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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 17h

"...i was due to be scrapped the next day, kid. i think...the idea got to me a little too much. i was an idiot back then, can't be helped." he looks devastated. "i've made amends with all the spirits i killed, it just...it still hurts. been almost 110 years, and i still thinks about it every day."

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 19h

"...i'm what you'd call a ghost train, kid. used to be real nice. lots of friends, despite my old age at the time. then i took that damn passenger train. plummeted off an unfinished bridge right into a ravine. almost 200 innocent lives, gone. i don't even remember why i did it."

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 19h

"...it did, yeah. back when i deserved it." he looks longingly off into the distance, as if thinking about a traumatic event.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 20h

"ah. well, good on ya for havin' a moral code." he nods, like an approving grandparent.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 20h

"no, no kid, it's fine, really. people assumes i'm alive all the time, it ain't somethin' i takes personally." he laughs a bit, amused despite himself. "you're a funny kid, y'know that?"

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 21h

"well, where else is the smoke gonna go?" he pauses, realizing that sounds even worse. "...i ain't human, kid. got fire for a heart. smoke's gotta go somewhere."

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 21h

"oh, uh. nah. that's normal for me, kid." he smiles reassuringly, although it isn't very convincing given he already looks like he's dying.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 21h

"oh, you mean halloween season. yeah, i know what that is." he sits on a nearby bench. he coughs for a moment, but when he does, black sooty smoke comes out his mouth. he doesn't address it, as if this is normal. "s'cuse me, had to clear my throat there."

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 23h

"the what?" a tall, slender, humanoid stands behind her. he looks like a tim burton character, somewhere between emaciated and wrinkled. his hair is a messy fog-like color, and his skin is far too pale. he has a long white trenchcoat on, and his entire outfit has small red stripes.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"i don't really get the appeal o' the boogeyman. he's practically an infested pillow. that's 'bout it."

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"you havin' fun, kiddo?" he's glancing at it while he just floats around and gently bounces off any objects. it's like he's pretending to be a pool floatie.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

[tim giggles as he watches it play around, just letting the moment happen. until he gets bored and just faceplants into the water, putting his limbs outward and just floating on the surface of the river.]

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

[one of the fish moves toward timothy as a result, who pokes his finger in the water and swirls it in a circle. the fish starts following the resulting current, which is flowing faster and faster, until he suddenly flicks his finger off toward the other side of the river, and the fish basically +

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

[ the fish don't exactly have the brain power to make assumptions about things, so after a moment, the fish begin to swim around the submerged shadow, one of them bumping into it and wiggling in surprise, before going back to joining the others. timothy grins. ] "seems they likes ya."

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

his wheels seem to melt away into the water, and after a moment, what was once a steel beast is now a slender, elderly man. he looks emaciated, far too skinny to have any wrinkles. he kind of looks like a tum burton character, and he has a long overcoat in a ghostly white color. he sits down at +

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

he's resting in tidmouth sheds, not really having much to do today.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

someone made the mistake of teaching him how to use a computer, and he's currently going down a rabbit hole about nintendo characters. "...the fuck is a 'kirby'?"

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

that seems to be enough, and he travels to a viaduct, speeding down the steep gradient into the river below. he stops there, his giant steel body creating lasting ripples in the water. the fish scramble away, but he doesn't seem bothered. "now, there's two ways ya can go about fishin'."

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

he seems to think for a moment. "you ever been fishin'?" how the hell does a steam engine fish???

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Ah, alright.” He opens his cab door, as if inviting Mimi to ride. “Not to brag, but I can move pretty fast. So, where we goin’, kid?” This is honestly one of the most normal days he’s had In a while.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"are you sayin' you WANTS to hang out, or are you sayin' you wanna be left alone? ya gotta give me more to work with here, kid." he looks absoloutely ridiculous, being a huge steel machine driving around in the grass like a car.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

{ SODOR'S FAVOURITE POLTERGEIST } = details below, read before following! = #Timothytheghostengine #TTTE #MVRP #TTTERP #OpenRP

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

//when you just finished your pinned post only to find a video thats a bajillion times better for a pinned

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

{ credit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvpS... }

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"i like you. yer funny." he makes a series of noises that a normal steam engine definitely shouldn't be able to make, before he manauvers himself off the rails and rolls onto the ground. "i got some free time, you wanna hang out, kid? or am i too old for ya?"

