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.
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