#margarito nava

[idonthaveanyurlideas]

a collection of non beam uniforms ive developed over the years. and also the ones i uhhhh haven't. ft. whichever member of each team i thought of first

[thehallstara]

in the desert, nagomi dreams. it's not as if there's much else to do. (nagomi nava, passenger, and missing your other half)

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for @idonthaveanyurlideas <3 (12x100, cw for mild unreality)

[glassgob]

[First image ID: Digital lineart of Margarito Nava sitting wide-legged in a chair. Xe is wearing a trench coat, unbuttoned shirt, and leather pants. 

Second image ID: Digital lineart of Helga Burton aiming a bow and arrow. She is wearing a puffed, fantasy gown with yellowline arrow crab motifs. Tears roll down her cheeks.

Third image ID: Digital illustration of Adalberto Tosser kissing Brock Forbes on the cheek. In the corner of the image, Brock is shown to be standing on a chair in order to reach Adalberto's height. End ID.]

[waveridden]

“Do you ever wonder,” they say, “if this is the same Houston we left?”

“Clark,” says Margo, sitting half a dozen rows ahead, staring unblinkingly forward, “come on.”

(Margo, Reese, and how not to talk about it. 1.2k. A giveaway prize for @stainedglassgoblin.)

[kierenkowe]

I dont really write ever but @bostonflowersficexchange was happening and the minimum word count was 500 so I was like hey, I think I'll be able to write something

Here's my gift for @caligulalotus !

(It's not much but I'm so proud of myself for managing to write it)

[fourteenfifteen]

DRIFTING

G // 1.1k // blaseball x pacific rim

The Jaeger program is looking for pilots. Margo Nava is willing, if they can even find a partner for xem.

read now on ao3

[verdemoth]

DAY 68 -

Another agent gone MIA today as the Rogue Umpires claim two lives in our game against the Baltimore Crabs.

agent Mimosa Arslan, himself a replacement following the disappearance of agent Rivers Rosa, was with us for a total of 27 immaterial days before his own untimely demise. Hye Brighella has been recruited to take his place.

The Crabs lost one of their own when Ramirez Winters was incinerated shortly after agent Arslan. Their new player is one Avery Cascabel.

RIV o7

[whales-are-gay]

i tried a macchiato for the first time because of jessica telephone and margarito nava

[jaybot-hotdogfingers]

Is Dark Boston where the Boston Thorns came from? I wrote the community history mirror verse article on the wiki but I had a hell of a time finding more about that particular city. Would you mind talking about what it was like?

HI HELLO yeah it's where the thorns are from!

dark boston is like. a maritime eldritch horror version of boston basically. to copypaste a discord message of mine describing it:

the harbor flooded all of the city that was at ground level, and what's left is all built on floating islands above it. (there's some buildings underwater, where fenmaids and other aquatic folk live, but it's dangerous down there.) the sky overhead is always overcast, usually thunderstorming; the waters below are always in a roil. the Garden is at the city's center, and what were once the walls of a normal stadium are now covered in dark, razor-thorned vines as big around as trees. the streets are lit with lanterns and purplish-blue neon

despite the differences in their city, the thorns themselves started off as the flowers, and they stayed the flowers all the way until the end of season 7, when they got relegated – or, at least, when they were supposed to get relegated. (shoutout to sonder n. @bread--quest millennials for coming up with this idea, it's an extremely good one.) the garden, you see, is protective of its players across all dimensions. it's not clear what exactly happened when the thorned vines swallowed the stadium walls, and whether any of the Entities in the harbor had anything to do with it; but on paper, at least, the flowers were relegated, and the thorns are their replacement that just so happens to have an entire roster that shares their names with their predecessors. how accurate that is to reality? well. depends on who you ask.

the thorns have even higher levels of plant body horror than the flowers, and instead of growth, their signature team mod is overgrowth, which allows them to blooddrain their opponents in any weather! despite the horrors, they're generally good people who are trying their best, although certain players are definitely more morally ambiguous than others (scores baserunner, for instance). they're also very actively anticapitalist, trying to take down the Capitalist Teams and eventually the league as an entity, and have a particularly strong enmity with the $NYC millionaires on account of proximity.

