Tom B. Riddle

Tom always maintains a semblance of respect for his opponent and is polite in combat situations and prefers to fight one on one. Even when fighting powerful opponents he never loses his cool, going as far as to make small talk and joke around with his opponents. Tom could be considered rather talented in battling, as he often comes up with innovative attacks, and is rarely seen charging in head on.

Standing at about 135 centimeters Tom is fairly short for his age since most children his age can usually top 145 fairly easily, but Tom has seen his sister way too much and he knows that he will someday undergo a growth spurt and may get a lot taller in a very short amount of time. In fact Tom actually quite likes being short for his age, as he is still able to move around unseen in the majority of situations since he knows and understands the psychology behind attention, and since people don't pay attention to short or young children he is able to be stealthy in situations that others may not be able to. Also thanks to his height he can easily fit everywhere and hide from his sister. In terms of his weight Tom is fairly light still, weighing less than 35 kilograms and so he will still be able to be sent flying by attacks that would normally not really do much to someone with a little more muscle mass or structure. However he is a lot stronger than his stature would appear. Facially, Tom is a very well-propotioned and handsome kid though he still has more than a touch of mystery in his face if you look closely. Tom's eyes are dark purplish. However whenever Tom uses his psychic abilities his eyes become a bright deep red, so whenever it is active his eyes change completely. His brow isn't really prominent or anything and his forehead is a little smaller than usual. His eyebrows are thin and dark blue that is almost black. His nose is still very small and cute. His ears are regular size, on the other hand his eyes are little bigger than normal. As they often appear half closed not many people notice that. His lips are thin and pale, and his mouth is slightly smaller than medium. The ends of his mouth are permanently slightly down-turned, as though he is always sad, or sleepy - which he is most of the time anyway. Tom's hair is dark blue in colour and is always worn very short from the front, but medium length from the sides, as it falls to cover his ears. The back of his hair is spiky though, spiking upwards and never sitting flat. Otherwise his body is quite well maintained though he does have the odd collection of small cuts and scrapes as most young children do, especially for one who gets into fights as often as Tom does.

Tom's clothing is fairly plain as it is basically traveling wear. On his torso Tom wears a simple zipper dark blue long sleeved cloak with a long collar and a hood. Under the cloak a black and extremely thin T-Shirt is worn. On his lower half Tom wears a pair of dark grey trousers with two medium sized pockets on the sides. On top of trousers he wears a large belt which has several pokeballs attached to it, including a small bag. On his feet Tom wears a pair of black crisp socks and a pair of often dirty black shoes. The soles of his shoes are rather thick so it would be safe to travel in forest, and other places with rough terrain. Somewhat of a trademark is his black tennis cap which he wears everywhere. During his travels he carries a moderate sized backpack with him. It is dark grey and has many pockets, enough to fit all of his stuff.

Tom is a introvert and lazy kid, evident in his style of dress and general attitude, and he is rarely seen with a smile on his lips. In his off time, he can be seen napping. Sleeping is his favorite activity, and his sleeping abilities can actually match Abra as the boy sleeps nearly 18 hours a day. Tom would sleep even longer but he is really light sleeper and thus even the tiniest things can wake him up. He can really easily fall asleep though, that by simply closing his eyes and without moving for five seconds. He likes hard candy and always has some stored somewhere. Tom is rather shy person who tries to avoid talking every way possible. He is especially afraid of girls. One of the biggest reasons for that is his sister who didn't just bully him but actually used physical attacks on him, and from time to time even attempted to kill him. The shyness situation is extremely bad when he is in presence of really kind and nice girl. Tom tends to use a rather formal speech style. He generally refers to others by their first family names. Tom is a peace-loving kid who will always try to talk, or more often run, his way out of a fight.

Though Tom tries to talk his way out of a fight, he does insist on fighting when the situation is grave, or when someone has bothered a really good nap. Although Tom might be seen as a complete sloth he is in truth an extremely talented and bright boy. His sleep is often connected to him resting completely pointlessly, but in truth while asleep his brain works way better than when awake. For example if Tom should go asleep after reading an article or living trough some teaching situation, he would see a dream about it which would let him take the information in completely. As his sister always tries to make him into some sort of a genius she forced the boy read tons of books in his childhood. Combined with her sister's crazy ideals and the fact that she often tried to slaughter the boy he has developed an immense fear for her sister.
Tom is rather smart boy, having studied the field of maths, physics, chemistry, biology, and many more subjects. Her sister also forced him to learn the name of every single pokemon and the moves they can learn. Because of his extremely good brain he has also developed some basic psychic abilities. He can easily levitate things weighting around 100 kilograms and even teleport short distances. That isn't the cap of Tom's abilites though. If he would actually put some work into them he could easily become a master psychic. Tom has only goal on his journey and that is to win the Pokemon League. It isn't his own goal though. His sister forced the boy to start his journey, otherwise threatening to kill him and kick him out of the house. Tom didn't really have much of a choice. Although the boy hasn't completely discovered yet, he is extremely into pokemon battles.

Although Tom's birthplace is unknown he knows very well that he was raised up at Pallet Town. The boy never learned to know his parents as they supposedly left him, and his 6 years older sister Mary, alone. He has heard a lot of stories about his parents though, some speaking that they were mentally ill, while others speak that they are traveling around the world for their own reasons. Every month the Riddle household received a rather hefty amount of money from unknown source. The two children managed their earlier years thanks to a non family-related old lady who often came to watch them, cooked them food, and was almost for a mother for them. Even as a child Tom was very lazy child. He was always sleeping, never even crying just because it was too much of a bother.

After some years when Mary became old enough to take care from herself and her younger brother she simply didn't let the old lady in anymore, oftentimes even threatening her. Mary had some few loose screws and had developed some kind of idea, that since their parents left them alone Mary would have to take care of Tom all by herself and teach him how to be a responsible person. She actually loved Tom really deeply but her way of showing turned out to be extremely . . . strange. Whenever Tom was sleeping the girl woke him up by attacking him with her bare fists. For reason she brought that she couldn't let her little brother became lazy like that and thus had to always "motivate" him stay awake.

The constant attacks never did really manage to cure Tom's love for sleep. Rather he simply became really light sleeper, meaning that even the slightest of steps could wake the boy up. He often got into fights with his older sister, or had to run away from her just so he could survive. No matter where he escaped his sister always managed to find him. Once Tom even escaped to another side of continent where he already found his sister waiting him. When the boy was about seven or so his sister started using clubs to wake him up. Tom got hit very often of course and thus was covered in bruises most of his childhood. One time he confessed to Mary that every time he slept his brain would start working really well and he could actually study. That gave the girl a crazy idea of starting to educate the boy. One day he simply tied the boy up and started reading him books about science. After he would force the boy to sleep where he would learn the subject perfectly and carve it into his mind. Mary often asked him questions and if Tom should answer wrong the girl would cut him.

Over the years Tom developed a humongous fear for his older sister. No matter how far he escaped his sister would always find him, and no matter who he told to no one would believe him that his sister would do anything like that to him since Mary was really loved by everyone in Pallet Town. When the boy was 11 years old he finally found a way to escape that madness. Her sister suddenly had became a fan of Pokemon battles and thus imminently started educating Tom about them. She decided that Tom had to win the Pokemon League, otherwise she would kill him. The boy of course took the threat seriously and studied really seriously. Mary taught him about every pokemon from books, and other sources of information. Mary even got a pokemon for Tom from somewhere. It was a young Beldum who seemed horrified of the girl. The next year, right after pokemon league, Tom departed with a goal in sight to defeat the League in one year's time . . . otherwise his crazy sister would wait him home with a butcher knife.