#oc vesta

[itsmaddienow]

Oh wow I just realized I never posted them, I've had the Vesta vector for like 4 months and Lyra for even longer.

[greatwesternway]

Do Pilot and Pioneer's train cars meddle in their love lives like their fellow engines, or is it not done?

Pioneer's do not. 505 and 570 have known him their entire careers and while his obliviousness to other engines' overtures is frustrating, their sense of coach decorum prevents them from saying anything lest they embarrass him. They figure that if it was going to happen for him, it would have by now and that maybe their engine just isn't interested.

But what do they know? They're articulated so they never really had anyone but each other. They're not the best judge of these things.

Pilot's cars, on the other hand, are a mixed lot. While Pioneer's cars observe a more staid, old-fashioned car etiquette, the Nebraska Zephyr is more outspoken and takes liberties with their duties.

Those at the center of the train do not meddle however. Vesta doesn't because she likes yard drama and it drives everyone else insane that Pilot is uncoupled despite being spoiled for choice. Minerva thinks it is not a car's place to meddle in the affairs of their engine. And Ceres would have to speak up to meddle so that's right out.

Venus and Juno, however, do. They're not overt about it; they know a gentle ride is preferable, but they do nonetheless shunt as much as they can.

Juno is the observation car and so she observes. It seems quite obvious to her that the two Zephyr engines ought be a paired set, particularly once Pioneer starts actually visiting and it'd be more than just letters.

Venus is a little more self-serving in her efforts, if only because she might have thought she and Pilot would have been the It Couple in the museum. Once he cleaned up, that is. That Pilot completely failed to recognize that... well, if she can't have him, someone should. And if it's the Pioneer Zephyr, all the better. (She is the opposite of Mate: If it's Pioneer, then she didn't strike out, she just couldn't compare to the engine in the letters, that's all!)

[this-is-ske]

A wild Vesta appears!

A commission for @thuriweaver of one of her OCs; she was an absolute joy to draw, and I love her so much~

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[greatwesternway]

Lots of traveling for me at the moment. Makes me think of the trains! What was their favorite route to take?

For Pioneer, it's easily Lincoln-Kansas City. It's the route he started on, the route he re-debuted on with his new name, and the route his legacy and the entire Zephyr fleet was built on top of. A humble route for a doughty little train, but the people in those cities loved him so much they had to get bigger and better trains to replace him on it to service the demand.

Pilot's favorite is Denver-Ft. Worth, the Texas Zephyr.

It's a little different for E5's, you see, because E5's never had the presumption of being Zephyrs. Every shovelnose was built with a specific route in mind and, indeed, the first shovelnose trainsets were articulated so it was actually the train that had the Zephyr name and not the route. As the CB&Q abandoned the articulation over time, the route rather than the train carried the Zephyr name, but shovelnoses were still built with their route in mind. A shovelnosed trainset simply would be a Zephyr upon entering service.

But E5's were built to cover the Zephyr routes. They were meant to be substitutes who would work elsewhere unless needed, not unlike the Aeolus. Silver Bullet was given a Zephyr route right out the gate, the Silver Streak Zephyr (taking over Pioneer's Lincoln-Kansas City route since his train took their name with them), but most E5's were given other non-Zephyr routes.

To be sure, getting a named route at all is a mark of distinction to any engine who isn't named on his own. The Fast Mail or the Exposition Flyer is still something special. But E5's were designed to look like shovelnoses and if Silver Bullet was made a Zephyr... well, one can hope they'd get that chance too.

The Texas Zephyr then became the route that made most of the E5's Zephyrs in their own right. Almost all of them saw assignment to it, so Pilot thinks back on it not just as the route that gives him claim to Zephyr lineage, but also as a route he shared with most of his siblings.

That Pioneer also asserted that pulling the Texas Zephyr made Pilot as much as Zephyr as he is helps, though that's a retroactive addition to Pilot's fondness for Denver-Ft. Worth. He also doesn't know that if he'd not pulled the Texas Zephyr first, Pioneer would still have said that pulling the Nebraska Zephyr now makes him a Zephyr engine. That Pilot has the history means Pioneer doesn't have to insist on more tenuous logic since the point of saying so wasn't so much to convince Pilot, but to convince his train. The Goddesses were already dubious on whether the Texas Zephyr counted at all, not being a proper CB&Q route. How would it look for mere cars to argue with the Pioneer Zephyr on the subject though?

[itsmaddienow]

emoji ask game for Vesta - 🩹💯🐶💘

🩹 ADHESIVE BANDAGE — does your oc have any physical and/or mental disabilities?

They are autistic. She is sanitized which is a disability of sorts as they have no sense of taste, a hard time keeping themselves warm, it makes receiving medical attention more difficult and she has difficulty regulating her sleep(they needs less sleep than average and don't really recognize when she needs it).

💯 HUNDRED POINTS SYMBOL — share three random facts about your oc that others may not know.

She bites people that she likes which can be a bit of a problem because of venom.

They have a 3ds gifted to her by Lyra that they use to play pokemon.

She is a blanket octoling

🐶 DOG FACE — does your oc have any pets?

nope, no pets

💘 HEART WITH ARROW — what and/or who do(es) your oc consider the most important to them?

Antares is her younger sister that she left in the domes when they defected and that she forgot.

Lyra the reason they defected and later her girlfriend.

[itsmaddienow]

Supernatural ask meme, 9 and 15 for Vesta

Has your OC ever seen a ghost?

I don't think so.

She was seeing an idealised version of her presanitization self prior to their memories being restored. That version of her is her fear that she wouldn't have made the same decisions if they still had thier memories and that she would regret them in the event they were recovered.

What form does/would your OC’s familiar take?

A noronha wrasse, not any particular personality related reason, I just did some research on cleaner fish and octopuses and that was one of the 2 cleaner fish that are recorded to have cleaned octopuses. I picked the wrasse because they're bigger. I wanted to go with a cleaner fish because I liked the mutually beneficial element to it.

this ask has made me realise how little I know magic and stuff outside of minecraft mods.

[itsmaddienow]

awww I screwed up my doodle of Vesta, I accidentally changed the shade of green I was using for the gradient of her tentacles.

[itsmaddienow]

(Submitted via discord) - I accidentally left this in my drafts for a while.

10 - How is your oc about medical care? Do they avoid any form of healthcare that they can, do they seek it out over every little scrape? Do they treat their injuries/illness all by themselves?

Vesta - Not great, shes usually fine at the doctor's clinic. Shes gets nervous around needles and needs someone to hold her hand during injections and the like. They have a bit of a habit of downplaying the severity of her symptoms and injuries to avoid the hospital because of medical trauma stemming from sanitization and the metro. When in a hospital they tend to be on edge and sceptical of the staff. Lyra caught on to this pretty quickly and is often quite pushy but attempts to be accommodating and attentive. During Lyra's various stays at the hospital she gets quite defensive.

Lyra - She is generally very good with her own medical care. I think her first aid does cause her to not seek out help for things that she arguably should, she would usually push others to go to their local clinic after she treats them for something non-minor. She also keeps stuff on hand to treat Vesta specifically.