#techno would def somehow speak english better than phil (whose first and only language is english)

[viktorscane]

sometimes philza would hear the mighty god technoblade talking to himself. only late at night or when he believed the older couldn’t hear him. the language was something phil couldn’t understand, but he had heard bits and pieces of it in his brief travels within the nether.

at the beginning of the antarctic empire, techno speaks with phil mainly through short sentences and a lot of vague miming. for a while, phil believed that the silence of the supposed blood god was to invoke fear in anyone who opposed him. he quickly learns that the hybrid was quiet and short with his words due to his lack of understanding of the language everyone around him was speaking. he watched the hybrid during the important meetings between the empires and countries headed by well-spoken and educated presidents and kings. his red and gold eyes dancing around the room, loosing focus quickly. whenever anyone pointed a question towards him, he would just make a noise and turn to phil to give their answer.

as they get closer, phil begins to teach the hybrid the ins-and-outs of the language as best as he can. he learns that techno was not only incredibly intelligent but also picked up the teachings quickly. he began reading pretty much anything he could get his hands on, sometimes a knock would come on phil’s door late in the night. groggily, he would open the door to find a wide awake technoblade who would show the older a word or phrase he couldn’t understand. wanting to understand everything he could. he craved the knowledge more than anything. after only a few months, he’s reading things that even phil struggled to fully comprehend and his speaking skills grew better and better from the long nights they would just talk under the stars about anything and everything.

after the fall of the empire and when the two decide to go their separate ways, they keep contact through long handwritten letters delivered by crows. phil notices his english improving more and more each day. he begins to notice the feared blood god using phil’s mannerisms even through writing, it makes his heart warm to see the the very first connection between them still poking through all those years later.