💚: What does everyone else get wrong about your favorite character?
swerve isn't stupid!!!
he was, literally, one of the foremost metallurgy experts of their society prior to the war (and in my hc, he worked on hotspots but that's never confirmed as canon), and it was his translations of pharma's notes on the rust plague that allowed ratchet to create a cure for said plague. he chose to run a bar on the lost light bc it was his dream, and he's a very friendly guy (hiding severe!!! depression!!! there was a literal entire comic about his depression nearly killing him!) and a lot of people tend to see the character's friendly, kind of goofy behavior and decide that means swerve is stupid.
he is not! ratchet would not have cured the rust plague without swerve translating pharma's notes into something ratchet could use, and he was smart enough to work with perceptor at kimia! he was a kimia scientist during the war!!! he worked with perceptor, one of canon's smartest bots!!! he could tell the carbon dated age of a planet just by looking at the metal it was made of (also possibly tasting it)
