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Shattered Glass is an odd beast to work with…. The initial premise sounds so very simple; swap around which bots are the good guys and which ones are the bad guys.
But in practice, this becomes pretty complicated. Which elements of a character would get swapped, and which ones stay ? Would a sadistic mech like SG!Ratchet even GET his medical license? Or would his gruff to-the-point nature be replaced by a pleasant ‘go-with-the-flow’ attitude that does whatever it wants once witnesses have disappeared?
Would he still have a clinic in the Dead End if he was not invested in the troubles of low-caste mecha ? If he had his clinic to abuse the lower castes, why would he risk living so close to them, where they could burn his clinic down?
There are a ton of possibilities there though. Maybe SG Ratchet offered free repairs if his patients came in with their own parts, and a surplus T-cog or optic, Maybe he was content taking ‘favours’ from mecha that he could collect on in the future.
Why not ‘pay’ guards by offering them a full tank of energon every day, and free repairs?
Perhaps Ratchet was never really a great surgeon in the Shattered Glass verse. Instead he got his position from the Prime as a reward, for bringing so many of the guttermechs to the Autobot side. Most of them end up being early-war cannon fodder, but the guttermech ‘Deadlock’ becomes a fearsome warrior.
Drift doesn’t want to stay with the Autobots, he really doesn’t, but he has a debt to pay.
But in practice, this becomes pretty complicated. Which elements of a character would get swapped, and which ones stay ? Would a sadistic mech like SG!Ratchet even GET his medical license? Or would his gruff to-the-point nature be replaced by a pleasant ‘go-with-the-flow’ attitude that does whatever it wants once witnesses have disappeared?
Would he still have a clinic in the Dead End if he was not invested in the troubles of low-caste mecha ? If he had his clinic to abuse the lower castes, why would he risk living so close to them, where they could burn his clinic down?
There are a ton of possibilities there though. Maybe SG Ratchet offered free repairs if his patients came in with their own parts, and a surplus T-cog or optic, Maybe he was content taking ‘favours’ from mecha that he could collect on in the future.
Why not ‘pay’ guards by offering them a full tank of energon every day, and free repairs?
Perhaps Ratchet was never really a great surgeon in the Shattered Glass verse. Instead he got his position from the Prime as a reward, for bringing so many of the guttermechs to the Autobot side. Most of them end up being early-war cannon fodder, but the guttermech ‘Deadlock’ becomes a fearsome warrior.
Drift doesn’t want to stay with the Autobots, he really doesn’t, but he has a debt to pay.
