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I don't handle requests or commissions. My hobby is drawing, writing, and a little bit of creative world-building, which helps me decompress after work. I share things online simply in case someone else finds them interesting!
The 1890s. A period of unbridled growth and reconstruction in a young nation with old values. There is power cloaked in progress.
Smack in the center of the lush forests of the Blue Ridge mountains stands the southern city of Marceline. Marceline sits directly atop the famous Thunder Mountain deposit, a huge deposit of rich coal laced with veins of gold that attracted personalities to the ridges like a magnet. The opulence of the town can be seen in the magnificent mansions that line it’s upper class Snob Hill neighborhood. Marceline was as bizarre and wild a town as any found in the old west, but with the genteel class of the east. It’s saloons, gambling houses, and establishments of kink and sin are legendary. Fortunes were won and love was lost faster then the wealth could be dug out of the ground. The air was full of industrial growth tinged with the deep roots of southern magic. The fast paced life kept the madams and masters busy, the cemeteries full, and the old art of mountain voodoo alive.
It was the mines that made it all possible. Thunder Mountain, Pride Rock, and The Outlands. The hard won dynasties of the bloodlines of Mufasa, they paid to rebuild the business district every time it burned down. They paid for a nice opera, a nice church, a grand hotel, and many incredibly intimate dens of ill-repute. The mines and their owners could buy anything! Even a steamboat trimmed with pounds of gold and silver. Or an empire of leather and latex for a canine madam to hold in the upper floors of one of the lavish hotels.
The mines also bought a railroad. The Western & Atlantic, a standard gauge link from the mines and mills of Marceline’s Main Street to the world both north and south. Within a few short months of the end of the war between the states, the state owned railroad tracks were leased to a company built on Thunder Mountain money. Only the best equipment and rolling stock were purchased for the W&A. It’s coaches were every bit as splendid as the Victorian homes of Snob Hill. Locomotives were rebuilt and brand new ones ordered from Rogers, Baldwin, Cooke, and Booth which were the best money could buy. Nothing second rate would be purchased with Thunder Mountain money.
The railroad was extremely profitable, and quickly became the lifeblood that pumped power and progress into this magic kingdom. It wasn’t long before greedy eyes and jaded souls would see the railroad as a playground for pleasure, power and domination.
Tramp and Lady Dear are a husband and wife team, working as a fireman and engineer for the booming Western & Atlantic Railroad. Their son, Scamp, is finding his way with his new girlfriend and newly hired railroad brakeman, Angel. Alongside the tracks they will find old friends, face new foes, make love and face loss, and ride a growing power struggle for the resources of a re-born country. There’s power cloaked in progress, and it would touch the lives of everyone from the kindest cocker spaniel engineer to the most reclusive lioness who yearns to rebuild her empire. The brazen brass of the working class are here to find their voice.
The story you think you’ve seen, is now sweeter than honey and stronger than steam.
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