Percy

**Percy** is a main character in *Sudrian Steam*. He is one of the original engines to work on the North Western Railway. He is considered a mixed traffic engine, as he is perfectly capable of pulling both passengers and freight. Even if he isn't as big as the other mixed traffic engines, he makes up for his small size with hard work and enthusiasm. Percy primarily pulls freight trains, but hates dealing with the nonsense of the Troublesome Trucks. He enjoys spending time with his closest friends, Thomas and Toby, and spends his free time bumping the trucks around the yards.

## Personality

Percy is a rather cheeky, but kind engine, and generally behaves well, except when he is getting into mishaps from being over-eager. He loves teasing the others, especially the bigger engines, such as Gordon and James, but is always brought down to earth in due course by anyone who gives him the moral to learn, especially the Fat Controller.

Percy is incredibly accident-prone and has many accidents, sometimes due to his own silliness or his tricks backfiring. He holds the dubious record of the most accidents, with seven - crashing into some buffers, falling into the sea, being pushed onto a brake van, colliding with a lime cart, being hit by a falling crate of treacle, and colliding with a luggage cart. So far, his silliest accident yet was when he slipped on oily rails and crashed through the chocolate factory and emerged covered in chocolate. Despite this, he always tries to do his best, learn from his mistakes and get his jobs done, a loyalty which Sir Topham Hatt has praised him for on many occasions.

Although their friendship has been turbulent at times, Thomas is generally portrayed as Percy's best friend, and is also good friends with Toby as well. While he has had a small rivalry with Harold, stemming from their race, they are always willing to help each other when in trouble.

Percy can also be seen as an easy target for teasing by the big engines, especially whenever he has an accident or when he is afraid of something. He also has held a grudge from them about their tricking him into misinterpreting a signal, but silenced this with some help from Duck. This shows that, when nonsense goes too far, Percy will not stand for it and seek help to settle the matter for good, even if he faces a reprimanding from Sir Topham Hatt for it.

## Series Overview

### Season 1

#### "The Long Game"

Percy first appears pulling a goods train on Thomas' branchline. Later that night, he is present at Tidmouth sheds when James goes on a rant about how he thinks the diesels are taking over. Percy asks him why he's suddenley become worried about such a thing, to which James tells him it's Diesel putting ideas into his head. Percy then asks if Diesel has returned to Sodor and Thomas explains to him that he simply comes to collect trains from the docks occasionally.

The following night, Percy is present at Tidmouth Sheds when The Fat Controller announces a new engine will be arriving after Henry's accident.

Over the next two days, Percy encounters Tennant multiple times, once when him and Donald are talking at Knapford Sheds. Later that day Thomas, Percy, James and Stanley are talking about Tennant at Tidmouth Station. Percy highlights how Tennant was rude to him despite him trying to be nice.

The following night, Percy and the others fill Henry in on what he had missed whilst he was away, Percy telling him how scary Tennant is.

#### "Great Western Bluebells"

Percy puffs through Knapford Station with a passenger train.

#### "The Sudrian Conspiracy"

Thomas, Percy, Gordon, Arthur and BoCo are all at Knapford Station when Spencer arrives. Percy is not happy to see him at all, and when Emily is brought up, he sarcastically exclaims the two private engines would be perfect for each other.

Later that day, Percy is at Tidmouth Station sheds with Andy and Toby. Percy listens to Andy boast about how he deserves the number 1 more than Thomas. Percy replies with hostility, telling Andy that Thomas is a better engine than him in every way. Thomas arrives shortly and asks what is going on. When Andy leaves, Percy tells Thomas that Andy is the most horrible engine he's ever met. Thomas then tells him that while Andy is a little rude, he's still his brother and he loves him, and that he has to understand that Andy had a hard life before he came to Sodor. Percy then turns his attention to Toby, asking him if he's alright as he has been unusually quiet.

## Appearances

### Sudrian Steam

#### Season 1

* "The Long Game"
* "Great Western Bluebells" (No Lines)
* "The Sudrian Conspiracy"
* "Lights Out, Part 1"
* "Summer Massacre '96" (No Lines)

### Sudrian Shorts

* "Something's Different..."
* "The Return of DTBEN10"