#bruticaid

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Onslaught didn’t need the gestalt bond burning in the back of his head to sense the Combaticons’ anxiety. Their comms were silent as they drove in convoy back to base and even Vortex, usually as loud and irritating as the chopping whirr of his blades, only kept pace with them overhead. The lack of stupid observations and inane “would you rather”s was eerie, and only served to add to the unease that suffused their collective thoughts. The transferred tension that twanged between them curdled with the dull panic he was trying to ignore, somewhere around the bottom of his fuel tank, making him feel heavy and ready to purge, as though he’d fuelled on unrefined crude. But some deep, private part of Onslaught’s spark was glad for the silence, because it let him stew and wonder which of his subordinates was trying to get him killed.

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Bruticus is just an amalgamation of the Combaticons' consciousnesses. He isn't actually alive, he doesn't have his own thoughts and feelings, and he most certainly can't develop a crush.

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This valentine's day everyone should make and post some bruticaid art. This has nothing to do with I just want to see more bruticaid stuff

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I love your bruticus / first aid so much . Any specific hcs you wouldn’t mind sharing?

Ignore that it's taken 3 months for me to answer this

Bruticus has very minimal experience interacting with the world, and even less experience interacting with the world without trying to break things. He's aware his components exist outside of when they're making up his body, but that's not important or intersting.

He doesn't really know how to process his attraction to First Aid as anything other than a desire to possess him, the same way his components belong to him and the same way he belongs to Megatron thanks to the loyalty coding. Mostly he doesn't know what's going on, or what the feelings he's having are and how to process them. This generally leads to a lot of his first interactions with First Aid as being along the lines of "you're mine now, what do you mean no well how about if I shake you like a bug".

He's very curious about First Aid and likes to poke at him a bunch.

Possibly eventually he learns to that First Aid will just run away/hide if a giant is prodding him and having a tantrum about it so he probably makes an effort to learn to be (slightly) less scary

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DWJ listen to me, I am a normal thought inside your brain. You should make BruticAid canon

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I've been following the Bruticaid shenanigans for awhile now and I absolutely love the whole wackiness of it. Just a lil guy meets big and murderous are peak tropes. I would not be surprised if one of the bots (doesn't matter which side) writes and distributes a star crossed lovers romance novel of all things that is so clearly First Aid and Bruticus but with new names slapped over them.

BRUTICAID SHIPPERS FOR THE SHIPGOD \(`○`)/

I am genuinely super happy you've enjoyed the nonsense - somewhere in my brain soup there is a fanfic that might happen... eventually.

I love the idea of the TFs stuck on earth just getting into nonsense because they have nothing else to do when they're on downtime and there's only, like, 20 of their species on the whole planet. I imagine that In G1 I feel like Mirage would probably be the secret author writing under a ridiculous pen name, and the story would be a super cliche bodice ripper. Jazz knows who the real author is, everyone else is either reading it and trying not to get their datapads confiscated by Prowl or trying to work out who the writer is. Or both

(I do also like the idea of stealing from IDW1 and the secret writer is Thundercracker)

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(War for Cybertron anon). Hehehehehhehhhhhhehhehehehheheh

1st off the game is ok but great if you like transformers. Kinda 2015y generic shoot ‘em up. But I love the designs they did too.

2nd, technically first aid is never shown in the game but he’s not NOT shown. Bruticus is treated as kind of a surprise by a lot of Autobots so you could have it be a sort of ‘they are the first combiner’. And he does have a fair bit more brainpower than other continuities, coupled with the team actually working together pretty well.

If you fiddle with the canon a little you could have it be that Bruticus attacks a base, lots of murder goes here, but suddenly stops when he sees This One Ljttle Guy (First Aid). And said one little guy who has never seen a combiner before has the worlds most confusing and terrifying adventure in the world. And you have Bruticus who for the first time isn’t listening to the combaticons and is making bug eyes at the most seemingly random Autobot in the entire universe

Oh that's so fun, I really like the idea of someone who's never seen a combiner and probably only vaguely knows they might possibly exist just being snatched up by someone who's like "boyfriend now"

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thoughts on onslaught's thoughts on the whole situation. bonus if he has to begrudgingly compromise

Onslaught thinks he has died and gone to hell.

No one even thought it was possible for a combiner to have its own thoughts and feelings, and especially not ones that directly contradict the gestalt members. All the Combaticons are going through that "locked in body" terror when Bruticus takes control and wants to see First Aid, and as the Combaticons' leader, Onslaught is being bombarded with jeers from the other Decepticon gestalts that he can't control his Combiner, he's got Megatron breathing down his neck to get Bruticus back online, he's got Starscream screeching at him because an angry Megatron means hell for everyone else, and Hook and Shockwave are getting concerningly interested in finding out how it all ticks.

Onslaught grills all the Combaticons to try and find out which one of them is poisoning Bruticus with romantic thoughts (none of them). He debates whether to try and kill First Aid but doesn't know what Bruticus would do. He probably tries to set Bruticus up on dates with other Decepticons to see if finding another fixation is possible. He definitely considers if he could plan some kind of scheme to get First Aid to defect to their side.

Motormaster laughs at him every time they see each other.