Full title - Why I killed Stockpile Thomas and how it made me a better person.
 NOTE - This is a repost from my last profile, which I am now locked out of for some reason.  Thanks.
 
 Ever since I met him, I knew there was something wrong with him.  His off-kilter speech, his pile of crap, his complete lack of interest in anything besides me..  Stockpile Thomas just rubbed me the wrong way.  Whenever anyone just wants to "hold onto your things" without any sort of payment in return, I become suspicious.  Especially if that person is a demon in disguise.  
 
When we first meet Stockpile Thomas, he regales us with his origin story - he was fleeing from the Scourge and the fog, when he blacked out...  and came to in the Nexus.  He doesn't remember anything besides leaving his wife and daughter behind to run, in his own words, "like a madman."  We're often reminded that the demons of the fog steal your soul, which then drives you into madness - which Stockpile Thomas freely admits.  This soulless madness is the first step to becoming a demon.  He is also quite callous if you deny him his daughter's jade hairpiece, laughing oddly and saying that he's over it anyway.  Furthermore, this jade hairpiece is not even found on a little girl!  It is found on a lynched demon (lynched probably for abandoning its post, much as Thomas did), next to a cross-dressing male demon with witch's clothes on.  He also claims that The Maiden in Black nursed him back to health, which seems altruistic until it is made apparent that she only helps other demons, or those corrupted by demon's souls.
 
Perhaps the most damning evidence against Thomas comes from Yurt, the assassin.  He is sent to kill those Mephistopheles wishes dead, and after he slays a number of people in the Nexus, he says "I have murdered every human left, except for one..." and then attacks you.  Yurt does not go after The Maiden (who is obviously a demon) or Boldwin (who, by conjecture, is also a demon due to his ability to consume souls - when he says "with your souls, I can eke out a living").  Yurt also does not go after Stockpile Thomas, even after he tells us he's killed every human.  
 
After I discovered this, I confronted Thomas, who told me he was worried, and that I had a heart of gold.  I struck with my Magic Sword Makoto...  and it turns out Thomas has over 2000 hit points, and a limitless supply of grass to heal himself with (I'm pretty sure he was dipping into my stocks).  After a trying battle, he fell..  and relinquished 250 souls. 
 
Where would I keep my unused crap, you may ask?  Thomas can take the 15 slave shields, useless darkmoonlight stones, and extra suits of armor I never wear to the grave.  I'm a demon hunter, I don't need a bank - and I definitely don't need an evil demon to watch my stuff for me.  One more demon down on my quest to put the Old One back to sleep.

Full title - Why I killed Stockpile Thomas and how it made me a better person.
 NOTE - This is a repost from my last profile, which I am now locked out of for some reason.  Thanks.
 
 Ever since I met him, I knew there was something wrong with him.  His off-kilter speech, his pile of crap, his complete lack of interest in anything besides me..  Stockpile Thomas just rubbed me the wrong way.  Whenever anyone just wants to "hold onto your things" without any sort of payment in return, I become suspicious.  Especially if that person is a demon in disguise.  
 
When we first meet Stockpile Thomas, he regales us with his origin story - he was fleeing from the Scourge and the fog, when he blacked out...  and came to in the Nexus.  He doesn't remember anything besides leaving his wife and daughter behind to run, in his own words, "like a madman."  We're often reminded that the demons of the fog steal your soul, which then drives you into madness - which Stockpile Thomas freely admits.  This soulless madness is the first step to becoming a demon.  He is also quite callous if you deny him his daughter's jade hairpiece, laughing oddly and saying that he's over it anyway.  Furthermore, this jade hairpiece is not even found on a little girl!  It is found on a lynched demon (lynched probably for abandoning its post, much as Thomas did), next to a cross-dressing male demon with witch's clothes on.  He also claims that The Maiden in Black nursed him back to health, which seems altruistic until it is made apparent that she only helps other demons, or those corrupted by demon's souls.
 
Perhaps the most damning evidence against Thomas comes from Yurt, the assassin.  He is sent to kill those Mephistopheles wishes dead, and after he slays a number of people in the Nexus, he says "I have murdered every human left, except for one..." and then attacks you.  Yurt does not go after The Maiden (who is obviously a demon) or Boldwin (who, by conjecture, is also a demon due to his ability to consume souls - when he says "with your souls, I can eke out a living").  Yurt also does not go after Stockpile Thomas, even after he tells us he's killed every human.  
 
After I discovered this, I confronted Thomas, who told me he was worried, and that I had a heart of gold.  I struck with my Magic Sword Makoto...  and it turns out Thomas has over 2000 hit points, and a limitless supply of grass to heal himself with (I'm pretty sure he was dipping into my stocks).  After a trying battle, he fell..  and relinquished 250 souls. 
 
Where would I keep my unused crap, you may ask?  Thomas can take the 15 slave shields, useless darkmoonlight stones, and extra suits of armor I never wear to the grave.  I'm a demon hunter, I don't need a bank - and I definitely don't need an evil demon to watch my stuff for me.  One more demon down on my quest to put the Old One back to sleep.

Yes but like I said before at the end of the game the Maiden in Black herself calls you a Demon and who would know what makes a person a demon better than her?  Best you just commit suicide now and let others handle the tough stuff with the Old One.

Hah. I actually remember reading this. Weird that your account was locked. What was your old username? 
 
Anyway, 
 
I was looking into some stuff about the game a little while ago. A lot of people (people more crazy than me) seem to think the two hanged individuals are his daughter and wife (Yes, the corpses are males, but that is probably just due to the designers not bothering to model something so abstract), and that his wife was - indeed - a witch. He said his daughter would be about the age of the Maiden, so the size of the corpse still makes sense. If I wanted to get all nerdy about it, I'd say that Executioner Miralda hanged them to display that demon's aren't meant to rebel against the King, or something similar. 
 
Also, that's the cool thing about this game. You look at something like Stockpile Thomas, and you - at first - think, "man, if I kill him, I might as well restart." But soon you realize that killing him just opens up a new way to play the game. Every wonder why there's all those Grindstones strewn about when you could just as easily use Ed to repair your items, or why you can fully deny the Maiden's help? It's because some people don't want help from demons.

" @FunExplosions:  I think when it went over to WhiskeyMedia I was supposed to migrate my account...  but I never did and now I simply can't access it.  I had read that about those two being his wife and daughter too - I really liked how Demon's Souls had a cool backstory, but it was only fleshed out enough to get the game moving - everything else the player has to infer.  "

Man, this thread just highlights anotehr reason Demon's Souls is probably my favourite current-gen game. It definitely dioesn't beat you over the head with story or exposition, but it's there if you want to look for it, and it's fucking awesome.