Mavis

**Mavis the Feisty Quarry Diesel** is one of the deuteragonists in the SeventyVerse. She is privately owned by the Ffarqhuar Quarry Company.

## Backstory

Mavis was newly built, and had just completed her trials when she was sent to Sodor.

## Ffarqhuar Crew

### Thomas

Thomas warmly welcomed Mavis onto the island, even when Toby was becoming very bothered by her antics. Thomas has been known to race with Mavis - and Percy - on occasion. Thomas was annoyed with Mavis when she went off with Diesel to see the island when she wasn't supposed to leave the quarry. Otherwise, their relationship is mostly positive.

### Toby

Mavis found Toby to be a stick-in-the-mud and a fusspot when she first arrived. However, when Mavis saved Toby from his 'tightrope' - even when it was her fault this happened - the two became incredibly close. Even now that Mavis has gain wisdom and maturity, she still looks to Toby for advice.

### Rosie

Mavis and Rosie's relationship is quite strong. Rosie assisted in the quarry to help Mavis when she was on the London trip, and they work very well together. Their relationship briefly took a hit when Rosie was painted lavender, and she was pretending to be something she wasn't. However, when Mavis broke down and Rosie had to work at the quarry, Mavis was overjoyed to have Rosie back.

### Nia

Not as much is known about Mavis and Nia's relationship, but Mavis is very welcoming of her on Sodor.

### Daisy

Mavis and Daisy are almost completely opposite. Mavis being a quarry shunter who isn't afraid to get her buffers or paintwork dirty, and Daisy preferring the prestige of passengers. Mavis also didn't put up with Daisy's laziness, but was greatly upset when Daisy insulted her cowcatchers. Daisy is more often than not put in her place by Mavis.

### Henrietta and Hannah

Mavis looks up to Henrietta as a sort of mother figure. She did pull her once, when she had to take workmen to rescue Toby from the tightrope. Henrietta hated being buckled about, but she was very grateful to Mavis for saving her Toby. Mavis' also used her lessons from her early days to teach Hannah the importance of being careful, but it took a while for that to sink in.

### Scarlett

Mavis can get frustrated at Scarlett's clumsy behaviour sometimes, but has taken her under her wing. She is keen to teach her all she learned from Toby and the other engines.

## Other relationships

### BoCo

Mavis looks up to BoCo as a role model, as he is very calm, patient and open-minded. BoCo admires how far Mavis had come, especially in the way she handles Bill and Ben,

### Salty

Mavis and Salty connected over the fact they were both missing their regular homes. The two realised they had to work together to get their job done at the clay pits regardless of their circumstances, and comforted each other. Percy thought Mavis and Salty had crushes on each other, but they were just friends.

## Romance

### Percy

Mavis found Percy to be cheeky, outgoing and confident. At first, she just saw Percy as a friend. But as time went by, they steadily grew closer together. Percy admired Mavis for speaking her mind and her bold streak, as well as her kindness, and Mavis found herself finding those qualities in Percy too. They realised their crushes on each other during Sophia Hodges (nee Kyndley) and Jack Hodges' wedding, but it wasn't until later they were able to confess. In fact, Percy assumed Mavis had a thing for Salty, but it turned out they were friends all along.

## Personality

When Mavis first came to Sodor, she was naïve, arrogant and did not take advice very well. She was mostly interested in her own ideas but was brought down to earth after her embarrassing incident at the Ffarquhar crossing. Still, she wanted to see more of the line and schemed to have the trucks push her past the level crossing beyond the quarry - this inadvertently resulted in a near accident for Toby. After rescuing him, Mavis resolved to change her ways for good. She is now more mature and capable of keeping the trucks in line and more willing to take advice.

Unlike many diesels, Mavis shows respect for the steam engines and unlike most engines, hauling trucks makes her feel important. She is a reliable, honest, and hard-working engine. Over the course of time, Mavis has matured and acts as a motherly figure to the other engines. As a result, she keeps a stern attitude with the Troublesome Trucks and holds zero patience towards troublesome antics like those from Diesel. Although Mavis means well, she can at times feel cooped up in the quarry, but always cheers up at the chance to stretch her wheels.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Mavis is a based on a British Rail (BR) Class 04 0-6-0 diesel locomotive. She is more specifically based on the BR Class 04's that worked on the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway, as they were fitted with additional cowcatchers and side plates so they could run near public roads. Twenty of these locomotives are preserved, including one "tramway" example. Mavis is specifically based on 11102/D2202. The real life counterpart was built on the 14th of June in 1952 and withdrawn on the 25th of January, 1958. It was scrapped in May of 1968.

### Livery

Mavis is painted black with yellow hazard stripes on her front and rear. Her name is painted on the sides of her cab in white and "THE FFARQUHAR QUARRY CO LTD", is painted on her side plates, also in white.

As Tramgirl, she is painted in dark bluish-purple with yellow bufferbeams. The upper half of her face is also in the same bluish-purple as her body. She is built with various gadgets into her body, including boomerang, Swiss army knife boomerang, grappling hook, jets, ice grenades, bat stab, shark repellent, etc.

## Differences with the books, episodes and this series

* In the books and show, it's said Mavis was "young", without giving an exact age. (The books say she was built between 1952-1962; however, real life engines with cowcatchers and side plates were from the first batch). In this series, she was built and arrived after her trials were completed.
* It's unknown how Mavis got the workmen to Toby in Toby's Tightrope. In this series, she used Henrietta because Toby left her behind due to the large number of trucks he had to pull.
* In the books and this series, Mavis works at the quarry with Scarlett as of the International Railway Series, though Thomas, Percy, Toby, Rosie and Nia help them out. In the TV series, Arry and Bert occasionally help her.

## Trivia

* Mavis' old number in this series was 11102/D2202; the second-last of the first batch of Class 04s in real life. Her current one is FQC 1.
	+ Upon realising that 11103/D2203 was persevered, the basis was changed.
* In *Sodor Super Hero Engines*, her superhero alter-ego is Tramgirl. She is a spoof of Batgirl.
	+ Batgirl's real name is Barbara Gordon.