okokok so I’m reading more of your fic bc I just remembered about it and I love a lot of the little details! CB’s internal monologue is amazing and the most in-character that I’ve seen, I like the implications of CB being Pennsy and Antenna being Penn-Central, CB’s radio basically being a ham setup, the thought out mechanics of everything, the scene with CB talking with a trucker, and (idk if this is intentional) how CB having multiple shirts from different rail companies kinda mirrors the stickers he has in his official design, aka his “hunting trophies”.
Like this is genuinely motivating me to write more of my own StEx fic
Also if I could leave more than one kudos I would
(also also this isn’t like to correct you about anything, but a cool thing about a lot of cabooses, especially the old wooden ones, is that they actually have stoves inside! Of the rolling stock that we have at the heritage railroad I work at, our cabooses are actually the warmest in the winter! Granted, that’s probably because they’re their own ecosystem and we don’t run steam.)
I have VERY specific thoughts about this character so people actually thinking it fits makes me so happy dnsnnxkskdns 😭💞💞💞💞‼️‼️
Him and Antenna are an interesting duo imo. They look very, VERY similar, and ironically have very similar opinions about the whole class system. It's just that Antenna is much more openly unhappy, and Control clearly has a favorite (the one that smiles more! Guess who that is, lol), so he is also somewhat jealous of CB. They could probably bond over their generak cynicism, but Antenna can sense that something is *off* about CB, he just doesn’t know *what*; so he assumes it's CB pretending to be overly nice.
Funfact; I am hard of hearing, much of the noises and radio details in the fic are based on hearing aid experience. 😅 I also researched most of the radio things for my debut movie lmao, and that info had to go somewhere I guess.
And yes !!!!! The shirts are intentional, I'm so glad someone finally noticed 💞😭 My goal is to go through every company he is implied to have been with and off-handedly mention that he owns a shirt from them lol.
Yeah I know about the stoves!! Considering they doubled as the crew cars, that makes total sense, but I fully decided to sacrifice that fact for symbolism NFNDNDN (Especially with my ongoing motif of CB seeking proximity to warmth; Dinah, and engines that run much hotter), so I strayed from realism because it fit his character better.