#ttte hc

[edwards-exploit]

HOW DO THE TTTE CAST LAUGH?

Thomas - a rapid fire laugh that's incredibly infectious. Kind of your standard HAHAHAs or HEHEHAHAHs but it's still very genuine and liable to make others laugh as well

Edward - he wants you to believe that his polite little "hmm-hmm-hmm"s are his laughs. His actual laugh is a squawky, ugly, incredibly loud seagull laugh that only Thomas knows about.

Henry - a wheezy laugh, kinda sounds like "eeeh-heeeh-heeeh". Not a loud chortler but completely unable to articulate words.

Gordon - a deep, rumbling laugh. AHO-HO-HOs. Embarrased over his own laughs so he immediately composes himself and goes ENOUGH

James - a squeaky, chipmunky laugh like EHEHEHEHEEEH. He snorts a little, too. Tries to make it sound more impressive, like NYEHEHEHEH! but if it's funny enough he devolves into his true laugh sooner or later

Percy - a cutesy little heeheehee laugh but it oscillates between that and a racouous AUGHAHAHAHA laugh

Toby - dad chuckles- not exactly laughs, it's not too loud for them. Slaps his knees as he chuckles. Like ohohohohoho!

Duck - a snorting, honking, slurpy and damp mess. It definitely sounds like a duck quacks. Like its like eheheh-*SNRK*-heh-*SNRK*-heh-*SNRRK*-

Donald - deep, throaty HAGH-HAGH-HAGH-HAGHS while also elbow nudging the guy who made the joke appreciatively

Douglas - The same HAGH-HAGH-HAGH laugh as Donald, but completely different reaction; he immediately beats the nearest object up in the vicinity. Slamming tables, punching walls. If he's just an engine he just shakes helplessly as he laughs.

Oliver - His laugh used to be loud and genuine, a real YEHAHAHAHGAHAHAHAH with tears in his eyes kinda laugh but he learned to be quiet during the escape and never quite unlearned it when it comes to laughs. It's now kinda like, quiet chortling.

Emily - a regal, queenly laugh of O-HO-HO-HO! but when she breaks down it devolves into banshee like shrieks

Nia - it sounds like tsshAHAHAHA! tssshAHAHAHA! Like she tries to hide her real laugh at first but cant help it, and it sounds so clear and genuine

Rebecca - laughs a lot, so everyone's used to her giggling, but it's always a welcome sound! It's a cute little, high pitched and rapid fire hee-hee-hee! And she sounds so delighted every time. When she laughs louder its like HEEAHAHEEHAHA!!!!

[locomotive-paws]

Here’s your excuse to share any headcanons you feel like sharing!

Oh boy, where to start...

Thomas acts so 'young' for his age because before coming to Sodor he stayed locked up in a shunting yard and never 'grew up'.

Salty is a nice diesel because he has a dark past. His engine was the diesel replacement for Thomas's engine. Salty feels some guilt for Thomas being the last of his kind. This is fact: the 14 BR Class 07's were produced to replace the E2's.

James was a cat in a past life.

While Diesel tries to be 'friends' with Arry and Bert, really they do creep him out when they take pleasure in talking about their jobs. Diesel actually was traumatized by the scrapping of a steam engine and holds tight to his brainwashed ideas that diesels are superior to cope with the trauma.

Diesel secretly resents Diesel 10 for taking over as leader of the diesels, after all Diesel was the first diesel engine on Sodor.

Diesel 10 is just playing 'nice doggy' until he finds a bigger rock.

Mavis is still is kind of a fiesty, headstrong, diesel; but because of the threat on her life she forces herself to be a good girl. However when given the chance she'll cause some confusion and delay. Just ask Spencer.

Henry would love to have a pet goldfish.

Gordon actually really worries about his brother Scots, and secretly is overjoyed to see him at Vicarstowne.

I spell Vicarstowne with a silent e.

I think Emily and Diesel have a secret friendship after the events of Emily and the special coaches... He happily listens to her vent/rant about the other steamies... but when they are around other engines they totally 'dislike eachother'.

Class 40/D261/Bowler isn't really a bad diesel, he wouldn't go out of his way to harm a steamie. He's just the typical brainwashed BR diesel engine who likes to stay clean... He's like the diesel version of James.

When the kicked Edward out of the main team/sheds, he got to go live with Boco at Wellsworth sheds. Just like in the original Railway Series... come on if you were just going to write him off atleast make it meaningful.

Diesel 10 has a very dark past, it has to do with some experimentation, but if I go into detail I'll totally give away the ending of my fanfic...

Anyways probably way more hc that I'm forgetting...

[fanficfish]

ranch au: top five ways to tell the Scottish twins apart

(No you can't tell Bill and Ben apart, they are a hive mind their only difference is which hand they prefer to write with because ofc they're ambidexterous, all the better to prank people with)

Donald has 2% more smile wrinkle line then Douglas. Which makes sense when you consider how often he joins in on or even starts pranks.

