Tom Sato

Tom, a character from the It Lives In The Woods book, is a student and a basketball player at Westchester High. He is first seen in Chapter 4. He is then seen as a character in Chapter 1 of It Lives Beneath.

Appearance
Tom has neck-length black hair, brown eyes, and fair skin. He wears a pair of glasses and a cream hoodie over a plaid button-up shirt.

His Westchester Wolves basketball jersey (navy blue and white with black outlines) has the number 17 on the front. He wears a pair of sports glasses when playing basketball.

When possessed by Mr. Red, his skin color becomes gray and his eyes are yellow surrounded by black vein-like markings.

In It Lives Beneath, he wears a grey hoodie over a red t-shirt. He also appears to be wearing a smaller pair of glasses and has a man-bun.

Personality
Like Andy, Tom is frustrated at the basketball team’s exclusion of minorities like them. In contrast to Andy, who just joined the team and has a seemingly naive view of it, Tom has been on the team since junior high and has endured discrimination from them, which contributed to his pessimism. Nevertheless, he still has high hopes that Andy will contribute his best to the team.

He is also shown to be a friendly person, even to students he doesn't know that well. He continues to be a friendly person in It Lives Beneath.

Andy
Tom and Andy have been friends since they were toddlers. It started when their respective parents were friends in college and often met together as a result. Their friendship has continued to high school, where they are excluded from various exercises during basketball practice because they are the only Asians on the team.

A year after the events of Chapter 15, he is still a member of the basketball team and Andy's best friend. It is revealed that Andy and the rest of the protagonists trusted Tom enough to tell him the truth behind Redfield and the supernatural events in Westchester, though he remains skeptic.