miscellaneous thorns facts:

friends with the miami armada in a Mutual Cartoon Violence way

margarito nava used to date thomas dracaena back in season 1 before the millennials became the millionaires. they're worst enemies now

it is sometimes difficult to tell which bits of thorns lore are intentionally-horror mirrorverse stuff and which are just flowers lore that's basically unchanged

the thorns still have a robot copy of jaylen hotdogfingers, but rather than the result of jaylen's alternation, she's the result of the party line blessing. her name is jayliin and she is a menace

[blaseballshipbracket]

BLASEBALL SHIP BRACKET ROUND 1

64 ships enter, one ship leaves! who will reign supreme? how will your faves fare? it's a tlournament for the ages!

this is a seeded bracket generated from ships suggested in a google form. round 1 begins thursday, 03/30/23 and will run for one week. propaganda is encouraged - tag this blog and i'll share it!

ROUND 1 MATCHUPS:

Megan Ito/Parker MacMillan VS Leon Duncan/Andrew Trebek

Finn James/Kennedy Loser VS Hewitt Best/Yeong-Ho Garcia

Flattery McKinley/Niq Nyong'o VS Jessica Telephone/Betsy Trombone

Tillman Henderson/Declan Suzanne VS Don Mitchell/Percival Wheeler

Baldwin Breadwinner/Alyssa Harrell VS Axel Cardenas/Miguel Wheeler

Dominic Marijuana/Andrew Solis VS Eduardo Ingram/Leach Ingram

Pedro Davids/Valentine Games VS Anathema Elemefayo/Patty Fox/Hatfield Suzuki

Stevenson Heat/James Mora VS Baby Triumphant/Castillo Turner

Yosh Carpenter/Sebastian Woodman VS Cannonball Sports/Bees Taswell

Igneus Delacruz/Howell Franklin VS Mcdowell Mason/Sexton Wheerer

Allison Abbott/Kichiro Guerra VS Eugenia Garbage/Ziwa Mueller

Caleb Alvarado/Isaac Johnson VS Conner Haley/Sebastian Telephone

Brock Forbes/Adalberto Tosser VS Domino Bootleg/Theodore Honeywell

Lenny Marijuana/Chorby Short VS Moody Cookbook/Landry Violence

Margarito Nava/Nic Winkler VS Riley Firewall/Geraldine Frost

Inez Owens/Bees Taswell VS Paula Turnip/Hiroto Wilcox

Tyreek Olive/Landry Violence VS Fitzgerald Blackburn/Math Velazquez

Val Hitherto/Nerd Pacheco VS Ortiz Lopez/Pitching Machine

Luis Acevedo/Tot Clark VS Derrick Krueger/Sebastian Telephone

The San Francisco Lovers VS Gita Sparrow/Jayden Wright

Tillman Henderson/Mike Townsend VS Famous Owens/Mclaughlin Scorpler

Alaynabella Hollywood/Magi Ruiz VS Nerd Pacheco/Lars Taylor

Nagomi Mcdaniel/York Silk's Mom VS Qais Dogwalker/Grollis Zephyr

Jacob Haynes/Alaynabella Hollywood/Moses Mason VS Burke Gonzalez/Brock Watson/Joshua Watson

Jaylen Hotdogfingers/Jessica Telephone VS Juice Collins/Sutton Dreamy

Sandford Garner/Don Mitchell VS Famous Owens/Nerd Pacheco

Rivers Rosa/Lou Roseheart VS Jode Crutch/Rush Ito

Declan Suzanne/Edric Tosser/Baby Triumphant VS Lady Matsuyama/Bottles Šuljak

Cornelius Games/Richardson Games VS Mags Banananana/Eugenia Bickle

Workman Gloom & PolkaDot Patterson VS Shannon Chamberlain/Kennedy Loser

Caligula Lotus/Beck Whitney VS Steals Mondegreen/Silvaire Semiquaver

Summers Preston/Stephanie Winters VS Haruta Byrd/Bright Zimmerman

[idonthaveanyurlideas]

