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*SUPER SPECIAL FEATURE: AN INTERVIEW WITH WONDER WOMAN'S PARTNER, THOMAS TRESSER!*

Me - "And what about your status as, forgive me for the term I'm using, 'sidekick' to your... girlfriend? Wife?"

Th. - "Diana and I prefer 'fiancée', at least when we're not on Paradise Island."

Me - "Ok, fiancée. What's the best thing about being partners with a modern legend the likes of Wonder Woman while she's fighting all sorts of evil around the world in her Amazonian attire?"

Th. - "Hum... Let me think... *snort* The healthcare plan, I'd say."

Me - "I beg your pardon?"

Th. - "Well, it's not an actual healthcare plan, but I probably wouldn't be here doing this interview if it weren't for the Amazon healers who patch me up every time we get into some big trouble. And it's quite a privilege having them always available."

Me - "So are you telling me that being Wonder Woman's partner while she's doing her superhero things is a very dangerous job?"

Th. - "I admit that I haven't followed every single time she's worn the tiara and the battle gear, but I can't remember any single occasion when I actually was at her side where I left the battlefield uninjured. Over the years, I've been stabbed 107 times, 14 of which I was pierced from side to side. I was run over by a freight train, two 18-wheelers, an armored car, a charter plane and had a helicopter landing right on my chest. I was electrocuted 21 times, and believe me, getting two million Volts right between your shoulder blades is not a pleasant experience even when you're as tough as I am. I fell from heights up to 2,000 feet. I was the guest of four different torture chambers which were invariably managed by people who were simply delighted by the fact that their new toy was considerably harder to break than usual. I went through a dissection process and I saw each one of my internal organs coming out of my body. I was shot against solid objects at high speeds more time than I was willing to count. I was thrown into magma and molten metal, frozen into a solid block of ice and buried under tons of concrete... And still, I shouldn't even complain too much about all of those misadventures because Diana was more often than not at the receiving end of even worse treatments."

Me - "*whistles* I almost feel compelled to ask which of these painful experiences was the worst, but I shudder at the thought of a benchmark for this kind of pain."
Th. - "Well, there was that time right after Diana had defeated that complete nutcase of Eirene in battle. She was pretty much on the brink of death and I was feeling only a little better. Eris, who had quite an intense feud with Diana at the time, materialized on the battlefield to collect Eirene and bring her to Olympus for her trial. The only problem is that she also wanted to take my fiancée prisoner so that she could 'teach her a lesson'. Since there was no way I could have been anything more than a nuisance to her even at full strength, let alone after one of the worst beatings of my life, I offered myself in her place, hoping against hope that she would accept. And what did she do? She literally separated Diana from the damage she had sustained during the fight with the rogue goddess. She turned that pain into a ball of energy and then told me to absorb all of it. To this day, I have no idea how I managed to get out of that ordeal still alive."

Me - "Unbelievable... This... this... sounds awfully familiar!"

Th. - "Yeah, you're not the first one who noticed the similarities with a scene from a Japanese comic book. ONE PIECE-- was that its name?"

Me - "Too many similarities to be a mere coincidence, in fact. That's crazy: Eris, the mythological Goddess of Strife, a fan of shounen manga."

Th. - "Greek gods, pal. You wouldn't believe how human they can be at times."

And now, some additional data about this lucky (?) bastard:

Thomas Tresser

Age: 27

Job: Field agent at the Department of Meta-human Affairs (USA); according to his fiancée, «the best sidekick a superheroine could ask for».

Birthplace: Peoria (IL)

Place of residence: Alternates between Bethesda (MD) and Charlestown, Boston (MA)

Height: 6' 5''

Weight: 284 lbs.

Voice: Baritono leggero

Eye color: Nordic

Measurement: 11 and 2/5 in.

Shoe size: 15 US male

Sexuality: Exclusively heterosexual behavior;
submissive partner

Marital status: Married to Diana, daughter of Hippolyta, with Amazon ritual; officially engaged to Diana Kapatelis outside of Themyscira

Relatives: Jerry and Caroline Tresser (parents, estranged); Katherine, Tyler, Carmen, Matthew (siblings); Julia Kapatelis (mother-in-law); Hippolyta Kapatelis (mother-in-law); Vanessa Kapatelis (sister-in-law); Dionysus Padavona (brother-in-law)

Religion: Agnostic; he has partaken in both Orthodox Christian and Olympian Pagan rituals

Range of strength: ~220 tons (2nd Ring of Amazonian training, imparted by Grand Logothete Philippa herself)

Hardness: VHN100 = 14,000 (same as above)

God guide(s): Athena (official); Eris (actual)

Strengths: Superhuman tolerance to pain, exceeding even his acquired durability;
Top-notch acting and voice modulation skills;
Very apt at earning other people's trust and respect.

