I should repost my Blaseball fanart, I think my Tigerbeams art didnt get enough appreciation
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hiiii leandra beech for the lore asks??
LEANDRA BEECH MY BELOVED TIGERBEAMS BABY. i genuinely don't lore blaseball players on my own much but when i say leandra was so real to me Immediately it's so true. I originally didn't want to lean so far into the Discipline connections because I worried over having too many attachments to old Eras, but then she got Frasier Shmurmgle'd and I went 'fuck it, I will get as self indulgent as I want because the chances of anyone else loring her are Very Low'. special shoutout to Cedar @riseinviolence for taking the Leandra-Discipline baton and sprinting with it, I owe quite a bit of this to him too
this got long. i need to overexplain everything.
content warning for child death (not permanent, but is relevant to mention)
Leandra Beech, trans woman (she/her), Moab resident since birth, of hispanic descent - family is primarily Mexican-american & has been in Moab for a couple generations at least. Normal human, at least until:
the ILB returns when she's 3, and thus the Hellmouth opens when she's 4. i'm not sure how much of this is common Hades-Hellmouth lore and how much of it is specific to Cedar's version of it (I think a lot of it is Cedar's. can you tell I'm obsessed with their Hades), but in the upheaval part of the Hellmouth opened into the underworld itself. She dies - in a way - but Hades being at least partly an afterlife, saves her, mends her and what it can't mend it transforms into the body of a lion. The actual circumstances of her change are entirely Cedar's idea, including this that killed me dead when I read it:
She lives, despite everything, by virtue, too, of the strange dark hands of someone in a denim jacket, a face she doesn’t know yet. “Come on up, little manticore,” he says to her, in a tongue that sounds strange to her ear. “You are not yet due down there.”
Inevitably becomes a fan of Blaseball; it's hard to avoid in Moab. Has a lot of childhood-hero-worship for both the Beams and the Tigers. When she can, goes to games at the Overlook or, rarer, at Sixth Circle (not as many as she'd have liked to) and the games she can't, she watches on TV or listens to on the radio. The hero-worship dims to a healthy respect, but her interest in the game remains a lifelong thing
Takes an interest in photography in her teens, continues it into adulthood; she does Blaseball photography (and sports in general, too, once Blaseball is gone) but also nature & wildlife as well.
Writes a blog, almost entirely for herself; this used to be half-strategy, half-anecdotal accounts of her time following the game, but eventually turned into life anecdotes in general once Blaseball was out of the picture after S24.
Is in her fifties/sixties (I forget the specifics of the timeline/how long it's been ingame since beta Season 1), but ages slower because of the circumstances of her survival. Appears in her early thirties.
Personality-wise - pragmatic, even-tempered, forthright, self-assured but not overconfident. Not very emotive or particularly talkative - this can lead to being misunderstood as cold or standoffish, but likes people and cares very deeply for everyone around her. Not secretive or reclusive, but not looking to be a mentor or leader either. Very observant, quick to notice and remember details, with an excellent memory for people in particular
Joined up while attending a Hades-Hellmouth game with full understanding and acceptance of the fact that she would eventually die. Maybe didn't expect it to be so soon, but at least she chose her place on the team with full knowledge of what awaited her; the tiger stripes were almost an immediate change upon taking the field, fading in and clearly visible by the end of that first game
She was incinerated because she put herself between an umpire and Elip :) something something Captain Dean only original Tiger left & she made that choice for the health and survival of the team above all else.
I have more thoughts about her rship to the rest of the living Tigers and the dead Tigers in the Hall after her incineration but this is already massive as it is. player whose whole life was shaped by the game and willingly embraced it and it got her twenty-three whole days of play. augh
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