25 animatics 2 and a half years 1 hour, 20 minutes and 39 seconds Approximately 5852 frames 349 unique characters appearing a total of 982 times

have what will most likely be my final blaseball animatic, a self-indulgent goodbye to all my beloved beams and a whole bunch of other players

Music is Celebrate the Reckless by Magic Giant - design credits below the cut

Credits: Randall Marijuana by alienmandy_ - Pangolin Ruiz by Mortimer_Mekhane - Dunn Keyes, Ramirez Winters and Pedro Davids by glassgoblin - Cory Ross and Grollis Zephyr by saltbuzzard - Lucas Petty by Dorito - Logan Rodriguez by Monthenor - Zephyr McCloud by dreambaot - Steals Mondegreen by 510five - Spears Taylor by Bells - Jessica Telephone by telekeys - Randy Dennis and Niq Nyong'o by tiny_revel - Kelvin Drumsolo by Australia-Hungary#9082 - Haruta Byrd and Erin Jesaulenko by miasmajesties - Justice Spoon and Edric Tosser by necromngo - Isaac Johnson, Gita Sparrow, Dunlap Figueroa and Mullen Peterson by _waalkr - Rivers Javier by toadparty and sidoopa - Baby Sliders by samiratu - Alvie Kesh by quilyn - Alexander Horne and Wyatt Mason VI by Fancymancer - Forrest Bookbaby by bugsbenedict - Helga Burton and Helga Moreno by electricgaunt using picrew by r4tist - Andrew Solis by rabbittraps_ - Rhys Trombone by Ephesos - Esme Ramsey by HetreaSky and grr - Mickey Woods by sol - Bright Zimmerman by staradavid - Iggy Delacruz by Karagna_ - Rey Wooten by dipppitydoop - Ziwa Mueller and Richmond Harrison by avery_helm - Workman Gloom and Beasley Gloom by shenaniglenn - Snyder Briggs by mensisritual - Jasmine Washington, Donia Bailey, Jasper Blather and Hops Chen by desmodusrotunds - Avila Guzman by jaungeedraws - Richardson Games and Hiroto Wilcox by CurseOfScots - Cornelius Games by kyl_armstrong - Nicholas Vincent by Hazel Cooper - Eugenia Bickle by awhekate - Fran Beans by thr33h3addrag - Valentine Games by deerstained - Magi Ruiz by Nofacenerd - Tiana Takahashi by VHS_DREAMER - Tillman Henderson by cryptmilk - Mcdowell Karim by ferretrix - Sebastian Woodman by Starfauna - Yosh Carptener by gfclass - Aldon Cashmoney by occultclassic - Donia Bailey and Hiroto Wilcox by crickadelic - Jasper Blather by nel using picrew from astrolava

Wiki Pages: Eugenia Garbage - Rivers Rosa - Stevenson Heat - Qais Dogwalker - Margarito Nava - Lou Roseheart - Beck Whitney - Nic Winkler - Neerie McCloud - Blood Hamburger - Kennedy Rodgers - Nagomi Meng - Lachlan Shelton - Kichiro Guerra - Fletcher Yamamoto

Other: Emmett Internet - Priya Fox - London Simmons - Cravel Gesundheit - Willow Dice - Xanthe - Jorge Owens - Carter Grimsley - Kajjala Aliyev - Guozhi Ong - Grizz El Sayed - Thomas Marsh - Amos Parveen - Kaj Statter Jr. - Anastasia Isarobot - Zack Sanders - Özlem Suttner - Malik Romayne - Sigmund Castillo - Son Jensen - Jayden Wright - Paula Reddick - Sandoval Crossing - Velasquez Meadows - Hahn Fox - Howell Franklin - Miguel James - Passenger - Nagomi Nava - Wyatt Mason VII - Wyatt Mason III - Wyatt Mason V - Dudley Mueller - Joe Voorhees - Harriet Gildehaus - Phineas Wormthrice - Elvis Figueroa - Borg Ruiz - Tot Best - Lars Taylor - Nerd Pacheco - Hendricks Richardson - Kaz Fiasco - Hank Marshallow - Beans McBlase - Sutton Bishop - Quack Enjoyable - Guy Gulp - Siobhan Chark - Alaynabella Hollywood

