#also techno apologists i swear i like his character but i will defend c!tommy to the ends of the earth im sorry

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this is all /rp

i just saw a thing about techno's whole 'im a person' spiel on doomsday and ive just realised why that speech annoyed me so much

when he says that he follows up with 'discs aren't people' and yk it makes sense i guess,, but he's also completely failing to see what tommy means. we as the viewers as well as techno all watched tommy give up the discs when he realised what he was doing to other people and we know as well as techno that tommy has would always choose l'manburg over probably anything but tubbo

so when tommy says that people are above the government, he's referring to how technoblade never saw l'manburg as a country, he saw it as its government. he saw it as tubbo. he's referring to how techno is too caught up in his views to realise that the government isn't evil, its a child trying his best and getting nothing in return

and somehow technoblade hears that, returns with the extremely valid 'im a person' and then completely ruins any sympathy i had by immediately turning on tommy with something that he had less than 24 hours ago denounced in more ways than one (verbally, physically giving it over, reflecting on how bad of a person they'd made him and vowing to change), because he realised that material possessions weren't anywhere near the same as what other people could give him

but the issue with technoblade is that he's always the victim. he's very picky with what he decides to acknowledge if it means he comes off a wiser, morally superior and also make it seem as though he's the troubled underdog fighting against tyranny when in reality, he's the all powerful tyrant getting rid of anything he doesn't like. if he ignores the fact that tommy literally gave up the discs the day before, he can keep up that mentality and have more than one excuse for blowing up the country while also pushing it off onto tommy and making him seem like the victim again

literally in doing that, techno is painting tommy as the villain by essentially saying "im a person, but you treating these discs as something so important is a massive factor in why im doing this so its all your fault that im doing this". he's really subtly pushing the blame off himself, relying on the fact that tommy is the server's scapegoat and that most people hate him enough already to overlook whose fault it actually is that l'manburg got destroyed

so yeah that's why that speech annoyed me

#idk if this is even coherent but #also techno apologists i swear i like his character but i will defend c!tommy to the ends of the earth im sorry #dream smp #dream smp analysis #tommyinnit #technoblade #tubbo #c!techno critical