#c!techno crit

On one hand we all had hopes, and god it could have been everything but like- I WISH I could just avoid techno lore but when he’s so determined to be in my fav’s stories, it’s just a pain. Like that’s such a emerald duo specific problem.

 Like if you don’t want awesamdude lore, that’s fine, it doesn’t change a lot of other’s POV, instead explaining stuff about him. Same goes with ponk! if you’re not a fan of their lore (idk why but hypotetics) you can ignore their story. That was one fo the strenghts of season 1 imo, even if you don’t care about certain character, the main plot is still followable, you can ignore what you don’t want in your consuption and not miss on the more important part of the story. 

But with techno?? He will be in the center of the plot whether you like it or not and that’s all there will be of him. Any solo part is him being ooc which, sure, makes for some light hearted comedy and a cool inclusion, but story wise that means that this pig is never challenging his thoughts, we can NEVER get an insight to how he thinks. There are CRUMBS of development and insight, like when he passes the safe heaven and states “I wish something like that existed”, but compared to all the waffling we got that’s not enough. That’s not enough.

And like the thing is I don’t know why I even got my hopes up. Every single scene with techno is written like piss. The story keep bending over backwards just so Techno doesn’t appear an antagonist to anyone. Not even the people he actively wronged multiple times. At this point it’s just hilarious how much retcon they had to do to avoid conflict like seriously-

The worst part is those rewrites are only present when techno has to interact with those characters! like Tubbo is still traumatized by his execution and has been rendered self sacrificial to a worrying degree because of everything he lost. Lost BECAUSE OF techno, yet because a stream requires them to team up, and because for some reason we’re not allowed to have conflict in a techno stream, tubbo is fine with him except for a brief moment. But this stream is over and tubbo is back to being this scarred, broken yet unmovable character. It just keeps happening, and I don’t see the appeal. Sure, if you want a sitcom, you’ll be served, but the dsmp, despite all its hilarious moments, is still a story with heavy themes. 

And then there’s the whole Eret redemption part which I’ll express very simply: Eret’s crimes are fucking NOTHING in comparaison to Techno’s. And that’s without touching on their motives. Eret’s biggest crime is the betrayal of L’manberg during the war for independance. And their path towards redemption and regret is not only far more compelling that anything c!techno has done, but also shows a development and a character growth that I can only applaud. 

And not only DID techno betray l’manberg too (on nov 16th) (so by that logic alone he should be held as accountable as Eret still is) BUT he destroyed the land a second time, ACTIVELY helping Dream, broke him out of prison, executed Tubbo under Schlatt’s commands,  and that’s just at the top of my head. So why can he get off scott free? Meta wise, because they have written it so c!techno cannot have a conflict where he’s even partially in the wrong.