#thunderbirds headcanon

[call-me-casual]

Headcanon: Scott ugly cries watching the how to train your dragon trilogy

Fight me

[lenfantdeverone]

If Alan had more spare time he would 100% be a cosplayer, he's the right amount of Gen Z and nerd energy, he plays the in-universe equivalent of League of Legends, he's 100% the tiktok cosplayer in the family.

Virgil would help him craft props and costumes and John and Gordon would go with him to conventions around the world (reminder that Gordon is an action figure collectionist)

Scott does not get it, but whatever makes his baby brother happy he supports it

[skeefee-sky]

i'm on rewatch no.#i've-lost-count of TAG (though it's more of a 'rewatch the episodes out of order because i feel like it' x'D), and i rewatched Icarus last night, and, was reminded of the Thunderbirds sizes, and need to gush about them. i dun care if someone's already done it >w>

analysis time regarding my sentient!Thunderbirds-! :D (lemme just throw in some headcanons for them too while i'm going about this haha-)

i guess the first major thing, i've been reminded of is, Thunderbird Four is tiny! Thunderbird Two could in fact pick her up with one hand, and put her on her shoulder. sisters holding hands? no, Four's holding onto Two's fingers, and probably only comes up to her knee lol- (i realise that one fic i wrote with the two of them is inaccurate, hence why i need to rewrite it x'D)

lookit them! Four is just, smol. i feel like she could comfortably stay in robot-mode and crawl into her module, if she wanted to. have a nap xD

tiny Four using Two as a climbing frame fills me with glee though- C: you sure as hecc know she does it haha. Two doesn't have a care in the world~ she'd try to climb Three too, but he would hate it xD

Four probably also demands piggy-backs from One. she'd ask Two but, yeah, shoulder rides xD

when Thunderbird One transforms, she's roughly the height up to that bend in Three's grappling arm, or a lil bit taller. Thunderbird Two, by my guesstimate, is probably the length of the grappling arm, plus Three's thrusters (have to double check my numbers-). Three is heccin' lorge, as we can see.

... totally not using Three to scale them; no way >w> <w< ... it does make it easier to imagine their sizes in my head >w< Three also doesn't transform, so i don't have to worry about him too much x'D

(the screenshot quality on all of these is terrible; i apologise-) One and Two are a little harder to determine height though. in my mind, Two obviously has a few feet on One but, i haven't yet figured out how much aheh-... hugs would very much be One burying her face into Two's chest though... x'D Two can and will pick One up and throw her over her shoulder just to tick her off... lol.

i like to think Two can transform with and without her modules c: so, that probably gives her a little bit more height, as well as bulk. Two can totally also pick One and Four up on her arms and swing them around... they'd do it. can confirm. i asked them.

i'd talk about the Tracys in comparison to their ships, but that's for another day xD

hope you enjoyed my rambling, lol.

[edutainer2022]

More asks if you wish!!

2. A canon or headcanon hill I will die on

This one rather amuses me, for Scott of course: 31. If the had a tumblr what would it look like?

42. 3 comfort items

@astranite Thank you so much! I actually did 2 (a canon/headcanon hill I'll die on) and several others, I think (which all fall under headcanon)for Scott a while back, and I'm THRILLED to revist it.

CW: we're talking about Scott, so there are LOTS of heavy themes and topics mentioned, angst and death. My mind often goes dark places with him. Tread with caution.

2. A canon or headcanon hill I will die on.

I'll do several, because I can.

Scott has a suicidal ideation/death wish. As in, he genuinely thinks he needs to die in sacrifice- the way Dad did. He doesn't actively seek it, but has sort of internalized that as an inevitable fate, because that's the least he can do against the magnitude of Dad's sacrifice.

He blames himself for Dad's death (canon text).

Scott excelled in academia. A prom king, President of the class, sports team captain and a valedictorian both in high school and college.

Scott is 29-ish (under 30) by the end of Season 3. I WILL die on that hill. Symbolically, that means Dad's disappearance spearheaded him into "legal, albeit too young" adulthood, and Dad's recovery ("saving father from the abyss") heralded transition into "full manhood".

Scott will loose a son some time down the line - IR equipment gone wrong, a rescue,  combat etc. (narrative symmetry is a ruthless thing). Sorry. I mulled it over every which way. A lost significant other is a gestalt already closed by Dad Tracy. And in a timeline that is not an incandescent wish-fulfillment HEA, it would unfortunately fall to Scott to experience what his father happily dodged - a son so adamant to follow in his Hero's footsteps, and a father so encouraging and approving of that - he'll pay the ultimate price.

