#ratchet & clank acit

[veldinova]

[ilaac-art]

I made Dr. Nefarious's ACIT colors into a mod! You can download it on Nexus:

[starryem0461]

It’s been some time since I properly posted here, but to celebrate the anniversary of a crack in time, my rewrite Clock Blockers has officially updated! Chapters 9 and 10 are live! ⚡️🎧🔧⏱️⚡️

Chapter 9 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58811503/chapters/153384277

[gigghoul]

opening cutscene to a crack in time but clank just leaves

[assassyart]

HIII I LOVE UR ART SO MUCHH ^^ so happy I found ur acc, and I wanted to know what's your second favorite ratchet and clank game is :D (since I think ur #1 fav game is a crack in time loll)

Ahh THANKS :D Glad you like my art! I hope you enjoy your stay :D

As for my second fave R&C game, it's gotta be Tools of Destruction!

While my love for A Crack in Time comes from me truly believing it is one of the best games in the series... this isn't the case with Tools of Destruction. I know it's not the best, but I love this game a lot. I have a ton of fond memories with it, and it's one of the most fun games in the series for me to replay, thanks to how brutal it can be when doing no-armor runs (which is basically how I play all R&C games lol).

Plus, Tools introduced my second favorite Ratchet & Clank character, a good chunk of my favorite weapons, has some banger music, and the environments are PHENOMENONAL. Not to mention how rad those Leviathan designs are!

My nostalgia doesn't blind me; I know it's a buggy mess. But it's my buggy mess. <3

[smokedtoast]

Decided to hop on this trend LOL

[sevenheven7011]

once I figure out how to draw ratchet's proportions I'm going to be posting some emotionally devasting stuff

[lopsidedtreetrunks]

This is the first time in ages I've done a pen sketch with actual shading and I think it looks pretty okay!

(Bonus) I couldn't fit his right arm in because i drew it too close to this:

Which I only drew bc the screenshot I was referencing reminded me of this sad cat meme

[nmtltlz]

A rearranging of one of the final scenes in ACiT, suited to fit my own personal future needs. Unfinished!! But its all i got done tonight :)! Like the top of the comic says, planning to write out a short little au that 10 year old me /really/ wanted.

Ive had this game since? Forever? One of my first games (my /first/ first being R&C:ToD) & its the first game i finished. I was 4-7! When i first played! And when i got a little older & knew how the game ended I always ended up…pitifully wandering around Torren IV wondering if there was a way to change the ending of the game. Like if I maybe found something out about alister, Ratchet could do something different & he wouldnt have to die, Clank wouldnt have to witness this, & Alister wouldnt have had to die. 10 yr old me thought she could save these characters from pain like it was Undertale or smth because she did not! Know! How games worked!!! She was always crushed when she couldnt find anything.

So here I am, half a decade later, planning smth to help her out. And maybe anyone else whod like a read :)

(This is also an excuse for me to draw dumb shitty drawings of alister with the usual R&C crew as though he doesnt die lmao!!! And if someone asks why or whats up i can point them at this!!!)

[pipmcmayhem]

I’m writing this really cringe fanfic and I’m trying to draw one art piece per chapter. So here’s the art for the first 5 chapters lol. If you’re interested in reading for some reason, here it is

Don’t know if I’ll finish this fic or the art before the hyperfixation fades out (spoiler alert: it’s highly unlikely) but I can damn well try lmao. If I don’t I’ll probably just pick up where I left off in a couple of years since that seems to be how this ship works with my brain lmfao. Anyway hope y’all like my filth hdmhdkhdkhdkhdkd

[snowflakeb0ttles]

so many games that i am so close 2 finishing completely......it is so sick and twisted .

[profbadvibes]

it's kinda weird being an r&c fan online and not being interested in nefarious

[starryem0461]

Hi I know I never post here but also it's very important for my angst loving brain

I've been thinking about a very specific piece of ACIT art that I saw and liked years ago and I don't think I reblogged it? (Dumb i know im kicking myself in the pants for it) but to describe it:

I think it was a sketch, not colored, or at least minimally so. And it was, for lack of a better term and in the gentlest of terms...the aftermath of the vibe check. It really was a very striking piece that's burned into my brain in the best of ways.

I really wish I could find it again and give it the love it really really deserves!! If anyone in the RaC fandom could help I'd really appreciate it!! I'll deadass cashapp or like PayPal 20 bucks to whoever finds it I really wanna see it again someday+

[blazichu]

Well I was going to suggest displaced Nether twins Ingo and Emmet for a possible R&C crossover (silver irises!) but then I remembered how big battle arenas are and what if high-ranking gladiators who are quite nice, they just like to rumble? Not sure how to fit in the transportation side yet but I HAVE been pondering this. The Ratchet and Clank sleeper fandom has hit me once more.

Ooh, the Nether idea is a cool one, and I could definitely see for-sport gladiators working out (depending on the venue, that is... though it would be easy enough to spin Ingo's Hisui arc as being abducted for Dreadzone... hm. This requires further consideration.)

