Thomas likes puzzles. Challenges to figure out. While not the brightest he does have an attention to details and has become good at looking for clues to mysteries.
Music:
Like many from that time he likes Big Band music or Swing.
At the age of 16 Thomas joined his brother in becoming a bootlegger during the prohibition years. He has a low regard for the law since that time. Once prohibition ended and the Depression set on in full he wondered looking for work like many other young men during that time. In '39 Thomas began to run guns across the northern boarder to help the war effort in Europe (making a tidy sum on the side). He was captured in '40 and given the choice of prison or conscription. He ended up France fighting Germans for the Canadians.
During the Blitz his unit was cut off and surrounded. He fought on as best he could until he was buried under rubble when a wall collapsed on him. When he awoke in the basement he was badly wounded with a broken leg and a piece of pipe piercing his side he knew death was not long off. He heard a sound and realized he wasn't alone. Something seemed to be digging up from below, a creature. It came out of the ground and approached him. She spoke broken French with a good deal of Gaul mixed in. He managed to communicate that he had been wounded fighting foreign invaders. With a smile that revealed sharpened teeth the woman attacked him.
He once more awoke feeling stronger and his wounds had healed. This was of course thanks to Gabriella, his Sire. She was part of a group of "nightwalkers" whom defend this small part of France. Over the years of the war they became secret members of the French resistance. Then joining the French Foreign Legion at the beck of the Camarilla. They were sent to war zones to fight other Kindred or whomever they needed to. After decades of this Thomas grew to despise the senseless killing he saw in Vietnam. He expressed his desire to leave to Gabby and she told him to go home, take a few decades off. But she would come for him again someday.
With that he returned to Wisconsin in the mid 70's. At first he couldn't handle "normal life" and spent more time in the outer edges of society. He's abilities with animals let him sate his thirst with their blood and avoid humans. He wondered up and down the Mississippi until the mid to late 90's. At which time he found himself in Chicago. Still he mostly kept to himself and avoid contact with others for many years. Then he met a Lasombra named Telly. Over time he befriended Thomas and told him how to reconnect with himself. Find humans that remind him of the better parts of himself and befriend them. An ex-con who had lived the life with out seriously hurting others. He lives by a code and lives a modest life. While a small child at the orphanage and it's Matron reminded him of his home life. Over time Telly convinced him to seek out Rose and rejoin Kindred Society.
In the present day he is part of a group of fixers. He has overcome some of his issues from the past but still has trouble communicating with others.
