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Interdimensional names/nicknames

We already talked about this with radiant, but it didn’t really catch up on it much with the others… So I’m gonna do that now

Eclipse: radiant

Lunar: Lune

Sun: Sol

Moon: Frost

Earth: Gia*

Ruin: Nova

Jack: hollow moon/hollow

Solar flare: proto

Blood moon(fused): Orchid*

Bloody (older twin): Canna*

Harvest (younger twin): hibiscus*

Good moon: crescent

KC: Stellar *

Glamrock chica: chickpea

Old eclipse: Araceli/Catalyst 

* Gia is earth’s actual name within swap shuffle. I just called her earth for simplicity sake

* The twins were programmed with this as their interdimensional name. Hence the extreme difference between the rest of the cast, when split, they decided to continue with the flower symbolism names

* the original nicknames for the twins were carnation (the older twin) & amaryllis (the younger twin). Their nicknames got changed due to the symbolism of the original flowers, chosen not fitting their personalities.

* originally on this kill codes, nickname was nebula, and this was posted with nebula as his nickname. I just remembered nebula is already a character in the sun and moon show so I had to change it.

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Closing Time: Poking around Justin Bour's nest

The future looks bright for Justin Bour (AP)

Let’s establish up front, I don’t have any Justin Bour shares this year. It wasn’t an intentional fade, nor was it a reluctant miss. There are a lot of corners on the market, and I happened to fall into other ones. Some are working out fine, some aren’t so lovely.

But given how Bour’s tearing up the National League of late, I’m surprised his ownership tag is sitting at 44 percent. He deserves more respect than that.

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If you cut up the top hitters over the last month, Bour checks in as the No. 15 bat (.337-16-9-21). He’s been crushing against left-handed pitching, an encouraging sign (albeit we’re talking about a mere 38 plate appearances). He’s also been a lot better at home, which follows the career trend.

I popped the hood and looked for some secondary stuff in Bour’s favor. His walk rate is basically static and he’s actually striking out more than usual (with a notable jump in swinging strikes). He has the lowest contact rate of his career. That said, Bour’s mashing when he makes contact, posting the best hard-hit rate (by far) of his career.

Bour’s success might be in spite of his hacking ways, but it’s also possible the extra aggressiveness is driving his monster month. Not everyone is best served with a patient approach at the plate, and sometimes passivity — especially early in the count — can get you into bad habits and repeated pitcher counts. I’m not pushing all the chips in the middle on this theory, but I think it’s reasonable that Bour’s willingness to attack in his at-bats might be steering his breakout season.

Of course, we’ll concede the other side. This could just be one of those hot months, soon to be followed by a downtown. Ebb and flow, peaks and valleys. But there’s a simple conclusion to Bour’s fantasy scan — he should be owned in a lot more leagues than 44 percent. It’s not that easy to find a thumper at first base.

You want a swap-out list, I can do that. I’d certainly rather have Bour than Eric Hosmer (87 percent); Hosmer’s power isn’t reliable, and the Kansas City lineup is a wasteland. The less KC exposure we have, the better.

Bour versus Todd Frazier (83 percent) would at least be a conversation. Bour versus Maikel Franco (68 percent)? What’s keeping you? And for all the fun when Joey Gallo (63 percent) connects, he’s hitting just .191. There’s no guarantee he’ll have a job all year. Playing for Jeff Banister is no bargain, either.

• We all love a dual-eligible pitcher who gets it going as a starter, so let’s check in with Tampa’s Matt Andriese. He’s quietly been rock-steady, posting a 3.24 ERA and 1.27 WHIP. He’s rattled off four wins in five starts, and his last turn was his best (8 IP, 6 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 5 K). A start against the Angels, good work if you can get it.

The two previous Andriese wins were fortunate, because he went just five innings in each game. We’d like to see more economy, longer appearances. The ERA-estimators aren’t completely on board, either — his FIP, xFIP and SIERA are all over four. That 82.3 percent strand rate isn’t likely to hang around.

