Editing Baroque Thumbs (section)

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'''Been around forever'''
Thumbs is a Baroque icon. He's been arrested more times than he can count, knows everyone of a certain class and isn't without notoriety. Invoked to know people and places, to remember and be remembered. Compelled to be punished for it - hated by someone for a long-ago grudge, owing a debt never forgotten, or just too damn old and tired.

'''Gotta Hold On Ta Something'''
Thumbs has survived in Baroque, a city with a mortality rate beyond the wildest dreams of statisticians and a suicide rate almost as bad. He knows that what this city wants to take from you is your dreams. Once you lose those, you're gone. It's just a matter of time. So he holds onto the little victories, and his own personal ambitions, small though they are. And he thinks everyone else should do the same. Invoked to give him inspiration. Compelled to give him rage and despair.

'''I Am What I Am'''
Thumbs admits he's walked the line, but he thinks of himself as at least trying to be a moral man. It's an old fashioned code of ethics, from what he thinks of as a simpler time. He hates to lie, and is absolutely no good at it. He swears, but tries to watch it around what he thinks of as 'ladies' - he knows dames in the neighbourhood curse worse than him. He disapproves of drugs, won't take 'em, won't sell 'em - but drinks like a fish and smokes cheap cigarettes. He's honourable (after a fashion) and dependable - if he says he'll do something, he'll do it, or die trying. Aside from that, he leaves the more complex ethical questions up to others. If he thinks something's bad, and he can do something about it, he'll stop it. If not, he'll pass on the word, but leave it alone. Won't allow him to tolerate people like the Cheshire Cat and the Red Queen, whereas he's uneasily okay with a lot of the Cammorae.

'''Man of Violence'''
His main problem is violence. He's not even a particularly angry man - he just lacks a sense of propensity, or any kind of sensitivity to death. He doesn't attempt to kill with particular style, but if he wants you gone, you'll be gone. To bring him a few steps closer to his desired outcome, he'll throw a guy through a wall without thinking. It doesn't really occur to him that extreme violence is any kind of problem, as long as its straightfoward. He wouldn't kill someone to rob them, because he thinks of that as dishonest, but would probably grab something off them if he'd been going to kill them anyway. 

'''Family Man'''
Thumbs doesn't know it, but particularly with these people over the last few years, he's given up on the idea of being alone. After spending most of his time with these people, he's developed an ironclad loyalty to them. He doesn't speak about it, and they don't ask, but they're the closest thing he's got in this life to his children (as far as he knows). Invocation and compelling should be obvious.

'''Worked Both Sides'''
Thumbs has been muscle for the Maronis, and a bouncer against them. He's a known associate of Paul Revenge, but he's still an active if minor arms dealer. He's got four citations for public bravery, and a long felonies list. Contradictions abound. Invoked to claim experience and connections in the criminal underworld and police department. Compelled to claim experience and connections on the wrong side of the criminal underworld and police department.