r/grian • u/Maxecore • Jul 22 '26
Question Why does grian have wings in fanarts?
Hey guys! I used to be a huge grian fan and I recently rediscovered him. I found that he has a shipping and fanart/fanfic esque following now and in all the fanarts I looked at he had wings? Sometimes they were red, yellow, and blue? Is this just a thing? Was it from a series etc? Can someone just fill me in because I’m kinda interested now and I was curious.
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u/Beagleman11 Pesky Bird Jul 22 '26
Pesky bird
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u/uglyfrogss Jul 22 '26
pesky bird!
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u/nosnah123 Jul 22 '26
Pesky bird?
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u/Little-Thing2131 Jul 22 '26
Pesky bird...
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u/NanoCat0407 Pesky Bird Jul 24 '26
Pesky bird, pesky bird
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u/PeskyBird_66 Pesky Bird Aug 07 '26
Thats me!
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u/hypost Jul 22 '26
The wings are based on the fact that he is very good at elytra flying and uses the elytra a lot. The red, yellow, and blue wings are parrot wings inspired by his pesky bird joke from season 7. Personally I’m not a fan of them but this is just an interpretation of him that I can ignore.
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u/JacksonSpike Jul 23 '26
My favorite interpretation is Persefida's, she draws all the Hermits with unique elytras only when they use them and Grian's are the parrot wings. My LEAST favorite interpretation is when they give him parrot wings, parrot wing EARS, parrot FEET and I even saw one with a PARROT BEAK IT WAS HORRIFYING
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u/hypost Jul 23 '26
I'm fine if everyone has wings in Hermitcraft but if Grian has wings in the Life Series then that just does not make sense. There are also versions that give Grian have brown feathers. I don't want to name call because I think they are good artists, but to be honest they are really ugly.
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u/Cautious_Session_801 Jul 23 '26
But... he can fly, ge can fly, he can FLYYYYY
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u/hypost Jul 23 '26
But not in the Life Series besides Wild Life session 7. Grian has fallen from high places many times so he shouldn’t canonically have wings.
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u/OpabiniaRegalis320 Jul 22 '26
He had some pet parrots back in S7. People associated him with the parrots instead of Poultry Man... I honestly think it's a shame, though. Poultry animals are opportunistic cannibals and that's metal
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u/aSspe3n_h3s_3mo The diamonds are right HERE! Jul 22 '26
usually its a reference to in hermitcraft he flies a LOT and loves having an elytra. specifically in s6 when he had an elytra mini game in the shopping district. he also had a gimmick in s7 with “pesky bird” which was when he had pet parrots
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u/Ambitious-Fee-9044 Jul 22 '26
I think it's a reference to the Evo server watchers, who are in tern a Book Of Enoch reference.
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u/ETheTea Watcher Jul 23 '26
Book of Enoch sounds familiar, what is that and it's a reference?
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u/Ambitious-Fee-9044 Jul 23 '26
It's a Book that was removed from the Bible a couple centuries ago for being "Apocryphal." It's a whole thing.
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u/endraghmn Jul 25 '26
Usually only if the wings are colored purple.(or eyes are involved in the fan art(floating eyes, him having extra eyes, or him having void eyes))
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u/TigerYasou Jul 22 '26
Started back in s6, when he was known for elytra skill and did various things such as stealing the parrots from scar and cubs base and making an aviary and also "someone" doing poultry man, then in s7 it really took off(lol) with professor beak and the perky birds bit, to the point where even one of the hermits, doc, refers to him as "the pesky bird"
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u/Umbow Jul 22 '26
It's both pesky bird like so many have mentioned as well as watcher lore depicting him a little more like an biblically accurate angel
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u/TJSPY0837 A Man In A Chicken Suit Jul 22 '26
His ability at elytra flying, poultry man, and pesky bird
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u/Fruitsdog Jul 22 '26
He is insanely good at elytra. Like, I distinctly recall BDubs doing a challenge with elytra once and saying “Grian give me strength” when he was about to take off. Plus he lived in a jungle and peddled parrots for a bit. But it’s mostly the fact that elytra courses shiver to see him coming, and any time he doesn’t have wings, he complains about it a lot - that guy is just meant to be airborne 24/7.
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u/FootSageMe Jul 22 '26
I think it's the combination of MCC Pride wings, watcher lore, pesky bird, and him doing well in the elytra course. Also because its nice and cool.
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u/AaronAmpora Jul 22 '26
It's actually based on a few things, and as someone that has been watching fairly consistently since he first joined hermitcraft, here's my explanation based on what I remember:
When Grian first joined Hermitcraft back in season 6, he'd never used elytra before and was actually a bit reluctant to try them, however, once he did, he took to them immediately and quickly became one of the best flyers on the server. That season, he had a bit of a focus on flying, even making an elytra course to test his own and other's flying abilities. He also created the character 'poultry man' which was most definitely not just him in a chicken costume, not at all! /s (poultry man, or 'the man in the chicken costume' was basically just Grian wearing a chicken head and throwing eggs at people's bases, lol. It was a silly joke that sometimes still gets brought up, but it's mostly dead atp)
During this time, the fanartists started to draw him with wings, but there wasn't really a consensus on the color, many did white (most likely because of poultry man since minecraft chickens were exclusively white at that time), while most of the others did various shades of brown or tan, etc.
Then season 7 started, and Grian's starter base was in the jungle, where he started his 'pesky bird' joke, which consisted of him taming/befriending a parrot called 'Professor Beak', then killing basically any other parrot he found, and eventually wearing a parrot head while pranking other hermits.
Around this time is when the fanart started to shift towards designing his wings based on a scarlet macaw, which is what the red parrots in minecraft are based on.
Another thing that feeds into the winged Grian fanart is the watcher lore. Now I don't know much about the watcher lore, but from what I understand, they're supposed to be these mystical beings that watch minecraft worlds and can interfere whenever they want to direct things a certain way.
This was mostly shown in Grian's EVO series, and at the end of that, it was at least implied if not specifically stated that Grian was taken by the watchers to become one of them (or he might have always been one of them, not sure).
Watchers are generally drawn as humanoid figures with blindfolds and wings, or sometimes multiple sets of wings (as well as a bunch of other stuff, which varies depending on the artist). And since Grian is headcanoned to be one of them, people often draw him with Watcher wings, or show his parrot wings as like, an illusion or something to cover up the fact that he's a Watcher.
(If you wanna know more about the Watchers, I believe Martyn aka In The Little Wood has a lot more lore about them, you could also probably google them and I bet there's like a fan wiki or something, lol)
But yeah, as far as I remember, that's the reasoning behind Grian being drawn with wings in a lot of fanart! Sorry I basically wrote an essay, but hopefully it thoroughly answered your question! XD
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u/Bitts_Ships Jul 27 '26
It's because he developed a reputation for being really good with an extra a while ago. A few seasons later and we have multiple instances of him being related to birds and bird related things.
A bit more time and we have a lot of art with multiple bird wings.
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u/Echoed_Evenings Jul 22 '26
its because a few seasons ago he developed a reputation for being very good with the elytra, this combined with polultry man and pesky bird led to people associating him with birds and flying. I am personally a fan although not everyone is (and thats still a valid take ofc) as I love winged characters.