Thom_Kumiho

Character belonging to TylerChambers.

// Name
Current Name: Thomas "Thom" Ashmore
Birth Name: Hyun

// Personal Data
Age: 1200
Birth: 819 AD
Death: N/A
Gender: Male
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 190 lb
Hair: White with red ear tips (Kumiho form), Brown (Human form)
Eyes: Red
Species: Kumiho
Orientation: Heterosexual, Heteroromantic
Homeland: Korea, Earth
Profession: Child care

// Personality
A carefree and good-natured individual with a friendly and laid-back demeanour. His has a dry and sarcastic sense of humor, with the trickster mentality often associated with fox spirits. He has a strong connection to foxes of all types and displays authority over them. In spite of his trickster side, he is an excitable and affectionate person with a strong love for children who enjoys making others happy. He loves hugging others, especially children and large-breasted women, both for affection and a means of warmth. He has a particular weakness for headpats, enjoying both giving and receiving them, usually becoming completely docile when on the receiving end. He gets along fine with Huli jing and Kitsune, though hates being mistaken for one or the other.

He has great pride in his 9 large tails, taking great care of them to ensure they're always in pristine condition. He hates when they are touched without permission and will bluntly and calmly threaten to remove any hand that goes near them if it isn't removed quickly, though he usually allows children to play with them without comment and won't object when it's his loved ones. His hatred of people touching his tails is diminishing in the modern age, as he won't actually follow through on his threats and just enjoys the attention (touching them without permission is still not advised, though).

Prior to the 1800's, he used to have the malevolent nature Kumiho myths often portray Kumiho as having, often seeming slightly unhinged and with misanthropic leanings (with the exception of children, usually playing with and protecting any lost children before fleeing when adults came to find them), viewing Humans mostly as pests to be exterminated or as food, usually killing any he met and routinely patrolling the forest he and his sister lived in to keep them out. He often mocked his victims while hunting them.

In the modern day, he has lost all of the evil side of his nature and will remark that it "was a long time ago" and that he was "a very different person" if he is asked about it, openly referring to himself as more like a horror movie than what most outside of Korea view fox spirits. He can still act like a monster when he wishes to and his demeanour usually turns colder when annoyed. He attributes the change in his nature mostly to the presense of his daughter and being determined to set a good example, though it had already started to change even before he met Vaq.

Neither his wife nor his daughters are aware of his bloody past or the history of the Kumiho, an arrangement he intends to keep.

// Appearance
His preferred form is an attractive boy of somewhat below average height with white hair, red eyes with vertical-slit pupils, white fox ears with red tips, 9 large white fox tails and small fangs. He can look like a regular Human with Human-like ears, no tails and regular eyes. His fangs and hair colour remain unchanged in Human form, but his eyes turn electric blue. The only thing about himself that he can't hide is his supernatural physical condition, which is perfect enough to seem unsettling effect to Humans.

His most common outfit in the modern age is a white top with a red trim, light grey trousers, red and white trainers and a red collar with a gold bell. The top has the "Halo Reach" logo on it.

// History
A Kumiho born in 819 AD to a small family living in a forest in South Korea, until his father was killed by another Kumiho when he was around 20 years old. While he was interested in Humans originally, his view of them began to sour over time due to their constant wars and cruelty. This caused both him and his sister to become distant from their mother.

He and his sister moved to live in another forest in 1000 AD, creating a large tree house. He usually does most of the patrolling of the forest, keeping Humans out of their territory. He and his sister often travelled around the world, returning to his forest home every 50 or so years.

In the lat 1800's, they returned to the forest to find a small Human settlement had been established in their absence by the slaves freed when he destroyed a previous convey. As there was a larege number of children in the group, he allowed the freed slaves to remain in the forest and any further freed slaves were sent to the settlement. He took care of the safety of the village and protected it like anything else in his territory, with his dislike of Humans beginning to gradually diminish.

In 1860, he met a Goblin stripper while travelling through a nearby villiage. He would frequently visit her at the bar she worked at, eventually marrying her and having a couple of children that he raised in the ex-slave village (trying to avoid passing his prior hatred of Humans to them) while she continued the job she enjoyed. As a result of raising his daughters and trying to set a good example, he started working to get over his hatred of Humans and any of his more 'evil' personality traits. He eventually started helping to look after the children in the village.

In 1920, he and his wife moved to live in London, while his sister and daughters went to other UK cities. He tends to avoid Humans who know of Kumiho, as only the behaviour that inspired the myths is remembered by most, something that can often still cause them problems in the rare instances people learn thier identities. His wife eventually died of old age in the late 1960's, a couple of years after her retirement and he has not remarried.

He currently works in a day care centre in the United Kingdom, and can often be found taking care of kids. He is unaware that Titten Scherzen has a crush on him.

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