Tom Drinkwater is a mentioned character in The Walking Dead: Descent. He is the wealthy stepbrother of Everett Caul, Edith Caul, Joe Caul, and Mike Caul, and the father of Deek Drinkwater and Derek Drinkwater.
Pre-Apocalypse[]
Macon, Georgia[]
Tom came from a family who were old money from Macon. His father remarried to a woman named Pearl.
Warner Robins, Georgia[]
As an adult, he became a commodities trader involved in overseas oil trading and was rolling in it. He had twin sons, Deek and Derek, and owned & lived in an enormous antebellum Tudor mansion in Warner Robins. The mansion was a chockablock monstrosity brimming with nooks and crannies and innumerable little side rooms, dumbwaiters, pantries, and water closets in which a disgruntled child could hide for days with a sack lunch and some board games.
One Sunday afternoon in 1983, his stepbrother Everett and his daughter Lilly visited him and his sister-in-law Janice. While Everett's daughter, Lilly, plays hide-and-seek with his kids, they sequestered in the breakfast nook, working their way through a pitcher of gin rickeys.
Post-Apocalypse[]
It's unknown what happened to Tom after the outbreak.