Douglas is practical until you show him a plate of Duck's blueberry pie. Donald will instead judge it silently and wish it was raspberry.

One of them remembers he owns a comb and the other remembers but sometimes can't be bothered and just gives it a couple swipes before taking off ("It'll get messy later anyways" "Donald, it literally looks like a rat's nest" "We wear hats, what's the difference to you?")

Douglas is the one with the blackmail camera roll. Donald sweet-talks, Douglas films, and suddenly the story of Jame's' incident with some bees he was sure had been long forgotten was brought up. Toby has learned this and knows to keep mum, especially if he's recently played a small trick on the twins. Thomas has not.

Donald likes to sing but Douglas even more so. Everyone assumes Donald leads their rounds, and while it's true, it's Douglas that can pull out a song out of nowhere for almost every situation,l and he'll know all the words too. Donald just prefer songs where Douglas can chime in.

[lnwrcauli]

Before The Fleet [NWR AU]

Sorry for my lack of AU posts recently, I've been rather busy. To get things rolling again, here's a bit about some of the engines that were loaned to the North Western but didn't stay. Seeing as I'll be talking about multiple very different engines, I'll format this slightly different to my usual posts.

Brooke the Bullying Engine

Brooke was a Great Central Railway Class 1 that was loaned to the North Western in 1915. She was meant to be the engine pulling the express, but mostly found herself rostered on heavy freight work due to her size and power. Her official name was City of Lincoln, but if you called her that, you might just end up in the turntable well. She was a horrible bully by all accounts and along with her accomplices Ashley and Micah, she reigned over Vicarstown through fear and violence until her return to the Great Central Railway in 1922.

Ashley the Eastern Engine

Ashley was a Great Eastern Railway S69 fitted with experimental larger cylinders. They were loaned to the North Western in 1916 to undergo trials but ended up staying until 1922. They did the passenger work that Edith couldn't. Upon the purchase and subsequent failures of Henry in 1918, they had to pick up the slack from both engines. Being reportedly as rude and self-important as Brooke, they wreaked havoc upon Vicarstown until their return to the G.E.R.

Micah the Mineral Engine

Micah was a Caledonian Railway 600 class loaned to the NWR in 1918. He was brought in to pick up the slack in the freight work that Henry and Edith were meant to be doing. Out of the 3 horrid engines stationed at Vicarstown, he was likely the worst. He often bullied smaller engines such as Thomas, Edith and some of the other loaned shunters. He even sent an engine to the works once. Everyone on the line was glad when he was called back to Scotland by the C.R. in 1922.

Sprite the Buckjumper Engine

Sprite was a Great Eastern Railway S56 that was loaned to the North Western in 1916 to run the Ffarquhar Branchline. They took over from 2 of the much smaller TK&ELR Coffee Pot engines. They worked the line mostly without fuss or incident until 1925, when Thomas was reassigned to the branch and they were sent back to the Great Eastern Railway.

Elsie the Midland Engine

Elsie was a Midland Railway 1377 Class loaned to the North Western Railway in 1917. She took over the mantle of Tidmouth's station pilot from Wellsworth & Suddery Railway No.1. She worked the role without fuss for quite some time, becoming a favourite target of Micah's due to her small size and relatively low power output. She was sent back home in 1925 when the North Western Railway bought Percy.

Kirtley the Old Engine

Kirtley was a Midland Railway 700 Class loaned to the North Western Railway in 1914. She did short-distance freight work and other odd jobs. She was reportedly very kind-hearted and surprisingly strong-willed despite her age. She left the island in 1947 after 3 years of inactivity when the L.M.S. recalled her to Derby Works for scrap.

Jenny the Banking Engine

Jenny was a Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Aspinall Class 30 loaned to the railway in 1914. To start with, she worked the railway's heavy freight services but was reallocated to the Suddery Junction banker siding in 1918 when Micah was purchased. She worked through the 10s, 20s, 30s and 40s pushing trains up the gradient, during which time her northern bluntness and hospitality rubbed off on some. Sir Topham Hatt I had made plans to buy her from the LMS, but they came too late as she was recalled to Horwich Works for scrap in 1946.

Thanks for reading, I hope to see you all in the next one.

Cheerio!

[raiku44-tttecatter]

A little lore from a picture that I got from @just-sittin-on-a-fence, And I just slapped face on them cause I'm too lazy to make the whole art Lol

The engine: So they deemed you problematic ey?

The diesel: Yes, they're going to scrap us all. I just hope 5702 can make it through

The engine: 5702?

The diesel: You know The No Where railway? He's in there and accepted as part of the fleet of the island filled with good ol kettles

The engine: That's one lucky diesel, Im going to bet that he's your brother

The diesel: Yes, he is......

The Diesel and Engine: ........

