Actually Quackity’s attempts at a parallel with the pickaxe scene is amazing because it only serves to highlight how he’s at fault.
Technoblade was unarmed and trapped when Quackity came after him in full netherite-- the only option he had to fight back with was a pickaxe.
Quackity pulling out a pickaxe on Techno and claiming an attempt to make it even is laughable. Because Quackity isn’t trapped and unarmed and fighting for his life-- it’s still Technoblade. And he had a choice of weapon. He could’ve easily chosen a proper weapon-- but he didn’t.
Quackity has dug his own grave with that pickaxe, and he's so caught up in himself that he isn’t going to stop until he’s hit bedrock.
ok but i just,, some of you guys dont understand how much jack burning manifoldland meant, it was the whole reason jack was against tommy in the first place, manifoldland survived both nov 16th and doomsday, za haus was one of the last parts of the original lmanburg, manifoldland was one of the most important things to jack, he lost all of his items so many times, but his country, his home, was always ok, sure he abandoned it when he moved to snowchester, but he always planned to come back, restore it to its former glory. jack burning down manifoldland was such an intense moment, and he didnt even say The Line. he almost did, but he didnt because it was, it was meant to be, but there just wasnt a point in being anymore.
dSMP analysis posts need to realise that there is a difference between:
Doing a bad thing because you have no choice OR are faced with the illusion of choice (eg Tubbo exiling Tommy, Bad choosing to be possessed by the egg)
Doing a bad thing as a reaction to a traumatic experience/multiple traumatic experiences (eg Tommy raiding George's house, Quackity torturing Dream and manipulating Sam)
Doing a bad thing due to unchecked mental illness/lack of support/grief (eg Wilbur blowing up L'Manburg, arguably some of Schlatt's actions, Niki burning the L'Mantree and wanting to kill Tommy)
Doing a bad thing as revenge/anger (eg Techno and the Withers, Phil helping to blow up L'Manburg)
Doing a bad thing because you literally can't control your actions (eg enderwalk Ranboo)
Doing a bad thing for profit/power/some kind of personal gain (eg Dream in general, Eret in the final control room, Schlatt in general, Purpled I guess but he's allowed)
Techno does have themes and character development and I'm tired of pretending he doesn't
Agency and personhood. 1/3 (?)
Okay, let's talk about technoblade!
Imma do a Techno centric analysis of the major plot points in dsmp and how they relate to the topic of agency (here defined as capacity to freely control how and why you act) (1) , being used and personhood. Techno does not struggle with the fact he is a person and not a weapon, the tension instead comes from reconciling how he sees himself with how others treat him.
Usual disclaimers, I don't have a background in literature or media analysis so treat me kindly when you rip me to shreads /lh
Pre-Red Festival
I consider this part to largely function as a backstory. His acts before the red festival work largely provide context as to how and why he joined Pogtopia, and establish his ideology (anarchy) and some of his character traits. In this time he function is mostly utilitarian. He is a dangerous weapon that we're pretty sure is being wielded by Pogtopia but with enough to sow doubt in that and cause tension surrounding him and his interactions with everyone. Less than a minute after he logged in for the first time Schlatt wrote something in chat that implied Techno was working with him against Pogtopia. From the moment he was brought onto the server he was considered a weapon with the question of who was truly wielding it. In this era he could have been replaced with an unstable atom bomb and it would have functionally been the same.
He does not have massive amounts of thematic development in this era nor is he particularly narratively important, though this does set up the backdrop for how characters and audiences view him later.
Red Festival
This is the first time we Techno is developed outside of just his use as weapon, because he deals with a great deal of internal conflict which is at odds with Pogtopia.
Audiences who were familiar with Anarchy, were more able to realize that Techno was being misled and used before this point, but for the majority of DSMP audience, this moment introduces the idea the Techno might be more than just a prop.
Here we see how both his enemies and allies deny his agency and deny his personhood.