Scott is not close to Grandma (mainly because Scott was close to Mom, aka the woman who took over as #1 in Jeff's life, later Scott is a living, breathing reminder that Jeff is gone, and is a mirror and foil to Jeff's shortcomings).

Scott can play the piano (Mom totally taught him first, having big hopes for those long, long fingers), but he never applied himself to practice the skill, like Virgil did. They can play duet on a very rare, precious occasion, when the mood is right.

Scott is more than a decent dancer - cowboy line and square dancing, but also waltz and tango. It was a Mom thing, originally, the prep for a middle school Formal or something. He later practiced with John, who was too shy to take dance classes. While we are at it - my hard headcanon is that, for all that he's Dad's replica and seeks Dad's approval like air, Scott was close to Mom, her White Knight, and takes after her a lot in mannerisms and character (it's maybe more obvious to the adults in their lives, as the boys' memories of Mom are hazy with every passing year).

Some time far off down the line, Scott will run for World President and win. Maybe it's gonna be one of his tried and true "keeping busy with X is the only thing that keeps me from going crazy" tactics. There's literally no heavier duty than the weight of the whole world.

13. Dumbest thing they’ve ever done.

Got engaged or eloped, even, back in Flight School, to a fellow cadet. His trusted second in an air group and a wingman. Of course they usually got suggestions to "get a room" after flight exercises. At some point they did. Both stupidly young, of course. Scott asked Dad for Mom's engagement ring and withstood Dad's stern questioning stare with a defiant stance that "when you know - you know". Dad had little to object to that, but had his reservations. For one, it was against regulations - Scott was CAG (captain of air group), ergo, within direct chain of command. For two - Jeff already had plans of the Tracy Island and IR well underway. Scott was completely game and ready to join Dad, he believed in IR and Dad's dreams since day 1, since TV-21. Of course, in his idealistic mind the Love of His Life was to join them - an exceptional pilot she'd be a great asset to IR team, they worked seamlessly together. It'd be great! Bereznik recon was to be among Scott's last assignments. Only the fiancée didn't exactly subscribe to idyllic dreams of "getting kittens off trees under Daddy's watchful eye" - she thought they were to share a life of service, career soldiers and fighters, test pilots, command material. She thought Scott was betraying that shared dream in favor of indulging Dad yanking his leash. Mom's ring was returned. The breakup was so earthshattering that it may or may not have made Scott loose focus for a second, while flying over hostile territory. It only took a second... The brothers never knew of that whole relationship and situation, only Dad. And maybe Kyrano. I have a whole fic idea about the ring being first taken off Scott, together with dogtags, in interrogation, then retrieved.

16. Deepest darkest secret they won’t even admit to themselves.

These are things and thoughts Scott hates himself for territory - so, certainly, they would come across as jarring (and vastly untrue) to anyone, who actually knows Scott. I'll do several, because why limit ourselves in ways Scotty's mind would torment him.

Scott has taken a life or lives. Not just by proxy, as in people they couldn't save (Dad being first in line in his mind). And not just in combat/self defense. I think Scott has eased someone's suffering at some point and provided assisted suicide (a fellow POW in Bereznik, a rescuee). It's a whole different pit of hell that haunts him. I'd say Scott also has a DNR and maybe, that one time after a dark day and one too many helpings of scotch he asked either Virgil or John to do the same for him - to mercy kill. Virgil is horrified (Scott's DNR gets ignored on multiple occasions not for nothing), but John promises he'd do it. They all pretend that conversation never happened later.

On very, very bad days that happen more often after SOS, Scott kinda wishes they never found Dad's signal. Dad's signal means not only did he fail to save him, but he failed to search hard enough afterwards and settled into just living on. Scott is also not fooling himself- Dad's signal may mean there's no Dad alive anymore on the other side after eight years in outer space - which means loosing Dad all over again and watching the brothers and Grandma loose Dad all over again. Unthinkable. Unbearable. His fault.

