Welcome to my post that sums up all of the insanity that I've been experiencing over the similarities of Philza's lore from both Hardcore and QSMP and the lore of Grian from various places, with EVOSMP, Hermitcraft, and Life series being the main ones. I need to no longer be going insane about this alone.
This piece mainly talks about Watchers from EVO and the Enderking from Phil's hardcore lore and QSMP, but the two characters also have links to eachother. It is not just Fishing-Obsessed British Bird Men.
So firstly, we have the obvious link, of the villains color scheme and depictions in lore.
Watchers are generally depicted as purple, thanks to the color of the Evolution SMP Logo, and the fact that they reside in the end. We know that Listeners can be purple colored thanks to Martyns final limited life episode where they are shown for the first (and so far only) time.
The Enderking is shown as purple as well, definitively canon in lore, as shown in the QSMP Stream "Break past the Void". Also, the Enderking obviously has connections to the End, just like the Watchers.
Both reside in the End initially, before ending up affecting the overworld.
Secondly, we have the link of depictions in lore for the two main characters.
Phil is canonically a bird in QSMP, and although I'm not sure if it's canon to hardcore lore, he certainly flies around a lot, and I'm pretty sure he's been called a bird by the hardcore gods. (Rose, Blaze Empress, and Ocean Himbo man.) He's also known as the angel of death.
Now, Grian is, in EVO canon, a Watcher. Now, Watchers are depicted as angels in lore and in fanart, more traditional statues on the actual server, but then became more eldritch with biblical angel looks after the fans got to them. This helped contribute to his bird hybrid headcanons from the fandom, along with living in the jungle and liking parrots.
(You can probably see the similarities here with Grian's lore being slightly more vague)
Third, we have the abilities of the Watchers vs the Enderking.
Both can canonically possess people, with the Enderking going for Phil, and succeeding with what happened in QSMP from the Stream "Greed comes with a price..." , and the Watchers controlling Martyn in his Limited Life Finale, potentially tipping the balance to him winning.
The placing of obsidian. In EVO, when Grian steals from the Watchers, they chastise him, call him greedy, and place obsidian over every single one of their chests. Alternatively, the Enderking puts Obsidian in all of Q! Phil's special places, specifically crying obsidian.
Also, as a side note, I would just like to say that in Hermitcraft 9, Grian had a large rift underneath his base that leaked magic into the surrounding area. It was bright magenta, and turned into a huge nether portal when it was activated by Grian thanks to his pressing a button. When the portal starts to close it gained both crying obsidian and normal obsidian. --- It ended up closed until the end of the season, where it reopened with a ring of crying obsidian that let him transport realms to the next season of hermitcraft.
Both of these are caused by the god-like entity judging the person as greedy.
So. Thank you for coming to my essay. Probably the first of many.
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Double Life SMP, Philza Hardcore - Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Pearl | Pearlescentmoon & Philza's Chat, Pearl | Pearlescentmoon & Tilly the Third
Characters: Pearl | PearlescentMoon, Phil Watson | Philza's Chat, Tilly the Third, Phil Watson | Philza
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Crack Treated Seriously, Mentioned Charles | Grian, Pearl | PearlescentMoon-centric, Scarlet Pearl | PearlescentMoon, BAMF Pearl | PearlescentMoon, The Nether (Minecraft), i dont know how to tag this, Human Pearl | PearlescentMoon, Winged Pearl | PearlescentMoon, first its one then the other, no beta we die like everyone in double life, listen the target audience for this is me and me only ok, Mentioned Scott Major | Smajor1995, he's there for literally a sentence so, The Author Regrets Nothing, phil is only in this at the end so don't read this just for him ok ty :D
Summary:
There were no lingering death messages from Scott, from her dogs, not even from anyone she had killed only a few hours before.
It was as if someone had completely erased any traces of other people from her communicator.
Right as that thought crossed her mind, an unnaturally cold wind picked up, chilling her to her core and it all clicked.
The Watchers had come for her.
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Or, what if after the end of Double Life, the Watchers came for Pearl, and she managed to escape into another hardcore world, with someone she hadn't met yet?
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if any qsmp viewers that are interested to see phil's hardcore world more, here's some of the most recent world tours that i know of :
world tour with charlie march 8th 2021
3rd year anniversary world tour may 10th 2022
he also gets into some lore bits and stuff so if anyone else wants to know from the man himself you can watch those
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