Unsure: Mooney Doctor - Wyatt Mason IV

[natbplease]

LETS TALK ABOUT DANGER ZONE CAN WE TALK ABOUT DANGER ZONE PLEASE IVE BEEN DYING TO TALK ABOUT DANGER ZONE ALL DAY

(cw: unreality, incineration, me yelling)

picture this. its a normal charity fundraiser stream. tgb are running an experimental sim game with two new teams, best of three. nothing is canon, everything's a dream, its fine dont worry about it.

theyre making the teams back-and-forth draft style. each team can pick two or three (?) players from the hall, but no released players.

(looking at the wiki now, the ghosts tried to get axel but couldn't. bc theyre released. they got out. because they were on the PODS and then JAYLEN--)

(...anyway.)

the other team, the tsushima ghosts (named after a video game bracket via the besties podcast happening on twitter at the time) are doing their thing, trying to grab the good players before danger zone can.

(the ghosts let the stream chat to pick four players for the team. i'm only mentioning this because york silk was one of them. because of course they were. we've been putting that guy in situations since season 2)

anyway. the danger zone were chilling too, at first, without a noticeable pattern. (people were speculating, of course, because it was the blaseball grand siesta.) like, jaxon buckley, yeah, theyre pretty good. burke gonzalez for a pitcher, sure. margarito nava, which. ohh, okay, three fire eaters. hell yeah, a team of all fire eaters kicks ass.

and then they get moody cookbook for their first hall pick. which. okay. sure.

it goes on, danger zone keeps picking up fire eaters. and its like. okay, so maybe they just wanted to have moody in there. bc they hate us.

(one notable exception to this is esme ramsey. not a fire eater, but they're haunted. okay? cool.)

then sebastian telephone gets picked.

earlier in this livestream, there was a preview for the blaseball musical that was set to come out in like. a couple of weeks i think? i forget if the title was revealed or not, but we at least knew that it was about sebastian telephone in some way. probably? yeah.

so everyone was *already* thinking about seb. about the fact that they died twice. and is still unstable. just like moody cookbook.

so there's them, then esme, and the rest are fire eaters. okay!!

to figure out which weather each game would be, each team picked two that they wanted, and the list of four was randomized. danger zone picked eclipse twice. the ghosts pick eclipse and black hole.

both games end up being eclipses. what could go wrong?

and in the first game, nothing, no eclipse triggers. IN FACT, SO MUCH NOTHING HAD HAPPENED THAT JOEL TURNED UP WEATHER EVENT PROBABILITY IN BETWEEN GAMES.

as you may guess, in game two, those weather events sure did trigger.

for one, nagomi mcdaniel went up to bat while magmatic, and FLINCHED OUT of her automatic home run. which was the first time that ever happened. and was so so deliciously mean.

also. sebastian gets incinerated. again. because they were unstable in an eclipse game, this was always going to happen, theyve been dead since the beginning, etc.

(they get replaced by a hall player, because of squiddish. something that HAPPENED ON DAY X--)

also incinerated:

moody cookbook, because how could they not be

and PUDGE NAKAMOTO. an audience pick, who got instability chained from moody's incin. lol lmao

moody and pudge get replaced by new players, like a regular game. these new guys are like. imagine coming into existence to replace fan favorite players who had died again, except not really, because it isnt real, and youre on a team that doesnt exist and will stop existing in about fifteen minutes. cool and normal

esme gets hit with unstable, which is fine. execpt they're *haunted* so everyone was like. haha okay cool!! so what happens if esme gets incined while she's haunted??? does the ghost die again?? or does esme die? hello?? where am i???

(esme also got her instability from seb dying, which. something something day x whatever its the wrong one but. wanted to mention it).

