Annabelle Regaby

**Annabelle Edwina Percival (née Regaby)** (born November 14, 1973) is the only child of Barbara and Henry Regaby, and the youngest grandchild to Sir Bertram Topham Hatt.

## Backstory

Annabelle received her name after Edward, who was pulling Annie and Clarabel, helped to bring her mother Barbara to Wellsworth when she went into labor. Some time later, she was diagnosed as autistic. (Details regarding The Railway Girl saga to be added)

## Family

### Dowager Sharon Hilary Hatt

Dowager Hatt is Annabelle's maternal great-grandmother. She was sceptical of Dowager Hatt's capabilities of handling the North Western Railway when her uncle Charles was sick. And she was right. Annabelle wasn't impressed, yet felt sorry for her great-grandmother after everyone lost trust with her. She was also saddened to know that she died.

### Barbara and Henry Regaby

Barbara and Henry are Annabelle's parents. They both absolutely dote on their daughter, even if their secludes are swamped with hard working hours. Both are extremely protective of Annabelle too, especially when people mock Annabelle being autistic and love of the railways.

### Sir Bertram and Lady Jane Hatt

Bertram and Jane are Annabelle's maternal grandparents. Annabelle feels much closer to her grandfather due to their common ground in railways. She will talk back to her grandmother if she is insensitive to the engines. Annabelle also contributed to a biography about her grandfather.

### Albert Regaby and Mabel Sanders

Annabelle's relationship with her paternal grandparents couldn't be anymore different from the relationship with her material grandparents. Annabelle gets along wonderfully with Mabel, often seen making crafts at Christmastime. However, she is not on good speaking terms with Albert. She called him out big time on his poor treatment of the North Western Railway and it was enough for him to be fired. On top of all of that, Albert tried to get Annabelle institutionalized.

(Details regarding the Good Addison AU to be added)

### Sir Charles and Lady Amanda Hatt

Charles and Amanda are Annabelle's maternal uncle and aunt. She sometimes stayed with them when her parents were extensively working when she was little. She loves this, as she gets to see the engines on the Rolling Hills. Amanda also allows Annabelle to help with writing a railway series more catered to older audiences, and more accurate to the goings on the island of Sodor.

### Charlotte White and Kelly Regaby

Charlotte and Kelly are Annabelle's paternal aunts. Charolette is her father's sister and Kelly is her father's sister-in-law. As Charlotte has no daughters to call her own, she is often buying gifts for Annabelle and spoiling her.

### Alice Regaby

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(Details regarding the Good Addison AU to be added)

### Elliot Regaby and Wilbur White

Eillot and Wilbur are Annabelle's paternal uncles. Elliot is her father's brother and Wilbur is her father's brother-in-law.

### Stephen and Bridget Hatt

Stephen and Bridget Hatt are Annabelle's cousins on her mother's side. As kids, all three of them would get up to a manner of mischief, and shared their love of the railways. However, Bridget slowly drifted away from those ideals, and Annabelle often has to pay damage control for when Bridget incidentally insults the engines. Annabelle also teases Stephen for his crush on Helen Dreswick when they were teenagers.

### Cedric, Quentin and Kermit White

Cedric, Quentin and Kermit are Annabelle's cousins through her aunt Charlotte and uncle Wilbur. Cedric, the eldest, appears to take after his grandfather Albert in many ways, minus the direct railway connection, and Annabelle views him as a stick-in-the-mud because of this. Her relationship with the twins, Quentin and Kermit, however, is much more positive, and she gets a kick out of them playing pranks on Cedric, much to his displeasure! Of course, Annabelle will scold the twins if they go too far with their pranks.

### Gwendolyn and Franklin Regaby

Gwendolyn and Franklin are Annabelle's cousins through her uncle Elliot and aunt Kelly. As they were born within days of each other, Gwendolyn is whom Annabelle is closest to out of her cousins on her father's side. She also has a good relationship with Franklin, the youngest of Albert Regaby's grandchildren.

### Helen Margret Hatt and Marcus Bailey

Helen and Marcus are Annabelle's cousins-in-law; the former is also Annabelle's third cousin. Not much is known about their relationship, but Marcus was in school with Annabelle when she was little.

### Agnes, Ruth, Lucy, Hilda, and Beatrice Brown

The Brown sisters are second cousins of Annabelle, being her grandmother Jane Hatt's grandnieces. They have a decent relationship with Annabelle, but don't fully understand her. It is implied they understand her more as they get older.

