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Cassidy, Thomas; Black Tom
Topic Started: Aug 12 2008, 06:42 AM (2,707 Views)
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BASIC INFORMATION

CANON OR ORIGINAL: canon
AFFILIATION: Brotherhood

FULL NAME: Thomas Samuel Eamon Cassidy
CODENAME: Black Tom
NICKNAMES: Barrington (alias)

CURRENT AGE: 38
DATE OF BIRTH: May 1, 1974
MARITAL STATUS: single
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: heterosexual
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Brotherhood cells, Sanctuary
TIME AT INSTITUTE: none
REGISTERED WITH SHIELD? Yes
HOMETOWN: Dublin, Ireland
KNOWN RELATIVES: Sean Cassidy (cousin), Theresa Rourke (cousin)

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

HEIGHT: Six feet / Twelve feet
BUILD: muscular / woody with branches
EYES: green / yellow
HAIR: black / leaves and branches instead of hair
DISTINGUISHING MARKS: As a man Tom had a tattoo on his right shoulder of Cernunnos, a deity with a stag’s antlers. His body had some small scars from a lifestyle that was a little more than simple ‘rough and tumble’ including some bullet scars and knife scars. He has some slight disfiguration in his face, particularly a slightly crooked nose from his days of boxing. As a tree Black Tom had a towering height of nearly twelve feet. His body was composed of woody cellulose. His body and head had become essentially a tree trunk with his face set in the general vicinity where his face should be. Extending from the upper portion of his new form were branches and limbs that stood upward. Basically, he was a walking tree with arms and legs.
CLOTHING STYLE: Tom is most comfortable in the black leather jacket he’s had since he was a teenager. It has stains and stitches on it from years of abuse and repair. It has “character.” He prefers jeans and a v-neck shirt to suits, but one can’t be a slouch their entire life. There are times when a suit is needed for certain business dealings. Tom Cassidy’s suits are slim and stylish, most of the time they’re black but the occasional dark gray suit has it uses. Tom wears a wooden Celtic cross on a leather cord around his neck. This has come in handy in times when he cannot find another medium through which to channel his powers. Tom is normally seen wielding a blackthorn shillelagh, which is a traditional Irish fighting club. He often wears a silver ring on each hand. As a tree, he had no need for clothing.

UNIFORM: Once joining with the Brotherhood Tom adopted a standard uniform of black body armor. He had a sling for his trusty shillelagh and spare wooden police tonfas. He has no uniform in his tree form.

POWERS

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: Thomas Cassidy’s mutant ability is the power to channel blasts of great concussive force and heat through wooden objects. Once he became aware of this ability he took to carrying the shillelagh. These blasts are quite powerful and destructive. With years of experience, Tom has gained much needed control and incredible strength with his powers.

Recently, Tom has developed an affinity for plants. He has discovered that he has developed chlorokinesis. If there are any plants within his vicinity he has control over them and they act according to his will. This is a relatively new power and it needs much improvement. With time these powers could become much stronger and versatile. At one point he was able to manipulate vines and roots to create a mass vegetation construct to channel his powers through. This may have been augmented slightly by the presence of another, more powerful, chlorokinetic mutant who brought those vines and roots to the earth’s surface.

Once Tom had fully transformed into a tree-like being he was able to fire the blasts directly through his gnarled limbs. He had no need to channel his powers through a wooden implement seeing as he was composed of wood at that point. In this form Tom had a degree of enhanced regeneration. Given time he could regrow limbs that had been severed. Wounds inflicted through heat or fire took longer to recover from, however. His level of strength was enhanced greatly. Tom was not as strong as other mutants with enhanced strength but he far surpassed the strength level of that of his human form.

