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can't stand losing
Do You Ship-
(Soup) First Aid)/(Soup) Hot Rod | Rodimus Prime?
I ship this!
I do not ship this.
Submitted by ME. THE MOD OF THIS BLOG.
Propaganda:
"So. This is my favorite pairing for both Aid and Roddy. How come it's this instead of one of their more popular ones, I hear you ask. Well, consider for a moment, the situation they're put in after The Movie. Rodimus is now the bearer of the Matrix, while First Aid is Autobot CMO. Both are filled with doubts over their abilities without their predecessors to call on for advice. And on top of that? They're both in positions where they have to remain an anchor for everyone else. And that's not in their nature (Aid is very sensitive and Rod is. Well. A hotheaded young doofus). Finding that they're in similar circumstances, of course that would help them forge a bond.
Succession Crisis [Gen fic, General Audiences]
That's the fic that got me thinking about them this way, btw. It's not even shipfic. If you like OptiRatch in the sense of "old friends and close confidants who find they're most themselves around one another," then RodAid is similar, but with added insecurity and inexperience if you're into that. Even if you're generally not, there's something compelling to me about growing into a role with someone, especially when you're both out of your depths and barely holding it together.
Now here's where we get into my au (which. A lot of my adoration for them hinges on if I'm honest):
Aid had negative interest in Roddy before he got the matrix. Like 'this guy is beyond irritating, I hate dealing with him'. First Aid is the most gentle, even tempered medic you could meet and Hot Rod is the one singular person in the world with the unique talent for getting on his nerves. This doesn't change after Rod becomes Prime, it's just that the fucker had the audacity to endear himself to Aid and now he sees Rodimus as a three dimensional person rather than a Pest. Rodimus in my heart is a massive ragebaiting knucklehead and Aid can't help but get riled up by him. Do you see my vision? The bugs I keep in a jar to study?
(don't be mean about this sketch, I'd only been drawing mechs for two months when it was done >w<)
(Context: First Aid and Hot Rod were both kindled- that is, they have parents and were once sparklings- but Aid was born before the war and Rod was born during the 4million year stasis. They're roughly the same age experience wise, but Rod thinks that their 'age gap' is hilarious.)
On a more sweet & somber note, while Optimus is 'out of the picture', Rodimus ends up as the guardian to his son, Roller. Aid gets to act as a second surrogate parent in this case. Isn't that wholesome? Don't you want to imagine these stressed, traumatized 20somethings raising a war orphan* together?
(*Technically Optimus isn't actually dead in this au but still)
Woe, posts related to them in my AU! (1) (2)
And entirely unrelated to my AU, there are these fantastic fics by CombJelly
Seeing a Medic [Explicit]
Evening Reading [Explicit]
Anyway. Come ship them with me I swear it's not rarepair hell. I promise. Would I lie to you. Would I try to trap you in the rarepair box with me? (Yes)"
doodled a thunderbee based on this photo by @pocoslip
now I can sleep
ms paint j/p so I can say I drew something today
For those curious about the growth and development of sparklings...
Firestar and Chromia cameo because I already drew Arcee with her creators and mentor, it's only right to show her other parents too
they're the worst <3
For a while, it was like the war had ceased to exist
Oh, Queen of Venus, hear my plea / My longing overtaketh me For hands inside my circuitry / To mold and shape me how you please