Tori Williams

Tori Williams, formerly Tori Tillman, came to Gunsmoke County with her parents, Clyde and Bertrice Tillman, and her twin brother Rory Tillman. She was only 5 years old when she first came to Gunsmoke County and moved into Serenity Flats which her father, Clyde Tillman, was the mayor of. She now resides on a homestead with her husband, Max Williams, on a cliffside overlooking the Green River.

She has been active in the county since season 4 and is played by Ossiekins.

Season 4 - Serenity Flats, "Abandonment" and the Zoo
Tori arrived in county with her parents, brother, aunt and uncle. They all started off living in Serenity Flats with some of the other citizens. When first entering the county Tori and Rory were both ranchers and bred dogs and desert rats together. Their parents took them on many adventures in between building up the town. They visited the town of Fox Pass often and Tori quickly became very comfortable there. She was introduced to many of her father's friends and their children. Many of them she was instructed to refer to them as aunt/uncle and cousins respectively. She became fast friends with Coltroy Swan-Blackwood and was told to refer to him as her cousin, he was the son of Billy Swan-Blackwood and Lilly Swan-Blackwood. She adored spending time with them and also her cousin Emma Willliams.

She was also taken to visit Keystone where she met Lucas and Lincoln Wayne and became good friends with them as well. She was also introduced to Standing Water and his family that lived nearby and his son Red Horse, who Tori also became close friends with. She eventually also met Josie Whitefox who became one of her best friends and who eventually moved into Fox Pass and was adopted by a man named Ed.

First Week - Serenity Flats
Even though their parents were building the town they made time take the kids out for adventures and taught them about the dangers of the county. They learned how to make, wield and repair a bow and arrow. The twins also took some interest in carpentry from their father and he was always eager to teach the kids how to work the materials. One of the first things Tori learned to craft was railings and the first project the twins ever did together was make their own barn. They called it the rainbow barn and they put it right across from their aunt Ava and uncle John's barn.

They even built a loft in the top of the barn where they and their parents lived for awhile.

Turkey Incident
On one of their trips around Fox Pass and learning about the dangers of the mountains the family saw a purple turkey and their mother got really excited about it. Tori and Rory decided to attempt to befriend the creature that seemed to be bringing so much joy to their mother. Their father kicked it with his horse and the twins started shoving food in its face attempting to get it to sleepily accept their gifts. Eventually they were successful and their mother insisted they bring it back to town as quickly as possible to show everyone.

A few days later there was an accident and the turkey went missing. In Bert's distress she instructed everyone to go with her on a hunt for her turkey and even went to the extent of accusing others of killing her beloved pet. Tori was terrified of her mother in that moment, she had never seen her so upset about anything before. Unable to console her distraught mother, Tori waited until everyone had gone to sleep and went on a mission to find a new turkey, she adventured all the way back to where they had found the first one and eventually found a new one. Getting the turkey to fall asleep on her own was difficult, but she managed and even managed to bring back two purple turkeys home. Upon returning to town she put the turkey in her parents room and when her parents woke up she started to tell them that she just found them in town, but they had told her not to lie and she confessed that she had adventured to befriend the turkeys to please her mother. Her parents were so distracted by how thoughtful she had been they ignored the fact that she had adventured so far away on her own.

Donkey Pony
On her first trip to the bank with her father they ran into Clyde's friend Marcelus Magnus. He was riding on a solid grey horse that reminded Tori of the donkeys her parents had been promising to teach them to ride. She became uncontrollably excited about the horse that her father decided to trade horses with his friend in order to please her. Tori was so happy and Clyde even told her she could have the horse once she learned to ride, which just made her more excited and eager to learn. The twins did soon start their first riding lesson in a course that their parents made and eventually she was able to handle the reins of "Donkey Pony" who she kept her entire time in county.

Hawk
Before Tori and Rory were born their parents adopted a kid named Hawk, but from their understanding the relationship was rocky, but Hawk insisted the twins still refer to him as their brother and their parents never said anything against, so he was always "Big Brother Hawk" to the kids. Tori didn't know Hawk that well, but she did go on at least one adventure with him and Eira to look for dogs and to also visit Sundance. Tori's parents told her to not worry if anyone in Sundance ever said anything bad about her father, but that never did happen, but it always confused her why anyone could ever say anything bad about him when he had so many friends and was so kind to so many people. Even though they didn't have very many outings together he did visit Serenity Flats pretty often to check in and see how the kids were doing.

Whenever the kids asked about what happened to "big brother Hawk" they were told by their "aunt" Lily Swan that he had gone on a trip and being young and naïve they believed her. It wasn't until 15 years later that their "cousin" Eira told them what happened to Hawk.

