User:Slapson/Thomas Hausler

"I'm going to make my brother proud."
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- Thomas.

Thomas Hausler is a character in the Abnormalverse.

Initially an average student and photographer, Thomas manifests his own powers shortly after seeing his brother Adler murdered at the hands of Václav Novak, who escaped from a containment facility meant to house criminals that couldn't be held in regular prisons.

With newfound resolve and restless anger, Thomas leaves his hometown of Vienna and treks across Europe to stop the man who murdered his brother, intent on killing him in an act of vengeance, damn be the consequences to himself.

Thomas is quite tall for someone his age, being around 6'6 (198 cm), with a muscular build (obscured by the coats he wears). His hair is black and spiky. He has a preference for wearing coats and scarves.
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It's noted that Thomas looks older than he is, mostly due to his height.

After his final encounter with Václav, both of his arms have been severed off. He has been fitted with robotic arms since.
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Personality
Thomas comes off as cold, stoic, and mean. He doesn't show his emotions often, though this is simply natural to him, as he feels he doesn't know how to properly express them. Despite this however, he's passionate and empathetic, willing to help others and put himself in harm's way for the sake of doing good. Where he has difficulty showing his emotions at face-value, he shows them through his actions and gestures. Thomas gets straight to the point in his words and doesn't like wasting time, keeping his sentences short if he talks at all. He's not good at speaking with other people for too long.

Perhaps Thomas' most admirable trait is his tenacity. He is pragmatic, and will do whatever he has to do to achieve a goal. It is this willpower that Thomas has that allows him to push through situations where others couldn't, including those involving extreme amounts of pain and torture. He detests being sidetracked or slowed down if it keeps him from his goal, but he'll do it if he feels it's necessary. He was inspired into this ideology by his brother, shortly before their father died. Thomas is always hopeful for a brighter future, and doesn't hesitate to move through the dark to get there if he needs to. He's a man who strives for hope in the bleakness of the world around himself, with a desire for justice.

Though great, Thomas' determination can work against him as he may be put through unnecessary strife and situations he could avoid. He often suffers more injury than he has to, but is willing to put up with it anyway if it means he'll see his goal to the end. There is only one limit to Thomas' determination: he will not harm an innocent person, even if they're in his way.

However, his methods aren't completely virtuous, and wasn't above stealing money from multiple people in order to pay for train tickets across Europe, though he believes that actions like these are for the greater good as long as they don't actually hurt anyone. However, he eventually realizes his misdeeds in this line of thinking, and tries to do better.

Thomas is especially violent towards his enemies, giving them the beatdowns they deserve. However, he isn't a killer, and will avoid doing so even if his enemy has tried to kill him first. There is only one exception.

Above all else, Thomas stresses in having a strong sense of family, whether it be by blood, adoption, or through marriage. He firmly believes that having a happy, caring family is one of the most important things in the world. Having grown up without his mother  in his life, and seeing both his father and his brother die, Thomas empathizes with people who have had similar conditions to himself. He curses and despises his mother for leaving their family behind because of this.

Thomas is prone to blaming himself for anything bad that happens to him or those he cares about, feeling that he could have prevented them from occurring at all. He feels like he could have saved his brother, and swears to never let it happen again, resulting in his overprotective parenting of his daughters.

Thomas is uncomfortable with the idea of infusing his body with cybernetics, such as prosthetic limbs or nanomachines, and is quietly unnerved by those who have gotten them (or, similarly, Abnormals who can turn into machines). When he woke up to find that the arms Václav sliced off were substituted for robotic ones, he screamed.

Family

 * Adler Hausler - Adler is Thomas' older brother, and someone who he highly respects. When their father died, Adler was the one to help Thomas find closure about it and move on, as they would learn to live without him. Thomas sees Adler as someone to strive to be; a man who can surpass challenges even with his own drawbacks and disabilities. Thomas is inspired into an ideology of optimism because of Adler, and believes that the world can be made better through determination and action.


 * Masako Arakawa - Thomas' mother, who has been absent for the entirety of his childhood, and only reappeared when he was an adult. She broke off her relationship with his father when the brothers were very young, and neither Thomas nor Adler has heard from her since. Thomas is only aware that Masako currently lives in Japan, and is furious at her for leaving her family behind, then trying to come back in like everything is fine. The lack of contact between mother and son hasn't given either of them a chance to reconcile, though Thomas has warmed up to her slowly.


 * David Hausler - Thomas' father. He was a man Thomas had a great deal of respect for.