Enemy - Schlatt
I'm not going to go into huge amounts of detail here, as I have already written about how Schlatt denied Techno the ability to choose, and his ability to act a moral agent, but it is important to note the Schlatt did not care what Techno wanted. Techno was largely just wielded as a sword, someone to carry out Schlatt's dirty work, and someone he could exert control over. It should be pretty obvious who schlatt forces techno to act against his will, and how Techno is denied agency and personhood because of that.
Tommy, Wilbur and Tubbo
During the execution:
Wilbur, Tommy and Tubbo don't consider Techno as a person with an internal world during the red festival. Wilbur and Tommy instead watch Techno as if he were undergoing a character test.
Instead of seeing Techno as a complex person who is scared and trying his hardest and who has no other options, he is flattened to a flow chart, where if he kills he's a traitor and if he doesn't he's the hero.
Wilbur, Tommy and Tubbo’s streams frame techno as an NPC, someone whose actions are only relevant in terms of how other people feel about them. We see him from a long way away, disconnected from Tommy and Wilbur. The 3 of them talk to each other in a chat which other characters cannot see. The reassurances are directed at Tubbo and Tommy, not at Techno, we as an audience are not encouraged to consider his emotions. (2)
This is at odds with how Techno’s stream presents the situation. Visually we see his characters gaze flit around constantly, looking for a way out or for someone to help him. His asides to the audience highlight how he is scared and unsure he is, and how he is out of his element. He stutters continuously, his attempts to control the conversation are shut down. When he does finally kill Tubbo, we see him already apologising. We are very much encouraged to empathise with Techno in these moments. The text explicitly states how he feels, we see this reflected in his non-verbal cues. (3)
There is a tension here between these 2 veiws. Other characters only considered him in terms of being a weapon, where the question is “who is wielding him (pogtopia or schlatt)?”, not “why did Techno do what he did? Is he okay?”.
During the fesitval is his not seen as a person and he is not given autonomy.
Response:
Wilbur and Tommy's response to Techno’s actions also dehumanises, him in how he is treated like he’s superhuman. Tommy’s anger at techno stems from the fact that he is convinced Techno could have done otherwise and been fine “because he can literally fly” (4), despite Techno repeatedly explaining that he couldn’t have taken on a whole army.
His attempts to explain himself are denied, and he is unable to articulate fully why he did what he did. Not only does he incorrectly summarise the threat of death as being “Peer pressure”, but Tommy and Wilbur repeatedly ignore him and repeat the same argument over and over.
Wilbur, in this situation, is the one in control of what is occurring. He encourages Tommy’s anger, he ignores Techno all together and he ultimately decides on “The Pit” and it’s rules. This is dehumanising for both Techno and Tommy. The pit is reminiscent of gladiator battles against animals, visually we see it carved out the walls and undecorated. It positions Tommy and Techno lower than Wilbur, both literally and metaphorically.
He does not allow Techno to throw the first punch, instead encouraging Tommy to take out his anger using violence instead of listening to Techno. The fight begins once Tommy decides to act. (5)
The Red Festival marked a split in viewers. Those who watched Tommy, Wilbur or Tubbo, still saw Techno as a flat character with few emotions, someone be watched, but not to be empathized with, a symbol of the growing distrust among pogtopians. Techno's veiwers instead see him as someone suffering from Schlatt’s rule, where he was unable to do otherwise, and then was cast aside by what were supposed to be his allies.
Techno goes against what Wilbur and Tommy want, not by his own choice, and is punished for it through distrust and anger.
As a whole, the Red festival brings the concept of agency and personhood to the center of Techno's character.
Between
Between this and the next major event, the theme is not explicitly revisited other than recurring references to the execution. Tommy forgives him, Tubbo forgives him and Wilbur congratulates him. After a moment of tension we see it simmer down again.
However, it does simmer in the background. Wilbur lies to Techno about his goals of anarchy (6) which misleads Techno about the purpose of the revolution. He obtained weapons, gear and food under the pretense they were overthrowing the government and disbanding it all together.
