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Oct. 16th, 2016 12:48 pmOOC INFO
Name:Radi
Contact:PM here
IC INFO
Character Name:Ratchet
Canon Name:IDW
Canon Point: End of MTMTE 52--he and Drift have just reunited with the other exiles from the Lost Light.
OC, AU, or CRAU Info: Canon!
Personality:
It’s surprising after all Ratchet’s been through that all he is is a little bit cynical, and not downright insane. Having been held hostage, discovered a robot dragon, fought zombies, played bait for a Phase Sixer, tortured by Pharma, it’s safe to say he’s earned every ounce of his world-weary cynicism. Still, he’s a healer at spark. Even before the war, he earned the reputation of having saved the lives of every Prime. But now, the war has taken its toll and Ratchet finds his hands…aging on him. He worries that he’s losing his touch, and every mech he loses takes another toll on him.
Ratchet cares about all life, Autobot, Decepticon, Cybertronian or human. He breaks cover on Earth to save two human strangers from death, and works to save them, later, when the orbital bounce the Cybertronians use to get off-planet stopped their hearts. He got close to Verity, especially, and cared about humans even after finding out what the Machination’s plans were—how they’d taken Sunstreaker and attempted some sort of monstrous headmaster surgery on him, combining him with Hunter O’nion.
But he’s no softie. When he needs to be tough, he can be as tough as the next. He wanted the surrendered Megatron killed, he endangered himself to draw off Sixshot’s attention, he endured Pharma’s torture (stripping him of his body entirely) with a cranky stoicism. And even when he realized, on Delphi, that he’d caught the terrible plague Red Rust, he didn’t stop to fret, but kept pushing at Pharma, eventually securing the cure. Even back on Earth, he wasn’t above a kind of bold feint to Skywatch, to allow Bumblebee to escape. It’s perhaps a different kind of courage than the frontline combat troops evince, but it is a kind of courage.
Ratchet’s also loyal: when Orion/Optimus called on him, he never hesitated to answer. When Bumblebee was voted to be in charge on Earth after Optimus stepped down, Ratchet stepped up to try to support Bumblebee. When everyone else was scorning Drift, who had taken responsibility for bringing Overlord on board the Lost Light, Ratchet was the only one who stood by the mech he’d pretended all this time he could barely stand, treating him with kindness, and asking him to come back, not as a killer, or an Autobot, but as his friend.
He doesn’t hold grudges, for all that. Not because he’s a pacifist, but because they get in the way. In game, he won’t be insistent about factions, but he will stand up for the mechs he knows. He wants to heal, to be in a place where he’s useful. He’s thought, back home, of trying to retire, but he always finds a way, somehow, some excuse why he can’t step down just yet. Part of that is because, well, healing is his cause, and without that, he has nothing. That's why, First Aid, it took him so long to retire!
This doesn't make him super shiny and nice: he knew that the Fool's Energon was just a fraud, but he decided not to tell Megatron. It's not quite that he believes in Megatron or a chance for redemption--just that in that case a small lie seems better than the other option.
Sample:
http://demonboogie.dreamwidth.org/3132.html?thread=2826812#cmt2826812
Name:Radi
Contact:PM here
IC INFO
Character Name:Ratchet
Canon Name:IDW
Canon Point: End of MTMTE 52--he and Drift have just reunited with the other exiles from the Lost Light.
OC, AU, or CRAU Info: Canon!
Personality:
It’s surprising after all Ratchet’s been through that all he is is a little bit cynical, and not downright insane. Having been held hostage, discovered a robot dragon, fought zombies, played bait for a Phase Sixer, tortured by Pharma, it’s safe to say he’s earned every ounce of his world-weary cynicism. Still, he’s a healer at spark. Even before the war, he earned the reputation of having saved the lives of every Prime. But now, the war has taken its toll and Ratchet finds his hands…aging on him. He worries that he’s losing his touch, and every mech he loses takes another toll on him.
Ratchet cares about all life, Autobot, Decepticon, Cybertronian or human. He breaks cover on Earth to save two human strangers from death, and works to save them, later, when the orbital bounce the Cybertronians use to get off-planet stopped their hearts. He got close to Verity, especially, and cared about humans even after finding out what the Machination’s plans were—how they’d taken Sunstreaker and attempted some sort of monstrous headmaster surgery on him, combining him with Hunter O’nion.
But he’s no softie. When he needs to be tough, he can be as tough as the next. He wanted the surrendered Megatron killed, he endangered himself to draw off Sixshot’s attention, he endured Pharma’s torture (stripping him of his body entirely) with a cranky stoicism. And even when he realized, on Delphi, that he’d caught the terrible plague Red Rust, he didn’t stop to fret, but kept pushing at Pharma, eventually securing the cure. Even back on Earth, he wasn’t above a kind of bold feint to Skywatch, to allow Bumblebee to escape. It’s perhaps a different kind of courage than the frontline combat troops evince, but it is a kind of courage.
Ratchet’s also loyal: when Orion/Optimus called on him, he never hesitated to answer. When Bumblebee was voted to be in charge on Earth after Optimus stepped down, Ratchet stepped up to try to support Bumblebee. When everyone else was scorning Drift, who had taken responsibility for bringing Overlord on board the Lost Light, Ratchet was the only one who stood by the mech he’d pretended all this time he could barely stand, treating him with kindness, and asking him to come back, not as a killer, or an Autobot, but as his friend.
He doesn’t hold grudges, for all that. Not because he’s a pacifist, but because they get in the way. In game, he won’t be insistent about factions, but he will stand up for the mechs he knows. He wants to heal, to be in a place where he’s useful. He’s thought, back home, of trying to retire, but he always finds a way, somehow, some excuse why he can’t step down just yet. Part of that is because, well, healing is his cause, and without that, he has nothing. That's why, First Aid, it took him so long to retire!
This doesn't make him super shiny and nice: he knew that the Fool's Energon was just a fraud, but he decided not to tell Megatron. It's not quite that he believes in Megatron or a chance for redemption--just that in that case a small lie seems better than the other option.
Sample:
http://demonboogie.dreamwidth.org/3132.html?thread=2826812#cmt2826812
