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mean-scarlet-deceiver · 2 years ago

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What do you think of Big City Engine?

I don't have many thoughts tbh.

I do think it would be funny if he and Henry had a years-long rivalry. Bit of a standard-bog macho chest-thumping who's-the-bigger-badder engine sort of deal, overlaid with some city mouse vs. country mouse dynamic. The NWR lot spent much of early nationalisation listening to Henry gripe about the Big City Engine's arrogance or make plans to put him in his place but it never really did get too dramatic. Big City Engine isn't a bad fellow really, he's all right. So it's not an existential threat or anything. It was just kind of a low-stakes little sideshow that always entertained the rest of the engines once in a blue moon when BCE came in.

Gordon fancies it's due to his superior diplomacy and mediation that the rivalry never boiled over. Gordon believes this because Gordon likes to nurture his little delusions.

#bce might not be an interesting character to me #but the gradual loss of their various mainland *casual acquaintances* is a very specific modernisation trauma #like individually the sodor bunch didn't know any of these guys enough to be devastated but the cumulative effect caused so much fear #shit on the mainland was getting the most unsettling medium between too close and too far #(so no i don't think he survived. someone's gotta appear in a bloody rws book and not get preserved #and i vote This Guy over a lot of other one-offs)#chatter #the railway series

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