TRANSFORMERS

the idea is "we can't condone/excuse the violence you caused, but deadlock was integral to your identity, and i know you still struggle with him. it's okay to still, feel him sometimes. just as long as you don't hurt people".

and that's something that drift takes to heart. that it's okay not to forget the identity that literally saved him.

that one angry prowl panel

(@ratchlocked)

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Deadlock had buried his face enthusiastically into Ratchet's valve as soon as he got him on the berth, so he took a while to notice.

Ratchet took time to get wet enough for anything involving his valve that was more strenuous than getting eaten out. Or at least that was Deadlock's excuse for how long he spent on it- even when Ratchet started grumbling about letting him do something this century. It usually got Deadlock a poke in the optic and comment about overestimating how impressive his spike was.

Anyway, Deadlock had spent the last few minutes licking furiously into Ratchet's slit, making sure to get the angle just right so Ratchet could grind down against his nose when he liked. And so Deadlock thought he could be forgiven for not noticing the pitted, unpainted marks at first. It wasn't until he surfaced to ask Ratchet if he wanted it on his front or back this time that Deadlock noticed them still there on the plating of Ratchet's neck, and froze in the act of wiping his mouth.

"Doc," he said, clambering over to run one damp finger along the little toothmarks. "You kept them?" The actual holes had healed up, but Ratchet hadn't done his touch up or buffed them out; and there they were. Two rows, barely visible.

"Get your sticky hands off my plating," Ratchet said. Deadlock hummed and leaned in to lick it clean. He probably couldn't actually feel the difference in texture. Too small. But his processor told him he could.

Lost ant found 🐜

Drift was homeless and a drug addict before the war, yes. But before he met Megatron, there was an event where a friend of his, Gasket, was killed by the police which prompted Drift to kill said police in turn. That led him to be recruited into Cybertron’s underworld where he worked as an assassin, and that work as an assassin was what led Megatron to recruit him into the Decepticons.

So he’s been doing the same thing for something like five million years straight, no Megatron needed.

Drift not being able to read pre-war is fanon! A fun bit of fanon I’m particularly fond of, but fanon nonetheless.

We’re actually never given a reason why Drift is good at writing speeches. He just is. If you want to extrapolate on his close relationship with Megatron that’s shown in the Drift miniseries, you could assume that it’s because he was around Megatron enough that he’d been given plenty of opportunity to read/listen to Megatron’s writing and gained an idea of what a good speech is from that. Or a good influencer apology video hah

Dancitron Is Rubbish ①