(ALSO: btw. jessica telephone is on the ghosts. which is fantastic luck for her)

i vividly remember something happening with esme' being haunted, but since its not on the wiki, im assuming i just made it up? but. it couldve happened!

bonus round of things that make me lose it:

york silk, wyatt pothos, and jessica telephone: ex-pods, playing against esme and with nagomi, and seeing seb get incined for a second time. super cool

JESSICA AND FISH SUMMER WATCHING THEIR OLD TEAM CAPTAIN GET INCINED AGAIN! WHICH I JUST REALIZED

sutton bishop and mike townsend not playing because theyre in the last rotation spot. so they just. sat there ig

jaxon buckley, first fire eater to not stop an incineration (in s10), getting to deal with that again. :)

anyway, the game ends, danger zone wins, in part because of the brilliant idea of unstable fire eaters getting free home runs. the third game doesnt happen because of time.

everything is fine and cool and normal forever because it was alllll a dream. the end.

vote danger zone <3

⚠️ The Danger Zone ("It's our Middle Name.")

ORIGIN: BlaseballCares Showdown

LINKS: wiki

❌ Inter Xpresso ("We've got a Shot!")

ORIGIN: Coffee Cup

LINKS: wiki / Coffee Cup on Before

[toxic-clockwork]

Margarito Nava Has Fallen To The Spies

[glassgob]

[First image ID: Simplified digital illustration of Caleb Alvarado and Isaac Johnson. They are standing close to each other: Caleb’s wing around Isaac and Isaac’s arm around Caleb.

Second Image ID: Simplified digital illustration of Margarito Nava and Nic Winkler walking side by side. They are looking at each other, smiling. End ID.]

[adzehewn]

hehe maggie nava

[caligulalotus]

“Apophenia” this, blaseball is random generated numbers that, the sim tells stories and tonight I’m thinking about the story of incineration and love it told with the Boston Flowers.

The Boston Flowers held the league record for incinerations for quite a few seasons. After season 4, and the incineration of Morrow Doyle, this calmed down a bit. The Flowers had had 6 incinerations in the first three seasons it had been a possibility, and as someone who has worked with the data of incineration, I know that doesn’t sound like a lot, but it is. The only other team that managed to get similar numbers in that period of time, if memory serves, is the Thieves. After season 4, things changed. Eclipse weather became less common and the Flowers got a little luckier. We had no incinerations in season 5, and only one in season 6.

But season 6 was pretty damn tragic for the Flowers either way. On day 31, Caligula Lotus was incinerated. We were no strangers to losing our beloved players, but Cali was a little different. Caligula was the manifestation of the Garden’s love for it’s players. After the incineration of Jorge Ito, the first incineration that actually happened at a home game, the Garden panicked, and created someone to replace him, created someone to show it’s team how much it loved them. Caligula took up a mantle, of sorts, as the embodiment of just what the Boston Flowers were. A team of growth, a team of life. And then, only 3 seasons after she’d joined us, she was gone. I wasn’t around back then, but I can only imagine what the process of mourning her was like. What I do know is that it resulted in a piece of lore desperate to keep her around, where her team, so full of love for her, scooped up what little remained of their friend and brought her home. They planted her back in the Garden, in a desperate attempt to get her back. It was a kind of necromancy, and the Flowers discussed later that, if given the chance, Caligula might be the only player we’d ever have interest in resurrecting. Caligula was born in response to an incineration, and when she was lost to one too, the Flowers’ love for her, preserved her the best it could.

Also during season 6, the Flowers lost our captain. In a feedback game against the Miami Dale on day 80, Beck Whitney, caretaker for the Garden, was ripped from her home and her team to a place 1,000 miles away. And not only that, but she was ripped away less than 50 days after losing her girlfriend, Caligula. The Dale welcomed Beck, but she was one of our most treasured season 1 originals, as you can see from the fact that we made her captain. We desperately tried to figure out something with the Dale to give them back their beloved player, Hahn Fox, in exchange for Beck. And then the election threw all of our plans into a pit, and we lost Hahn to the Sunbeams, getting Alaynabella Hollywood in return. The Flowers could no longer hold up their end of the deal, and we would never see our captain return to Boston.