THIS IS HIM BEING USED.
Someone deliberately misleading a person about why they should work for them, they are being used. If I spend hours doing work collecting money for someone after they told me they were doing a charity fund, and it turns out they were using it to fund an oil company, I have been used. I did not make the decision to fund the oil company of my own volition, I was denied agency.
In the same way, Techno maybe acting freely, but he cannot make meaningful choices, as he is being misled. He is not able to control how and why he acts.
While agency is not the central focus on this part of the story (it's wilburs mental spiral) it runs as an undercurrent.
The tension rises as we get closer and closer to the revolution
NOV16
It was at this moment that I realised I’d been used…. In the end, they’d only been using me to seize [power] for themselves (7)
After realising that they had intended to set up another government all along, and after Wilbur blows everything up, after his allies proved themselves to have been lying, he spawns Withers.
Within the stream, Techno’s speeches center both anarchy and betrayal. He talks extensively on how the time and effort he had put in was being used to replicate the systems that brought about the conditions of Manburg. They went against everything he stood for (8)
These speeches are reinforced by the fact he delivers them to people who are wearing the armour he acquired. It reframes the previous friendship and comradery between the pogtopians to being based on deceit.
This is when we revisit what was set up in the Red festival, and also the undercurrent of between plot points. He was still being used and seen as a weapon, and this is where that clashes with who Techno actually is. He is not a weapon to be wielded, without wants or desires, that can be used without issue, who needs no control over his how and why he acts, he is a person with internal goals and motivation, that are independent from Tommy, Wilbur, Tubbo and Niki ect.
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There is also a focus on refusal of these conditions.
NOV 16 was not a fight Techno won, it was a last ditch effort to prevent people from taking advantage of him and replicating systems that cause “countless atrocities” (9). Techno does not succeed on NOV 16. While he does impact the land in terms of violence, L’manburg ultimately rebuilds and reforms. His attempt to control his own past was futile, and he does not get to change how he was used.
However, he was able to freely control how and why he acted on NOV 16th. He was exercising his agency in these moments, even though he sacrificed his perceived personhood as he did it.
Other revolutionaries' surprise at Techno’s actions showed they hadn't been listening to him, they had not been thinking of him as more than just a tool used to plan and acquire resources. The fact they did not listen to him even when he was clear about his goals, is something that he brings up a lot and clearly stuck with him.
He got approval from them while he was giving them things, and while they didn’t listen to what he had to say, and then when he exercised agency and made his words un-ignorable, he was villainized. (10)
From this we see him internalise the idea that people’s love is contingent on his capacity to be exploited.
That being seen as a person is incompatible with exercising agency.
I see I was wrong to rely on other people (11)
Retirement:
After being used by L’manburg, Techno isolates himself.
He'd lost everything, he'd failed to achieve anarchy, failed to prevent a government from reforming and found out his friends had been using him. What they had was formed on false premises.
This is where his relationship with agency and dehumanization are more stable, however this was earned through choosing isolation. He decides he cannot trust other people and instead has to live alone in order to protect his personhood.
It's a time where we see him re-evaluate his own methods, and his relationship with violence and other peoples' agency. He plans to change his method of spreading anarchy from one of violence to one of information.
“You just can’t free people who don’t wanna be freed, I think the real way to achieve our goals … is to prove that our ideals are the best (12)
It is a moment of reprieve from the intensity of revolution, this is where Techno does a lot of introspection.
In terms of pacing his streams, he had longer solo streams that focused on him gathering materials and telling stories. As a result we slow down and consider Techno as a character. This is the first time we see Techno entirely separate from other people, and not actively preparing for war. It is a period of time where viewers are encouraged to connect with Techno outside of revolution, and see him as a person.
The place he ends up as well is noted to be cold and barren (13), a absent of life, absent of people to exert control over him. Visually it is untouched by other people, a place with no history. It is vast and empty unlike the closed space of the ravine. It provides an opportunity to start fresh, to try again. This is where the arctic being a place of healing is born. It is a place of peace.
