Further exploration in Kurt, Ram and Dan’s relationship. Early on, like the source material, it’s antagonistic with Dan viewing them in his mind as Decepticons. Dan’s favorite TF hands down is Bumblebee, and views himself similarly as the plucky little buddy type. He settled on Ram being Blitzwing and Kurt being Octane because of their personalities, but found later it was surprisingly more accurate than he expected when Kurt and Ram started growing up. Blitzwing and Octane had both defected from the Decepticons, and in this universe’s fabled forth season of the G1 cartoon, the two had joined the Autobots proper and helped Bumblebee rescue the Nucleon girl Nucle-Ai. In real life, this would repeat itself when Dan helps Ram rescue Martha from committing suicide.