#ask evo grian

[ask-evo-grian]

Hey Mama!

Guess what I've got?

- A grinning @ask-npc-grian

+ Evo sighed.

What do you have.

[orbbo]

Trick or Treat! :D (I know it’s the last day and I hope I’m not too late 👀)

Ta-Da! I found you some cookies!

Actually I don't know how old these are, maybe don't eat them...

[solargeist]

Thank you for all the Evo SMP art, it's amazing

We watched Evo SMP a bit ago and absolutely loved it, I haven't found anyone who has made so much art of Evo ! Grian as you did [ Grian with Link outfit ]

We absolutely ADORE the little guy, I absolutely love seeing the Evo art in general

Also your watcher art is amazing as well

i love evo grian !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank uuu

[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

[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 >:]

[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-

[ssseriema]

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

>_>! <_<

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

[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]

+The air changes. There's noticeably a diffrent sound and smells in the air. It's deathly silent.

+ A small robot stands, watching the stanger...

- @sculkhord-npc-grian

+ He gives a nervous smile

Oh, uh, hi..?

[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!

[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 .

[mcytshipsandmore]

gripearl anon (however me calling them doomed yaoi/refering to any pearl ship as yaoi already gives out my identity quite a bit but oh well.)

I think! In evo everyone was like very young adults. I think pearl and grian went to high school together and grian innocently invited pearl to join evo like some sign up program thingy that they didnt know at the time was gonna be bad and irreversible-

I think pearl had a dumb teenage crush on grian. I cant even tell if its onesided or not. But it doesnt matter cause after the dragon fight he was gone. They took him away. Pearls best friend. Who welcomed him to the server, who had been there for him in a lot of personal important moments of their teenage years just like he was for G. Who introduced Pearl to everyone and gave him stuff to start out. Sure, Pearl is capable, doesnt need the help, but its so nice someone is so thoughtful.

And now that someone is gone. Pearl falls into a depressive episode for weeks, even months, with many other evolutionists trying to cheer him up. Eventually he does! Sort of. A happy christmas with friends.... before- the finale.

Before the world starts falling appart all around them. I picture this- purple sky, meteorites, parts of the world glicthing out, falling appart, eternal void, like the day they lost him.

And then they reach "safety", or so martyn and jimmy claim. Theyre the only ones who can speak to those *things* that helped them move to the new town. Never again like the old one. Thats for sure.

And Pearl- is trapped. In a cocoon. The evolutionist moth evolved, into a wolf. The dark shy closed off moth didnt work for the watchers anymore, they turned him into a happy and excited fierce dog, a man's best friend. That took him the whole season and so he missed 3rd life but he was there for last life and after scattering for resources-

Before meeting Scott.

He meets Grian.

After all this time. He sees Grian again. His best friend. His first love- and Grian doesn't seem to recognize him.

Sure, theyre both changed, physically and in demeanor. Just like Pearl grew taller and hairier, fluff replaced with fur, shyness replaced with open excitement and tons of energy. Grian had changed a whole lot. Hair, height, body type, it was as if theyd switched- except his face was just- creepy. Uncanny. It was still Grian just also- a completely different person.

He pretended like he didnt knew him. But that was a lie. Pearl knew it was a lie cause the moment he pushed too far trying to make him remember "evo and the old times", Grian snapped. He asked Pearl to not talk about Evo ever again, for his own good? Forget it ever happened.

And thus it became an unspoken rule between evo lifers to pretend like that never happened- some did better than others. Martyn surely forgot about the old days when he ditched Pearl at the end of DL session 1. Pearl didnt tho, and brought it up slightly to him at the Broken Hearts Club.

Even confronted BigB after finding out about the "secret soulmates" thing.

I like to think of Pearl, specially DL Pearl, a bit like Hera, specially EPIC Hera at least on her main song I heard. Viewing loyalty as so important and cheating as so horrible- cause lets be real, she just went off to the nether with a friend, the first one to claim someone else as his soulmate was Scott, but thats a whole other can of worms.

So when Scar, his only friend thats still by Pearl's side, brings up how his soulmate, GRIAN, is cheating on him- with BIGB of all people?

"BigB. I expected better from you."

Nothing else needs to be said. Because to have expectations is to think you know somebody. And Pearl thought he knew all his fellow evolutionists... seems not.

