LOOK AT THEIR DUMB FACES AKDNSKNCSMNCNSNX
i’ve seen some ppl say they are excited for the c!eret + c!techno + c!tubbo teamup that’s gonna happen tmrrw, bc they both betrayed c!tubbo and maybe this can be both their final redemption point for them. i have. an issue with that.
the thing is that c!eret EARNED their redemption. c!techno has not. idk about you, but I didn’t forget that c!techno let c!dream out of prison (“yeah but it was just business–” I don’t care, he still let the most dangerous person on the server out.)
also it irks me bc c!tubbo interacts with both of them different. c!tubbo definitely trusts c!eret more now than he did after the final control room. what has c!techno really done to earn c!tubbo’s trust? he literally let the guy who was gonna kill him last year out of prison. not to mention that c!techno caused doomsday. c!eret has apologized several times for their betrayal, both through actions and words (they were literally one of the ppl there during the disc finale to save c!clingyduo.) as for c!techno, he hasn’t apologized at all.
and i did not forget when c!techno took the syndicate on their little fieldtrip to snowchester just so he could threaten c!tubbo’s home. again. c!eret + c!techno are the duality of redemption. one actually worked toward theirs, and the other hasn’t even begun to start his.
this was basically the prison arc right
one of the genuinely most important things about c!techno is his relationship to violence.
because when he says 'violence is the only universal language', he means that violence is what people understand. that he's been shown over and over that violence is what people listen to. he's experienced it firsthand. he doesn't seem to revel in it, it's more like he's resigned to it as a fact.
and on doomsday, it's violence that gets him the 'win'. he succeeds! his goal of destroying the government and making certain there will never be another is complete.
but instead of taking this as proof that violence is the only way, techno still wants to change. he admits to being a bad example and wanting to do better going forward. it's such a great moment showing that techno's desire to change came from himself, not because he was unsuccessful in his goals.
Part of the reason I love emerald duo so much is because no matter how you interpret their dynamic (romantic, platonic, familial, ect.) there's one fact that's present no matter what.
Techno and Phil love each other
Whether they're war buddies reuniting for another fight, or estranged lovers picking up the pieces of the greatest love they've ever known, or wrapped up in the most explosive family dynamic known to man, they will lay down their lives for one another without question.
"For you Phil, the world."
The fact that those words were said after Phil had said and done something silly. Something that put a smile on Techno's face. Because that's what they did best. They always make each other smile, and it's really easy to love someone who can make you laugh that much in such a short amount of time.
Timelapse and art-only version of the first panel (cuz I went too hard with it) below
The og meme btw
today i am thinking about the entire mayor of hypixel skyblock incident with technoblade because i still like to imagine, since it happened during one of the big dsmp story gaps, that he was like "oh i'm going to head off for a bit phil don't worry about it" and phil's like "bye mate" and ranboo is like "i wonder what he's doing. probably intense training or something. he's so cool."
meanwhile techno is yelling at an entirely unruly crowd about anarchy and being made mayor while beating up like, it was a weird giant slime if i remember right? and he has a whole "bond of rivals" moment with squidkid, like, they have this whole "there's no one i could trust to have my back more... than you... my most favored enemy" thing going on in that video it's SO funny.
all of this with the world's most absurd numbers outputs because hypixel skyblock is an endgame mmo. just COMICAL levels of firepower. like, everyone is an end-of-series shonen character. this place is like the naruto world was after it had jumped the shark a bit and there was a moon goddess attacking. about like that.
and then he's like. my work here is done. thanks for electing me mayor. i don't see this is contradictory to my anarchy at all btw it's like, a symbolic thing, on account of me beating up the old dictator mayor. and just dips again, presumably to be forever seen as a weird potato-themed legend around those parts.
i like to imagine he gets home and phil is like "hi mate" and techno's like "sorry i had things to handle at home" and ranboo is imagining like, WILD battles and what technoblade's home must even be like. and whatever he's imagining doesn't really compare to "technoblade's home is an end-game mmo no wonder he constantly assumes he's weak here he can only do earlygame levels of damage, forever".
and technoblade, being technoblade, says nothing about being mayor of hypixel now, until like, after the finale or something when squidkid just sort of swings by to ask how they're all doing after that nuke thing, huh. and everyone loses their shit.
and this is one of my favorite stupid technoblade headcanons thank you for coming to my ted talk.
Shadow beats up Tails in almost every sth iteration because he subconsciously has Prime’s Shadow knowledge of how dangerous he can become when pissed enough
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