Assistant Department Leader Thomas Gallagher

Name Thomas Gallagher

Position Quartermaster

Second Position Council Member

Rank Assistant Department Leader

Basic Info
Personality
History

Character Information

Gender		Male
Nickname(s)/Alias (if any)		Tommy
Age		13
Birthday		Feb 18, 1997
Faction		Safe Harbor

Physical Appearance

Height		5f1
Hair Color		Brown
Eye Color		Green
Distinguishing Features (tattoos, scars, etc.):		Profoundly Deaf
Physical Description		Build: Lean and wiry from weeks of travelling on foot.

Family

Personality & Traits

General Overview		Personality Thomas is: Patient Quietly confident Observant Kind Wryly humorous Loyal to a fault He isn't shy. He simply prefers to watch before acting.
Strengths & Weaknesses		Skills ★★★★★ Observation ★★★★★ Drawing & Mapping ★★★★☆ Climbing ★★★★☆ Animal Handling (especially horses) ★★★★☆ Tracking visual movement Weaknesses Thomas can't hear approaching danger outside his field of vision. The group naturally compensates. Nobody thinks about it anymore. George instinctively positions himself where Thomas can always see him. Thomas instinctively watches George's reactions whenever something unexpected happens.

Personal History		Before the Fall Thomas grew up in Brooklyn, New York, as the youngest of two children. His parents embraced Deaf culture from the moment they learned he was deaf. American Sign Language was the first language spoken in their home, and Thomas became fluent long before he learned to read English. His older sister, Emma, often joked that he could tell when she was lying just by watching her face. He loved drawing maps, climbing anything he could reach, and spending hours watching people in parks and on subway platforms. His deafness made him incredibly observant. He noticed details others overlooked and learned to read moods from expressions alone. The Beginning of the End When Manhattan descended into chaos, Thomas became separated from his family during an evacuation through Brooklyn. For nearly twenty-four hours he survived alone. He couldn't hear the panic. He couldn't hear the sirens. He couldn't hear the walkers. Instead, he survived by watching. Watching people suddenly run. Watching crowds scatter. Watching the expressions on faces. He slept hidden inside a maintenance room in a subway station before climbing back to the streets at first light. Dante Finds Him Thomas was one of the very first children Dante rescued. Nearly a full day before George. Dante spotted him perched on the roof of a delivery truck, calmly sketching the streets below in a small notebook while watching walkers drift between abandoned cars. At first Dante shouted for him. Thomas didn't react. Only when Dante climbed onto the truck and stepped into his line of sight did Thomas look up. The boy simply pointed to his ears and shook his head. Dante understood immediately. He smiled. Held out his hand. Then slowly mouthed, "Come with me." Thomas studied him for a long moment before taking his hand. He never let go. George When Dante rescued George the following day, Thomas was already there. George arrived scared, exhausted and convinced he'd never see his family again. Thomas couldn't hear him cry. But he saw it. Without saying a word, Thomas sat beside him and tore a page from his sketchbook. He drew two stick figures sitting together beneath a tree. Then another picture. The same two figures standing. Walking. Surviving. At the bottom he carefully wrote: "Together." George smiled for the first time since the outbreak. From that day on, they were rarely far apart. Their Friendship George eventually learned enough American Sign Language to hold proper conversations. Thomas patiently corrected him every time he got a sign wrong. George, in return, became Thomas's ears. Without thinking, he would tap Thomas's shoulder before speaking, make sure he was facing danger, or signal quietly if someone called his name. The rest of the children joked they had become two halves of the same person. George heard everything. Thomas saw everything. Together they missed very little. Life in the Group Thomas became the group's unofficial mapmaker. Whenever they reached somewhere new, he'd sketch: buildings escape routes rivers fences barns tree lines Amy often relied on his maps more than written directions. His drawings were astonishingly accurate.
Service Record - If applicable.		Thomas carries the same battered sketchbook Dante first found him using. Its early pages are heartbreaking—rough sketches of burning buildings, abandoned cars, frightened faces, and walkers in the streets of New York. As the months pass, the drawings slowly change. A goat at Leah's farm. Old King standing proudly beside the wagons.