#ttte molly

[konnosaurus]

smolly (smol molly)!

[togetherness23]

Not sure how to feel about the implication of the Troublesome Truck models with faces.

[edwards-exploit]

It's... it's...! Or, the big main line engines show their displeasure.

[shikariiin]

Well, well, well! If it isn't Molly!

I made her the fun aunt, and an aro, because me??? Following the source material??? Nah we ball around here! Rambles bellow!

Molly is from the same railway as Edward, aka the Furness railway, however she's one of the few engines who weren't arranged for marriage, instead being bought by a rich couple as their own private engine, now being the family heirloom she is treated humanely by them, letting her adopt her own last name.

I made Her and Edward cousins! Though not really blood related if you know what I mean :p, Both are industrial class, however Molly is just 2 years younger than him.

Molly had trouble recognizing Edward, but because she's more open minded, she immediately accepted Edward as he is.

I made her character the fun aunt, but not erasing her original personality entirely, I like how she's sensible and is sensitive to conflict, adding that I think she would give best relationship advice despite being Aromantic, coaches don't play ;p.

They both have alot to catch up on!

[steamy-mallard]

I keep forgetting I have this God forsaken app, so have some cardboard trains

[friendly-emerald-emily]

molly is such a fascinating character to me. and surprisingly, not because of her content in the show. but her lack of content. molly really felt like to me she was supposed to be the break-out star of the HiT era. let me explain why.

in short, it's all down to marketing and merchandise. i'm a massive HiT era apologist, mostly because it's the era of ttte i grew up with, but as i was looking through my catalogue of merch, i noticed something...molly was popping up. a lot. weirdly so.

i have a good amount of those briarpatch ttte board games, and typically they were for 4 players, and as such 4 engines were provided to play as: thomas, percy, james, and...molly? at first it seems weird, but when you think about it, it makes sense. molly rounds out a quartet themed around red, green, blue, and yellow, and also adds in a female character. i think that last bit is important, but i'll get to it later.

so i went digging, and the 4 player briarpatch games pre-molly usually had mavis in her place, likely also to add female representation, just swapping yellow for black. there are a few exceptions, i recall seeing toby and harvey instead, but again, it was mostly mavis.

looking at more merchandise outside of board games in this era, molly got quite a bit of focus. she was part of a set of 4 bath squirters along with thomas, percy, and james, and what i find most shocking, she was one of VERY few engines to receive a trackmaster remote control engine. molly also was featured on a 2008 great discovery trading card, even though she only had one line in the entire movie.

after this, i went digging deeper into the world of the thomas microsites and online games, where molly also had a strong presence. the quartet of thomas, percy, james, and molly continued in the simon-says type memory game (i think it's called 'peep peep!'?) and molly also appeared in the emotions game, but this game featured 5 engines, and the fifth...was emily. remember my point theorizing that molly was focused on because she was a girl? here's where it's important.

this five engine ensemble of thomas, percy, james, molly, and emily is repeated again in the plug n' play game 'right on time', a game that i own and remember fondly. emily was chosen again to fill the fifth slot, and i think it's because HiT wanted to have a gender-equal ensemble a la bwba. and i think molly was chosen specifically not only because her yellow paint is unique and for her gender, but because she is probably the girl character at the time that had the most opposing personality to emily. as we all know during this time, emily was interesting and had flaws unlike SOME OTHER ERAS- portrayed as having a very strong and opinionated personality, which would easily contrast towards molly's more shy and sensitive personality. both have also been described as having sisterly attitudes towards other engines. i think HiT wanted to prove in this 5 engine ensemble that they had varied writing for their female characters.

for all of this, i think that molly WAS supposed to be a much more important character than she turned out to be, mostly because she was marketed so heavily and disproportionately than her screen time would lead you to believe. molly also appeared more often than the other HiT newbies (bar rosie), but that isn't really saying much with how little other characters like neville or billy appeared. i don't know why molly was dropped so suddenly when the set up for her seemed to be there? only thing i can think of is that emily had just been moved to tidmouth sheds right before series 9, and that they didn't want to repeat that process?? idk i'm just spitballing because i've been thinking about molly a lot recently. on a small related note, her basis is also very specific and her design is SUCH a standout compared to other new characters at this time, so clearly effort was put into her. i wonder how different the series would have been if molly was elevated to prominent secondary character status like salty or mavis, or even main character status!

tl;dr i think molly was originally going to be important but then she wasn't :(

[thefluffyrailway-official]

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[monstersteam]

Miscellaneous mechanica

[lomotunes2008]

Oh... That's gore... That's gore of my comfort characters...

[esperfruit]

Molly Gijinka!

Molly Hamilton

Age: 54

Height: 170 cm

A kind and helpful yet a bit naive lady, who puts a lot of pride into her engine's strenght. Molly is rather self-concious about falling into the background. She and Emily had known each other from university and are old rivals, having chats, where they are more teasing each other than anything. She most regulat work partner is BoCo and she is seen helping out at Mavis's quarry sometimes.

