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@pharmasgloriouscrotch
And another Autobot gets his hands chopped off and left in a pit, enslaved by a genocidal maniac, and then shot in cold blood while surrendering and neither the guy who stole his hands nor the guy who shot him while surrendering get any consequences at all.
And another Autobot gets his hands chopped off and left in a pit, enslaved by a genocidal maniac, and then shot in cold blood while surrendering and neither the guy who stole his hands nor the guy who shot him while surrendering get any consequences at all.
I wonder if anyone outside of Pharma fans will ever recognize that Pharma is in fact a better doctor than Ratchet because Pharma has feats to his name like 1. Documenting the first case of age related spark burnout 2. Four way fuel pump transplant with himself as a donor 3. Designing a plague and a cure for that plague from scratch in a shitty understaffed/underfunded/obscure facility while under torture and threat of murder 4. Doing enough research on diseases on Luna-1 that the Lost Light's science team could only find the cure to cybercrosis because of PHARMA'S NOTES (and also four other cures besides that).
Wtf is up with y'all making fanart portraying Pharma as some petty, stuck up wannabe who's all ego and no skill? He literally is the greatest doctor and epidemiologist of their entire species who only lost out on that recognition because the Autobots are faithless hypocrites who practically erased him from memory for the crime of killing under extreme duress (only to later turn around and go "omg we're so scared and doomed there's no hope for us" when the DJD came for them later one). GTFOutta here Pharma is literally a medical genius whose only crime was doing what he had to do to help Delphi survive instead of doing the honorable thing and just letting Tarn murder everyone.
also I wish people would stop portraying Pharma as some weird functionist obsessed with his hands. Ratchet is the one who obsesses over medic hands, is the one who says he’s obsolete without his hands, is the one who was literally gunna retired until he was able to essentially steal another forged medics hands like?? Pharma has a class exemption lol and he was completely fine having none forged hands.
ratchet was the only one carrying those functionist notions, Pharma clearly couldn’t care less. His work and ability to be a doctor and scientist were his top priorities
Cleaned up the lines of my stencil designs I made for my Tarn and Pharma themed tote bags/t-shirt that I previously painted. I wanted to post and share the designs here in case anyone wanted to use them to make their own DIY merch! I'm okay with other people using the design or even editing it for their own use as long as you're not selling it or using it for commercial use aka as long as it's for personal use only I'm cool with it have fun! :D
inflicting Pharma with my headaches
um. cut him in half
hot dog or hamburger style, boss
Need a fanfic that's about solving the murder mystery of Doctor Pharma suddenly dying where Tarn is the primary suspect for most of the story bc Obvious Sadistic Killer but Pharma's actual murderer was the goodest most pure Autobot doctor Ratchet who killed Pharma for his hands and stole his work to publish it under his name bc Pharma had bequeathed all of his belongings to Ratchet in his will.
Bonus points if Dratchet is involved and Drift breaks up with Ratchet over this. Bonus-bonus points if Pharma somehow didn't die/comes back from the dead to kill Ratchet himself.
Really I just want this fic to exist as the ultimate fuck-you to all the stereotypes and falsehoods and scapegoating that Pharma gets saddled with in this fandom.
Also no argument saying that Ratchet was justified leaving Pharma for dead bc Pharma killed his own Autobots and was evil holds up to the fact that Ratchet constantly hangs out with Notorious Ex Decepticon Personal Favorite of Megatron Murderer of Millions Drift/Deadlock btw. No one ever likes to talk about why it's not okay for Pharma to murder people under duress/to keep his remaining people from being murdered but it's cool for Drift to say "sorry" and he's chill now sjdjsnxjsnc
I know it's not at all the intended authorial meaning but Ratchet highkey pulled a "hoes before bros" the way he met Drift once ~4 mil years ago and then after Drift came back at the end of the war going "I'm an Autobot I want to do the right thing" Ratchet was like "I know this and I love you."
Meanwhile with Pharma who Ratchet was lifelong best friends with and spent the entire war with including doing secret Wreckers stuff together, Ratchet was like "oh you went insane and killed people? You're fucking dead to me you were always a horrible Autobot" and then stole his hands while leaving him to die. As if millions of years of being best friends with Pharma weren't worth a single cursory "huh this is really out of character for my friend who was literally the best most dedicated doctor ever before he randomly went insane and started killing people, only something really bad could've caused that."
