#does it show that the only things i want from the former dsmp ccs is their lore docs

[impulsive-fantasylander]

C!Ranboo was the first time traveler before C!Karl and there was no other half, he was just a full enderman twisted by his time with the otherside and the inbetween I will die in this fucking grave

[simplepotatofarmer]

cc!techno roleplay appreciation*!

(*actual, not clickbait)

there's been so much negativity about techno's rp style that i just want to make a post of all the things i adore and appreciate

he has excellent timing. whether it's with logging in at exactly the right moment - the pet war, the red banquet - or speaking up at the best time - 'that's going to be a problem, dream' - or chat comments. honestly, the little moments that he pops in to make some quip in chat only to leave again are wonderful. they lightening the mood or show some insight to his perspective and i love it.

on that same note, it's really endearing to me that he so clearly watches his friends' streams closely enough to do that! he's invested in what they're doing, even when he's not actually involved.

he's extremely consistent with not only his style but his reactions and his character. that isn't to say his character hasn't changed but that he's always changed in a way that was consistent and made sense. he's given in character explanations as to why his character reacts the way he does in serious situations, stating that he deals poorly with them. it sets up the perfect reason for him to stick to his desire to keep his streams light.

again, on that note, his streams honestly are perfect for people like me who struggle with anxiety/ptsd. i can watch them without worry or concern that it might trigger me. i know exactly what i'm getting with a techno lore stream.

he still manages to keep up the suspense, despite being extremely consistent with his tone. it'd be easy to think that nothing bad will ever happen to his character but we've seen bad things happen. i remember being worried for both him and carl during the butcher army bit. when he gave his will to phil, i was honestly emotional and concerned for him!

he's great at visual roleplay and playing to the camera. techno's ability to pick the right moment to look at the camera/turn to the person he's talking to, is so so wonderful. it always adds a punch of humor or serves to highlight something important. both the birthday and prison stream are great examples of that! his looks back to his friends, showing how they're his support, the clear and deliberate focusing on important aspects of the prison so we know that he knows it's a trap without spelling it out. he sets up a ton of visual subtext and it's amazing.

his character arc is touching and well-written. it is absolutely heart-warming to see a character that entered the story to help others, felt betrayed and used and struggled with those feelings, who thought being alone was the only way to be safe, learn to trust his friends and be safe with them.

techno shows us how subtle changes and losses can be just as impactful as large and dramatic ones. techno's character has suffered losses and hurts and deals with those in a consistent for his character way. it's subtle but it's there. going off to the north, becoming a pacifist which was a complete 180 for him was great because it was a small thing but a realistic one to seeing your tactic fail. and his changes now are also subtle but impactful! starting the syndicate was a show of how he's changed. he never really spells these things out for us, but allows us to see it.

he has amazing lines that stick with you. i got into dsmp because of techno and specifically because of his 'i'm a person!' and 'don't you see what's happening here?' lines. they're poignant, they're always spot on in character, and they're always delivered so well. he has a great way of acting that is consistent to his character and style yet still hits you hard. 'for you the world' is said so softly and with so much affection that i honestly tear up thinking about it.

speaking of, his acting is just great. his slow deliberate laughs, the hint of panic when he's trying to stall in high pressure situations, the firm but gentle attempts at comforting others - 'healing's a long process, it's fine' 'it's okay, calm down, dream' - and the worry and fear that comes out when his friends are in danger (phil under house arrest, ranboo being trapped in the hole by bad). it's great and never seems out of place for his character!

he gives us so many insights into his character merely by the way he interacts with the world and other characters. it's honestly so refreshing to see a character that really just shows us what he's like through small actions. i love seeing those moments because they all add up to this big, complex picture. we get to see it all, from big moments like his speeches and doomsday to small moments like feeding animals and giving food to people and it's all just as important!

cc!techno, despite real life challenges, tries to include as many people as he can. hearing niki and puffy etc. talk about how he's always trying to include people was just so sweet. during the birthday stream, he kept focusing on niki and trying to give her attention and i genuinely thought that was great.

the writing for his character is wonderful. as a former english major and writer myself, i love the stories/arcs he writes for his character. again, it's always consistent and makes sense but it also serves as something different! it's a different perspective and style, a different type of a character, one that doesn't have large obvious changes, but does change and more impactfully, brings change with him.

as a long time RPer and DM, cc!techno is exactly the kind of rp partner i would want or the sort of player i would want at my table. he brings something different but easy to work with. he's happy to step back and let other people have their moments. he reacts in a way that's easy for others to play off of but also keeps things light which is helpful because rp can be high pressure, especially in front of such a large audience and live. his presence is comforting and i love when you can hear his friends trying not to laugh.

