#and turn dratchet to searcher

[snakesandferns]

Just a little dratchet wip

[breakdownsbuttlights]

Is Dratchet a romantic couple? What do you think will be the most romantic thing in their daily life? It's not just kissing or touching isn’t it?

Are Drift and Ratchet a romantic couple? Prrrrrrobably not in the conventional sense, or at least not in any way a casual onlooker would pick up on. No bouquets of flowers at work, no cringey PDA. But in the classic definition of romance? Hell yeah.

I mean, look at how their relationship kicks off. The two of them together against impossible odds, facing certain death in the hinterlands of the galaxy, saving each other’s butts like every ten minutes, coming back to their shitty space shuttle to nurse their wounds and make out passionately in the washracks. Excitement, danger, intense emotion: it’s like Mad Max meets Brokeback Mountain in space. That’s a hella romantic foundation on which to build a lasting partnership.

I don’t think that element of romantic adventure ever leaves their marriage. Ratchet’s a restless individual unsettled by the “anticlimax” of the postwar era, and Drift’s a searcher by nature. They might put down roots, but they’ll always be nosing the air for the next adventure. And when you’re a crack surgeon married to a guerrilla soldier turned warrior monk, adventure has a way of finding you.

But on those days when they’re not saving each other’s asses and passionately making love in the aftermath of a close call? The life they make for themselves is pretty darn romantic too. They might not remember anniversaries or leave corny notes for each other on the steam of the bathroom mirror, but they will go in for, say, whole body rebuilds, which they plan together in loving detail. They look after each other with tender care and full attention when one of them is poorly. Oh, and then there are the comms they send each other. Funny, flirty, gossipy, scabrous exchanges utterly at odds with their professional veneers and kept strictly to themselves. Drift’s are wittier, but Ratchet’s are the ones guaranteed to make you choke on your drink.