#implied optiratch

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Dinner double date that both feels like meeting the parents and an interrogation

So in the og fire in the mountain script (here) Thundercracker defected with Skyfire in the episode, they probably welcomed him with open arms in G1 cartoon format but it’s still funny to think about, 5 million years of war and all it took to defect was one cute space jet lmao, Skyfire was only active in the war for like, a couple days at most and he already took out a Decepticon elite

[mapledkanata]

Alpha Trion, I am... seeing someone....

tfw when ur son is dating that FREAKING gladiator and not the respectable doctor 😰😰

[zedortoo]

Ratchet and his kids… oughhh when he was all fucked up and probably in pain from predaking and shockwave but he still let bumblebee hug him… I wish we got to see Raf reunite with him HE WAS SO WORRIED ABOUT HIS PEEPAW

bonus 🙏

[coffeedocratch]

Sleepy boy is waiting for his medic wife in bed

[energon-depo]

Shout out to transformers for giving trucks and cars feelings

[artfandroid]

- He's gone.

- He is.

- And he's never coming back.

- No.

- How did you stop grieving?

- I didn't.

[micechicken]

Making out meme thing but with Wheelratch and Wheelop/Wheelratchop

Traced from my whiteboard drawing

[kuzunoha-xiv]

much to think about........

[silverior968]

Realized something monumental about how I typically draw human Ratchet and human Bumblebee and immediately had to make this in a cold sweat. I think Optimus is just the midway point??

[Image ID: A sequence of messy digital doodles. The first one is of a human version of Ratchet, drawn as a man in his 50s with scars on his face, messy hair, sideburns and a goatee. His expression is exasperated, further demonstrated by a doodle next to him that shows his expression as straight lines for eyebrows, half-circles for eyes with the flat side up and an upside down square bracket for a mouth. The doodle of him are red. Next to him is a doodle of human Bumblebee, a young man with a fade and scars on his face, along with a surgery scar on his neck. He is smiling, and his expression is demonstrated with a doodle next to him that has a right side up square bracket for a mouth, half-circles for eyes with the flat side down and arcs pointing up for eyebrows, a reverse of Ratchet's expression. Below is a doodle of the artist, a young adult with a messy undercut and glasses, drawn in light blue. The artist is scratching their chin, eyes closed and smiling with a drop of sweat on their temple, with text that reads "Like father like son, I suppose." Below this text is another block of text that reads "Idk where he comes into the picture though" with an arrow pointing towards a small doodle of human Optimus Prime, drawn in dark blue as a man in his 50s with scars on his face and his hair in a ponytail. / End ID]

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Ratchet goes on vacation for a month and comes back with a baby, all of the autobots are baffled

Ratchet wants to keep the identity of the sire a secret until the colors at least come in (a couple months) but would like it to last until Torque can walk (a year)

Optimus hogging the sparkling is very in character of him so no one questions it

[scarghoul]

Bishojou/Femme!Humanformers Optiratch my beloved!!

I’m still figuring out Ratchet’s design but I love both of them! They are beautiful wives for their other two girlfriends!! (Jackie and Megs). SOMEONE NEEDS TO TELL THEM TO GET MARRIED ALREADY!

[merlinfromberlin]

Currently working (among other things) on a story that is most likely going to be called "Nooks & Crevices" and is about Bumblebee as well as several other people playing Hide & Seek with him. It will have 6 chapters and fluctuate between fluff and angst.

This is not directly related to this but I'm always so pleased when my word count for a certain scene/chapter is a 'nice' number.

Like. I just now finished the first draft for exposition for the first chapter of this and it is exactly 650 words long. And that is just so very, very neat in my opinion. Makes my brain happy.

I'm aware that it will change because I will edit this at least once (probably more than once because I feel that it is a bit convoluted right now). But for now it is just very neat and makes me happy. :D

And now have a sneak peak under the cut for being so nice as to read this. ^^ And because it will probably be a while before I get to officially upload this. Even if I finish it soon.

Optimus still remembered the cycle he had first taught Bumblebee how to play Hide and Seek well. It had been in the first of those pockets of deceptive non-peace, which had become frequent in the middle stages of the War, after the Autobots had taken in the yellow minibot sparkling.

Early on in the War, when it had still been called a Civil War by the media, after only a few hexacycles of fighting, both Autobots and Decepticons had been forced to concede that the War would not end anytime soon. Rather, it had turned into their new, permanent reality. However, neither of the factions possessed the resources to keep up combat indefinitely. They needed time for their troops to recuperate and their energon reserves to be filled.

Thus, these undiscussed ceasefires had been established. They often lasted only a few decicycles and apart from some minor skirmishes, there would be no major combat. Instead, a cautious and deceptive quiet would settle across deserted battlefields across Cybertron as both factions waited for scouting, inventions or espionage to yield advantageous results before advancing on the enemy once again.

When Optimus and Ratchet had first taken Bumblebee into their care, there had been no more public media outlets left to discuss the difference between War and Civil War; there had not been any in a long time. Temporary ceasefires, however, had long since become a regularity of life.

