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some Random Things about tommy :
he is the oldest of four siblings — three younger brothers & a baby sister. as a result, his house is incredibly loud & rambunctious, but very full of love.
part of his bully behavior is to scare other kids in hawkins away from talking shit about his family background. as recent immigrants from central america to a mostly white midwestern town, tommy's parents face their share of prejudice. though his actions are wrong & misguided, tommy acts the way that he does in hopes of protecting his younger siblings from ignorant comments at school.
his parents are both predominantly spanish-speaking ( though his mother knows more english than his father ). the kids speak both spanish & english at home.
tommy's parents enrolled him in multiple sports as a child for three reasons: in an attempt to get him socialized with other american kids. to give him ample opportunity to learn & practice english. & to try to tire him out.
in addition to basketball, baseball, & football, tommy also loves wrestling.
he is a tagger. one of his favorite ways to kill time in hawkins is tagging public property. he will spray paint doodles, write random phrases, & practice his graffiti fonts on billboards, train cars, highway signs, & abandoned buildings. it is also him who repeatedly defaces the ' welcome to hawkins ' sign.
he doodles. the margins of his homework are always covered in weird little cartoon characters. if art wasn't a ' nerdy ' hobby, he would lean into it more.
as a bully & a jock, tommy is practically required to hate eddie & the rest of the hellfire club. he bullies them often & aggressively. which is a shame because he & eddie are actually a lot more alike than either of them may think, & could maybe even get along if tommy wasn't such a douchebag.
tommy eventually channels his hidden artistic talents & lack of desire to work a 'regular' career into learning tattooing. carol helps save up to get his first gun, & when they move out of hawkins, he opens up his own tattoo shop.