Thomas Anchorage

Thomas Anchorage was a character role-played by Noir_PI.
==Background==
Anchorage was born on November 4, 1998 in Uptown Liberty City. His parents were Mathew Anchorage, the CEO of a technology enterprise and Melissa Parker-Anchorage, a news anchor. His father Scottish and mother American. During his early teens, he witnessed several crimes ranging from robberies to murder - including his own mother, who was robbed and shot in his early teens. Since then, he has dedicated his life to investigating. 
After the death of his mother, he spent all of his free time investigating the murder of his mother - the police department was complacent and unhelpful, essentially allowing the case to go cold. It took Thomas years, but just a few years prior to leaving Liberty City, he tracked down the killer, who was a man by the name of Douglas Gauld, a Caporegime for the Pezzulo Crime Family, a hit that was ordered due to a distant relative failing to pay back a loan. The police were paid off, and Gauld got away scot-free...but Thomas made sure justice was served.
Not long after finishing his investigation, he set out on his own, never one to take any handouts, he earned every penny himself until he could afford to move to Los Santos, a city filled with criminals, violence, serial killers and opportunities.
== Biography ==
Thomas Anchorage (Normady) was a PI born in Liberty City. His life in Los Santos started with him doing freelance news work with Weazel News. However, at night, he turned into the vigilante, The Purple Punisher, fighting all the "criminal scum" he could find. 
Although eventually, The Purple Punisher quickly became retired as Thomas decided he wanted to focus more on the Private Investigation side of things that he was used to. To add, he started becoming involved with LSBN and often was helping Ron Otterman with news stories across Los Santos. After several failed attempts to win Ron over and get a position in LSBN, Thomas began shifting his focus elsewhere. 
Normady then went on to found LSPI (Los Santos Private Investigations) with Roman Shacks, he worked on gaining his business licenses to start LSPI as a business officially. In the meantime, he freelanced being a PI and conducted his business on a stall at the Farmer's Market in Paleto or at Dean World. He eventually got his business license in April 2021, and LSPI became official. 
Thomas worked as a partner of LSPI, picking up cases when they become available, and he also previously worked as a Cadet at the Paleto Bay Sheriff's Office, however resigned when he deemed that it wasn't the job for him. Thomas then primarily focused on LSPI, however he occasionally put a shift in at Burger Shot.
Thomas was also heavily associated with Royal Mafia, starting off as their oil guy with the pumps at Ron Oil before taking ownership of their warehouse, Sidwig Crawshank often referred to Thomas as his "clean guy".
=== Death ===
After negotiating a plea agreement for drug trafficking, Thomas got in a police chase and died from a car accident on March 6, 2023.
==Personality==
Personality
Thomas Anchorage, under the name Thomas Normady, usually did his best to be kind to strangers and is usually cheerful, and willing to help where he can. He was also very careless with his money, whenever he found someone "in need", he gave them money - this included sending Steven Hayes $1000 every day as a "prank". He also gave money to people he's gotten into car crashes with, and tended to tip everyone who served him in customer service, Thomas didn't like to hold onto his money and preferred that people who need it more got this money.
Thomas was often described as a hot-headed dickhead by those around him despite his good intentions, but he loved and protected his friends and those he loved with everything he had. He repeatedly risked his life for others and put himself in situations that most people wouldn't. He often came off as arrogant and liked to make himself seem more important than he actually was - he also found that he was excellent at talking his way out of most bad situations but sometimes not good enough.
== LSPI (Los Santos Private Investigations) ==
LSPI
In 2021, Thomas decided to focus on pursuing a career as a Private Investigator (PI) and focus less on reporting the news. He worked on gaining his business license so he could become an official PI. In the meantime, he freelanced as a PI, gaining as many cases as he could. As soon as he got his business license, he started his business, Los Santos Private Investigations (LSPI), and slowly became the Los Santos' most trusted PI firm. LSPI's roster shifts and changes constantly, with most of the best investigators being off-the-books, and the firm has proven itself by solving multiple cases.
== Character Arcs ==
The LSBN Arc
Thomas started his news career in Los Santos, at Weasel News, as an intern. He slowly started to make friends with those at Weasel News, Including Ron Otterman. At this point, Otterman was slowly beginning to create his own news company, LSBN. Thomas started to do things for Otterman. The main highlight was dressing up as spiderman and taking pictures for Ron, as that was what Ron really wanted. Thomas was working as Louie Panlin's intern before he was fired by Dillon Dubbs on 16/07/21.
The Ursula Arc
Thomas and Ursula met while working together at Weasel News and then later on LSBN. Thomas has always admired Ursula and her dry, deadpan delivery of everything she says. After Ursula's Brain Injury, he realized just how much he cared for her. They started to develop a 'relationship' of some sort. Ursula, at the time, was in an open relationship, and Thomas kind of just slotted into that relationship, becoming very close with Ursula. However, Ursula and Thomas had a conversation, and Ursula ended their agreement. This has caused Thomas to go off the rails; he took a week trip back to Liberty City and came back a raging alcoholic. Thomas used to be Ursula's intern at LSBN.
== Relationships ==
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*Various exes before LS
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* Mackenzie Hayes
* Rose Byrne
* Anita May
* Kyle Pred
* Nancy Drew
* Asher Grey
* Reina Vergara
* Ashley Justitia
* Mercury Frost
* Raven Porter
* Finn Brennan
* Gabby Brito
* Ophelia Dawson 🛌
* Tomathy Steampipe
* Damien Tinkerman
* Tee Veeman
* Ari Preston
* Elizabeth Reefer
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==Momentous Dates within the Government==
Rank 	Insignia	Note 	Date
Cadet	 	Hired to the BCSO; Badge #589	November 18th, 2021
Cadet	 	Transferred to the PBSO 	December 2nd, 2021
Cadet	 	Resigned 	February 6th, 2022
Certification	Legend	Rank	Note	Date
==Trivia==
*Thomas once had two persistent black eyes, in his own words "Every time they start to heal, I get punched again.", this is why he is often found wearing sunglasses regardless of the weather. Although after his three-month trip back to Liberty City, these finally healed up.
*Is rarely found without a bulletproof vest due to how dangerous Los Santos can be.
*Thomas has an ongoing investigation into Purple Punisher despite the fact that it's himself, also claims to hate him and sometimes berates the idea of vigilantes.
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