#which he alternately reassures himself with (he couldn't have helped pharma. clearly he was just crooked the whole time.)

[decepti-thots]

do you think ratchet knew that pharma was at the institute. do we ever get any indication he does? imagine if post-delphi, ratchet is explaining pharma to everyone, and where he stole those hands from. and chromedome is like. holy shit that guy from the institute who was really grumpy all the time? i remember him. and ratchet is like. the guy from WHAT

#idk i think it's really neat bc like. #clearly pharma was not like he is on luna-1 even during delphi #and it seems like pharma's decision making deteriorated rapidly due to stress there too #so i can imagine ratchet being fully blindsided pharma would have been involved in that #trying to work out if this is a Sign that pharma was 'bad all along' he missed and can beat himself up over #which he alternately reassures himself with (he couldn't have helped pharma. clearly he was just crooked the whole time.) #and blames himself for (if he had noticed could he have done something. somehow.) #and like. he's WRONG to be clear that's not how things work #but i think that's how ratchet would try and make sense of it #idw #pharma #ratchet