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lord-squiggletits · 10 months ago

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The fact that the general Tumblr reaction to JRO saying "yeah Drift is around the same age as Megatron" was incredulousness/amazement really makes me wonder what it is about Drift that makes people think he's young for some reason.

I mean in a way I don't even like applying the label of "young" to any Cybertronian who was alive pre-war, because that group of people is literally 4-5 million years old and so the fact that some of them might have a few thousand/ten thousand years on each other doesn't really make a meaningful generation gap for a species that's basically immortal.

But why do people think that Drift is some young adult when he's literally the same age group as some characters called "old men" by fandom.

#pls don't tell me it's some racism thing with him being asian coded #probably it's just bc ratchet called him 'kid' back during their meeting in the dead end but like #that was 4 mil years ago so drift is by no means young as of the 'present time'??#could also blame the stupid kooky hippie personality JRO saddled him with and couldn't decide if it was fake or unironic #squiggposting #esp because like. age gaps matter less the older a group of people is #so even if drift was younger than ratchet #after a 4 mil year war they're both full adults. practically middle aged men #it'd be like calling a 40 year old man 'young' bc he's hooked up with a 50 year old man #anyways. people applying human norms of age/generational gaps to transformers my beloathed

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