Talking About the Mundane, Headcanons, and Meta

Title: Down the Stairs of My Mechanical Heart

Author's Name: OverthinkingMind

Warnings: N/A

Fandom: Puppet Master(Movies)

Characters: Blade, Torch, Rick Myers

Ratings: General Audiences

Pairings: Torch/Blade

Word Count: 707

Summary: After the dust had settled and the puppets are getting repairs done, Torch is feeling strange for a certain puppet.

Author's Note: Fair warning, if you breezed through the tags for some reason. If you like the Action Lab comic canon, may I suggest you go back and read something else if you're going to be complaining about this pairing. This is for my own enjoyment and if anyone else wants to join in be my guest, let's gush about it!

Archive of Our Own

 I can't be the only one that has the headcanon about Torch having an animal soul; am I? Wonder if anyone feels the same way here? Well, I have a couple more for him.

Torch is a curious little fellow. When you sort of remember your last life being a farm animal, there was something about limited spaces that make him feel antsy to get out of there and explore more. But ever since encountering that kid in the woods, he tends to be cautious nowadays when his curiosity peaks.

Torch has trust issues with humans. Ever since undead André and the kid, it takes him some time for him to trust a new master. He finds himself trusting the puppets more since that's the only family/friend group he's ever known. Don't worry! They love him no matter how he was brought to life.

Sometimes, he gets a little self-conscious about not having a human soul, or a human past life, or even the idea he was suppose to be Erich in the first place. Sometimes, he wonders if Leech Woman and Decapitron would've been happy to have him back. André -now known as Decapitron- regrets ever having that intention in his zombie state, but he is grateful that it didn't work out. He tells Torch he's happy to have him be part of the family/friend group as himself. Decapitron hopes that if his son was ever reincarnated, he had a good life, or possibly a better one than back in the 40's and how he treated him during that time.