Tori

**Salvatore "Tori" Leonold** is a potential character in *Universal Rides* and *Adventure Squad*. He is Tom and Diana's fraternal triplet, and a genetic clone of Tim Leonold.

## Biography

Tom, Diana and Tori were cloned by Ricardo Starkley from genetic samples belonging Thomas, Danielle and Tim, created to carry on the legacies of their predecessors after their deaths. After wandering around for two weeks, the triplets ended up stuck in what Tom would later nickname the Global Transit Terminal's "Criminal Metropolis", protecting a number of orphans sorely lacking in protection. As the orphanage in the area they were stuck in was constantly under threat of assassins, Tom and Tori would spend most of their time killing anyone who attempted to attack the group while Diana stuck with the orphans to take care of them. This continued for five months until the triplets managed to lure General Orion and Adventure Squad to their general location, as Tom was unwilling to trust Richard Murphy, the International Safety Committee official in charge of the area. Their involvement ended up bringing down all local crime rings while the orphans were able to be safely evacuated, with General Orion personally overseeing the reforms of the area.

Following the evacuation of the orphans, Tori and his siblings were taken to Sodor and left at The Leonold Yard, where they eventually became part of the North Western Railway fleet. As Adventure Squad and the rest of the Sudrians were still reeling from Thomas, Tim and most recently Danielle's deaths, Tori assisted Tom efforts to try and lift everyone's spirits. Despite a few misgivings, the triplets were quickly accepted as friends and family. Tori played a smaller role than his younger siblings, but was instrumental on the field as the new second-in-command of the Dino Runners.

## Personality

Tori's personality is almost a perfect carbon copy of Tim prior to his death, though compared to Tim, Tori is much more light-hearted and prone to joking around. He and Tom share multiple bonds with each other and seldom ever argue, a vast difference compared to Thomas and Tim's occasional bouts of bickering. The 2 are well aware of their natures as clones, and strive to keep the reputations of their associate on the right morale, and help others adjust to their losses. Tori cares deeply for his brother and does anything he can to help him, much like Tim during his final years of life.

During his time in the "Criminal Metropolis", Tori was very much like Tom; he was quiet, cold, aggressive, and distrustful, though he primarily followed on his brother's judgement and usually let him do most of the talking. As his killing partner during their five-month stint in the "Criminal Metropolis", Tori's fighting style is just as brutal as his brother's and they both share multiple techniques.

While Tori is just as caring as his brother, he has a more laid-back approach and is very hands-off in most cases, rarely making decisions on his own when the two are in the same room and usually deferring to whoever is placed in charge of the current group. That being said, he is far more competent than Tim was as Dino Runner 2, and is more than willing to take the lead when given the position. Tori's status as the eldest individual of the new generation also means that he is very protective of his younger relatives, and much like Tom he will not hesitate to kill when prompted.

## Appearance

Tori is based on the LB&SCR Class E2 0-6-0T, particularly the first batch of locomotives built without extended side-tanks. These engines were built by Brighton Works between 1913-1916 to replace the ageing Stroudley E1 class and were primarily used for heavy shunting and short-distance freight trains in the London area and on the south coast. During their final working years, the E2 class worked as shunting engines at Southampton Docks, until they were replaced by the BR Class 07 diesel shunters. All of the E2s were scrapped, with none surviving into preservation.

Tori has several major differences from the original E2 class. He is much shorter in length than his original basis, he has two extra windows on his body the sides of his cab and he has wheel splashers, something the E2 class lacked. Unlike Thomas in the *Railway Series* following *Branch Line Engines*, his footplate featured dips at both the front and back. Multiple tank engines in the series used the same modified basis.

While his face is very much identical to Tim's in his youth, Tori, unlike his predecessor, has segmented heterochromia; both of his eyes have two colors, being an even split between a bright blue and a vibrant purple. Both of his eye colors are shared with Diana, though Tom only shares the purple color of his irises. While his eyes retain these colors under normal circumstances, Tori at his angriest will instead sport "Killer Eyes"; his pupils become purple, his irises become all black, and his scleras turn yellow with red bloodshot veins.

Tori is painted in charcoal black with yellow lining surrounding colored panels, painted in a deep shade of crimson red. This same color applies to the front, top and rear of his cab, boiler and side tanks. He has red bufferbeams and coupling rods and sports a running board and access steps in a jet black color. Tori sports a red version of Thomas's speaker equipment and he has silver nameplates on the sides of his smokebox. His number is painted on the sides of his tanks in yellow with black lining, and on his bunker sides, he has the NWR's initials painted in yellow with a black drop shadow. Prior to receiving this livery, Tom was painted in a plain black with red bufferbeams and silver coupling rods. This remained relatively unscathed until he entered the "Criminal Metropolis", where he regularly received facial scars and his bodywork was constantly riddled with bullet holes and knife gashes.

## Mech

Unlike Tim, who had been rewired to serve as Dino Runner 2 permanently, Tori is capable of switching between forms, able to access his own mech at will. As the original Dino Runner 2 served as Tim's permanent body and was damaged beyond repair, Tori instead used a new version known as Dino Runner Magna 2. This mech is an almost identical duplicate of the original Dino Runner 2 in it's Master Mode configuration, but with the dark red, yellow, grey and charcoal black replaced with gunmetal grey, gold, silver and deep metallic crimson panels. Magna 2 features the same abilities and functionalities as the original Master Mode Dino Runner 2, and can cast off the extra armor parts to function identically to Dino Runner 2 in it's default configuration.

## Behind the scenes

Both Tom and Tori currently exist as potential characters.

## Notes

* Tori's livery is based on one of the E2 livery options from Bachmann's junior lineup. Coincidentally, the tooling used for the junior E2s is reused from Bachmann's Thomas model.
* While both of them share purple as their secondary eye color, Tom and Tori's primary eye colors are those of each other's predecessors. As a result, Tori has Thomas's blue eyes instead of Tim's brown eyes, and vice-versa with Tom.
* Tori is named after Salvatore "Tory" Paul Belleci, an American television personality and model maker best known for his work on the Discovery Channel television program MythBusters.