Percy

Intro Percy is a rather cheeky, but kind engine. He normally behaves well, yet he also gets himself in trouble by jumping into situations without adequately thinking them through first. He loves teasing other engines, especially bigger ones such as Gordon and James, but is always brought down to earth in due course by anyone who gives him the moral to learn, especially the Fat Controller. He can also be somewhat timid. Percy can also be questionable and naive to certain difficult words: he will constantly use malapropisms in sentences and mispronounce a word he heard wrong. Examples include "depotstation" whereas anyone else would say "deputation", "dingy-fried" instead of "dignified", "dimmer-station" instead of "demonstration", "inspectacles" instead of "inspector", "new-funneled nuisance" instead of "new-fangled nonsense" and "tenkiakihos" instead of "technology". This is done however so he can be the indirect catalyst to having another character define a word for the younger audience. 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 series - five, all of which happened in the second series; crashing through some buffers, falling into the sea, being pushed onto a brake van, colliding with a cart of lime and being hit by a falling crate of treacle. His silliest accident to date, however, was in the sixth series, 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, learns from his mistakes and get his jobs done, a loyalty which the Fat Controller has praised him for on many occasions. Although their friendship has been turbulent at times, Thomas is Percy's best friend. He is also good friends with Toby. While he has a small rivalry with Harold stemming from their race, they are always willing to help each other when in trouble.