#also Cumbria has plenty of coal why wouldn't Sodor?????

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

Are there any bits of RWS/TTTE lore that you don’t like or tend to retcon for your stuff? Personally I just can’t deal with Sir Handel being almost 20 years older than Peter Sam so I tend to headcanon his build date as also 1920 (to correspond when then-Corris No. 3 was rebuilt from the old Nos. 1 and 3) and Bulldog happened that year.

For me most of the fun is bending and twisting like a limboist to try to make alllll the RWS lore "work" in a way that is satisfying to me yet still plausibly canon. And throw in some show-canon, just for a lil' challenge. (I say "plausibly" because I throw around "unreliable narrator!!!1!" a lot. But I do offer an explanation for the discrepancies.)

That being said... oooh, that particular HC is tempting. Yeah, it's tough to imagine how the dynamics work with Sir Handel being so much older but then also he and Peter Sam just act so much like... twins, idk.

(But also consider: A tougher Sir Handel with a harder shell because he worked through the Great War, Peter Sam being this bright-eyed innocent thing that really has no concept of the world not always being sunshine and butterflies.)

I suppose despite my RWS preferences that I think of Rusty as nonbinary (although the Thin Clergyman may just not be privy to this or might not honor it).

Also, I ignore the Rev Awdry's insistence that there are no coal deposits on Sodor. Like... no. Just no.