nightelf37
Since: Jul, 2010
Apr 6th 2022 at 4:53:26 AM
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Darn... I never really thought of that. I just assumed Magitek is just for technology and magic in tandem in general. Cyborg Wizard was intended to apply for characters.
Yeah, I think it should count as a subtrope for Magitek.
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Should Cyborg Wizard be considered a sub-trope of Magitek? I was under the impression that Magitek required a certain minimum degree to which it's the technology itself that has magical properties or otherwise interfaces with the setting's magical forces to do what it does, whereas it doesn't sound like Cyborg Wizard needs to be anything more than just... an originally-wholly-organic life-form whose cybernetic components didn't cost them the ability to use magic.
Now, if their cybernetic components are themselves Magitek and are the source of the Cyborg Wizard's ability to use magic, that's one thing, but the trope, while related and very liable to overlap with or play off of Magitek in some way depending on the setting, doesn't seem to inherently be a sub-trope of it, unless we're using Magitek to just mean "literally any time the matter of how technology and magic interact in a setting with both is addressed at all", which seems like it would be a different thing.
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