Nonetheless, Andriese is striking out better than eight batters per nine innings, his career walk rate is 2.3/9, Tampa is a good place for a pitcher (he’s been lucky to get seven home starts to this point), and the dual-tag is handy in many leagues. He’s also made significant strides with his secondary pitches. Given how many big-name pitchers have been injured or ineffective this year, Andriese looks underowned at 32 percent. (Our buddy Jeff Zimmerman liked Andriese as a possible sleeper back in February.)

Next week’s Andriese start at Texas makes me a little nervous, the hitting environment. I’ll sign off on the White Sox turn in the following week.

Looking for Odubel Herrera? Don’t bother checking the bases (AP)

• Odubel Herrera and Kyle Schwarber had an interesting Thursday competition going on, in separate games. Anything you can do, I can do worse. Schwarber went 0-for-4, with four strikeouts. Herrera fanned five straight times.

Herrera’s down to .226/.275/.339 on the year. Schwarber’s slashing .181/.299/.356.

I wonder if the Cubs would consider giving Schwarber a brief return to the minors, just to fine tune some things and maybe fix his confidence. The team certainly has plenty of outfielders. Schwarber’s hit rate is notably unlucky at .224, though he’s also carrying a puny line-drive rate (13.5 percent) and a soft-contact rate that’s slightly over league average.

Herrera is getting himself out far too often these days (and yes, he was overly priced in the Shuffle — I’ll concede that). His outside-zone swing rate has jumped to 43 percent, and his swinging strike rate is the tenth-worst in the league. If you’re hacking almost as much as Byron Buxton, something’s gone terribly wrong. Herrera’s walk and strikeout rates are both moving in the wrong direction.

Herrera was too good last year for us to kick him to the curb, but a short-term benching — for the Phillies and for roto owners — makes sense for now.

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Ok, so I’ve had multiple sun and moon show, alternate universes rolling through my head, but one that’s recently just been rotting in my brain is my own take on a swap au that I’ve been calling swap shuffle.

It has a pretty similar plot line to the sun and moon show, however, there’s some important differences stemming from the fact that eclipse managed to figure out, alternate universes exist via finding out about the canon show. He struggled to catch up with the whole show, but he managed to, this leads to certain events playing out differently, such as they’re being a much shorter time with the timeout box & eclipse telling lunar in a panic that if they leave sun alone, there is a high likelihood that moon is going to kill sun (it’s still happens, but lunar eclipse get there, just after it happens)

I’m currently gonna go over who takes whose place within this universe, because while not, everyone has been figured out, yet, a good amount have

Eclipse takes moon’s place, & while not being the best brother, he does try to make it up to lunar. The fact he has seen the cannon show has allowed him to avoid a few mistakes (such as not telling lunar about the bit of kill code earlier on) but also leads to new issues & changes certain situations (Sun being blown up).

Lunar takes sun’s place in the au, he’s still short, but he’s much taller than he’s ever been in the show. They also has a tendency to not fully listen/take things seriously (how the moon situation got as bad as it had). Their July 16th happened on November 16th, so lunar usually gets very quiet on the days leading up to the anniversary of a massacre.

Sun takes lunar’s place, & has had a few panic attacks remembering October, though he usually gets help getting through these ptsd induced episodes thanks to his family. For a while Sun had the same issue lunar had of putting his trauma on a pedestal, though that was before he jumped universes. He managed to meet some alternate versions of others that (in sun’s words) “suffered more than I have”

Moon takes eclipse’s place, & he’s a bit more toned down than eclipse. He does attempt to have his abuse towards his younger brother be much more subtle (the best way I can describe. It is a lot of praise that slowly becomes less and less) which slowly turned more physical over the course of their takeover. Moon is also responsible for the creation of Ruin, who was finished on November 15th, & activated the next day

Jack-o-moon & solar flare swap places, I don’t have much to say about them yet though. I’m still working everything out for them

Chica takes Monty’s place, though she’s not really into scamming. She does run a fitness program that she swears by though. She’s one of the smartest animatronics in the plex (behind eclipse by a while) but she’s way too trusting & empathetic for her own good, even when her gut tells her otherwise.

