The Thug

[Silvador]

Name: Thomas "Steel Tom" Grentler

Age: 28 Height: 6'7"

Race: Gray Rat

Appearance: Thomas has dark gray fur and short black, gelled back hair. His front left tooth is silver.

Build: Thomas is large physically, with a toned body. Though his muscles are not over developed, he boasts considerable strength.

Attire: Thomas wears a black leather jacket and a white shirt underneath. His pants are also black, but not leather. He wears black boots and gloves, with the tips of the fingers cut off, too. At a glance, his clothes seem to be very ragged as they have seemingly random stitching patterns all over them. But a closer inspection will reveal that Thomas has sown steel plating into his clothing. The front and back of his jacket has large square plates and the arms and legs of his pants have long rectangular ones. The gloves of his hands also have small steel plates sown onto the back of the hands and fingers.

Weapon: Himself.

History: Thomas grew up in a rough neighborhood due to his parents being poor. They cared for him as best they could but the children of the area were less than friendly towards anyone who showed signs of "weakness", so Thomas was forced to either fit in, or continue to be picked on.

His teen years saw him grow into a troublesome youth. Under pressure of his peers, he left home and joined a roaming gang of youths that moved from town to town taking what they pleased and generally causing trouble for local authorities.

When he was a young adult, Thomas was faced with a pivotal moment of his life. The group he traveled with fell in trouble with a large gang. The gang demanded the group of drifters to push their moral boundaries further than they ever had by murdering an old couple who owned a house the gang wanted to use as their own. Thomas and a few others of the group refused to follow through with the gang's instructions and left the group they'd been traveling with since their teens.

Now traveling alone, Thomas is still a thug. He takes what he wants but maintains a certain standard, never killing, attacking the elderly or children; though he often gropes attractive women, he never pursues further action if they put up a serious struggle.

Thomas doesn't go out of his way to make trouble for himself, but his life so far has left him with a short fuse. Fights and and petty crimes are sure to follow in Steel Tom's wake when he moves into town.