"i have a pickaxe and i'll put it through your teeth!"

anyway, as someone with adhd and anxiety, i just want to say i appreciate cc!techno and his roleplaying so much! it's comforting, it's easy for me to understand his tone, his emotions come through clearly without being overwhelming and he genuinely adds so much to the server and story!

[sharpie-chen]

c!technoblade never dies because, given that he’s cracked at the craft, it’s very hard to engineer a situation where he feasibly COULD die. and forcing him into a physically vulnerable position where he doesn’t have his gear and he is at actual, realistic risk of dying has already been done with the execution, and now with the prison, which are perfect mirrors for each other on techno’s arc: he feared death from the butcher army because he could only rely on himself to get out of the situation, as no one has had his back before (see in particular, c!wilbur not stepping in at the red festival); since then, he’s grown to develop relationships and trust so that he doesn’t show that same fear dying to c!quackity again because he knows he can rely on his friends to save him (and they do — well, eventually, lol). like, holy shit, the pickaxe quote callback and c!quackity failing to kill c!techno again was such good writing, because while c!techno eliminated his previous weakness (isolation) and gained strength (community), c!quackity did not, and doubled down on the same strategy that failed him at the execution. i would be fine with c!quackity or anyone taking c!techno’s life if it felt narratively earned, but none of the characters (and their relationships with c!techno) are there yet, so it wouldn’t make any sense and would just be cheap shock value. (which, of course they are welcome to pursue — just doesn’t seem like famed former english major cc!techno’s style lol)

and to be honest, c!techno has consistently shown far more concern for c!phil’s life than his own, so c!phil dying (which is a real possibility, given he was written in with one life and has discussed ghostza becoming a thing in the future) or at least a plot that separates the two of them and puts c!phil in dire peril (and if quackity and las nevadas want any shot at winning against doomsday part two, that’s a strategy they might want to pursue) would be a better writing choice as giving c!techno’s a core ‘weakness’ now that he’s invested in interpersonal relationships. c!techno has shown that he can save himself, through his own means and now through his trust in others — but what does that mean if he can’t save those he cares about? plus c!phil is arguably the only character in the dsmp who could realistically canon die anyway at this point (aside from maybe c!dream, since cc!dream has like five other characters he can play) since death and the three life system basically meaningless now thanks to revival mechanics bringing back half of the permadead characters and ranboo’s 40 totem stash and george allegedly just being given 6 canon lives by dreamXD etc. in that sense, i think it’s much more interesting to turn ‘technoblade never dies’ into the actual thing that causes techno the most angst than to try to dismantle it!

Then, if c!Quackity really pulls a Dream and use Philza against Techno, the angst police would be patrolling day and night. Anon, why are we so angsty?

[infinitedeaths]

as a long time roleplayer, i’ve got to say, i feel like a lot of the DSMP CCs are new to roleplay in general.

because like, general roleplay etiquette is that unless its stated otherwise you are FREE to join in. like here on the tumblr rp community (which doesn’t seem like its really around that much anymore) there was open starters and personalized starters.

the former was for roleplay threads for anyone to engage in. This meant that anyone could get involved and start an entirely new story with each thread that was made from that open starter.

the latter meant that the thread was personalized for a specific person and only that person could reply/write to it.

generally, in large scale rp stuff, anyone should be able to engage. like, look at any LARP, which is why minecraft roleplay is the most similar to. Its very hard to NOT let people engage in stuff that is actively going on around them. telling someone they can’t get involved in this specific thing would be like. getting mad at skeppy for showing up in that one stream w/ wilbur and tommy where he killed friend.

RP stuff is actually generally better if it isn’t planned down to the minute detail. this comes from someone who TRIED to do heavily pre scripted roleplay and found it terribly lacking. because if you heavily script something, and you realize that hey wait my character wouldn’t react in that way you can’t change it! because you’ve scripted it that way and the others involved might get mad!

its good to have a vague plot thread of what you want to do, but also let. your characters thrive. its the same with writing: if you plot everything down to the minute detail before you even start writing, its not gonna go well in the long run.

if you are....also a roelplayer and this isn’t your experience, that’s fine. but this is the general experience i, my friends, and my girlfriend have all gone through with roleplay.

why does any of this matter? because its something the CCs need to get. sometimes, it really is better to just. let others come in and do things. i want ponk to join in! practically everyone he cares about is in las nevadas right now! i want eret to go and see wilbur, to talk to him. to see wilbur is alive. i want them to KNOW from a roleplayer that unless the other CCs have actually said no, they should just go get involved.