#techno critical

[Image description: A digital comic centered on TommyInnit and Technoblade. It starts with the line "you would've fought the world for me" alongside an image of Techno and Tommy huddled together. They are both smiling and Tommy is putting up bunny ears behind Techno's head. Then, underneath it carries on "but I think it's best for the both of us". On each side of this there's an image of Techno and Tommy's face respectively, both looking distraught. Below, there's the line "that we don't heal our hurt in the hurt of others;", with the words "heal our hurt" overlayed on top of a netherite axe. This axe has the Your Tubbo compass wrapped around it, the compass arrow pointing away from the weapon. Finally, at the bottom, there's Tommy with a conflicted expression, throwing away Techno's cape. The last line is "farewell Lycomedes I'm leaving home". The arrow on the Your Tubbo compass also points towards the name "Lycomedes".]

Think about it. If Tubbo said that, there’s a good chance Techno would’ve taken that as a direct threat, and things wouldn’t have gone nearly so well today. It’s already established that Techno is a massive hypocrite. He wouldn’t have felt guilty, he would’ve felt threatened. He would’ve used it as an excuse to hound and hurt Tubbo more.

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.

I still stand by the fact that Techno was allowed to be angry at Tommy, but he had no right to take that anger out the way he did. Punishing Tommy by punishing everyone in L'manburg as well is just...fucked up. God forbid Tommy actually make his own decisions. Techno could've easily ghosted him and never spoken to him again, and that might've still gotten the message across. I love Techno but hhhhh.

If they're going to reconcile, they need to speak TO each other, not OVER each other. They need to go back to Doomsday and before that, to explain every emotion they both felt, and why they made the choices they did. Tommy needs to admit to Techno that he thought of Techno as more than just the Blade, as an actual friend (a brother almost), and that switching sides at the last minute was not exactly a wise decision. And Techno needs to admit that siding with Dream just to get revenge on Tommy for only doing what he believed was the right thing was in fact a horrible thing to do, and that utterly obliterating the only home Tommy had was messed up.