T.K. Shioda

T.K. Shioda, born December 22 1974, is the first character introduced in Longest Novel. He is a author and wrote the story about these adventures. Despite not even being born for a large portion of the events covered in the novel, in the 1986 and 1991 and 2018 sub plots he is arguably the main character. He serves as the primary protagonist in the 1986 Adventure story line, the secondary protagonist in the 1991 chapter "Final Mission" and is the central lead in the 2018 timeline which covers the prelude and the first couple of pages every few chapters or so. Despite Kevin being his primary so called enemy in Adventure, they become friends and allies by the end of it and they work together in 1991 and 2018.

T.K. became a famous author starting in 2000 and has several books published, all of them best sellers and only one of them getting even remotely controversial reviews. It was a book published in 2009 explaining how Al Gore deserved to lose and how Nader did not steal the election. The book had a even 50 percent on reviews, with conservatives treating it as the best book in the century to that point and liberals considering it to be the worst book of the century. It is the book he wrote to not score at least 75 percent on reviews.

Having his son Trent at age 41, he is the third oldest major character to have a child. He is a year older than Todd when he had a kid at 40, six years behind his father Kazu when he had T.K. at 47, and twenty two years younger than Kevin when they had their second child (a daughter) at 63.

When it shows him in the 1986 chapters, he is seen as this new forming creative writer as well as a track star and a guy who can't sit still for more than a couple minutes and wanting to see new places for himself. This becomes a very important way to how his character is developed in the later chapters of the 1986 subplot in the book.

He is the first of the 1986 group to meet Kevin and upon first meeting, it seems as if Kevin is a villain but upon further meetings T.K. just realizes that Kevin is brain washed by the true enemy, the man in the purple jacket and that he decided he would help save Kevin from his bindings and mental slavery.