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Having read the books gives me more insight into Tom than I get hanging around him...which seems odd, but then I can't read his internal dialogue without a copy of the books.
But I think many people arguing that he's not acting like a teenage boy is sort of missing a few points. The big one being that he's no longer a teenage boy, he's an immortal and there are other factors at work.
First though, his emotional state has been anywhere from freaked to depressed to paranoid and anxious. Right now he feels that he is perpetrating a huge lie, first to the D'Orcs, then Orcs, and now to the Etonians, and he's scared he's going to be caught/found out. He is also afraid of failing them all, particularly the little guys (he's got some issues on this front--note his reluctance to break Rupert's illusion about Tom being his father)
Fear and anxiety trump sexual desire in anyone of any age.
Also, you guys do know he is not a biological person right?
He's (and me's and all immortals) an energy construct, a being of pure animus that wraps itself in a material form?
He doesn't actually have hormones...he only has them if/when he wants to have them, sort of like eating, pooping, breathing and sleeping (except at Mount Doom where competition for the mana generators sort of force the issue at least for sleeping and recovering mana)
Yes, by default, he previously had them, so they would be naturally turned on (plus everyone knows demons are sexual pervs so there is that component-->see volume 1, initial summoning, giant phalus and Jenn's reactions) but...
The thing is, if his mental state is preoccupied by other things, other emotions, then any faux hormones that would normally be generated (because he and others thinks he has them) would likely be suppressed.
Finally, again book 1: Part of his form is determined by what other believe about him. People who convince themselves he is Orcus expect to see Orcus and while not like an initial summoning (where it is very intense) it does have an effect, albeit much smaller. Of course, I should note that this can be a real problem for some gods (more so than demons--people worshiping an idol and seriously concentrating on who/what they believe you to be, is pretty potent--particularly if you are sucking up their emotionally charged mana at the same-->hence the mana cleansing rituals the avatars do), and just thinking about it often makes them paranoid as to is it me, or what my followers expect?
But anyway, how belief shapes immortals will be discussed much more. Actually, Tom and a certain previously missing member of the Tartarvardenennead will be discussing it and similar topics in v.IV (very early on too)
But anyway, I digress, the point being is that Tom and other demons all have real emotional needs, however, physical needs are technically a luxury that we can choose to indulge in or not (mostly/sort of/sometimes--for example book 1, his rage and instinct to kill was that him or was that expectation)
The thing is, "it's complex"
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