#can Grian 'Kills His Allies' Minecraft not kill his allies this season pretty please

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grian to cleoðo: just saying, if we turn red today, im sticking by you.

im gonna hold him to that. ive been praying.

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I don't know what ur latest post means BUT pretty words (please explain more)

HI OKAY SO!!!!

You've might have heard of Grian, a Minecraft YouTuber famous for his incredible building skills and being on multiple SMPs over the years like Evolution SMP and Hermitcraft. What you probably don't know is that Grian runs a series every couple of months where people have a limited number of lives. People who are not in imminent danger of being eliminated are green and yellow lives. People who are close to being out are red lives, and they are the only ones who can attack anyone in the server. With a limited amount of lives and space, it becomes super interesting. There are multiple names for this series, mainly the Traffic Series (because of the colors that are like a traffic light) and the Life Series (because of these series' individual names). So far, there has been Third Life, Last Life, Double Life, and Limited Life, with a fifth series on the way in the future. No spoilers ahead, here's an explanation of these.

Third Life is the first of the Traffic Series. Here, each of the 14 participants have three lives- green, yellow, and red. Reminder that only red lives are able to kill. In Third Life, Grian is teamed with GoodTimesWithScar (or just Scar). Their main enemy is the Red Army, which you may also see referred to as Dogwarts or Renchanting. I won't spoil anything, but there's a huge amount of angst potential between Grian and Scar. The fandom as a whole, loving angst, has made this their main Grian duo. Obviously, some people don't care as much about these two (commonly called Desertduo), but a lot of people do.

In Last Life, 17 members spawned in with between two and six lives. Six to four lives is dark green, three lives is light green, two lives is yellow, and one life is red. Same rules about red lives as Third Life. This time, (usually once) every session the Boogeyman curse is placed secretly on one person. The Boogeyman's job is to kill someone who has more than two lives. If they don't complete this by the end of the session, they automatically become a red life. It's a really interesting mechanic. This time, Grian is teamed with MumboJumbo (Mumbo), SolidarityGaming (Jimmy), ImpulseSV (Impulse), and InTheLittleWood (Martyn). This group is called the Southlanders / Southlands. Grian and Mumbo, or Waffleduo, are the other big Grian duo because they've been friends for years and have loads of interactions outside of Last Life. There's also some ahangst (watch it and you'll understand) between Grian and Mumbo, as well as Grian and Scar, which people loved.

Then there's Double Life. In Double Life, there were only three lives and there was no Boogeyman. But the 14 participants were each assigned a soulmate that shared their lives, health, and healing. This meant there weren't a lot of alliances outside of soulmate bonds. Grian was randomly assigned Scar as a soulmate. However, he wasn't happy with this and instead decided to become secret soulmates with Ren's soulmate Bigbst4tz (Big B). The Desertduo angst in this season was very intense from the fandom.

Then there's Limited Life, which I actually haven't seen yet (I know, I know). Here, the 15 participants had a timer set with 24 hours to live. If you're over 16 hours, you're a green life. Between 8 and 16 hours, you're a yellow life. Under 8 hours, you're a red life. Each time you die, you lose one hour, and if someone kills you, they gain 30 minutes. Red lives can kill yellow and green lives, and yellow lives can kill green lives. Green lives are still passive. The Boogeyman mechanic was also added back, but they only lose one color if they fail (so a green life would become a yellow life, a yellow life would become a red life, and a red life would be eliminated). Boogeyman kills take 2 hours from the person killed and give 1 hour to the Boogeyman. Grian was allied with Jimmy and SmallishBeans (Joel) as part of the Bad Boys, but had to change alliances to PearlescentMoon (Pearl) and Big B because of an unfortunate series of events.

Martyn InTheLittleWood, a former member of Grian's Evolution SMP, has connected Evo lore to the Traffic Series lore by introducing the Watchers and Listeners, two groups of gods who hate each other and love messing with players. The Watchers trap the players in the Traffic Series, and the Listeners are trying to free the players. However, this lore is only really worked on by Martyn so you have to watch his POV for it. One thing you should know is that towards the end of Evo SMP, Grian was taken and made a Watcher, so... yeah. Lots of angst there.

Using Evo lore, past series and alliances, and a bit of cc!Grian's personality, the fandom tends to have a take on traffic!Grian that leans a little more into the 'fandomified traumatized main character who is Cursed' rather than looking at the Traffic Series by itself and judging Traffic!Grian from that alone. I do this too, because it's our fun fanon little guy and I love him. But in reality he's one of many POVs that just wants to keep things fresh and interesting for the fans.