Harmony, formerly known as Tesla233 or simply Tesla, is a player who is most notable for being the captain of TECT in Season 11, holding officerships on a number of top teams, including NTA, SSH, VFC and 5HRK, and placing high on the season leaderboards from late 2017 to mid 2018. Their account has since been sold.
History[]
2017[]
Harmony originally started out under the alias of "Tesla" in Season 8, joining NTA and being a semi active member until Season 9, during which she placed 6th. Following this season, her popularity and visibility in the community markedly increased as she joined Discord, as well as began to post often in the News comments.
2018[]
Seasons 11-13[]
At the beginning of Season 11, she joined SSH largely due to peer pressure from members of the NT Discord due to the community's antipathy towards NTA at the time. She was very active that season, almost maintaining top 10 for its entirety. Midway through, she created her own team, TECT, with her then-boyfriend Tyrant. Despite being formed nearly halfway through the season, the team managed to place 6th and was later chosen for the first team interview. At the end of the season, she attempted a Hall of Fame session, but ended up falling asleep at the 2,925 races, short of the 3,263 races needed to pass HollowManNoToNitros. The session, however, pushed her past TypeMeFantastic and Smithy on the leaderboards, earning them 2nd place for the season. This was also the 4th longest session of the time.
TECT was disbanded following Season 11 and Harmony rejoined SSH, becoming an officer on that team as well. They remained an active racer on the leaderboards and within the community for the following two seasons, being promoted to staff on the Nitro Wiki during this time.
Season 14[]
On May 5, 2018, Tyrant created team VFC. She joined this team, earning it much traction, being a well known and prominent racer of the time who was able to attract attention from both newer players, as well as many of the older/former racers who were previously members of SECT. The most notable example of this was Wildflower, who was convinced to join due to an agreement made between the two of them.
Along with Vielle, Harmony and Tyrant considered themselves the "leaders" of VFC.
Post-VFC period[]
After the disbanding of VFC by the admins, most of its previous members only stayed teamless for the remainder of Season 14. In contrast, Harmony remained bitter about it for months. She remained teamless not only for the remainder of Season 14, but also throughout Seasons 15 and 16. This, in conjunction with their undergoing of extreme personality shifts throughout that summer, as well as being banned from posting news comments following VFC's disbanding, caused their reputation to drop significantly.
This phase, however, ended in Season 17. She also decided to rejoin SSH. After Season 18 she went on hiatus.
2019-present[]
In January 2019, an account named "Spectratorix" joined the Nitro Type Discord server, claiming that they were a family member of Tesla's and that Tesla had drowned in a river. The account was quickly banned from the server and dismissed as a troll. In March, however, the same account messaged multiple Nitro Type community members, bringing to light that "Tesla" was a fake identity and that they had been pretending to be female the entire time. They gained wide notoriety within the community following this, being universally marked as a catfish.
On August 29, 2019, Harmony returned to the community, admitting that they had been behind the account, confirming that the Tesla identity was fake, and asking for forgiveness, which was almost unanimously granted. They once again joined SSH and was promoted to officer for a few seasons until joining 5HRK for one season, becoming inactive shortly after after earning the Blitz McLaro SLR.
In December 2023, Harmony sold their account.
Trivia[]
- Harmony identifies as transgender, and had long maintained a habit of characterizing themselves as female on online games. This continued when creating their Nitro Type account. They later discovered that the main reason for this was a long struggle with gender dysphoria, which they publicly revealed on March 3, 2021, about a year after leaving the game.
- Her old Fandom account can be found here. Due to Fandom's limit of one name change, and the aforementioned fact, this account has been abandoned.