I mean fuck even during the Delphi episode itself when Drift was like " 🥺 if the DJD are coming please just kill me" Ratchet was like "NOOOOO I WON'T LET YOU DIE IT WON'T COME TO THAT" but then when Pharma was like "sooo the leader of the DJD personally threatened to murder me and everyone here if I didn't feed his t-cog addiction" Ratchet was like "WHAT THE FUCK YOU ORGAN HARVESTER."
Drift being afraid of the DJD maybe coming >>>> Pharma being an actual victim of the DJD for years on end. 🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀💀💀💀😭
Only JRO's thoughtless narrative framing of "yeah I just wanted a mad doctor Autobot villain" and having Pharma be treated as nothing but that could make Ratchet look this bad, but the worst part is barely anyone notices or cares because that's how bad the narrative's complete apathy to Pharma is lol
Also it's almost explicitly stated in the text that even during the Clampdown, Ratchet due to his status as CMO has always had the freedom of movement and the ability to pick and choose who his patients were minus whoever the Prime was.
In fact, barring the actual Council, Ratchet was the one with the highest authority in the Cybertronian medical community. He literally didn't have to do much but do his actual job if he genuinely wanted a clinic to be built in Dead End. In fact, if he genuinely cared about the autonomy of his patients he would have done his job and did the thing he was hired to do.
Once you center Ratchet in the narrative through the lens that he's a person with the highest authority in the Cybertronian Medical Community instead of an Average Doctor like he tries to portray himself as, his hypocrisy is pretty obvious in his actions or lack thereof, but Ratchet's contradictions can easily be summed up by something he himself says:
"Why are we here, on this planet? We're here to save lives. Now okay, maybe we're talking mass numbers, a global scale of species saved, but me, I take it one life at a time."
He is a guy that ultimately wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wants to feel like a good person, and be praised for being one, but Ratchet as a character isn't like Rung where he'll put himself on the line for his patients come hell or high water, or like Pharma who will try to take what he feels is the least terrible option for everyone involved long term.
Ratchet is a character who has strong feelings about and for the people within his immediate vicinity, those he knows well. He is one of those people who feel like issues like politics and community problems are very vague and at most he'll do what he feels gets an immediate result that makes him feel better as a person, up until the issues affect him and his, and then it becomes personal.
And until it becomes personal Ratchet won't do anything he feels could put him at personal risk.
That's why in my opinion, Ratchet's line of questioning and his actions during the Delphi arc make a perfect amount of sense, because Ratchet isn't talking to Pharma as a doctor like Pharma is trying to appeal to, he's taking Pharma's actions as a betrayal of his best friend, someone who based off of JRO's interviews was pretty much a guy who held himself up to even higher professional and personal standards than the rigid ones he set for other people.
I wouldn't be surprised if Ratchet unintentionally put Pharma on a pedestal, or his memory of the mech had gotten rosy over the years, but either way he wasn't speaking to Pharma as a medical professional in any sense of the word.
But also that makes Ratchet's hypothetical of what he would do if he was put in Pharma's situation a complete lie, because we, the reader even if we didn't realize it, already know what Ratchet would do in Pharma's situation, because Ratchet was in that situation with the Functionists long before the Autobots were a thing, and we already know what ended up happening- Ratchet didn't try to do anything until it got personal, not out of professional or moral obligation, but because past a certain point Ratchet can't help but see statistics instead of people, and he doesn't care about statistics.
But we also see repeatedly that Ratchet despite his cynical behavior, canonically sort of latches onto nostalgia and people with idealistic dreams very easily, as opposed to people that aren't easy to understand or get along with. Because at the end of the day, Ratchet is again, someone who "goes with the flow". It isn't easy to get him to pick the hard choice.
Which makes the dynamic we see in the comic between Ratchet and Pharma vs Ratchet and Drift make sense when you think about it that way:
Drift is someone who Ratchet can ignore the sordid past of, because everything about Drift from his aesthetics to his beliefs, even his weaponry, evokes a nostalgia, and he's idealistic and young enough to be endearing, easy to get along with, and the romance between them is almost cliche enough to be called a fairytale, it's something really hard for Ratchet to let go of.
