Nice to meet y’all, Scott here.
Figured I’d better update this pinned post as when I wrote the last one I thought this Tracys on social media experiment would last a week at best… and yet here we all are months down the line.
A link to my social media advisor’s recent tags summary post which is a work in progress.
My intro and info below the cut as it somehow got kinda long! Turns out there’s a lot to know about this flyboy.
Who am I?
Big Brother
Pilot
First Responder
Pie Appreciator
Rescue Scout (Falcon class)
Kansas boy
CEO of a reasonably large multinational
Reluctant-Responsible-Adult (some of the time)
Yes, those are in order of importance
Why am I here?
Existentially? Heheh how long have you got?
On the hellsite? Initially just to keep an eye on the li’l bros… then got kinda hooked.
It’s also a real great opportunity to answer some of the questions y’all have. Please don’t be shy. I can’t promise to respond to them all but I’ll try to do a good selection, y’know?
What am I like?
Depends who you ask 😏
Not half as grumpy as some would have you believe. Just got a lot going on in my head and sometimes some parts escape out my mouth before I can stop them.
Apparently I’m a smotherhen and worry too much. Simultaneously I am also an unrepentant adrenaline junkie and don’t worry enough. Let me know if you make sense of that one 🙄
Likes
Flying. Planes. Flying planes. Flying jets. Flying rockets. Flying with a jetpack and/or wingsuit. Flying kites. Generally all forms of flying.
Puppy Piles of Bros
Birds.
Pie (especially apple but all pie is good pie)
Dancing (the hips do not, in fact, lie in this case)
Top Gun (the whole franchise is perfect, fight me)
Dislikes
Rat-faced weasels
Celery (get that muck off my plate and out of my smoothie, Gordon
Space (just… I don’t get it. It’s mostly empty, gravity’s off, if you take your helmet off at the wrong time you’ll lose your eyeballs… yeah… it’s not a big secret I prefer sub-orbital flight)
Water-dwelling toothy creatures (not for my own safety, mind, but I worry a bro is gonna lose a limb or something if I think too hard about what is down there)
Anyone (or anything) who messes with a bro
Badly formatted spreadsheets (Bane. Of. My. Life.)
Being the subject of matchmaking schemes 😒
Badgers (adult. The babies are fine. Long story, don’t ask)
Furbies (recent addition. We have an infestation on the island and we might not all survive it)
I’ll sign off for now because I think my social media advisor has some stuff to add below 😏
Lookin’ forward to hearing from y’all.
✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️ O O C ✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️
Hi all, @idontknowreallywhy here. Sorry it took me so long to replace this after tumblr ate the original pinned post! Some notes and FYIs below 😁
Just to clarify before we get into it - GenAI content is not welcome here. This is my one haven away from all that. Please do not feed anything from here into a GenAI program. I spend ages finding and badly editing photos and things for amusement purposes on this blog because I refuse to feed the environment-destroying, demon theftbots. Thanks for your understanding ☺️
Tags!
Like many of the RP accounts I don’t post to the main thunderbirds are go, thunderbirds or Thunderfam tags as I don’t want to overwhelm them with play pretend ;) Everything Scott posts is tagged as #thunderbirds rp so you can follow or filter that as you prefer.
Primarily this is played as TAG Scott’s social media account - however a little suspension of disbelief is required here as nobody in their right mind would have all the family conversations he does in a public arena - I just make him do it because it’s fun to read 🤭 In character social posts are tagged #thundersocials.
Longer-form narrative roleplays are fun too! Drop me a message if you have an idea. I’ll tag those #thunderscenes.
Scott’ll tag #scott answers for ask responses, #flyboy thoughts for original posts, #big brothering for replies to other RP blogs and #TB1 community engagement for replies to real people blogs (he won’t do that often, please say if you don’t want him pitching in I won’t be offended!)
Occasionally it’s fun to play with what the family relationship between such strong characters trapped together on an island would be. So sometimes they fall out 😬🥴🫣 But I get that’s not what everyone who follows RP blogs wants to read so such posts are tagged #thunderfamilyangst - please do feel free to filter :) I try to tag other possible triggers if they come up - please please let me know if I miss something and I will add it - am very keen everyone is able to curate their tumblr life so they are comfortable.
Scott has a wonderfully busy inbox and I’m so grateful and awed by how interesting / thoughtful and beautifully written some of the asks are. Please don’t be offended if I don’t reply to them all - sometimes the inspiration just doesn’t come when I want it to.
I try to keep him as canon-compliant as I can subject to a few broad headcanons / fanon background I will play him in light of such as:
Tracy Industries - Scott got dumped with the CEO job when Jeff went poof and despite initial wobbles hasn’t done at all badly and it’s grown significantly. While he is fairly good at it and his employees generally like him (although he wrestles with the older board members who wish he was Jeff) he doesn’t really enjoy it that much and would rather be out Doing Things. Posts relating to Scott’s work for Tracy Industries etc are tagged #ceo life so you can filter those if that doesn’t fit your headcanon for him.
Timeline & Age Range Mom had been gone for approx 8 years prior to Zero XL. Scott was 16, Alan was 1. Scott right now is somewhere in the first half of his 30s, maybe edging towards mid (If this timeline offends you don’t worry I’m not gonna make a huge deal of it is just where I’m pitching them but please don’t get in my asks with why I’m wrong, honestly I don’t care, this is how I see and am playing him). Post Zero-X, Scott was legal guardian for both the younger ones.
Jeff is both back and not back, depending on the post 🤭 Some of the earlier ones I was playing without him but I think mostly he’s back now as the majority of the RP characters are playing in a post s3 world. He’s not in the best of health but he’s ok and Scott’s working out how to build a new relationship with him.
Bereznik I do have him with a military background and yes he spent some time incarcerated but he doesn’t talk about it. Any asks on that topic will get a fairly short shrift answer. It just informs some of his opinions on things (including himself) later in life (and maybe comes up a fair bit in the narrative role plays where we do see inside his head more).
Lovelife There are some superb pairings for Scott in the fandom including some really fabulous OCs but given there is no definitive canon indication (unlike Pen&Ink) I’ve decided I’m going to keep the boy in single stasis because it would feel wrong to pick one and it be the wrong person for at least half the people reading. I don’t want Scott to appear to confirm one theory over another. So to keep it simple I will play him as he’s single but deep down wishes he wasn’t - still waiting for his Kansas dream lady and a villa full of flybabies.
Finally - and this is just because mun is a bird of minimal brain and is easily confused (I’m not very good at holding lots of versions together simultaneously) - this version of Scott won’t engage in AU stuff very often - if an OC is canon compliant (i.e. they could exist off-screen and it would make sense if you squint for them not to be in the show) or we’re talking the rest of the Anderverse existing alongside I can just about manage. Re: multiple versions of canon characters Scott will just assume he’s seeing double, will style it out and treat them as the same person!
Anyone else is more than welcome to make their own more multiverse-capable version of our Scooter if they like!
Last note - 99% of the time people are kind and although some asks are hostile I know it’s all in good fun and some will get answered. The ones that border on bullying other characters will just not get engaged with.
Still feel very new to all this business and just winging it so please have patience if I get it wrong!
