Thomas di Pasqua

A skeptic turned amateur supernatural scholar, and caretaker to the flies.

## Description

#### Personality

Tom is a withdrawn man, who often spends time alone. He's determined to keep his head down and ignore or explain away anything supernatural he sees, but has pursued odd occurrences--if only to find a rational explanation, of course.

This approach has been less than successful, leading to an impulsive streak that has mostly only served to get him in trouble.

#### Appearance

Tom is tall, with an average build that skewed lanky after the wreck. He dresses in various muted sweaters and neutral-colored, fairly high quality pants. His auburn hair was kept short, but has been cut less often during his time in Granton. Over the course of events, he has started looking more obviously tired, but still maintains a mostly put-together appearance.

His left leg was shattered in a car accident, and had to be reassembled. Tom has mostly recovered, though he still walks with a slight limp and carries a polished wooden cane.

#### Capabilities

Though his stamina is limited by his leg injury, Tom retains the keen mind that got him through higher education.

Tom also has the ability to "listen to the flies", or get a sense of ex-reaper 114's emotional state and memories. As well, he gained the reaper ability to teleport, though only to locations he has visited before.

## Relationships

#### Nova di Pasqua

Nova is the only one of his siblings Tom still has contact with. The two remain close, as the black sheep of the di Pasqua family, and Nova visits Tom when her school schedule allows.

#### Cynthia

Since the older woman helped Tom while he was recovering from the wreck, Tom has regarded Cynthia as a grandmotherly figure. He accepts, but is often confused by, her various eccentricities--particularly her at-times-overbearing focus on his wellbeing.

#### Shawn Durkee

As keeper of Granton's records and fellow history scholar, Shawn quickly became someone Tom could easily spend time with. They will occasionally get a drink together, when Tom's schedule allows--and Tom remembers he has someone to consider a friend in town. Shawn has been known to help Tom with research into town history.

#### Death 114

After digging them out of their grave behind the trading post and unwittingly delivering the ooze containing what remained of their personality, 114 apparently considered Tom a friendly presence. They have been known to show up at his house at all hours of the night, in need of medical assistance. Tom has begrudgingly become fairly fond of the flies.

## History

The di Pasquas are a successful family, living and working mostly in New York City. Tom followed in the footsteps of his parents and two older siblings long enough to get a history degree and make it through a year of law school, but fell off the curve in October of 2013. By November, he was failing law school.

Unwilling to face the disapproval of his family, particularly his proudly thriving older brother, Tom bought a house in Granton. Telling only Nova where he was going, he ran away to Nowhere, Vermont, where he found a job working at the local grocery store. Two weeks later, he crashed his car on the way home from work, shattering his left leg.

Hospital bills drained the last of his savings, leaving Tom stranded in Granton. While on bed rest, he grew closer with Cynthia, who would stop by his house every so often with food. Occasional sightings of an eerie shadow at the edge of the woods surrounding his yard sent Tom into a spiral of late-night research into the supernatural.

When he was recovered enough to start leaving the house again, he wrote off these sightings, burying his research in the bottom of his closet. Until his experience at Hector's house, he hadn't seen the shadow since early March, a week before he returned to work at the grocery store. The shadow continued getting closer to his house, and eventually made it inside, with enough of a corporeal form to carry casseroles.

In an effort to assist Quest Oyer and his younger brother, Tom dug up a corpse in the woods behind the trading post, which eventually started showing up at his house in need of medical assistance.

## Trivia

* Tom has very mediocre vision, which he wears contacts for.
* While on bed rest after the wreck, Tom took in a ginger cat he named Charlie.
* Tom has a habit of talking to his cat, and more recently to 114. He has practice holding a mostly-one sided conversation.