Tobias Christopher, also known as T.C. and the Speedster, is a U.S. metahuman (superspeed) and a founding member of Vanguard (2001- ).
He was born in 1983 and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. His father was a police officer. He had been born a metahuman and had always been able to do things faster than anyone else.
In 1988, when he was five years old, Christopher's mother left his family. In 1995, when Christopher was twelve years old, his father apparently died. Young Christopher ran away and lived on the streets for two years, surviving by using his superspeed to steal food and clothes. He was caught in 1997, when he was fourteen, and spent the next four years in a juvenile detention center.
In 2001, on his eighteenth birthday, Christopher was released from juvenile detention and took a job at a diner. There, he met a young woman named Rebecca, and they soon became lovers.
Christopher's constant companion is a cat named Li'l Jo.