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Colonel Walter // Steam Powered Giraffe
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SPG Headcanon Spine and Pappy.
Colonel Walter had social anxiety ,and a stutter.also insomnia he had a bad case of insomnia. The spine would spend long late nights in one of colonel walters lab to find his father working.When his father would try to get sleep the spine would lead his father to the sofa to relax.The spine would make some tea ,and give it to his father in hopes of helping him.When that failed the spine would wrap a warm blanket around his father.
Imagine a very exhausted Colonel Walter wrapped up a blanket.The spine cradle’s his sleeping father his metallic fingers entangling in his father’s blue hair then falls asleep himself.
Walter's Moving Manor
basically I created a crossover of Howl' s Moving Castle and Steam Powered Giraffe.
The Howl' s Moving Castle picture is from alegria on zerochan
Walter's Moving Manor by me (frost-steam)
Headcanon!
We all know how Rabbit finds fishing boring, right?
Well not so much.
In fact, fishing was Colonel Walter's favourite way to relax. Whenever the robots were misbehaving or his inventions weren't turning out quite how he had imagined them or perhaps Thaddeus was getting on his nerves, Colonel Walter would go down to the lake on the Walter Manor property and fish for a few hours. Rabbit eventually got curious as to where Pappy would disappear to and why he came back slightly damp and, according to Iris, smelling of fish(The Colonel wasn't the best fisherman. For every fish he would catch, five would get away).
Colonel Walter noticed Rabbit's curiosity and made a new boat, one that would hold Rabbit's weight without sinking and would never capsize. It was a stark contrast to the old rowboat he would take out, which he could never quite find his balance on. He took Rabbit down to the lake and taught him to fish. The robotic apple didn't fall far from the tree, Rabbit had no great skill as a fisherman either. But despite this, every time Colonel Walter would go down to the lake, Rabbit would be trailing behind him, quiet in a way he never was while with his fellow robots.
By the time the war came around, Colonel Walter was getting on in years. His hands were steady as ever while tinkering with the bots, but not so much around a fishing pole. Still they would take their occasional fishing trips when life as the great Colonel Peter Walter I became too much.
Rabbit made him promise that the first thing they would do once he got back from the war would be to go fishing.
They never made that trip.
So Rabbit no longer fishes. He finds that he can no longer be on a boat without being reminded of the hours they used to spend on Pappy's boat, sometimes talking, sometimes not, but not minding the fact that they never caught a fish.
Pappy.
A little cross-fandom pondering.
Many of you know I am deeply devoted to Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds.
And I was thinking. The SPG bots were built in 1896, but were retired from war service a year later in favour of the Steam Man Band. Now, according to the opening to War of the Worlds, the Martian invasion happened in 'the last years of the 19th century' (I'm going by the soundtrack rather than the book). Now, the year's never officially stated, but I'm thinking.
If I was Colonel Walter, and I had a band of spectacularly well-armed blue-matter fighting machines, and there were Martian fighting machines descending by the hundred from the sky that were roughly the size of a copper African Elephant, I'd see that as a good reason to put them to use.
If they can be killed by the cannons of a warship (or hell even the common cold), chances are they can be killed with a blue matter cannon, blue matter ray projector arrays, or a particle accelerator lens device.
BUT THAT'S JUST ME.
Maybe they were out of service at this point. Any other opinions? :D
Pappy's Grave by *rileylaroux
Question for the SPG Hour.
I emailed it to them but I want to share it and see what you all think ~
Who would you cast in a big-budget SPG movie as Delilah, Colonel Walter, and Becile?
Personally, Robert Downey Jnr* or a young Richard Burton as Colonel Walter, Liam Neeson as Becile, Anne Hathaway as Delilah :D
*Ragnymphm suggests with early Iron Man sketches in his lab.
GENIUS.