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Tom Wilcox is a gray border collie with red hair featuring blue highlights, created by Tony Bark. He is known for his passion for skateboarding, photography, and art design, particularly for skateboards. He also possesses some computing experience in programming.

Tom’s appearance is characterized by a beanie worn consistently, a well-worn vest paired with a denim skirt that often rides up to reveal his crotch. Despite having a male build and psychology, Tom was born with female genitals and is capable of giving birth. He carries a backpack stocked with extra skateboard wheels, a camera, a single-board microcomputer, and a smartphone.

His communication style frequently incorporates skateboarding slang gleaned from the community, interwoven with occasional tech jargon. Tom can always be found sketching or collecting unusual objects that pique his interest, such as skateboard wheels or broken electronics. He actively engages on the Bark Pack social network, a federated microblog platform designed for skaters and photographers alike.

While Tom exudes confidence and passion for his pursuits, he can also be overconfident and reckless, occasionally slipping into tunnel vision when engrossed in a particular project or idea. He views himself as a maverick, a creator and master of his domain, driven by the desire to be recognized and leave his mark while primarily expressing himself through his art and actions.

Background

Tom Wilcox’s origins trace back to a brief period when he served as Bark’s fursona in late 2015, featuring a university storyline. As Bark’s fursona, Tom inherited the brown hair characteristic of his predecessors, Zack and Aidan, and adopted a letterman jacket inspired by the Sims’ university expansion.

Following a conflict with an open-source project and a newfound interest in fennecs, Bark retired Tom as a fursona. However, he later revived him in the early 2020s, coinciding with the rise of furry-based diffusion models. Hesitant about fully returning to Tom, Bark initially created generic prototypes and concepts for a gray-furred collie based on his wizard adventures in AI Dungeon, incorporating elements like a tunic with cuffs and a necklace.

Bark intended for Tom to have ginger hair, but mistakenly used the phrase “red hair,” leading to an unexpected literal interpretation by the AI. Despite this initial error, Bark found himself drawn to the result and incorporated it into the redesign as a tribute to Red Heads and Tomboys.

The surname “Wilcox” and his later photography hobby were inspired by a friend met on Second Life in 2009. Skateboarding was added during the 2020s redesign after one of Bark’s Swedish friends took up the sport, triggering nostalgic memories of Bark’s real-life friends who shared that passion in the early 2000s. Lastly, the denim skirt is a personal homage to a similar skirt Bark owned, purchased with assistance from his cousin in 2009.

While Bark typically favors smaller creatures like fennecs and mice, border collies held a special place for him due to their endearing floppy ears. Although Tom is no longer Bark’s fursona, his redesigned persona was crafted with intentionality and detail, aiming to be adaptable for storytelling or interactive media.

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-'''Tom Wilcox''' is a gray border collie created by Tony Bark. They have brown hair and red hair with blue highlights. They are a skateboarder who loves to photograph and design art for skateboards and has some computing experience in programming. Tom wears a beanie, a worn-out vest and a denim skirt that rides up to reveal their crotch. They wear a backpack that carries extra skate wheels, a camera, a microcomputer, and a smartphone. While they have a male build and psychology, they were born with female genitals and are capable of giving birth.
+'''Tom Wilcox''' is a gray border collie with red hair featuring blue highlights, created by Tony Bark. He is known for his passion for skateboarding, photography, and art design, particularly for skateboards. He also possesses some computing experience in programming.
-They frequently talk about skateboarding, often using slang picked up from the community in the middle of conversations alongside occasional tech jargon. They can always be found sketching or collecting unusual objects that pique their interests, such as skateboard wheels or broken electronics. However, they can be overconfident and reckless, sometimes slipping into tunnel vision when focused on a certain project or idea. Tom sees themselves as a maverick, creator and master of their domain wanting to be recognized and leave their mark but most of all, express themselves.
+Tom’s appearance is characterized by a beanie worn consistently, a well-worn vest paired with a denim skirt that often rides up to reveal his crotch. Despite having a male build and psychology, Tom was born with female genitals and is capable of giving birth. He carries a backpack stocked with extra skateboard wheels, a camera, a single-board microcomputer, and a smartphone.
+His communication style frequently incorporates skateboarding slang gleaned from the community, interwoven with occasional tech jargon. Tom can always be found sketching or collecting unusual objects that pique his interest, such as skateboard wheels or broken electronics. He actively engages on the Bark Pack social network, a federated microblog platform designed for skaters and photographers alike.
+While Tom exudes confidence and passion for his pursuits, he can also be overconfident and reckless, occasionally slipping into tunnel vision when engrossed in a particular project or idea. He views himself as a maverick, a creator and master of his domain, driven by the desire to be recognized and leave his mark while primarily expressing himself through his art and actions.
 == Background ==
+Tom Wilcox’s origins trace back to a brief period when he served as Bark’s fursona in late 2015, featuring a university storyline. As Bark’s fursona, Tom inherited the brown hair characteristic of his predecessors, [[Zack Casey|Zack]] and [[Aidan Cheddar|Aidan]], and adopted a letterman jacket inspired by the Sims’ university expansion.
+Following a conflict with an open-source project and a newfound interest in fennecs, Bark retired Tom as a fursona. However, he later revived him in the early 2020s, coinciding with the rise of furry-based diffusion models. Hesitant about fully returning to Tom, Bark initially created generic prototypes and concepts for a gray-furred collie based on his wizard adventures in AI Dungeon, incorporating elements like a tunic with cuffs and a necklace.
-Tom Wilcox dates back to a brief period when the collie was Bark’s fursona that had a university storyline. Being his fursona, Tom had the same brown hair adopted from his predecessors, Zack and Aidan, though they wore a letterman jacket after falling in love with Sims’ university expansion and desire to go to college.
+Bark intended for Tom to have ginger hair, but mistakenly used the phrase “red hair,” leading to an unexpected literal interpretation by the AI. Despite this initial error, Bark found himself drawn to the result and incorporated it into the redesign as a tribute to Red Heads and Tomboys.
-After a fallout with an open source project and a sudden interest in fennecs, Bark retired and abandoned Tom as a fursona and after the fennec picked up the collie’s backstory, however, Bark wanted to bring him back and finally did in the early 2020s, following the rise of furry-based diffusion models. Early prototypes of a basic gray-furred collie were based on his wizard adventures in AI Dungeon, featuring a tunic with cuffs and a necklace.
+The surname “Wilcox” and his later photography hobby were inspired by a friend met on Second Life in 2009. Skateboarding was added during the 2020s redesign after one of Bark’s Swedish friends took up the sport, triggering nostalgic memories of Bark’s real-life friends who shared that passion in the early 2000s. Lastly, the denim skirt is a personal homage to a similar skirt Bark owned, purchased with assistance from his cousin in 2009.
-Bark wanted to experiment with different hair colors, and they were supposed to have ginger hair, but he used the phrase “red hair,” momentarily forgetting that AI tends to interrupt things literally without context. Despite this genuine mistake, Bark liked the result, and it influenced his redesign to pay homage to Red Heads and Tomboys.
+While Bark typically favors smaller creatures like fennecs and mice, border collies held a special place for him due to their endearing floppy ears. Although Tom is no longer Bark’s fursona, his redesigned persona was crafted with intentionality and detail, aiming to be adaptable for storytelling or interactive media.