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Prologue
When the Watchers first showed up to Evo he had rightfully been wary.
A strange symbol carved out of bedrock would worry anybody. But as the Watchers turned up more often he began to feel more comfortable, he accepted them into his life seeing as they were an important part of keeping the community going. They made sure the members always had a safe way to shift updates, they brought gifts and rewards and in the end, they gave Grian the best thing possible,
A way out.
The Evo members were never the kindest bunch, only a month into their adventures they were dividing themselves, raging non-physical wars of manipulation and control.
Grian had tried his best to keep to himself, he just wanted to build his base honestly.
But alas he was an extrovert that thrived on attention and mischief. He eventually ventured back to the heart of the world and played a few pranks that the others didn't appreciate in the slightest. The more things he did, the more he interacted with everyone, the less they seemed to like him.
They called him Annoying,
Aggravating,
Rude,
Carless,
Irresponsible,
Immature,
Full of Himself,
Self-centred,
Selfish,
Egotistical.
That one was brought up quite often. They loved to talk behind his back about how egotistical he was, always putting his face on things, naming things after himself, putting himself first. They said he had no regard for others and only cared about himself.
They would laugh and say his ego is bigger than his base.
No one was laughing when he left.
He took the Watchers with him, causing the world to start to fail, glitches appeared more often and there was no safe way to get between updates.
Everything went to hell.
The "community" fell apart.
Nobody left that world in one piece.
Except for Grian, who watched it all happen.
Brandishing the name they gave him with pride.
Turning their poisonous words into inconceivable power.
As Evo burned down, so did "Grian", he was no longer one of them.
He was Ego.
And Evolution was only the start of his journey.