Tobias Hawthorne II

**Tobias "Toby" Hawthorne II** is the youngest child of Tobias Hawthorne and Alice O'Day Hawthorne. He is the brother of Skye and Zara. Toby is believed to have died during a fire twenty years ago.

## Biography

### Early Life

Toby was raised to be his father's heir. He was a fan of contraband as a teenager. Hidden in his armoire are many travel-sized liquor bottles. Under a loose floor panel in his bedroom is a small plastic bag full of pills and another one full of powder.

At nineteen, Toby and three friends, Colin Wright, David Golding, and Kaylie Rooney, took a trip to a private island the Hawthorne family owns off the coast of Oregon. There was a horrible storm and a deadly fire at the house. The bodies of Colin, David, and Kaylie were recovered, but Toby's never was. He was declared dead.

### *The Inheritance Games*

Avery Grambs learns about Toby's death, which occurred in August twenty years ago.

Avery realizes that the homeless man she knows as Harry, is actually Toby. Avery and "Harry" played chess in the park starting after Avery's mom died. If she won, she got to buy him breakfast.

### *The Hawthorne Legacy*

Avery and the Hawthorne brothers discover that Toby was actually adopted by Tobias and Alice. His birth mother is Mallory Laughlin, the mother of Rebecca and Emily. Mallory's parents made her give up her child because she was a teenager when she got pregnant. This makes Toby the half-brother of Emily and Rebecca Laughlin.

The group learns that Toby learned about the adoption, and became furious at his father in particular. Wanting to "punish" Tobias, Toby wanted to burn down the vacation house in Oregon. So he doused it with gasoline, planning to watch it burn from a safe distance with his friends. However, lightening struck the house while they were still inside, and his friends died while he was severely injured and suffered from temporary amnesia.

It is also revealed that Avery's mother, Hannah Rooney, nursed Toby back to health after the fire, and they fell in love.

Toby tells Avery that while he is not her biological father, he cares for her as if she were his daughter. Toby was there the night Avery was born and helped pick her name. After Hannah's death, Avery supposedly met him for the first time when he introduced himself as a homeless man named Harry, and they often played chess together.

## Appearance

It is difficult to tell how old he is. He has a gravelly voice.

## Personality

Skye says that their father ruined Toby because he spoiled him. He was clearly raised the same way as his nephews, on his father's games and puzzles.

## Trivia

* The poem discovered in his wing, The Poison Tree by William Blake is as follows.
	+ "I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I waterd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears: And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night. Till it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine. And into my garden stole, When the night had veild the pole; In the morning glad I see; My foe outstretched beneath the tree."