Rapid Roy (Jim Croce)

NAME/ORIGIN
Character name	Rapid Roy
Song/Album	"Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)"/ You Don't Mess Around with Jim
Act	Jim Croce
Writer	Jim Croce
Release Date	1972
ABILITIES
Powers	(no superpowers, but may be a "demon" in human form)
Skills	"He's the best driver in the land" "He'll do 130 miles an hour smiling at the camera with a toothpick in his mouth"
Attributes	Is "so cool"
Vulnerabilities	is "racing fool"
Formidability	"He don't know what fear's about"
Attractiveness	"He's too much to believe"
Source	Is a natural at driving
Goals	Getting paid, getting (ahem)
POSSESSIONS
Weapons	N/A
Amulets	N/A, but wears tattoos
Objects	"an extra pack of cigarettes"
Clothing	"T-shirt" and likely, jeans
Vehicles	"A '57 Chevrolet"
Dwelling	Goes from one stock-car meet to the next
Milieu	Stock-car racetracks
BIOGRAPHY
Gender	Male
Age	Adult
Physique	"He got a tattoo on his arm that says 'Baby,' and another one that just says 'Hey'"
Ethnicity	N/A
Origin	possibly Alabama
Ancestry	N/A
Profession	"A dirt-track demon" (stock-car racer)
Education	"He learned to race a stock car by running [moon]shine out of Alabam[a]"
SES	"The demolition derby and the figure-8 are easy money in the bank"
Relationships	"He got a girl back home, name o' Dixie Dawn, but he got honeys all along the way"
Pets	N/A (his car?)
PERSONALITY
Morality	Is not afraid to break the law in terms of theft if he can get away with it, but is unlikely to be violent, given his laid-back attitude
Intro/extrovert	Extrovert, likes "smiling at the camera" and having his fans "scream"
Intelligence	Just smart enough to not get caught
Emotions	easygoing but ambitious
Sanity	Is fairly unflappable
Enemies	"The man from Oklahoma City with a 500-gallon tank" (either police or a creditor he owes money to)
Narrative Function	Antagonist
Other Notes	Roy's story must take place early in the 20th Century, since his driving skills were honed during Prohibition, which ended in 1933. So he was likely is late teens at that time. NASCAR wasn't formed until 1948, which formalized much of stock-car racing. So it's likely the song is set before that, in the 1930s or '40s. The song is blues, but played in the Chuck Berry style, so that means it could be as late as the 1950s-- when Roy would still only be in his early 30s-- with him choosing to race outside of NASCAR bounds; he doesn't seem much for rule-keeping. Still, Roy is on the right side of the law now. But that doesn't seem to matter to this one Oklahoma City law-enforcement official, still so riled by Roy's flippant attitude and getting-away-with-everything history that he is, like Inspector Javert, determined to prove Roy a criminal and haul him in. But he has to catch him first. (We see this sort of scenario played out in a world Roy would find familiar in the "Dukes of Hazard" TV show and the "Smokey and the Bandit" movies. Also the Moby-Dick story, the "Pink Panther" movies, and Warner Brothers cartoons--Wiley Coyote/Road Runner, Elmer Fudd/Bugs Bunny, Tweety/Sylvester-- and Tom/Jerry: the smirking trickster always slips the grasp of his scowling pursuer.)