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Rescue Bots Academy headcanons (with a touch of angst)

Hotshot has a (rather poorly) hidden inferiority complex

Heatwave unintentionally adopted Hotshot

Neither has any idea how it happened, Hotshot just became Heatwave's son one day

Blurr has visited the Academy at some point, and he was both glad and upset at how Heatwave has changed

On the one hand, he's happy the recruits and especially Hotshot are getting a good mentor,

But on the other, he's upset that he never got that version of Heatwave, and sometimes he wonders if it's his own fault

Grimlock treats Dinomode Hoist like a dog treats its puppy

Hoist has been scruffed on several occasions

Medix loves bats

Even before the incident with Mr. Flappy, he collected books about bats and loved watching documentaries about them

Autistic Medix, Wedge, and Hoist

ADHD Whirl and Hotshot

None of the recruits have any idea their teachers (except Heatwave) have more than one alt mode

Whirl is a scraplet colony, specifically the one Whirl Sr. Adopted in MTMTE

Whirl Jr. aroace

Colonies of metal-eating pests don't have much interest in romance, as it turns out

Ratchet changed for the better when he found out about Medix

While he is no longer afraid of dinobots, Hoist still finds actual dinosaurs a bit unnerving

This probably has to do with them being organic

While training to use a hose, Hotshot nearly passed out. Several times.

While bats are his favorite, Medix loves most types of animals

The only exception to this is deep-sea creatures

He does not understand them and he does not want to understand them

Wedge has had a brother

The way Medix's family found out he could magnetize was by finding him on the ceiling

Whirl Jr, in her most basic state, looks like a bot-shaped scraplet, with a silver body, solid blue optics, and thin limbs

A lot of bots find this appearance unnerving

More Rescue Bots Academy headcanons (this time with extra angst)

Wedge has a twin/splitspark named Axle, who Wedge both misses and despises at the same time

When he was younger, Medix was considered a 'hard-to-handle' child

In reality, he had undiagnosed Autism and didn't do well with others

As of now, he is currently taking medication for it (rescue work gets overstimulating very fast), though it took several prescriptions to find one that didn't kill his personality

Hoist and Whirl are absolute besties

Hotshot was bullied as a kid, which gave him a major inferiority complex

He stopped getting bullied shortly after joining his Cube team, but any insult still hurts him

Whirl feels like an absolute fraud whenever somebody says she's a good rescue bot because she's a scraplet colony pretending to be a bot

She knows it's for her own safety, but she still feels terrible about it

There have been times where late at night, Hoist will get scared by his own reflection if he's in dinomode

He says he's not scared anymore, but he's a little jumpy

Hotshot and the rest of his Cube team have flame designs painted on their heels because they think they're cool

Medix has spent countless hours trying to understand why so many bots don't seem to like him - he does what he's supposed to, so why doesn't anybody want to be around him?

Whirl is almost always hungry because she won't eat metal

It isn't necessary for her to survive, so she refuses to indulge her scraplet mind, but Primus, does it leave her hungry

Wedge gets severe imposter syndrome sometimes

Hoist can be pretty anxious sometimes, especially when he feels like he's already inconveniencing people

Medix listens to hyperpop