<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">»<em>  Malcolm Thomas  </em>« </span></div><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/36/97/52/3697526405d0a7b09a7bd9cdda1211b8.jpg)</div><br/><br/><br/><strong>Name:-</strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: ariel black;">Malcolm 'MT' Thomas</span><br/><br/><strong>Age:-</strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: ariel black;">29</span><br/><br/><strong>Sexuality:-</strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: ariel black;">Pansexual</span><br/><br/><strong>Race:-</strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: ariel black;">Human</span><br/><br/><strong>Birthplace:-</strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: ariel black;">Earth</span><br/><br/><strong>Occupation:-</strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: ariel black;">Engineering Assistant</span><br/><br/><strong>Personality Traits:-</strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: ariel black;">Affable | Eager-to-Please | Intelligent | Thoughtful | Generous | Bookish | Quiet | Honest | Romantic</span><br/><br/><strong>Synospsis:-</strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: ariel black;">Malcolm had a fairly privileged childhood, with relatively well-off, understanding parents involved in engineering and technology, specifically devoted to space exploration and colonization.  His mother was a Chinese mechanical engineer with a specialty in robotics who met his American father at an underground robot battle where her bot, Dà Túshā, defeated his bot, Robbie Rotten.  His father was a brilliant mathematician and computer engineer with a focus on coding AI, so together they ended up being the ideal team to work together on projects for the space program.<br/><br/>Malcolm was their first child, and it was clear early on that he had inherited his parents' brilliance and love of science.  However, his first love, much to his mother's dismay, was the military.  Despite being a gentle boy with a quiet, calm nature and a love of books, he was charmed by the idea of fighting for others and protecting those who couldn't protect themselves.  It not only showed in his love of the military but in his willingness to stand up for other students when they were being bullied by their peers.  So, when he was 18 years old, he enlisted in the Alliance, despite protests from his parents and younger sister.<br/><br/>Malcolm loved being a soldier, and he took to his training like a duck to bread, learning everything he could in the hopes of proving valuable in the brave new world that had formed since the First Contact War.  He applied his genius to his role in the Alliance, but never accepted the many offers that came his way to be placed in less hands-on positions within the Alliance ranks.  While he had no less respect for the Alliance engineers and technicians, he preferred to be on the front lines where he could see first hand how he was making a difference.  This, of course, drove his mother crazy.  She had hoped that once he was in the Alliance, he would be given a position where he would be relatively safe from harm.<br/><br/>Then, about seven years into his career, the batarians attacked the farming colony on Mindoir and Malcolm was part of the Alliance front sent to save the colonists.  The battle was brutal and in the end, they failed in their mission, but Malcolm was saved the hell of watching the suffering of the civilians due to having been gravely wounded in the initial battle.  He managed to hang on until they could get him back to Alliance care, and in the end, he survived with many scars, a cool new streak of white in his hair, and an arm that his own mother and father had helped design.  For the sake of his mother, he took the offer of an honorable medical discharge and pivoted his focus from fighting to science.<br/><br/>His military training and brilliant scientific mind, as well as his personable demeanor, allowed him the opportunity to work at the Citadel, assisting under some of the most brilliant minds in Citadel space.  When the opportunity to work on the Kalanhai came up, and he heard whispers of batarian involvement, he jumped at the chance to join up.</span><br/><br/><strong>Skills:-</strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: ariel black;"><br/><strong>Technical/Computer Engineering</strong> - Malcolm's main skills lie in computer engineering and coding, mainly with a focus on advanced mathematical equations and the variables inherent in designing and debugging VI and AI programs.<br/><br/><strong>Mechanical Engineering</strong> - Malcolm's skills with tech boil down to robotics and circuitry, and he takes a very hands-on approach to the assembly and experimentation with his creations.  Rather than using an omnitool, he approaches his work with a more old-fashioned touch and loves playing with wires, geegaws, and tweezers.  Thus his work is almost exclusively done in a lab or his bunk, rather than in the field.<br/><br/><strong>Boots on the Ground</strong> - Malcolm is a damn good soldier, even though he hasn't been in combat for about four years, and he's kept his training up in the time since he was discharged from the Alliance.  He has extensive skill and knowledge of a multitude of weapons, and the strength and fortitude expected of a soldier.  And he's always willing to step back into that role when needed.</span><br/><br/><strong>Weaknesses and Flaws:-</strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: ariel black;"><br/><br/><strong>Survivor's Guilt</strong> - Malcolm blames himself for not being strong enough, or clever enough, or quick enough to save the people that died in Mindoir, and that's indicative of how he feels about most situations.  If things go wrong and he can blame himself for it, chances are he will.  He puts a lot of pressure on himself and, even when part of him knows that he's being unfair, he can't help but believe it's his duty to protect those around him.<br/><br/><strong>People-Pleaser</strong> - Malcolm will run himself ragged to make others happy, ignoring his own needs in favor of those of others and pushing himself to his limits if it means going the extra mile to get something done.  He's been known to stay up for several days in order to finish a repair on a device assigned to him or forget to eat because he was too busy debugging code.  This extends into his personal life as well as his professional life, which means he's had more than a few toxic relationships in which his partner bled him dry before discarding him.<br/><br/><strong>Chronic Back Pain</strong> - Due to the injuries he suffered on Mindoir, Malcolm suffers from intermittent, but severe, back pain that can be so intense that it renders him immobile without strong painkillers.  He usually suffers in silence, due to flaws 1 &amp; 2, but sometimes it is so powerful that he has to seek medical intervention in order to allow him to function.  He tries to avoid dependency on medication, and most of the time rest and massage, combined with heat, can help to ease the spasms, but that would mean letting someone <em>else</em> take care of <em>him</em> for a change...so he usually just takes the pills.</span><br/><br/><strong>Kinks:-</strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: ariel black;">Biblio's O&amp;Os (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=104274.0)</span><br/><br/><strong>Notes:-</strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: ariel black;"></span><br/><br/><br/><br/><div align="center">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/ee/31/71/ee31718cc53a30d15f77539770ebc248.jpg) (https://i.pinimg.com/564x/40/4f/ef/404fef601d696b3eba7b99ff6dfa4af3.jpg) (https://i.pinimg.com/564x/2c/43/ce/2c43ce2d7e2961fc22274228c4748599.jpg) (https://i.pinimg.com/564x/8c/56/7a/8c567a62c3c93baf8569b9df97c3b15c.jpg) </div>