would you believe me if i said this is skyblock fanart 😭
explanation below for anyone interested. it's a bit long 🐖
basic explanation for people who dont go here. or the tldr: the rift is a separate dimension in hypixel skyblock where reality and time itself do not function the same. the other npcs tend to take on different forms in there. this is my interpretation of what might happen to techno if he were to travel into the rift based on some other theories about the place and my own headcanons for him
less basic explanation for the rest of you: ok so. first thing to get out of the way, the rift isnt completely separate from the main reality. SOME of your own thoughts and feelings influence the way you exist in the realm and the way the realm itself behaves. not very many people seem to take on forms ENTIRELY divorced from themselves, save for maybe enigma (we dont know who he was originally, if he was anyone at all)
but i have a theory backed up by absolutely nothing that your rift form is mostly influenced by three different things: your inherit magic, your ability to control and manipulate that magic, and your overall stability. stability will look different from person to person and you dont always know if someone is stable or not just by talking to them. even something as simple as a phobia might change them drastically. still, the rift is unstable itself, so sometimes people get altered horrifically even though they were perfectly fine
my main points of reference for this are that some of our most altered characters are some who check all these boxes, and some who are relatively normal dont check any of them. lathrop/porhtal is split into a bunch of eyes and has one human-looking form that sits motionless at the wither cage and doesnt speak. we know he was incredibly magical, eventually got a great grip on said magic, but was also very very unstable. the wizard is very magical, is a master of said magic, and is pretty well put together. he is nearly unchanged in the rift. barry is the same as the wizard but went a bit nuts before he left, so in the rift he seems just a bit... off
on the opposite side of things, maddox is someone who we are told has ZERO magic in him. the only thing that changes in the rift is the fact that his helmet is red now. kat has never shown us any magic and seems to be pretty normal, so she's also just a different color palette in the rift and happens to have a weird job
anyways back to techno. (btw if you're reading this and happen to not be a regular here this is a mix of headcanons and "canon" but im treating it ALL as real and true facts for the sake of this drawing ok). he could be one of the most magical people here... but he has no idea how to use any of it on command. if you asked him if he possessed any magic, he would say no. his healing ability, while it is VERY strong, is passive, and he was only able to gather magic during the resistance fight with the help of the wands we were given. but he was able to gather a lot of magic during that fight, concentrate it, and release it all on his own. not many people could handle that. he also worships the blood god and has its blessing, and has some connection with spirits in the form of the voices / chat / whatever you wanna call them. there might be even more to him, who knows
so that's already a setup for disaster, but what about his stability? well he's constantly followed by a chorus of thousands of voices all screaming at him and god itself might be hanging around in that mix, led a war against the server staff and a dictator that lasted for 2 years skyblock time, and did the whole potato war thing which was ~70 years server time iirc. i wouldnt really call him stable KFJHG
so what you end up with is a very violent beastly thing, nearly unrecognizable save for the fact that he's still a pig (my first point, you dont become a COMPLETELY different thing under most circumstances). i think he's entirely out of control of himself and would not remember a trip to the rift. a stability elixir might help him in terms of being more aware of himself (i think sirius really downplayed what that potion does lmao it's not just a fun drink, he wanted to guarantee himself some control over his mind while he was conducting his "business" in the rift) but there's no saving the physical form
i wanted him to be beastly to mimic what happens to "dante" in the rift (the memory of dante, it's complicated. but dante and bacte are most likely two different people who are also the same person). yeah he was a big slime in the overworld, but now he's more monstrous. he also doesnt speak, he might not have any idea what's going on. same could be said for techno in a way. of course this is related to dante, what else would you expect from me :P i want to see them fight at the colosseum so bad...
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but anyways THIS WAS SO FUN AAAAAUGH IM SO GLAD I FINALLY GOT THROUGH THIS. MY IPAD FINALLY DIED AFTER AN ENTIRE DECADE IN THE MIDDLE OF LINING IT AND I HAD TO CONTINUE ON A NEW TABLET WHEN I'VE SPENT MY ENTIRE LIFE DRAWING WITHOUT A PEN... THIS DRAWING WAS CURSED KJFDHGK
here's a version without chat and the blood god so you can just see the big hog
and here's my old concept from july of last year for comparison :P
initially in the post for the old sketch i said he was based on what i think would happen if he got a hold of some sulphur. i actually think that would be about the same as his rift form because sulphur seems to do very similar things under certain circumstances. always corrupts your form, can sometimes make creatures MUCH larger (matriarch, kuudra, magma boss), heightens your magic (mage outlaw), and can make you incredibly violent (barbarian duke)
bye i hope i tricked someone into reading a really long skyblock theory post expecting more info about techno FKJHG
I have been watching security breach videos related to the creation of the game and apparently this was unused content that was scrapped from Freddie’s voice lines.
I wonder if this could be a suggestion that the daycare attendant was supposed to have a much bigger role in security breach with a lot of added lore that was never finished because they had to rush the release of the game.
because im normal about the staff and normal about the resistance im forced to constantly think about how awful the aftermath of the resistance must have been. we know that "in canon" there's still at least one admin TO THIS DAY who is on dante's side. they're allowed to keep their job like that. and since that one still has their job, they're all at least complicit in that behavior. all of the admins, simon himself included, were on his side during the fight. not a single one of them helped us. hasco, one of techno's islandmates, was also an admin and pestered his party in their chat. deo, who would later become an admin, didnt fight dante at all and chose to sit back and watch despite being elected as a general for the fight
do you think there's resentment. is there an underlying fear, knowing you'll never trust those people again. is there a quiet "they're basically gods so we have no choice but to play along and pretend we're happy to stay on their good side." did they ever actually talk about it and make up or was there nothing left to say. did any of them feel sorry or have regrets. did any of them try to make up for it
hey do you guys want a rift theory that no one asked for and is probably contradicted in canon and is also based on almost zero evidence
i think your rift counterpart is at least PARTLY influenced by your own mind, whether that be your greatest fears or desires. it just depends on whatever you feel the most. for instance, minikloon's counterpart went off the rails, so maybe his was influenced by some deep fears. meanwhile someone level headed like the wizard is virtually unchanged personality-wise. it's SAID that the wizards are different people entirely, but i think that's irrelevant. the way you manifest in there is different person to person. barry goes through just fine but is also clearly changes as well, since his entire way of speaking changes, but he is also otherwise unaltered. seraphine also enters but her face melts jhfkjg
i think all this is because the rift is limbo if we had more control over the way it functions. i think certain people like the wizards and the family have found out how to shape it to THEIR desires (at least partly, no one can have COMPLETE control over it... except for maybe oruo. and julian. and the precursors... what is going on with them-)
and as most of you here probably know, limbo is a place within your own head. it is whatever you think. so the way you think probably influences the realm itself. this is real and true dont look it up
reasons i think the rift is limbo. 1) there was some guy on the forums who got to the limbo dimension through the portal AAAAGES ago. im not sure if it's real or not but im choosing to believe it bc i love that and 2) i think the orb that kaeman peers through to see mylah and sarah again IS a limbo. he became so self absorbed in his own fantasy of living happily with them that it became his reality. he got trapped in his own mind. sounds like limbo to me. the watcher, aka lathrop aka porhtal, created that orb for him using a seeing stone "of unknown origin." the watcher/lathrop were there at the breach at the top of the mountain and were heavily affected by it, and the breach IS the rift, we just happen to enter through the portal instead... limbo orb 👍
