#OH AND I LOVE MY HEWIE WITH ALL MY HEART

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I'm playing Haunting Ground and it's by far the scariest game I've ever played. Also, one of the best horror games ever made and I'm dying on this hill

[tomacabre]

Hey! It's your secret santa again! I'm definitely interested in your OC, Thomas (esp his dog oh my goddddd). I love your art of him along with the other characters in the fandom. It's so adorable (and him and Javi? Oh, my heart) 🥰 anyways, could you tell me all about Thomas? 💕 And of course, I also have to ask, can I have your permission to use him with credit? He is your OC after all

i’d be happy to ramble about Thomas, i’m just going to dump all the information I can into this ask: you don’t have to read it all haha. also of course you have my permission :^D 

THOMAS “Tom” JAMES WATSKY 

ALIAS : James Wattson 

GENDER : male

HEIGHT : 5′5′’

AGE : 23, born 12/12/1876

EYE COLOUR : dark brown

PERSONALITY : quick-witted, spitfire, flirty, loyal, untrusting, hotheaded, a romantic at heart but would never admit it

HISTORY :

Thomas was born and raised in French occupied Canada. He grew up bilingual, speaking both French and English, but has since lost much of his French vocabulary. He was very close to his mother, Aeris, who died when he was eight. After the death of Aeris, it was apparent that his father had no use for nor the desire to keep him around, so he fled and traveled to America.

Thomas found that his education and articulate speech meant very little on the streets. He spent many years sleeping with dogs, picking pockets, cheating at poker and trading sex for money. His smart mouth got him into trouble a lot, as well did his attraction to men.

Tom was brought into the Van Der Linde gang after Arthur assisted him with an... incident. After being caught pick pocketing a man in a pack of three, Tom had a bottle shattered over his head, was disarmed, thrown outside, pinned against the back of the saloon, and promptly stabbed three times in the abdomen. Arthur was alerted by Hewie’s incessant barking (and cries after being shot at) and shot the two followers. Thomas ripped the third man’s throat out with his teeth while he had his head turned. Arthur brought him back to camp to evade the law and get him patched up.

Thomas thrived in the praise he received from the members of the gang when he’d do something right, he was almost desperate for it. His need to be useful kept him driven during his years as one of Dutch’s boys, he believed he’d be lost without someone telling him what to do and where to go. He figured that if he wasn’t, he’d be alone again.

During the events of chapter six, Thomas would have sided with John and Arthur. However, he wasn’t in camp during the stand off and doesn’t truly know what happened, but since Arthur died and John vanished, he really had no other place in the world but with Javier. So, they fled to Mexico. I have more to this part of his story, but I want to save it for a comic or something (^;

MISC :

He’s near sighted and is a god awful shot, he much prefers the knife in the holster around his thigh or the straight razor in his boot. The scar halfway through his eyebrow is from having that bottle smashed over his head. Smells like dog but otherwise is very hygienic. Has been caught staring at Arthur, Charles, and Javier too many times. Pierced right ear (y’know... the gay ear). He hates relying on others because people tend to be unreliable, if he depends on someone, it’s because he loves them. Greatly enjoys sitting with Javier while he plays guitar and sings along with him. Does the Nervous Laugh thing. Thomas has a butterfly knife and is pretty skilled with it, he knows a ton of tricks.

HEWIE

SPECIES : blue heeler / australian cattle dog

GENDER : male

EYE COLOUR : right eye green, left eye brown

MISC :

Occasionally gets nippy with the horses at camp, Thomas’ tent is furthest away from the posts because of this. Bullet hole through his left ear from the encounter between Thomas, Arthur, and the men behind the saloon. Excellent hunting partner. Joins Tom during his night guard duty. Howls along with camp songs.

KILO “Key”

SPECIES : black and white american paint

GENDER : male

EYE COLOUR : ice-y blue

MISC :

The only horse that Hewie doesn’t nip at, they’re almost like brothers. Much more patient than his rider. His mane is both black and white with a couple braids throughout.

[buzzybluepenguin]

All of Jamie’s interviews at the What’s On Stage Awards last night, as transcripts:

Did we? (re getting there early well)

JP: ‘It’d be nice if I could actually apparate between the theatre and here’ (points to Thorne) Well he did the bulk of the work :P

Hewis: Tell us about when you were both first approached about this job, were you ever apprehensive about it…

JP: (gesturing to Thorne) Well it was longer ago for you than it was for me

JT: I remember his first audition, I remember us sitting there and he wasn’t there, it had to be videoed for us, er because he was, because you were doing Sky…

JP: yeah, I was in Birmingham doing Guys and Dolls which is a completely different prospect

