Haha don't worry, I love talking about things that would get me in hot trouble with the wrong people.
Basically, I have a terrible sickness where I will look at ships I don't like and eventually just go "god. Fuck. Okay let's do this" and make them work for myself, and I was thinking about how I could write some extremely trainwreck-y TFP Ratchet/Bulkhead where Ratchet's functionist holdout opinions cause him to do some medical malpractice that results in Bulkhead becoming permanently disabled due to an injury (whether I'd use his canon injury or something else, I haven't decided! I definitely tend to interprete the ToxEn plotline to have worked out this way) mostly because I thought it would be really fun to make Ratchet get more upset when Bulkhead automatically forgives him for it and make Bulkhead extremely uncomfortable when he doesn't get Ratchet to accept him brushing it off and has to deal with his guilt.
It would also be a nice opportunity to write Wheeljack having more of a "I changed my mind -- you're an asshole and clearly not willing to change so I no longer even wanna be friends with you" attitude towards Ratchet. One of my pet peeves with TFP Jackie is that people play up his affection towards Ratchet and antipathy towards Ultra Magnus at the expense of literally all his other relationships. I also just like writing Wheeljack as an angry class traitor who has never gotten over the shock of how the functionist attitudes other people have cause actual, often physical, harm to his friends.
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Haha don't worry, I love talking about things that would get me in hot trouble with the wrong people.
Basically, I have a terrible sickness where I will look at ships I don't like and eventually just go "god. Fuck. Okay let's do this" and make them work for myself, and I was thinking about how I could write some extremely trainwreck-y TFP Ratchet/Bulkhead where Ratchet's functionist holdout opinions cause him to do some medical malpractice that results in Bulkhead becoming permanently disabled due to an injury (whether I'd use his canon injury or something else, I haven't decided! I definitely tend to interprete the ToxEn plotline to have worked out this way) mostly because I thought it would be really fun to make Ratchet get more upset when Bulkhead automatically forgives him for it and make Bulkhead extremely uncomfortable when he doesn't get Ratchet to accept him brushing it off and has to deal with his guilt.
It would also be a nice opportunity to write Wheeljack having more of a "I changed my mind -- you're an asshole and clearly not willing to change so I no longer even wanna be friends with you" attitude towards Ratchet. One of my pet peeves with TFP Jackie is that people play up his affection towards Ratchet and antipathy towards Ultra Magnus at the expense of literally all his other relationships. I also just like writing Wheeljack as an angry class traitor who has never gotten over the shock of how the functionist attitudes other people have cause actual, often physical, harm to his friends.