Jan 20
They're trains! And they're playing poker!
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They're trains! And they're playing poker!
Family of Honour
Me again. If the asks are still open, I would love to hear more about what's going down between James and Spencer.
The Splendid Silver Cycle, as I call it, explains it pretty well. It repeats every few months
I haven't drawn in months
have three human trains i drew today
This one didn't take me that long for a big engine sketch. Spencer steaming in a station on a very drab British day.
''They built me to be the future. I was supposed to be their 'Glory'. But they looked at my hydraulic strength, at my raw, undeniable superiority, and they felt fear. They hid me away in the dark because my progress was too brutal, too real for their fragile nostalgia. And I began to hate. (Haha, HAHA) Your polished brass, your whimsical whistles, your billowing white steam, and your pampered, fragile boilers. Your ability to be forgiven for your failures... Your tendency to be adored...''
Alright, it’s about time to shed a little more light on the concept of the lore of this AU.
And it's also focused on Ten's backstory, his descent into madness, and how his views on the steam engine situation became so radicalized after getting transferred to Sodor.
About the human villains:
As mentioned before, seventeen-year-old Merritt Cross, partnered with Diesel 10, has become an absolute headache for the Isle of Sodor. The kid's life completely shattered when his father, a track worker, was crushed under the wheels of a steam engine (Murdoch) due to a dispatcher's fatal mistake. The railway management covered up the evidence, leaving Merritt's mother to work herself to the bone to pay off lawyers until she ultimately died of exhaustion. Dodging social services, the teenager fled to the Smelters Yard, surviving among the scrap metal. There, he managed to fix the jammed hydraulics on a broken-down Diesel 10 and struck an ironclad deal with him for protection. Fast forward to today: having secured the unofficial title of Junior Mechanic's Assistant from Sir Topham Hatt, Merritt now blackmails railway clerks for spare parts and keeps a tight grip on the operations of the other diesels. To him, they are family. He’s been living at the dieselworks for three years now.
Tamzin Rook is an absolute nightmare for the local aristocracy in her own right, cruising around every day in the cab of Spencer, the private silver express engine. A former maid, she was brutally thrown out into the freezing cold from the Duke's estate after being framed for someone else's theft—but not before they broke the girl's fingers. Surviving at rock bottom, she took up bare-knuckle boxing. She eventually tracked the elite steam engine down to a siding, smashed up his sleek casing with a crowbar, and literally took the locomotive hostage. Threatening to destroy their prized transport, Tamzin delivered a blunt ultimatum to the Duchess, forcing the elite to bankroll her silence.
These two deeply scarred teenagers eventually crossed paths at an abandoned station, forging an alliance of street runaways who just so happen to command their own multi-ton machines.
Some lazy art based of a fanfic I read
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BONUS:
🌸Worm James.