#harlen

Gordon The Big Beast

Gordon is the largest of Topham’s original fleet of steam beasts and one of the meanest, especially since he has a high opinion of himself due to his breeding and has experienced some bad treatment at the hands of his former owners. If you aren’t careful, he will swipe you aside with his claws or his tail…or he will just step on you.

He was the first born calf from Nigel Gresley’s freshly purchased steam beast pair that would be used to breed strong new express beasts. Gordon spent more than twelve months in his mother before he was born, remarkably healthy but overdue as most steam beasts (especially big ones) are pregnant for eleven to twelve months! Calf Gordon was also a little bigger than expected too but thankfully both he and his mother were alright.

After a year, Gordon began his training to be a proper express steamie around the same time his brother (later known as The Flying Scotsman). Training was hard back in those days and Gordon wasn’t always treated kindly by those holding a bull hook or a whip.

When he was finally old enough, he left the ranch and went to run on the GNR where he was painted green but wasn’t allowed to pull coaches or really even interact much either other steam beasts and some workers were very eager to swing the bull hook when he misbehaved, which led to him being difficult and angry especially he was forced to be cooped up.

Sir Topham Hatt later purchased him when he was in need of a large express beast and Gordon was sent to Sodor and gifted the number four and a brand new harness and even new paint for his armored shell. He would also be forced to interact with others of his kind that he had never seen before which caused some hiccups (especially with Henry as Gordon wanted to establish dominance). Staying on Sodor also later saved him from the slaughter of his many of his siblings…

He has a cat that sleeps in his mane at night and he would never admit that he likes it as he’s quite lonely and wouldn’t admit it to the others but he’d like the chance to maybe start a family of his own if he meets the right dam which is very possible as new beasts seem to arrive every month.

He got on very well with the late Harlen Calloway as he wasn’t interested in just making Gordon behave or pull unwanted specials without a fuss but instead treated him as he would any other human worthy of respect and dignity. It helped that Harlen seemed to enjoy the company of beasts more than humans. Gordon hasn’t really gotten on with Harlen’s daughter, Ducky, but she isn’t half bad commonly from what Edward says and she’s very cuddly too.

I imagine it would take a lot of being a very awful person in order to piss Harlen off. They’re slow to anger, but once you’re there, hooo boy-

Shane had to leave Montana for awhile. He wanted to expand a little more as a creator with his content, not happy with some of the things he was doing. After sometime in Cali, he met with a friend of Garret's, Andrew. And... they really hit it off, like really. He was so happy, arrangements were made right away for working with him. After shooting some videos at his home, and meeting with a few friends, he was heading back to the Uni. He texted Felix and when he was on and off the plane, now ubering his way back.