The diesel: I'm sorry

The engine: Pardon what?

The diesel: *sighed* In sorry, for my actions, attitude, and anything I do bad. Now I understand why you steamies feels threatened.

The engine: It's alright, I understand.

The engine: Also, I never got your name, do you have one?

The diesel: No I don't, but I do have number it's D5710. Yours?

The engine: I see, and my name John's Steam. You don't mind if I called you Betty?

'Betty': Well I see no problem with that John, Say do you also have relatives in there too?

John: Well more like half relative, you heard about the flying kipper?

'Betty': Yes, especially the crash and the steamie who got that accident having a rebuild. Don't say if that engine IS your half-relative?

John: Yup, he is. Half Stanier and Half Gresley and Half something else.

'Betty': 'Something else'?

John: I've met him once at the Furness, he said he's just a stolen failed Blueprint Gresley build with some modifications to make him at least move.

'Betty':...... So your half-relative is technically an illegal build, representing 2 class that were build by completely different builders and 1 builder who is a robber..... If the No Where Railway doesn't exist or your half-relative never being popular I would probably calling you out as a liar.

John: Believe me you're not the first one to say that to me, he's just an amalgamation of builds just like you said. Yet he was somehow stronger than me

'Betty': Come to think of it, what is your half-relative other half build is?

John: It's an A1 build

'Betty': Amazing, great just great.

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Say hello to John and 'Betty', Henry and Boco's relative Respectively :)

[hellokittyshinkansen]

My most intense TTTE headcanon is one that barely relates to canon. It is as follows:

"Well-adjusted newbuild" is an oxymoron.

Some do better than others, sure, but when you're playing resurrectionist, some sort of trauma to someone is almost inevitable. The little narrow gauge lads who are basically just a new [x] in the family tend to take it better, 'cos they're in this little preserved bubble where the inter-engine culture hasn't necessarily changed that much- there's been a great and terrible upheaval, and everyone bears those scars, but there's a comfort in running routes that have stayed the same for centuries. the likes of Tom Rolt (Talyllyn no.7) and Corris 7 tend to have a bit of time to get their bearings before they're eased into knowing about The Horrors.

Straight replicas of a specific engine have it harder, even if there's still classmates knocking about, especially if there's only ONE classmate. They're effectively imperfect clones, and while that's not as uncanny-valley as it would be to a human, I think a lot of their relatives still wouldn't like it. Perhaps a stronger effort would be made to find common ground there, to let the personality of the newbuild make them distinct from the original in one's memories, but the oddness would probably never quite fade.

And then you have your full on Jurassic-park situations, your Steam Into History no.17s and T1s (pending completion) and Tornadoes. Those are... divisive. Opinion varies from "spit in the face of the originals" to "resource-draining leech taking time and money from restorations" to "Vapid showboat with no culture or common sense" but are rarely good. They're also brought into the world pretty much alone- no railway, no classmates, no nada. Thus begins an unwinnable and inevitable process of "proving" themselves, which happens one hard-won opinion at a time rather than as a general shift in culture. There's the constant need to perform to several different expectations at once, AND the under-socialisation from essentially lacking a family, AND the obvious angst of being physically part of a group you're culturally outside of. Healthy!

[raiku44-tttecatter]

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YOU DONT HAVE TO COOK T H A T HARD

Illustration for my TTTE X Polar Express Crossover.

Fanfic here; Hope you enjoy!!!

[bruhstation]

*Breaks into your house to stare wistfully out the window* Do you ever think that CTHenry is, at least by some perceptions, a corpse being kept alive by gold dust and the whimsy of a goddess whose motives are unknown? I do. *Puffs on bubble pipe* Anyway. I'm still holding out hope for a happy ending for our Miserable Train Gays. Iram gentlemen. Have a good day 💗

out of sight, out of mind

[castorfell]

My brain runs on Duncan (ft Rusty!)

[togetherness23]

did you want to talk?

@houseboatisland

[brendamfireworks]

A friend suggested me to draw them fighting.

When he said that he meant mentally not this.

[lorainedoesthings]

BDHSHZHSHSH LMFAOOOO

oh my god that’s hilarious

Even better than the engines using their own swears? The railway workers adopting their swears. I could totally see a driver off work talk to their friend and have an interaction like 

“yeah I broke my arm the other day”

“Cinders and ashes! Are you doing alright?”

“?????”

[sugarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr]

My 3RD redesign for lady, chat I swear this will be my last design for her🙏🙏

This my first time using water color in a WHILEE

[putuponpercy]

Another reason I prefer Thomas and Edward having more of a brotherly relationship is because the idea of Bill and Ben calling him "Uncle Tom" repeatedly to irritate Thomas is hilarious

[ramune--pop]

Genderbent duck be like: my name is montague but people call me goose

[metalbonsexpress]

Oh Millie, they’d never make me hate you