Thomas March

General Information

Name: Thomas March
Species: English Hare
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Chocolate brown
Origin: London, England
Height: 5'10"
Dreamer Class: Architect

Background

Thomas March hails from last late 1800's where he worked as an architect in London, England. Part of a successful firm, he enjoyed the life of the upper working class, something wealthy merchants shared. It was in his early twenties that he met a white furred rabbit named Candice at a ball. Her conversations with him drew out his passion for painting landscapes, and their back and forth banter lead the pair to grow so close that they eventually wed. Five years passed in happiness as he painted worlds while Candice added creatures to them. However, not all was perfect.

Candice was nearly always in his dreams, and when he dropped subtle question, he could tell that Candice always knew what had been in his dreams. It was not until he stumbled across a beautiful painting that something in him snapped. The portrait was of a white furred rabbit with green eyes. It was a perfect replica of Candice down to the smallest detail. This alone would not have bothered him for his wife was lovely and he would be flattered that she might sit for a portrait. The problem was that the painting was seventy years old.

Escape to Wonderland

Creation of the Realm of Cheshire

A very upset and mentally unhinged hare came home to confront his wife about the painting. He could read her expression, and she knew this, so Candice did not lie to him. Rather than shout or otherwise take his distress out on his wife, he simply excused himself for a walk, one from which he never returned. What Thomas did not know and what Candice had blinded herself of was that Thomas was a powerful dreamer type known as an architect. The landscapes he had made, the same that Candice had embellished with creatures as they painted side by side, had become realm in the dream realms. Torn between knowing his wife was some kind of immortal being, demon or angel he was not sure, loving her despite what she was, Thomas lost his grip on reality and, quite simply, walked out of it.

A living architect in a dream realm is a dangerous creature, and Thomas was not different. He need only long for home and it existed. Great forests to wander, silly games and castles filled with madmen. Everything he ever dreamed up before was becoming real not only for him but for any dreamer that might wander in. An old friend of his, a skunk who worked in the lower classes as a hatter and had gone mad was able to see Thomas in his dreams. Eventually, the hare caused the disappearance of the hatter as he pulled his old friend into the dreams with him. A native dormouse and they enough to forget all their lives in silly games and tea parties until love came seeking him.

Of Love and Madness

Candice eventually found her way into Thomas's wonderland and came upon a tea party set outside a home that looked exactly like his childhood home in Cheshire. England. Upon trying to speak to Thomas, however, she was quite violently cut off by Hatter who said Thomas would have nothing to do with her. Thomas didn't stop them and would not look upon her, and it was then that Candice's heart broke. The defeated muse turned and left, not know what was coming for her as her very being started to collapse inwards.

And hour's walk in Wonderland and Candice came upon Thomas's recreation of the home they shared outside of London. The gardens normally in bloom had faded top gray, and only the walls of the house kept his droll darkness from consuming the paintings inside. Candice was outside though, and she found herself in the presence of any muse's greatest fear: The Nothing. Nothings are a void of creativity, the ultimate writers or artists block, where all motivation has been destroyed. Made from the collapsed souls of mortals, they were a beast Candice could not fight. She barely had the chance to scream.

That scream sent Thomas into a rage, and he bolted from the tea party and raced through the forest to find Candice collapsed on the ground, helplessly trying to clutch the soil beneath her as if it would prevent her from being taken. At that point, Candice could no longer sense the world around her. She couldn't feel the warmth of Thomas's body as he picked her off the ground or the massive chains he somehow conjured up to tie the Nothing down and prevent it from following. Cold and trembling in his arms, she doesn't remembering him whispering 'I'm sorry' or how even Hatter showed the deepest regret for what had happened to the poor woman. Finally, she did not know what happened in the time between Thomas laid her to rest on a bed and when Abigail Normal nursed her back to health. She did not know, he he did. What was could not be undone, but he knew without any doubt and no matter what consequence that he loved Candice.