Due to a skin pigmentation mutation Tom may only venture into the outside world during predawn and dusky twilight conditions, living out the remaining hours of the day under photo lab/dark room settings. He is okay with this as he has an addiction to fixer and enjoys nothing more than a series of shallow stop baths. All of his written works are dictated via silent lip sync with the sessions viewed through an infrared security camera by a team of keyboard-phobic lip readers, each of whom signs their interpretations simultaneously to a single stenographer. The resultant texts are typically referred to as mad-brilliant-golden-rubbish-gem-biscuits.