Clyde Gets Shot
After much complaining from her mother, Bert, Clyde finally decided it was time to build them a proper house and stop living in the barn. He promised the small family by the end of the night they would have a house. Tori was very invested in the construction of their home and was keeping a close eye on her father. While he was building a woman showed up and Clyde tried to start some small talk with her, but she quickly drew a weapon and Tori quickly hid behind a wall and ran into her brother and did her best to whisper he stay back. Clyde tried to talk his way out of the situation, but the woman insisted she was after a body count and was going to start with him. Gun fire rang through the bare bones of the house. Tori peeked around the corner to see the woman standing over the limp body of her father, gun still in hand, and watched her put more bullets into his body. She started to run away, with one goal in mind, to get help. She ran into her brother and she told him that their father had been shot. Rory pulled out a bow and started to run towards the house and she called for him to stop, but he was gone. Uncertain and terrified she just ran to Keystone, the closest town she could think of, upon arrival she struggled to find anyone, but eventually found Blaire and her husband Dent. She stayed with Blaire in her house for awhile just panicked and worried about her brother and father. Eventually she was brought to see Elenore, Lucas and Lincoln's mother, who distracted her with baby animals.

Eventually Rory and their father was found. It was uncertain what was going to happen to their dad, but she was relieved to see her brother was okay and asked where he had gone and he said he had gone looking for her and that Dent had found him. Eventually they were told that their father had been shot by a woman named Ruby while their brother Hawk was visiting them. Hawk told them not to worry and then he left, that was the last the twins saw of him.

Their mother was incredibly distraught when she woke up to find out what happened and the family ended up staying in a guest house in Keystone for a few days while Clyde recovered. Tori spent a lot of time with the twin boys that lived in Keystone that helped distract her from her injured father. Once he started becoming more mobile they started to realize that he was struggling to remember things. Bert and the kids took him to various places to try and trigger his memory. While visiting the pond where Clyde had proposed to Bert he fell unconscious barely missing the water. Bert became very distressed and had come to a decision. She brought everyone back to Serenity Flats and started talking with her sister, Ava, the next morning.

Clyde and Bert Leave County
Bert and Clyde made the difficult decision that they would be leaving county and requested that the town keep an eye on them. They said that Emily Murphy was to be their guardian and Emily did her best to take care of the kids, but was very busy being a Justice of the Peace and taking care of a child named Celeste. Ava and John also did their best to care for the kids, but Tori and Rory became a little reclusive for awhile and refused to leave their barn. They even turned the top part into a more grand apartment/house and stated that was where they had last all been as a family, so that was where they wanted to stay.

Without Parents
Their aunt and uncle, Ava and John, took on pretty much the sole role of caring for the twins. Uncle John even took them out to hunt for dogs, rats and goats. Rory started to take less interest in breeding his rats, but Tori kept breeding them with help of Celeste and the two of them started to become decent friends.

As time went on Tori started to spend less time with Rory, he just seemed very disinterested in her and what she was doing and started hanging out more with the other kids in county and going on adventures with them. She spent a lot of time around Keystone and Fox Pass.

Dom, Scarlet, Evelyn and Vick
Some teenagers started hanging around aunt Ava and uncle John's barn that the twins started to become more familiar with. Dom was also breeding dogs, so he and Tori started working together and eventually had some very strong and rainbow colored dogs. Scarlet kept feeding them snake stew and was just rather strange, but they liked hanging out with the siblings. Eventually Evelyn showed up and started making better food, which seemed to make Scarlet a little jealous and she decided to pursue an education in doctoring after the death of their cousin, Vick. Who ended up getting shot because he tried to stab Emily and Sam at the post office in Serenity Flats and had done so in front of Tori. It was very traumatic and Dom, Scarlet and Evelyn had concluded that it was Emily's fault he died due to not giving him sufficient medical care.

Dom and Evelyn became very close with Ava and she even treated them like they were her own children alongside Emma.

Aunt Ava and Uncle John
Tori ended up spending a lot of time in Ava and John's barn watching aunt Ava breed her horses. Tori for a long time just had "Donkey Pony" and was reluctant to trade him in for a different horse, but her aunt expressed concern if she ever got in trouble since he wasn't the best horse and Tori did admit that he wasn't very good at keeping up with her friends on adventures. Reluctantly she agreed to let aunt Ava breed him for a better horse and she ended up with a "blurple" horse that she named "Sugar Plum" that was the offspring of "Donkey Pony". They ended up bringing both horses back along with some of aunt Ava's horses to show her parents back home.

Tori did start sharing some of the conversations she had with her uncle Jon and some of the citizens in Fox Pass were concerned no matter how much Tori insisted it was just "uncle John things" and wasn't anything to be concerned about. She struggled to comprehend why so many seemed bothered by the jokes the two of them shared and why they weren't more appreciative of the fact that he was taking the time to teach her how to read and also helped her breed better dogs.

The Animal Zoo
When the zoo came to county it was very exciting and aunt Ava took all the kids with her to see the animals. It was one of the best days that Tori can remember. Ava bought them all masks and lights and they got pet wolves and monkeys. They also got to listen to some adult men scream in fear at spiders and kangaroos. Eventually the animals escaped from the zoo and Ava and Tori gathered everyone up and brought them to the train.