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[b]| Name |[/b]
[indent][color=silver]Tomás Raymond [color=snow]//[/color] [b]Toro[/b][/color][/indent]
[b]| Age |[/b]
[indent][color=silver]Adolescent[/color][/indent]
[b]| Character Differences |[/b]
[indent][color=silver]The main variable is in the ancestry, with the canon version being a stereotypical WASP archetype, with the Spanish nickname being an oddity.  This version is a British national of Spanish ancestry on his mother's side, putting the diminutive more in line with the character's cultural identity. Aside from that, Toro's history is connected to World War I rather than World War II.[/color][/indent]
[b]| Brief World Background |[/b]
[indent][color=silver][b]Earth 47S[/b] | [i]Edwardian Steampunk Reality[/i]
Toro's home reality features the height of colonialism, with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland being the predominant world superpower. This period of Edwardian colonialism has ushered in a second Industrial Revolution with the refinement of steam power, being the predominant basis for the eccentric technology of the era.  Sociopolitical trends closely mirror the prime reality, with Europe dividing the continents of South America, Africa, and the Pacific Island nations into dominions of their empires.  In the midst of a web of complicated political connections between the Empires and their many, varied colonies, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand has triggered the first World War. Plying the major colonial powers against one another, the battle lines are drawn up between those loyal to the [b]Central Powers[/b] (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire) and those loyal to the [b]Allied Powers[/b] (France, British Empire, and Russia).[/color][/indent]
[b]| Brief Character Background |[/b]
[indent][color=silver]Tomás is a young Briton, the son of a physicist named Fred Raymond.  Fred worked with chemist Phineas Horton on a classified energy program that gave birth to the first android, Jim Hammond (the Human Torch).  Exposure to the so-called [i]Horton Cells[/i] caused illness in both Fred and his wife, leading to concern that she would lose their baby.  Fred ceased his work with Horton, seeking out treatment for himself and his wife in London.  Sadly, Nohemi "Nora" Raymond and her midwife both suffered severe burns during the labor, as the newborn infant appeared to spontaneously combust upon contact with air.  From these and other complications, with her already failing health, Nora passed away, leaving Fred a widower with a healthy, if somewhat flammable, baby boy.  

The child's healthy constitution gave rise to his father calling him Toro (little bull), though the two had only a few short years before Fred would succumb to radiation poisoning from exposure to the Horton cells.  Regarded as an oddity for his immunity to fire, and occasional spontaneous combustion, young Tomás wound up in the care of a pair of circus performers named Tom and Allie Alexander, who wanted [i]Toro, the Fire-Eating Boy[/i] as part of their act.  Thus, his childhood was a nomadic existence. Until 1915, when the German bombing campaign over King's Lynn caught the circus while they performed there. As the circus burned down around them, Toro and his adopted family huddled together for protection... when he felt himself starting to break into flame.

Fleeing from his adopted parents to keep them from being hurt by him, Toro vanished that night. As though taken by some spectre of [i]La Llorona[/i].  Whatever the case, Toro woke to find himself in a prison with a collar around his neck, on a world unlike anything he had seen before.[/color][/indent]