The cover for Rivet & Klunk, created with the help of Ibis Paint X.
Rivet & Klunk is a Ratchet & Clank Patchwork Fic written by RivettheLombax
that can be read here and here. As the title implies, it stars Rivet the Lombax from Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Klunk the Robot who appeared in Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal and Secret Agent Clank in the roles that Ratchet and Clank have played since Ratchet & Clank (2002).
Has concluded as of June 12, 2023. A sequel based on Going Commando, Free-Fur-Ball, was begun shortly after.
Features examples of:
- Accidental Misnaming: Upon being offered the Heli-Pack upgrade by Big Al, Klunk is accidentally called "Clank".
- Action Girl: Rivet is this.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: The story gives examples of this trope in the form of Rivet and Pierre Le Fer from Rift Apart, Klunk, Courtney Gears, Doctor Nefarious, and Captain Blackstar from Up Your Arsenal, Romulus Slag from Tools of Destruction, and Orvus and Sigmund from A Crack in Time.
- Adaptational Heroism: Although Klunk is more cynical than Clank and, at first, has a greater concern for his fellow robots than all the people being threatened by the Blarg, his objective to stop the Blarg from destroying the Solana Galaxy makes him something more of a genuine hero than his master plan in Secret Agent Clank.
- Adapted Out: The events on Umbris from the original game on the account of Rivet & Klunk reasoning that Qwark's offer for "heavy training" on Rilgar was more than it appeared.
- Break Them by Talking: In Chapter 22, when Qwark, having doubts about his role in Drek's schemes, tries to ask if he'll avoid his former teammates when he confronts Rivet & Klunk at Gemlik Base, Drek snaps that unless Qwark follows his task to the letter, he'll be as "easily abandoned" by him as the fallen superhero was by his own birth parents.
- Broken Pedestal: Having looked up to Qwark before her enthusiasm dimmed over the years, Rivet takes his rejection of her becoming a Galactic Ranger badly, followed by her and Klunk publicly rejecting him when they save Kerwan from the Blarg, and his open alliance with Chairman Drek makes them enemies as of now.
- Cat Fight: It is stated in Chapter Nineteen, after Rivet and Klunk saved Planet Pokitaru, that Darla Gratch and Juanita Alvaro got into one of these after trying to flirt with Klunk and not being willing to share him.
- Composite Character: In the games, Klunk is an Evil Knockoff of Clank, but here, he fills for him in role and origin alike.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Masculine robotic version, but Klunk slowly yet surely opens up to Rivet at least.
- The Dreaded: Rivet has become this to the Blarg at the time of Chapter 21.
- Everyone Has Standards: Despite selling himself into Drek’s service for a sponsorship deal, Qwark begins to show misgivings after learning about the former’s destructive plans for Veldin and even questions if the fight on Kerwan was genuinely staged.
- Famed In-Story: Having saved Kerwan on live Holovision from a Blarg invasion, Rivet and Klunk are well-known by the time they make a pitstop at Zurkie's, even if the latter was not properly named to the reporters at the time.
- Harmful to Minors: Having never been adopted for being an alien from another galaxy, Rivet has substantial abandonment issues.
- Honest Corporate Executive: Although downplayed, Wendell Lumos seems to be genuinely fond of his company's Gadge-bots. Being rather grateful to Rivet and Klunk for bringing the ones kept prisoner at the Blarg Tactical Research Station and Planet Orxon safe and sound.
- Irrational Hatred: For reasons unknown, Captain Blackstar strongly hates the late Captain Angstrom Darkwater.
- It Gets Easier: Rivet is initially horrified when she takes a life for the first time on the Blarg ship orbiting Novalis, but quickly pushes it aside to finish her and Klunk's mission. As the story progresses, she soon grows unfazed with killing- a fact that Klunk has grown concerned about in recent chapters.
- Named by the Adaptation: Qwark's Blargian Snagglebeast is referred to as Dixie Normous. Also counts as Vulgar Humor.
- One-Woman Army: Taking on hordes of Blarg soldiers, among other enemies, makes Rivet this.
- Parental Abandonment: Both Rivet and, ironically enough, Captain Qwark have this as a result of never knowing their birth parents.
- The Needs of the Many: Upon seeing Skidd McMarx and his agent crash land on Aridia, Rivet immediately wanted to rescue them out of genuine concern, but Klunk argued that they had to contact the Galactic Rangers instead using this trope.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Although the Robotic Pirate Ghost, Captain Blackstar, is supposed to be literally dead in video game canon, the story features him as a continuous presence, with Romulus Slag commenting that the former has been prank calling the Pirate Radio the latter hosts alongside his successor as Pirate Captain and fiancé, Pierre Le Fer, for ten years straight.
- Villain Respect: Despite their continual interference in his plans, Chairman Drek cannot help but be impressed at how skilled Rivet and Klunk are. Additionally, Doctor Nefarious likes them for embarrassing Qwark on live Holovision, even though he knows that they will be his enemies should they survive up to when he's ready.
- Vulgar Humor: The narration regarding Rivet and Klunk's time on Planet Kerwan states that the world has an unfortunate anagram, and when they find the Qwark-bot, Klunk sardonically notes that it wouldn't be the real Qwark since having a spring for legs would make it inconvenient for the bathroom.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Upon being confronted by Captain Qwark at Gadgetron's Headquarters, both Rivet and Klunk react negatively to the former's aiding and abetting the concurrent Blarg invasion.
