Name: Tomm (Yes, 2 'm's. It's a typo.)
Age: 24
Location: San Diego, CA
Particulars: Male, 6'3", 225 lbs. Brown hair, Brown eyes. Right handed, Right footed.
FP Name Inspired From: Watching Reservoir Dogs while maintaining a BAC of 0.10 for the entire movie.
Websites: I don't have a homepage or something similar. If you'd like to get a hold of me, feel free to PM me.
Hobbies: Writing, sports (Anything. My favorite sport to watch is curling. Yes, CURLING.), playing sports (rugby, currently) current events, cynicism, and other things not appropriate to mention because some readers may not be 18 (or 21 if local laws are different)
People I Pay Attention And Listen To (and you should too): Lewis Black, Gregg Easterbrook, Keith Olbermann, Penn Jillette, Stephen Colbert, Kasey Keller, Eric Wynalda, Jake Peavy, Ed Schultz, Ralphie May, Gabriel Iglesias (Yeah, no women. It's not my fault. There's plenty of skilled, intelligent, well-spoken and insightful women out there. I've met a few in my lifetime. It's just that none of them are on TV or in the news, so you don't know them.)
Favorite Drink: Three Wise Men (to get blitzed), Widmer Heffeweizen (Domestic beer), Guinness (Imported beer), Tap Water (Non-alcoholic. All bottled water is tap water anyway.)
Thing I'd Like To Teach Everyone: Nearly every argument can be solved by one party simply deciding to swallow their pride. Unfortunately, the one party who doesn't swallow their pride is going to be an asshole about it. Sorry.
Current Story: A Hell Of A Town ('Hell' for short)
'Hell' is a story that contains both humans and monsters. But, just because someone is a monster does not mean he or she is not human, and just because someone is human does not mean he or she is not a monster. Should you decide to read it, keep those ideas in mind. The characters involved are scattered about on a sliding scale of morality, and every character will be put to a difficult decision. The interest of the story is seeing how exactly the character in question responds to that situation.
Another key aspect of 'Hell' is that the story is almost entirely character-driven. Very few external events happen outside the characters themselves that force them to change. For the most part, nearly everything that happens is the result of one character's actions, which will be felt by the others. In other words, you and I have seen a lot of stories. Some of them may be different, but there are not that many. The same stories have been told over and over again, and hearing the same one is not that interesting. Instead, what matters is the characters. You'll get to know the characters in 'Hell''s setting of San Diego. You'll start to understand how they think, and what they believe. You might like a few of them, you may hate others. But, you will see their world through their eyes. And, in that, you just might experience something that you will take to heart. If you have learned something from my story, I'd be very honored.
As a quick summary, 'Hell' takes place on two tracks, who will eventually cross. One begins when a distraught doctor commits suicide. As her soul leaves her body, something else moves in. This creature's escape from another world, combined with her entry in this one, will send shockwaves through the city of San Diego.
On the other side, a rather uninteresting young man happens to stumble across a young woman being attacked in an alley one night. He's able to fight the attacker off, and get her to the hospital in time. As events unfold, this woman will prove to be much more than meets the eye. She's the key to the puzzle, but first, everyone has to unlock the mystery to what exactly she is and what that puzzle is, including her.
Future Stories: A Village of the Lost ('Lost' for short)
'Lost' takes place parallel to 'Hell'. In fact, 'Lost's central protagonist can be found very early on in 'Hell', she's tending the bar at the drink-up in Chapter 1. She's got the orange-dyed hair. Characters from 'Hell' will make cameo appearances in 'Lost' as well, although, the two stories will be largely seperate. This is not the character's choice, I as the author am forcing them apart until they can meet each other in the last story, 'Oblivion'.
It is another character-driven story, where the plot is what its characters create. Whereas 'Hell' is about tough choices, 'Lost' is about finding fulfillment. Nearly all the characters in 'Lost' are flawed in some way. More specifically, they usually know what they're missing, it's just really, really hard to find it. It takes a very strong personality to overcome one's own weaknesses, whether it's a physical handicap, mental problem, or just a simple desire to find or replace what once was lost. Also, what exactly would you do to get there? If there literally was something out there that would solve all of your problems (by either making them go away (money) or giving you the strength to deal with them (love)), what would you do to get it? You know where it is. You can see it. You can feel it. But it's just out of your reach. What are you going to give to get that?
Again, the characters of 'Lost' will have to decide how far they'll go to get that thing they want or need, be they different or one and the same. The reader will feel what they feel and understand their motives, be they noble or tragic.
A City on the Edge of Oblivion ('Oblivion' for short)
'Oblivion' is a sequel to 'Hell' and 'Lost'. The characters who happen to make it through the other two stories will have plenty of feelings and opinions towards one another. Some will hate each other, some will love each other. But now, something from the outside will rise to threaten all of them. An external event finally happens, and we'll have to see how the men and women we've met in the previous few stories will react to this threat, and watch them as they decide to fight it, escape it, or even join it.
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