i'm sure we could make that work! or something very similar! let me give you want i'm working with right now because my brain can only handle so much. i'm thinking that tobias was the son of a broadway costume designer mother and a theatre reviewer father so he grew up in long island with two brothers and a sister. he's the oldest of all of them. his parents split up when he was sixteen, which rocked his world in a way that he didn't quite expect, he hated his dad for a while because of the split, and his father remarried and he had new step-siblings he didn't want. he'd always been interested in directing because he was used to being the leader and telling others what to do. he went to school for creative writing and fell into filmmaking thanks to the connections that his mother had, when he expressed interest in it. he worked as a pa in several productions, got married, had some kids, everything was fine and dandy but he had a problem with drinking and drugs and everything sort of fell apart. the marriage was done and he tried to maintain as good of a relationship as he could with his kids. he brings a lot of himself into his productions and he's known to be cynical and very real, some might say blunt, but he is also interested in hearing what everyone else has to say. if he doesn't think something will work, he'll tell you, and make no qualms about it. he has a very sarcastic, dry, and morbid sense of humor, he finds death funny because everyone is so fascinated with someone they can't understand, and some people (rightfully) think he's an asshole.