After season 6, we were safe for a very long time. We lost our incineration record to the Canada Moist Talkers during Ruby Tuesday, an event we had accidentally had a hand in. The Lottery Pick blessing wasn’t too special when it first showed up, but after Caligula’s death, some Flowers fans realized something. After she moved to the Hall, they were still idoling her. They brought this to the league at large, and after realizing it wasn’t a bug, and you could, in fact, idol dead players, the Garages and the Moist Talkers hatched a plan to revive Jaylen Hotdogfingers. Jaylen’s resurection was an act of... something. But at least part of it was an act of love, continuing the Flower’s connections of incineration and love in the face of it.

Season 7 was... well, it sure was something. The attention of the umps was focused on the other side of the league, and Jaylen’s debt, and the Flowers were safe. We sat back and watched, sorry, of course, for what we had helped wrought, but grateful we were not seeing the brunt of it. Season 8 was safe for the Flowers too, but something very interesting happened down in Miami. Beck Whitney, captain in absentia, killed an umpire. With the protection of her teammate, Raúl Leal, Beck Whitney, who had led the Flowers through fiery death after fiery death, turned the fire that had so hurt her and those she loved back on those that weaponized it. “For Caligula”, we depicted her as saying, “for Hurley, for Bryanayah, for Jorge, for Issac, for Matheo, for Morrow, and for Caligula”, we knew to be more accurate. This was an act of anger, sure, but it was an act of love too. A violent love, and something so fitting for the former captain of the former team who had seen the most death in the league, and grown and loved in spite of it.

In season 9, Margarito Nava, the Flowers’ captain ever since Beck left, became a Fire Eater. And whatever this did to the code for Flower’s incinerations, it was fucking effective. Margarito Nava got hit quite a bit by the umpires. The umpires never once chose to target another player. Perhaps they were scared, in a way. Just a season before, an umpire had actually died for the first time. And though Beck was no longer a Flower, she had a reputation. Perhaps the umpires were unaware of her former place as the Flowers captain, but they were certainly aware of why she’d done it. Of her anger at the losses her team had experienced. And they knew she could do it again. As long as she was on the Dale, or as long as Raúl Leal was alive, perhaps it was best to leave the Flowers alone; or, if you must, only burn the one who’d survive. Or maybe it wasn’t because they were scared of Beck Whitney, perhaps it was that Margarito Nava was scared of them. Margo had not been captain during the Flowers’ incineration reign, but xe was now, and xe wasn’t going to let it happen again if xe had a say. Margo threw xemself in front of the fire of the umpire season after season, year after year, heedless to the scars and the pain of it all, because if it meant that xe didn’t lose anyone else, then who cared what happened to xem? As long as the team stayed safe, then xe was willing to put xemself through anything.

At the end of season 10, Caligula Lotus batted for the Hall Stars. She joined their roster because of how much we’d loved her, because of the offerings we’d given to her spirit to show the league just how well loved she had been in life. And when she got a chance to return the love we had shown her, she took it. She took up her spot on the Hall Stars’ roster and she played against a god, against a team made up of people she’d known and loved in life, and she helped them win. Caligula wasn’t a focus of that game. She wasn’t as well loved as some of the other players, like the Marijuana brothers or Boyfriend Monreal. She wasn’t a tragic sacrifice like Sebastian Telephone or Kiki Familia, and she wasn’t a star player like Jaylen Hotdogfingers or Landry Violence. But she was there, and she fought, and she won. And when all was said and done, she stuck around. Yes, she was released, no longer confined to the Hall, no longer confined to Blaseball at all, but still present in the Garden, because she loved her team, and she loved the entity that had created her, and she felt it necessary to return the favors that had been given to her.

