Tommy Tate

Tommy Tate is a character role-played by Zerkaa.

Overview
Tommy Tate, widely known as Tommy T, is a British road-man who fled to Los Santos to start fresh, after living a life of crime in South-East London, UK. Tommy has not spoken much about his life in England, simply saying that he was involved in the drug game and that he had to leave as it was 'getting too hot for him'.

When he first came to Los Santos, he said that he wanted to leave the life of crime behind him and tried to stay clean. He managed to keep his record clean for 25 days. He had a close call with losing his clean record after only a few days in the city when he cut off Stanky Leg 's ear, however he was able to escape the charge as there was no proof that he had committed the crime. He lost his clean record during a failed attempt to rob a Bank Truck.

Tommy was a founding member of the gang, known as The Mandem. Together, The Mandem have committed numerous minor and major crimes since their formation. Tommy often serves as a voice of reason within the group due to him being the most level headed. The Mandem see each other as family and have said numerous times that they would do anything for each other. Despite originally saying that they would not have a leader, Tommy was officially appointed as the leader on August 19, 2021.

When Tommy first arrived in the city, he would almost always wear a lime green puffer jacket. For around six months, he would almost never wear anything but the puffer jacket. He eventually started to wear a lime green bulletproof vest instead, and a black and white variant. In February 2022, he had clothes imported into the city, so he started to wear a much larger variety of clothing, while still occasionally wearing lime green, he now predominantly wears black and white.

When The Mandem wanted to hit a bank, Tommy decided to learn how to hack. They purchased 15 practice laptops from The Game Masters and Tommy used all of them. He was able to hack four of them in a row, however they didn't purchase anymore practice laptops for quite a while. Several weeks later, Tommy purchased a new practice laptop for $15,000. He used it for the three days and managed to successfully hack the system nine times in a row. The day after the laptop expired, Tommy tried to get another one. He was contacted by The Game Masters, but he took too long to get to the location so when he arrived, he found a note saying 'GAME OVER'. The next day, Tommy tweeted Ready Player One again. After a few hours, he received a call saying that he had been given another chance. He received a ping and apologised for not arriving the previous day. They told him that he could still purchase laptops, but warned him never to be late again. After using the practice laptops enough, Tommy decided that it was time for him to get real experience. He would attempt to hack a bank, with Alan as a backup hacker in case he failed. He failed a fair few times, and one day, Dwayne pushed him to try and hack a bank without Alan, which he agreed to but failed. Later that day, along with Eli and Patar, he decided to attempt it again, successfully hacking his first bank. Since then, he has successfully hacked many banks, including Paleto and the City Vault.

He is a very loyal person to those who have helped him. Due to Abdul giving him a tour of the city on his first day and giving him a job, he has said that he will never sell his taxi, even though he is no longer a taxi driver and no longer drives it. He has also proved that he is willing to go to great lengths for his close friends and will help them in any way that he can.

Tommy has often said that he feels as though he is cursed. Because of this, the term 'The Tommy T Curse' is often thrown around between The Mandem. He believes he is cursed due to his unusually bad luck. He once span the wheel in the casino upwards of twenty times and only won on three of the spins. He frequently gets unlucky with jobs, such as when he wanted to hit Paleto and the Jewellery store but they had both been hit already. He has accidentally been punched and knocked down numerous times by people that weren't even aiming for him and he has been knocked off of bikes and sent through windshields by locals driving into him.

When Cerberus were preparing for the 'Corpo Kid' TV show, where they would hold a series of challenges with the winner becoming the CEO of Dean Watson's hotel, Ramee recommended Tommy as a contestant. He was then interviewed and made it through to the second day. On the second day his team won the first round, putting him through to the second round. During the second round, Tommy was tasked with putting together an event. At the end of the round, the contestants each had to vote for the three people that they thought least deserved to be in the final. Tommy, Dean, and Bunny received the least votes, and Cerberus decided to use their 'Golden Ticket' to bring Lexi back. In the final, Bunny won the first round, and Dean placed last. Dean was then told that he had to eliminate either Tommy or Lexi, and he chose to send Tommy into the final. After the final round, Cerberus told them that it was down to Tommy and Bunny to pick a winner. They were told to either pick 'Divide', where they would share the CEO role, or 'Conquer', where they would take it for themselves. They both chose 'Divide' and both became CEOs of the Diamond Casino Hotel. In June, 2022, Tommy stepped down as CEO of the Casino Hotel after he joined Cerberus.

