Nolan Thomas

Nolan Thomas is a character played by aurvinR.

General Description
Nolan Thomas is a criminal defense / civil law attorney, who has been living in Los Santos for almost 6 months.

Background Information
Nolan Thomas was born on 2001/01/20 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His parents were Jade Van Den Berg (Dutch) and Jake Thomas (American) - software developers working for the same American company. The next 7 years were rather uneventful for the entire family, until the beginning of 2008 - when, shortly after Nolan’s 7th birthday, the family moved to Seattle, Washington, US. At that time, Nolan’s parents completely stopped using Dutch in favour of English, which, with time, led to Nolan losing his ability to speak and read in Dutch.

The following 4 years were also uneventful for the entire family, with days, weeks, and months blending together with how routine everything was. Eventually, at the beginning of 2012, the family moved once again - this time to Eugene, Oregon.

Yet again, the routine was established. However, being older than before, Nolan finally started to pay more attention to what was exactly happening. He quickly noticed that his parents stayed at work for most of the day and when they finally returned, they would not really pay much attention to Nolan - who was assigned a caretaker named James.

For the next 4 years, Nolan continuously attempted to get the attention of his parents in various ways. However, he was not successful in the slightest. Even though Nolan’s parents would give him what he asked for most of the time, they clearly didn’t think about it much. By the end of 2015, Nolan became completely disillusioned with his parents and gave up on the idea of getting their attention. Instead, Nolan focused on himself.

At the beginning of 2016, the entire family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. Once there, Jade and Jake informed Nolan that he would have to take care of himself from that point forward, although they would provide him with all necessary funds and such. Nolan did not have any issues with it and a new routine was established, with less and less contact between Nolan and his parents in the following years - despite them still living together.

Between 2016 and 2020, Nolan continued focusing on just himself, expanding his general knowledge, regularly working out, and doing a few part-time jobs. However, Nolan slowly started to realise that he would have to eventually figure out what he really wanted to do in the future, as he still did not have a clear goal in mind - and that made him anxious.

Eventually, at the beginning of 2020, the entire family moved once again; this time to Denver, Colorado. Before another routine was established, Nolan finally had his big breakthrough - he discovered that law fascinated him like nothing else before. While still working a few different part-time jobs, Nolan began to research and learn about the law, more and more with each passing month.

Nolan announced his decision to start attending law school to his parents, shortly before his 21st birthday. As he expected, they agreed to provide all of the necessary funds. On the day of his 21st birthday, Nolan reluctantly agreed to have dinner with his parents at a restaurant - which was one of the very few times his parents seemed to pay attention to him. During the dinner itself, Nolan rarely talked and was mostly preoccupied with making sure he was fully prepared for law school. That caused him to completely miss the fact that his parents were drinking a lot of alcohol.

After a few hours, the family began returning home in a car, with Jake driving and Jade sitting next to him. At some point, Jake swerved from the road and into a nearby tree. Nolan passed out, while Jake and Jade (neither wearing seatbelts) ejected from the car through the windshield and died instantly. Fortunately for Nolan, someone saw the incident happen and called for help. Shortly afterwards, EMS and police arrived, with the former taking Nolan to the hospital.

Due to his injuries, Nolan was in a coma for about a month. After he woke up, he had to stay in the hospital for another month to ensure his recovery began appropriately. During this time, Nolan learned about the cause of the incident and the fate of his parents. Instead of feeling sad, Nolan was furious at his parents and blamed them for everything.

After a short time, Nolan’s recent fascination with law combined with rage directed at what his parents did to him, as well as Nolan still recovering from a massive injury, culminated into a creation of a new, twisted life goal for him - putting all his effort, resources, sweat, and tears into destroying all crime (which, at that point, Nolan began to reference to as “evil”).

Eventually, Nolan was released out of the hospital and came back to his home. For the next 9 months, he worked tirelessly on broadening his law knowledge, planning for any resistance to his goal, as well as full physical recovery. Nolan also decided on the location for the beginning of his work - Los Santos, in the State of San Andreas. On 2022/12/16, Nolan flew to Los Santos, ready to begin his new life.

Apparent / visible
There are two most apparent parts of Nolan’s behaviour: his directness and calmness.

