Tomsk

Tomsk is a Womble who is an accomplished athlete, explorer and journalist. He born in the Wimbledon Burrow in 1956 and, like all other wombles, started life in the Womblegarten where he was taught by Miss Adelaide. When he was 8 years old in 1964, he left the Womblegarten and became a litter picker alongside Orinoco. In 1968 he was joined by Bungo and Wellington in 1970, the four of them were good friends and worked hard most days. Tomsk in the early 1970s moved to the Hyde Park Burrow alongside the rest of the Wimbledon Wombles, but moved back a few years later. In 1973, he joined Orinoco, Wellington and Bungo in exploring the world and was part of Ballon 2 with Wellington. Tomsk traveled for many places including Tibet, where he met Dalai Gartok, The United States of America, where he met Cousin Yellowstone, New Zealand, where he met Uncle Dunedin, Australia, where he met Great-Great Aunt Matilda Murrumbidgee and Japan, where he met Honourable Cousin Tokyo.

After returning from his trip, he continued to be a working womble tasked with litter picking until 2003 when he turned his hobby of sport and athletics into a career. He became a professional athlete and was especially good at running marathons and golf, which he had enjoyed playing since the early 1960s. He won almost every sporting event he competed in and many animals simply could not believe how fast he was. By 2015 he was able to run across the universe in less then a yoctosecond and was widely thought to be the fastest Earth animal ever.

In 2016 Tomsk became an explorer and stated to explore the universe, on his travels he found many strange places including a planet full of elderly women and another full of elderly men. He continued to explore the universe until eventually he reached the The Hamster Universe, which he broke into using one of Wellington’s inventions. The Ultra Ultra Ultra Time Hamster warned Tomsk not to return on pain of death, however Tomsk did so several times which eventually caused The Ultra Ultra Ultra Time Hamster to kill him, but he was allowed to be resurrected. Though Tomsk to continued to explore through space, he also began to explore through time, using Wellington’s Time Machine. He traveled both to the past and the future many times, many of his travels consisted of him going back in time to a Womble burrow and meeting the wombles who lived there, often those who were still alive, he would then record information regarding the burrow, such as the number of wombles, the leader and other important positions such as head gardener, librarian, head cook, head workshop womble as well as other wombles. He also often met the old wombles in the Old Wombles’ Study and traveled back in time to when the said old wombles where young themselves to study the change of the burrow over time. Some of the burrows he had a particular interest in were the Wimbledon Burrow,the Old Wimbledon Burrow, the Helsinki Burrow, the Catalonia Burrow and the Birmingham Burrow.

Tomsk’s missions often involved finding particularly animals including new species of rabbit or Eternal snails. Between April - May 2018, Tomsk spent several weeks investigating Eternal snails on the direction of Karl Marx, then later PinkDowlg. Though many of the Eternal snails were annoyed by Tomsk’s presence, he gathered crucial information about them and often discovered Eternal snails who were older than the previously oldest known Eternal snails. Tomsk also discovered the Nargactals and moved onto studying them. During his research on the oldest animals, he often interviewed The Ultra Ultra Ultra Time Hamster and His Ineffable Magnificence, which annoyed them to such an extent that Tomsk was killed several times. As knowledge of the oldest animals continued to improve, Tomsk continued to research the very oldest, including the Coelacanths, the Ngonu Ngonu, the Ndugu Ndugu, the Sloworms, the Axolotls and the Cabbages.

In 2018 Tomsk transitioned from an explorer to a sensationalist journalist. He interviewed many creatures including Mrs Ineffable Magnificence, this caused her to abandon Earth and to start Utopia, new planet that was meant to conform to her vision. During his journalistic operations, Tomsk was killed by His Ineffable Magnificence, however this did not discourage him from journalism. After His Ineffable Magnificence was banished to the Isolation Space, Tomsk was to be his only visitor. Tomsk visited most days until he went mad, upon his arrival His Ineffable Magnificence was usually very angry and often told him to “fuck off”, however occasionally he was very friendly and acted pleased to see Tomsk, which confused Tomsk. Tomsk’s news company, called Tomsk News Media also brought down Che Guevara, who resigned as world leader due to Tomsk’s negative articles. Before resigning, Che Guevara appointed Tomsk as world leader, much to Tomsk’s annoyance. Tomsk soon attempted to resign, but was criticised by fellow journalist, Fred the Chicken for not stepping up as world leader. In response to this criticism, Tomsk resigned as world leader and appointed Fred the Chicken as his successor. Fred the Chicken was similarly distressed to become world leader so appointed another journalist, Maude the cat, who had been passing and been intrigued by the disturbance, as his successor. Maude the cat, like her two immediate predecessors did not want to be world leader so appointed Fred the otter, a delivery worker who happened to be passing, as her successor before resigning. Fred the otter also did not want to be world leader so when Charlie the wombat approached him and declared that he did want to be world leader, Fred the otter happily appointed Charlie as his successor and resigned. After Charlie became world leader, Tomsk continued his career in journalism and opened Tomsk’s School of Journalism where he taught animals to become journalists for his newspaper. Tomsk focused much of his attention on Dr Young, which annoyed Dr Young causing him to kill Tomsk and to resurrect Horace and solicit Ann Widdecombe to annoy and chase after Tomsk. Both Horace and Ann Widdecombe were soon killed and Charlie decided Dr Young was too much of a risk and must be killed.

During the earlier part of Charlie’s reign, Tomsk went mad, removed all his clothes and insisted on only saying “hello” with random interjections of songs and some occasional periods of lucidity. Charlie ordered him to be reprimanded in a mental hospital for one month, but did not release him as he did not improve after the allotted amount of time. In January 2020 after Charlie’s resignation and Beryl’s rise to power, Adolf Hitler asked Beryl permission to transfer Tomsk to Germany, after Beryl agreed, Adolf Hitler ordered Dr Josef Mengele to clone one thousand Tomsks to annoy His Ineffable Magnificence who has since been confined to the Isolation Space. Despite His Ineffable Magnificence‘s limited power in stunning Tomsk, he has been very successful in annoying His Ineffable Magnificence. Despite multiple different regimes rising and falling between Beryl’s resignation and Hitler’s rise to power, none of them intervened with the situation. The Tomsks continue to annoy His Ineffable Magnificence. Despite Adolf Hitler’s deposition and the rise and fall of several leaders, the Tomsks situation remains unchanged as of May 2020.