#oc engine

HNGHGH YA’LL. i am, SO. EXCITED. here he is, designed by me and modeled by the incomparable Mr_Mengine on Twitter!!!!

i wanna introduce the London Necropolis Railway M7 tank engine, No 141…aka Rook <3

Rook is a soft spoken, low energy, rather formal little tank engine with something of a morbid streak. but wouldn’t you too if you worked as a train that only carried the dead to be laid to rest?

Rook loves poetry, rainy days, and the quiet dignity of cemeteries. He tends to call everyone ‘sir’ or ‘ma’am’ (or your title of choice, ofc). dont let his morose looks fool you though, he DOES have a sense of humor of the gallows variety, which can catch the other engines off guard, as he usually doesn’t do much laughing and cutting up…but when he does it tends to be…chilling.

He is a hard (if a tad slow) worker who takes pride in his job, and is equally happy shunting loads of caskets and embalming fluid or carrying the ornate black coaches full of the bereaved and the deceased. He is protective and gentle with his crew. He seems to have a close bond with them, presumably as he’s so used to carrying the dead; he enjoys the time spent with them having a good wash down, or the sleepy morning hours before his fire is stoked.

He can be fussy about his appearance - he’s sensitive about his prodigious nose and lazy eye that he tends to keep closed…even at the expense of losing depth perception.