I keep saying it but people ignore all of Wheeljack's most strongly emotive moments b/c they revolve around Bulkhead and as a result any interpretation of him without the context of those moments is just hopelessly boring and shallow. And I don't even mean this in a "he only works as a character as a part of my OTP", I mean that if you ignore his one positive relationship, you have literally no way to tell how he treats people he actually likes outside of fifteen seconds of shared solidarity with Arcee... in a moment all about his relationship with Bulkhead XD

Also thank you! Honestly, it's not even too hard for me to imagine the Ratchet/Bulkhead dynamic as something natural and positive until the revelation/realisation that Bulkhead is deeply ill and Ratchet has only made it worse with his callous disregard, I'm just not sure what I'd do after getting to that point of conflict. Because Bulkhead would never hold it against Ratchet if he'd fallen in love with him by then, even if he really should.