#TTTE 2×D2

[ikoarts]

Gee, twins, how come you get TWO dads?!?!

They're married btw, nothing can convince me otherwise

[biggsodorcitystories]

THIS SHIP BE CANON - Do not wrong me!

I now cannot un-think the concept of their first meeting one another and Edward fluttering his lashes the whole time...

"This engine is a Metropolitan-Vickers diesel-electric type two!"

'... lol I'm being so Normal™ right now.'

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

Has any engine ever told Edward to “control your gremlins” in reference to Bill and Ben?

Donald and Douglas.

Few engines (that we know from canon) have really interacted enough with the China Clay twins to be much annoyed by them, honestly. (Duck and Thomas have been down that way... but they think the way Edward deals with them is fine. Great, even. Thomas would be quite the hypocrite if he all the sudden started campaigning for young tank engines to be treated with more strictness and less tolerance!)

But Donald and Douglas help out on the branch line enough to have encountered the bees, and they're completely over them, and they have Opinions on the degree to which Edward should have definitely just punted the nonsense out of the wee gremlins long ago.

James also took over the line during Edward's post-Old Iron overhaul, and spent some years flexing at Tidmouth as to how he doesn't see what the big deal about them is, it isn't hard. He handled them on his own just fine!

Then came a time, circa the 80s, the clay pits were forcibly shut down for two months. Bill and Ben were sent to Tidmouth on hire, causing confusion and delay and consternation aplenty, and James got shown up because he absolutely could not put his money where his mouth was. They ran him especially ragged.

(To save face, James blamed—*spins James's wheel of salty caprice*—BoCo. He had corrupted them. They used to be fine. But that buzzbox diesel must have taught them these tricks in order to pay out him—personally!

James was promptly laughed out of the yard.)

[ikoarts]

5/5 Jimmy day drawings I did yesterday

cockblocked on his birthday.... god damn....... james bro the old fart is just not that into you (and is married)

he's gonna go listen to mitski and cry about it

[mondsee-the-cr-engine-118]

The looks on Bill and Ben's faces are priceless 😂

Gee, twins, how come you get TWO dads?!?!

They're married btw, nothing can convince me otherwise