"You monster."
Hey y'all, switching things up and sharing some art of one of my TTTE OCs I've had in the works for a lil bit! <3 With a lil bit of lore to go along with it hehe
~~ Full version and lore below ~~
Meet Frank! It's short for "Frankenstein's Monster". It's definitely not his original name but he doesn't remember his old one (if he even had one), and it's a bit of a fitting name given his past.
No one quite knows where Frank came from, not even Frank himself. He's a heavily modified 4-4-0 tender engine, whose build suggests he was originally built sometime in the early 1900s, but his mangled assortment of mis-matched parts makes it hard to know for sure.
All Frank remembers is that he was once an engine on a Railway. Then he was put in a shed, and people came to take pieces away and put new ones on in a neverending cycle for what felt like decades.
He was a bit of a "project" engine, if you will. One that never saw the light of day, as he was inevitably abandoned in his haphazard state before finally being found again many years later.
Rendered without a true sense of identity (his old one now long gone after all that heavy modification), Frank is a anxious old fella but he's kind at heart. His memory is nothing like it used to be, and he's constantly struggling with his sense of identity and purpose.
After all, a bright new paint job may make him look a little more cohesive from the outside, but on the inside he still feels terribly misshapen and almost wrong.
And one of the things that haunts him the most is never knowing where any of his parts came from, or who they might've belonged to.
But for the sake of his sanity, it's probably best he doesn't think too hard about it.
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AAA I'm so excited to finally be able to share this guy!! <3 Him and his emotional support tank engine (or at least what's left of one... I'll share more on her another time ;P) have been so fun to work on and I already adore them sm. ;;;
And I genuinely had so much fun drawing him here hehe! So I hope you guys can enjoy it too ^^
And as a thank you for sitting through all my loredumping, here's a bonus lil sketch of Frank too <3 Bc lookit him, I love my anxious old man train