Dad's return is not all unicorns and soothing rainbows. Well, it is - for everyone else. His brothers got Dad back, Grandma got her son back, Lee, Casey, Lord Hugh, Brains and Kyrano got their friend back, Tracy Industries got their CEO back, IR got the Commander back, the world got Jeff Tracy back. Which is all to exemplify how much Scott has been a placeholder in everyone's eyes. The brothers and Kayo can talk Dad's ear off a mile a minute about their pursuits and accomplishments, but Scott hasn't got much to show for it. He's only ever been doing... this "being Jeff Tracy" thing for the past eight years, trying to keep his head above water. He missed Dad to the point of wanting to die - but Dad is not back, advising him how to run the show and being there for him, he's back to pick up where he left off.  Alan and Kayo are even trained enough to fly One now. Why would anyone need Scott anymore? (This DOES NOT lead to any good places or conclusions. Scott's undercurrent fear is to see disappointment and disapproval in Dad's eyes, once the euphoria settles down  and he starts to delve into reports how Scott handled things).

Berezniki guards drilled into him that by the time they're done - noone would want what's left of Scott, broken and damaged beyond repair, and Scott is unsure he still doesn't believe them.

Scott doesn't actively want kids of his own. He loves his brothers beyond anything and Alan is his son in all ways that count. But he can't in good conscience pursue to bring a life into the world and then let it suffer the loss, like he did - Scott doesn't  exactly envision a happily ever after timeframe for himself, where he gets to grow old and be there for the kid(s). Nor does he envision a timeframe where he's loved and seen by someone to want to eventually stick around and raise a family. (Let's not forget these are dark, secret assumptions, and Scott is, obviously, way off the mark in them).

[zaccariacombat]

So, I know that Jeff Tracy's facial appearance was actually based on Lorne Greene, but I got a joking text from my dad today saying that Jeff Tracy looks like J. Robert Oppenheimer, and now I see it! I now have a slightly ridiculous headcanon: perhaps Oppenheimer was an ancestor of the Tracy family and somehow some nuclear knowledge he had got passed down to them, which is what got used in the Thunderbirds!

[cg29]

Headcanon.

I’m currently listening to music and had a headcanon of Virgil singing/saying the words of this song to Gordon after his hydrofoil accident…

[edorazzi]

Due to scheduling conflicts we're celebrating Tintin Day early this month! 🥳

Someone said in tags that they could totally see Tintin needing International Rescuing at some point. What better way for the Hood to put iR's integrity on the line than revealing all to a world-famous reporter? Would the Tracys jeopardise their whole operation to save just one life?!

(Un)fortunately Tintin hasn't shown up at work since 1929, so the only sacrifice here will be an old man's dignity. Again. 🪦

[laurenfoxmakesthings]

I have another headcanon idea that I realised when watching the show. Lucille Tracy could be the original Brains, so to speak, before Brains.

I mean, the reboot's International Rescue was around longer than in the original series, and Brains seems pretty young in that series to be the original designer. And I doubt she would be a housewife in that era (the show did get that by having Grandma Tracy be a pilot when she was younger).

Hell, she could've made the Hoverjets. I mean, they were on her family ranch.

[l-egionaire]

You know what? I'm bored, and I've got some ideas, so here are my Ilvermony headcanons.

The separate houses are treated as little more than an aesthetic difference by the students. While there might be rivalries and prank wars between the houses, it never gets to the levels of near discrimination that it gets to at Hogwarts. The students all just consider themselves students of the same school and members of the houses intermingle and hang out with each other all the time. They're even allowed to be in each other's dorms for limited amounts of time each day. The teachers encourage it as they often say that each house represents a part of what every great wizard needs, and coming together helps bring them all together towards the ideal wizard.

It's not uncommon for there to be students from other countries who don't speak English perfectly. Thankfully, there are charms to help translate their speech for the teacher, and the only part of their work that needs to be spoken English are their incantations. Though some might still ask for help in getting the pronunciation correct.

The dining hall students eat in is vastly different from Hogwarts's Great Hall, being a large room with mahogany walls filled with multiple circular tables covered in red tablecloths with gold trim and set with silver untensils, fine blue China plates, and crystal glasses. In the center of the room is a vast roaring fireplace with a picture of the Sayre family overtop of it. During feasts, the Pukwudgies bring out platters and pitchers of food and drink that stay magically hot and cold until the students serve themselves from them. Students are allowed to sit at whatever table they please, and the staff eat at a massive table in the middle of all the others.

