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its-rat-time-babey · 3 months ago

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Headcanons about Bergy and Nix (Mostly Nix because he has the least amount of canon details):

In terms of the friend group that is the techs, Nix is pretty close to the edge of the group. Everyone knows him, but no one knows much about him (only two of the techs know that Nix is actually the last name of Adam Michael Nix (canonically his full name)) and he kind of has that “Friend of a Friend” type of vibe. There’s a degree of separation between him and the rest. His two proper connections into the rest of the group are through Mitch and Bergy.

Anyways I put way too much thought into why he’s canonically frequently paired up with Bergy so here’s more headcanons mixed with way too much analyzing.

I headcanon that Bergy was the newest glitch tech in Bailley before Five and Miko came along, while Nix is one of the older techs, having joined around the same time as Mitch, but is still way lower level than him partly due to him having a second job at Joystick Jr’s (which also contributes to that “degree of separation” between him and the other techs and also explains why he rarely shows up in the show. He’s working multiple jobs and literally can’t be around the others as much).

But also, it’s canon from the Glitch Techs Tech Manual (a kind of official-but-unreleased show bible that shows details about the show) that Bergy is kind of an odd one out in terms of his skills and why he was recruited in the first place.

Mitch is a gaming prodigy who’s been winning tournaments since he was a kid and still seems to be participating in them even though he’s stopped streaming and Hannesh is canonically a gaming prodigy who would regularly participate in tournaments until getting extremely burnt out and leaving that whole thing behind, with Hinobi seeking him out not long after. Five and Miko were recruited due to a mix of them winning the Hinobi Smash tournament, having the skills to defeat an arcade full of glitches with no prior training and Miko’s immunity to resets. Nix was apparently sought out for “completion of achievements” and just going by the standards of everyone else, those achievements were probably pretty impressive or extremely hard to get. What Zahra did to get brought in by Hinobi isn’t stated but again, just going by the reasons that Hinobi hired everyone else there’s no way she didn’t have some extremely high level of skill before being hired.

Bergy was canonically hired due to “overly-positive conduct in community forums”. So everyone else was brought in because they were some of the best gamers in town and were extremely good at what they do, while Bergy got in because he was just really friendly and a good person. Not exactly what Hinobi seems to normally search for in a tech.

So just because of that, I kind of wonder if Bergy was even originally going to BE a tech. Maybe he was brought in for something else, probably something more social and lining up with why he was hired in the first place, but somehow Bergy got himself into the glitch techs anyways. Maybe he found that he enjoyed being a tech more than his original purpose and Phil was more than happy to have another tech on patrol. Who knows.

Anyways, put yourself in Phil’s shoes here. You have a young, inexperienced, tech who doesn’t seem to have the traditional gaming skills or qualifications or to be perfectly honest, physical ability that techs usually have and/or are actively sought out for having, who might not have even been originally intended to be a tech. What do you do with him?

You pair him up with someone more experienced both so the inexperienced tech can learn the ropes out in the field and so the more experienced tech can act like a bodyguard if they end up going against something above their weight class.

So that just leaves who you stick Bergy with.

BITT should be the first choice because his name is literally an acronym for Binary Intelligence TECH TRAINER, but his job of running the entire store and serving as “guy-in-the-chair” support to techs is way too valuable, so sadly BITT cannot do what he was created to do.

Zahra and Haneesh aren’t the best options because (at least according to my own headcanons) they’ve joined about a year ago at this point in pre-canon time and aren’t as experienced as they are in the show yet, so there’s better options to consider first.

Mitch is immediately off the table for a variety of reasons including the fact that

There’s no way in hell that Mitch would take kindly to having to regularly work with another tech, let alone a tech that’s way lower level than him that he would have to train and teach things to.

It’s been shown in canon that Bergy just kind of.. takes orders from whoever’s in charge without questioning them, so combine that with the last point and Mitch would probably just tell Bergy to wait in the van or at HQ, or really anything that gets him out of the way. Point is Bergy isn’t going to get any experience of any kind from this arrangement.

Mitch’s idea of a Slow Day is one that only has him fight ONE extremely dangerous boss glitch, and when he’s not stealing glitches from other techs (which keeping another tech near him at all times might slow or actually stop), he’s hunting down and fighting the largest thing he can find on his radar. You don’t want a level one tech even remotely near any of that.

So just going by process of elimination here, that leaves Nix and Simi (who hasn’t transferred to Dabney yet).

Now Nix has a lot going for him in this scenario that works out.

He’s not Mitch.

He’s a older glitch tech with about as much knowledge as Mitch, at the cost of less actual experience and a lower level on account of that second job.

That lower level actually becomes an advantage because unlike Mitch, Nix’s lower level means that he’s more equipped to deal with and therefore fights lower level glitches. He CAN still go after something dangerous and drag Bergy with him, he’s only human, but the fact that his equipment is lower level is a pretty good deterrent and that’ll do for now.

Despite that lower level, Nix is still strong enough to bodyguard Bergy if stuff goes wrong.

Sure Nix isn’t around as much, but even compared to the other options like Simi or Zahra and Haneesh, Nix is just a better pick.

So that’s why the two originally got paired together, and they still frequently go on missions together even now that Bergy no longer needs someone training him simply because they’re friends at this point.

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