#the watchers

[devie-draws]

The curse must take.

[illumynare]

Hands down my favorite thing about how cc!Grian interacts with the fandom is that he seems equally committed to (1) never dropping another crumb of Watcher lore, and (2) casually inserting cosmic horror at every opportunity. I really don’t think he’s doing a slow burn “Watcher on Hermitcraft” reveal, I think he’s just Like That. Children yearn for the the mines and Grian yearns to be a non-denominational eldritch horror.

[vicprobably]

in Grian's most recent Hermitcraft video, he said "so let's do what we always wanted to do... do some Watching" and then used his telescope to spy on people. he KNOWS what he's doing. that guy is never escaping the Watcher allegations

[maliagrata]

what if he was the rift

[oakyadair]

the watchers filling in the missing obsidian from the watcher's symbol with bedrock just for cleo to build the arena on top of it 💔🥀

[astrowarr]

in martyn's lore stream, he decided that the watchers can "project" their vision onto the players, creating mirages, i.e. when martyn had those pumpkin version of the southlanders in last life. martyn was fully seeing his friends, and that it was imposed onto him by the watchers

what i'm thinking about is this in connection with the shadow people that scar sees back in his secret life lore. these figures are mirages of all the people he knows. maybe he can speak to them; maybe they speak back. regardless, though, we know the shadow people bring scar comfort in his lonely little world. they help keep him sane when they come around, even if it isn't often.

and what watcher do we know who might want to use his powers to bring scar even the smallest bit of comfort? what watcher do we know who might want to use his powers for good, in juxtaposition to the other watchers using this very power to torture martyn so many seasons ago?

grian is absolutely Watching over scar in that sunflower field and it is Killing me

[charnel-grounds]

“They’re always watching, observing us through the spirit veil. You know they’re near when the air hums, time slows down, and your skin crawls.”

— Marc C. Green

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