(I don’t really know much about the other shows, but Monty takes Chica’s place, Roxanne and Freddie swap places, along with foxy & glamrock bonnie)

(Update: in lew of a recent realization, the puppet and golden Freddy are being swapped. I genuinely thought both of them were gods. Only one is.)

Old eclipse takes Nexus's place. I’m still figuring out everything for him, but during Eclipse's spiral, old eclipse woke up & was immediately hit with whatever dark lunar put in them, essentially sacrificing himself to keep everyone safe as his last act of self. once under the new code, he starts trying to forcibly take control, ending with Golden Freddy using magic to separate the two & launch Old Eclipse into space. it was at that moment that the Old Eclipse was forever lost to the violent code.

Shuffle time!

Earth takes the place of kc, & she takes a more manipulative mother approach to her two sons when she claims them, not playing favorites, though she does have one. When she was in eclipse’s mindscape, she made it look like an overgrown meadow, using vines to freak eclipse & sun out. While she does eventually agree to a life of peace, it didn’t change her general behaviors and thoughts about ruin & moon, with her actively making it difficult for lunar & eclipse to figure out Commet powers. As well as making her death more realistic

Ruin takes the place of bloodmoon, though he lacks a twin. He generally is unhinged, but ironically hates killing, calling it a chore. He developed his sadistic nature with his hunting to make it entertaining for him, as he’d rather toy with others than kill them (he has a bloodlust, but he despises the taste of blood) when revived by kc, he knew something was off, but played along. Unlike the cannon blood twins, ruin regrets November 16th, stating that he didn’t enjoy the screams of the children while they were dying, & that the children were too weak.

KC takes ruin’s place, & though I don’t have much of an idea for him yet, at least, while infected, I do know that him uninfected is much nicer than he was while infected, though he still isn’t really friendly. He does wish to try fixing his relationship with ruin, as infected KC viewed him as a tool which cured KC thinks theirs a lot more that everyone is missing.

The blood twins take the place of earth, and while they are neutral, they do have their biases, which leads to some disagreement between them & others. The twins are really calm, with the younger twin being extremely calm. An interesting thing is that the creator of this universe only intended for the older twin to exist, but conditions were just right that bloody & harvest developed as two sentient ai, with harvest hiding his existence as he wasn’t supposed too exist. Bloody is closer to eclipse while harvest is closer to lunar.

Francis and Frank are swapped. I don’t know much about these two in Cannon so it’ll be fun to work with them

I’ll go over others like good moon at a later date as this post is getting long, so here’s some fun facts.

Lunar is the eldest brother in the daycare family, with harvest being the youngest

Harvest & Chica end up having a romantic relationship that’s more of a slow burn figuring things out than cannon Monty x earth.

Eclipse helps bloody realize he’s aroace.

Sun has a plushie empire & hyperfixates on them

Ruin has a tea adiction, even if his systems force him to throw it up if it doesn’t have blood in it (90% of the time it’s blood free)

Eclipse has anger issues he’s been seeing a therapist for

Bloody & harvest are more like emotional support dogs than therapist siblings.

Bloody & harvest have their own unique hairstyles (harvest’s is a long braid while bloody’s is a shoulder bob). when combined both hairstyles are visible at once

In the lord moon universe, sun is held captive in a tower, earth has grown to actually regret her parenting decisions & genuinely misses ruin (she’s the landscaper) & jack is the bitter gaurd. Eclipse and a group of citizens & survivors from moon grabbing the commet are planning a rebellion against moon. Lunar is the servant their

Earth subtly favored moon over ruin, as he was the one to activate her. That & ruins hatred of killing pushed moon into her favorites, though she never openly showed it

KC has been caught trying to fix the balloon world arcade cabinet, and only the balloon world arcade cabinet

Eclipse usually uses the nickname radiant when traveling universes. He doesn’t know why, but he assumes it’s because he likes the sound of it.

