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Anonymous 2010/01/18(Mon)02:34 No. 9261 ID: 9ded94

For most of the Quest, Tom was actually channeling Odin, the long since deceased god of war.

The deity has of course been dead for centuries, the final speck of his divine essence being cast into the depths of the ocean by Christians, unable to destroy him entirely. It was an incredible coincidence that another, even more ancient and even more dead god was buried into the exact same spot.

When the hospital was built in this place as well - much less of a coincidence, might I add - both entities saw there an opportunity to escape. While the older god took immediate action with its dreams and medicines, Odin, his presence much smaller and weaker, only nudged things along here and there, trying to orchestrate his own freedom while keeping the other god safely hidden in the depths. He needed to find a champion. A vessel for his might. He found Subject 6, the one we know as Tom.

Despite being large and manly, Tom was also a shy and polite person in heart, and this is exactly what Odin desired: he had no use for mindless brutes, after all. He granted Tom his greatest gift, the Berserker Rage, very rarely and very occasionally, during the year he spent down there: Tom put this strength into good use every time he got it, for most of the time just trying to protect his sweetheart Ruby.

Tom was locked away not because he was a danger to anyone in itself, but simply because he was the only resident of the facility who could ever match Ace in a direct confrontation. But even so, Odin managed to manipulate Ace into removing Tom's right eye and cast it into the black abyss below the hospital - exactly how Odin had done to his own eye, so very long time ago. He was the one responsible for poisoning the fish, for locking Tom away for three full days: those three days of agony were his metaphorical Tree of Life, where Odin himself spent the same time crucified immediately after discarding his eye. This ritual was all it needed for the deity to transfer his full essence to Tom, essentially making him a physical god.

The older, nameless god saw this, and first sent Ace to destroy Tom in a desperate attempt to stop Odin, and when that failed, sought to possess Ace entirely in order to finish the job itself.

Conclusion: Allowing Stitches to rescue Tom was fine and good, but by doing that, we missed out a mighty confrontation between gods. Such a shame.

GLORY AND FAME
BLOOD IS OUR NAME
SOULS FULL OF THUNDER
HEARTS OF STEEL