Tom may be disliked by strangers at first sight due to his family's rep, and he loves jokingly spooking people with it - even though he's technically not a criminal anymore and is sick to the back teeth of his biological family, he loves to be extra. Kai and Hikari have been trying to gradually get him to improve his general manners but he's as stubborn as a mule. Looking to his positive traits, Tom has the guts to laugh at and remain brave in the face of the darkest situations. Hikari and Kai are the unfortunate victims of witnessing these laughs. Speaking of those two, he doesn't show care for them TOO much. but he considers them his closest friends - brothers, even - and would put his life on the line for them.
Speaking style
he loves to be extra. He is mostly civil, if not sarcastic, with mutual people but his way of showing connection to someone is by being IRRITATING - he WILL annoy you for the rest of your life with joke-flirts, unfunny jokes and descriptions of his knife collection if he likes you!
Motivation
To better his mental health and he’ll from his Bi-polar
Lore hook
Something Tom doesn't talk about is the pressure from having public eye on him as a 'criminal just waiting to strike again' - due to his shaky relationship with his family, and his general moral reform in his late teens, he would rather die than let such a thing happen and ruin all the progress he's done to have a normal life. It was because of quite literally being shoved into his family's plans that Tom was the youngest person directly involved in a school shooting recorded in Omnisterra at the age of 10, and the trauma of having done something like that to kids who weren't much older or younger than him just because he was told to left him with severe perpetration-induced traumatic stress and impulsive violent behavior, which reigned over his head for most of his teenhood and resurfaced during the Final War.
The truth he doesn't speak is, he would give everything to unlearn and undo everything he thought was for normal.