Abdul (The Mayor of Los Santos at the time) came to Tommy one day with a plan to extort the mayor's office for $1.3m by using a loophole where the mayor gets a certain amount of money to put towards personal housing, Tommy wasn't sure about the finer details about how they would go about doing this so he brought in Robert Locksley, at the time the Diamond Casinos CFO, to ensure that Dean Watson and Cerberus would be okay with the whole situation and be secure on the legal side of everything. They managed to pull it off initially however the police quickly caught on to the transaction and started questioning Cerberus, the hotel owners, then Dean, Lang and Leslie questioned Bunny and Tommy about the situation separately where they found out that Locksley had kept it from the group potentially jeopardising all of Cerberus's businesses. Tommy and Bunny both got $130,000 from the transaction as hotel commission. After a trial for embezzlement, Abdul was impeached, however he did not received any fines. After the trial, the money remained in the holding account. Locksley was also fired from the hotel.

Since coming to the city, Tommy has become a very successful businessman. He started as a simple taxi driver, and a few months later got his first major job when he was hired as the CEO of the Diamond Casino Hotel. After having this job for a while, he was brought into Cerberus, as they believed he had the potential and ideas to be successful. This was proved to be true, after he opened Gold Rush, one of the most profitable businesses in the history of the city, which quickly made him one of the richest people in Los Santos.

Discography
"Don't know ‘bout me, I’m Tommy T"

- Tommy T

On June 18, 2021, Tommy Tate (better known by his stage name "Tommy T") teamed up with long-time friend, Dwayne "Wiked" Flores, to release the self-titled song "Tommy T" which was released under Wu Chang Records. The song gained instant success and quickly became the most played song in Los Santos. After the release and success of the song, Tommy and Dwayne began working on creating their own record label, named MDM Records, which was founded on November 17, 2021.

Seventeen months after the release of his first song, Tommy featured on a second song with fellow MDM Records artist; Big Toe. The song, titled; "TOLD YOU", was released on November 4, 2022 and it served as the lead single for Big Toe's album "PARTY TILL THE END". The following month on December 19, 2022, Tommy released his first song as a lead artist and third overall; titled "Here To Stay" which features SparkyKNE, the release was also accompanied by its music video. The song was certified platinum just 6 hours after its release, making it the fastest song to reach this milestone in Los Santos. On February 16, 2023, the song was certified diamond, 59 days after its release.

Since his debut, Tommy has achieved a Diamond Certification with the songs; "Tommy T" and "Here To Stay", and he is also the only artist to receive at least a Platinum certification on all of their songs. At the NoPixel Music Awards, he was nominated for one award,  Music Video of the Year, for "Tommy T".

Trivia
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 * Tommy lost his weapons license and had his DNA swabbed on 23rd May, 2021.
 * After a failed bank job, Tommy should have been charged with Robbery of a Financial Institution, Misdemeanour Possession of Controlled Dangerous Substance OXY / METH and Attempted Murder of a Government Employee (x2). Although he was fined and sent to prison, the charges were not added to his profile.
 * Tommy's racing alias 'BABYFACE' is renowned in the underground racing scene and he is considered one of the best and most influential racers in the city.
 * Tommy was a member of Yokai from February 3rd, 2022 to August 1st, 2022.
 * Tommy was arrested for street racing for the first time on August 26th, 2022, after over 100 races.
 * On January 6, 2023, Tommy put a Car Bomb on Suarez 's car, which exploded and sent him to the ICU.
 * On May 9, 2023, Tommy received an anonymous ping, which lead him to a car with a Race Creating Dongle in the trunk.