Fun fact: There was a gay, kind psychologist at the hospital who helped Thomas out, and they wrote him off as dead to save themselves from the scandal. But he actually boarded a ship to Nassau that was taken by pirates, who spared him because they needed someone literate. And he slowly worked his way up to eventually become captain, and right now there’s a ship of really clean, polite, well mannered, merciful pirates on the way to Nassau.
Holy shit ಠ⌣ಠ Imma write a fic
I feel the need to point out that there exists a fic series that is basically this with the exception that Thomas gets listed as a suicide because the hospital staff are tired of dealing with his blatant sabotage. Go read the Give Him a Blanket verse by Shirogiku on Ao3.