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wilbur, bringing in someone he trusts because they’re stronger than he is and he’s shit at pvp:
tommy, a 16 year old appreciating that in a war he has a reliable older figure to put his trust in:
c!techno: wow you guys only saw me as a weapon also trying to blow people up and never acting on it? fucked up man (scoots the times he actively shot at people, set withers on them, rains tnt on their homes and sicks dogs on them, not to mention the fact he was literally in on wilbur’s original plan to blow everyone up, he literally said he’d set off withers)
wilbur: yeah it was pretty horrible of me for planning it then regretting my actions and going back on them :( i definitely used you and it’s not at all reasonable to ask someone for help for someone stronger in the situation i was in :( it’s not like you didn’t give a shit about me as a person either and completely ignored my shit mental health and was completely on board with my actions until they reflected badly on you afterwards where you denounced me and said i was “evil” despite being just as willing to go along with the tnt plan but also doing far more damage than i did :( but no i said you were the traitor bc we’d planned for you to set off withers when i set off the tnt and lo and behold, there you were setting off withers like we’d planned so im 100 times worse than you :(
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.
The reason Technoblade would have smoked Dream at Manhunt is not because he was categorically the superior pvp player, though he was.
It's because he'd have pulled an mcc build mart. He'd have done the WORK.
Techno would have watched every single available Manhunt stream, put together the data on Dream's movements and preferred escape methods, noted the version they were playing, and then- he'd have let the other five do the work.
Just like that bit with Quackity, he'd have followed at a sedate pace. Maybe wandered off once or twice to mine and gather resources, all the while informing his chat that he had no idea if this stupid plan would work but it's what he's got.
And in the last two minutes, Technoblade would have swooped in, absolutely obliterated Dream, and killed the other five for good measure because the man had a brand.
Techno's real power was not in his click speed or typing proficiency. It was in an ability to- with or without preparation- see a possibility no one else did and charge towards it. Whether this was taking advantage of the game's mechanics or just close listening, his threat was always in his intelligence and a mad will to just give it a shot.
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.
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.
So this is just an observation from someone who is pretty new to the fandoms involved and has just been consuming all the old vods from the Antarctic Empire days. But it seems to me that Technoblade's interaction with his chat is one where the chat demands chaos and he steadfastedly holds to a certain code of honor and decorum in spite of their demands. Whereas Philza's interaction with his chat, while there are demands for chaos from the chat, is much more of a give and take where Philza will sometimes act chaotically of his own accord because it's funny. Philza is basically a fae that will murder a man and laugh at his demise, where Techno spends more time resisting the demands for blood than actually going for kills.
All I'm saying is however much Technoblade would have no trouble crushing me in a fight, I'd much rather face him than Philza. Techno has rules and tries to follow them, Philza is far more of a wildcard despite his habitual caution.
watching the turtle stream and thinking about how, the other day, Techno came across a random Iron Golem in his stream and went so far out of his way to heal it, taking out his ender chest and cutting down a tree for a 45th crafting table just to feed it some iron bars and get it to full health
vs Phil coming across a random Iron Golem while turtle hunting today and not only mercilessly beating it to death while Techno watched on in horror, but doing so after ransacking it’s village and needlessly slaughtering the very villagers it was supposed to protect right in front of it
cinematic parallels ✨
c!phil and c!techno have a conversation (this is about c!dream)
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.
i have now been in this fandom long enough to know my preferences for c!techno's physical appearance
and it is very important to me that he is both a big buff piglin hybrid and the prettiest princess on the whole server
and here we see the Philza in his natural habitat, trying not to eavesdrop on his best friend's new secret oganization
and here we see the Technoblade in his natural habitat, dragging the Philza inside.
