My brother and best friend, at times felt like a son to me @ cinna_morgan was battling the same thing. And he looked up to Techno; I remember him being heart broken when he heard the news him battling cancer. Hoping he wouldn’t see the end of his hero. Still watching his streams, and hoping he’d get the treatments so he’d make it.But sadly through a long 7 months of suffering and battling a sickness, he never saw the end. The final message and Techno’s final goodbye. Im more than sure he’d miss him as well. Thank you techno for being his favorites, and a mentor/support to all. You’re definitely loved and remembered.. 💔
It really is heartbreaking to see that message about Technoblade, and how he had known it was severe for much longer than we were aware of. But it is so fitting for him to do that. To wave away the severity of his situation, because he’d rather make people smile.
It’s common as is for people to try to hide conditions this bad from people, because, well, they don’t want to be looked at with pity or fear or nervousness or what have you for the rest of their lives. Because as soon as others, friends and family and loved ones, know the time bomb is ticking, they can’t help but act differently. It’s natural, it happens, it’s really hard not to, honestly. But it also hurts, because many will treat those who are dying as fragile and someone to fret over. And a lot of people just don’t want that, even it it IS a natural response. They want to enjoy the life they have left without being looked at differently.
This is even more so for Technoblade. A widely well known content creator with a fanbase who genuinely loves him. If we knew, we’d be paranoid, we’d be panicky, we’d start mourning before anything happened. And he never wanted that. He wanted to make us laugh, to make people smile, not cry. So he didn’t really let people know, because he wanted to make whatever time he had left count. He continued working, helped give a lot of money to charity, he tried so hard to continue storylines on the Dream SMP and bring in the lesser known creators into it.
He continued to make us and his friends laugh and smile and have a good time, until he finally wrote that last message to us, and still made us laugh even in his final goodbye. Because it’s what he loved to do. And as upset as I am that he was way worse than he initially expressed, I totally get it.