possible – currently, that’s by performing janitorial services at 10 Pin Plaza, which has its perks sometimes in the ease with which he can score and the relative invisibility he gains as a custodian.
Tommy was born with a critical congenital heart defect. He made it through the first surgery in his first year and seemed headed toward success, but something happened along the line. Tommy’s body stopped responding to treatment the way it was supposed to. He was eight when his doctor told his mother that he could die at any time, that there was no way of knowing. For a long time after that, his parents’ anxieties bled into him, and Tommy spent his life festering in fear and uncertainty. He wondered how much could he accomplish in his life before his heart stopped beating, and he worried until he just didn’t care anymore.
Tommy turned eighteen and still seemed relatively healthy – as healthy as he could be, all things considered. Then he turned nineteen and twenty – and nothing happened. He didn’t die, so he decided he wasn’t going to hide from death anymore. Death was coming for him no matter what he did, he may as well enjoy the ride for as long as it lasted. So, Tommy went from sweet and careful to wild and reckless.
The years passed in a blur. Despite his mother’s protestations, Tommy refused to go to college, often shrugging it off with a ‘why bother?’. He relished in vice of every kind – drugs, sex, violence, gambling – and he had a grin on his face while doing so. He hardly remembers his twenties, and his thirties aren’t much better. He picked up addictions in his twenties which turned to demons in his present life, but none of that has stopped him. Not even the daunting information from his current doctor that his lifestyle will certainly kill him more swiftly. But what does death coming more quickly mean to a man with numbered days?
So, Tommy lives life the way he wants to – entertaining and indulging himself in whatever way he desires. His cynicism and vulgar language sometimes make friendships hard, but his charming nature always lures people in – at least for long enough for Tommy to get what he wants. He’s been turned bitter by a disease he thinks should have killed him along time ago, but he still clings desperately to living – though most would argue that Tommy’s lifestyle is no way to live.
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Employee at 10 Pin Plaza - Working as a janitor in a bowling alley and arcade is exactly as glamorous as Tommy expected it to be. Hauling trash, cleaning bathrooms, wiping down claw toy machines... well, it pays the bills.