Loom Threadheld

Unnamed uncle

Unnamed grandpa

> -**Loom**, finding Orca's joke very funny

**Loom Threadheld** is a 2nd year in Ignihyde. He is a mute guy that wears alt fashion to appear scary, but is actually a good kid that likes bugs.

## Appearance

Loom has dark skin and green eyes. His hair is teal and he wears five hairpins on one side of his head.

He wears a black hoodie attached to his school blazer, black gloves, unkempt vest with no tie, school pants and militar knee length goth boots.

His dorm uniform is the standard one, but with blue stitches and a black hoodie, alongside combat boots with iron tips.

He has an array of black masks he wears all the time. Under them, he has scars left by his parents.

He has his ears pierced: two lobal and two helix piercings per ear. When he doesn't wear gloves, he wears rings and bracelets.

## Personality

Loom wears alternative clothing, mostly black with a highlightning color, which may give him a more intimidating look, but this contrasts with his personality, since has a low self-esteem, due to his upbringing, he tends to think little of himself. He cares about the people that surround him, mostly wanting their comfort before anything, so if he thinks he is bothering someone, he'd leave immediately. Loom never had friends in his life, and anyone he considered his friend was quick to reject him, so now he's scared of considering himself close to someome when in reality they don't like him.

Due to his UM, Loom will blame himself for anything bad that happens, regardless if it was caused by him or not.

Loom has a profound love for bugs. At first, he was jealous of those that were always together, like ants, but after spending so much time with them in the basement, he learned their language and became friends with them. He considers them his family and even feels sad when he sees one die.

### Muteness

Loom is mute by choice, but communicates via charades. He always gets his message across, even if it's your first time encountering him. His charades are always clear, and you can tell Loom's mood from them.

If that's not to your liking, Loom carries a pencil and a notepad where he can write things out for you.

## Unique Magic

His Unique Magic is called "What a shame"

Loom was born with bad luck, and no one can change this. But he is able to redirect it to someone else. Loom chooses a target and says his UM name, then gives an order and it will happen. For example, if he wants to make someone drop their drink, he'd have to say "What a shame; drop that drink. ". To ensure the level of power his UM has, Loom manifests two dices. Depending on how high is the number, the greater the disaster and blot will be. So if he wanted to drop someones drink and the dices gave a 7, the drink would fall to the floor and someone would slip on the puddle.

His UM has to actively be a misfortune for someone, even if it benefits someone else by splash. When it causes its effect, it will make Loom have normal luck for a certain amount of time. The bigger the mishap is, the longer the time he is free.

Loom's bad luck may worsen over time, so to keep it in check, he is required to use his UM. However, Loom doesn't like giving his bad luck to others, and prefers to unload in small quantities in the most "harmless" ways, not to his classmates if possible.

## Backstory

### Early childhood

Loom was born on a friday 13th, this made his parents really scared of their son, since they never thought he would be born, and they were highly superstitious. For this reason, Loom was always treated as some demon spawn that they had to correct and contain until it was 'exorcisized'.

It seemed that bad things always happened to and around him, furthering the belief of his parents. No matter what priest they brought or amulet they bought, Loom brought bad luck to his household and there was nothing to be done about it.

They tried raising Loom like a good kid, sending him to school and fixing his every mistake, lest a misfortune ocurred. At school, he never got any friends, they would leave him because the football ball would get pricked by a stick if he kicked it, or the jumping rope would cut all of a sudden dare he jump over it. Even when someone was nice to him, they would quickly correct Loom if he claimed they were friends. Alas, he ended up sitting alone under a tree, where ants were working hard and helping each other. Loom wanted to be an ant. All ants were friends!

Soon enough, Loom's parents started resenting Loom, they wished he was never born and died in the womb like intended. During the day, they found any excuse to blame Loom for something that happened and punish him. It started woth yelling, and soon enough, they found hitting Loom was extremely stress relieving, and once they were done they told their son he 'hasn't learned his lesson yet' and threw him into the basement. It was cold and dark, Loom did not like it. At first, he cried and screamed and banged on the locked door to be let out, but that ended up in a beating and after a few times of encountering his dad on the other side very, very angry, Loom learned to keep quiet, loud kids will get punished! So he curled up on a corner and hoped his mom took pity on him before it was nighttime, though he would usually end up sleeping there anyways until he had to wake up for school.

During his time in the basement, his mom would sometimes drop by to give him dinner. Depending on his behavior, she would grant him the plate of food. Loom is a quick learner. In the middle of the silence, he could hear flutters and sense crawling. It was hard to pinpoint their exact locations, but Loom felt like he wasn't alone. His mom didn't clean this place often, so bugs made it their home. Dark, creepy, ugly bugs. Bugs that disgust everyone with their presence. Bugs that, just like Loom, no one would bat an eye if they died. This sparked his interest in learning more about bugs, the only companions that didn't brush him aside. He learned their language, body language, even though the only source of light was the outline of the door, and how to treat them. The bugs accepted him into their circle, and let him chat with them. The basement was a really scary place, but his friends staying close to him in the middle of the darkness made it a bit easier for Loom to survive yet another day.

At night, Loom's parents would often fight between each other over getting this curse of a child, this curse of a marriage and this curse of a life. Sleeping was hard for Loom. Insects are too small to try and wipe a kid's tears.

Loom may now have friends, but for his parents, their son was going crazy. Loom mom killed all the bugs she could find, whereas Loom alarmed everyone to hide. Loom felt devastated whenever a moth fell to the floor, or a spider curled in on itself as a useless last resort. Not many made it. And he had no choice but to tell the rest to leave, or else they would lose their lives too.

The only break he got of his personal hell, was summer, where he would spend the vacation over at his grandpa's house. There also lived his uncle, a guy that worked as a computer technician\*, to take care of Loom' grandpa, a cranky old man that claimed he didn't need help from anyone. During this time he'd help out his uncle at the store, fixing whatever he could before bad luck struck the pc, but since it's already broken, not much could be done to it, really. His favorite time would be coming home to eat lunch and the dessert: a big watermelon slice. Getting his cheeks sticky, spewing out the seeds. That's the life! still a work in progress xoxo

\*: idk whats the name but he fixes pcs and phones be it software or hardware

## Trivia

* Ironically enough, Loom is good at throwing dices to get the number he wants.
* Loom uses his UM while speaking in bug language, which doesn't require vocals.
* If you count, Loom has 13 accesories in his head, 5 hairpins and 8 piercings.
* Loom is underweight
* Loom's mother practised an abortion on him. Much to her surprise months later, when Loom was born anyways
* Although Loom knows ASL, he doesn't use it because no one else in this school does