fantastic. 'Aid as the voice of reason is perfect.
can't help but put this around w/ Location, so, wonder if 'Hide can semi-hear a bit. sure he wants up. but, excellent exploration of the dedication and bit of concern between them.
A bit around, somewhat post-Location yeah. *nods* Someone has to be able to shove Ratchet around that isn't 'Hide XD goodness knows Ratchet's good at cowing others into submission
In that little 'verse 'Aid's relationship with Ratchet has been student and then colleague, and when the war came down the medics all got broken up and attached to different units. If they couldn't stand up to the stress, and function under heavy fire, they really just collapsed under the weight of their responsibilities and/or got killed. Trial by fire made the survivors some of the toughest and best medics around.
Personally, I don't like the idea of incompetency and a lack of confidence in medical personnel, I mean. People's lives, their physical and mental wellbeing are in their hands. I'm not stepping through the threshold of a clinic, much less a hospital, where the doctor can't give me a decent diagnosis or doesn't seem like they know what they're talking about, and insists on testing for pain/reflexes/other by poking at me with a bloody pencil. >:
Well, Aid is usually sure of himself in a medical sense - but many fics have him as scared or rather unwilling to stand up to Ratchet, when he runs himself into the ground. Here, you made him knowledgeable in his own right, AND he was willing to talk to Ratchet both from a medical POV as well as a friend/equal - which is equally rare.
*taps chin* Good point. I hadn't really cottoned on to that - I don't seem to run into First Aid that much when trawling for fic, mech is rather elusive. (Or maybe I just have blinkers on.)
But yeah. 'Aid had to come into his own some time. I've seen... maybe one fic where he does, but it was G1 post-'86 movie and that whole potential of 'Aid/Ratchet interaction as equals was lost. >:
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And I agree with dark-daebereth about First Aid. He's teh awesome...
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can't help but put this around w/ Location, so, wonder if 'Hide can semi-hear a bit. sure he wants up. but, excellent exploration of the dedication and bit of concern between them.
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In that little 'verse 'Aid's relationship with Ratchet has been student and then colleague, and when the war came down the medics all got broken up and attached to different units. If they couldn't stand up to the stress, and function under heavy fire, they really just collapsed under the weight of their responsibilities and/or got killed. Trial by fire made the survivors some of the toughest and best medics around.
Personally, I don't like the idea of incompetency and a lack of confidence in medical personnel, I mean. People's lives, their physical and mental wellbeing are in their hands. I'm not stepping through the threshold of a clinic, much less a hospital, where the doctor can't give me a decent diagnosis or doesn't seem like they know what they're talking about, and insists on testing for pain/reflexes/other by poking at me with a bloody pencil. >:
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But yeah. 'Aid had to come into his own some time. I've seen... maybe one fic where he does, but it was G1 post-'86 movie and that whole potential of 'Aid/Ratchet interaction as equals was lost. >:
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