Thomas

Thomas (Homsy) is considered one of the founding member of The Fellas having nurtured the group during it's infancy on Skype. An active member, Thomas can be found in chat most days as one of his trademarks is chronic unemployment.

He is biological brother to J'nathan and surrogate father to REDMAY.

## Personal Bio (1999 - Present)

### Birth

Thomas was born in Iowa in 1999. It was quickly discovered the new baby boy had CCHD and he underwent extensive medical intervention in the early years of his life in order to preserve his ability to exist. He struggles with cardiovascular health into the present day. Most experts agree that this complication was most likely an attempt from God to make sure his new creation wasn't too overpowered.

### Public School

After starting school in his small Iowa town Thomas was quickly became radicalized to the United States education systems flaws. He raged against the machine from within but as he approached Middle School it became clear he wasn't going to topple the public school regime on his own and dropped out of school for the first time. He would retain many relationships forged at this time in his life including Michael (EGG™), Craig (Craig), and James (Saus) the former two becoming part of *The Fellas* in their own time, and the latter the creator of the eventual *The Fellas* Discord server

### Homeschooling

Thomas started homeschooling himself in 7th grade. With his limited resources and then undiscovered ADHD it quickly became apparent whatever education he was to receive was going to be unconventional at best. He spent most school days done with work before 11am and began turning to the internet to occupy his brain. He started pouring over streaming websites devoted to media piracy and playing hours of PlayStation 3 games online with friends he made from the UK. Cooking for himself everyday, replaying constant reruns of classic TV on Netflix, and seeing way way way too many movies online, Thomas was unknowingly equipping himself with perhaps his strongest asset: Street Knowledge

Also in middle school Thomas connected with Riley (Ryzen) at Youth Group who went on to be an impactful figure in *The Fellas* along with his brother Reid (REDMAY)

### Highschool and Beyond

When Thomas was approaching what would have been his Senior Year of high school but thanks to expedited classwork was, in terms of workload more like retirement, he was encouraged to start his college career early. Browsing a pamphlet for the local Community College he landed on a Graphic Design track and started attending class on the first day. By the end of the second class Thomas realized he didn't want to go anymore and he dropped out of school for the second time in his life after 2 days. After spending a few years bumming around, he eventually began work as a Youth Ministry intern at the same Youth Group he attended in Highschool. Despite many concerned emails from parents, he was allowed to teach and directly counsel many teens from 7th - 12th grade and was eventually groomed into having a love affair by one of his by then graduated Senior Girls. A grooming so successful he plans to marry her in fall of 2022 and thinks it's his idea.

# *The Fellas*: A Spotty Memory

## Before *The Fellas:* The Skype Era (2012 - 2016)

### Laptops and Popcorn Time

In 2012 Thomas received a laptop for Christmas and was quickly immersed into playing what few games he could run on his potato. Strengthening his now lifelong love of Age of Empires II as well as new loves like Team Fortress 2. Frequently participating in Skype calls lasting 8+ hours he played many games but watched many more movies now that his computer was more mobile and he was introduced to now defunct piracy application Popcorn Time. In early 2015 Thomas finally put together an (at the time) high end gaming desktop. Despite this improved hardware he continued to pirate movies even more than before often watching movies and playing games simultaneously.

### *The Fellas* Origin

It was during these Skype calls that some primordial version of The Fellas can finally be spotted. Skype calls consisting of Homsy, Saus, Sampersam, J'nathan and occasionally others were bordering on daily at times. Eventually growing tired of Skype's functionality decline Saus started searching for alternatives. Leading the group to Discord in 2016

## Birth of *The Fellas*: Discord Era (2016 - Present)

### Genesis

James quickly invited a few of us to his Discord server which was eventually named *The Fellas.*