Friends

 * Roland "Fender" Kilmister - The first friend Thomas makes on his journey is a retired cop who calls himself Fender, while the two are on a train to Germany. He discourages Thomas from attempting to go after Václav due to the history he has with the killer, but is impressed by Thomas' bravery nonetheless. Fender reveals to Thomas that he and a partner were the ones who originally arrested Václav several years ago; resulting in part of his face getting badly injured. This is why Fender decides to go along with Thomas despite his own misgivings. As the two travel together, they earn a great amount of respect for the other, saving each other in combat on several occasions. He, along with Melanie and Carmilla, were the ones that helped Thomas open up more.


 * Melanie Étincelle - Melanie started following Thomas and Roland when they came across her in France, as she was goaded into doing so by an unseen force. Having no Abnormality at the time, Melanie had no way of defending herself from an attack. Thomas saw her as a liability and kept trying to get her to go home, though Roland knew that neither of them could speak enough French to go about by themselves, and asked Melanie to help them around. When Alice Cooper, an insane Abnormal with the ability to make anything dance emerged, Thomas and Roland were nearly defeated as they were not only forced to try and resist control but were also attacked by people and the environment under her spell. Upon seeing her own family affected, Melanie finally unlocked her Abnormality, High Voltage, out of stress and nearly electrocuted Alice to death. Though he still saw Melanie as annoying, Thomas realized that he could never convince her to go away now that she had powers and after they learned that Alice was one of the Abnormals Václav freed from confinement. Melanie subsequently assisted the group in their endeavor to find Václav and even slowly befriended Thomas with the help of Roland. Though Thomas never openly admitted it, he began to see Melanie as a sort of calming presence to have around; someone who could break tension with her sunny personality, which reminded Thomas of his brother. Thomas eventually softened up to Melanie and came to be a loyal friend.


 * Carmilla Novak - The group discovered Carmilla after she was forcefully ejected from Melanie's shadow, after the latter unlocked her Abnormality, due to being weak to light. Thomas is initially hateful of her after he learns who she's related to, but quickly begins to sympathize with her after she reveals what her brother did to her and their family during their childhood. As the group moves closer to Václav, Thomas is the first to realize that Carmilla is increasingly reluctant Carmilla is to facing him again, and tries to reassure her that they're going to be fine, and tries to console Carmilla on multiple occasions. Though she's especially shy, Carmilla begins to see the group, and especially Thomas, as close friends, and inadvertently helps Thomas become better at trying to talk with people in turn.


 *  Robert H. James  - During his travels to find Václav, Thomas had met Robert several times. They'd exchange information about what they'd found out about his whereabouts, as well as the information Roland already knew about him. When he became a bounty hunter, the two become better acquainted and later good friends, working together on multiple occasions in order to catch bounties. Thomas would attempt to help Robert cull his drug addiction.

Enemies

 *  Václav Novak  - Thomas despises Václav for murdering his brother in cold blood. Most of his motivation comes from wanting vengeance for the and the emergence of his Abnormality letting him be a match for the sociopath. However, as his quest went on, Václav proved how ruthless he could truly be, destroying everyone and everything around him with his presence, killing both friends and enemies alike and causing misery for even his own sister. Václav is one of the only men that Thomas truly fears, and his memory continues to haunt Thomas.

Others

 * May - Thomas took care of an injured raven for some time while carrying out civil service. He named the bird May. Although he wasn't able to keep the bird legally, his nursing allowed him to befriend May, who would find its way back to Thomas' home on several occasions. May would die of natural causes sometime before Thomas moved to Germany in 1979.

Tier: 9-C. Higher with A Warm Gun.
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Powers and Abilities:
 * Skills
 * Indomitable Will (To the point where he can fight off being possessed by Václav's ghosts or having his body forcibly controlled by Alice)
 * Ability
 * Weapon Mastery
 * Can turn any mundane object into a deadly weapon
 * Weapon Manipulation and Creation
 * Danmaku
 * Flight
 * Limited Telekinesis of his own created weapons.
 * Aversion
 * Berserk Mode
 * Fear Manipulation (Thomas gives off a murderous aura when his Aversion is active, causing anyone nearby to be overwhelmed by fear.)

Attack Potency: At least Street Level (Has access to a multitude of guns and melee weapons, and can cleave through zombies with swords.) Wall Level with most explosives. At least City Level (Can create nukes and ICBMs, as well as modify weapons into stronger ones.)

Speed: Athletic Human movement speed with High Hypersonic reactions (Can shoot down bullets fired at him. Bullets are "slow" from Thomas' perspective.) Supersonic (With guns and hand-shots. Can wield melee weapons at a similar speed. Fought Marie Telemann.) to High Hypersonic attack and combat speed (Can increase the speed at which his projectiles fly. Fought Sonny at his peak speed. Fought Václav.)

Lifting Strength: Class 1 (Can lift Masako, whose atomic composition makes her much heavier and denser than any human.)

Striking Strength: Athlete Level.

Durability: At least Street Level.