[xylem-3-keys]

Molly Color Palette

The best shy gal

[duskstargazer]

[1967]

“…Before…?”

“Before they banned steam on the British main line.”

The words echoed in Douglas’s smokebox. Come to think of it, he couldn’t remember the last train he’d taken to the Mainland. Nowadays, his trains all terminated at Vicarstown, and there was still another - albeit considerably smaller - island between that and Barrow.

The only service he had any involvement in nowadays that still went past Barrow was the Midnight Goods.

“If they’re bannin’ steam on the mainline…” he murmured, “then… what’s gonna happen to the engines wurrkin’ there?”

Images of his time after BR ended his working life flashed through his smokebox. The cold, dark siding he’d sat in, languishing as only his boiler saw use. Until the night Donald came back for him.

He couldn’t let another engine go through that. There were countless engines on the Mainland with their time drawing near, whether they knew it or not. If he could save even one, he had to try.

“Sirr,” Douglas whispered to his driver.

“Yeh?”

“I think we maun be on the Midnight Goods tomorrow night.”

[etherealstrike]

Some silly art featuring alot of characters

Alt version of the 3rd image below:

[edwards-exploit]

i think it'd be fun if molly and neville and murdoch were a trio

[steamy-mallard]

Some silly shots with my models

Head cannon for the pics with Mavis with Molly and Diesel: She's yapping about MLP and will not stop until she runs out of fuel

[friendly-emerald-emily]

with my recent posts about molly, i'd like to make this one a space to share molly-specific head canons! i'll start with my own :3 - molly's desire to be seen as special and important could stem from the history of her class, the GER S46. they started out as the eastern's premier express passenger class, but were being phased out of those duties starting in 1911, being demoted to less important passenger services, to then goods trains until the final 4 of the class were withdrawn in 1960.

- adding on to the previous point, molly also wants to desperately prove her worth because she fears being withdrawn from service, but her shyness prevents her from asking for help when she needs it.

- molly doesn't necessarily mind doing goods work, in fact pulling long heavy goods trains is a better show of her sheer strength (which it's canon that she's very proud of), but her insecurities rear their ugly heads when other engines start making passing remarks about goods work being inherently lesser than passenger trains.

- molly's shy and sensitive nature does make her very emotionally intelligent, and is one of the better engines to turn to on emotional matters, her sensitivity gives her a nasty habit of holding grudges. she is willing to forgive though, if she believes whoever wronged her made up for it - i imagine molly would get along with neville pretty well. i'll try to keep this point as molly centric as i can, but in my personal headcanon molly and neville are the epitome of 'similar, yet different'. while both are large, introverted tender engines, they differ when you look deeper. molly's self esteem is usually good when she's on her own or feeling confident, but it starts to crumble when others tease or, or she feels she has to try harder than usual to prove herself. neville, on the other hand, typically struggles with self-esteem because of how often he experienced bullying based on his looks (his irl basis was nicknamed 'the ugly duckling' poor guy :() and his self-view is usually only raised when he gets a genuine compliment. molly can hold grudges, however neville doesn't; he'll gladly accept anyone who's shown him any kindness...which can lead to him being a fair bit more naive than molly. - molly is a good judge of character. no one can really explain it, but when the usually sunny molly starts getting cranky around someone, you best believe that engine is up to no good. - molly and emily are sort of frenemies. they have more in common than they realize, both are eager to please and are proud of what they're capable of...it's just emily tends be louder about it than molly is. (also, emily doesn't make that comment at the beginning of molly's special special in my world. it's out of character because emily doesn't usually tease anyone without being provoked first). emily and molly may not like each other very much because of their different personalities, however they both have a mutual respect towards one another for being the only large female engines that are willing to get their hands dirty and haul long heavy goods trains - molly is friends with murdoch, but she finds him hard to be around sometimes because of how much of a downer he can be -molly's favorite holiday is easter. she enjoys the warmth of early spring and fun, bright colored eggs. -conflict stresses molly out because on her old line, many of her steam colleagues had plenty of verbal sparring matches with her old controller begging them to be kept in favor of the newer, often diesel, engines. in general, heated arguments dig up ugly memories for her - despite her deep-seated insecurities, molly is actually an optomist and tries to make the best of negative situations. - when it comes to mixed-traffic engines, she's easily one of the most skills when it comes to expertise on both passenger and goods trains, owing to her extensive working past in both fields. she's very capable in both and is one of the engines on sodor that gets herself into the least amount of accidents.

-molly has a good relationship with trucks. her gentle and patient nature actually makes the trucks quite fond of her, the fact that she doesn't bash them around or lose her temper with them alone is more than enough to make them respect her. - molly secretly has a large penchant for gossip. she never partakes in it herself, but she is curious about the happenings of other engines. murdoch is a good source of gossip, because of his quietness he often becomes a fly on the wall, but the trucks are always telling her about frustrated engines blabbing about how much they dislike another. that's why when big news starts spreading, molly usually has very little reaction to it. she already knew.