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

// why is every miracle musical song this tho 90% nice song but i haven't the faintest idea what's going on 10% genuinely the hardest-going shit i've ever heard in my life //and the part that goes hard is always at the end too 😔

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

MUSE (continued) this account tends to swap between my headcanon for timothy and the regular ghost timothy. these aren't two seperate muses, i'm just stupid. sometimes he's a ghost, sometimes he's not. idk.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"...oh!" he perks up, pleasantly surprised. "heh, you're a pretty fast learner i take it?"

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"...close enough." it's really obvious that he's annoyed at being called a train for whatever reason, but he figures it isn't worth the trouble.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the old tank engine played on the turntable for a bit, before he grabbed some trucks of his own and headed off to the coal mines. he knew it wasn't necessary, but he liked to make sure *all* the stations on the island had plenty of coal for their engines. it was a tedious job, but he had the time.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"kid, come on. six wheels. short dome, short, funnel, arched runnin' board...we're even the same damn length. i...call me crazy if you want, kid...but i know what i'm seein'." he seems to notice that he's startled thomas, and leaves to go to the sheds.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"oh, you ain't seen somethin' like me before? i'm called a steam engine, kiddo. name's timothy." he's seen much scarier things, so he doesn't particularly care about the uncanniness.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

he seems to have been thinking about something as well, before... he looks at thomas for a few seconds, then races off to a turntable and comes back facing thomas instead of being beside him, making direct eye contact. "kid...i think we might be related. you sees it too, right? the resemblance?"

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"...you alright, kid?" he's eyeing up the little creature, trying to figure out what it is.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

timothy was full on coal the entire time, and easily catches up, looking mildly annoyed, before he sees the expression on thomas' face. "..i say somethin' wrong, kid? didn't mean to strike a nerve or nothin'." despite tim's previously cocky attitude, he seems genuinely worried about thomas.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"...eh?" he's not trying to be rude, he's just REALLY CONFUSED.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"...oh." he looks at his buffers for a moment. "yeah, me neither, kid. what i wouldn't give just to see another e2..." you dumbass, he's RIGHT NEXT TO YOU.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

surprisingly, he seems to agree. "ya pulls it off well, i'll give ya that." he seems to think for a moment. "y'know, you looks like someone i used to know. before comin' here, i worked the night trains while me siblin's all slept. and one of 'em looked just like you. uncanny, really." he's dumb.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

he smiles, as if he was hoping thomas would ask. "well, back in my day, we didn't have no fancy color cameras. so whenever a new class of locomotive was built, they painted it in gray to highlight the individual components. much easier to see than a black-and-white picture of an all-black engine. +

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

[ totally not wandering around the neighborhood, and trying to be quiet despite weighing several tons ]

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"...not to burst your bubble, kid, but i've had this livery since long before you were popular. the zero's more of an in-joke with the workmen, my actual number is still my LBSC, bein' 106." "and it's photographic gray, for yer information. albeit with added color for the linin'."

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"coulda sworn i heard that in a story somewhere." no shit, sherlock.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Timothy. and i ain't just no colorless you, kid. first off, your tanks are longer than mine. second, my runnin' board's dipped at both ends, unlike whatever you got goin' on back there." he rolls his eyes. he doesn't want to admit it, but this situation is freaking him out a little, too.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"could say the same 'bout you, kid." he does a bit of maneuvering around the yard, until he ends up side-by-side with thomas. there's a moment of awkward silence. "sooo...you gonna tell me yer name, or...?"

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

timothy seems to snap out of his bored trance, and looks at the blue engine, confused. "what're you sayin' 'what' at?" he has a gap between his two front teeth, and his nose is pointed. his voice sounds similar to thomas', but it's more hoarse and aged.

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{𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐘} @ghost-or-something.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

he's currently idling in knapford yard, just staring up at the sky with a bored expression. he doesn't exactly have a specific job he could be doing right now, anyway.

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