Thoma

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Thoma (トーマ) is a seven-year-old orphan who formerly resided at Grace Field House Plant 3 as one of the many foster children of Isabella. Due to his age, Thoma is considered to be one of the house's "average-quality goods". He is an energetic boy who is often seen around his best friend, Lannion. He is later brought into the escape plan alongside Lannion, Nat, and Anna after the truth of the orphanage is revealed.

After successfully escaping Grace Field alongside fourteen other orphans, Thoma now seeks to find William Minerva, whom he and his team believe can grant them the liberty to live a safe and peaceful life away from the demons.

Appearance
Thoma is a young boy with black monolid eyes, a wide smile and one missing tooth. He has short black which sticks up in three oval sections at the top of the right side of his head, and the bottom of his left side. He wears the standard Grace Field uniform- a plain white long sleeved button-up shirt and white pants along with brown boots. His identification number, "55294", is tattooed onto the left side of his neck.

In 2047, Thoma stopped wearing the standard Grace Field uniform, instead adopting long black pants and an oversized long sleeved white shirt with the same brown boots he wore at Grace Field House. Now at the age of nine, Thoma has slightly longer hair which now sticks up in six oval sections on the upper back of his head. He also has developed a much more oval-shaped face.

History
Thoma was born at Grace Field on August 30, 2038 and sent to Plantation 3 a year later in 2039, growing up along with several other children under the parental care of Isabella. Thoma is brought into the escape plan alongside Anna, Nat and Lannion after Don and Gilda revealed the truth of the orphanage to them by allowing them to listen in on Emma and Norman's conversation with Sister Krone. Thoma and Lannion helped the children escape by making a decoy for Ray and creating two water rockets with ropes attached to the bottoms and shooting them over the cliff in order to get the ends of the ropes to Don on the other side. Thoma successfully escaped the house along with the rest of his siblings who were over the age of five.

Personality
Thoma is a mischievous, rowdy, curious and childish boy who enjoys handicraft, inventing new things, playing pretend, chasing his siblings, catching bugs and pulling pranks along with his best friend, Lannion. Additionally, he is shown to be rather active as he loves playing sports, especially baseball, soccer and football as well as tag, hide-and-seek, and other games with his siblings. He also enjoys reading and studying and gets good grades on his daily tests. Although he is a bit timid at times, he desperately does not want to be seen as cowardly and always tries to act brave and cool in the face of danger. He is not afraid to come up with and perform dangerous stunts and can be a little reckless sometimes. Ultimately, despite this, Thoma is blunt, outgoing, straightforward, strong willed, cares deeply for his family and always tries to help them whenever he can.

He is also very resourceful, intelligent and creative as he invented a water rocket with a rope attached to it which played a big part in the escape, enabling the orphans to cross the cliff surrounding Grace Field House. For Norman's 11th birthday, Thoma and Lannion made firecrackers by putting bits of colorful paper and ribbon inside a cup so that when the bottom of the cup was hit by a catapult it would make a noise while the contents flew. Ray taught them how to connect it to the lights so that when they turned the lights on, it went off.

Introduction Arc
Taking daily tests, playing a game of tag, eating scrumptious homemade food and having a good time – Thoma went through the same routine every day at Grace Field House.

Thoma was first seen playing tag with his siblings of the Grace Field House, where he was almost immediately caught by Norman. A few days later, during a game of tag, he was caught by Krone along with Nat, Lannion, and Anna.

Jailbreak Arc
It is revealed that he, along with Nat, Anna, and Lannion was brought into the escape plan after Don and Gilda. Thoma was seen being horrified when Isabella carried Emma with a broken leg, to which he understood that it was Isabella's doing. During the two months after Norman's shipment, Thoma and his siblings got instructions from Emma on how to train the orphans for the upcoming escape. Thoma and Lannion assisted in the escape by making a decoy for Ray and creating two water rockets with ropes attached to the bottoms and shooting them over the cliff in order to get the ends of the ropes to Don on the other side. On January 15, 2046, Thoma and his siblings escape from Grace Field House Plant 3.

Promised Forest Arc
After escaping Grace Field with his siblings, Thoma and the others started looking for location B06-32 with some help from Mujika and Sonju; in which later they found out it is a hidden shelter in the wasteland.

Search For Minerva Arc
Thoma was seen among the children searching for a way out of the Demon Forest. He reached just like the rest of the children Shelter B06-32 and took refuge in it for more than a year.

Cuvitidala Arc
Thoma, along with Lannion, was seen being overjoyed after Emma woke up from her coma following her battle with Leuvis.

Like the rest of his siblings, Thoma escaped from the shelter after it was raided by Andrew and his team. He later mourned Mister, Lucas and the others that were killed during the attack.

Upon arriving at the Paradise Hideout, Thoma was shocked and happy to see Norman again, leaping into his arms and expressing admiration of his new position. Thoma was later seen with the rest of the children listening to Emma's and Ray's speech about leaving The Paradise Hideout to go to the seven walls to try to make a better promise. Thoma and Lani were reluctant but later received some comforting words from Ray. He then waved Emma goodbye like the rest of the children.

Human World Arc
Upon arriving in the Human World, Thoma is seen to be visibly worried and shocked about Emma's disappearance. Thoma, along with the other children, agrees to search for Emma so they can reunite with her again. Over the next two years spent in the Human World, Thoma began attending school. During spring 2049, he finally reunites with Emma again and cries tears of joy, even though she lost her memories. In the special epilogue chapter, Dreams Come True, Thoma lived out his dream of fully enjoying a roller coaster.

Lannion
Lannion is Thoma's best friend ever. They are always seen together, and whatever they do; playing, pulling pranks, inventing things, or running away from demons, they do together. Due to being the same age and having grown up together, Thoma and Lannion have a very close twin sibling-like relationship. They have near identical personalities and interests and sometimes say the exact same thing at the same time as one another and finish each other's sentences. They are also known to mirror each other's actions and poses.

Emma
Thoma is close to Emma and views her as an older sister. Although he looks up to her as their leader, he also likes to mess with her and pull pranks on her.

Ray
Thoma cares for Ray and admires him as an older brother. He was against Ray's plan to die and therefore worked hard to prevent it. Thoma also appreciates Ray's hard work and his wise words which he sometimes shares with him and Lannion. However, he also likes to tease him and sometimes throws out sarcastic comments about his self-sacrificing personality.

Trivia

 * A mini game in The Promised Neverland official site revealed two manga pages for players who achieved high scores. The pages showed how Isabella named Thoma after a tomato, whether you believe her or not.
 * It is possible that Isabella was lying about this, since in the official fanbook it is confirmed that the Grandma decides the names of all the children born at Grace Field, not the Mamas.
 * Posuka Demizu answered in a Q&A how Thoma and Leuvis' monkey Palvus resembles her.undefined
 * The following are Thoma's rankings in some of The Promised Neverland's official popularity polls.
 * Thoma is ranked 13th in the Popularity Poll that was announced in Chapter 88 of the Manga.
 * In Shounen Jump's 2nd popularity poll results announced in Chapter 102, Thoma is in 23rd place with a total of 84 votes.
 * Thoma's favorite food is Yakitori.
 * Thoma was designed to look like he was from Japan, whereas Lannion was designed to look like he was from the United States.
 * The name "Thoma" is a Swiss, Albanian, and German version of "Thomas", a surname and boy's given name deriving from the Aramaic name "Te'oma", meaning "twin".
 * As of 2045, Thoma sleeps in the same bedroom as Gilda, Lannion, Emma, Jasper, Marnya, Phil, Tom, Chamberlain, Chris and Yvette.