Mew

If a fox is what happens when a dog tries to cat

is a cougar what happens when a cat tries to wolf?

Oh!

Right! Okay!

I think I worked out at least a bit what my problem with a lot of Prime!Wheeljack fic is :|c

I've theorised before that the reason Wheeljack Is The Way He Is in Prime is b/c on the Bluray extras they mention switching Ironhide out for Bulkhead b/c they didn't want to have too many red 'bots and couldn't use his Bayverse colours b/c he was slated to die in the film coming out next, so I figured that something similar had happened with Sideswipe (white/silver in Bayverse) and Wheeljack

and now when I'm more familiar with G1 -- yeah, there definitely is a tendency to give Prime!Jackie some Sideswipe-ish qualities that don't. Really. Like, they didn't sit right with me even before I was familiar with other Wheeljacks but they definitely don't sit right with me now when I realise what parts of the continuity soup Prime!Jackie draws the most from for his characterisation.

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I don't know how much of it is brought about by people who write Aligned stuff mostly sticking to Aligned and not really drawing on the multiverse because admittedly various levels of dangerous confidence look similar from a distance, and I might just have clued in on this particular read because "lol relatable tho". Nevertheless, that explains things.