I was toying a little bit with ACiT's rifts, which would be a convenient way to pop back and forth in time, and potentially also cause some fights with Dialga, but wasn't in love with the idea-- as funny as it was to imagine DIALGA TALKING IN ALL CAPS while Clank's just... a soft spoken little dude. I think you've got something good started there, though!

[assassyart]

I know he sacrificed his life at the end to save the universe, but I always found a but weird that after he killed Ratchet in a fit of rage, he didn't seem to regret what he did like ik he was probably thinking he could fix this when he saves the lombax but still tpu would've thought he would've had a "what have I done moment?"

I also find if weird that the great clock isn't a time machine and yet it can go through the past by 6 minutes

Ah. Yay. :) I love talking about Alister Azimuth's thinking process. Thank you for the invitation to rant about this!

The end of A Crack in Time is one of the best parts of Ratchet & Clank, period. It has two incredibly emotional scenes, and every character is so well done. Buuut there is obviously one part of the ending that sticks out, and that's when Alister Azimuth killed Ratchet. This was the moment the player finally realizes just how far gone Azimuth is and that all of those flags were, indeed, bright red. To understand why he made this decision, we have to get into Azimuth's mindset. It's important to note Azimuth's decision wasn't just a fit of rage.

Azimuth had revealed to us that he does not view this current time he is in as "real" and, as such, has been treating everything he does and everyone he meets as temporary until the present gets back on track and he fixes his mistake. He sees talking to Ratchet about the past as pointless because it'll be "fixed," so why does it matter? (But even he can't stop himself from gushing about Kaden.) He even declines to help the Vullards while they're being attacked by the Agorians until they offer him something he needs to reach his goal. He views everyone as just another stepping stone to reaching his goal. He's detached himself emotionally from this world because it is not real to him.

This is similar to how Nefarious views everything in ACiT as well, just less exaggerated and silly. In a way, the two are pretty similar. Nefarious copes with his loss believing he can rewind time to "wrong" the "right" while Azimuth copes with his mistake, chasing after the idea that he can still fix it. Both are consumed by their failures in the past.

While Azimuth does try to care about Ratchet, it's clear that he doesn't let himself care that much about any one individual more than his goal. He doesn't even care about himself making it out alive after being captured by Vorselon— he only cares about fixing his mistake (and pushes this duty onto Ratchet as well). He is still putting up that emotional wall between him and Ratchet, so he won't get attached. Because to him, Ratchet won't exist once he "fixes" his mistake. This Ratchet he is currently fighting alongside will be gone, replaced by a completely different person— a Lombax that got to be raised by his father and mother, and never had to face the hardships "Ratchet" went through.

In Azimuth's mind, once he achieves his goal and fixes the past, this "Ratchet" will die. There is no point crying over someone you already accepted will not exist. He will simply care about the Ratchet that he will "save" in the past, not the one he doomed in the present.

Azimuth believes The Great Clock will fix all of his problems. Ratchet going back into the past to find out what happened to Orvus only strengthens Azimuth's belief that this will work. It has to. He does not even want to entertain the idea that it won't work, because that would mean he'd have to sit with himself and think about all of the awful things he did to get to this point.

"For the Lombaxes," he says, as he kills one of his own. "For Kaden," he says, as he kills his best friend's son. "To fix the past," he says, as he ruins the present.

It's only when he is faced with the fact The Great Clock won't fix his problems, that Ratchet (just like Kaden) is desperately trying to salvage the mess he made, that he has doomed the universe... that is when he realizes that he was chasing after something that was never going to work. You can't run from the past. You must learn from your mistakes. Azimuth wouldn't listen to Ratchet, just like how he wouldn't listen to Kaden. History repeated itself, and now his mistake was going to get Ratchet killed. All of his guilt from everything he did washes over him at once. He apologizes, but that doesn't change anything.

And he knows that. Azimuth's redemption comes from the fact that he doesn't run from this mistake. He faces it head-on, and his last words break the emotional wall he had set up before—

"Take care of yourself, Ratchet."

He's finally acknowledged the past can't be fixed and that he's doomed Ratchet to being the last Lombax yet again, but his final words are one of care and hope. He sacrifices himself for Ratchet and the present. In this action, he atones for his mistake.

And gah. This character is so amazing. I hate him. I love him. He's one of the best characters we have in the series, and I could fill an entire video essay just babbling on and on about this beautiful ending. Every character in this ending can be dissected for their choices, and this ending has definitely impacted the series far more than any of the others. I would dare Insomniac to top this ending, but I think it's dumb to even try. There's no topping this.

The game itself might have some flaws, but this ending is just perfect. I'd change absolutely nothing about it. What a banger ending to a banger character.

[clankandratchet]

Agreed. ^^

Ratchet & Clank is a family-friendly series, but it takes itself seriously (sometimes a little too serious, like Rift Apart and even Nexus, where the jokes were a little lacking in favor of a more grim tone). The characters grow, change, and adapt to the new scenarios they are thrown. Change is bound to happen in this series; it's been going on for 20 years now!

clank is never wrong