The dorms are just different buildings of the castle that have five floors of T-shaped hallways with long red and gold rugs bearing the houses symbol. Along the walls of each hallways are dorm rooms for each years students. Students are assigned two each to a dorm, with their roommates's names being included with the letters they receive at the start of each new year. Roommates can't be changed unless two students agree to trade with each other. The dorms all have two large half poster beds with red and gold sheets and blankets, the blankets also carrying their houses symbol and pillows with blue pillow cases. There's also two desks, half dressers, wardrobes, and a set of three shelves above the dressers on both sides (the rooms are enhanced with expansion charms to give them extra space). The halls for younger students all have a dorm manager in them, an older student who was chosen to sleep on their floor to act as a chaperone and disciplinary figure to the students.

The students get to the school by way of multiple magical single decker busses that all arrive at Rockfeller Center in New York. They drive for around an hour before making a stop at a magically hidden pit stop where the students can get snacks, drinks and use the bathroom before the rest of the journey.

Thanksgivings at Ilvermony are always huge. The decorations include fall leaves that flutter and blow themselves through the halls, realistic turkey figures that jump around and gobble, and in the center of each dining room table is a red and gold hat that plays music. Each table gets its own turkey to carve (any leftovers are served over the next few days as sandwiches) along with boats of gravy and cranberry sauce, bowls of corn, mashed potatoes and carrots. And for dessert, a veritable buffet of pies, including Ilvermony's famous cranberry pie, the recipe said to have been invented by Isolt Sayre herself.

Any students without a wand before coming to school is allowed to select one from the hall of wands just past the sorting room. The hall holds hundreds of wands stacked inside their case along the walls. The room holds both wands so new they were just ordered yesterday and so old they were created at the very start of the school. After each sorting ceremony, the head of the school helps each first year's find a wand that "chooses" them, a process that can take up to an hour at most. It's also heavily guarded at all times by both a pair of heavily armed, muscular Pukwudgies and a rotating member of the staff as it's a prime target for thievery either by students or dark wizards.

Ilvermorny boasts a massive roaster of international magical studies electives. In each one, students can study the government, magical creatures, and magical history of the country of their choosing. Some even go on summer trips to those countries to further their studies.

Rather than O.W.L.s, Ilvermorny students takes the W.I.T. or Wizarding Intuition Tests, something similar to an SAT tests. The tests are taken twice, once during sixth year and once during seventh year for each class the students take, and the combined scores of each year are added together, and that average becomes their score. The better the score in certain subjects, the more job opportunities the students have.

To receive mail, students go to the mail room in a tall tower at the southern side of the castle where every owl goes to bring packages and letters for their deliveriees to receive. The mail room is student run and students are selected at random to do the job.

[squiddokiddo]

Posted this in the group chat but I feel like I need to post it here too.✨

[lenfantdeverone]

Scott and pain tolerance headcanon

TW: discussion of PTSD, mental health issues, altered pain perception, Scott in Bereznik stuff

Scott 100% has an altered and dysfunctional pain perception after his time in Bereznik.

He would have strong pain reactions to minor, tiny injuries and procedures that may trigger a PTSD episode, but he would have a high, almost numb pain tolerance when he is completely focused on a rescue.

Needles? He hates needles. They hurt so so much it's almost unberable.

But a fully dislocated shoulder while on a mission? He would barely feel anything at all. He could keep working while having broken bones, while bleeding, and he genuinely wouldn't notice until his brothers take a look at him.

Virgil and John often scold him for being recless and working while injured, but sometimes Scott truly can't tell when he's really hurting. His mind is always twisting the reality around him, he can't feel pain properly anymore. It's an extreme coping mechanism mixed with the altered survival instinct that comes with PTSD. In order to protect himself from pain, his brain sometimes shuts the pain off completely, and other times it makes it much much worse.

This, added to his work ethic in which he needs to push himself to the very limit, makes his job so much more difficult and dangerous. I do believe he is getting better the longer he gets used to his line of work, and I do believe he is required by his family and Colonel Casey to go to therapy to be even allowed on a Thunderbird in the first place, but I still hope he will take some time to properly recover after Jeff is back and takes some responsibilities off his shoulders.

[feet010]

I'm truly disappointed there are no x readers of this show, there is so many characters and so much potential 💔

IT'S A GREAT SHOW, please. If you're interested in looking for something new, CONSIDER Thunderbirds are going. The characters are cutie patooties and, overall, just some lovable characters !

