Tobias Austen

"'You've become a monster, an unstoppable, unreachable and uncontrolled creature. May told me everything, and If there's still some good within you, you must stop and end this NOW before it's too late.' - Tobias to Veronica Albion."

Overview
Tobias Austen was a young promising law student from Canadian origin, which served as a preferred student by his mentor Veronica Albion during his higher educational endeavours at University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Austen was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta and although born in a high-income economy with aboundant resources, Austen was raised by a low-income family within one of the poorest Calgary's districts. Nevertheless, Austen was raised with high values regarding social consciusness towards segregation, poverty and income-inequality; furthermore, with a strong emphasis in inclusion.

It was revealed by himself that it was largely due to his mother's long-term traditional famility values, which by generations, strongly influenced her family's members.

Personality and traits
Due to his past of extreme poverty and austerity, Austen's inner circle stronly influenced on his personality and social skills, which therefore evolved eventually into a complex individual with higher standards of moral and social consciusness towards poverty and social inclusion.

It was widely recognized by his inner circle as a friendly and charismatic social figure, furthermore with a humble and compassionate external appearence which further increased his positive attributes.

Law was considered by Austen as of vital importance in order to promote proportional justice and equality. Although Veronica Albion's law mentorship during his studies was corrupted by Veronica's vision of Law as a merchant instrument and a complex mechanism for personal power and monetary projection.

Austen consequently counter-balanced this by imposing his morals and personal views instead of her teachings; nonetheless, it was later revealed that his actions were largerly due to his rebellious and inmature nature, rather than proper rational desitions regarding law and higher education.

Austen & Albion connection.
Austen and Albion has opposite yet common backgrounds and personality traits between them, both are from a low-class origin and suffered from extreme poverty, which eventually, lead them to extremely low-paid part-time jobs in order to pay their majors during their respective higher education.

Appearances

 * Chapter V "Naamah" (1991) - Mentioned only.
 * Chapter VI "Pluto" (1993) - First appearance.
 * Chapter VII "Phobos" (1994)
 * Chapter VIII "Deimos" (1994)
 * Chapter IX "Uroborous" (1994)
 * Chapter X "Neptune" (1995) - Final appearence.

Curiosities

 * Austen's favourite band was the American alternative rock band R.E.M.
 * Austen's Zodiac Sign was Sagittarius, which opposite zodiac sign Gemini, Veronica Albion's sign.
 * R.E.M's sountrack "Bang and Blame" (1994) was dedicated to Albion by Austen during final Chapter X, "Neptune".