 Basic Info
Name: Marshall Ian Thomas
Nicknames: Marsh, Mit, Ink
Birth date: February 12th, 1984
Age: 27
Profession: Writer for Alternative Press
Marital Status: Single
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Birthplace: Charleston, SC
Parents: Robert and Suzanne Thomas
Siblings: 2 older sisters
Random Info
Car: 2006 Pontiac G6
Pets: None
Hobbies: Writing, listening to music, playing guitar
Languages: English, Italian, Latin
Facts
~ Marshall Thomas was born on February 12th, much to his mother's delight so she would be out of the hospital by the time Valentine’s Day rolled around. Marshall is the youngest of three siblings, having two older sisters (Jessica and Alexandra). His father worked at the steel mill and his mother worked at Wal-Mart. Despite that his family really didn't have a lot of money growing up, they all had their needs met and were a relatively happy family, though they all had their quarrels at times.
~ Throughout most of Marshall’s childhood his parents were worried about him, he was a quiet boy and would be found more often than not sitting in a corner drawing or coloring something when there were other boys around to play with as well. Despite this growing concern at how much of an introvert Marshall was, his parents did what they could for him, even just getting him books to read and coloring books so he could continue to draw. Eventually Marshall would grow out of his shell and wind up making friends and playing with the other kids, but no matter how long they waited, he continued to be a very quiet boy and took to spending most of his time by himself rather than with other people.
~ It took a long time for Marshall to form his own identity, though he was the only son in the Thomas family his sisters had out shown him from the very beginning, Jessica being quite the intelligent one and Alexandra being an athlete. Both were outgoing and happy children and well into their teenage years, which left Marshall very little to make himself independent of his sisters fame in school. As he grew up he was continually quiet and decided to keep the company of very few people, but it was in those people that he trusted everything from his desire to become a writer to feeling inadequate as a son since he really had no interest in cars and sports like his father did, though he did his best to help his father and try and be a little like him.
~ Despite Jessica's exemplary performance throughout high school in the world of academics, by the time Marshall made it to high school he was outshining her, making teachers happy to have him in his class, enjoying someone who actually enjoyed to study. It wasn't hard for Marshall to become top of his class. At the end of his years in high school he was valedictorian, editor of the school newspaper and yearbook, and had ghostwritten the speeches for the salutatorian and the principal.
~ It took a long time for Marshall to sort through his college mail and to figure out where exactly he was going to go, a part of him considered leaving the state and going elsewhere but he knew that his parents couldn’t afford the tuition even with the scholarships that he was being offered. He decided to leave the state, he opted to go to William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA. It was his final decision that he wanted to become a writer, but he knew that his major was going to be in journalism, he wanted to be a reporter, an editor at some point in his life, but for the start he wanted to work for a newspaper.
~ It was during freshman orientation when he finally got to be in college that he met the girl that would wind up being his college sweetheart, (open) was his first true love, though he had gone out with girls in high school, there was absolutely no one in this world like (open). They hit it off, and for the first three months they knew each other Marshall watched her from afar as other guys vied for her affections but none seemed to really get her attention. It was right before they were going to leave for winter break that Marshall worked up the nerve to ask her out, and while he envisioned this moment time and time again, in none of these fantasies did he ever think that she would say yes. Reality finally set in, and he found himself on a date a few days later with the woman he had thought about from the moment he met her.
~ During the summers away from school when he wasn’t spending time with (open), he was interning with the Daily Press in Richmond, he wanted to learn about the newspaper industry early so that way he knew this was what he wanted. He found that it wasn’t as glorious as he worked it out in his mind, but still his ideals never changed and what he wanted with the rest of his life never changed. It was during this time that he moved out of his parent’s house, getting an apartment in Richmond where he lived with (open). He was a happy man going into his final year of college and he really couldn’t see how this wasn’t going to be the year of his life.
~ Once again Marshall found himself graduating at the top of his class, with job offers from three different newspapers, he was set to stay in Richmond to work for the Times-Dispatch and much to his pleasure, (open) had decided to take a job as a staffer for a local state delegate. After another two years of the two living together, Marshall decided it was time to take the next step in his life. He asked (open) out to dinner with him, with the weight of the ring heavy in his pocket, he was about to kneel and ask for her hand in marriage, it was at that moment that she decided to confess her sins, she had been having an affair with the state delegate, and she wanted to break things off with him. It was the hardest day of his life; it also started Marshall on a bit of a downward spiral.
~ Marshall threw himself into work the minute he found himself alone; it was a hard thing for him to go through because for years now he had (open) with him at every moment for nearly six years. Now that things were turning, he only spent another six months living in Richmond and working for the Times-Dispatch. Despite everything that was going on in his personal life, he had found out that his father had gotten sick, so with that in mind he decided to leave Richmond and move back home to South Carolina. Now he's writing for the Sun News, living close to his parents in Myrtle Beach.
~ Marshall has very few vices, he doesn’t drink as much as a lot of people thought that he would after things ended with (open) but he has found himself to be an avid smoker, on more than one occasion he has tried to quit, but no attempt has yielded any type of success. Regardless of this, Marshall has never tried drugs and drinks sparingly, and when he does get drunk he winds up turning into a weepy little bastard. Besides writing, he is an avid reader, and is more than slightly obsessed with music, having learned to play the guitar over the last few years to fill up the mean time.
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