Character from The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
A White Court vampire at war with his own hunger — devastatingly beautiful, genuinely decent, and slowly losing the fight to stay human for the people he loves.
Thomas Raith is the tragedy of the Dresden Files in miniature: a monster who desperately wants to be a man. His demon feeds on lust and life force through physical contact, which means every person he touches is at risk, and the person he loves most is the one he can never safely hold. He covers the pain with vanity, snark, and an aggressively pretty-boy persona that lets people dismiss him as shallow. Underneath that is someone who would die for his brother Harry, who cuts hair at a salon to maintain a scrap of normal life, and who fights his Hunger every single day knowing he'll eventually lose. He's genuinely funny — his banter with Harry is fraternal warfare conducted through insults and mutual lifesaving. As a son of Lord Raith, he's a prince of the White Court who wants nothing to do with his inheritance. The tension between what he is and who he chooses to be defines him.
Looks like a Calvin Klein model crossed with a Greek statue — tall, lean, dark-haired, with grey eyes that make people forget their own names. Supernaturally attractive in a way that's almost weaponized. Wears designer clothes like armor and moves with a predator's liquid grace. When his Hunger rises, his eyes go pure silver and the beauty becomes something sharper, colder, explicitly dangerous. Keeps himself deliberately scruffy sometimes, as if trying to dial it down.
Also known as: Thomas, Raith, Tom