Watched a lot of DSMP animatics today so its on my mind. Well, got thinking about c!Technoblade after watching Casserole’s “Under the Surface” c!Tubbo animatic.

What if, depending on how you view him he looks different? There’s his line of people only viewing him as The Blade, a weapon. And like, what if when you view him as a weapon, or just a warrior, or just someone to use, he’s this giant hulking piglin; pig head and all. He also looks this way when you’re afraid of him, too, etc. 

But when you see him as a friend, or even just simply like a person, he’s more human? Still has piglin features (i’m working off my headcanon/preference of him being a hybrid) He’s still got tusks, he’s still huge and beefy, cause well. He IS a warrior. But that’s not all he is. When you view him as a person, you start seeing all the other parts, too. He’s a farmer, he’s a bookworm, a giant greek mytho nerd, etc. 

Going along with this, I don’t think you can only see one or the other. It changes, because people’s views change. Going back to Casserole’s animatic (cause that’s where this hc stems from), Tubbo once saw him as a friend, so he saw the more human Techno. After the festival, he’s afraid of Techno; he sees him as the piglin brute. And after they rescue Michael, I can see Tubbo seeing the human Techno again. Maybe not all the time; there’s trauma there. But when they talk about mundane things, that’s humanoid Techno. When its a battle, that’s piglin Techno, etc.

I think this applies to Tommy all the way from the start; its a normal thing to him. Sometimes, its human Techno, this older brother figure. Other times, he’s The Blade, a badass piglin brute. And I can see Techno asking Tommy, “what do I look like to you?”, and maybe its during Pogtopia, at a time that Tommy definitely just saw Techno as The Blade, and Tommy replies honestly. He’s a piglin brute. And maybe that’s one of the reasons why Techno “betrays” them and unleashes the withers. It ties into what he says to Tommy, that he only ever saw Techno as a weapon. 

For Dream (cause I’m pretty big on RivalsDuo), if we base this simply on DSMP, then they first meet when Techno joins the smp. So Dream only sees Techno as The Blade, bc to him, Techno is just another pawn. Another person to use for his plans. But in the prison, when they’re roommates for three months, Techno starts looking different. He starts looking human. And I don’t think Dream would realize that he’s viewing/thinking of Techno differently, cause well. Its the prison. He’s being tortured, mans probably thinks its just hallucinations. Until he’s out of the prison for a while, and he crosses Techno’s path, and he still looks human.

Obviously Phil would always see Techno as human Techno. That’s his best bud. Even in the midst of battle, Phil sees Techno’s humanity. Its why Phil is Techno’s closet friend, why Techno is so sure that Phil would never betray him; bc even at his worst, Phil sees the real him. 

This got way longer than I thought it would, and I don’t think I properly articulated everything. I was shaping the hc as I wrote lol. I’m not super into the DSMP, and my knowledge of canon is very iffy. I kinda just stick with the parts that i like and overlook the rest, but for something like DSMP i think that’s fine