It wasn't like he was being combative, he just...had no idea what to expect here. Everyone had heard of the PPDC and for someone like Tom who had literally lost everything at the hands of the Kaiju monsters, it meant even more to him that he get in. Driven was definitely a word for the serious young man.
Curious, he leaned forward so he could read the questions with a quizzical look. After scanning the paper, he looked back up at Lucy and smiled perhaps genuinely for the first time; gravely and perhaps just a little shy.
"What does the fox say? As in that silly song from 2013?" He could vividly remember listening to that song play while sitting at his grandfather's table pretending to do schoolwork. It had been only a month or two after K-Day and Tom could still recall how irritated he'd been at the ridiculousness of the lyrics. Back then, he'd been your typical angry, and ill-adjusted orphan who'd felt isolated from everything and everyone. Looking back, he was appalled by his behavior but his grandfather had put up with Tom's moodiness with the same unflappable calmness he applied to most other things in his life.
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Curious, he leaned forward so he could read the questions with a quizzical look. After scanning the paper, he looked back up at Lucy and smiled perhaps genuinely for the first time; gravely and perhaps just a little shy.
"What does the fox say? As in that silly song from 2013?" He could vividly remember listening to that song play while sitting at his grandfather's table pretending to do schoolwork. It had been only a month or two after K-Day and Tom could still recall how irritated he'd been at the ridiculousness of the lyrics. Back then, he'd been your typical angry, and ill-adjusted orphan who'd felt isolated from everything and everyone. Looking back, he was appalled by his behavior but his grandfather had put up with Tom's moodiness with the same unflappable calmness he applied to most other things in his life.