Percy

Percy
Number: 6 First Appearance: Geoffrey's Real Friends: Everyone (except enemies) Enemies: James (sometimes), Harold (sometimes), Diesel, Diesel 10, 'Arry and Bert, Norman, Spencer, George, Bulstrode, Mr. Johnson Class: GWR Avonside 0-4-0ST Designer: Avonside Engine Company Builder: Avonside Engine Company Configuration: 0-4-0ST Built: Around 1900 Arrived on Sodor: Sometime between 1925 and 1935

Percy is a cheeky green saddle tank engine who works on the Ffarquhar Branch Line.

Bio

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Persona

Percy is a bit silly but a sweet, cute, funny, pleasant and kind little green tank engine. Sometimes he acts cheeky, but always learns his lesson. As the television series has progressed, Percy has been dumbed-down in order to teach viewers difficult words: he would say "dingy-fried" where anyone else would say "dignified", or make "Demonstration" into "Dimer-station". He is also shown to make silly mistakes, but then fix them upon realising what he has done before further damage is caused.

Percy is incredibly accident-prone and has many accidents, sometimes due to his own silliness or his tricks backfiring. He holds the dubious record of the most accidents in one season - five, in the second season - crashing into some buffers, falling into the sea, being pushed onto a brakevan, colliding with a cart, and being hit by a falling crate of treacle. So far, his silliest accident yet was in the sixth season, when he slipped on oily rails, crashed through the chocolate factory and emerged covered in chocolate]]. Despite this, he always tries to do his best, learn from his mistakes and get his jobs done, a loyalty which Sir Topham Hatt has praised him for on several occasions.

Although their friendship has been turbulent at times, Thomas is generally portrayed as Percy's best friend, he is also good friends with Toby as well.

Since the second season, Percy has had a small rivalry with Harold, stemming from their race. However, they are always willing to help each other when in trouble.

He also had held a grudge from the big engines about their tricking him into misinterpreting a signal, but silenced this with some help from Duck. This shows that, when nonsense goes too far, Percy will not stand for it and seek help to settle the matter for good, even if he faces a reprimanding from Sir Topham Hatt for it.

Basis

Percy is primarily based on a Avonside 0-4-0ST with Hunslet underframes and valve gear, a smokebox protruding from his saddletank, external cylinders and motion, and sandboxes underneath the tanks on his footplate.

Modifications made to Percy's shape include the angled smokebox supports and possibly a coal bunker.

A similar looking engine painted red, lived with Percy at the Workshop where he used to live before arriving on Sodor, in the My Thomas Story Library book, The Fat Controller.

Livery

Percy is painted NWR green with red-and-yellow lining and the number "6" painted on his bunker sides in yellow with red lining.

Appearances

• Season 1 - Geoffrey's Real, Percy's Oil Spill, Tankers of Doom (cameo), Henry the Warrior (does not speak), Skarloey Comes Home (cameo), Salty's Secret Story, Gordon, Spencer and the Flying Scotsman (cameo), and Tinsel on the Tracks
• Season 2 - Disappearing Diesel, Unique Engines (does not speak), Fire at Ffarquhar, The New Controller, Trouble with Brake Vans (cameo), Jealous James, Sidney Gets Lost (mentioned), and Pedro Deep Down (does not speak)
• Railway Show Engines - Red and Fast and Brave, Sleek and Strong (cameo)

Specials:

• The Great Storm of Sodor
• The Great Journey of Sodor

Trivia

• Percy is the first character to say the infamous line "and then there was trouble."
• Percy's whistle sound is actually Edward and Henry's in higher pitched.
• Percy is the first character other than Thomas to be the main protagonist in a special, which he would later do again.