Oh but back to the gripearl stuff- the amount of rage Pearl must've felt finding out Grian was doing something as horrible as that to Scar, the only person he can rely on (cough snowblings crumbs)

Pearl officially hates Grian's guts. And he regrets ever even liking him in the first place.

Oh but when limited life hits and Grian looses his boys. His bad boys.

On one of their last nights, and they know it will be, BigB, Grian and Pearl, all sit behind those small barricades on the skyline (i forget what its called), reminiscing. Fuck rules. They all know theres a season after yet every finale does feel like the end of the world. The end of a world they know so well. Everything caving in and all they have is one another.

Sigh anyways thats it for life series gripearl. Also i think gripearl sounds like gripers and thats funny to me

Ah and in hermitcraft theyre much much sillier and way less angsty lmao

(Post is meant to be taken as gripearl /rom. snowblings(scar&pearl) /fam or /p. And pearl + bigb/martyn /p)(aka im not implying any other ships)

grian: well I'm sure this evo thing won't be bad in any way

Pearl: totally!

*years later*

Grian, eldritch horror:

Pearl, bloodthirsty victor:

Grian: want to kiss

Pearl: sure.

[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.

[valverii]

ok you asked for it, here's my version of Watcher/Listener Lore 101 (contains evo spoilers if you don't want those):

evo smp was in fact the originating point of the watchers. as you'll have seen, the watchers were originally conceptualized by grian as a way to give a story element to the updates; they were the ones responsible for creating the update portals, and they would leave riddles and clues guiding the players towards them. and as you'll see, they weren't so much direct villains as they were simply capricious godlike figures seemingly with their own agendas.

however, something else you'll see throughout evo is that the watchers could be very harshly and arbitrarily punishing towards the players for breaking certain "rules"; examples include the time they put obsidian over all of grian's chests as punishment for his greed, or the time they destroyed the property police's base with a meteor for taking taurtis's vacant seat as mayor.

fast forward to the end of grian's series: after finally reaching the update that introduced the end, the evo gang all teamed up to beat the dragon, only when they hop through the portal instead of all going to the same end, they're separated and each have to face the dragon on their own. after beating the dragon and going through the portal, the watchers speak to everyone through a modified end poem in which they reminisce about the memories the players made on the server, and then basically say "btw we're taking grian and he's becoming one of us". at the end of this dialogue, grian joins the two voices and bids farewell to the evolutionists, saying that he's sad to go but looks forward to watching what they'll do. hence, we get Watcher Grian.

(a note on this: grian revealed later, when he was a guest on pixlriffs and joel duggan's podcast The Spawn Chunks, that the "watchers" were meant to be like a metaphor/allegory for the audience, i.e. the actual watchers of the series. they were arbitrarily punishing because audience comments could be extremely harsh when ccs didn't follow expectations, and they took grian at the end because he was ending his series, and thus would become a watcher as opposed to a player on the server.)

as for the origin of the listeners: they were a force similar to the watchers, but i believe they only really interacted directly with martyn and jimmy. i'm a little rusty on the timeline as it's been a while and i haven't watched either of their evo series in full, but iirc the listeners first cropped up not terribly long before the dragon fight. martyn and jimmy discovered a mysterious symbol and messages containing the phrase "there are those who watch. we are those who listen." and basically the listeners told them to wait for further instructions.

after the dragon fight, the evolutionists minus grian were sent back to the overworld, but found themselves thousands of blocks from spawn. they were essentially told by the watchers that they had to start completely fresh with a new spawn; they could bring some of their old stuff, but only whatever they could carry on them.

however, jimmy was for some reason NOT sent to this new spawn, and instead was left back at the old spawn where all of the buildings they'd made there were broken down and decaying. jimmy, alone at the old spawn, found a message from the listeners, who expressed that they found the watchers' decree too harsh, and wanted to help the evolutionists by giving all the players ender chests, allowing them to almost double their carrying capacity. thus we get this impression that the listeners are opposed to the watchers, and are more merciful towards the players.

after that, there's not a whole lot else from canon. evo as a series sorta fizzled out over time rather than coming to a firm conclusion. thus, the rest of the watcher/listener lore comes from either fanon, or from martyn's life series/vtuber lore. WHICH I WILL CONTINUE ON IN A SECOND ASK.

DEAR MOOT YOU ARE A GODSEND i feel so much more knowledgeable, i cannot thank you enough omg. i’m gonna post your other two asks in case others are like me and desperately need your breakdown, everyone say thank you strife