This drawing came about while looking for information on C.H.R.O.M.E on the World of Cars Wiki page. If you scroll down enough to affiliates, you'll see the inclusion of the CIA on that list. While not surprising, it did give me an interesting idea.
As some of you may know, one of my characters, Stella McCarthy, works for the CIA. Although she initially found a job in the medical field, caring for agents and their injuries, through a series of events she ended up on a covert operation deep in Siberia that had her collecting information on a "highly advanced UAV", known to many as the Arctic Ghost.
With C.H.R.O.M.E being an intelligence agency, you'd expect that their agents would find themselves all over the globe and would've likely known about the existence of the Arctic Ghost during the later decades of the Cold War, even if information on her was almost nonexistent. Up until Stella found her, anything said or written about the Ghost was considered a myth, though many did come to the conclusion that she might've been an advanced drone - something that did turn out to be partially true.
It's unlikely Stella would've met Finn McMissile prior to the events in Siberia, though she would've known about his existence.
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Piston Peak
So, as mentioned previously in the character sheet, any of my works, art, fanfics, etc will all be based in the UK 🇬🇧
This is just a headcanon that I have. There's not much logic or evidence to back this up or support it as canon. It's just a fun little headcanon of mine. Blade, to me, would make such a good Brit. He's got that morning grumpiness, the intense stoicism, the bad habit of saying "alright" even though he might not be, and he would definitely swear like a brit too. But also, he's hardworking and down to earth.
So, with that, Piston Peak is going to be set in England 🏴 I've not yet decided if the park will have it's own geographical location or if it's going to replace an already existing one.
Here is the official map for Pistion Peak:
Piston Peak will still have all the features from the movie; V6 Valley, Whitewall Falls, the small basin where the PPAA team is located, etc, but outside of V6 Valley and around the outskirts will be the rest of the park. It will contain features such as lakes, rivers, reservoirs, mountains, hills, forests, and moorlands.
There will also be some camping grounds/camping resorts. And small, cute villages.
Think of this aesthetic:
These geographical features, and the appearance of these features, have taken inspiration from three irl National Parks: The Lake District, Peak District, and Snowdonia National Park.
These three parks hold a special place in my heart. They're my favourite parks and are also the three parks that I've visited most.
The Lake District
The Lake District is located in the north-west of England. It's famously known for its 16 lakes, given it's name. It's also known for the highest mountain in England - Scarfell Pike. It's also the location where Graphite was first discovered before they mass produced Graphite pencils in Europe.
The terrain here is much greener than the Peak District, and is a wide mixture of farmers fields, mountains, hills, moorland, forests, rivers and lakes.
The Peak District
The Peak District is located in the northern-central part of England, sitting directly beside the city of Manchester on it's Eastern side.
This park is mostly full of hills and sloped mountains, covered in moorland grass. There's also more reservoirs here, the most famous being Derwent Dam, known for being a popular training ground for Lancaster bombers when they were testing out the bouncing bomb.
It also has one of the most beautiful drives through the park too. Snake Pass, on the west side of the park coming from Manchester is a well-known road, known for its winding and "snake-like" appearance as you wrap around mountains. You actually follow a river upstream in a valley and arrive at 2 dams. It's also known for its high number of road accidents too.
Snowdonia
Snowdonia National Park, better known as "Eryri" (Er-ru-ree), is located on the north-western side of Wales 🏴. It's also the biggest National Park in Wales, and the 3rd biggest in the UK. It's also home to Wales' biggest mountain, Mount Snowdon. Around half of the park homes about 9 mountain ranges.
I tend to visit this park the most often, and I also just spent a week-long holiday here within the National park, but towards the far West where the borders of the park meets the sea.
So for this headcanon to work, we're gonna need some fires 🔥🔥🔥 otherwise there'd be absolutely no point in this.
Now don't get me wrong, we're nothing like the US. US temperatures can be between at least 30 to 40°c in the summer, we often have summers around the low to mid 20's. We may even get as much as the late 20's to 30°C during a heatwave.
We don't get quite as hot as other countries but we have insanely high humidity which prevents things from cooling down, even in the shade or at night, due to the amount of warm moisture in the air - so it actually feels hotter than it is.
The UK has a wet, windy and cooler climate BUT we do have our fair share of wildfires.
The UK Forestry Commision released a report that covers a period between 2009/10 to 2021/22 of wildfires recorded in the UK.
Between this 12 year period, around 360,000 individual wildfires were recorded, and 79,000 acres of land had been impacted.
The majority of individual fires were classed as being "small", but there was 12,000 classed as "primary" big fires.
4,700 fires affected National Parks, and 11,000 impacted "Sites of Special Scientific Interest".
The most affected areas of land were agricultural land, woodland, and residential areas.
Throughout the report, there seemed to be a steady increase in fire incidents throughout the 12 years.
I even had my own first hand experience with a wildfire. In August 2023, there was a wildfire on a field which backs onto my back garden fence at the rear of the house. The grass fire initially started down by the brook right beside my house, very likely started by teenagers, either by a lit cigarette or a vape. Had the wind blown in a different direction, it would've reached us in a few minutes.
Luckily for me, the fire was blown East and it travelled away from my house and along the side of the field. The farmer at the time was growing straw that had since been harvested, so all the tiny straw spikes in the ground were dry and helped to fuel this fire and it spread quickly.
There were flames that did reach at least 8ft in places, but it was the heat and speed of the fire that was the most concerning. It took multiple fire engines and two tractors with flattening equipment behind them to eventually smother the fire, just as it reached the back garden fence of someone's house.
Just witnessing this made me realise how quick these grass fires can spread and just how scary it was if the wind had simply blown the other way.
And with that, comes my conclusion. With the facts and figures I've discussed in this post, I do have a little bit of logic to go with this headcanon of mine. It won't quite sit right with the film but it's not complete nonsense at least XD
Hope you enjoyed reading it :)
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