Thomas Cavanaugh

Thomas Cavanaugh On Game As: Cavanaugh Played By: Matthew McConaughey Concept: Retired astronaut Date of Birth: Apparent Age: Middle forties Occupation: Writer Virtue: Vice: Freehold: None Motley: None

“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
–Neil deGrasse Tyson

Overview

      First he was famous for good things, as an astronomer, author, and astronaut with multiple missions under his belt, including a sojourn on the ISS. Then he was famous for an apparent psychotic breakdown, and subsequently something of an unwilling poster child for how mental illness can strike even the best and brightest.       

RP Hooks: Mundane

• Fame: Astronaut - The glory days of the Space Race may be behind us, but those who've made it into orbit are still celebrities in their own right.
• Writer - His first couple books were accounts of his experiences in orbit. The later ones, post-"breakdown", were SF novels, mostly well-received.
• Breakdown - A few years back, he apparently vanished into the night while on overnight watch for a commercial satellite observatory. Lucky for him, nothing serious happened to the sat before morning shift came in...but it still cost him his job there. He was missing for about ten days, and returned apparently raving about abduction and transformation in another realm entirely. A stay in a mental hospital ensued, and he spent several months there before being deemed safe enough to return to normal society.

RP Hooks: Supernatural

• Freehold of Boston - He was more or less rescued from a mental ward by a Bishop psychiatrist, and was subsequently part of the Freehold in Boston and Cambridge.
• Hunters - Unlike most Lost, he had no Fetch at all. And while he returned from his Durance soon enough to plausibly be himself....there were enough oddities about that return to snag the interest of some of the Hunters woven in with the federal government.
• Something Shared - They can also be things which your character might share with other characters.

Contacts

• Stellan - I never expected to find you here. Hell, I never expected to find me here, for that matter.
• Name - It could be someone they find useful, someone they care about.
• Name - It could be someone they loathe, an adversary or rival.

Gallery

Soundtrack

Peter Schilling - Major Tom 4, 3, 2, 1 Earth below us Drifting falling Floating weightless Calling calling home

Woodkid - Conquest of Spaces I'm ready to start the conquest of spaces Reaching the starlight and silver fields Come with the night the science of fighting The forces of gravity

Michael Jackson - Rock With You Out on the floor, there ain't nobody there but us. Girl, when you dance, there's a magic that must be love.

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