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d-issent · 1 year

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Did you guys know that my very, very first MSR/TTTE/Smudger-based fic was entirely centred around cats?

I wrote an entire "book," and had multiple other books planned out; a cat named "Stripes" was the main protagonist, she worked with Smudger and turned into the Edgiest Mf in The World when he was decommissioned.

I think the whole idea was; the cats are much smaller and much more limber than humans, so they could couple and uncouple the carriages (somehow,) check that carriage doors were closed, go for help without the engine losing either one of their human crew, walk ahead of the train on foggy/snowy days to check for blockages or animals on the rails, etc. None of it makes any damn sense but I was twelve.

The Big Plot that was meant to span across about seven books was that every single engine who had met a sticky end in TTTE (Godred, Smudger, Proteus(maybe?) Silver, etc) had at one point had a Cat Partner, and those cats would each tell Stripes their sob story of how they lost their engine. All of it does lead up to a huge campaign/effort for humans to stop their cutthroat treatment of their engines, and I think Smudger and Stripes were eventually meant to be re-united at the end, but later on I think I fucken killed Stripes before that could happen lmfao.

There was also some weird subplot about all of the characters from TUGS being cats too? They were all reincarnated as cats or something after Bigg City Port shut down, and I think Stripes was behind that too using uh... Magical protagonist powers or some shit. I'll have to find the book, but man oh man it was a wild time.

Again. Everything about this is completely nonsensical, but I do think back on it sometimes and Laugh, a lot.

#bold of me to have a Cat Phase when just being around a cat is enough to break me out in eczema #get good Noun #anyway uh live laugh love ig

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