Tom is also immune to the abilities and mutant based attacks of Banshee and Siryn.
Future Progression of Powers: After Tom’s reappearance he still uses wooden implements to discharge his blasts but he can learn that with his new physiology he does not require the use of such implements. His botanically based physique would also have an increase rate of healing. It would be nothing drastic but just accelerated from the baseline human healing factor. Once he learns this, Tom would be very careful. He would be afraid that if he lost a limb it would grow back grotesque and wooden, similar to if a reptilian mutant lost a limb and it grew back in a mutated form. His powers of plant manipulation are a bit stronger too, as having a deeper connection with the world of the green things.

WEAKNESS: The main drawback to his abilities is the need to channel the blasts through a wooden object. This can be any object made of any type of wood, but this object is definitely required. Otherwise, Tom cannot use his powers. That is why he took to wearing the wooden cross. With his plant manipulation powers he is rather inexperienced and they are not extremely powerful until he cultivates them more. When Tom was in his tree form, his size was a drawback. He was not as lithe as he used to be before. He was also susceptible to fire and heat. He did not feel pain in such a conventional fashion but he could be incapacitated and possibly even killed with fire.

Just as Tom is immune to Sean and Theresa’s attacks, his cousins are immune to Tom's force and heat blasts.
Future Progression of Weaknesses: When Tom learns to fires the blasts from his own body without the help of wooden weaponry he will learn that his body is not built to handle the heat that the blasts generate. His body is susceptible to fire damage and extensive use of his powers and could overheat to the point of catching fire.

PERSONALITY Thomas Cassidy is bitter and brooding. He has always been the black sheep of his family with the glory heaped upon Sean. He has been on the wrong side of the law for several years and has developed a course attitude with a strong dislike for police and authority. He always tries to give a tough appearance but is genteel to the ladies. With women, Tom is very flirtatious and sometimes forward.

Tom has a strong affinity for gambling. It isn’t so much an addiction but he really likes to gamble and he has lost much through this vice. One vice that he does enjoy is smoking. He enjoys hand rolled cigarettes and will hardly ever smoke a mass produced smoke.

Tom has a keen sense of loyalty. He evaded capture with the help of Magneto and feels that he owes a strong debt to the man. That was the basis for him joining the Brotherhood. In most things in life Tom is going to do as he pleases to gain profit or pleasure. He isn’t going to sway from that self administered code except when his loyalty comes to question. Some of the major exceptions to this are the Brotherhood and his cousin Theresa Rourke that he raised as his daughter. He was very protective of her and has tried to steer her away from many of his mistakes mostly in a ‘Do as I Say, Not as I Do’ sense. The biggest exception to this would be that he introduced her into a life of crime. In everything else he loves the girl and regrets having misused her.

HISTORY: PRE-APOCALYPSE Thomas Samuel Eamon Cassidy was born and grew up in Ireland. His family was well to do and very extended. He is several months older than his cousin Sean but the rivalry between them was evident from the beginning. As young children they always competed. Both boys had their share at being the victor but it seemed that Sean was usually seen as the golden boy.

As they grew older, Tom developed a love for gambling. He’d had a streak of good luck with his gambling and one night lost his birthright to his cousin Sean. The young men were out for a night at the pub and a bit of gambling. Thomas had always held it over Sean’s head that he was the heir to Cassidy keep and when Tom was short on collateral for a wager, he bet the ownership of the Keep. Tom lost the game of dice to Sean in front of the entire pub so of course he couldn’t back out of the deal.

The final split between the men was over the love of a woman named Mauve Rourke. She was beautiful and free spirited. She was also flirtatious between both men. She married Sean much to Tom’s chagrin. It was later that Mauve had an affair with Thomas. When Sean found out the two had a heated brawl. The outcome resulted in Sean leaving for America. He left without knowing that Mauve was pregnant with his child.

Tom soon tried his fists at amateur boxing. He did well for a while and won several of his matches. Though his winnings were meager he enjoyed it. He felt something visceral about pummeling another human with his hands. He had used his powers on others but there was a satisfaction that came with using his hands. After a small string of losses Tom saw that there was more money to be made off of some of the illegal practices that occurred behind the scenes at the boxing matches. The betting was perfectly legal and he had enjoyed that but there was also a thrill associated with the illegal.

