Percy

**Percy** is a recurring antagonist within the *Thomas The Slender Engine* Series. He had Coal inserted into his Firebox and was turned into a Monster. He was the last Engine infected by Thomas.

He inhabits The Dieselworks in every single one of his appearances.

## **Appearance**

### **Normal**

Percy is an 0-4-0 saddle tank engine based on engines from the Avonside Engine Compan

The 2013 Writer's Bible and the 2015 trading card suggests that Percy most closely resembles the Avonside SS Class "Trojan" 0-4-0ST saddle tank engine of the Great Western Railway. Additionally, the Meet the Contenders segment, also states that Percy's basis origin is GWR. Furthermore, Trojan has also been used to protray Percy in past Days Out with Thomas events.

Another tank engine resembling Percy's shape is seen in the My Thomas Story Library book, The Fat Controller.

Percy is painted in NWR green with red lining around saddle tank and yellow lining around his windows. His number (6) is painted on his bunker in yellow with a red outline. He has a white running board with red bufferbeams and valences. His coal rails are painted black and he has a gold dome.

### **Infected**

Percy is a green humanoid with very short arms and blade-like wings coming out of his back.

## **Personality**

Percy is a rather cheeky, but kind engine. He normally behaves well, yet he also gets himself in trouble by jumping into situations without adequately thinking them through first. He loves teasing other engines, especially bigger ones 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. He can also be somewhat timid.

Percy can also be questionable and naive to certain difficult words: he would say "depotstation" whereas anyone else would say "deputation", "dingy-fried" instead of "dignified", "dimmer-station" instead of "demonstration", "inspectacles" instead of "inspector", "tenkiakihos" instead of "technology" etc.

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 in one series - five, all of which happened in the second series; crashing through some buffers, falling into the sea, being pushed onto a brake van, colliding with a cart of lime and being hit by a falling crate of treacle. His silliest accident to date, however, was in the sixth series, when he slipped on oily rails, crashed through the chocolate factory and emerged covered in chocolate. Despite this, he always tries to do his best, learns from his mistakes and get his jobs done, a loyalty which the Fat Controller has praised him for on many occasions.

Although their friendship has been turbulent at times, Thomas is Percy's best friend. He is also good friends with Toby. While he has 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, more particularly Gordon and James, especially whenever he has an accident or when he is afraid of something. He also has held a grudge against Gordon and James about their fooling 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 the Fat Controller for it.

During the CGI series, Percy became slightly wiser and a little less cheeky. This could be because he learnt his lesson for being cheeky or because he did not want to get in trouble again. Also, Percy and Thomas' friendship has expanded and they hardly ever argued. Despite his increased maturity, Percy still falls victim to occasional bouts of naivety and misunderstandings.

## **Trivia**

* Percy is based on a Necromorpher Slasher from the *Dead Space* Series.