However, he exists in negative peace, the absence of conflict rather than the presence of justice.
While he has found himself a place where his agency is not violated, and his personhood is not reliant on other peoples view of him, it is a place of instability, of isolation. This is what we see unravel next. (Post coming in a few days maybe)
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After thoughts
Okay this marks the end of what I consider to be his first arc in terms of Techno's relationship with agency. He starts with little to none but a lot of companionship, and ends with full control over himself but little to no friends.
I have left a lot out here. The theme of agency and personhood is just one of the many many themes techno embodies. It connects hugely to power, to communication, to loyalty, all of which are things explored by the DSMP as a whole. Much was sacrificed in the name of brevity and even then I failed.
These posts were originally going to 1 big post but I got like a 3rd of the way through and had hit 2k… so I decided to split them up a little more.
This is my first attempt at this sorta analysis and its been fun if difficult. I don't expect to be perfect by any means, my formal education in this sorta thing finished longgg ago, but it's been good to give it ago. Discussions are welcome
As always, sources will be added in the reblog. Hopefully this is something that persuades people that techno does have a story and plot. Sources will be in the reblogs as always
Okay this is a copy and paste from somewhere else so forgive me if it’s like, not the most coherent. I wrote it yesterday after the stream to get my thoughts out and I might write a more coherent/in depth version of the future but this thought has been in my mind for ages way before the lore stream. Just the lore stream felt like it completely canonized my thoughts on it in my humble onion.
I’ll also write my general thoughts on the finale later at some point I promie.
(Edited: changed the formatting a bit :])
CW Wilbur Finale Spoilers
It’s All Projection
Everything Wilbur did was projection onto other people things he thought/feared about himself. Villainize the other to distant it from himself
“Don’t trust those american dogs”
Don’t trust me, I’m a liar
“I defeated Eret”
Please don’t notice my other failures as a leader and a person
“I put you in the role of President out of spite”
because I didn’t want to be President of something I would destroy
“I don’t want you to pity me”
I am pitiable
Every rivalry, every conflict, every moment he spent spiting at others it was always at himself
His apologies, his fighting for Tommy, Defending him, him admitting he was scared and sad, him admitting he’s a bloody fucking American
It was him being honest with himself for the first time and not deflecting
He’s the Traitorous, American Dog who was sad and scared and lonely and never truly meant to be a leader
And That’s how it ended, he couldn’t stay because he wasn’t the man to protect people. He never was
He wasn’t a leader or protector or anything of the sort.
He was just a Gas Station employee inspired by his adopted younger brother to build something new and beautiful.
alright guys so last night i rewatched pretty much all of the pogtopia arc. and this isn’t meant to be a big, important analysis post (it’s kind of incomprehensible), because my brain is fried from, you know. rewatching pretty much all of pogtopia. but i do have some stuff i’d like to say.
(this also just became a niki meta sorry i love her. i really just got emo about her during the second half of this and it got long. i have a lot of feelings about her and wilbur’s friendship.)
it’s a pretty general conclusion that wilbur’s real “downfall” began on october 8th, during the stream “who are you go away”. of course, his spiral and the process of him losing faith had begun much earlier, more around the end of the first war or during the election. but the big switch, so to say, was definitely here, when as wilbur walks back from schlatt’s announcement, he asks tommy if they’re the bad guys.
this entire scene was so interesting to me. wilbur here is a man who has lost hope, someone who is backed into a corner morally and has nothing left. he points out that they can never really reclaim l’manburg without forever tainting it, and that schlatt knows this. the entire half an hour or so before, schlatt has been taunting wilbur about losing that power. the emphasis of the festival on “democracy” is so clearly a barb thrown at wilbur, and it works.
wilbur’s “nothing left to lose” in this vod is a mirror to niki’s “you know what they say about a woman who has nothing left to lose”. this will not be the first time they mirror each other.
