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My Drift attempts.
I love him. Most importantly, I love Ratchet, so I need to get a solid Drift down to start making some Dratchet drawings.
Any advice, tutorials, references, etc. would be greatly appreciated. And this is only his MTMTE look! Haven't event attempted LL...
Ratchet sketch practice!!!
Starting to get the general shape, proportions, and designs. Honestly, I focus on what I want him to look like. The beauty of the comics is being able to grab references from so many amazing artists you sort of develop your feel as you go.
Anyways, hopefully I'll be able to doodle some cute Dratchet now I'm getting the hang out of these two old men.
i remade/remastered an edit i made back in like april or so based off of my idiot wife @ricecakes-zapfish 's fic i did that 57 or so page analysis on for the first several chapters that wasn't the last two
if you want you can read the fic here
(p.s. the first image shown was drawn by me, traced from that one anime girl crying image)
WHO THE FLIP WAS GOING TO TELL ME IT WAS DRATCHET WEEK SO I COULD POST MY THINGS I BOTH COINCIDENTALLY COMPLETED AT THE START AND END OF DRATCHET WEEK?????
im so.so normal about them.very normal
This part hurts because you realize Drift is probably asking about the quantum jump because he hopes that in another universe, Ratchet is still alive and they can still be together.
I apologize but a part two my last dratchrod ask where you said rodimus has breakdowns.
Maybe he can be himself around another mech *cough cough* megatron *cough cough* or maybe dratchet get a feeling and catch him breaking down or notice something?
Or maybe its both and they see how easy it is for roddy and *cough* megs *cough cough* to work with each others terrible or hard parts and maybe they want that? Or Maybe its too late & *cough* gray mech *cough* won’t give roddy up because he knew the moment the change happened
I am a slut for when others write Megarod, but I can't personally think of a way to expand upon what you have already written. It summarizes the situation quite well.
Either Drift and Ratchet gets their slag together (which they did in another ask I answered), or someone else swoops in and takes Rodimus off their servos.
The thing is, Rodimus is terribly lovable. Even when you don't want to love him (and I personally found him insufferable for most of the MTMTE/Lost Light series; I prefer the version of him I see in fandom and didn't like his canon characterization until the last few issues), you eventually realize that you're willing to die for him because he is equally willing, if not more so, to die for you.
So if Rodimus can be himself with Megatron where he can't be himself with Drift and Ratchet... If he can look at Megatron and go, "I don't have to be perfect because he's already so fragged up, I can't mess him up even more," then that's good. That's great.
Losing Rodimus would hurt Drift and Ratchet and they'll be angry at him and themselves for a long time, but they would never want to force Rodimus to stay with them if he isn't happy.
If he's happier with the mech he feels is just as imperfect as himself (arguably worse, we all know that), if he's more comfortable being mouthy and selfish and lazy with a bot he knows can handle it and not walk away, than Ratchet and Drift will let him go and they'll work toward rebuilding a friendship when the spark wound isn't so fresh.
It helps that Megatron is medically trained and can keep up with Rodimus's self-injurious shenanigans and self-sacrificing plots.
EDIT:
Not mutch to do with the ask, but I was still thinking about why Rodimus would be more comfortable with Megatron than Drift and Ratchet and the short answer is because Rodimus can't really hurt Megatron.
Yeah, he can get Megatron really, boiling mad and annoyed, but there's not much he can say or do to make Megatron lose faith in him or abandon him. Meanwhile, he can absolutely say the wrong thing and lose Ratchet and Drift so fast, or create wounds so deep just by not thinking before he opens his big mouth.
If Drift says, "This is a bad idea, Roddy," Rodimus can't snap back with, "Oh, like taking boosters was so smart?"
Boom. End of relationship right there. Rodimus has joked about rehabilitating Drift in the past and revoking his rights and no one, I repeat, no one found him funny. Bringing up Drift's history as a drug addict or as an assassin or as a decepticon any time Drift tries to talk some sense to him? Not cool. Drift gets upset, sometimes angry, but it's Ratchet who absolutely will not stand for it.
For Rodimus, Drift's past is just part of Drift, part of what makes him who he is, part of why the way he is and the story to how they met. It's nothing bad, it just is. Which is probably why he doesn't treat Drift's past with the delicacy he should.
Meanwhile, there's Megatron.
Megatron can say, "That's a stupid plan," and Rodimus can snap back, "Oh, like starting a war is a bad idea? Or is it like how forming the DJD was a bad idea? Or is it a bad idea like how -" and the list can go on and on down the entire list of Megatron's crimes, but his co-captain is just waiting him out with the most deadpan expression possible.
"It's because of my mistakes that I can say this is a stupid plan."
"Says the failed warlord," Rodimus mutters sourly because he's losing this one-sided argument and he hates that.
