Glup Shitto Conissueer

Apparently Ravage doesn't pass the Ambus test when "strictly applied". To me this reads as the result of political compromise. Unlike how you'd actually want a sapience test to be, errs on the side of ruling against sapience. Probably a series of necessary conditions (need to meet all) as opposed to sufficient (only need to meet one) conditions. But to Ravage, this just gives him a very low opinion of Dominus, something Rewind would be very defensive about. I think he'd know the history of the Ambus test, and already know of Rewind. From Ravage's perspective, Dominus just wanted to fuck a data-stick so he only fought for rights to be extended as far as his conjunx. I also think it would make sense that Ravage would credit Rewind's passion for archivist work as being internalized functionalism.

I even have a theory, that Ravage and the birds, as cold-constructed data storage bots who used to work for the senate (we know Ravage is cold constructed, I'm just guessing the birds are) were actually made after the Ambus reforms specifically so that the Senate could have a replacement disposable class. And think Rewind, which faction did a majority of beast-formers join?

Then if Ravage ever finds out the Ambus brothers are beast-formers, either in an AU or because his powers let him sniff out Minimus as one* his opinion on Dominus is going to become especially scornful. I imagine there was a lot of internal tension inside the beast-former community about people with beast alt-modes (as opposed to primary modes like Ravage) passing as standard-formers. Which is exactly what Dominus and Minimus did, using their privilege as point one percenters/loadbarers to do so totally, protecting them from anti-beast-former shapism even in the Functionist timeline! I imagine Minimus has even gotten his kibble removed. So now Ravage sees Dominus not just as a point one percenter dilettante who only cared about making sure his conjunx was seen as a person, not anyone else- but also as someone who betrayed his own people rather than use the privilege he did have.