### Alice Percival

Alice is Annabelle's daughter, named in honor of one of her paternal aunts who had died prior to Annabelle's birth. Annabelle and Alice get on very well, as Alice loves helping her mum put decorations on the Christmas tree at Knapford station.

### Richard, Charles II and Emily Hatt

Richard, Charles and Emily are Annabelle's first cousins once removed. According to Duck, Little Emily is much like Annabelle when she was little.

## Other humans

### The Percival siblings

Annabelle has the closest friendship to Penny and Pansy and is married to Paul. She is also good friends with Patrick and Peter.

### Addison Darnell

Addison is Annabelle's friend-turned-enemy. In spite of having similar backgrounds, both of their future paths could not have been any more different. Before this, Annabelle saw Addison as the sister or cousin she never had. In hindsight, that made the revelation that Addison was almost her cousin even harder.

In the Good Addison AU, (Details regarding the Good Addison AU to be added)

### Goldie Blackhart and Sylvia Starkey

These two girls bullied Annabelle when she was a teenager, such as calling her derogatory names like "Choo Choo Girl". (Details regarding A Special Friend for Duck to be added for Sylvia)

## Engines and rolling stock

### General

Annabelle loves the engines and listening to their stories. She is highly protective of them, especially when Sir Handel was being covered in eggs by Goldie and Sylvia. When Annabelle was temporary controller of the North Western Railway, she insisted the engines just call her Annabelle rather than "Mrs. Percival" "Ms. Regaby" or "ma'am".

### Edward and Henry

Out of the engines on the North Western Railway, Edward and Henry are whom Annabelle is the closest to; the former because the blue engine helped in making sure Annabelle had a safe delivery, (and for being her middle name's namesake), and the latter because she could relate to the green engine's struggles up to his incident with the Flying Kipper. In the case of the latter, it was thanks to Annabelle that Henry was able to get out of the tunnel so soon because she stood up to the person who bricked up Henry in the first place: her paternal grandfather, Albert Regaby.

### Thomas, Annie and Clarabel

Annabelle has sometimes acted as guard on Thomas' trains, and Annie and Clarabel both look forward to working with her. Annie and Clarabel are also Annabelle's namesakes. Annabelle also owned her first toy engine who she named "Thomas" before she officially met the tank engine in question. Though Annabelle was shocked, she was also amazed. Even more so when Thomas chose Annie and Clarabel as his coaches later on.

### Duck

Annabelle is quite close with Duck, as she is one of the few who will listen to his "Great Western Railway" pride without starting an argument. This connection became even stronger when they both helped defend an autistic kid who was bullied by a porter. She was devastated and horrified when she found out Addison had a role to play in nearly killing Duck.

### Diesel

Annabelle was shocked when Diesel told lies about Duck on his first visit. However, when he returned the second time, Annabelle sensed that Diesel was being sincere when he changed. She was one of the first to allow Diesel to open up to her, and was very pleased that he had tried to rescue Duck from Arry and Bert. Years down the line, she saw Diesel save Duck from the fire at the Dieselworks, and offered him a repaint. He also asked Annabelle if he could have a purple stripe on him, to which she accepted.

## Personality

Given her upper class background and her parents are from two of the most well known families, you'd think Annabelle would be stuck up. That couldn't be any further from the truth, as Annabelle is very down to earth, humble and loving. She is often seen talking to the engines and is, in their eyes, charismatic and a good listener. This earned her the affectionate nickname of "The Railway Girl". Annabelle thinks of the engines as her family first and her co-workers second, to the point she forgets she's on the job some of the time. Around most people, Annabelle is a bit socially awkward. Since her thirteenth birthday, Annabelle has kept a personal journal recounting events not only in her own personal life, but events that have happened on Sodor from her point of view. also spends most of her time trainspotting, which calms her down after a rough day at school or spending too much time in a large crowd. (More details regarding her personality to be added)

## Attire

As a teenager, Annabelle wore a white shirt, a green jumper, a blue skirt, white socks with green stripes and black Mary Janes.

As an adult, Annabelle's casual outfit consists of a green buttoned shirt, blue jeans and black shoes. Her work outfit is a blue business suit, with a green tie and a white shirt.

## Trivia

* Annabelle's physical appearance is based upon Ginny Weasley from the *Harry Potter* series.
	+ In addition, the preferred voice actress for her is Bonnie Wright, who portrayed Ginny Weasley in the *Harry Potter* films.
* Annabelle is the first human character in the SeventyVerse confirmed to be autistic.
* Despite her being married to Paul, the engines still sometimes refer to her as Annabelle Regaby, not that Annabelle minds it.