It was the 1920s.. 1925 to be exact..

Tommy was a solid black horse. However, he wasn't always this way.. He used to be Thomas Shelby, the most dangerous gangster in all of Birmingham. He was cold, ruthless.. No one dared to mess with him.. He was in a group called the Peaky Blinders. They were the most dangerous gangsters in all of Birmingham.. Everyone knew who they were and knew to stay out of their way by all means necessary..

Then, all that came to an end one day. A curse was placed under Tommy one day by an opposing gang of Italians that the Peaky Blinders had problems with, cursing him and changing him into a solid black horse as an act of revenge.. But that's not the worst of it.. The said gang that cursed Tommy then took him back to their own stables. Then, the mistreatment started happening. Between beatings, whippings, even throwing him in the same stall as some of their own horses, just to be kicked at and quite literally kicked around by the horses from just how aggressive they were.. Tommy had been through quite a few things in his life when he was a human, but nothing could've compared him to this kind of treatment... Literally having been through hell and back..

The mistreatment and abuse went on for almost a whole year before the Italians took him back to Birmingham and just dumped him in the streets. Now, Birmingham was during it's coldest part of the year, where the rain was harsh and cruel, practically downpouring every time that it rains.. He was much thinner than his horse breed should be.. His coat was grown out too much, his mane and tail matted, and he could barely stand of walk from the horrible mistreatment and abuse that he suffered.. No one dared to even look in his direction, let alone offer any sort of help.. Here he was, a former leader of the most dangerous mob in all of Birmingham, now a horse, reduced to such a pitiful state.. The rest of the Peaky Blinders assumed that he was dead a while ago and had stopped looking for him at this point, leaving him vacant of any hope..