#Rusty the steam engine

[areyouscaredyet]

well it was funnier in my head…

[rustballmaxxing]

The way Rusty looked him up and down 👀

[phopollo]

Teehee, finally finished my first cartooniverse pride drawing

Happy pride from Team Steam!

[shiftythoughts]

Oh starlight Express fandom boutta go crazy for this one

Wishing Gavin a speedy recovery! Really hope that he's okay

[lilbellen]

STEEAAAaaaam🚂

[k0zm0zg4rd3n]

hallo rustrogen nation i tots forgot to post these on tumblr after discovering em but

this is after the race, hydra reaches out for rusty as he runs off to find pearl, and barely misses before looking defeated

"maybe , if i was a coach" ahh

[whizmi]

✨ StEx Wembley's cast in my artstyle ✨

Who should I stylize next? 😛

[oil-on-the-tracks]

Stex Phasmophobia AU main character info!

Rusty McCoy 🚂

24 years old

He/him

Dating Pearl

Majored in theology in uni

One of Momma’s kids (who runs their investigative company)

Has bad asthma

Became a ghost hunter because of Momma’s company, because of his field of study, and to genuinely help people

“Greaseball” Jr ⚡️

24 years old

She/him

Dating just Dinah,, at the moment

Greaseball is just her lastname and what she goes by (I shall think of her actual first name later trust)

Was originally going to uni on an athletic scholarship years ago, but after his first year suffered a sports related head injury and could no longer safely play professionally

Went into ghost hunting independently at first because he had an interest in it as a preteen, still had his old equipment, so fell back on it after not being able to do sports professionally anymore

Was contracted out by Momma after struggling to find work for a few months, Momma lowkey felt bad

Slick McCoy⚠️

21 years old

They/she/he

Rusty’s little sibling, adopted by Momma when they were 6

Didn’t go to uni, instead went into the “family business” of ghost hunting because Momma wanted to make sure they had some job stability

Honestly is mostly doing it for the money and to give her big brother a hard time

Though plays drums as a hobby and side gig (fucking loves Radiohead)

Electra Von Trapp💰

25 years old

They/them/any

Comes from old money, family used to be german nobility

Their “components” are their roommates and friends, but the house they live in is also basically one of those youtuber/influencer group houses and they all make content together

Very popular influencer and content creator who started doing ghost related videos after a one-off video of theirs about it became very popular

Also does drag as a hobby

Got hired by Momma partly out of hope that their content creation would help promote the small organization

Also! Note! I know I am not the best at drawing POC and specifically black hair, because its something I am still in the process of learning as an artist. If any POC think theres something in particular I could do better to improve my depiction please do shoot me a dm or ask or anything to let me know!! I want to try and get better!

Everyone feel free to send asks about to AU! Anything about it at all! Id love to talk about it more between making textposts and art!

[fizzy-dizz]

All Aboard The Starlight Express 🚂💫🪐

[autohavenwreckerz]

I've never drawn Rusty with short hair but I tried and he came out sopping wet and sad

[areyouscaredyet]

extremely disjointed and stupid but I have a headcanon…

[rustballmaxxing]

High fives have the same value as kisses when it comes to rarepairs

[phopollo]

Glances around....

Sets down a little Rusty costume design thinking for if I were to do the designs for a non replica Stex production.......

[batterysoup]

Class doodles from today!

[crocchow]

Artfight icons for my Rusty and BV cats :D !! I still have alot to set up on my profile but heyyy team fossils !!!

[goodnight-bloodsucker]

A sneak peek of my attempt at a StEx fic for the first time in years, it's called "New Faces":

Quick name guide:

Goldenrod- Wembley Greaseball

Correy- Wembley Rusty

Dottie- Wembley Dinah

PB stands for Pacific Blue, GB's brother from Hero City Rollers, though they go by a new name now

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Heh, least Goldenrod isn't here." Greaseball snorted, looping his thumbs in his belt as he watched the chaos.

"Goldenrod?" Rusty inquired, watching his cousin try (and fail) to escape the masses of Boxcars that were now trapping him in a massive group hug.

"She's my-"

"Oi! Come give your big sister a hug!"

"Starlight damn it."

A flashy diesel skated towards him eagerly, arms outstretched. She was shorter than Greaseball, though clearly no less powerful as she pulled him into a crushing hug.

When she pulled away, she looked at him with a critical, teasing eye, "Wow, you look worse for wear."

While he'd mostly recovered from the crash a few years ago, his plating still bore dents and scrapes from the incident.

"Don't look too hot yourself." Greaseball retorted.

Everybody heard that Troubadour Park had a very similar incident just last year, and it was clear that Goldenrod was still a bit damaged from it, Rusty noted that she was favoring one skate over the other.

She rolled her eyes at the insult, "Meathead."

"Brat."

"Manwhore."

"Shorty."

"Elvis knockoff."

"Your hair is stupid."

"Your face is stupid."

Greaseball huffed, changing the subject, "Have you heard from PB lately? He ain't called or anything for a while." He asked, referring to their younger brother who was supposedly somewhere in Nebraska. Rusty had never met him, but he sounded annoying, honestly.

"We call her Blue Lightning now...she's been at Troubadour for a bit." Goldenrod explained.

It took Greaseball a good second to understand what she meant by that.

Then it hit him, "Oh. Good for her!"

"I'll tell her to call you," Goldenrod mumbled, then she seemingly noticed Rusty for the first time, "What the hell is that?"

Greaseball cleared his throat, putting a possesive arm around Rusty's shoulders, "My partner, Rusty, he's Correy and Slick's cousin."

Rusty opened his mouth to say a greeting, but he was sharply cut off by Goldenrod's blunt words.

"A Steamer." It wasn't a question, but there was judgement.

Greaseball's eyes narrowed, "Yeah, got a problem with that?"

His sister gave him a long look before shrugging, dropping the rude expression in favor of a mischievous one, "No, I'm just glad whats-her-face finally left you."

"Her name is Dinah." Greaseball chuffed, clearly sensitive about that subject.

"Whatever." Goldenrod's face turned thoughtful and almost bashful, "I've got a dining car of my own now. Dottie. She's a real dream. She's back home watching the engine yard for me."

Rusty took this moment to blurt out what he's been thinking during the conversation, "Wait, wait, how's she your sister?"

GB tilted his head, "When two diesels love each other very much-"

"No, no, I know that, but weren't you built in Omaha?" As far as Rusty knew, Greaseball was pure American power, built and trained in Nebraska, and yet his sister was from London?

A dark blush spread to Greaseball"s face as he coughed awkwardly, "Well, pretty much-"

Goldenrod interrupted, a cheeky grin on her face, "Nah, we were both built in the UK, but Greasy here was bought by Union Pacific, and they reformatted him."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Greaseball was originally built in London 😱

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