basically, wilbur’s angry. when schlatt announced the festival, wilbur realized that maybe it wasn’t a terrible thing. so once he worked around into the mindset of “we’re the bad guys”, he was able to justify saying he was going to blow up the nation with no remorse. he wants chaos! he wants no survivors!
does he do it? god no.
during the streams leading up to november 16th, wilbur is consistently scared. he goes back and forth on it, and makes multiple “conditions” that determine whether he’s going to do it or not, almost begging someone to stop him. he whispers to himself that he’s scared, that his hands are shaking, that he’s not sure if it’s the right thing to do. because despite what he says about “not caring about any of them”, the instant niki is threatened after tubbo’s death, wilbur walks up to schlatt and tells him that if he’s going to kill anyone it should be him. later, when quackity and tommy talk him down from pressing the button, he can’t press it because they’re there and he can’t bring himself to kill them as well.
but he has no problems with putting his own life at risk. he refuses to wear armor half the time, and actively places himself in harm’s way to save others. he still cares about everyone else, as much as he says he doesn’t. even when he does cause harm to others, during november 16th, he immediately begs phil to kill him. “look, they all want you to.” he can’t live with what he’s done, and how he’s hurt people, but he couldn’t allow manburg to continue.
the man is terrified and angry and he can’t win. and even as he tries to stuff himself into the mind of someone who doesn’t care, he cannot. when he finally does, he cannot live with being that person.
but the reason i rewatched this arc was to see niki’s point of view, especially after her statements during her last stream. i genuinely think that wilbur’s only betrayal of her was pressing the button, because he betrayed everyone. they might have known he was going to do it, but they had faith he wouldn’t.
wilbur cared a lot about niki. her life under schlatt was awful, wilbur hated that she was suffering, and the scene where wilbur plants himself directly in the center of the festival and tells schlatt to kill him instead hits pretty hard. he has the argument with schlatt, and then turns to niki and tells her to run. he then hits people and sprints away, trying to give her time to escape.
this is also when he asks her to join pogtopia, because now that schlatt has said he’d kill her, it’s a safer place for her.
so the man did care about her. niki is angry at the memory of him that she has. it’s been twisted by time and her own grief and paranoia.
in rewatching pogtopia, i realized that a lot of people hate the memory of wilbur. not him, and what he did. they think he didn’t care. and to quote hamilton (apologies):
“history obliteratesit paints me in all my mistakes”
does niki have a right to be mad at him? absolutely. he caused direct harm to her by blowing up l’manburg, once it was reclaimed. but she’s wrong that he never cared.
(an interesting note: wilbur only blows it up after techno starts fighting people outside. he hears it, and says “look, they’re fighting”. he didn’t re-initiate the conflict of the country. the fact that even after peace was won people were fighting just gave evidence to his belief that the entire country was corrupted.)
niki has been hurt a lot, and wilbur has things to answer for. but we as the audience know that her statements are just her perception. she is a character who acts on perceptions. the entire stream was in black and white. during doomsday, upon seeing wilbur log on (as ghostbur), niki has a panic attack and destroys her bakery, trying to rid herself of the pain of the memories. her lines during this stream are chilling, whispered repetitions that are a mirror of wilbur’s end.
(paraphrased, it was long and confusing but there are a few bits and this was the essence of it)
“wilbur is gone. this isn’t happening. he is dead. l’manburg is gone.”“it is real, i am real, he is real and he is dead.”“l’manburg is gone, i am real, i am l’manburg”.
