<Some stuff makes fore sense if you've read The Three first.>

Ruby can't remember anything of who he was before becoming a Watcher. But he sometimes gets flashes of banners with big cats on them, like tigers and cougars. He also sees white hair in some, and distinct deep blue eyes that always followed. His guess was that he must have been royalty of some sort, or working close with royals.

He had asked Sapphire and Topaz about it too, seeing as they had been there when he'd been chosen. But neither of them could remember either. Though they did note that they remember him being dirty blond and having striking violet eyes. This at least got him a base of who he might have been, but he didn't really bother with it much.

One day he found a way he could be able to figure out what he looked like: By being reincarnated.

When he brought it up with his fellow primaries he hadn't expected them to encourage him, he hadn't thought it was something safe to do.

"It is safe as long as you follow all the right steps." Explained Topaz, leading Ruby to their private chambers. "Which is basically just a ritual done right by powerful beings."

"Can you do it?" Wondered Ruby, looking up at the yellow Watcher. "I'd like to see how it is down on the ground."

The other two helped set it up, carefully drawing up the symbols for the ritual so nothing would go wrong. And so, the first reincarnation happened.

In Ruby's first reincarnation he was gifted the name of Carlos, and he was born into a family of sorcerers. He grew up, got friends, had a good career, got a wife and then children. It was a wonderful life. But as he grew older he noticed that he didn't age, not anymore. So as the people around him died and disappeared he couldn't help to ask why? Why wasn't he ageing? And then it hit him. He had kept the immortality all Watchers had.

Sapphire and Topaz, sensing their fellow primary's sadness, came down and brought him back to the castle they all reside in. The people he'd left behind believed he'd been chosen to be a Watcher, and that's why he hadn't been aging. That's good, it's better they think that instead of knowing the truth (not that they'd ever find out).

You'd think Ruby wouldn't do it again after the emotional pain of the first one, but he couldn't stop. So every 80 years or so, the ritual was repeated.

He bore many names. Cecil, Gavin, Charles, Xelqua (a name that was unlike the others, and so was the family ((seriously why does this family have a tradition to name all their sons with names starting with x?)) and the latest was Griffin. Though that had been 100 years ago.

Ruby didn't want to live lives like that, but he still wished to be in the world. And after talking with Sapphire and Topaz a plan was made. They would bring him into the world as an adult, therefore not giving him any prior emotional connections. He could join a server, and when he didn't wish to pretend to be friends with the people of the severe (he didn't wish to make any friends in fear of feeling bad for leaving them) any longer he'd tell the other two to come collect him and bring him away from the world so he could go somewhere else.

And thus Grian was brought into the world. He joined EVO as their admin, and he had fun going through history at a faster pace then when he actually lived it. But it didn't take long for him to realize that he had started growling closer to these people, so as soon as the dragon was fought (something he hated doing, seeing as there were ender dragons all over the world where the castle was and he'd regularly hang out with them) he was gone from EVO. For a while he wandered the main world, just doing odd jobs from place to place. But then Xisuma Void, someone who looked scarily alike his past self if you took away the scar, came along and invited him to Hermitcraft. And as he had nothing better to do he accepted the invitation.

For a while on the server everything was fine, he was friendly with the Hermits but he wasn't particularly close with anyone. He was so used to making friends quickly, he was just naturally friendly like that, that he didn't notice slowly becoming close friends with the Hermits. But when he did he pulled away from them, pulled as many pranks as he could so they'd not want to be friends with him. Sapphire and Topaz offered to send him back up, but he declined. He didn't know why he wanted to stay, but he did. Grian lasted a week with minimal contact before crumbling, deciding that pushing them away now that he considered them friends (even if he truly hadn't come to terms with it yet) would hurt more than losing them later in their lives.

He gave them all some bullshit excuse about EVO when they asked him about it. They didn't seem to really believe him, but they still dropped it. It was a thing that drew him to them, their kindness was something he truly hadn't seen for centuries and it was refreshing to feel it again.

Things went on like normal after that, builds were built and events were held. And in what felt like the blink of an eye, season 6 was over. And as season 7 started new people joined and some left, a few to be back soon and others promising to stay in contact. This time he didn't even try to stop himself from growing close, letting it all build naturally. It was by now that he also realized he was feeling more than just friendship, but also deep protectiveness. This was his server that inhabited his friends, and nothing that was his fell to harm if he could do anything about it.

His fellow primaries whispered to him to stop, to back off. They called to him, warning him that the pain he'd feel when these people eventually passed would be greater than the guilt he'd feel if he left now. But he once again refused, he couldn't leave now. Not when he was so happy, not when he had such a loving family.

It was about 2 weeks into the season when Etho -a man who gave him flashes of the past, with his striking white hair and distinct deep blue eyes- approached him. He had heard stories of the redstoner from the others, he'd been a Hermit in season 5 and a member of the famed nHo. Doc and Bdubs always described him as a happy person, so why did he look so sad whilst gazing at Grian?

One day the dirty blond had enough and confronted him. "Why do you keep looking at me like that?"

"I'm sorry." Said Etho, eyes somehow sadder than normal. "I'm sorry you have to live like this."

Grian tensed up, praying that the whitehead was talking about something having to do with his base. And not about his true identity. "Uhm, what are you talking about?"

"I'm sorry you have to watch us all die."

Ah, so he did know who he was. Or he at least had an idea of what he could be. "...So you know then."

"That I do." State Etho looking away from Grian and down at the ground below. They were currently sitting at the top of Grian's base, the area surprisingly quiet for the number of people living there. He didn't have to look to feel Grian's form change. But he did look once he felt the presence of the imens power that Grian's -Ruby's- true form radiated. The Watcher was looking at him with a slight tilt of the head, his word fire like hair slowly blowing in the non existent breeze.

"What now?" Wondered Ruby, clawed fingers gently tapping against the tiles of his mansions roof.

"Now we act just like normal." Smiled Etho, standing up from where he'd been sitting next to the other. His eyes turned to look at Ruby, the mismatched eyes looking menaifully at the Watcher. "You can tell them when you feel comfortable enough to do so. But that isn't now."

"No, it isn't." Agreed Ruby, standing up like the redstoner had. Though he now towered over the other, which was a bit of an expected surprise for Etho.

It took Ruby a few seconds to realize that he was still in his true form, so with a blush (and was that a surprise for Etho. Who knew galaxy-like beings could blush?) he turned back into Grian.

They parted ways after that, with talk of meeting again so that Grian could let out his true form more.

And as night fell Grian thought about how it would pain him to watch these people pass. But for once he wouldn't terribly mind it, because what was living without loss? Plus, he'd suffer again and again if it meant he got to have friends like the Hermits. 

<Yes there will be a part 2, don't worry. Plus I've already promised away a ship for this, and since I couldn't fit it in here part 2 it is! And, I think that's everything? Can't think of anything else to add.

Stay safe and have a wonderful time everyone!>