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There is a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
-Henry Fielding, 'The History of Tom Jones'



Tom is a 20 year old bastard in the literal sense of the word. Tom hails from England (Somersetshire to be precise) in 1745. He has been recently turned out of his benefactor, Squire Allworthy's, estate for being a nuisance to Mr. Blifil, his benefactor's nephew and behaving most unlike a gentleman on many accounts. Honestly, none of it was his fault! (Even the bit with the new baby bastard.) He just happens to be an amazingly handsome man that women keep throwing themselves at. Tom loves life and it is, for the most part, kind to him in return. He is loyal, trusting, generous, eternally optimistic, brave, loving, and very easily taken advantage of. But it's not his fault!


Thomas Jones as described as his creator, Mr. Henry Fielding, "was in reality one of the handsomest young fellows in the world. His face, besides being the picture of good health, had in it the most apparent marks of sweetness and good-nature. These qualities were, indeed, so characteristical in his countenance, that, while the spirit and sensibility in his eyes, though they might have escaped the notice of the less discerning, so strongly was this good-nature painted in his look that it was remarked by almost every one who saw him.

It was, perhaps, as much owing to this as to a very fine complexion that his face had a delicacy in it almost inexpressible, and which might have given him an air rather too effeminate, had it not been joined to a most masculine person and mien: which latter had as much in them of the Hercules as the former had of Adonis. He was besides active, genteel, gay, and good-humoured; and had a flow of animal spirits which enlivened every every conversation where he was present."

It should also be noted that Tom has a huge amount of deus ex machina working in his favour. He doesn't know why stuff turns out all right. It just does. He's a lucky boy.


This is the journal of the fictional character, Tom Jones, who is to be used for roleplaying purposes. Iconwise he is represented by Albert Finney, who played him in the excellent 1963 movie, and Ewan McGregor who looks an awful lot like a young Albert Finney.

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