But Megatron isn't even hurt. He's smug because the best Rodimus can do is try to distract him by hurting his feelings so he can go risk his life on some suicidal mission. Megatron has dealt with soldiers and officers speaking sweet things to his face and trying to stab him in the back for millions of years. He's dealt with the Senate and the Functionist universe and war and so many endless cycles of victim impact statements - Rodimus's temper tantrums are nothing to him.
He knows what he is. He knows what he's done. He wants to do better, be better, even atone, but he isn't going to get upset by Rodimus's big mouth (the feelings and thoughts Rodimus's mouth inspire in him are a separate matter, but they are not upsetting things).
What matters to Megatron isn't what Rodimus says - except for those instances when he says something truly inspiring, something so awe-inducing and humbling and empowering that Megatron can't help but be impacted - but what Rodimus does.
One time, Rodimus lost his ship and most of his crew because he wouldn't betray Megatron.
One time, Rodimus reached out to him when he was about to give his life fighting Tarn and saved his life even when he didn't want to be saved.
There's a universe where Megatron dies with a Rodimus star in his servos. There's a universe where Rodimus smuggles him out of their own universe for wild adventures across many others.
Rodimus is so easy to love for someone like Megatron. It helps that Rodimus is a brat and Megatron is Into That (See: Orion Pax before he took on the responsibility of the matrix and the entirety of Starscream).
What I am getting at here is, while Drift and Ratchet would have to work hard to forgive Rodimus - and maybe not even fully forgive him - Megatron sees nothing that actually has to be forgiven.
Megatron says, "Do you even possess a brain module or is there only room for your inflated ego in your helm?"
And Rodimus says, "Talk about egos, pal, I'm not the one who thought Cybertronians were soooo superior that every organic in the galaxy had to die."
"Like recognizes like."
"Ex-squeeze me? Did you just compare my awesome stars to genocide?"
"Even I had to start somewhere."
"I think I'm a long ways off from planning a mass murder of a governing body and then conquering whole planets."
"I am not so sure. You were quite efficient against the Functionists."
"How dare you, that's not the same thing. At least I've never killed a boy by throwing them into a giant smelting chamber."
"Rodimus, you can burst into flames. You have absolutely burned a fair number of bots yourself."
Rodimus can't hurt Megatron the same way he can accidentally (sometimes on purpose when he's being self-destructive) hurt others.
It means he can relax and be himself. Even the not-so-good parts of himself. Even the nasty bits that made him use Rung as bait to catch a sparkeater. Even the nasty bits that once made Ratchet vote to remove him as the Lost Light's captain. Even the nasty bits that made him agree to take Overlord onto his ship. Even the nasty bits that made him let Drift take the blame for Overlord and exile him without a fair trial. Even when he left Ratchet behind on Luna 1 to Pharma's not so merciful tender mercies.
He has fragged up so, so bad. And that's all just since he got on the Lost Light.
It's comforting to be with someone who has messed up worse than he has. They're growing into better captains together.
Just a lil experiment…..
I’ll give you a week
drift and ratchet designs i made for an upcoming fic @ricecakes-zapfish is working on rhat i made like a month ago that i wanted to share
i spent my life savings on trying to do drift's design that ratchet's looks low budget (im sorry ratchet) (you could also guess who's my favorite out of the two because of that)
@ricecakes-zapfish hi bae ily heres your present
me after indulging in multiple dratchet-centered (and not) lost light fanfics that you mix up each fic with an entirely different one. devastation so bad you even forget which fic the entire scene came from
shoutout to sojourners, taking care, the bad ending, and many other fics for building my dratchet fixation lets GO
kissing at a sunset
Heres the dratchet you guys have been waiting for!
Headshot and non filter ver
i love seeing dratchet or drift art posted on my birthday like they made it as a gift for me
you posted drift art on second of september? i love you thank you for the lovely birthday gift ill share my red velvet cake with you
Sometimes even a medic deserves to sleep in...
Tw angst
And what if I say while Drift grieves Ratchet at his funeral holding his inner most energon vial, he cries cursing Rodimus in grief and desperate anger because Rodimus isn’t there to comfort him.
But Rodimus is there to comfort him.
…
Drift just can’t see him.
Because Rodimus is dead too.
Rodimus died a long time ago.
After the crew disbanded and after he became a drunk, Rodimus got bad, really bad.
and eventually, he died.
He felt himself online without clear memory thinking he was still alive only for Drift and Ratchet to go through him.
He’s been there with them from the moment he died to this very moment now as Drift curses him and cries.
He can do nothing but watch and crouch by his side staying with him.
He figured this was his punishment.
To suffer watching the ones he loved so close but so far.
He figures he deserves this too.
What he wouldn’t give to bring Ratchet back and have Drift be happy.
All he can do is unknowingly be beside him and stay bound to his spark until the day Drift dies.
He already felt half himself go when Ratchet died.
Its only time and patience until Drift will one day too offline.
Ratchet calling Rodimus out for sending Drift away.
There will soon be a fake collab
Orginal:)
