Toby Albertsson

"His lazy grin appeared. “I’m not sure I could dislike you more. Go to hell, Melinda.” He reached for a blaster on the ground. I shot him between the eyes."Tobias "Toby" G. Albertsson is one of the Fire Lake sophomores. He is described as being short, pale, and pudgy with a knobbly bald head. True to his crude, snide and threatening demeanor, he is violent, temperamental, and cunning. He often seizes opportunities for personal gain that others don't consider and wants nothing more than to be a virtual reality god.

Early Life
Toby was born on April 5th, 2002, making him one of the youngest sophomores in the Fire Lake class. He was friends with Ethan Fletcher's crowd and played basketball with them. He also had an uncle named Danny who lived in the liberty camp and often passed on classified information while under the influence of alcohol. Toby knew about the operation to blow the Plank before it happened.

In the Program
Toby immediately joins up with Ethan's group as a member of security, actively finding glee in the violence it entails. Under Ethan's influence, he helps with snatch-and-bag crews, goes out on murder missions, burns Starlight's Edge to the ground, and helps guard the jail. Ethan once tells Min Wilder about his "branding technique." He also shoots Devin Carver with a sniper rifle out of boredom. Toby becomes more and more erratic as the Program continues, eliminating people just because he can, determined to be a god. By the end of Genesis, he declares his fellow survivors sheep, screaming about how they can't kill him because he's a god. They shoot him over and over until he is finally eliminated.

Chrysalis
Min and Sarah Harden decide to resurrect Toby with the rest of the class, but he doesn't stay in Home Town for long before taking a group of people and disappearing. They all assume he is dead until he secretly meets with Sarah to ask her how many people are living in the silo. He also has a spy living in Home Town, Kyle Homling.

Toby figures out that where they are living is secretly a space station biodome and teams up with Nemesis 3 to help round up the class in exchange for the promise that they'll let him go back to the Program. He does this by blowing up the silo and accidentally killing five people. When Sarah floods the silo and Min is escaping, she attempts to rescue him but eventually has to leave him behind, thinking that he drowned.

Near the very end of Chrysalis, Toby reveals that he survived the silo flood and that he wants Min to reconsider her deal with Sophia. When she refuses and escapes repurposement, he attacks her for leading to the death of his friends and she shoots him between the eyes, killing him for good.