HEY BO ILY GIVE ME SOME HCS ON HOW TOMMY DEALS WITH SADNESS, HAPPINESS, AND ANXIETIES, DOES HE HAVE ANYTHING THAT GIVES HIM ANXIETY? WHAT MAKES THIS BOI HAPPY?? HOW DO HIS POWERS WORK? CAN YOU ELABORATE ON HOW HE SEES THE WORLD SINCE HE'S A SPEEDSTER? HOW DOES HE GO ABOUT HIS DAY TO DAY LIFE? GIVE ME THEM HCS BO.
HELLO KJ ILYSM ! so tommy dealing with emotions is … well , mostly he doesn’t . sadness lashes out like anger sometimes . he’ll be distant , short , & he’ll always want someone to blame . other times , a good example of this is how he dealt with cassie’s death , he’ll simply seem more serious but give no other implication that he’s hurt . & once the initial feeling is gone he’ll want to move on immediately because he never allows feelings to linger . he pushes back any hurt & he never lets himself grieve over stuff .
happiness is easier . he’ll zip around & he laughs loud & you can’t wipe the grin of his face . genuine happiness is something he doesn’t hide . he rides it out like a high .
he does have stuff that gives him anxiety ! being forced to sit still for long periods of time , for example , makes him antsy . he hates being stuck places . he’s quite claustrophobic , small spaces freak him out . his worst fear / what will really up his anxiety , though , is being imprisoned . he spent months , which mind you feels longer to him as his perception of time is majorly fucked , in prison under a power dampener . prison was his absolute nightmare . he’d spend hours in his cell with his hands on the wall trying to focus every fiber of his being to summon his power & break free . tommy will go ballistic if he’s imprisoned . it can possibly even trigger anxiety or panic attacks from him . & once he’s out he’s going to have no mercy on who locked him up unless someone stops him .
AS FOR HIS POWER ! i won’t touch on this too much to save you from me getting carried away but i’ll talk to you how he sees the world or , at least , explain how fucked his perception of time is . tommy does have the physicality of a speedster . his mind works at insane speeds , giving him an accelerated reaction rate , & his body is built for top speeds . since he’s made for speed this causes the rest of the world to seem slow to him , & that’s just at his default pace . the faster he goes , the more his mind adapts to the speed & the slower the world seems . he can do a week’s worth of work in five minutes which seems insanely fast to the regular eye but to tommy , who’s mind is going just as fast as his body , it just feels like he just spent a week doing non stop work . it’s fast only to someone who doesn’t move that fast , just as we’d seem extremely fast to a snail .
tommy usually spends his days working , if he’s on that week , then the rest of the time he just keeps himself active . runs around new york to anywhere he wants ! or not even just new york . sometimes he’ll run across the country or world & just find places . places where hardly anyone or even no one else gets to go . he loves seeings sights that only he gets to see . he also will scope out apartment buildings & find empty apartments to squat in sometimes if he wants a roof over his head that night but isn’t quite feeling finding a shelter . when having off weeks from work he’ll also break out his suit & roam the country doing vigilante type work . he hasn’t given up being a superhero .