Snowman

Jimmy, also known under the name Snowman, is a survivor of the Waterless Flood. The name "Snowman" is short for "abominable Snowman", a reference to the Yeti, a mythical ape-like creature of the Himalaya. For the online-game Extinctathon, Jimmy temporarily also has the animal code name "Thickney" (bush thick-knee or bush stone-curlew, Burhinus grallarius), which Crake chooses for Jimmy from an Australian bird known for inhabiting cemeteries. Snowman is seen as a prophet by the Crakers.

Character History
Jimmy was born in the compounds. His mother worked with pigoon research for many years before their move to HelthWyzer due to his father's work as a genetic engineer. Jimmy is gifted a pet rakunk named Killer, but Killer is taken and released into the wild after his mother runs away.

At the compound, he meets the science student Glenn and spends his time playing games with him, notably Extinctathon, and watching live executions and pornography. It is there that Jimmy first sees Oryx, as a young girl on the porn website.

Jimmy faces harsh consequences for his mother's disappearance and often gets interrogated. He is disappointed when he ends up going to Martha Graham Academy, a loathed school. He studies humanities, only to learn proper propaganda, and later visits Glenn, who is nicknamed Crake, at his school Watson-Crick Institute. He learns a bit more about the corruption of the corporations there. He also meets Amanda Payne and begins dating her.

He later gets a job writing ad copy. He finds out that Crake is recruiting a group from the Extinctathon game, known as MaddAddam. They are developing pills known as BlyssPluss. At the compound, Jimmy sees the girl from the porn website, grown up and named Oryx. He begins a sexual relationship with her, and promises Crake that he will look after his creations, genetically modified humans known as Crakers.

Jimmy is safe from the Waterless Flood because he is locked in the compound. He confronts Crake, who kills Oryx, and then Jimmy shoots him dead. Afterwards, he waits out the disease and goes to the Crakers. He begins a religion, teaching them that Oryx and Crake are their creators.

When it is safe, he leads them outside and helps them begin a society. He becomes a prophet figure to them, and he renames himself Snowman to spite Crake because the Abominable Snowman never existed.

He eventually goes out to scavenge for supplies and is chased by wolvogs and pigoons. He ends up hearing from a Craker that other humans like him exist, and goes to meet them.