#ttte moon rambles

[honeysucklesteam]

Currently watching season 2 of TTTE, and like, I don’t get why in some old Internet fan media, Sir Topham hat is portrayed to be rude and careless towards his engines. Like- I’m watching the episode where he has to make a decision to send Douglas or Donald away- and Percy goes up to him nervously to lie about why he shouldn’t send them away. Topham looks so fondly at his engines; you can tell that he loves them, even though he might scold them for things that are out of their control.

A couple episodes before that- it’s the episode where Diesel spreads lies that Duck is talking crap about the steam team. When Gordon said that duck called him “a galloping sausage” and I forgot what James was called; but oh my gosh the fact that Topham had to stop himself from laughing is just pure adorable! He already knew Duck won’t spread those kinds of remarks and he has a sense of humor!

Sir Topham Hatt needs more love in the fandom 💕 he’s so charming in season 2

[brownsugar-chan]

tfw you go back in time several times to try and save your first friend from death

[bruhstation]

Hi! I love your AU and human designs so much, can I ask what the inspirations for it are?

thank you very much!!! well besides the obvious being the ttte show and the railway series books, a lot of inspirations for the story came from comics, shows, and games that I love. also whatever my brain cooks whenever I'm daydreaming about anything exciting to happen in classes

(long ramble + some character talk under the cut)

to start off this insane ramble. inspirations for writing the characters came from - to name a few - land of the lustr0us, d3ltarun3, the p0kem0n myst3ry dunge0n games, blue peri0d... the story as well. also some of the wackiness came from joj0's biz4rre adventure

land of the lustr0us is a HUGE one. this manga is about humanoid beings living in a society that prioritizes hard work over creativity, believes that the group's benefits is more important over one's own interests, casts aside those who can't work well, and doesn't really understand the concept of death and loss because they all believe they can be fixed (until they realize their fallen comrades are ground to dust and spread across the moon).

(ph0s' character development metamorphosis is a great inspiration for thomas', henry's and lady's characters. c1nnabar's and di4mond's are james' and percy's)

it's just like ttte. and casa tidmouth, except they're all actually humans and it's way WAY less darker than land of the lustr0us

I also like playing with parallels - duck and diesel being one of my favorites - and juxtapositions.... like gordon for example. his whole family is dying one by one yet despite his (understandable) sadness to the point where prior to the story he once asked scott to visit him, he now couldn't bother enough to think too much about it, unlike his remaining brother scott. gordon's not exactly famous job-wise outside of sodor but the steam team got his back, unlike scott who's insanely famous - a celebrity - yet his celebrity friends are just friends with him for the sake of their own reputations. I think it fits with the whole "everyone's all friends and coworkers on the surface yet there's a secret or two that we've decided to keep to ourselves" or "lamenting what I don't have instead of being happy for what I have" themes. something like that, capiche?

also in general I'm just fascinated about the concept of purpose and how someone's life (whether it's their lifespan, upbringing, or their role in day-to-day life in general) affects it. like lady and d10.

lady's a goddess from the shining time world. her purpose is, well, to make sure nobody dies from any freak accidents. after that's out of the window thanks to gold dust shortages, her new purpose is now to look for gold dust sources. despite all this, she never understood how humans truly work, how their relationships affect each other, how everyone has different purposes and is even able to choose their own, because from the start of her life in the shining time world until she visited sodor, she's always been alone (yet content, for she doesn't know that the company of others might have changed her life a whole lot) and appointed as the goddess of the railways. nothing more, nothing less.

d10's almost the same as lady. I won't tell too much about his backstory, but it's not hard to guess that a man with 10 phds, numerous accounts of crimes, and who works as a very questionable scrapyard worker doesn't exactly have the nicest backstory. he started out alone, something that lady also shares, and they're both insanely curious about what they aren't (d10's are gods and their powers, while lady's is humans), but what makes them both different is that one finds his own purpose by himself and works his ass off to reach his goal (even though it's definitely messed up), while the other already got a purpose assigned to her the moment she existed. and boy will these not turn out exactly the prettiest for the both of them, especially when they eventually meet

as for character designs: I just eyeball them and then add details that correspond to their respective stories and occupations. henry cut his hair and got two noticeable scars after his revivement to show his growth, gordon’s outfit is a 4-layer suit because he has to dress sharp as the face of the express, thomas’ outfit consists of overalls, a pair of modified sneakers, and red bandana to show that he’s the protagonist who started off as someone excited for adventures, etc.

ANYWAYS PFDTFDYFGH SORRY FOR THE LONG RAMBLE I JUST LOVE TALKING ABOUT WRITING AND CHARACTERS .... THANK YOU FOR ASKING!!!

[honeysucklesteam]

Lowkey nervous about watching BWBA bc I heard it was pretty bad 😭😭 and like I’m having the time of my life watching the brenner era so idk if I wanna watch Thomas go out with a whimper… UGHH