caelum's void

Techno is a human and doesn't really understand how hybrids work, especially birds like Phil.

One day, Phil tells him he just "has to meet his son".

They go to Phil's house.

Techno: Wow... He has... Your eyes...

No more of this nonsense. Tommy has had character development and I wish that actually got recognised from time to time. 

He does not want to cause trouble. Prior to Dream’s breakout his only streams were stuff like improving his base, and building a therapy booth (with a token effort at using it for making money). After it, he’s been trying to feel safer. 

His stated goal right now is literally just helping Wilbur. (And being awesome).

It's almost as if the same material can be interpreted in multiple different ways and not everyone interprets it your way.

It's almost as if we're given both clues toward SCU!Tommy being a pure villain that was playing around with Charlie as well as clues toward SCU!Tommy having some genuine internal conflict brought forth by the sickness he contracted.

Oh what a shocker that there are people going both ways with interpreting his character! /s

Oh, look at that, he talked to a zombie about how "it was all about gaining the human's trust nowadays" but he also insisted with Charlie that he needed to be locked out which achieved the exact opposite result to that.

It's almost as if the interests of the infected part of him and the interests of the human part of him were in conflict... oh but that can't be! Interpreting him as anything but a pure malicious villain is doing a disservice to his character after all! /s

tommy apologized to both jack and techno When he did the things that upset them (immediately after jack got spleefed in the nether and At the green festival, multiple times. both times tommy explained why he was doing what he was doing). jack and techno aren’t obligated to accept those apologies, but they were forgotten entirely in favor of vilifying tommy (jack’s literal villain arc centered around tommy being the cause of all of the problems in the server, techno asserting that tommy was only ever using him and how he obviously never cared about him) and the fandom collectively forgot tommy’s apologies Because they weren’t accepted

tommy went out of his way to seek techno out to apologize Again just before the disc war finale. techno never reached out to tommy (before or after this), tommy reached out to Him to try to make amends. techno tolerated him, but he obviously didn’t reciprocate considering Certain Things after the fact (”pog, hated that guy.”) and now tommy is still beating himself up in canon because he feels like he’s the one at fault for leaving technoblade behind.

when wilbur apologized to jack both jack and the fandom talked about how that had been the first time anyone had done that for him, which just wasn’t true. it was the first time jack had heard exactly what he Wanted to hear, though.

Like, imagine being so emotionally incompetent that you start fucking swinging as soon as anyone challenges you on anything.

Imagine being so afraid of the possibility of being wrong that, instead of thinking about whether or not executing a teenager on stage may have been morally wrong, you beat the absolute shit out of that teenager's best friend and pretend that solved the conflict.

Imagine thinking that, as soon as someone wrongs you, no matter their reasons, or whether it was a misunderstanding, or anything you may have done, that's a free pass for you to absolutely fucking destroy their home, their life, everything they care about.

Imagine destroying someone's home, blowing them up with fireworks, justifying everything by saying some bullshit about peer pressure and how violence is the only universal language, and then when THEY become violent towards YOU, talking to you in the only language YOU seem to understand, you become so fucking furious you destroy everything they love AGAIN!!!

Imagine being such a violent, vengeful maniac that the only people who don't run for the hills as soon as they catch wind of you are a fucking immortal creature married to a literal goddess who doesn't ever challenge you on anything, a walking anxiety disorder with a spine made of marshmallows and uncooked spaghetti who is so terrified of upsetting you he won't even confront you about the fact that you MURDERED HIS HUSBAND, and the former tyrant of the server with a god complex the size of the fucking sun and an ego even bigger, who has been in solitary confinement and hasn't had a normal conversation with another human being for the better part of a year.

Imagine thinking that you NEED violence to communicate because it's the "only universal language" when YOU and LITERALLY FUCKING EVERYONE AROUND YOU SPEAKS FUCKING ENGLISH!

Tommy Fucking Innit, an at the time 16 year-old boy with a long, LONG track record of uncontrolled emotional outbursts, learned this bullshit! Tommy has been through three wars, two exiles, he's been abused, he's developed severe PTSD, he's tried to fucking OFF HIMSELF, and even HE realized that hurting the people around him, regardless of his trauma, or what they've done to him, is a SHIT thing to do!

Meanwhile Techno The Blade, a grown ass man, decides to throw a fucking hissy fit, TWICE, the first time because Pogtopia didn't fucking read his mind and create an anarchist paradise in L'Manburg ten minutes after the end of a literal war, the second time because L'Manburg tried to execute him for murdering their president and destroying their country, failed, and then mildly inconvenienced him by hiding his stuff from him.

Imagine how much shit could've been prevented if Techno had just used his fucking words! The whole wither thing, L'Manburg being terrified of this looming threat and the Butcher's Army would've been COMPLETELY PREVENTED if Techno had just said "hey uhh the last time you guys had a president it didn't end well, how bout this cool idea i have called anarchism!" Obviously not everything would've been sunshine and daisies what with Dream being around, but things would've been SO MUCH more chill if Techno had just relaxed for a singular second and actually explained what he wanted and why, instead of just shooting the newly appointed and pretty reluctant teenage president in the face with a rocket launcher and screaming at him that he's a tyrant.

Techno LOVES to preach for freedom from tyranny and everyone being able to live in peace without oppressive governments, while he stockpiles WMDs for fun, runs basically the Secret Police, and everyone except his closest friends is TERRIFIED of what happens when they BREATHE at him wrong. Dream may be a child abusing supervillain who doesn't even see the people around him as human anymore, but at least he still has a fucking handle on his temper!

Techno is the most volatile motherfucker on the entire server, everyone is scared of him, and yet he seems so allergic to, nigh incapable of introspection, he doesn't even seem to realize it. He expects everyone to cater to HIS emotions, HIS wants and needs, while he so blatantly does not care about anyone else, he went around to the community of the child he physically and psychologically scarred for life, looking to see if he could find an excuse to nuke it, WHILE SAID CHILD WAS GRIEVING HIS RECENTLY MURDERED FRIEND!

Violence is not the only universal language. Fucking BABIES understand what you mean when you give them a bottle, or kiss them on the forehead, or sing to them. There is not a single human being on this planet who doesn't understand a hug. You could put twenty people, all speaking wildly different languages, in a room, and none of them would understand shit, but as soon as you put on some music all of them will vibe to it all the same.

The only thing Techno's brand of violence communicates is "I am going to hurt you. I am bigger and stronger and there is nothing you can do. Don't make me upset." And then he walks away, pretending they've learned their lesson, while the only thing he's done is make everyone just a little bit more terrified, a little bit more miserable, and a little bit more angry.

He's a fucking coward, too scared to engage with anyone properly, for fear of the possibility of being wrong. He builds up concrete barriers around himself, and sits there, his hand on the big red button, ready to press it as soon as someone trips within 3 feet of his wall.