#inside stories

(Thomas)

Before GD fever;

After GD fever;

(The skeletal structure of Thommy boy)

So they went from steam engines to actually organism so what I'd you tried to light there firebox would it cook them alive? Or there water tanks if one were to fill it with a liquid (water for argument's sake) would it affect them like would the water hydrate them or would it just slosh around weighting them down

It's ok if you don't have any answers I'm just genuinely curious

Since it’s no longer just their face that’s organic, yes, the rest of their bodies are organic. As for their original bodies (the entire engine part), the metal parts are mixed in with the flesh. If you open the smokebox door, everything will look and feel exactly how it was before the engine mutated, same goes for feeling the buffers, boiler, smokebox and the rest of the locomotive part of the body.

The infection basically gave the engines these weird abilities to bend and arch their bodies without anything important inside getting damaged, as it just bends with the rest of the body without getting dented or anything. Even when they’re all in normal engine forms, they can still do it and move around like they can in AEG, but it’s not as freaky. The workmen and the controllers have to agree that it’s a little freaky to them.

Sir Topham Hatt always winces when he sees either Henry, Gordon, Edward and Toby bend their bodies since they’re the oldest engines on his railway (I know Thomas and James were realistically built before Henry and Gordon, but their build dates are a little different in this au). Mr Percival internally freaks out when Skarloey, Rheneas or Duke bend their bodies since they’re ALSO the oldest. Mr Fergus Duncan just accepted the logic breaking bending the engines do as the new normal.

Sir Robert Norramby doesn’t mind the bending, but is a little concerned when Stephen bends since…yeah. Oldest steam engine in history.