OK, so I'm just going to do a general overview of what I'm imagining as my character. Please tell me if it conflicts with any story ideas you have or wouldn't mesh well with the group.
"Thomas Hatch is a journalist. Well, if you call reporting on bake sales, the Redwood Festival, and that time the Lady Falcons won the the women's hockey state championship journalism. Which he doesn't.
Thomas went to a fairly prestigious college, as he continually reminds himself, but well, his dad was the editor of the Bourne Daily Gazette, and when good old Irving Hatch died (in the arms of someone most definately not Orrin's mother) the paper just kind of passed along to him. It's not exactly a bad life, and Thomas is good at his job, good at talking to people and making them feel comfortable enough to share their stories with him.
Thomas is slim and short, with perpetually uncombed knots of thick black hair falling over coke bottle glasses that make his eyes appear almost buglike. He looks, and is, unthreatening, though he does have some lock-picking and data entry skills left over from the year after college when he tried desperately to be the next Bob Woodward. At 30, that year is long past, though he remembers it fondly, especially after one too many drinks."
This is just a rough sketch of a character, hope you like him!