(god. dude i could spend Months analyzing this one stream alone. there’s so much here.)
doesn’t that sound a bit like “my unfinished symphony”? wilbur and niki both attach their own self to the nation they fought for, and can see it as an extension of themself. they both destroy parts of it in acts of fear, attempting to save everyone else from what they’ve made.
what i pulled away from niki’s stream is that she’s not healing. i remember the chamber she locks herself in at night. i remember her refusal to eat. i remember how she was so angry at tommy, and she later realized that anger was misguided. niki genuinely believes that wilbur did not care about her, and that’s not surprising: when he died, she denied the fact that he was gone. she represses the things that she can’t handle, same as lots of other people. it is easier for her to pin her hurt on wilbur, because she needs somewhere to pin it. people feel more in control if they’re angry, not sad.
the song cc!niki said was for her character really emphasizes this. it’s a coping mechanism.
but even condemning wilbur won’t help, because she will still never get closure. niki cares about what others think of her, and so she can’t move on from someone hurting her. she can’t move on because she thinks he hated her. she is angry that he is back, but it is an opportunity for her to heal. she couldn’t heal when he was gone. she’s not the only one with a negative perception of wilbur, after all. he has one too. the two of them really need to talk.
i want niki to be healthy and safe. i want to see her heal so badly, and i do think it will happen. after wilbur died, his betrayal of her stayed with her, and it eventually became her memory of the betrayal that she hated, not the thing itself. it’s been months since it happened. niki wants to find an outlet for her hurt, because she wants to feel better. there’s a pattern i noticed: she only gets mad at people once she hasn’t seen the person themself for a while. and once she sees them and talks to them, and realizes that they care about her and don’t want to hurt her, she stops blaming them for it. she only hates her perception of them. example one? tommy.
man was in exile for a long time, and when he came back he “brought” fighting. that’s how niki saw it. but the fact that after she spent time with tommy (trying to kill him but. details, details) she forgave him because she saw it wasn’t his fault is a really good sign.
i genuinely think that speaking to wilbur will help niki, and it will also help wilbur. after all, they both hate wilbur. the entire perception of wilbur as some heartless, crazy manipulator needs to be shattered for both of their sakes. they both buy into it.
i want niki to know that others care about her, and that she has places she can feel safe. she hates that wilbur is invading the syndicate, because she’s scared of his memory hurting her. i don’t think wilbur will hurt her on purpose, because even though he sees himself as awful, he doesn’t hate her. he never did.
usually, with people who have hurt someone else, i want them as far away from the person they hurt as possible. if wilbur does hurt niki i’ll probably cry. but again, it’s not him that hated her, or really him that hurt her in the way she thinks he did. when wilbur was dead, niki didn’t get any better. her memory of him festered and made her feel worse. that’s also why niki killing wilbur or hurting him somehow wouldn’t help her heal. i want wilbur to explain that he didn’t hate her. is wilbur even close to self aware enough to help niki? nah. this is going to take a Long time, and it’s going to hurt.
last thing i swear lol
during niki’s stream, she says that wilbur manipulated her. again, i watched pogtopia last night, and i’ve watched the rest of season one recently as well. i genuinely don’t see it. but i do think i know why she said it.
during season one, wilbur doesn’t manipulate niki. he doesn’t have a chance to later, he’s dead. so then, what is she talking about? of course it’s a perception, same as a lot of her other claims. i think she’s talking about how she cared for l’manburg.
niki joined the server as wilbur’s friend, to join his nation. she grew to care for l’manburg. she devoted herself to it, same as he did. but doomsday showed us that she hates that. in niki’s eyes, l’manburg only brought pain for people, and because she ties herself to it, she hates that she ever cared about it. she can’t allow herself to care for it, because it was used to hurt. so how does she cope with knowing that she once did? she pretends she didn’t.
if she can convince herself that it was wilbur who convinced her to care about l’manburg, she can avoid blaming herself for her own pain. and yeah, she shouldn’t blame herself for it. it’s not her fault. the entire situation is tragic and a little hopeless and once again really makes me hope that she recovers. l’manburg was ruined for her by others. schlatt, techno, dream, wilbur. again another place where she and wilbur are similar: they convince themselves they never cared about l’manburg because of the hurt it caused.
