#like yeah pharma is the murderer and you can't blame ratchet for that

[lord-squiggletits]

I think my favorite part about the Luna-1 hotdog-style Ambulon incident is the "fuck around and find out moment" of Ratchet taunting Pharma with his insecurities only to be surprised/fearful when Pharma brought in Ambulon and First Aid to be bisected.

Like, aside from the fact that I love Pharma and think he deserves some murder as a treat

It's actually kind of a really good character moment for Ratchet where he super fucked up, like it's extremely rare in the whole of IDW for Ratchet to have made a mistake that bad and it's a fun addition to his character imo. He clearly thought he was in control of the situation and felt some kind of arrogant/clever about thinking he'd successfully manipulated, only for it to turn out "oops you just ended up escalating the situation and putting your friends in danger instead." Arrogance/recklessness aren't something you typically associate with Ratchet so I think the situation is really cool if only bc we got to see an aspect of Ratchet's personality that doesn't really come out otherwise.

Also it means that Ratchet 🤝 Rung -> Making a really stupid decision to provoke/taunt someone emotionally unstable in the middle of a hostage situation and just making it worse

#squiggposting #like ratchet.... my guy...my dude #pharma was wildly emotionally unstable in that moment and you thought it'd be a good idea #to pour salt in the wounds pharma has been harboring for a very long time? #like dude of course pharma decided to escalate the situation into something nasty what did you think you were going to accomplish #like yeah pharma is the murderer and you can't blame ratchet for that #but i don't think i've seen anyone really talk about the fact that ratchet escalated that situation to where amb and FA got involved #setting aside that it was a dick move to pharma i think that was prolly one of the worst things ratchet could've done in terms of safety lo #truly there is no medic on cybertron who is free of bad practices lmao ratch is emergency response shouldn't he know better?