#paskha the dining car

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Which of your ocs, if any, participate in races? How seriously do they take winning? Do any of them have beef with each other or with canon characters?

Gio was intended to be a full on racer, but he tends to accidentally cause power outages when he gets excited, so that didn't last long.

Bernadette was a champion coach in her youth, the accident that forced the end of her career is what led her to being bitter regarding engines.

Cricket and Nolan are both retired national engines, very successful ones at that. Control is a bit of a collector, so he paid a pretty penny for them when they officially retired.

Geiger is a racer, they are, uh...spirited. Yeah, that's what I'll go with. They take it more serious than most trainfolk their age.

Paskha is the dining car that Turnov sometimes mentions! She and Turnov are siblings (Something seen as a bit unusual, usually engines and coaches that race together are a couple), and quite a power duo. They've been racing for a very long time, which is a representation of how good they are. If an engine doesn't race well, they're usually put back to typical passenger or freight work right away. They've been racing together for about 50 years (Trains age very slowly), and won't be stopping anytime soon.

Prince of Wales used to mention having a guard, and that's who Sentry is! He isn't very into the sport itself, but he does good at it so Prince still races with him.

Smokebox was an upcoming racer, his career was ended permanently when his boiler burst.

As for beef with canon characters, most of them are chill.

However, Geiger has a lot of hatred for just...other engines in general. They have some issues, especially with steam trains, so they just. really hate Rusty.

Bernadette is distrusting of engines in general, but usually people can work past it. However, she has sent Greaseball out of her office crying before-

Snowy hates electrics and diesels and she will have this fact broadcasted wherever she can.

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Paskha the Dining Car:

Turnov occasionally mentions his dining car, so here is that dining car!

Contrary to popular belief, they're not in a romantic relationship. They're actually siblings. This is seen as somewhat strange by the other racers, but Turnov is very gay and his home country frowned upon even the slightest suggestion of gay people, so he wasn't able to find a male coach to race with. His sister happens to be the toughest coach he knows, so he asks her.

While feminine and dainty, like coaches are expected to be, she's tough as nails and is one of a few coaches willing to hit and punch like an engine during races.

She's actually older than Turnov, something that catches people by surprise.

My faceclaim for her is the StEx On Ice Dinah (though ofc tweaked and more fine-tuned) as it was rather hard to find a red coach design that matched Turnov.

She's very tall and broad for a coach, but that's the case with her and Turnov's entire family, they got the beef genes.

The other coaches and engines don't know what to make of her and Turnov, other than they are not to be trifled with.

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My StEx ocs need some touching up, so send me those asks!!

Bernadette the Business Class Car

Bombshell the Security Truck

Cedric the Coil Car

Cricket the Australian Engine

Fireball the Steam Train 

Galva the Repair Truck

Geiger the Electro Diesel 

Gio the Electric Engine

IQ the Bay Window Caboose

Lassie the Kiddie Train

Nolan the Irish Engine

Paskha the Dining Car 

Pinion the Repair Truck

Rack the Repair Truck

Runny the Dining Car

Sally the Saloon Car

Sentry the Security Truck

Sheen the Polish Truck

Smokebox the Burst Steam Train 

Snowy the Snow Plow

Woods the Lumber Truck

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fuck it

20. Turnov. Any genre/random. (Hes my favorite engine so sorry for asking for the maximum dhdhddjjf)

Putting some history into the lore here: Turnov and his dining car came to America some years before the Cold War started. Once everything went down, they weren't able to leave. They were passed around a few yards because they were champions and the humans wanted to make some money off of them. They ended up at Apollo Victoria for the events of the show and were promptly bought by Control.

Turnov's birth name is Maxim Kurnikovich Ivanov. He doesn't go by his birth name because when he was in training as a racer he was basically rebranded as Turnov.

A very very repressed gay man. He was uncomfortable at the idea of racing with a female coach but a male coach wasn't an option, so he races with his sister (A dining car named Paskha). He's honestly repressed in any and all sexual and/or romantic things, the thought of it stresses him out because he can't be himself.

Aside from his sister, he has a twin brother named Vladimir and parents named Anya and Kurnik, he hasn't seen the rest of them in many years.

Didn't speak much english when he initially came to America, still didn't speak very much when he got to Apollo Victoria, his sister spoke for him a lot. He learns english mainly from the other nationals, which leads to him saying a lot of non-American slang and sayings and everyone finds it funny.

He is very boring man- He doesn't have many hobbies and his favorite food is literally porridge.

His birth yard saw his bulk and separated him from his family. He was pretty badly mistreated there, by the trainfolk and conductors alike. This has led to him being quiet and stern with a deep fear of being seen as weaker (Don't ask why, let's just say he has some scars...).

I have him falling in love with Brexit 💕. Brex is small and kind, which contrasts well with Turnov and helps him heal.

He is unsure as to how old he is, he thinks he's somewhere in his 70s-80s maybe (trains age differently so he's not a super old man lol).

His hair is naturally very curly, but it's been shortened to a buzzcut for most of his life.

America didn't treat him very kindly either, he was subjected to a lot of crap. Apollo Victoria was the same in the beginning, he got called a Commie a lot. Greaseball was especially bad and has since apologized profusely.

I'd say he's about 6'2" with brunette hair and hazel eyes. He's also built like a brick wall.

Aggression issues to the max. The environment he grew up in has left him easily angered and riddled with anxieties. Too much stress and he will bite or punch and the victim will not be okay. He probably needs a muzzle tbh-

Doesn't actually enjoy drinking, it's just his preferred unhealthy coping mechanism.

Likes to be read to and enjoys violin music.

Got set up with a therapist right away-

He's closest with the rest of the nationals, as fellow champions they understand a lot of what he's gone through and they all support each other.

Bear hugs and head bumps are his forms of affection, he has knocked people over before-

Since Control bought him, he's been allowed to have actual fun and live life. His favorite activities are tea parties with Brexit and knitting with Ruhrgold. He also really likes naps (and dragging fellow nationals into napping with him-) because the man is tired, let him rest.

The coaches adore him for some unknown reason. The reason is that he's very genuine with them. Coaches often have to worry about how engines act with them, with all the competition and treating coaches like prizes to be won. Even engines not attracted to coaches will often act differently near them because of societal stuff. Turnov racing with a coach sister everywhere has given him a very relaxed and natural vibe when near coaches, which they appreciate. It's kind of a symbiotic deal: Turnov wards off bad engines and the coaches will commit murder if someone harms him-