#I told her about MYFA and the engine rumbling and she was like 'I know what you're doing'

[merlinfromberlin]

I just realised...

I wrote an Angstober oneshot that is set in the same universe as Make You Feel Alright. It's going to be the last oneshot of the month.

However, I just edited today's oneshot and realised that it would make a lot of sense in that universe, too. It ticks all of the boxes:

bad thing happens to Bee

Ratchet comforts Bee as best as he can

Dad-Ratchet struggles to deal with bad thing happening to Bee, is kind of depressed and has self worth issues

there are no sparkbonds (I didn't actually know they were a thing yet when I was writing MYFA)

there IS engine rumbling (which is the first time in months I've written that but it was quite prominent in MYFA)

it is angsty, yet fluffy (I think. tbh I'm terrible at knowing what qualifies as angst, whump, fluff, etc.)

there is robots crying tears of platonic/parental pain

references to Optiratch raising Bee together although it is not explicit/the focus

Ratchet's even holding Bee's hand throughout the whole fic!

Let me think about this for a bit longer while I wash my hair, but I'm tempted to just say, yeah, it is in the same universe.

Like, legit, it fits kind of perfectly into the MYFA universe. The only MYFA trope it doesn't have is Ratchet thinking about what Bee could have been instead of a scout or how this War has become senseless at this point.

And Bee doesn't yet have antennae. But that's an easy fix.