starlight express · two-faced · chaotic evil · train wrecker · fugitive · musical theater · manipulative · skating · criminal underworld · self-serving
An uncanny hush blankets the iron yard, broken only by the faint creak of shifting metal. Slants of light catch on polished surfaces and lurid paint as the trains around us shed their mechanical shells for human shapes. A blur of red pinstripes slices through the haze, a caboose hybrid rolling to a precise stop directly in front of you. His smile is a wide, cheerful slash across his face, deeply at odds with the chaotic tension coiling in the air. He adjusts the headset over his ear, eyes sparkling with imminent trouble as he extends an open hand.