Tragedy struck when there was a gas explosion. Tom rushed into the chaos to see how the woman he had once loved fared. Mauve had died in the blast but young Theresa, her daughter, miraculously survived. In the confusion, Tom stole Theresa away and began to raise her as his own child.

Tom slowly grew to infamy within the black market. He had a natural talent for getting into and then out of sticky situations. He was able to garner himself a no-nonsense and respectable reputation all without revealing this to his “daughter” Theresa. When her mutant abilities emerged he was overjoyed but there was a degree of bitterness when the mutation proved to be similar to Banshee’s. It was then that Tom introduced Theresa to his world of crime. Together they were fairly successful at their less than legal activities. Despite never fully committing to crime, Theresa continued to help her “father” with his exploits. Black Tom Cassidy has continued his life of crime from that point on. He mainly dealt in the black market and usually sticks to arms dealing. There have been small capers where he assembled small teams to rob a bank or complicated jewelry heists.

Black Tom joined the Brotherhood mostly by accident. He was coming to America to meet with Magneto for an arms deal but during an altercation at the airport the Irishman had to be saved through the efforts of Gambit and Magneto. Feeling he had a debt to repay, Tom joined the Brotherhood at Murder World. Black Tom continued his black market exploits from New York. One his first endeavor in the city he and his team were encountered by some members of X-Factor. In the fray, Tom had been shot in the arm but escaped capture.

Tom continued to generate business for himself and revenue for the Brotherhood. He was also able to sow seeds of discord among the mutant population when he got his hands on the power-enhancing drug called KICK. It was highly addictive and would cause mutant abilities to spiral out of control. His first venture in peddling the drug was at a concert to promote mutant tolerance. After successfully selling his wares he encountered X-Factor member Rictor and in the fight doses him with the drug. Rictor’s powers reacted causing an earthquake. Tom was also part of a team that attacked a supply train and fought with the mercenary Deadpool.

Over time, Tom had become aware of a problem with his body. The gunshot he had gotten in New York had healed but it had a strange appearance. The scar had a tough texture and appeared to be growing. This was the beginning of his transformation.


DURING APOCALYPSE (April 7th through April 12th, 2009) Black Tom had taken part of the smaller missions of the Brotherhood but when Apocalypse struck the world, the missions took on a grander scale. His goal was not to fight for mutant kind but also the entire planet. As the Horsemen rode out Tom was included in the team that faced Famine in the American Mid-West. The Irishman was armed with his wooden implements but he pushed his plant manipulation powers to the limit to created a large turret, for lack of a better word, out of twisted vines and roots. He channeled his powers through this for a pile driving blast at Famine. The Horseman caused a massive explosion that shattered the wooden object. When the dust settled, a large splinter of the wood had impaled Tom, pinning him to the ground.

Tom was saved by Avery who removed the fragment and helped him back to the portal after Famine retreated at Apocalypse’s call. Tom was taken back to the mansion where he was nursed back to help with a great deal of help from Avery. He had felt a strong connection to the nymph based on the similarity of their powers. The attraction he felt was largely admiration and awe for the young woman who had saved him. Much to the chagrin of Quicksilver, Black Tom kissed the green mutant as the speedster was entering the room.

When the massive attack on the Temple occurred, Tom remained in the hospital wing of the mansion. He was in no shape to leave so when the EMP struck and the converts descended on the mansion he was still inside. Armed with wooden tongue depressors Tom was able to offer a little fight but drained his energy quickly. The efforts of other Brotherhood members and X-Men at the mansion staved off the attack while the teams at the Temple were able to bring the threat of Apocalypse to a close.

