I'm Going To Be Very Late But Stuff It, Toby Is The Next One To Come To Sodor Anyway. Have A Henrietta,

I'm going to be very late but stuff it, Toby is the next one to come to Sodor anyway. Have a Henrietta, she's Toby's ghost wife and haunts the coach Toby's tram pulls.

She was introduced for the sole reason of having an ethnic main character, a- "modernization" move on matels part. She doesn't have much of a character aside from basic happy-go-lucky. Same with Rebecca, except she's considered worst.

Human Nia full body concept design.

NIAAAA-

GOD I'm out of practice drawing women, I had to redraw the base sketch three times to get it right.

But I still didn't get it right, ANYWAYS-

Most of Nia's physical details are, like, in her paint, so the markings, which don't show in this base sketch, also I don't care what anyone says, I love her, so suck iT-

Anyways, this took longer than it should've, next on the list is Kana, which might be a bit easier, I'm not sure. ANYWAYS, hope you enjoy, I think I've rambled enough, peace and chicken grease. ✌️✨

Proteus is blind and mute, as well as emaciated. To speak his lantern crackles like the cooling/heating of metal in morse code. He was cursed back in the 18th century by a witch when he disobeyed her, he was her personal servant at the time as fauns, or in Proteus's case- faun hybrids, were considered slaves by even other mythic. He was cursed to only see through fire, which his previous mistress abused greatly. Often setting a ring of fire around him to greatly disorient him. This was an agony to Proteus, and eventually his screams of pain annoyed the witch to the point where she cut his voice as well, only being able to speak through fire. After another while of this multi curse, the witch eventually turned the faun hybrid into her personal candelabra. His body fat being the wax and his hair and fur the wick with an eternal flame. One night the witch was hunted by the locals of the area, making Proteus free from her wrath, but not quite out of the woods. He ran far to the close horse-powered railway as the closest fire to him was a campfire the workers had set. They pitied him and gave him a new locomotives lamp so he could use to see. They also took it a step further in directing him to a local shaman. When the faun met the shaman they said they would be able to alter his curse but not remove it. They made it so that at long as Proteus was holding a flame he would be able to see, otherwise he would be completely blind. Proteus agreed and once the exchange was made the shaman directed him to the island of Sodor, where he was told his fate would be written. With nothing better to do the skeletal faun made his way to the fabled sanctuary, and as they say, the rest is history...

Proteus is available for asks....

Alright, so the IRL mainland engine has been decided, and that's City of Touro. But now I have another question for you guys, out of any machine from famous history that has been scrapped, whom would you like to see in this AU? I've been debating giving the Titanic a design because in this AU while she did sink, there weren't nearly as many casualties and she was resurfaced by merfolk in 1912. So whom would you like to see? It can be any legendary historic machinery that has been scrapped. Olympic? Britannic? Novelty? Perseverance? Gadwall/Sir Ralph Wedgwood? Tell me in messages or reblogs.

Jayde was former military and so was Angel if that's anything.

is anyone in your au part of like the military and such?

omg why I didn't think about that

I know I'm late, but here's Toby for 7/7. I spent awhile designing him and I don't think I'm even done yet. And yes, another fattie grandpa faun. Toby doesn't have an excuse though, he actually drives his engine self so he doesn't get much exercise.