#ask evo grian

[ask-evo-grian]

Hello.

I need you for something. Right now.

- @ask-npc-grian

Hm? What cha need, NPG?

[ask-robot-grian]

Hey, RG? One of the voices in my head told me to get you a pep talk?

You okay?

- Evo!Grian, but i as the mod am refusing to anon it

Hm?

…

I am fine.

Why would I not be? Things are as they should be.

[solargeist]

i love the concept of grian and martyn being so close during evo, and then afterwards not at all. martyn has a very strong distaste for the watchers, and feels almost betrayed by grian joining them. i can imagine them meeting again after so long and grian being so happy to see him, while martyn is just filled with absolute horror at the sight of him, all adorned in watcher garb and whatnot

god it’s so silly to me

Yeah !! They have such a fun dynamic I think, so many possibilités..

I think theres a quiet unanswered misunderstanding between them, Martyn originally thought Grian was taken by the Watchers, so when he sees him so willingly on Their side.... Dressed up with wings spread out behind him.. He does feel betrayed, abandoned almost ! How could Grian join their side, after everything ?

Grian also thinks he was abandoned--He was going to return to Evo, promise ! But by time he did get to visit, everyone was gone, the server was closed, they left without him ! The Watchers probably encourage this line of thinking .

[ask-evo-grian]

Yeah, I am, actually. From Evolution. Mumbo.

Mumbo that child is mine.

I heard you 'adopted' NPG?

@ask-evo-grian

Oh! Yeah- are you another Grian? You look and sound a whole lot like him.

There was no paperwork but yeah, I did adopt him technically.

[d0not-disturb]

Hii, big fan of your work and saw you're asking for art asks. Could you draw some Grumbo in any classic AU? Like high school, or coffee shop, or any of those cliches (cliches that I love lol)

Again, love your art, hope you're having a great day, you're awesomee 🌺

They have known each other for a VERY long time in my opinion

[daily-grian]

Is it possible to get a silly little evo!grian, the guy with the tiny green hat

heartwarming: local Legend of Zelda cosplayer creates deathmatch game for his friends

[ssseriema]

listener martyn & watcher grian plesaplaslpleasplease (<- losing it over them)

>_>! <_<

(listener martyn based off @cherrifire's design here!)

[ask-evo-grian]

yeah, uh huh. Robot told me about a closet?

Hey uh

Why did you neglect your kids

- @ask-evo-grian

What.

I don't neglect my kids, what are you talking about-

[definitelynotshouting]

Hi I’m obsesseddddd with your hunger au and after reading the lore doc and the fic I have a couple questions if you don’t mind

Ok first off this isn’t really a question and more like a “huh wouldn’t that be fucked up” thought but uhhhh. So og grian was pretty much trapped in a box and constantly watched while the larva developed right. Did the watchers ever feed off him? Bc I imagine being trapped and just waiting to die wouldn’t be great for your emotional state. Or would they not since he is hosting the larva and that point so they can’t/wont feed on a host? Oh also you said that he made the deal to become a watcher while under duress. I imagine that duress could easily be heightened by some hungry watchers. And having your brain lightly fried would probably make you more susceptible to agreeing to a fucked up situation

And for my second question I was curious how aware the general populace/the hermits are of watchers?? Like are they a known thing and ppl just aren’t sure how they work or what. Because the rescue group had to puzzle out that grian was benefiting from their suffering in some way, but pearl seemed to have some idea of what grian was with the whole “eating our brains” bit so I’m curious what levels of knowledge they’re operating with here

Anyways thanks for reading my silly little thoughts on your amazing au!! It’s so fun I’m having such a good time with the horrible things happening

Im so glad you like the fic, anon!! :DD im always so touched when people tell me they enjoyed it enough to read the lore behind it-- gods ive gotta update that, there are a sizeable amount of newer asks i havent added to it yet, plus my beloved friend @/corvidaearts made a proper carrd for it on my birthday that i plan on replacing the google doc with!!! Just, uh, as soon as i add aforementioned posts dkcjsjdjfj

That would be super fucked up if they fed on him while he was trapped, OUGHHHH.... id say in canon probably not, because feeding off of one Player is really really dangerous for them, and Grian was now a host for their experiment to see if they could bring their population back up. If anything, nobody touched or interacted with him beyond the bare minimum it took to keep him safe from any potential respawns, and it was likely only the colony elders who even had direct access to him in the first place. THAT BEING SAID..... GODS THATS FUCKED UP I LOVE IT. And, well, i suppose one Watcher did feed on him.. which was Grian himself, as he emerged from his Player cocoon. Player!Grian's final moments of agony and terror were amplified to the max as his Watcher-self's very first meal, and that haunts Grian a lot late at night if he lets himself think about it

The duress he was placed under to become a host in the first place involved a significant amount of heightened emotional leverage though, thats for sure. One of these days i need to map out how exactly that went down, but i know that it involved an offer that was not actually an offer, several lies through omission, intimidation tactics that spanned the entirety of Evo in the first place, and using Grian's own fear-- both of them, and for his friends-- against him. Real fucked up situation all around 😔😔😔😔

General populace does not know much if anything about the Watchers!! The Watchers are, aside from this one colony, pretty much extinct; even before that, they relied quite a lot on camouflage and secrecy to keep their presence from being discovered, both by their prey and by the Seekers that hunted them.