to summarize: wilbur’s going to get a shock soon. don’t know when, but probably the prison visit. something is going to shake his perception, the story is hurtling towards that. once he is able to take responsibility for what he did, and feel safe (because a lot of what he does now is out of fear of being alone or useless), then he and niki need to talk. niki needs something to get her out of her own head. she’s spiraling too. they are essential to each other’s recovery because of how much they meant (and mean) to each other.
anyways i miss early season one niki i liked it when she was happy :(
c!dream’s fear is being dead. he will sit in prison for months, he will go through mass amounts of torture for months, he will never tell anyone else how the revival book works. he will do all of this to avoid dying.
c!dream’s want is for the server to be “one big happy family” and he has decided that c!tommy is a threat to that goal, hence the obsession and abuse he puts on him.
c!dream is obviously not mentally stable at all. he has warped views of reality, control, and self which makes him very paranoid. he doesn’t believe that he’s a bad guy, and i don’t think he ever will.
c!wilbur’s fear is losing c!tommy, both in the sense of watching c!tommy die, and losing his friendship with him. c!wilbur believes that becoming friends with c!dream will keep c!tommy alive. c!wilbur will also continue to guilt trip c!tommy in order to maintain their friendship.
c!wilbur wants to have separation. he wants people to be able to fight for their own values. he wants a winner to come out on top. and from what we’ve seen in the past, he desperately wants to be on the winning side, otherwise what’s the point of living?
c!wilbur is also not mentally stable. despite wanting to win, all of his motivation comes from feeling inferior. he loves being the underdog, and this will always lead him to self sabotage.
c!techno’s fear is becoming useless. he doesn’t like what government does to people and he values anarchy. but he finds it difficult to trust people and build healthy relationships. he enjoys feeling needed by others, which aligns his fears with his wants.
c!techno wants to be needed. it’s why the voices ask for blood. it’s why he seeks out violence. it’s why he will avoid peace at every turn. he will always be preparing for the next war. he will never let his guard down.
c!techno is much more mentally healthy compared to c!dream and c!wilbur, however he still has his own issues. the voices must cause him constant stress and the fear of becoming worthless to someone hinders his relationships and makes him weary to trust people. however, c!phil has become a good friend of c!techno’s, so he has some really nice support there.
i just wanted to do a quick little analysis on these characters’ fears, wants, and mental states because they’re the hardest characters for me to read. i can also see these three teaming up in the near future so i wanted to lay out the basics of their characters to see if there would be any interesting conflicts. but, despite any conflict, i think that these characters are drawn to one another.
c!wilbur is drawn to c!dream because he knows that he can revive c!tommy if needed and based on my analysis, he sees c!dream like himself, as an underdog.
c!dream revived c!wilbur, not because he really cared for him, but because it was a way for c!dream to control c!tommy without having to actually be there. a relationship with c!wilbur means he can get close to c!tommy.
c!dream and c!techno have “the favor” and they are both willing to do whatever needs to be done in order to get their end of the deal, ie. c!techno perpetuates violence and c!dream avoids death (at least i think that’s where they’re going with this).
c!techno values c!wilbur’s charisma and spite to rally people together in order to “fight for a cause” and c!wilbur will use c!techno’s willingness to “fight the man” whenever necessary, making their relationship a byproduct of war.
now where have these three characters been since doomsday? well, c!wilbur has been dead, c!dream has been in prison, and c!techno has been living in the isolated snow commune. the absence of these characters from the server has allowed the rise of kinoko kingdom, las nevadas, and snowchester. (not mentioning the eggpire because it is no longer valid since the red banquet) their absence has also given some characters time to grow and change, while others remain sort of paused. i don’t think it’s a coincidence that c!dream revived c!wilbur, or that c!techno got stuck in the prison with him, or that both c!wilbur and c!techno have developed a sort of mentorship with c!ranboo. though they’ve been apart, their stories are coming together and i think there’s a big possibility that they will not only cross paths soon, but become a team.
the only question now is what were those blueprints for?
