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Name: Alison Sky
Age: 36
Contact: alisonsky
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Character Basics:

Character Name: Thomas
Journal: rungreenierun
Age: 17
Fandom: The Maze Runner book series
Canon Point: end of The Scorch Trials (Book 2)
Debt:

Class A: 192 years
Class B: 95 years
Class C: 354 years, 7 months

Mentally wiping someone of their identity.

Forcing participation in Death Trails for scientific experimentation.

GRAND TOTAL: 641 years, 7 months

Canon Character Section:

History: History via Wikia

Personality:
Inquisitive by nature, Thomas questions the world around him, and isn’t satisfied until he understands how it works. He isn’t someone who is happy with doing things the way that they have always been done, and pushes others to think outside of the box. He doesn’t want to be the leader, or stir up trouble, but he knows that someone has to be willing to point out how things can be done differently and be willing to stand behind his words with actions. He isn’t as brave as the other Gladers think he is – it’s more out of fear that he acts than bravado – but when he firmly believes that what needs to be done is the right thing, he can summon up courage to act. It was a moment like that where he broke the most important rule in the Glade and went into the maze to try and save Minho and Alby. It’s what he relies on to convince the other Gladers to go into the maze when he’s figured out a way to solve it, and it’s what makes him so willing to sacrifice himself to Group B when Teresa leads them to the boys and demands for Thomas to go with them. As the trials continue, he starts to see where all the moments of decision are, how the branches of the test work and how to know when they were facing a Variable that would change the next step of the trail. His hyper-awareness of that was making it easier and easier for him to make his decisions and act, protecting his friends and trying to keep them all alive.

Knowing that he’s one of the people who created the maze does ride on him a lot. In the beginning, when he didn’t know he didn’t want to believe it. When he took the Grief Serum for himself and learned the truth, the guilt he felt at what he did became a driving force for him to help the others though the maze and then the trials. He has a burning desire to fix and make up for everything he’s put the others through, and that is one of his major driving forces through the series.

He is a good friend to the Gladers – especially Newt, Minho, and Chuck. He knows that he’s the one responsible for them being there, but the other boys see that he doesn’t remember it anymore and accept him as an equal by being in the trials with them. He’s always willing to put himself on the line to make sure they are safe, and losing them is hard. When Chuck dies, it all but breaks Thomas because he had made a promise to help the otherwise defenseless kid find his parents. When Minho gets hurt, Thomas refuses to leave the other behind in the storm and risks getting struck by lightning to get his friend to the shelter a few hundred feet away from them. He talks a lot, and has learned how to use his words to get people to listen to him, and in return it makes it easy for him to make friends. People either tend to dislike him for how much he talks, or find themselves drawn to his curiosity in a way to learn more themselves through him.

Teresa, however, is a complex relationship that is damaged at the point he’s coming in from. She, along with Aris and a girl named Rachel had been working with the Creators in making the maze and preparing the two groups for their initial trial in their Glades. They had watched the other Gladers, observing them for two years as they sent them one by one up to the trial. Any of the Gladers who took the grief serum – Gally, Alby, Ben – remembered seeing them in that part of their life, and knew that they were the ones who took their memories before sending them up in the box. Because of the time since they were eight being together, the bond between Teresa and Thomas was more. She’s the one who helped him learn how to talk to others psychically. She was the one who supported him, worked at his side, and cared for him more than just friends. But then, in the Scorch Trials, Teresa and Aris betray Thomas and “sacrifice” him per the directions of the Creators. He doesn’t remember enough of his past life to know if the story that Teresa and Aris spin is truth or not, but it destroys his ability to trust the one girl who he was willing to do anything for to protect and save.

It also destroys his ability to trust in general. His Glader brothers he has no reason not to trust, but the others from the other group, Brenda and Jorge – the two Cranks who helped the boys navigate through the city and to the safe haven – his reservations about them kept him already at a distance before, but now only more so. On top of that, with Brenda having tried to forge a relationship with Thomas while in the city that he rebuffed because of his feelings for Teresa, he is all the more confused on what he feels and if he can even trust it when it comes to romantic relationships.

And if that wasn’t enough, Thomas has learned more than betrayal in the Scorch Trials – he’s learned how to kill. He’s forced to kill a Crank before the horde descended on them, and it made him sick to his stomach having to do it. He had to hold the man down as he stabbed him, watching and feeling the body fade and to make it worse, the only other person with him – Brenda – didn’t even flinch or seem effected by it to leave him to handle the feelings on his own. He wasn’t given a lot of time to process it because almost immediately he was being chased again, but it’s there and he still has to come to terms with it. But it also gives him a determination that as long as he could help it, no one else was going to die in the trials.

When he is pulled from the series, he has just completed the trials and thought that it was over, but was taken from the rest of the Gladers and trapped in a white room. He’s been freaking out, panicking at being isolated and unable to reach out to anyone until the one person he isn’t sure he trusts tries to explain what happened and he tells Teresa to go away. She reminds him that WICKED is GOOD, and then he is alone and left to sit with the knowledge that he’s infected and he just wants the games and trials to end and be done with him already.

Coming to Teleios is going to feel to Thomas like he’s back in the maze and he’s going to question everything until he feels he firmly understands it all, and then he’s going to try and find a way out. He’s tired of being played and just wants to not be a pawn and live his own life. He’s going to be afraid that he could spread the Flare and it may keep him from physical contact with others that aren’t cast mates, but slowly his curious nature will bring him out of being overly cautious and he will poke at the world and try to get to know the others in it. He will never stop looking for a way out though, and isn’t afraid to poke at bears to get answers.

Powers/Abilities: Thomas is an analytical genius who was able to help develop the trials with the Creators and Teresa. He’s very good at solving puzzles when he puts his mind to it. He also has telepathic powers, but he’s only used it on two people, and only because they have talked to him telepathically first.

Thomas also has been lead to believe that he is infected with a disease called the Flare, which is a disease that eats away at the body and mind of the host slowly and in the process drives them insane. Thomas, as he will learn in the next book, is actually immune to this virus and can't contract it or spread it.

Appearance:



Thomas is described in the book as being about five foot nine with brown hair. Using Dylan O’Brien as his PB since he plays Thomas in the movie verse, you can tell he has a mop of dark brown hair that can defy anyone’s attempts to style it as it will just stick every which way. He has brown eyes, and his skin is white; very white like can reflect the sun white. He’s skinny, but has a bit of muscle definition so it’s not skin and bones skinny. He has a nervous energy around him that usually has him almost always in motion, and only able to stay completely still when he’s deep in thought or making himself in order to not be noticed.

Samples:

Actionspam Sample:

With Newt, a watch, and a photo album while waiting for the storm to pass

Prose Sample:

Thomas arrives and Newt takes the drowned rat of a Glader in