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lord-squiggletits · 10 months ago

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As much as I'm a Pharma apologist he is genuinely an asshole who acts completely unrepentant so something I think about for an eventual Pharma redemption fic is like. How do you write a redemption for a severely traumatized guy whose coping mechanism is to act like he doesn't care and the people who need to accept him don't like/care about him enough to go "hey it's okay everyone gets a second chance" and/or "wow Pharma is so radically different what caused that change."

But also like it's really hard to help someone who has no desire to/refuses to be helped and makes himself deliberately unpleasant to be around so like idk

#in the end i think what it comes down to is no one asked WHY #no one looked at pharma's before and after and went 'how did that happen'#even when other ppl talk about pharma's change it's always in such like a. passive way #'before he went mad and started killing patients' yeah and what made him go mad exactly?#everyone just kinda talks about pharma like 'yeah he used to be great then he started killing people'#i know he's a minor character but LITERALLY NO ONE ASKS WHY #and like let me emphasize multiple people say 'for most of his life he was a good doctor' or something #no one was like 'yeah i always knew pharma was a piece of shit'#(besides ratchet telling him he was always a terrible autobot but i think that was a heat of the moment thing)#pharma apologism #like it's just absurd how everyone goes 'yeah pharma went insane. pity' but no one ever brings up why #i know it's just authorial accidentally writing a deep character but not having time to acknowledge it #but like when i think of in universe explanations for why the autobots would be like this #the only explanations are that ppl either already hated pharma (not supported by evidence)#or that the autobots just really hate traitors. which seems more likely given like. how getaway was treated #this is basically the one time i understand autobot slander bc when i think about it i'm kinda like #yeah the average autobot is kind of sanctimonious and thinks ppl less moral than them are pieces of shit #whereas to contrast the decepticons are kind of just not concerned about morality and more about their dogma #accidental cross faction comparison in the notes

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