He knows too much. He will be taken care of in the name of the Syndica-
-nope, they're hugging, they're doing forehead bonks, i apologise for the lies, this has taken a wholesome turn. The Philza will live today
I think I will start posting old DSMP artworks from 2023 just to remember old days🪈
More Emduo but Epic musical stuff
this was basically the prison arc right
just two best friends living their cottagecore life with their dog (ignore the fact they are in prison)
i'm going back to this moment with c!dream and c!techno and their discussion about church prime.
dream starts out by saying that he put the bell in church prime and techno questions whether or not dream can actually profit because he doesn't believe, calling dream a heretic and dream doesn't dispute the fact he doesn't believe. (which is interesting because it tells us two things 'primes' only go to believers and dream is not a believer, despite having seen a god with his face.)
what he does dispute, after a moment of thought, is the profit aspect, saying he might not believe but he's profiting off those that do. he even does a literal evil voice to say this. and techno's response is, 'but you're not', pointing out that everyone else is profiting off dream.
so, two things, right.
one, it's the hesitation and insistence at first from dream that he is, in fact, profiting off people complete with Villain Voice but when techno pushes the matter further, dream ends up relenting pretty quick and agreeing with techno that yeah, people are profiting off of him. both techno and dream have a history of backing down when the other says (techno at the green festival, for example) and it's interesting that dream seems intent to play this role right up until techno is like 'nah'.
two, techno says they're 'profiting off dream'. not that dream merely doesn't profit because he doesn't believe which would actually make a little more sense (because he's simply missing out on primes by not being a partner/believer). but no. techno says 'it's actually everyone else that's profiting off of you.' there's an implication of use that's really interesting to me because it won't be the last time that dream brings up people profiting off him going forward. he paints the torture as business. the fact he's alive at all is because people have something to gain from him. neither techno nor dream are wrong when they say people have profited off dream. and it's interesting and maybe a little more impactful coming from techno, someone else who has a history with being used by others.
just some thoughts.
Gosh, I'm sure I'll get some discourse on this, but I'll just delete it if I do-
I feel like people forget that L'manburg tried to kill Technoblade.
Like, when they talk about the Tommy/Technoblade betrayal, some people act like Technoblade should have just walked away and shrugged off that Tommy joined the people who tried to murder him. And who still WANT to murder him. Like, remember, after the failed Execution, Quackity talked about how they needed to put killing Technoblade on the back burner because Dream was a bigger threat, but they still VERY MUCH WANTED TO KILL TECHNOBLADE.
Did Tommy know all this? No, he couldn't have known it. He wasn't there. And I think Tommy choosing to go back and make amends with Tubbo was the correct thing to do for himself. I don't think it was the best choice to abandon Technoblade in a crater surrounded by enemies that want him dead, but I do think that Tommy NEEDED to reconcile with Tubbo. That was always a step he needed to take. That's his Tubbo.
But, like, why does it seem like some people just wanted Technoblade to shrug and give Tommy a pat on the back and let him keep the axe? What kind of rational person hears "Actually, now that they'll have me back, I'm going to rejoin the group of people that dropped an anvil on your head! Their companionship is more important to me than your safety" and reacts positively?
Did Tommy say that, word for word? No. Again, he didn't know about all of the hurt L'manburg caused Techno. But that's the message his actions send. Tommy chose Technoblade's would be murderers. Tommy chose the people that would definitely try again to murder Technoblade.
Why would Techno take that positively? Why wouldn't he be angry? Why wouldn't he feel like Tommy doesn't see him as a person, only a means to an end? Whether you think his reaction of blowing L'Manburg up was correct or not, how could you expect Technoblade to be anything less than hurt and angry at that?
It confuses me.
'OSMP with Techno as the only human in a hybird commune' except it's also a literal isekai where the enderpearl malfunctioned during the prison arc so it's dsmp!Techno who somehow got transported into osmp but also specifically turned into a human which is hilarious to me
I forgot to post this here 🥰
The quote "for you the world Phil" is beautiful and heart wrenching yes but I love how we all collectively forgot that it was in reference to Techno telling Phil he could have anything from his vault and Phil took the fucking floor
Simply with grace.
I had a shit ton of food the other day, like a shit ton, ate a dozen tacos and they were good af.
Binging a 5 hr video about iCarly