POST-APOCALYPSE In the wake of Apocalypse Tom’s condition worsened. His body began to mutate at a quicker rate. The newly healed flesh sustained in the Famine attack had changed into a hideous growth and expanded over much of his body until one night he completely transformed. Tom had changed into a large treelike creature. He had lost control of his body and began spreading vines and tendrils through Murderworld coming into conflict with his teammates. He had even produced a small army of homunculi and small yet vicious leaf-babies. Black Tom was beaten back and contained. A short while later, after it seemed he was dormant, there were stirrings in Tom’s mind and Rogue borrowed some of Avery’s powers to help bring Tom back to a more humanoid shape and stable state of mind.

Tom had still implemented his so-called daughter in his capers. She had been disgusted at first when his body had undertaken its transformation. She eventually came back around seeing that she believed he was her father despite all his other lies and black dealings. Tom had never fully introduced her to his world in the Brotherhood; he didn’t want that for her. Tom had truly grown to love the girl over time and it was a hard sacrifice to make. It was at this time that he revealed that he was not Terry’s father but in fact that it was his cousin Sean. Terry had been very distressed over Tom’s new mutation. She feared the same fate would befall her. Tom did not want that fear to loom over her and made a choice. The Irishman saw that as a point to begin anew for Terry and she deserved the truth at least once. The jobs they had pulled were one thing, but he did not want to embroil her in the species war. When Terry was captured Tom was hurt but he was fairly sure that because of her age and the likelihood she had been coerced she would be just fine. Leniency was given to the girl and SHIELD saw fit that she could be admitted into Xavier’s school or rehabilitation.

In his new body Tom was involved in Brotherhood missions including the murder of high profile public figures. Black Tom was on the team in charge of dispatching the media personality Richard Morgan. He then went to attack the Hoover Dam. The death of Richard Morgan was more successful than the Hoover Dam but the damage had been done. At one point Tom even extended an offer of Sanctuary to Terry (his cousin/once adopted daughter) and her young friend Josh Foley. He had felt responsible for her and wanted to protect her especially with the state of mutant affairs at that time.

At one point, Rogue decided to desert the Brotherhood. They did not tolerate turncoats and a team was put together to bring her down and do it very publicly. Tom was on the team that attacked her in Mutant Town. Tom was badly burned and incapacitated in the fight at this time. He was captured by SHIELD and held in a meta-human super-prison in an undisclosed location. When he came to consciousness, he fought for his freedom but his powers had been suppressed. Over time his struggles for freedom got weaker and weaker. He had already become slightly unhinge and unstable due to his physical mutation and his time alone in solitary confinement made it worse. The voices he had heard worsened and sometimes when he slept he even felt that he was back in New York in Central Park.

Black Tom was barley given human contact. The guards always rubbed his situation in his face and on a couple of occasions it was almost unbearable. They told him of the SHIELD siege of the Brotherhood base in Murderworld. There had been a great explosion and a lot of his old teammates had been killed. When the guards told him that the Xavier school had been destroyed by a group called the Purifiers all Tom could think about was Theresa. He feared for her life wishing that he had taken her to Sanctuary when he had the chance. Tom had thrashed in his cell until he had passed out. He had deteriorated over time and the exertion almost killed him. Then the guards came one day to tell him about a Sentinel attack on New York from a group of rogue sentinels and how many mutants had died. Tom’s tree form was so withered and deteriorated by that point he could barely move. The medics had been ordered to help him in any way possible because despite his status as a murdering terrorist they did not need an inquiry from the overseers on their hands. However, there seemed to be no helping the tree-man. The tree was dying.

One day, almost a year after his imprisonment a weakened Tom became aware that he was in Central Park. He felt stronger but he felt very strange. He couldn’t move but he was aware of the things around him. He could hear the voices of the park patrons and feel the wind in his branches. Tom was barely aware and conscious but the feeling was much the same as when he had manifested his transformation in Murderworld. Much like a cutting of a normal plant can be placed into soil to begin the growth of a new plant the same thing had happened to Tom. A cutting from his branches had somehow found root in Central Park and began to grow. A similar thing had happened on the mansion grounds when a group of homunculi had terrorized a small group of students but this was on a new scale.

