#fortunatelykawaiitiger

I think at first they just knew him as Ratchet's old friend. But after a while, I bet someone spilled the beans to them about who he used to be. (Probably Arcee tbh). After that, I can imagine the kids would be pretty wary of him for a little bit.

Miko would be the most outspoken and rude to him at first. But I think she would also be the first one to come around and like him again. Also helps that Wheeljack and Bulkhead vouch for the guy. Drift thinks shes great fun! If a little energetic and eager for trouble.

Raf would be polite, as he always is but feel rather anxious when Drift's around. Bumblebee probably hangs around more often during this time, giving Drift the stink eye over Raf's shoulder lmao. I think, as he spent more time with Drift and Ratchet, Raf would eventually feel more comfortable. Drift enjoys Raf's calm personality and intellect. He reminds him of Ratchet, but tiny.

The one to stay wary and distrustful the longest would definitely be Jack. Him and Arcee are two peas in a pod in that sense. I also think he still has this protective older brother streak about him and he would try to keep Raf away from Drift whenever he could. However, with Jack in Reno for school, he's not around as often as Raf so he doesn't really get to know Drift as well as Raf does. His protectiveness gets on Raf's nerves haha. (I mean, at this point, Raf is 18!) Drift has a lot of respect for Jack. Probably tries to teach him some meditation to help with the stress of college.

Maybe Wheeljack and Ratchet refuse at first only to both individually do research (the average "normal" family having 2.5 kids) or have a conversation with a neighbor or something and they both, completely independently of one another, decide to each create a new dinobot to be Grimmys younger siblings.

No idea which dinobots they'd be or how Wheeljack and Ratchet would excuse suddenly having two more kids but its the first thing that popped into my head XD

Naturally it's a huge success.

(example; imagine them having something mundane rise out of something that looks like a cake and wolf whistling at it purely because they saw a video of people doing the same thing. They have no idea why this is a tradition or what it means but it seemed fun soooo.)

AWWW 😭😭😭😭😭😭 This sounds so cute!! It's like a cute little filler episode after all the stuff they all go through. An earned rest and a sense of normalcy for all of them where they plan something fun and new together... So so precious and lovely!

LMAO- before landing on Earth, they see the Decepticon high command offering a reward for any intel on the Autobot's location. Knock Out obviously thinks he will claim said reward easily. He's charming after all, and incredibly intelligent and convincing (and if reason should fail them, Breakdown's fists are excellent motivators).

They immediately go for the first life form they find. While Knock Out has only met a few beastformers, he doesn't have any reason to think Earth would be lacking in them. Even if these Earthly ones are especially tight lipped and somehow very capable of acting as if he doesn't exist.

I mean, imagine Ingo trying to defend them in court by explaining where he's been all this time. Complete with time travel. And the grunts just gesturing at him to PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP YOU ARE MAKING IT WORSE which he just interprets as encouragement.

Bonus points if the grunts are just, like, hapless and more than a little unlucky. Like, joining team plasma the day before shit went down because they thought the uniform was cool looking unlucky. Like, so detached from the central understanding of plasma they don't even recognize N when they meet him level of hapless.

Subway Boss “Mr. Gift of Gab” Ingo is just going on and on like, “And after stumbling through the woods upon returning to the present, they were the first people who offered me food. It had been quite a while since I ate anything, and I was mildly delirious” and the prosecutor is just writing that down in a notepad next to ‘Stockholm Syndrome???’ underlined five times.

The grunts rapidly gesturing at their neck for him to ‘stop’: Dude no no no

Ingo, thinking they’re waving at him for encouragement: ^w^ keep going? Got it!

In my mind I’m definitely already characterizing them as hapless and, for the most part, well meaning. They’re my silly little guys. Them not recognizing N is absolutely hilarious though I have to include that.

Plasma Grunt A, squinting at N: Whose this jackass?

A Neo Plasma Grunt, aghast: that’s literally our king- your king.

yeah!! I imagine emmet wouldn't like melli's attitude & wouldn't let him get too close to ingo,

so if melli really wants to date ingo he should try his best at changing his bro's opinion on him first hahahah