Still, it had taken several hexacycles before uneasy, combat-free non-peace enveloped Cybertron for the first time after Bumblebee’s rescue out of a collapsed shelter. When the ceasefire finally came, however, it turned out to be one of the longest the factions had seen yet. As quiet cycles stretched into calm decicycles even Optimus had been able to catch up with the never-ending flood of reports and paperwork, allowing the Prime to spend time with his bonded–be they amicae, conjunx or sparkling.

No one could remember the last time they had seen Ratchet this content. When one of Sideswipe and Sunstreaker’s pranks went awry, resulting in a giddy yellow sparkling covered in paint splotches, he did not even threaten the twins with a wrench to the head. Instead, the medic took a photograph to comm to his conjunx before sending the younglings to clean up Bumblebee.

Nevertheless, no matter how good a mimicry of peace this ceasefire may have presented, none of the Autobots could forget that they were living on borrowed time. The fighting would, most likely sooner rather than later, inevitably start up once again, shattering their idyllic fantasy of domesticity. Nevertheless, no matter how much they enjoyed these calm decicycles, none of them could truly forgot the constantly looming threat of warfare–none of them except for Bumblebee.

The newest and youngest member of the Autobot faction had unabashedly relished the apparent peace, delighted by the unusual amount of attention the older bots were paying him. The sparkling seemed completely undaunted, unaware even of the fact that the War had indeed not ended, just slowed down momentarily.

Even if it warmed their sparks, Optimus and Ratchet dreaded the cycle the fighting would begin anew and what the sudden change would do to Bumblebee’s psyche. Still, neither Prime nor medic were willing to rob the sparkling of his illusionary happiness prematurely.

However, even without having to shatter his peace, allowing him to keep his innocence intact for just a bit longer, there were ways to prepare Bumblebee for the realities of the War he had been forged in. They had to. As soon as the Decepticons learned of the new sparkling raised by the Autobot High Command, bonded to Optimus Prime and Ratchet of all bots, he would be a prime target. Just as Hot Rod had been and still was.

Playfully teaching Bumblebee how to behave in emergencies, how to hide and stay safe, Optimus had decided, would just be the first of many covert survival lessons.

[kingghoost]

Quickly analyzing a one-off line from The Optiratch Argument™ because I'm bored

We all know that The Argument™ was mainly about Ratchet's frustrations with Optimus' "cowardice" (BIG quotation marks) but one of Ratchet's lines really stuck with me:

"Oh- and let me guess, I'm just the medic." (TFP S1E22)

Typically when people are angry, they don't vent about just one thing. Though he was talking back to what Optimus said about the Vehicon being a miner and not a warrior, that comment seemed completely irrelevant to the argument's main topic (at least in my point of view)

One big (yet hidden) flaw in Ratchet is his lack of self confidence. His job is to cure the sick and injured, yet he never really seems to realize the value he has on his team. He truly is great at what he does - and he goes above and beyond to be of service (medic, scientist, sort of engineer... that's impressive!) Despite all this, the fact that he is the only non-fighter really seems to eat at him. His main whereabouts most of the time being in the base makes it worse paired with the fact that he seems to be the most eager to jump and "get things done." Their numbers are already small, so he feels that anything he could do isn't enough to overthrow an entire military.

By saying "Just the medic," it implies that he determines his self worth by his rank. In his eyes, he is "just" the medic. Not a great warrior that overpowers the enemy and saves his comrades, but a doctor forced to sit by and wait for his teammates to return with fresh new injuries, dead or alive.

"-Help us, we know. But you nearly caused the loss of something.. Irreplaceable. Our medic, and our most trusted friend." (TFP S1E22)

Now Optimus, on the other hand, does acknowledge what Ratchet has to give to the team, most importantly Ratchet's worth as an individual. He knows what lengths Ratchet goes to save his comrades (and, most of the time, himself) from the brink of death, he knows what a genius his old friend is for being able to conduct such intricate research with limited supplies - Hell, he knows that Ratchet built some of those supplies himself.

Learning about how Ratchet thinks so lowly of himself must've been shocking, to witness the one closest to you feel the need to experiment on himself with untested material in the hopes of being "useful" ... I think it broke Optimus' heart a little, not to mention how he was already hurt by Ratchet's rant.

Though the episode ended with things working out in the end, I really like the idea of The Argument™ making a huge mess out of both of them. At that moment they were fine and made up, but what they said/learned about each other that day will never quite leave them.

[skoff-the-artist]

Fever, when you kiss me

Fever, when you hold me tight

Fever in the morning

Fever all through the night

Saint Slumber - Fever

[robby-bobby-tommy]

"No, thank you, I don't wanna die😧"

Inspired from twitter friend's animatic videos version 1 & version 2!

[Let me get it out]

[starscream-is-my-wife]

None of the Decepticons are surprised

(Edit: the vans are Ratchet and Ironhide they use the same Nissan Vanette mold in G1)