David Walkerton

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David "Walky" Walkerton

First Appearance: Roomies! May 9, 1999

YOB: 1980

Height: 5'6''

Weight: 150 lbs

Relatives: Sal Walters (twin sister), Linda Walkerton (mother), Charles Walkerton (father), Beef Walkerton (adopted brother)

Squadron(s): Squadron 128 (Cmdr), SEMME backroom staff

Abductee powers: Strength, durability, immunity to mindwipes.

David Walkerton can't escape responsibility. After a traumatic childhood incident, he's been ducking it at every possible turn. According to all outward appearances, "Walky" is a terminally goofy, scatterbrained nobody with the attention span, eager playfulness, and loyalty of a scrappy little puppy.

But despite his best attempts, responsibility keeps finding him. Before long, he found himself recruited by SEMME and charged with saving the world from alien menaces big and small. He'd once been told that he's "destined for greatness blah blah blah," but after twenty years of playing the fool, he doubts there's much else left to him. And besides, he doesn't wanna.

Nachitos comprise 80% of his diet.

History

Walky grew up in southern Indiana with his family, consisting of his two parents and his twin brother Beef. For the entirety of his childhood, he owned and carried around a stuffed monkey toy he liked to call Mr. Monkey. Walky was a smart yet irreverent child until the age of ten, when, during playtime with his best childhood friend Jennifer "Billie" Billingsworth, he was subjected to what should have been a routine abduction by the Aliens. Instead, he and another abductee, Joyce Brown, broke loose. Joyce was eventually caught, but when they threatened her with harm, Walky was too frightened to reveal his location -- until, after real harm had occurred, he snapped, and violently attacked his captors. After he was returned, he was never quite the same, and forcibly regressed into a goofy facade. For years, he rejected "Walky" as his nickname, linking it to the traumatic event he half-remembered.

Walky and Billie drifted away socially. After high school, Walky and Beef joined SEMME. Beef was assigned to Squadron 128, and Walky was assigned to Professor Doc as his go-fer and lab assistant. During his career as Professor Doc's personal servant, Squad 128 brought in a young comatose college student named Joyce. After helping Professor Doc to wake her up from her state, he inadvertently assisted in letting the Head Alien help her wipe her mind.

It wasn't until Walky was revealed as an alien abductee early on January 1, 2000, that Walky was assigned to Squadron 128 in Beef's absence. Shortly into Walky's placement, the Head Alien orchestrated a worldwide Nachitos shortage to get his attention. [1] After a few futile attempts at bootlegging the cheese-flavored nacho chips [2], Walky learned the source of the shortage[3], stole a SEMMEcraft, and rampaged his way through the Alien headquarters. After finally being neutralized by the Head Alien's experiment, the Giant Mutant Frosted Honey Bun, the Head Alien made an offer he hoped Walky could not refuse. The Head Alien claimed to be his creator, demanded Walky's loyalty, and, as Sal arrived to "rescue" Walky, revealed a startling truth. Beef was not Walkerton's true twin sibling, but rather Beef and Sal were switched at birth. [4] The exact details of the switch are yet to be confirmed.

After Anti-Joyce trashed Joyce's mind, Walkerton stumbled into dating Dina Sarazu, originally to spite Joyce, but began to choose Dina over Joyce. At the time, Walkerton had found a stable comfort with Dina that he didn't believe he could get with Joyce's psychosis.

However, an incident deep in the Bermuda Triangle has been a silent turning point for Walky. While masquerading as his sister to throw the Head Alien off-kilter, the Head Alien offered "her" the chance to resurrect Sal's parents in echange for goods and services. When the beans were spilled, the Head Alien made Walky remember something he really didn't want to -- and subsequently, he smooshed the Head Alien with the pods containing Sal's parents. Tragically, he also smooshed Big Boss. It's a secret that only he and Dina knew until she shouted it out during an attack on SEMME HQ. Tony was present and went mad with rage. However, he was mindwiped instantly afterwards and had no memory of the event. Since then Walky decided that keeping it a secret was a bad idea, and told both Joyce and Tony the truth about what happened.

It was the knowledge of this event plus the continued efforts by Walky to hide his angst behind a wall of goofiness that ultimately drove Dina away from him. Shortly after the break-up, he finally found solace with Joyce, and was given the rank of Squad 128's new commander after Jason escaped, handling the job with great reluctance and little finesse.

Then a bunch of other stuff happened and he died and came back as the Cheese. And then he came back as Walky again, courtesy of an improvised Martian Resurrection Chamber. With SEMME effectively dismantled, he was free to live some semblance of a normal life with Joyce. (At least, as normal as it gets for Walky)

Trivia

• Walky apparently doesn't hold his liquor so well. (This is also true of Sal.) - And he's a mean drunk.
• Walky is a physical mirror image of his former self, due to a side-effect of the ressurection process. He is now left-handed, and his internal organs have also switched sides.
• David Willis recently entered Walkertron into the TransFanon Wiki. He is based on both Walky and the giant robot jet that Joe built for Walky before the Martian Invasion.
• Walky kept himself goofy and dumb so he wouldn't have to do work.