Detective Frank Briggs, who worked on Tooms cases in both 1933 and 1963, said he felt that Tooms is a sort of symbol of all the world's atrocities. Environmental illness, toxins, chemical poisonings and pollution are certainly among the atrocities of the modern world. Eugene Victor Tooms would have been born a while after the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. If his mother had been an overworked, stressed-out factory worker, unprotected from soot, dust and the beginnings of industrial pollution, perhaps his exposure to these elements began at conception, thus causing the genetic mutation. The fact that he needs livers could be because they accumulate the toxins in our bodies and his mutation (which also allows him to hibernate for 30 years) thrives on that. (Boy, he must *love* coming out of hibernation THESE days, with so many poisons floating around!)
When Tooms hungrily sniffs the air, like an animal smelling out its prey, he may be using a heightened sense of smell to smell potential victims' livers in order to pick the "best" ones. Maybe this means the biggest or juiciest (yrg!) or the livers with the most of whatever makes a liver yummy to a hibernating, genetic-mutant serial killer. In light of the above "toxicity theory", I feel he can detect the level of toxins in others and the sniffing is to find the victims with the most toxic livers, like going for the biggest piece of cake, or whatever. Mmm, mmm, good!
In Tooms' court hearing, Dr. Pamela Koretsky said that his "chromosomal analysis and computerized axial tomagraph" were normal. (Duh: 'spose she's related to Dr. Aaron "I-can-rehabilitate-anyone" Monte??) But when Scully had him checked (Tooms, not Monte, although maybe Monte ought to be checked, too...) right after his capture, the results were abnormal. We know he can change his muscles and bones dramatically in a short amount of time, but CHROMOSOMES?? Well, he can change everything else, why not those too? The exact nature of his mutation is as yet unknown. And remember, after he was caught, he had no idea how much trouble he was really in, so he might not have seen a need to mutate his chromosomes to a "normal" state. Once in the institution, he could mutate his chromosomes to appear "normal", when he realized he would need to trick the doctors into letting him out. After all, he's intelligent enough to stay alive and not be caught all of these years. And since he has recently emerged fropm hibernation after 30 years, he might not have been aware at first that such things could even be tested.
Modern science tells us that if a lobe of the liver is removed, it will grow back. Since livers apparently provide regenerative properties, this could explain a few things about Tooms. He appears unusually youthful for someone over 100 years old: the livers' bile/toxins might replenish or rejuvenate his skin cells and body tissues, therefore allowing him to remain young and spry. Liver is also said to fortify brain cells and just may be the reason he is so intelligent . That combined with other mutant properties may be what allows him to stay hidden for so many years.
Nature:Deviant
Demeanor:Jobsworth
Concept:Mutant
Haven:Under a Condemed Building
Age:100+
Physical:Strength 5 Dexterity 4 Stamina 4 (Sure he looks puny
but he can overpowered Mulder, Scully, and several others)
Social:Charisma
3/1 (drops considerably when hungry) Manipulation 3 Appearence 2
Mental:Intelligence 2 Perception 2 Wits 2
Talents: Athletics 3 Brawl 5 Subterfuge 5 (Tooms fooled a lie
detector, his therapist and a jury all in two episodes)
Skills:Animal
Ken 3 Drive 2 Stealth 3 Pick pocket 3
Knowledges:Sewer Lore
3 Medicine 2 Investigation 2
Contortion:(Tooms by dislocating his joints can escape bonds
imprisonment or as he demonstated in the show crawl down chimneys or
venalation systems with ease.)
Stretch:(Tooms may extend his
limbs by as much as 15 feet but loses a point of strength for evey 5 feet
extended.)
Night Vison: (Tooms apparently can see in the
dark though his eyes turn a errie grren when this ocurrs)
Hibernation:(Tooms
if he eats five human livers may hibernate for up to 30 years, in which he
does not age. He may end this at any time but must have a "nest"
to do it)
Backgrounds: Resources 2
Virtues: Concience: 0 (he eats livers for heavens sake) Self control 3 (although obsessive in his hunting hes proven he can hold his urges back)Courage 2
Merits & Flaws: Enemy 2pt flaw (the eldery Police officer), Obsession 2pt flaw (victims),Compulsion 2pt flaw (takes souveneir from all of his victems)
Humanity: 0
Willpower: 6
Quote and stats by TCP@ramlink.net
"I have been a fan of the
X-files a long time and one of my favorite charachters was Victor Eugene
Tooms, the psycotic liver eating mutant, that appeared in X-files episodes
"Squeeze" and "Tooms" here are his stats according to
my view."