Only Optimus and a select few know what's like without it
His medmay is a fucking mess,,,,, shit ton of energon on the walls and it's honestly less of a medbay and more of a lab
The only reason he's not in battle is because Optimus confines him to the base because Ratchet is a fucking dumbass and will punch his own fist off
He's basically dependent on the Synth En and him running out will cause a bitch to panic and desperately try to get some more
He'll get more violent and dicky to his teammates and then fall on the floor sobbing, then five seconds later go back to being an asshole
Synth En is kinda just the only thing that makes him feel useful
He's had it for so long he's kinda forgot what he's like without the energon
But in his mind his past self was weak and naive,,,,,
Don't do drugs kids
Bitch is a god damn dumbass
Always tests his shit on himself
Optimus has tried to hide it but Ratchet fucking found it
He's a moron your honor
No-one really likes him because he's very eager to fight and just fucking rude
But he's the medic so
He's that dude who's off his rockers and I mean that is both a funny way and also a delusional way
Only listens to Optimus cause he's a simp™️
Does he have a crush? Who the fuck knows
His way of getting to know you is forcing you onto the table and disecting you <3
'You know, I like you! You're not a loser unlike the others', he says as he is this close to committing empurata
Please he's an arrogant motherfucker
Punch him and Optimus would thank you
And then kill you
Because how fucking dare you
Unlike regular Ratchet who is tired of this shit, SG!Ratchet is the one causing this shit
If you somehow get on his side, congratulations! You now have an aggressive medic who won't shove his scalpel into you but instead into anyone who even dares to look at you wrong
Just don't take away his Synth-En otherwise you'll get an angsty boi who will then fucking kill you
Finally, we have....the Doctor of Doom. SG!Ratchet comes to battle! I did some background search of his character from the comics, so I’ll definitely incorporate that for TFA. His personality? The mad doctor; falsehood of a medic. thinks he’s doing his patients a good favor when in reality, they’re leaving him worse than when they came in. Now, he joins the Autobots on earth, with not much but his own teammates to try out his....’medical procedures’ on them.
Shattered Glass musings - Ratchet and the Dead End
Shattered Glass is an odd beast to work with.... The initial premise sounds so very simple; swap around which bots are the good guys and which ones are the bad guys.
But in practice, this becomes pretty complicated. Which elements of a character would get swapped, and which ones stay ? Would a sadistic mech like SG!Ratchet even GET his medical license? Or would his gruff to-the-point nature be replaced by a pleasant ‘go-with-the-flow’ attitude that does whatever it wants once witnesses have disappeared?
Would he still have a clinic in the Dead End if he was not invested in the troubles of low-caste mecha ? If he had his clinic to abuse the lower castes, why would he risk living so close to them, where they could burn his clinic down?
There are a ton of possibilities there though. Maybe SG Ratchet offered free repairs if his patients came in with their own parts, and a surplus T-cog or optic, Maybe he was content taking ‘favours’ from mecha that he could collect on in the future.
Why not ‘pay’ guards by offering them a full tank of energon every day, and free repairs?
Perhaps Ratchet was never really a great surgeon in the Shattered Glass verse. Instead he got his position from the Prime as a reward, for bringing so many of the guttermechs to the Autobot side. Most of them end up being early-war cannon fodder, but the guttermech ‘Deadlock’ becomes a fearsome warrior.
Drift doesn’t want to stay with the Autobots, he really doesn’t, but he has a debt to pay.
So wheeljack’s folks are cool with ratchet, but what about ratchets folks?
My creators don't even know I'm theirs. They sold me to the system when I was young. They don't know I'm even alive, and the designation I go by currently is not the one they gave me. Meaning... They have no feelings on Wheeljack.
SG Ratchet: Just call him “Dick”, likes Starbucks and flipping people off as he rides his skateboard
Sunstreaker and Sideswipe: Sunny and Sidney
Drift: Driton (Originally Deandre), his eyebrows and red eye are because it’s difficult to change your eyecolor and eyebrows so I kept those to remain from his Deadlock days
I did a thing with info on sg!Wheeljack over on main (ask-drunk-wheeljack), but I figured I’d move some info over here, and I’ll do a thing for Ratchet as well. The really messed up stuff is under the cut since some of this content is very dark; I’ll have the darker stuff at the end so that you can read the basics without having to read the dark/nasty stuff if you’d not like to.
CW: drugs/alcohol mention, abuse mentions, violence/gore, dubcon/noncon mention, nsfw at the end (will be separated)
Wheeljack:
Wheeljack grew up quite well off. His creators took decent care of him, albeit distantly. He was never given very much emotional closeness, which caused him to be a very emotionally distant individual himself. He still has a decent relationship with them, but they know very little about what he does.
He wasn’t always awful. He was betrayed by someone who he considered a brother, being told he was “too soft for the cause”. He vowed with all of his spark to never be too soft for the cause again.
He is a hitman and deals some drugs on the side, as well as selling parts from his victims. He does a bit of science on the side.
He has been to medical school and has a medical degree
He will play your mind, either for fun or to get information about his next victim. If he’s playing for fun, you’re screwed. Because if you become wise to his twisted game, you join his victims in the scrap heap.
His methods of killing are varied, but normally he befriends the victim and asks them to come over. Usually he’ll play a bit before he finishes them (he has a torture room in his base of operation, Ratchet runs a torture room in the basement), but if he’s pressed for time he usually tears out their vocalizer and tears out their spark. Everything else is Ratchet’s doing.
He met Ratchet during his time selling spare parts from his victims. They hit it off pretty well and started “dating”. Basically, they were business partners who interfaced and recharged together.
