Jade Basholock

When there’s an issue or question that not even “a trained professional” like Tom can answer or figure out, the go-to (not to mention very free) person is a young fellow named Jade Basholock (it’s her father’s European name).

After a few years in college (filled with countless hours of side-jobs trying to pay her student loans), she finally earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree. This gave her the freedom to operate a local animal clinic downtown, which was great to help the plenty of animal folks in the area. The downside is that she ends up getting repeat visits from a curious Tom Jenkins (you do gotta love just how many times he’s mentioned in these wiki pages).

Now when dealing with people like you know who and her friends, Betty and Lotta, she’s always the rational and relaxed part of their pie-chart. She’s always there to lead a hand, while giving her more… cynical remarks in a situation. And considering how screwy the world is, there’s tons of snarky material for her to use. Most of her friends don’t usually care, especially Tom, but Betty and Lotta do make it known when it’s expressed at a time when it becomes mockery.

To some, this comes across as an unlikely group who’ll cause nothing but fights… which is half true (they do argue about certain things), but to others, there’s never a thing like too many friends.

                                               Lotta Morgan

Some prefer to live in the suburbs. Some prefer to spend a relaxing week or two at the tropical beach. Others may enjoy a busy yet most famous location filled with flashy aluminum advertisement billboards and spotlights. But there are some who like to refill their lives in rural areas. May it be someplace small like a farm or an entire hub-world like the open country (or if you REALLY want to play hardball, The wild west). And in that group, comes a literal country girl by the name of Lotta Morgan.

If Betty loves the seven seas, Lotta completely handles the out west. In those locations, she plays as the sheriff of the town, who’s always on the lookout for thieves and bandits who terrorize the innocent. That’s when she hops in action, highlighting her two biggest skills for the job: a master's degree in Horseback riding and professional Gun-slinging. She can handle any pistol and leave all the reminding bullets stuck on the bullseye. Despite the easy-triggering hands, she’s as gentle as a soft blanket when it comes to animals, and that counts her trusty steed (depending on if there’s one around), so she never has an issue crossing the tightest corners and cliffs. 

When she returns back to her pad, she lives a little far from the main trio in Bucks County, Pa. There, she runs a farm, where she’s the local market’s highest and cheapest product supplier. Rather that be with a lively set of fruits, vegetables, and wheat from her gardens and patches or the crates full of fresh meat products, rather it be beef, pork, chicken (Tom and Tom Jr. gave her permission since they sometimes eat it for specific proteins), and fish (The main trio usually helps her out with that). Because of this, she has a strong and shockingly positive reputation with the other creatures when it comes to her farming practices, since she only hands out meat from those who'll be near past their prime. (to them, it’s like being an organ donor). The only ones who disagree are toxic vegan “animal protecting” protesters, and mean predators (like foxes, bears, skunks, rabid raccoons and possums, and wolves). To them, she’s public enemy #1 since she’s “boarding up their livestock”.

It’s a hard job, something most people wouldn’t try controlling, but Lotta understands her job and she always tries her best at it (just as long as her Marge Simpson-ish hair doesn't get her stuck in trees or become sold land for the local birds).

                                         Betty Jenkins

When it comes to the dating game, The mere idea of finding a solid match for someone like Tom Jenkins is more fiction than the concept of fairy tales. Especially if said match would not only stick up to Tom but also protect him and face danger right at its face. The good news is that there’s an actual woman on Earth that checks off all of those boxes and even moreso. The only one. The bad news is that the winner is an even more unhinged over-energized version of Tom, with the added bonus of having insanely great strength and containing her personal buccaneer skin wherever she goes. The person is nobody else but Betty Jenkins.

Betty’s just as strange as one might expect for someone who adores a nut like Tom. Being an orphan for nearly all her life, with every active parent claiming her as the “Problem Child” of the set, Betty had to figure out life on her own. Understanding both how to handle both the good and bad of reality, but how to overcome danger that stands in her way. But because Betty was an oddball compared to the rest of the kids in her area, she was the main target of being bullied, with most people, especially men, seeing Betty as an overweight psycho (Her weight is actually nothing but a heavy excess of baby fat). Everyone pushed her aside… except Tom, who loved the idea of a human being comfortable around him all the time. This made Betty’s heart play music as she had always viewed Tom as both her closest friend, but as her romantic partner.

Now, Betty isn't just some bland love interest for Tom. Just like Tom, Betty has a hunger for adventure, but even with even more peril and action to it (Not Batman kinds of action of course). She adores teasing and messing with her enemies by either pretending to be terrified or in need of mercy, or by playing up her more “attractive” side and putting her foes in a daze… right before striking. The most notable kind of adventure for Betty is her strong passion for Pirates (or anything in the ocean). Starting at a very young age, she always thought of pirates as her getaway from being bullied and teased. Nothing makes her more thrilled than sailing across the many seas in her many buccaneer outfits, sword-fighting and blowing up enemy ships, and (if she was in the role of captain), ordering punishments and executions to those who cross her. Even when she’s on dry land, she ends up casually having pirate slang in her daily speech, with the Cornish dialect being included. 

When she isn't busy in peril and adventure, she’s usually the go-to babysitter of Loman and Dillas, a pair of mischievous siblings who live far down in town. She really only does it for the pay, but it IS good practice for her when being a mother figure to Tom Jr. (being his future sister-in-law, of course).

