#for all my problems with canon rusty boxcab!rusty as a cynical doomer/trolley grandpa combo makes a great complement

[catenary-chad]

an oddly specific but intense headcanon that I have is that Electra sucks at arguing because they almost instantly lose any veneer of calm politeness and go full “owning the conservatives with facts and logic” when provoked. And the facts and logic are overwhelmingly on their side. But they are just so combative and don’t even try to warm people up and they come off as uncompromising (when ironically they’ll probably accept the compromise, they just push things as far as possible expecting they’ll get cut back because that’s how things have gone for electrification and infrastructure improvements for the last 50 years or so)

It’s one of those things heavily based on public transport activists. There’s a massive sense of frustration and knowledge that they’re right and nobody else can see it, that just makes them snappier and argumentative vs convincingly persuasive or more broadly palatable. Funny enough this is also really fitting to how electric motors are infamously strongest at lower speeds and known for rapid acceleration (partly why I’ll lean into Electra being emotionally erratic, for better and worse)