Jimmy Tock

**James Henry Tock** (known as simply Jimmy) is the main protagonist of the 2021 Prehistoric Pictures animated feature, *Life Expectancy*.

## Physical Appearance

Jimmy Tock is a young adult with fair skin, black hair, and green eyes. He also has square glasses and wears a white shirt with a green jacket and a watch on his left hand, as well as blue pants and black and white sneakers.

## Appearances

### Life Expectancy

On August 9, 1974, at 10:46 PM, Natalie Vivacemente, after her raping by her father Virgilio Vivacemente, has died giving birth to twins in the Snow County Hospital in Snow Village, Colorado. Before being required to take care of those newborns, Nurse Charlene Coleman had to place a stillborn, brought into the world by Madelaine Tock, in a bassinet so she wouldn't have to see her dead child. Afterward, Coleman took the bigger twin while fellow Nurse Lois Hanson held the smaller twin. The physician, Dr. Ferris MacDonald, went to the expectant father's lounge to console circus clown Konrad Beezo for the loss of his wife and Rudy Tock for the loss of his child. However, Beezo did not take so kindly to MacDonald and killed him via gunshot. The two nurses, having heard Beezo's profanity and gunshot, separated, with Hanson being shot down by Beezo while still holding the smaller twin, while Coleman and the rest of the hospital staff hid from the mad clown until he left. Afterward, Coleman knew that she was the only living staff member of the Snow County Hospital who knows that Rudy and Maddy's child was born dead and Natalie gave birth to twins, so she took the bigger twin to Rudy and Maddy, who named him James Henry Tock. However, he was also born with the infliction of syndactyly, which fused two toes on his left foot, and three on his right. This reflects one of ten predictions given by his paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, who died the very minute he was born.

Since then, James has spent the next twenty years living with Rudy and Madelaine Tock, and Madelaine's mother Rowena (d. December 23, 2002) would tell fairy tales to her grandson that would frighten him into good behavior, as implied when James and his future wife were talking about how many children they're thinking of having.

Despite typically introducing himself as James, everyone calls him Jimmy, which reflects one of Josef's ten predictions. Three other predictions given by Josef pinpoint his height, weight, and minute of birth. The results shown on the birth certificate accurately reflect this. Josef's remaining five predictions are "five terrible days" for Jimmy to endure. His first day, September 15, 1994, is the day he meets his future wife, Lorrie Lynn Hicks. The two were held hostage by a man with a set objective of revenge against Snow Village for the death of his mother twenty years before. From the encounter, Jimmy learns that their captor is Punchinello Beezo, born to Natalie Beezo, though the two were yet to be aware of their fraternal relationship. After their escape from Punchinello, Jimmy and Lorrie got married in January 1995.

Lorrie gave birth to Annie Tock on January 19, 1998, but not before encountering Konrad Beezo, who wanted a Tock child to raise to make a clown as compensation for the arrest of Punchinello. Jimmy knocked Beezo unconscious and helped Lorrie to the hospital, but open his return, he finds that his house had been burned down by Beezo, who left a threatening note indicating that he would return for their son if ever they have one.

After that day, Jimmy and Lorrie received more children; Lucy Jean Tock on March 21, 1999, and Andrew Tock on July 14, 2000. On December 22, 2002, however, Konrad enters the Tock household, though in disguise as an FBI Officer at first, to steal Andrew from them. In the end, however, Lorrie was wounded in her abdomen, and Beezo is killed by Jimmy as he attempts to ascend the stairs to snatch Andrew. The next day, Lorrie makes recoveries from the hospital, but has lost her spleen and one of her kidneys.

On November 26, 2003, Jimmy and Lorrie visited Punchinello at the Rocky Mountain Federal Penitentiary, where it is revealed to Punchinello that he and Jimmy were twin brothers born to Natalie Beezo, but the reason for the visit was because Annie was diagnosed with nephroblastoma, which resulted in the removal of her kidneys as well as chemotherapy, relieving her of cancer. But as a result, she has been on hemodialysis, four-hour sessions three times a week, leaving her at risk of anaphylactic shock. Lorrie only has one kidney from Beezo's attack, Jimmy has hemangiomas of both kidneys, and Lucy and Andrew are too young to donate. Punchinello initially refuses the offer to donate one of his kidneys due to his bitterness of having lost his testicles to Jimmy Tock nine years prior, but reconsiders, understanding that his benefits, which are petty in comparison, would only be fulfilled if he donated. As one final offer, Punchinello requests that Jimmy kill their true maternal grandfather, Virgilio Vivacemente. Annie's life was saved the following day.

On April 16, 2005, Jimmy and Lorrie are invited to the Vivacemente circus at the Halloway Farm after being given a gift box with approximately USD$50,000 in cash. Virgilio has given this cash hoping to receive their only son Andrew in return. Jimmy and Lorrie refuse the offer, even after Virgilio's death threats and the new knowledge that Virgilio raped his daughter Natalie, thus allowing the birth of Jimmy and Punchinello. Jimmy was shot in the chest, but Lorrie killed Virgilio shooting him in the head. Jimmy then stands revealing a Kevlar underneath his clothes, and the two leave the Vivacemente circus.

About two years after these events, Lorrie gives birth to one more child, named Rowena. Jimmy is told of an elderly woman named Edna Carter who gave predictions about their daughter, except instead of "five terrible days", Carter predicted "five glorious days". Jimmy gives his first wish to his newborn third daughter, "Prepare to be enchanted".

## Trivia

* He is the first Plotagon protagonist to originate from a novel.
* He is also the first Plotagon protagonist to wear glasses.