do you have anyone race engine headcanons? (Greaseball, Rusty and Electra)
YES! WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO ASK ABT MY HCs!
So sorry for getting back so late but I had to get EVERYTHING down
Rusty probably joined Boy Scouts tbh, he just has that Boy Scout vibe abt him
Rusty is the son of Poppa and Belle but spent most of his young years with Poppa which is why when he was first introduced to Belle he didn’t have a great view of her (More abt the Poppa and Belle situation if ppl wanna here abt it)
Rusty tends to get crushes quickly with like any coach that would pay attention to him but he really fell HARD for Pearl. Like he was actually in love then, not just a crush
Rusty has rust because of really bad eczema(rust), like from a young age
He is about 1.5 years younger than Pearl but like 3 years older than the Rockies
The Rockies are his half siblings via Poppa (still part of my Poppa-Belle lore)
Once he is with Pearl, he doesn’t feel the same strive to race. He still competes in the upcoming Championships because he has to defend his Championship as part of the rules but he chooses to lose because he doesn’t really want to be a racer anymore and prefers to be a shunter
Rusty and Pearl live pretty content lives in the yard
Rusty has tried to become friends with Electra and Greaseball. He sort of has with Electra but they don’t really hang out much, but they are on pretty good terms. With Greaseball however, Greaseball seems to be rather cold to him. Rusty doesn’t actively avoid him but he does choose to not spend time with Greaseball
Later on Rusty and Pearl end up having 2 trainlets, Rosie and Will.
Rosie is a pink steam train who acts like Pearl and Will looks just like Rusty
In a high school AU Rusty is in band and is on the water polo team
Electra was adopted and greatly loves his moms, they are one of the few people that can tell him to do something
While Electra has that whole Electronics thing going on, the first person he had ever been involved with was Volta and they know each other very well
Electra likes to experiment with their hair and they like to try different hair styles and colors
Electra did go try to find his birth parents (because he was abandoned) but it all came up empty
He wants everyone to love him just to ensure that he won’t be abandoned again
One if the reasons why he chose to race in the first place was to get people to notice him and just in case his biological parents saw that he won and would try to find him or see how successful he was without them
He generally feels mixed feelings towards his parents
I don’t think it’s really a hc cuz it was confirmed but Electra is Gender Fluid and Bi
Electra doesn’t really like the freight but he is ok with the Rockies because they sometimes braid his hair for free
Electra didn’t like Greaseball because he naturally got attention and Greaseball getting attention was Electra not getting attention which made him feel more abandoned
In “No Comeback” Electra just went back to his parents house, hand a good long cry, stayed the weekend to talk about his need for attention then went back to the year feeling better
Completely random but in a high school AU Electra drives Greaseball to school, cuz I say so. They aren’t even really friends, their parents are. (Taken from a line in the rap and I just couldn’t stop thing abt how funny it was)
In high school AU, Electra would have been in the fashion club and the swim team
Greaseball is dyslexic (coming from a dyslexic)
He first met Dinah when they were young cuz they just so happened to cross paths
Greaseball’s father was a pretty bad dude who got Greaseball to think that diesel were better than any other rolling stock. Eventually in his teen years Greaseball realized that everything that his father said wasn’t true but some of it he still believed unconsciously
When Greaseball first started to date Dinah he didn’t really know how to handle a real steady relationship and a big growth step for him was when he told Dinah this instead of just telling her that instead of just being quiet to her
He had many flings before Dinah but he never felt like anything would be quick with her, she just felt different
Greaseball wanted to be just like his dad when he was young but in his teen years he realized that his dad wasn’t the best like he though he was and came to find that his father was quite terrible especially to his mother
Now Greaseball love(d)s his mommy to pieces
His mother died right after he won his first championship. He was so torn up about it that he became very depressed and thought about quitting racing. Dinah was there to comfort him and it just so happens that around this same general time Greaseball made it official with Dinah
Greaseball tried for years to fix the way that he thinks to be less narcissistic but he greatly struggled with it and often ended up not thinking of others
He never really meant to uncouple Dinah, he just thought about how he wanted to get back at Electra
Greaseball has a very hard time sleeping without Dinah next to him
Greaseball and Dinah would have gotten married about a year after the race
They had between 5-8 trainlets (they were pretty busy…)
Once Dinah was pregnant the first time , Greased said that it would be his last season of racing
He then became a racing instructor
In a high school AU he would be on the football team and the wrestling team as well as being part of the weightlifting club
He can in fact whistle and he does for Dinah only