Sun isn’t resurrected with Commet powers, but he does teach himself magic for defense was resurrected by puppet, who’s now training him

Old eclipse changes his name to Araceli

Araceli's last moment he was himself was during endgame, where Eclipse was begging Chickpea & golden to do something to stop him

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I might be sleep deprived, but I finally got down stellar‘s personality (I had to change the nickname I gave KC because I remembered nebula existed for the second time with my AUs)

He’s pretty unhinged like “jigsaw” was, but he’s much crueler, & has a love of using corporal punishment & worse. He’s also weaponizes he’s a masochism to keep nova 2.0 from getting back at him often.

He also added some extra things to nova to make punishing him more fun, including making it so that one of his rays could hook down and would make the control shocks even more painful.

I do want to add on that within swap shuffle, KC, actually does have a virus, it isn’t an act like in the show.

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Some little facts about the murder “fam” for the swap shuffle universe

Ruin was teetering on betraying earth when he got killed.

Moon planned to give eclipse a code that would “kill” earth (actual purpose of said code was unknown) but gave him a dud code when earth told him she’d rather wipe eclipse when separating so she looks more like how she does in the mindscape.

OG ruin never hated sun, infact the two were semi-close, considering sun learned how to infuse things with blood so ruin could eat stuff that wasn’t blood

Copy ruin/new ruin hates sun. (This is a mutual hatred)

Earth actively lied about things regarding moon when talking to lunar & eclipse

Earth gave ruin & moon equal treatment, even if she wasn’t pleased with ruin

Out of every celestial in shuffle swap, ruin is one of the very few with a normal craving (tea), the only reason it isn’t fully normal is because his system rejects anything without blood in it

If ruin didn’t have the bloodlust programming in him he’d still be pretty sadistic, he just wouldn’t be killing people.

New ruin/copy ruin ended up getting attached to infected kc

OG ruin had the same thing happen with earth, which is why it took so long for him to even consider betraying her

Earth would actively bad mouth both ruin & moon behind their backs, take a guess, who was badmouthed more

When new ruin killed earth, he shouted all the supposed pent up feelings he had about her before he got shot by lunar (these are not the pent-up feelings of the original)

Ghost ruin never really stopped haunting lunar, And has actively commented on his dislike of new ruin

Jack was originally meant to be a body and spy bot for earth, however, while she was beginning her false redemption, she encouraged moon to take it, so everything would look less suspicious

The only reason moon was put into a lab was to stop ruin from shocking him (which had mild success)

Old ruin had attempted to curbe his blood lust before he got a new body from Chica (his attempts were unsuccessful)

All three of them hate children (moon claims their selfish, ruin believes their weak and just doesn’t like their screaming, earth just doesn’t like them due to her coding, though she claims it’s because eclipse never liked children)

Ruin has a nickname for everyone.

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It definitely will take time and Therapy , but eventually they’ll understand…..

It’ll probably take KC coming in for them to understand, but they will eventually come around

I don’t know who of the swap shuffle group would do this but it would be so chaotic to take the shattered twins shopping at the clothing store. They absolutely hate mannequins

Chickpea & amaryllis would attempt to take them clothes, shopping, not realizing that they also have a fear of mannequins. Now chickpea has to deal with 3 people who are scared of manikins, with two of them, being more reluctant to go near them than the other.

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Through researching Pisces Lore,I have come to the determination that Pisces is the perfect astral to swap with Gemini

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Master post for swap shuffle au:

Basic info (will be updated as time goes on)

Murder fam facts

Good moon dimension

Nicknames

Info on infected stellar (KC)

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So who is she shuffled with then? If she takes kcs role but this is a swap and shuffle au

Also how would the swap shuffle people react to the whole shattered twins barreling down the steps, knocking into the other earth like bloodmoon and being knocked out by said impact?

Radiant is just making sure the twins are OK, ignoring Gaia. When she asks why he’s being rude, radiant, just calls out how she was a liar. 

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Why not consult the chart sol gave them early on so they could discern who was who?

I don’t know who of the swap shuffle group would do this but it would be so chaotic to take the shattered twins shopping at the clothing store. They absolutely hate mannequins

Chickpea & amaryllis would attempt to take them clothes, shopping, not realizing that they also have a fear of mannequins. Now chickpea has to deal with 3 people who are scared of manikins, with two of them, being more reluctant to go near them than the other.