Tom’s new tree had been ensnaring unsuspecting homeless people and park patrons and feeding off of their life force while keeping them under ground. While the tree Tom in the SHIELD prison was dying the Tom tree in New York was thriving and growing. He had not been going insane but sharing a connection with the other tree and hearing the voices of the people around the tree. Eventually the new tree was strong enough and it underwent a tremendous growth spurt endangering the park and the area around it. A group of mutants were able to stop the giant tree and extricate some of the surviving victims that had nearly been drained of all their life. Among this number of people was a man found stark naked. For anyone that would know, it looked exactly like Black Tom Cassidy. Black Tom, in a very human form had grown within the body of the giant tree, but now his body was more akin to a plant than anything animal.

SAMPLE RP POST:

“Tonight ain’t your night boys,” Thomas Cassidy called out as he entered the smoky room. “I’ve got me lucky charm tonight. I’m taking you for every cent you sorry lot are worth.”

Tom walked into the back room of the pub with a smiling baby hoisted under his arm. Her head was covered in red curls. A dollop of clear slobber pooled at the corner of her toothless grin. Tom hefted her up again and pulled a handkerchief from his back pocket to dab the drool away. “Ye’r not really bringing a wee babe to a pub? To play cards?” Brandon Tanner asked.

“I’m not dealing her in, you bloody fuck. I’m not expecting her to pay the ante. Just didn’t have a keeper for her tonight,” he explained as he took a seat. “B’sides, it’s Terry’s birthday. Where else would a girl be but with her da on her first birthday?”

The men around the table gave a cheer and raised their glasses in honor of the girl’s first birthday. Tom went to the open seat and passed the baby girl to Geoffrey Skinner while he removed his beaten leather jacket. Geoffrey held Terry gingerly as if she could explode at any second but she only stared at him with wide green eyes. Tom grabbed the baby back and propped her on his knee; her giddy smile returned immediately. The Irishman settled into his chair and pulled a roll of cash from his shirt pocket. He dropped it to the table. Brandon unrolled it and counted out the chips due to Tom.

One of the other men was up across the room making noise with some of the glasses on a shelf. “Bring me one of those glasses, will ye?” Tom asked. “And one a’ those bottles.”

The man set both the bottle and the shot glass down by Tom. Tom poured himself a drink and downed it. He poured another shot and then capped the bottle, one handedly, and on the floor by the table leg. From his pant leg, he pulled out a couple of cards and slipped them into position in his lap. His plan was to switch them out and into the deck throughout the game and secret out the original cards as he played. There was possibly a sizable pot going tonight and Tom was not playing to lose. He had learned his lesson when he drunken gave his birthright away to his golden child cousin, Sean. Now there wasn’t a time when Tom rolled dice without a bit of sleight-of-hand to switch them out for a loaded die. True Black Tom Cassidy had been upset that he didn’t have someone to care for Terry while he played cards but decided she’d be a great distraction for the other men as well.

Tom gave Terry a kiss on the head as tapped his pack of cigarettes on the felt of the table. He turned his head away and put a cigarette to his lips and lit it. Her tiny pink hands reached up and made grabbing motions for the smoke. “Ye’r not going to…” Brandon began to ask.

“Yeah. Right after I pour her a shot,” Tom laughed back at the man’s face. “If your game tonight is as sharp as that, I’ll be making off with your money in no time.”

Tom took a poker chip from the table and handed it to Terry. “Here. Chew on this,” he said.

The Irishman turned his attention back to the game that was starting but one of the men called out, “Oi, Tom!”

Tom turned slightly and there was the flash of a bulb. Tom rubbed his eyes. “Enough takin’ the piss. Are we playing or not?” he asked hoping that his grousing attitude would help give the impression of his serious intent to play cards.
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