Hello hello!! Welcome to my blog! 🎀
I finally scrambled a proper introduction to my blog hehe. This post will be dedicated to explaining everything you need to know about this blog and what I do, draw or whatever. Here are some general highlights of everything:
-Ćao ćao! My name is Angela (Anđela), but you can also call me Toki
-English is NOT my first language, so grammar and spelling mistakes are very frequent
-As of writing this description, I'm a minor (I'll soon be 18)
-I'm a bit corny, fruity, zesty, whatever you want to call it, and my jokes are exactly that
-I'm not prone to drawing nsfw due to my age, but I'll keep this blog 15+ due to some ocassional abs, tits, ass, blood, swearing, and sensitive topics (when I decide to be a bit angsty)
-I'm in multifandoms, my biggest interests as of now are TTTE, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, Minecraft, TMNT, MLP, PVZ etc.
-This is specifically a TTTE blog, but if you are really interested in other pieces of media, I can make a seperate blog for that!
-My favourite characters are Edward, Duck, Daisy, Rosie and Duncan, so I'll draw them the most (probably), but if you have any requests for a character, you can ask me!
-I'm a multishipper, I love me some good romance and I'm not limited by anything, as long as the ship is not proship, huge age gaps (15+), incest, and generally illegal and staight up abuse. (if you support ships that fall under these catagories, DNI immediately!!)
-If you have any ship in mind, you can request as well, but please follow the rule from earlier
-I'm usually pretty open about my personal life, whatever interesting I do irl, I'll maybe share (I won't share my face though, as I don't want it to be wrongly used). This is my online persona, and the person who runs this blog:
-I'm bisexual, and most of my characters are bi by deafult
-Don't spread hate (spread legs instead lol), if you don't like anything I present to you so far, you're not forced to like and support me, just block me or whatever (speaking from an...actual experience...)
-There will be a separate post for all the engines included in the au
-Have fun, hope you'll enjoy your stay!
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As for my aus, I have a lot in mind, but I'll start with my most dedicated one, which is the Driver au, where all the engines are drivers instead. This my first ever (proper) writen au for a show, so expect some plot holes, errors and inconsistencies. This is a very passionate project and I'm so excited to share it with you all! Since the engines are now drivers, I need to change a lot of factors about them that'll make atleast some sense, like their personalities, social status, actual backstory, passions, education and feelings. Here are some important notes to keep in mind:
1. Every single engine on the island that has a face has its own driver counterpart (as for the trucks, I'll explain that in a bit)
2. The time is set in modern era (I'll call it 202X)
3. All the drivers live and work on Sodor, thus they have dorms, cafeterias, laundry room, and other essencials
4. The coaches with faces are humans as well, and act like stationmasters, helping out passengers and getting their luggage in, and also ensuring the good or anything put on trucks is secured and ready to go
5. Ages of the drivers is determent by their engine's face, since I can't strictly rely on the age of the engine itself. It also works as in real life; there are no minors working (against the law), they have to have finished college in any degree (perferably a degree for railways), and if they're over 60, they can retire. So, the youngest driver would be about 23-24 years, and the oldest is about 60-65 years of age
6. Engines don't have faces, and their faces and personas are basically their drivers
Now, I'll devide this au in smaller parts, so I'll be more understandable and easier to read.
Island of Sodor
Honestly, I had no idea what to do with the island. I thought I'd just not include it in the au and hope nobody would ask any questions about it. However, Sodor is probably one of the most important factors in the au, since it's literally the main plot place for everything, and I just couldn't simply say "Yea, Sodor exists because I said so!". For the existence of Sodor, I had two options: to make it up to simply be an island that exists in real life, and the island thoughout the years was used for transporations blablabla, OR, I could include some fantasy bullshit, and make it that Sodor is a fictional place (which is), that exists because of supernatural engines, such as Lady and Proteus, who used their magical essence to make the island magical, thus that's the reason why engines and trucks have faces. The first option is probably easier to develop, because I need to make a seperate explaination for Lady and Proteus and how THEY exist within the universe first. The second option is definitely more interesting and has more story potencial, but it's time-consuming. My final desicion was to go with the second option and just explain the existence of supernatural engines (no, they're not gods), and as for Lady and Proteus, I'll just make separate sheets for them...
Supernatural engines/Drivers
These are special types of engines, who are made after their death. In actual T&F universe, 'scrap' is treated as a death to an engine. That implifys here aswell, but a bit different. If engines died due to being, they'd be just too many engines with supernatural powers, so the only was to have powers is by an "unnatural death", like falling off of a bridge, while saving the day, or getting sucked by stone avalance while saving others. Engines have to first literally sacrifice themselves to become powerful in another afterlife. Lady died while saving the mainland engines from Diesel 10 (this event ocurred before Sodor existed), and Proteus died while saving his friend from falling off of a bridge. These powers grant you shapeshifting into both human form and engines whenever they please. They can also shapeshift into ghosts, and can enter minds and dreams, but they do that when apsolutely necessary. Note: No, Diesel 10 is not a supernatural because he never died, he was successfuly rebuilt and that's when the movie The Magic railway ocurred.
Timelines
Sodor was built a long time ago (nobody remembers exactly when), and started to be used as a railway system in 1800s. Tehnically speaking, the first ever engine/driver to be brought on Sodor wouldn't be Edward, it would be either Puffing Billy, Stephen or Duke. However, I made Edward the first even employee in modern era, and the order of Steam team introduction is basically the replica of engine introduction in 1945. In the modern timeline, Sodor wasn't as efficent and busy as before, even going bankrupt, and Sir Topham Hatt was forced to shut the railway down and retire. This detail is important, because within the downfall of Sodor, the magical essence slowly faded away, and thus the faces and feelings of engines disappeared. Who knows, maybe when Sodor finally reached the peak it once had, the magic will return...
Miss Harrison
This is the new controller, who was guilty of leaving the beautiful island to rot, so she decided to reconstruct it and make it work again. Harrison is very encouraging, kind and intelligent. She's a middle-aged woman, who's the voice of reasoning, profesionalism and optimism, knows how to work under pressure and is a great leader and solution-maker. She's a bit too empathetic, however, sometimes giving multiple second chances without even realizing the damage. She means well, but sometimes, her selfishness and brutality can leave a negative impact. Obviously, we love her.
Trucks
Yea, I have no idea how to make trucks work. Logically speaking, I just have to turn them into humans, right? Well, yes, but then what? What will be their purpose, what will they bring to the story, how will majority of incidents happend, how will troublesome trucks work? I can't answer half of these, maybe I could leave trucks with faces and chaotic nature, or they can be turned into workers, who load the trucks and mess with the couplings or loads, or to make them a bunch of kids who hop into the trucks and cause trouble, I don't know. I need some more time to figure this part out.
Off-rail gang
They work the same as engines. Cranky, for example, is a worker who controls the crane, or Berty drives the bus, Harold flies the helicopter etc etc. Everything implifys for them too.
In conclusion:
The au will probably not stay as consistent because some parts are not included or thought-out yet, but I'm still excited to work on something so entertaining for me. If you have any questions about the au, ask away! I appreciate every single one of you who find this ridicilous blog interesting, every single follow and like means so much to me, and I hope to improve not only with drawing, but also in storytelling and to finally learn how this fuck-ass app works. Thank you and stay safe!
