#and maybe this is how i'm coping with ranboo's rushed death

[serendipious]

AM I GOING INSANE OR ARE THERE PARALLELS WITH C!TECHNO AND C!QUACKITY

hear me out ladies and gentlemen. c!quackity felt betrayed by the people he cared about, namely the whole fiasco with kinoko kingdom and it’s all. based on some sort of misunderstanding and lack of communication. c!quackity felt betrayed because c!karl c!sapnap and c!george went and built a country without him, and yet again, this is built from a misunderstanding. c!karl was supposed to invite him. c!karl forgot. and it wasn’t c!karl’s fault for forgetting. and now, we have c!quackity, creating his own nation, recruiting people for his nation, but he won’t let any of them get too close. keep your friends close, after all, but keep your enemies closer. it would hurt less when they left him eventually. 

c!techno, on the other hand, also felt betrayed. first in pogtopia, again with c!tommy. now obviously they weren’t “betrayals” so much as lack of communication and everyone deciding to “cross the bridges when they get there,” which caused a lot of problems. but again, here we have a supposed betrayal built on miscommunication and misunderstanding. and it’s always been difficult to gain c!techno’s trust, but after c!tommy went back to l’manburg, it was perhaps even harder. when he agreed to give c!ranboo shelter after doomsday, he was wary and tried to remain emotionally neutral. after all, in his mind, he didn’t want a repeat of the last time he took someone in. but then, he recruits the syndicate. 

c!quackity still cares about his friends. he still made an effort to reconnect even if he thought it would go poorly. he still wanted to make c!sapnap happy. 

c!techno still cares about c!tommy. why else, then, would he put him in his will, even if doesn’t completely understand him? 

c!quackity meets c!slime, and c!quackity fails at what he promised himself not to do. he gets attached. and he knows this is a problem, but he mentors c!slime anyways. he teaches him how to be a leader anyways. he tries to tell c!slime “don’t get attached, everything you love gets destroyed anyways,” but he’s already failed again. So, when he thinks he’s going to die, he tries to prepare c!slime. 

c!techno spends time with c!ranboo, and at first, is intrigued by his endermen-like abilities. he wants to see what c!ranboo can do. and somewhere along the way, he dubs himself c!ranboo’s mentor. and though he may not verbally say it, he cares about c!ranboo, perhaps in the same way he cared about c!tommy. he would have, in his words, “fought the world” for c!tommy. in very much the same way we see c!techno defend c!ranboo from the whole c!bad and the egg fiasco. and now, he’s grown attached, as c!ranboo’s mentor, his sensei, jokingly saying he’ll probably end up dying at some point because the mentor always dies.

and then, tragedy strikes. just as c!quackity thought it would. once again, someone he loves is taken away from him, and this time, he’s forced to watch as c!slime dies, as a result of a betrayal from his own las nevadas, and then becomes a shell of himself. 

and similarly, c!ranboo, the kid c!techno has begrudgingly taken under his wing, is killed because the man c!techno was returning a favor for, let him die. even after c!techno set the terms of the jailbreak (leaving c!ranboo was not an option). so while this wasn’t a betrayal like c!purpled, c!techno and c!dream were briefly on the same side, and since c!dream didn’t care about c!ranboo, he let him die. and now we have ghostboo, a completely different person than who c!techno originally mentored. 

c!quackity learned from c!slime how to trust again. he’s trying to be in c!tommy’s corner. 

c!techno also learned how to trust people again because of the syndicate, because of c!ranboo. he went to check in on c!tubbo and michael. 

anyways maybe these are unhinged ramblings but i think it’s really interesting how narratively, c!quackity and c!techno went through similar character arcs. the situations were different, but there was a lot of the same feelings. and even though they hate each other, they’re perhaps very similar in the way they value friendships and handle falling-outs. 

but uh, maybe i’ve lost it who knows