Weaknesses: His extreme submissiveness as a sexual partner can sometimes influence his everyday attitude and interactions;
Subpar technological skills (at least considering his line of work);
Almost unable of being afraid of pain and injury, leaving him frequently and sometimes unnecessarily exposed to deadly risk.

Likes: Johann Strauss II's music;
Working out;
George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire;
Southern Italian cuisine;
Jogging in the morning.

Dislikes: Ikea furniture;
HBO's Game of Thrones;
Waiting rooms;
Tele-evangelicals.

Curiosity: He's the only DEO employee, besides , who knows that the director of the Department is actually Athena, Olympian Goddess of Justice, Knowledge, etc. But while she had explicitly revealed herself to his fiancée and colleague Diana, Thomas learned about her secret by being in the wrong place at the right time. Luckily for him, she stopped doing things like blinding people who see her bathing millennia ago. On the other hand, Thomas was unambiguously informed that he had officially become Athena's favorite anti-stress ball. And a federal position of responsibility can make even a goddess immensely stressed.

Confidential info: He's the only non-divine creature who has ever completed the Tongue Trial, where the contender has to worship in succession the lower extremities of the four Olympian goddesses Artemis, Demeter, Athena and Hera (in this order), without ending up crazy or dead. The Trial might sound like no big deal, especially for a man like Thomas and his insatiable foot lust, but the process of worshipping a goddess's feet not only causes in the worshipper experiences like ecstatic visions, fragmentation of their consciousness and a perceived sensation of climax that can be billions of times more powerful than a normal human orgasm, but an effect of time dilation too, which means that in the worshipper's mind each adoration lasts respectively 1,000, 10,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000 years.

Me - "I don't get it. Because of Eris, you quaffed enough damage to kill an army and its reserve and even so you prefer getting advice from her rather than Athena?"

Th. - "Well, do you remember how I was saying that once a helicopter landed right on my chest?"

Me - "Yeah?"

Th. - "My dear boss was at the control stick of that helicopter."

Chris Pine was really good in the Wonder Woman movie. Unfortunately, that also means that he was a pretty poor cinematographic version of comic book Steve Trevor, a character I could never stand as a romantic interest for Diana, in any version he was proposed. So, here's my take on one of Diana's kinda-sorta boyfriends from the past, salvaged from the scrap heap where he was relegated after they parted ways! It doesn't matter how much you love submitting to a strong, beautiful woman: Thomas will always love it more than you do!

***UPDATE: I was never satisfied with my original Thomas Tresser drawing so I remade it from scratch.***

Description

*SUPER SPECIAL FEATURE: AN INTERVIEW WITH WONDER WOMAN'S PARTNER, THOMAS TRESSER!*

Me - "And what about your status as, forgive me for the term I'm using, 'sidekick' to your... girlfriend? Wife?"

Th. - "Diana and I prefer 'fiancée', at least when we're not on Paradise Island."

Me - "Ok, fiancée. What's the best thing about being partners with a modern legend the likes of Wonder Woman while she's fighting all sorts of evil around the world in her Amazonian attire?"

Th. - "Hum... Let me think... *snort* The healthcare plan, I'd say."

Me - "I beg your pardon?"

Th. - "Well, it's not an actual healthcare plan, but I probably wouldn't be here doing this interview if it weren't for the Amazon healers who patch me up every time we get into some big trouble. And it's quite a privilege having them always available."

Me - "So are you telling me that being Wonder Woman's partner while she's doing her superhero things is a very dangerous job?"

Th. - "I admit that I haven't followed every single time she's worn the tiara and the battle gear, but I can't remember any single occasion when I actually was at her side where I left the battlefield uninjured. Over the years, I've been stabbed 107 times, 14 of which I was pierced from side to side. I was run over by a freight train, two 18-wheelers, an armored car, a charter plane and had a helicopter landing right on my chest. I was electrocuted 21 times, and believe me, getting two million Volts right between your shoulder blades is not a pleasant experience even when you're as tough as I am. I fell from heights up to 2,000 feet. I was the guest of four different torture chambers which were invariably managed by people who were simply delighted by the fact that their new toy was considerably harder to break than usual. I went through a dissection process and I saw each one of my internal organs coming out of my body. I was shot against solid objects at high speeds more time than I was willing to count. I was thrown into magma and molten metal, frozen into a solid block of ice and buried under tons of concrete... And still, I shouldn't even complain too much about all of those misadventures because Diana was more often than not at the receiving end of even worse treatments."

Me - "*whistles* I almost feel compelled to ask which of these painful experiences was the worst, but I shudder at the thought of a benchmark for this kind of pain."
Th. - "Well, there was that time right after Diana had defeated that complete nutcase of Eirene in battle. She was pretty much on the brink of death and I was feeling only a little better. Eris, who had quite an intense feud with Diana at the time, materialized on the battlefield to collect Eirene and bring her to Olympus for her trial. The only problem is that she also wanted to take my fiancée prisoner so that she could 'teach her a lesson'. Since there was no way I could have been anything more than a nuisance to her even at full strength, let alone after one of the worst beatings of my life, I offered myself in her place, hoping against hope that she would accept. And what did she do? She literally separated Diana from the damage she had sustained during the fight with the rogue goddess. She turned that pain into a ball of energy and then told me to absorb all of it. To this day, I have no idea how I managed to get out of that ordeal still alive."