Stamina: Very High (Can fight even while severely injured or when other people would normally succumb to the pain. Continues to fight even after being hit multiple times with the effects of Through The Fire and Flames, which causes the victim to re-experience all their physical and mental trauma. Survives having his arms severed off to continue fighting Václav in their final encounter, among other terrible wounds.)

Range: Standard Melee Range. Extended Melee Range to Tens of Kilometers depending on his weapon choices. Varies with his Abnormality (He can use his abilities about as far as he can see.)

Standard Equipment: Thomas primarily creates guns, especially revolvers, to fight with, but will use a variety of weapons depending on the situation.

Intelligence: Thomas is an intelligent man who can make wise decisions and quickly come up with plans to deal with his foes, though they don't always work, especially if Thomas is under an extreme amount of pressure. He was able to figure out how to use his Abnormality in a short timespan between the moment it manifested and the moment he confronted Václav, devising many ways to use it. Thomas does very well in school by his brother's admission, though Thomas says that he's terrible at learning English. He's naturally intuitive in all kinds of conventional weaponry as a result of his power.

Weaknesses:
 * Thomas' Aversion causes him to enter a rage-state in a moment of high stress, in which he'll go on a murderous, amoral rampage against friend and foe alike and not remember any of it when the rage-state ends. However, the chances of it being occurring are low and require something along the lines of a near-death experience to invoke.


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Skills

 * Indomitable Will - Perhaps Thomas' greatest trait is his tenacity. He has a resolve that forces him to keep moving forward in his goal regardless of how tough or dangerous it is. Once he's made up his mind on something, it's difficult to stop him. Unwavered by anyone except himself and his own decisions, Thomas won't stop fighting for his cause.


 * Mastery - Thomas was able to learn how to use his Abnormality and expand its uses to take on a variety of foes, never having one true weakness to exploit and even countering the Abnormalities of others with his own. He can take advantage of the versatility of his powers and come up with new applications on the fly.


 * Physical Condition - His starting career as a bounty hunter and his past battles have led Thomas to enter a regimen of intense exercise.


 * Multilingual - By the 90s, Thomas has become well versed in multiple languages as a result of his career as a bounty hunter. His first language is German, and he has studied English, French, and Japanese.

Abnormality
Thomas' Abnormality is A Warm Gun, manifesting itself after his first encounter with Václav, and the reason why he undergoes his quest.

Weapon Mastering
A Warm Gun is an Abnormality that allows Thomas to understand and master any weapon that he wields, regardless of the origin or type.

He can even use mundane objects as weapons, such as toothpicks, matches, or his own scarf. It could be said that when he gets his hands on something, he could figure out a way to murder somebody with it.

He has a preference for guns and swords.


 * Marksmanship - Even before getting his Abnormality, Thomas is a skilled marksman, and can quickly and accurately fire shots in just seconds using a revolver. The simple manifestation of his power allowed his accuracy to increase to an inhuman level.


 * Swordsmanship

Blacksmithing
Thomas' second ability allows him to take any weapon he sees and remake it for his own use. Thomas must concentrate in order to create any weapon. This is a slow process at first, and attempting to push it too far would strain his psyche, potentially activating his Aversion. Usage and practice has allowed his output to produce a huge number of weapons by the time he faces Václav.

Though Thomas can make many weapons at once, he prefers to use one or two at a time.


 * Telekinesis - Thomas later learns that he has a limited telekinetic control over any object he creates and wields, though it's a "low-level variety" of the ability. As such, it can only be used for small tasks, such as mid-air suspension or to activate weapons from afar.
 * Flight - By coating himself in a layer of explosive (such as gunpowder) and using his telekinesis to ignite it, Thomas can use the force of the explosion to fly.


 * Inventing - Thomas can apply previously seen weapons to create new ones. This has a higher cost than simply remaking a weapon he's already seen, as he must make something completely new out of nothing.

Murderous Intent
Thomas’ Aversion causes him to enter a blind, insane rage, in which he’ll indiscriminately attempt to murder anyone in sight. The appearance of the Aversion is signified by a plague doctor mask appearing on his face. This mask is the embodiment of Thomas' bloodlust.

Thomas has little to no warning of when the Aversion will take affect, and Thomas doesn’t remember anything that happened while it’s active. However, he will recall an overwhelming sense of anger and fear. It's activation can be caused if Thomas pushes his powers too far, or if he undergoes an experience that genuinely traumatizes him.

When anyone is near Thomas' presence, they will be overwhelmed by fear, as if they're close to death.

Robotic Arms
After his last encounter with Václav, Thomas was grafted with a pair of mechanical arms, which were wired to his nervous system. These function in the same manner as his former limbs, and he can still use his abilities through them. By classifying them as a sort of weapon, Thomas can quickly remake them if his original pair breaks.

Thomas experiences "phantom pain" whenever his new arms are damaged, as if they were part of his body.