The directness is a result of Nolan’s childhood; after many times he tried and failed to get the attention of his parents, Nolan decided that there was no point in him sugarcoating anything / bothering with many words when “only a few can do the same job just fine”. Additionally, Nolan also was of the opinion that he shouldn’t bother with if other people don’t care.

The calmness is a result of Nolan’s main (and only) life goal [described in more detail in a paragraph below]; it is meant to hide his extreme emotions from others and help him during interactions with other people. Additionally, it also enables Nolan to never stray from the path he set for himself.

Hidden
Nolan’s extreme obsession / goal of “defeating all crime (evil)” is at the very core of his being, influencing most, if not all, of his decisions, his behaviour, and more. It is the only and the most important goal Nolan has. However, despite the intensity of this characteristic, it is completely hidden within Nolan and he does his best to keep it that way.

This obsession originates from a combination of Nolan’s fascination with law, his anger at his parents for almost killing him as a result of drunk driving, and the relatively fragile state of mind and body Nolan was in shortly after waking up from a coma.

Nolan is willing to sacrifice anything and anyone (legally, of course) if it means advancing towards meeting that goal. He never stops thinking about it, always trying to find a way to do better and better.

Less apparent / visible
There are also many other less apparent characteristics of Nolan.

Being practical is one of them. It stems from Nolan’s main goal and obsession. To ensure maximum efficiency and momentum, Nolan rarely does something that doesn’t advance him towards his goal in some way; this includes hobbies, doing “nothing”, pleasure-related activities, and more.

Seeking knowledge is another one of them. It also stems from Nolan’s core obsession and goal. To ensure adaptability to any and all possible challenges on his path, Nolan strives to absorb any knowledge that could be useful to him; this includes both passive and active information gathering. In many cases, Nolan is willing to go as far as assuming a new (and fake) identity to get the information he desires - but once again, as long as it’s legal.

Nolan’s other such characteristics include being patient, (seemingly) indifferent / cold, and unempathetic.

Incident with Peach Chee and Flop Dugong
On February 4th 2023, right after waking up and exiting Alta Apartments, Nolan was asked by police officers Flop Dugong and Peach Chee to approach them. After a short conversation and Nolan rating Peach's Dispatch abilities 0/10 after being asked about them by her, Peach Chee ran over his left arm two times in a row with a car and then drove away. With his left arm completely crushed, Nolan was admitted in the ICU where he then stayed for a few days. After being released from the ICU, Nolan spent several weeks with his arm in a cast.

Obtaining a Bar License
On February 26th 2023, after two months or so working as a Legal Aid in the City Hall, Judge Siobhan Fitzpatrick approached Nolan while he was working and, after a short conversation, gave him a Bar License - making Nolan an officially certified Junior Attorney.

Near-death experience with Jack Davenport
On April 29th 2023, after a few hours of work at the City Hall, Nolan was driving to UwU Caffe in his car, when, after a fast moving vehicle went past (almost hitting him), Nolan's car was struck in the side at high speeds by a police vehicle driven by a police officer Jack Davenport. Nolan's vehicle was turned around, while Nolan himself was concussed. Jack Davenport (whose police vehicle ended up on a sidewalk) got out of his car, pulled out a pistol, walked a few steps towards Nolan's car, and then shot Nolan once in the right side of his head - immediately incapacitating him. Jack Davenport then repaired his PD vehicle and drove away.

After a few minutes, locals in the area called for help, for Nolan. Police officer Crystal Clear was the first to arrive on scene and investigate it, followed by EMS who began treating Nolan. Shortly afterwards, Nolan was transported to the hospital in critical condition. Once there, Local Doctor Kate performed a surgery on Nolan and successfully removed the bullet that was in his brain. Nolan was then admitted to the ICU.

On May 1st 2023, while Nolan was still unconscious, an MRI scan was performed on him by Doctor Emerson Laurier. The results of it revealed that the bullet impact and subsequent bleeding caused irreversible damage to multiple parts of Nolan's brain - mostly frontal lobe, parietal lobe, and facial nerves (part of cranial nerves). The consequences of all this damage remain to be seen, as the full extent of them would be only visible after a few weeks....