The depiction of Clockwork in TROR is genuinely so bad, in most of his official art work hes almost always with Doombringer, yet Trubo (the owner and lore writer) says that Clockwork being dependent on Doombringer an assumption made by the community. How could we not assume that? Especially with the comic.
Additionally, in the context of the comic, Clockwork jumps into Doombringer's arms with a tear in his eye— mind you, the panel after this is them preparing to fight James.
All of his information reference Doombringer and vice versa. Trubo knows this, hell, ages ago they made a post about giving Clockwork more fun facts to not make him an 'accessory' to Doom.
Trubo claims they made Clockwork more 'independent', yet he's still always besides Doombringer, even in the Alpha poster.
Trubo knows what they're doing, they sent this in the fun facts channel a few months ago because apparently alot of people have been criticizing it before.
"Let me give you 15 fun facts about him!" sounds like "oh yeah sorry our character writing is dog shit let me give you fun facts instead!" Its an excuse, and the problem is unsolved considering that some of us are complaining still.
Just hire writers Trubo... it's not that hard.