16 Works in Mama McCoy | Poppa McCoy & Rusty
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Pay No Mind by eisenerzwagen (nefariousreasons)
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
26 Sep 2025
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Two young men are irresponsible before, during, and after work. Surely nobody will catch on.
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It's Just Not The Same Without Him by Colyn_isdead
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
09 Sep 2025
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Rusty passes unexpectedly a week after race night, leaving his friends and family to deal with his passing.
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HADESTOWN STEX AU by thestarl1ghtexpr3ss
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber, Hadestown - Mitchell (Broadway) RPF, Hadestown - Mitchell
30 Jul 2025
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I got this idea from @starlightexpressrureal on Tiktok (aka C.B 🚂💫)
Full credit goes to them for this idea! I just wrote logistics and started a story that i have no will to finish
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This Is Space Cadet Control! by thestarl1ghtexpr3ss
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
20 Jul 2025
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Control Lore. (Sharing this for shits and giggles!)
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I push my luck (it shows) by LailaLiquorice for CasualCrispy
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
30 Jun 2025
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Screeching metal stopped her in her tracks. The grunt of pain that accompanied the collision was undoubtedly Greaseball’s, she’d recognise it anywhere. Electra’s high-pitched shriek followed. Crashes were normal, Dinah still thought, her priority still with trying to find where Pearl had run away to. Both engines had a reputation for complaining, they’d be fine.
It was only when Momma started shouting that Dinah looked around. Flashbacks of the first final spun through her mind like a horror-scape of rising flames; this wasn’t a normal crash. She had to get Greaseball out of there.
[or, I take the events of the final race and make them *cracks knuckles* worse]
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Leather & Lace (Starlight Express) by elisedove
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
30 Jun 2025
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A Starlight Express fanfiction AU set in the 1960s.
Greaseball has never been one for quiet. Coming from New York City, she's a loud outspoken woman who isn't afraid to say what's on her mind. Where she comes from, music, bright lights, and money is life itself. So when she finds herself moving to a new small town called Prosperity, it's a big change.
Dinah, a small-town waitress, has grown up in Prosperity. It's a cozy, humble, warm town full of families who work hard and take pride in what little they've got. Recently, she's grown bored of the repetitive nature of her day-to-day life. Her dull day-to-day life becomes interesting when a smooth-talking greaser rolls into town.
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PS: Greaseball looks like Wembley Greaseball, but Dinah looks like the original blonde Dinah.
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Morning After the Crash by sadbeigedinah
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
29 Jun 2025
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What if the crash was way more severe than it actually was?
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Hydra arrives in the Apollo Victoria yard, unsure but hopeful, he meets Rusty after a rough first day.
Aka: they're gay and stupid about it.
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A mission gone awry, a plan backfired, souls in trouble, the air burns with death
A sequel to It all Crumbles Down: https://ao3-rd-8.onrender.com/works/56034772
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- Part 3 of Starlight Express AUs
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Way down… Greasetown? by sadbeigedinah
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber, Hadestown - Mitchell
04 May 2025
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What it says on the tin; a StEx Hadestown AU because someone had to do it.
Release me
Also you don’t really need to know Hadestown to read this… probably.
This is my first fic in awhile so please be nice to me, I’m very rusty (get it?).Enjoy!!
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Trevithick's Day by Blueberryattack
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
25 Apr 2025
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Proud of her own working form as she was, Momma knew it wasn’t ideal, having Rusty meld with a steam engine. Control had him set to be a shunter, so he wouldn’t be traveling beyond the yard much, if at all, unless he took up racing (and he did often talk about wanting to race). But she’d still held off as long as she could - both to see if another option presented itself (a long shot), and to see how far the refurbishments to the steam engine got. It wasn’t a perfect option, and funds were tight for the yard. Some parts worked, technically, but were rusted, not yet replaced or cleaned up before it became clear that Rusty would have to meld sooner rather than later. Rusty had taken it in stride, joked that his name would suit him now.
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I'm Mostly Scared, I am Mostly Unprepared by Kingsnake101 (NightmareoftheCabin)
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
12 Apr 2025
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Momma had been warned that the new hire was quiet. Lumber the wood truck, they had told her. He had only been in the workforce for eighteen months, and three of them were spent trying to fix a manufacturing mistake.
She had been expecting quiet, not timid.
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My version of Lumber's backstory.Series
- Part 1 of Kingsnake's WIPs
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prompt: Angst prompt guilt for Slick and the other freights (+rusty) as a sibling dynamic?
Slick didn’t feel guilty often, and she was sure if it was anyone else she wouldn’t feel guilty now, but this wasn’t just any random engine she’d been paid to crash, it was her own brother…and she went ahead with it.
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- Part 10 of Starlight express tumblr prompts
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"I know we're all very excited for the big race, but could we please slow down around Pearl? She's only just got here! And she's here to stay, so be nice!"
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Takes place one year before canon.
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Best Birthday Ever by TheDiamondSword400 for hearth_goddess
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
28 Dec 2024
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It's Rusty's birthday but he'd nowhere to be found. Poppa goes looking for him.
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Rusty finds a gravely injured CB after the championship race, immediately taking him to Poppa to see if there is even a chance the caboose can be repaired