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tiamatschild) wrote2015-08-19 07:19 pm
tiamatschild) wrote2015-08-19 07:19 pm
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Hmmmmmm. You know, I have seen people posit before that the tension for Orion Pax when Megatron told him that Ratchet was responsible for the degradation of Cybertron was more or less "Ratchet is more conservative than I am, but he doesn't want to hurt anyone, Ratchet wouldn't hurt a fly."
But I wonder, considering what Ratchet is like and who he is after several million years of war, if it might not actually be the other way around: "Ratchet is frightening when he's protecting someone, a patient or a friend, but surely Ratchet would never be unjust."
(That and Orion just has absolutely nowhere to go to check this, at the time, we see him delve into the archives at least in part hoping to get more information and get his bearings, because he's not stupid and he knows Megatron isn't telling him the full story and he needs the full story. Admittedly he thinks this is because the full story is too painful to tell, all the more so after Megatron reacts so badly to Starscream's name. But.)
Because Transformers Prime Ratchet is fully capable of being terrifying. He's uncompromising and absolutist and proud and he breaks or proposes breaking the laws of war multiple times (Optimus checks him every time he's in contact). He gets incandescently angry and protective whenever anyone threatens, seems to threaten, or promotes in a general 'continuing to exist' kind of way threats to any of the people Ratchet considers to be under his charge.
A lot of this is probably the effect of several million years of constant, grinding, periodically genocidal warfare, but I wouldn't be surprised if the tendency towards moral absolutism and the scary protectiveness were central parts of his personality in the Golden Age, too.
And that's more interesting to me, personally speaking. If Orion's first thought there is "but surely Ratchet would never be unjust."
But I wonder, considering what Ratchet is like and who he is after several million years of war, if it might not actually be the other way around: "Ratchet is frightening when he's protecting someone, a patient or a friend, but surely Ratchet would never be unjust."
(That and Orion just has absolutely nowhere to go to check this, at the time, we see him delve into the archives at least in part hoping to get more information and get his bearings, because he's not stupid and he knows Megatron isn't telling him the full story and he needs the full story. Admittedly he thinks this is because the full story is too painful to tell, all the more so after Megatron reacts so badly to Starscream's name. But.)
Because Transformers Prime Ratchet is fully capable of being terrifying. He's uncompromising and absolutist and proud and he breaks or proposes breaking the laws of war multiple times (Optimus checks him every time he's in contact). He gets incandescently angry and protective whenever anyone threatens, seems to threaten, or promotes in a general 'continuing to exist' kind of way threats to any of the people Ratchet considers to be under his charge.
A lot of this is probably the effect of several million years of constant, grinding, periodically genocidal warfare, but I wouldn't be surprised if the tendency towards moral absolutism and the scary protectiveness were central parts of his personality in the Golden Age, too.
And that's more interesting to me, personally speaking. If Orion's first thought there is "but surely Ratchet would never be unjust."