Pharma on the other hand is someone who was never easy to get along with in the first place, a workaholic teetotaler with high standards for everything and even higher standards for himself, the medical feats he accomplished bordered on theatrical, almost miraculous. Ratchet knew him for years but hasn't seen him in forever, and now he has to deal with the reality that his best friend is someone he no longer recognizes in the worst way possible, and it was simply the natural conclusion because allowing Drift to cut Pharma's hands off, not looking for him, giving up, walking away with First Aid, Ambulon and encouraging the black and white narrative that Pharma was simply a bad person allowed Ratchet to have his cake and eat it too.
Y'know another point on the "Pharma isn't a Functionist" scoreboard (not that I haven't thoroughly debunked that by now but whatever) is that a preoccupation with hands isn't something unique to him.
The entire practice of empurata involves removing a mech's face and replacing their hands with claws, so literally Cybertronian society has always had a sort of judgement/taboo around hands (skillful forged hands, dirty/criminal claws). Even if Pharma were actually obsessed with his hands which he has a right to bc they're part of his body and belong to him so it's less obsession and more a fear of his bodily autonomy being violated, you can't use that to immediately declare him a Functionist when there are other cultural reasons that having one's hands removed is considered terrifying/dehumanizing and was historically used as a method of punishment and visually distinguishing someone as a criminal who should be socially ostracized.
Plus Pharma is a doctor and has only ever been a doctor his entire life, everything he is or has ever done is tied to being a doctor and being a doctor relies on him having his hands. Of course he's going to be proud of his hands or be upset when they're taken away, because having his hands taken away is, literally and symbolically, taking away his identity and the thing he's best at/most proud of being able to do.
Okay but yeah 1. Whirl is unironically one of the people on the Lost Light who handles mentally unstable ppl in crisis situations the most effectively and 2. Pharma and him have so much in common, they could literally bond over being the designated Autobot Freaks (TM) that everyone hates and sees as evil and fucked up
Imagine Pharma eventually getting back to "normalcy" (some sort of mental stability via therapy) and being able to go back to his normal job of being a surgeon, only during operations he still can't shut up those intrusive thoughts in the back of his head about "you could make this little incision and make their death look like an accident" or "give that a little too much abrasion and it'll rupture." Or being generally stable on the job but not able to handle any cases related to repairing/replacing t-cogs bc it triggers him massively and it's better for him to just avoid it than to risk a meltdown on the job
quick messy sketch of the sad wet bird
Take a nap💤
The poor three doctors who just got off the operating table after 48 hours of rotation.
Thinking about Pharma hitting Tarn with the cheesiest pick up line, the kind people would think no one would fall for that kind of line, and then you pan over to Tarn steaming from his vents and doing the robot equivalent of blushing like a maiden
Fanfic Pharma: "I'm so proud of my hands, forged doctors are the best of the best and everyone knows it, and honestly Functionism isn't that bad--"
Me:
(Image description: The "Don't make me tap the sign" meme from the Simpsons. The bus driver is pointing at a panel from the MTMTE comics in which Pharma says "At first I wanted to hurt you for ruining things at Delphi, but when you crashed I saw that you'd stolen my hands. That took things to a whole new level. You declared war on my body, Ratchet. I'm retaliating.")
Addendum
Fandom: "But Pharma has a reason to be Functionist because he's a forged doctor which means he was born into a position of superiority and prestige, so surely he must at least condone--"
Me:
(Image description: The "Don't make me tap the sign" meme from the Simpsons. The bus driver is pointing at a panel from the Optimus Prime ongoing series. It is a panel of Skyfire hunched over his work while in the background Ratchet says, "...Do you have any idea the red tape I had to deal with to get Jetfire assigned to scientific duties? He's a flier. The whole of Cybertron wants him in defense or transportation.")
Pharma is also a flier. Connect the dots.
Ratchet with his "medic hands are irreplaceable except by other FORGED medic hands no I will not get a checkup" shows more Functionist tendencies than Pharma's "look at my cool new hands an expert engineer designed" does.
His hangup is about Drift cutting his limbs off and Ratchet using his hands, which you know might tie into his whole being blackmailed by threat of his and his staff enduring torture-death to murder and disregard his own patients' bodily autonomy so it might have, you know, become a thing he is sensitive about.
