Do you have that friend who is ride or die?
Someone willing to fight a demon for you?
This is who Tonya is to Kenny. Having been there for him since High School, I didn't really have a single person to base her off of. She is one a few characters made from the back of my mind. She constantly struggles with her Mexican heritage, coming to terms with her full self by book 3. She was born in Oakland, moved to Florida due to her family being relocated and then moved back to Oakland after graduation. She starts out in a relationship with Phoebe (a character never seen) and ends up a single mother of 1 by the end of book 2.
She one of the many female leads I have in The Collection and is essential to Kenny's powers activating. She brings him happiness and joy that radiates in his golden aura. Shawn and her have a shared history as well, making the two of them very important to Kenny. She is the aunt to Johnson's son, Madison causing them to have a shared past, as well. Her temperament is choleric; being short-tempered, fast, and easily irritable. It was a joy to create her.
Tonya keeps the boys on their toys and having her in the same room as Shawn was an extreme pleasure: (after a point where Shawn has a broken arm and everyone is having dinner)
“A toast!” Tonya beamed raising her glass, “To friendship,
love and each other!”
“How about
toasting to something less cliché? Like the ozone layer or outer space.” Shawn
said.
“A toast then,”
She winked, “To having two functioning arms!”
As the series progresses, I give her more of a fighter role but nothing supernatural. Just wait for book 3 to see what I mean. I never had anyone in mind to play her in my mind's movie version, but if I had to pick I would say Rashida Jones.
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