hot take: "watchers were meant to represent the audience in EVO" ≠ "watchers are the audience and therefore think exactly the same as i do"
hot take 2: watchers are not pretty godlike twink figures, they're literally cosmic parasites who live in outer space and their hoods are an illusion for world inhabitants to hide how gruesome they really look. grian is still himself (because they'd contacted him as friendly and empathetic creatures, not what they actually are), but a) since the start of the life series he'd seen horrors incomprehensible to other people b) if he was to lose every bit of humanity in him, he would deform into such a creature too
hot take 3: watchers are evil. like, on the edge of neutral and chaotic evil (only because they have consciousness and motives, while chaotic evil is pure madness and absense of logic). if you think they're incapable of doing something because it would be too cruel, you're wrong