He is conjunx with Ratchet, but has no real ties to him. he likes him well enough but often pursues (one sided) relationships with others. Not out of love, but because he can.
He and Ratchet can hardly be considered “lovers”. They merely have an unwritten contract that they don’t turn each other in, ever, nor do they kill each other. They bail each other out, but at a great cost. They are fairly regularly experimenting on each other while the other is in recharge. They don’t have to trust each other; they know full well what’s happening but revel in each other’s sickness.
He gives off a warm aura, which causes people to trust him. Since he makes so much money in his business, he has the money to buy them drinks or spot them when needed.
His voice is deep from his chest, warm, and has a very hypnotic quality to it. If he’s particularly determined to gain someone’s trust, he’ll speak more slowly and smoothly, which can often send his victims into a bit of a trance.
He thrives off of having power over others. Some of why he loves his job so much.
Ratchet:
Ratchet had a far worse background than Wheeljack. His parents sold him to an institution when he was the human equivalent of 10 years old or so, when the Autobot regime banned having more than two sparklings per couple unless they were given up to the cause. They were short on money and he was the child that gave them the most trouble. Little did they know that this “trouble” was what would lead him to be the greatest and worst doctor of the cause.
Ratchet was experimented on by medics and scientists: he was starved, then overfed, a few organs were replaced with stronger ones to see if it would make him grow faster, he was given high grade, and then nearly raw, dirty energon. He was in constant, excruciating pain.
He managed to escape by sheer chance. he sneaked out and ran for his life. By this point he was the equivalent of an older teenager.
He met Wheeljack and after teaming up with him, was able to take the time to become a medic. During his time in medical school, he took notes of the darker side of medicine
He proposed to Wheeljack that he take Wheeljack’s victims and... run some tests. just a few tests.
He now runs a whole operation in their location’s basement, experimenting on captives and making great medical advancements. He has been essential to the cause with his discoveries.
General stuff:
Their location is unknown to even superior Autobot officers. Wheeljack frequently trades intel for cloaking devices that he supercharges. They are in one of the most secret of locations known on Cybertron.
Their home looks completely normal when you walk in. You’d never guess a thing.
They have an untraceable ground bridge that opens right inside their home. They’ve programmed their ground bridge to use codes for coordinates rather than numbers, which means even if someone were to see the ground bridge log, they would never understand what they were looking at.
They are both equipped with devices that scramble their signals, which makes their unique energy signatures unidentifiable when they are out and about in risky situations. It takes significant energon to shield them like that though, and it’s only really used in con territory. Ratchet doesn’t show up as any unique signature due to his use of synthen, but the sythen shows up on some sensors, which means he’s instantly identifiable.
Both have normal day jobs: Wheeljack is a scientist, Ratchet is a medic
it shields their operations by looking like completely normal citizens.
The really fragged up stuff **there is some dark and potentially triggering stuff here, proceed at your own risk**
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Wheeljack and Ratchet, as mentioned before, can hardly be considered lovers. They have made a habit of opening each other up and taking innermost energon from each other’s sparks. It’s an experiment they are both running, to see who can obtain complete control of the other first.
Wheeljack’s favorite method of torture is tearing plating from mesh. He starts with basic plating, then moves to more vital plating, such as that which covers the spark chamber. He may even take out and play with the individual’s spark.
He likes teasing in wires to see if there’s any sensors that might do something. for science, amirite...?
Ratchet enjoys taking out his victim’s spark and rewriting information on their drives, and asking them about their past life. He loves to watch them strain to remember loved ones and memories that he’s blurred through rewriting their drives.
This has lead to the wiping of drives from criminal bots and rewiring them to only serve the cause. And that folks is how Wheeljack and Ratchet double handedly abolished Cybertron’s Autobot prisons.
While both dabble in synthen, Ratchet fuels himself entirely on synthen. It takes away any fear or sympathy he has left in his spark, and he keeps himself that way. Not that he had much to begin with.
Wheeljack and Ratchet, when appearing before the Autobot high council, act as if they are a perfect couple. They will frequently hold each other’s servos at events, hug, kiss, and even lean on each other once in a while. They are portrayed as the model couple.
At home however... they frequently degrade each other, yell at each other, and even hit each other.
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Interfacing is very one sided for them. They are constantly struggling to control each other in the act.
Wheeljack’s torture room is full of tools that go from torture weapons to kink toys in seconds.
the kinkiest boys. that’s just how it is
Noncon is very common for both of them. Wheeljack has had all of his motor systems disabled before, while fully aware, while Ratchet uses him for pleasure. Wheeljack’s favorite way to force Ratchet is to keep him in forced recharge while he has his ways.
They both enjoy wound fucking. End of story
Ratchet collects spikes and valves from his victims and preserves them to use as toys (my friend came up with this)
E-stim is very common between them, as is heavy bondage. There is also a lot of master/slave play between them.
Ratchet enjoys tying Wheeljack up and shoving obscenely large or foreign objects into Wheeljack’s valve.The largest thing he’s ever managed is two servos at once. His valve tore very badly after that one.
Both get off on their victims begging them to stop hurting them. They often interface with their victims, sometimes as they dismember them. Wheeljack usually forces the victim to give him oral pleasure (since he absolutely loves oral pleasure) and Ratchet usually fucks their valve.
Wheeljack is the more likely of the two to bring home someone else to interface with, since Ratchet can usually get what he wants from his experiments. However, if one of them brings home someone to frag with, a threesome or being watched by the other is guaranteed. Especially if Wheeljack brings home the individual in question. He gets off on being eaten out or sucked off while Ratchet pounds their valve.
