Percy

**Tail**
Showa: 10 feet

**Head-to-tail hypotenuse**
Showa: 51 feet

**Percy** is a green male steam locomotive dinosaur. He is the youngest of the Steam Team monsters, as well as the adoptive brother and "best friend" of Thomas. Unlike many other monsters who were often initially deemed hostile in their introduction, Percy was one of the few who was raised and trained early by humans, since the day he hatched from the egg.

## General information

### **Design**

Percy is one of the smallest monsters, in fact almost standing nose-height to Thomas. His armor is a bright spring shade of green (which heavily contrasts to Henry, Oliver and Emily - whom all have darker varieties of the color respectively). His arms are consistently very short in length while his legs are larger, allowing greater lower body strength). He possesses ball-point claws, a common trait of small dinosaurs. Percy's most unique characteristic among the Steam Team is a protective carapace, studded with a plethora of brass-colored spikes. His fur has virtually the same shade as his body, albeit with lime highlights. His eyes are a dark greenish brown. Much like Henry, his whistle is bronze. Percy's signature accessory is a bandana labeled with the number 6.

In the Millennium era, Percy's scales are more pronounced and defined. His fur is noticeably longer and more vibrant, and his limbs have thickened. His shell and its spikes are also less flat and has more-detailed textures.

### **Roar**

Percy's roar as well as many of this other sounds are higher-pitched versions of Edward's.

### **Abilities**

#### **Physical capabilities**

Percy relies heavily on lower-body strength, and is exceptionally very nimble despite what his build may suggest. His carapace serves as a primary attribute for defense, in which it is also the source that reinforces most of his durability. Although not effectively capable of hiding in his shell as a traditional turtle would, Percy is capable of curling-up into a ball-like state and rolling about, allowing him to travel quickly as well as deflect incoming projectiles simultaneously.

#### **Energy capabilities**

##### Grenade fireball

Percy's breath weapon is a fireball (often cloaked in green) that bounces and explodes upon impact, or sometimes in the air like a grenade.

### **Weaknesses**

Due to his overall size and weight, Percy is an obvious prone target that can be easily tossed, launched or pummeled by much larger and stronger opponents. It is evident that his carapace can take many heavy blows as well as most forms of human weaponry that which, the rest of his body is normally unable to endure and resist physically.

Much like Thomas, because Percy's arms are small and seem almost useless (though not vestigial) in most circumstances, he is left with very unimpressive range and typically must force himself to approach his foes at close quarters. Prominently, this is a reason why he preferably decides to use kicking over punching.

### **Personality**

Albeit like a child, Percy is naturally very curious about the world, and as with most other small monsters, he has a tendency to be playful, rambunctious and feisty. He is however often looked down upon by some larger, stronger dinosaurs. Percy greatly considers Thomas to be his closest friend and ally. He seems eager to please his elders to a fault (most particularly Edward as he is his adoptive father). When pushed to a certain limit, it is likely that he will become loose and defiant when absolutely feeling the urge to be so.

In the face of brutal confrontation, Percy is sometimes somewhat akin to Henry, in that he becomes timid, insecure and uncertain. This heavily contrasts with Thomas, who displays himself as rarely fearful towards seemingly almost any kind of danger that he encounters.

## Trivia

### Development

* Percy's first design was drastically different than his modern depiction. He was overall slimmer in build, and did not possess a carapace. In addition, he stood about 4 or 5 feet tall.
* The term "saddletank" itself was the primary inspiration for Percy having a shell of the sort.

### General

* Percy is only one of the Steam Team to only have 3 digits on each paw, rather than the usual 4.
* The alias "Tanklyosaurus" is a play on the word "tank" as well as a type of dinosaur known as *Anklyosaurus* (which is what Percy is partially modeled after).
* Much like an Ankylosaur, Percy is herbivorous.
* His roar being a higher-pitched version of Edward's is a nod to how Percy's whistle is Edward's except pitched higher by an octave in *Thomas & Friends*.
* He bears a vague resemblance to the Nintendo character Bowser (and by extension, Bowser Jr.).