Some very very old Players might know whispers of information-- rumors from the tail end of a game of telephone, as it were. And there are for sure a few individuals here and there who know of them due to personal experience (including the entire Evo crew, which was ofc a special case), but because Player information is not centralized in any capacity in this universe, the vast majority of Players have zero knowledge that Watchers even exist, let alone what they do and how they feed.

Pearl, with her previous knowledge and experience with Watchers and how they operated while involved with the Evo server, made some really good educated guesses about how Grian works and what's going on with him. And ofc everyone on Hermitcraft, plus all the lifers, knows that Grian at the very least can manipulate Player emotions to an extreme degree-- putting those context clues together, you can piece together quite a few connections. She doesn't have the full picture, but at this point in time she's basically figured out a good chunk of it. The rest will have to come from Grian himself >:]

[bluetbluish]

Watcher Grian design 🥺?../nf

I would not care if you had forced me. anon. Listen carefully. I. would. not. have. cared.

Ask me my reasoning for these designs I dare you. Ask me. Do it. Coward. Loser. Send the ask.

Anyways putting the words under the cut because they might be hard to read:

Watcher: Xelqua

Staus: Former Human

Four head wings. Enhances hearing and aids in flight steering.

Hair covering left eye.

Shawl clasped with Watcher symbol.

Back wings (Attached in surgery)

Baggy, ill-fitting clothing, as well as gloves for hand protection.

[ask-evo-grian]

[In the darkest corner of whatever room Evo is currently in, is two eye level red lights...]

- @ask-npc-grian

+ He paused.

If you don't come out that darkness, whoever you are, I'm flinging a chair at you.

[dying-acc-idk-man]

Are there any people outside of the hermit-sphere you think could be a watcher?

there probably would be more but here are just the ones on my head urmmmmmmm idk!

[solargeist]

At my summer camp job I saw some adult wearing a shirt that said "You're just jealous the voices talk to me" and I immediately though of you and your art. Only problem is that I'm stupid and couldn't figure out which grian/xelqua variant would wear a shirt like that so I've been picturing them all wearing it and giggling slightly under my breath for twenty minutes now

adjgkadjk the quote reminds me of Evo Grian, the way he'd talk to the audience, and i like to think he got a little protective over the audience and anyone trying to convince him otherwise was just jealous !!!!

[gremnda]

Grian as an enderman bird? (Purples and blacks and enderman traits :D)

The Void beckons...

Woah Grian! is he a bird? an enderman? a dragon? a watcher??? oh gee, who knows! Classic Grian!

[ask-evo-grian]

i.

I'm sorry?

[hii new blog i wanna interact w/you but i only had a tommyinnit ask blog but AAA]

Uhm, did I.. Did the portal bring me somewhere it wasn't.. supposed to?

Hi! I.. You look a lot like me-

@ask-evo-grian

OOC: ANSWERING SO YOU CAN HAVE THE REACH!! ALSO SEND TOMMY MY WAY TOO PLS HE'S CANON TRUST IN THE BLOND RED WEARING TOMFOOLERY DUO

Oh- Oh. Oh.

Oh no. I- Mm. That's cause I am you. No use sugar coating it.

[quaranmine]

Quara, I'm still losing it over Grian and Jimmy's episodes

Like?? the Listener who has to watch and the Watcher who has to listen

"This story is unscripted," my ass /j - Wanda

okay wanda i had the world's busiest weekend so i was just staring at this ask for like a few days but YESSSS!

i'm always so happy when anything happens to reinforce jimmy's status as a listener/listener-aligned xD so many people forget my boy. Also, not to be someone who keeps bringing things back to my own fanfics, but it really reminded me of my Listener!Jimmy fic from last year where the Listeners spoke in Jimmy's head the entire time. Like hmm, maybe that's just something they can do,

Also, I like that Grian couldn't see Jimmy. Remember he was confused in the beginning that Jimmy could see him despite not appearing on the tab list? Spectators show up on the tab list normally. Jimmy didn't appear on the list and Grian was like, "I don't think you can see me" until Jimmy started saying what he was doing. Jimmy was logged on in spectator mode, but he was vanished which removed him from the list. Which of course is how the task had to be done, or else anyone on the server could've hit tab and seen that Jimmy was online for some reason. But I also think that's just. very interesting, within the world of the story. Grian's a Watcher but he couldn't see the Listener.

That's fun to me. Do their powers sort of conflict/cancel out? Can their powers hide them from view? Idk but it's fascinating to think about. Also, totally right with the Listener who has to Watch and the Watcher who has to Listen. I'm fond of thinking of Watchers and Listeners as very very similar, and I feel like this just sort of reinforced the idea that they're sides of the same coin or something.

Also it's fun that in-universe calling someone on discord is considered "using ethereal means to set up communication" LOL. jimmy's using magic to talk to grian, confirmed