Me - "Unbelievable... This... this... sounds awfully familiar!"

Th. - "Yeah, you're not the first one who noticed the similarities with a scene from a Japanese comic book. ONE PIECE-- was that its name?"

Me - "Too many similarities to be a mere coincidence, in fact. That's crazy: Eris, the mythological Goddess of Strife, a fan of shounen manga."

Th. - "Greek gods, pal. You wouldn't believe how human they can be at times."

And now, some additional data about this lucky (?) bastard:

Thomas Tresser

Age: 27

Job: Field agent at the Department of Meta-human Affairs (USA); according to his fiancée, «the best sidekick a superheroine could ask for».

Birthplace: Peoria (IL)

Place of residence: Alternates between Bethesda (MD) and Charlestown, Boston (MA)

Height: 6' 5''

Weight: 284 lbs.

Voice: Baritono leggero

Eye color: Nordic

Measurement: 11 and 2/5 in.

Shoe size: 15 US male

Sexuality: Exclusively heterosexual behavior;
submissive partner

Marital status: Married to Diana, daughter of Hippolyta, with Amazon ritual; officially engaged to Diana Kapatelis outside of Themyscira

Relatives: Jerry and Caroline Tresser (parents, estranged); Katherine, Tyler, Carmen, Matthew (siblings); Julia Kapatelis (mother-in-law); Hippolyta Kapatelis (mother-in-law); Vanessa Kapatelis (sister-in-law); Dionysus Padavona (brother-in-law)

Religion: Agnostic; he has partaken in both Orthodox Christian and Olympian Pagan rituals

Range of strength: ~220 tons (2nd Ring of Amazonian training, imparted by Grand Logothete Philippa herself)

Hardness: VHN100 = 14,000 (same as above)

God guide(s): Athena (official); Eris (actual)

Strengths: Superhuman tolerance to pain, exceeding even his acquired durability;
Top-notch acting and voice modulation skills;
Very apt at earning other people's trust and respect.

Weaknesses: His extreme submissiveness as a sexual partner can sometimes influence his everyday attitude and interactions;
Subpar technological skills (at least considering his line of work);
Almost unable of being afraid of pain and injury, leaving him frequently and sometimes unnecessarily exposed to deadly risk.

Likes: Johann Strauss II's music;
Working out;
George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire;
Southern Italian cuisine;
Jogging in the morning.

Dislikes: Ikea furniture;
HBO's Game of Thrones;
Waiting rooms;
Tele-evangelicals.

Curiosity: He's the only DEO employee, besides , who knows that the director of the Department is actually Athena, Olympian Goddess of Justice, Knowledge, etc. But while she had explicitly revealed herself to his fiancée and colleague Diana, Thomas learned about her secret by being in the wrong place at the right time. Luckily for him, she stopped doing things like blinding people who see her bathing millennia ago. On the other hand, Thomas was unambiguously informed that he had officially become Athena's favorite anti-stress ball. And a federal position of responsibility can make even a goddess immensely stressed.

Confidential info: He's the only non-divine creature who has ever completed the Tongue Trial, where the contender has to worship in succession the lower extremities of the four Olympian goddesses Artemis, Demeter, Athena and Hera (in this order), without ending up crazy or dead. The Trial might sound like no big deal, especially for a man like Thomas and his insatiable foot lust, but the process of worshipping a goddess's feet not only causes in the worshipper experiences like ecstatic visions, fragmentation of their consciousness and a perceived sensation of climax that can be billions of times more powerful than a normal human orgasm, but an effect of time dilation too, which means that in the worshipper's mind each adoration lasts respectively 1,000, 10,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000 years.

Me - "I don't get it. Because of Eris, you quaffed enough damage to kill an army and its reserve and even so you prefer getting advice from her rather than Athena?"

Th. - "Well, do you remember how I was saying that once a helicopter landed right on my chest?"

Me - "Yeah?"

Th. - "My dear boss was at the control stick of that helicopter."

Chris Pine was really good in the Wonder Woman movie. Unfortunately, that also means that he was a pretty poor cinematographic version of comic book Steve Trevor, a character I could never stand as a romantic interest for Diana, in any version he was proposed. So, here's my take on one of Diana's kinda-sorta boyfriends from the past, salvaged from the scrap heap where he was relegated after they parted ways! It doesn't matter how much you love submitting to a strong, beautiful woman: Thomas will always love it more than you do!

***UPDATE: I was never satisfied with my original Thomas Tresser drawing so I remade it from scratch.***