Also Scott is hot 🤷‍♀️

[zaccariacombat]

I started headcanoning Gordon as gay for no reason other than a friend and my dad both independently saying he seemed gay despite them having minimal to no exposure to Thunderbirds that point. That friend had never seen Thunderbirds, only a few pictures I had posted, and my dad hadn't either. However, as they were saying that, I felt it too. Funnily enough, my dad did end up watching the two TOS Thunderbirds films later on, and texted me about "the gay one," since he didn't know Gordon's name, but I still knew exactly who he was talking about. I don't even ship Gordon with anyone. He's just gay

[skeefee-sky]

'Song of Memory.'

@thunder-tober Day prompt: 23- Song Characters: Virgil Tracy, Thunderbird Two Word count: 585

Everyone has a song that reminds them of a loved one that’s passed, or one they associate with that person – their song. Haven’t mentioned the song in particular; gonna leave that up to reader’s interpretation <3 During a maintenance check, Thunderbird Two asks Virgil about the song he’s humming. She finds out it has deeper meaning than she thought.

💙💚TB ~~~ TB ~~~ TB ~~~ TB ~~~ TB ~~~ TB ~~~ TB ~~~ TB 💚💙

“What are you humming?”

Virgil had expected the question by now. He’d make some sort of musical noise to pass the time during maintenance. And his Thunderbird would always inquire the melodies. He personally loved her curiosities in music, one day promising to play her a few tunes from the piano.

“Just a song…” he started, glimpsing over one of the scans as he walked past.

“Captain, it’s not ‘just a song’,” Thunderbird Two lightly poked. She had been listening; it definitely wasn’t just all that. Virgil softly scoffed.

“If you’d let me finish… It’s, just a song I used to listen to with my mother… It’s her song.”

The Thunderbird quietened at that, softening her engines as best she could out of courtesy. She hadn’t quite been expecting that answer... She hadn’t heard much about the boys’ mother – they rarely spoke about her at all. But she did know they’d all been fairly young when she had passed. Being a machine, Thunderbird Two didn’t quite understand the feeling of loss, but she had to imagine it hurt something awful…

“Sorry…”

“You’re fine, Two,” Virgil reassured, a soft chuckle escaped his lips as he paced her module. “I know I… we don’t talk about her as much as we do Dad but, we definitely should. I feel like, some of us are starting to forget her…”

He turned to input a few details into the monitor behind him, frowning at some of the data already on the screen. Well that was something he’d have to get Brains to check later… Fingers swiftly moved as he typed, and he started to hum again unconsciously.

“It sounds like it’s a sad song…” Thunderbird Two spoke up suddenly, softly. She didn’t mean to keep interrupting him; she wanted to hear the whole song out. But, something felt different about this song, and know that she knew it related to his mother, her curiosity was getting the best of her. Unnatural for a ship, but not a Thunderbird.

“Can you, tell me some things about her? Your mother?”

Virgil lifted his hands from the keys, breath caught in his throat as he paused. He then swiftly put in another command and moved away from the monitor, leaning up against the side of the module as he exhaled.

“She’s who encouraged my musical talent, you know… She’d be at the piano at any given opportunity, plunking for inspiration or playing a few notes of a song,” he started, tilting his head back a little as he spoke. “This song in particular, it was by one of her favourite artists. She taught herself the piano track to it, and would sing it to us before she tucked us into bed. It’s, not so much sad, as it is, reflective, in a way.”

Thunderbird Two listened intently, playing the song silently along her processor so she could try and picture what her pilot described. She could only imagine…

“I’d sit with her when she played; sometimes John was with us… She taught me right-hand, then left, but for some reason I struggled so much to put it together at first.” The laugh that left her pilot’s lips had the Thunderbird rumbling softly. He didn’t have to, but she was glad she’d gotten him talking. The conversations they had between each other during her maintenance checks did always seem to make them go faster.

“Maybe… Maybe I can play it for you one day, Thunderbird Two…”

“I’d like that, captain… Thank you.”

[llamawrites]

Thunderbirds Headcanons

TOS Brains is deceivingly muscular.

Hear me out, he’s not as muscular as the boys. Yet He does have some muscle from lifting heavy machinery parts, and he also does kinda stay in shape just in case he needs to be out in a danger zone. Funny thing is that no one can really tell because he wears loose clothes/ funny fitting clothes that hides his physique.

[scott-tracy-1]

Bisexual Scott Tracy, my favourite :3