For most people, Betty’s just as, if not, more pixelated than her partner in crime. But to Betty, her only goal out of it is to get the most out of her life… that is, if she doesn't end up in prison…

again.

                                       Tom Jr. Jenkins

If there’s one thing Tom Jr. never expected when he was born, of all the many things there is in life, it’s that he ended up being the younger brother for the psychotic Tom C. Jenkins. And no matter how he feels about it, he’s stuck with it… and he rather have it no other way. 

Being the youngest of the two, Tom Jr. Jenkins was indeed quite the difference. For one, he was a lot more relaxed and more rational during perilous situations (usually Being the effect of Tom being the cause). He’s level-headed and usually knows when there’s actual danger ahead of them and would always try to steer Tom and his future sister-in-law, Betty, away from it. The problem is that it never works. This could be the effect of the way Jr. explains his issues with their hyper-fixation on excitement, which could best be described as a bit cynical and slightly harsh. But that’s the best reaction you could get out of someone who’s around 15-16 (depends on who’s writing him). 

Another thing is how Jr’s legs are particularly presented as. And by that, I mean, he doesn't have any. It’s never known why he has this kind of disorder, what the disorder’s name even is or if it’s temporary or permanent. The main point is that Jr. really doesn’t mind it at the end of the day, considering he already knows how to walk properly despite the lack of thighs. The cool thing about it (at least in his eyes) is that he has a lot more advantages compared to Tom. He can hover longer by rapidly spinning his feet around like a fan and is alot faster than tom, causing some annoyance in his older sibling. 

With all the chaos going on in his life, how he even gets time to go to school is a question not even the best professors can figure out. He usually hangs out with his neighbor, Bill, who lives across the street from the jenkins’. Now, if you thought that Jr was safe from the insanity outside the school brick walls, you’re heavily mistaked. All of the kids in his grade and even lower and above are just as nuts; always getting Jr in one predicament to the next. Filled with fights, teasing, zip-tied locker doors with all the pliers hidden away, sensitive boyfriends, etc. etc. 

And despite all of that, once the day is done, he happily enjoys a pleasant relaxing session in his room; a heavily loud, rapid-fire insulting, 20 frames per second game session with bill calling on the other end… which could last a lovely 4-5 hours. Right in the middle of the night when Tom and Betty are trying to get their beauty sleep. 

He may be different, but he’s just like the rest of the family… just not AS wild.

  

                                           Tom C. Jenkins

To say that Tom C. Jenkins is… unique is the understatement of the century. He’s as abnormal as you can get, and yet you'll never hear the end of it if he catches you being harmful to those who are innocent. He’s as unusual as you can get but he knows what’s right and what’s wrong, regardless of if it’s safe or dangerous. He knows he can do things like digest glass after finishing a bottle of cold “Joky-Cola” soda or happily enjoy the scent of raw gasoline from the nearest Sunoco, while knowing full well that pretty much everyone around him can’t. And though it gifts him with the largest amounts of weird looks, disgust sounds and multiple questions, he never gets upset nor feels ostracized from society. He does his own thing and continues on. That’s the kind of person Tom is.

Tom’s a 23-24-year-old (depending on who’s writing him), but most interestingly, he’s a Roadrunner creature. Specifically, a hybrid of a human and a lesser roadrunner. A creature that was once created many many years ago during the earth’s prehistoric stage of life. His whole kind is like that, but he’s one of few around, even more so in his current livelihood of Norristown, PA. As to why he’s that off, nobody knows. The one clue is that he doesn't have a brain like everyone else, even his kind. His head is filled with multiple raw screws, nuts and bolts, connected together. A heavily bad shakeup might give him a new personality, so he tries to keep his head steady, though he can’t even keep his long messy tailfeather away from getting stuck into doors.

Besides his mom, who currently lives in his birthplace of New Mexico, the only family member he has around is his younger brother, Tom Jr. The two are an unlikely pair, as one is more sensible and reasonable while the other is… Tom. Though, in the middle of their sibling squabbles and arguments is a side where Tom would drag Jr. off somewhere with him and Jr. mainly goes along with it, mainly because wherever Tom goes, there’s bound to be something interesting happening (80% of the time being caused by Tom).

On the flipside is Tom’s girlfriend (or best friend or future wife, all depending on what Tom feels comfortable saying in public, but is still his “soulmate”), Betty. Tom and Betty connect like a complete 2-piece baby puzzle as they both are complete nutcases, but the kind of insanity they have are different. While Tom likes to go around and get himself un-purposely into trouble, Betty loves the idea of tagging along with Tom and getting into all sorts of chaos and action, especially if anyone tries to harm him. To Tom, Betty is both his beautiful closest friend and romance partner, but also his bodyguard. Always making sure that everyone knows not to mess with Tom, as he’s everything to her. 

He does have other friends of course (Lotta and Jade, the latter depending again on the writer), and people he can’t stand (His distant cousin “Awesome” Tom, who you can easily refer to as “Pervert Tom”), but no matter where he goes, he always ends up finding out why the phase “Mind your own business” is a saying that’s still around to this day.

Welcome to the hall of the Nettlesome inhabitants (or as most people would call it, "The House of Mirrors". Beyond here is a long strip chalk full of weirdos and unique beings that you don't have to worry about. They're only a bother to me. It's pretty much a full babysitting job for me at this point...