Fan Casting Thomas in Akira: Part 1

Subject 26, the most human of the Esper children. Thomas escapes the Program, inadvertently causing the accident that awakens Travis' powers. He is a frightened, guilty child trapped in a prematurely aged body—wrinkled skin, thinning hair, ancient eyes. Thomas' reactive, wide eyes makes him the audience's window into the tragedy of the Espers. His whispered apology to Elena—"I didn't mean to hurt those people"—is the quiet, heartbreaking soul of the Nursery sequences.