conglomerate mess

i love dratchet yuri so much your honor i simply love them

me too <33

how do you think Drift views organics?

Whenever I think about how a character might view organics, I think about the ant analogy.

Ants objectively have some semblance of a society -- they build structures, they work in tandem with one another, they each have specific roles that they operate within. But we can't communicate with ants. If you asked someone if an ant has sentience, they'd probably say "no". And when said ants build their hill too close to our homes? When they infest a pantry and get into our food? We kill them off, because now they pose a health threat to us. Regardless of if the ants were there first. Because what does it matter? Ants live such tiny, short lives anyhow.

I can't remember who it was, but someone once compared Megatron's view of organics to a human's view of ants. And I think that's incredibly spot-on. What might Drift's view of organics be? Well initially, it was probably not very different from Megatron's -- he might not have the same outright animosity toward organics that Megatron does, but Drift is a very "me and mine" person. His concern, on a day-to-day basis, is protecting those he cares about against anything that could harm them, and if organics pose a threat, so be it. He's not very successful at protecting people, which is probably what's feeding into it being such a profound focus for him.

But Drift is also someone who, at his core, wants things to be better for everyone. He wanted the war to be fought, so it could end, so they could better society for all of Cybertron. It's very much so the stance of someone who's keenly aware of the ins and outs of oppression, and knows how to recognize it, even when it's coming from his own side. I think he definitely opposed the settling and conquering of all these organic planets as things continued to escalate -- at first because he couldn't see how it was helping their fight against the enemy who sought to restore the old order, and later because he could recognize that they were becoming that old order. Hell, paired with us knowing he was notoriously insubordinate, said hypothetical opposition was what might've caused the schism between him and the Conclave that led to Deadlock being assigned second to Turmoil, even after we're shown that he once stood beside the likes of Megatron and Starscream.

I suspect his time working as a neutral bounty hunter after leaving the Decepticons was fairly eye-opening and confirmed a lot of his suspicions that he was harboring about organics; namely that they're not inherently inferior in any way. Canonically, most of the people Drift was making deals with were organics. He ends up being versed in a lot of different cultures, which even comes up in Lost Light.

At the end of the day, I think he sees the "organics vs mechanicals" argument as a convenient excuse -- a balm to the conscience of the weak who don't want to admit they're perpetuating the very harm that they hypocritically claim to be fighting against.

SORRY FOR THE DOUBLE ASK but may i request pre-war Dwift? 🥺

ahhhhh i dont know his timeline of looks very well so if this isnt the design you meant i im sorry and hope its still ok 🤧!!

C9 Drift?