Stanley

**Stanley** is an albino male steam locomotive dinosaur. He is the leader of a particular group called the "B-team", which are allies of the Steam Team monsters.

## General information

### **Design**

Stanley is a unique monster with partial *albinism*, in which his scales appear almost entirely white or perhaps 'colorless'. As a saddle-tank type of dinosaur, he possesses a thick studded carapace with defined pale spikes. His fur crest is in a pointed style and his neck/head area is silvery instead of the usual black. His condition also affects his eye color, in which it looks more clear and sometimes appears either reddish or light blue at certain angles. Stanley's anatomy is overall quite similar to that of Thomas, though he is relatively thinner and smaller in scale. His signature accessory is a silver bow tie.

Stanley's Millennium design possesses pale grey plates (running down from the shoulders to the base of his tail), bordering the sides of his carapace.

### **Abilities**

#### **Physical capabilities**

Like most small-to-medium sized monsters, Stanley is nimble and is capable of performing acrobatic maneuvers. His white scales enable stealth capabilities - he could blend closely with snowy areas and gloomy weather to an extent, for example. Stanley's protective shell also allows him to deflect powerful strikes directed at him from behind.

#### **Energy capabilities**

##### Heat tolerance

Stanley is able to withstand and tolerate abnormally hot temperatures, to an extent.

##### Spark burst

His signature breath weapon is a fiery blast which splits into many smaller projectiles of similar resemblance, hence the dubbed "spark” name , upon collision with another object.

### **Weaknesses**

Despite the aforementioned ability to resist high temperatures, Stanley can still experience some bouts of exhaustion from extreme heat when exposed for long stretches of time. His light weight also makes him easy to be outclassed by larger and stronger monsters.

### **Personality**

Stanley was initially perceived as an odd creature by most, due to the fact that his very appearance alone heavily resembles what a “snow monster” is normally thought to look like, despite that most of his abilities are otherwise similar to those of a typical fire-based monster. Most of the time he would care less about the judgements regarding his appearance, although he could only wish to experience what it would feel like as an actual ice/snow creature.

Stanley developed a quick rivalry with Thomas upon their first meeting — not helped by the fact that they both ended up causing the Great Waterton Tower to collapse at one point, although the two later made amends and cooperated with each other to protect not only the tower, but the town of Great Waterton itself from any hostile threat that came by.

Stanley had also managed to pick-up a dose of Thomas’ competitive attitude, but also acquired some of his leader-like qualities, in which he was able to arrange with and eventually (mostly with success) assemble a full team of other monsters, who have all met and have been allies with the Steam Team dinosaurs before. Prior to this, Stanley usually preferred keeping to himself and had somewhat of a loose grasp with effective teamwork.

In terms of team relationships, Stanley’s closest friends are Billy and Arthur - in spite of the amount of times he risked his life to protect the former from danger as well as the heated quarrels he often faces with the latter. The closest one he has to a mentor figure is Neville. While Stanley is not as effectively confident of a leader as Thomas has been, he still generally wishes the best for his teammates whom follow his typically orders out of respect and when necessary.