JT: And er, I just remember that moment when we all turned to each other and went ‘ohh, thank the Lord’, we’ve found, we’ve found our Harry because it is such a ridiculously hard part to play and to have someone of his (gestures to JP) calibre and brilliance doing it is absolutely extraordinary

JP: It’s made a lot easier when you’ve got somebody who, ye know, when the material’s in safe hands and you’ve got scenes that have their own trajectory and momentum, and then you’re really just, ye know. It sounds glib but it’s true, if you just turn up and let the play take care of itself because it’s a play that you trust, then you can do it. To be honest, if I hadn’t thought that that was apparent in the writing, even in the early drafts that we had then I wouldn’t have put myself in the position *thinking it was a* possibility, er you, and Jack’s one of our best, and why wouldn’t you trust him, so

Lucie: I was gonna say, it must have been sucha  responsibility, one with the casting and two being on stage every night in front of really loyal fans – me being one, abosltely loved it (JP: Good), I’m obsessed with it, maybe a little bit too much- there must have been quite a responsibility, you must have felt that from the very beginning, with this production

JT: yeah, no, it was absolutely terrifying, and er um, the first moment John talked to me about it, it was the weirdest moment of just being like the most exciting and the most terrifying thought you’ve ever had in your life, it’s kind of like your stomach fell out, like ‘Really, you think I (L: OK I’ll do it!). It’s one of those things where you go, ‘I don’t really want anyone else to do it, but I’m very scared of doing it myself’

L: and how about you Jamie? How did it go in rehearsals, were there ever moments when you did go, kinda thought ‘ourgh’

JP:  the last thing I expected was for it to be as as easy and intimate and collaborative as it has, as it has been, um, if not the most collaborative job I’ve ever had, um, ye know, it, er, you hear ‘Harry Potter on stage’ , I think everybody when they first heard that had perhaps certain ideas about what a big scary ol’ thing it was go-ina be, and, ye know, so you’re steeling yourself for a fairly industrial experience, and and the last thing I was expecting was to turn up and just feel like you’re working on a nice new play at the Royal Court or something like that, ye know, something like that!?! Just occasionally you pull out a wand and and shout spells and you go ‘OH we’re doing a really BIG PLAY’ but at heart it’s a relationship drama, its in good hands with some of the best creative teams that we’ve got in world theatre, and, ye know, to be honest I would’ve gone into the, erm, into a rehearsal room on an unknown project with this team just to get the chance to work with them, but the fact that we’ve got, we’re at What’s On Stage Awards and this is the audience award and we’ve got this audience that is so hungry and so desperate to, to listen to this coda, to this, to this ye know sprawling but rather ancient myth, erm, is erh, it’s only wind in our sails, they’re willing us to succeed from the very beginning of the play. (red carpet interview)

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“  I’m not tall enough for the mic! Thank you What’s on Stage, um, I’ve never done this before this is terrifying. This of course has to be shared with a lot of people, the other nominees of course, exemplars every single one of them and as a group with a combined expertise er in the field of pretending to be a wizard which frankly dwarfs my own so thank you. To Jo, of course, who was very helpful in writing seven epoch-making volumes of backstory for us to build on, er Sonia Friedman, Colin Callendar for putting together Jack, John, Stephen and the rest of this fantasy creative dream team and their associates, along with a cast, crew, wigs, wardrobe, stage management, company management who are not only world class in what they do, but as generous and collaborative and naughty um as you could possibly hope for. Claire and the gang at Independent of course, you’re never less than brilliant, and Deb and my wonderful family who erh-er despite my lingering flaws persist in the work of teaching my how to love and so give me something of a good cribsheet to work for work from on this play, and uh finally of course to the audience who voted for it, um uh (looks at award in his hand) GOD this is terrifying. Um er thank YOU for being the kind of good folk who can consistently turn up to the theatre in groups of fourteen hundred for five hours’ worth of theatre and not let a single phone go off once during the show you have no idea how amazing that is, thank you very much.  ” (Jamie’s acceptance speech for the What’s on Stage Best Actor in a Play Award)

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I’ve never done this before, and it’s really scary, erh a lot scarier than you might have thought it is but now this one is the one that really does count because obviously it’s the audience… I can’t help feeling it’s a little bit of an unfair advantage when you crop up in the gig that’s got a supersize following already in place (interview after receiving the award)

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I wanted to say thank you, most of all, to you guys, for being – as far as I’m concerned – living proof that the story of darkness and trauma endured as a rite of passage endured into a more mature, wiser and more evolved state, isn’t escape as fantasy merely but it’s one of the oldest and most vital most perceptive and humane myths, and it’s your championing of Harry in the way that you do, which lends a lot of hope that however dark things might get there are countless millions all over the world who prize that myth most of all and who are determined to keep its spirit alive and that’s what I’d like to say thank you to you for. (Jamie’s special recorded message for the audience)