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ladychandraofthemoone · 7 months ago

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In my au Stanley (narrow gauge) has a special interest in insects (I hc him as being into animals, they don’t judge you for your “jinx” and he’s got a soft spot for critters that are seen as “bad luck”) and tends to blurt out the most detailed information, he often info-dumps with and to Nia who encourages it cause it makes him happy once he’s freed from his “jinx” and she know every single insect name alphabetically along with their scientific names and nicknames Here we have Duke immediately regretting asking them if they can name every single species and ends up sleeping when they’re engrossed in their conversation before leaving when they were in the mid section of the e category (Nia gave him “the disappointment older sister look” awhile back so the poor guy can trapped there and wondered how did he got ever himself into this situation)

Basically it’s just Stanley to Duke in alphabetical order: Alderflies Angel Insects Anoplura (Sucking lice) Ants Antlions Aphids Archeognatha (Bristletails) Barklice Bees Beetles Bird lice Biting lice Blattodea (Cockroaches) Booklice Bristletails Bugs Butterflies Caddisflies Chewing lice Cicadas Cockroaches Coleoptera (Beetles) Collembola (Springtails) Crickets Damselflies Diplura Diptera (Flies) Dobsonflies Dragonflies-

Nia joining in cause she was mad at Duke: ah yes the alderfly which are megalopteran insects of the family Sialidae. They are closely related to the dobsonflies and fishflies as well as to the prehistoric Euchauliodidae. All living alderflies – about 66 species all together are part of the subfamily Sialinae, which contains nine extant genera. Sialinae have a body length of less than 25 mm (1 inch), long filamentous antennae, and four large dark wings of which the anterior pair is slightly longer than the posterior. They lack ocelli and their fourth tarsal segment is dilated and deeply bilobed. Dead alderfly larvae are used as bait in fishing-

duke:shooketh (Nia’s is basically the train version of a encyclopedia also her design is based off of MrTerrier673 on Twitter)

#ttte #ttte duke #ttte stanley #ttte nia #msr stanley #rws stanley #duke the lost engine #my art #my artwork #my art <3 #my art stuff #yeah I’ve traced their basis Nia is a ngr class 1906 she participated in the war in South Africa 🇿🇦 and the East African campaign #and Freddie was there they’re pretty much older siblings/cool aunt-uncle figures to Stanley cause they all went through a lot pre-msr days #but yeah Nia be a encouraging big sister and joining in I got so much on them I need to put in haha but poor duke someone save him he doesn #wanna end up like Andreas and Duncan who both really wished they could forget about learning about hammerhead wormsXD #but yeah Nia recognizing that this is something that makes Stanley happy he’s healing (Kyle’s death their old railway etc) and knows these #hobbies that made him happy were mocked and putted down and literally beaten out of him and as an fellow animal lover she’s very supportive #Also Stan my guy please get some sleep he’s got insomnia and nightmares from Kyle’s death (I mean both do along with Freddie) Nia is 10 yea #rs older than him but at least they’re both reunited on the skarloey after some years she’s very big cool sister/chill aunt coded figure an #knows that this is Stanley;s way of showing he trusts someone but then again out of all his colleagues stuart got off lucky he only infodum #on him about monarch butterflies 🦋 and ladybugs 🐞 XD Freddie and Bertram/atlas r torn

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