The Flowers had peace for a while, or as much peace as blaseball could offer, but it couldn’t stay that way forever. In season 14, Beck Whitney became Roamin’, and joined the Hawai’i Fridays. Raúl Leal had died a season prior, and the Dale, and Beck, hadn’t had killing power since his death. But now that she was on the other side of the ocean, there was no longer a reason for the umpires to be scared of her. On day 2 of season 16, 10 seasons and about two decades since the death of Caligula Lotus, Moses Mason was killed in an away game against the Mexico City Wild Wings. Moses was the child of one of the Flower’s few remaining season 1 players, Chambers Simmons, who then went on to pitch multiple perfect games in a row. Chambers was not a good pitcher, and very rarely pitched perfect games. But he pitched multiple in a row after the death of his child, driven to win for him, because of the love he felt for her and the anger he felt at the umpires for her death. In the wake of Moses Mason’s death, within only a few moments, Lenny Spruce’s bat broke. The Flowers looked at this movement of the sim and ran with it. We considered the idea of Lenny having broken the bat over the umpire who had killed Moses’ head, another act of violent anger at the death of someone the Flowers had loved. Margarito also went on to have one of xer worst batting averages ever that season (it was 0.251, which isn’t that bad in the grand scheme of things, but is pretty bad for Margo, especially when considering what xer average had looked like for the rest of Expansion prior to Moses’ death, and even before Expansion). One can only imagine how xe tore xemself up after Moses’ death, after xe had failed so completely to keep xer team safe.

A season later, on day 36, Hiroto Cerna was incinerated in an away game against the Ohio Worms. Hiroto was Caligula’s replacement, and in Parker’s own words, Hiroto “died as they lived, like a moth to a flame”. Hiroto had been one of the team’s best players ever since zir arrival. Ze was a well loved player, and the Flowers mourned zir deeply.  Margo was stuck in the shadows, that season, after a wimdy election, and once again failed to save a teammate. Hiroto’s death gave the us the title of “most incinerations in the league” back, and we were angry. The Flowers vowed to get mean to the gods, in a way we hadn’t ever been before. The next season we would go on to get the closest we would ever get to winning the finals. The same season, we picked up debt queen herself Jaylen Hotdogfingers, because hey, why the fuck not? If we’re gonna be angry, might as well get a god killer on our side.

We didn’t have much a chance to channel that anger against the gods for a while, so instead, we channeled it into growing our Garden. We boosted our current players, sending Silvaire to therapy and accidentally making her a murderer (WHOOPS. I don’t have time to talk about that in this post though.). We brought in Adalberto Tosser, we brought Margo out of the shadows to return to xer position as captain. We fostered our players, and we readied for a chance to take our revenge.

In season 22, Brock Forbes was incinerated. It was the first at-home incineration since Caligula. Every death leads itself back to her, somehow, back to the Garden, and back to the love she fostered in the team. We mourned Brock, but we knew he was never only ours. He was the Crabs’ captain first. He was their captain until the end, and we regretted never having a chance to send him  home to them. We gave the players we shared with the Crabs a place to mourn him in the Memorial Bat Forest, and we opened our doors to the Crabs fans who wished to reminisce on the good times. Brock Forbes’ death made us angry, but it was a quiet, simmering anger, rather than a violent, fiery one. We mourned, and we continued to prepare to take our revenge.

The first time we got the chance to get a direct hit on the gods in season 24, we took it. We had lost Adalberto Tosser, Brock’s spouse, just days prior, and we knew it was time to finally take our revenge. Without any care for the beckoning of the other corners, we rushed the mound, determined to hurt the Coin in any way we could. Simply charging the mound, without hitting another corner first, however, turned out to be an ineffective strategy, but we were blinded by anger at who the gods had taken from us, we didn’t care. If we had a chance to punch the Coin in the face or stab her in the back or something, we were going to take it. Upon realizing there was nothing we could do alone, we made a beeline for the Hall. We helped fuel the other teams who were ready to hurt her too. Even if we didn’t get to kill her, in the end, we were going to make sure the Coin got exactly what was coming to her. The Flowers arrived at the Hall in tandem with the Jazz Hands, and we grasped each other by the hand and threw ourselves into death together. We rejoined our departed friends and took them with us as we went to avenge them. We truly had gone rouge, abandoning our ideals of growth and life, dying for those we had loved so dearly, dying to get them their revenge.