Transformers Fall of Cybertron Audio Logs
Gabriel De Farias for Ratchet
The Autobots' medical officer, Ratchet has a dry wit, often giving his wounded comrades a hard time for taking hits he somehow avoids. With the Energon supplies becoming less and less, he works to find new ways to make do, and he'd really prefer if the Autobots didn't risk injury (or worse) to protect humans.
Optimus Prime's best friend, and de facto second-in-command, you'd be hard-pressed to find another Autobot who loves his leader as much as he does. Yet this is not to say Ratchet has blind faith in him; Ratchet resents Optimus' lack of action over the years regarding ending the war and many missed chances to kill Megatron. He's as flawed as any normal being would be, and a huge vice is his Cybertronian pride. At least once, it's nearly cost him the life of a friend. Furthermore, his grief for his destroyed home world is what drives him. He didn't take the loss of Cybertron very well, and would do almost anything to get it back some day.
For this role, we are looking for a performance similar to how Jeffrey Combs plays the character in Transformers Prime. You may also refer to how he is portrayed in Fall of Cybertron by Fred Tatasciore.
- voice match
- male adult
Like many of the Jedi Knights, Optimus may subsist on sheer determination and will alone. Great leaders draw their power from conviction. Their armies, however, march forward only from the power of Energon. This great and terrible war will soon reach its end; not because all have finally become one, but simply, I fear, because all have become none.
Seldom have I felt more vulnerable on such a mission. I think my fellow Autobots feel the same. Here we are, wheeling a slow moving slug of a transport loaded with highly unstable and incredibly explosive Energon through highly contested territory in broad daylight. Oh! And did I forget to mention that if we do encounter Decepticon resistance, and this powder keg blows, it won't just be our metallic hides burning up in the inferno, but the entire future of every Autobot?
Has Optimus witnessed first-hand the sight of Trypticon disassembled, torn from limb to limb, his still living carcass slowly bled dry by our leeching tubes? Does war truly give us the right to live like parasites off our fallen enemies? I am hopeful that those wiser than me see issues such as this more clearly than I.
