Brock Forbes

Brock Forbes
Basic Information
Former Team(s)	Baltimore Crabs, Boston Flowers
Status	Incinerated
Batting	(1.8)
Pitching	(4.6)
Defense	(4.1)
Running	(3.6)
Modifications	MildPitchers with Mild have a chance of throwing a Mild Pitch. The pitch is automatically a ball and all baserunners will advance.
Items	Cryogenic Helmet ○○ Mesh Head Jersey ●●○
Dates Active	Jul 20, 2020–June 29, 2021
External Links	Blaseball-Reference Player Changes Player Page
Personal Information
Evolution	Base 1
Peanut Allergy	Not Allergic
Pregame Ritual	Playing fetch
Coffee Style	Americano
Blood Type	H₂O
Fate	67
Member of the BlaseballCommunity Hall of Fame
Induction	Week 3
Vote	68.95%

Brock Forbes was a pitcher for the Boston Flowers, was with the team from the Season β15 elections until being incinerated on Season β22, Day 19. Forbes previously played for the Baltimore Crabs.

Official League Records

Forbes joined the ILB as a pitcher for the Baltimore Crabs with the Return of Blaseball.

During the Season β5 elections, Forbes received boosts in all ratings as a result of the Horde Hallucinations and Rollback Netcode blessings.

On Season β6, Day 1, Forbes's batting ability was siphoned by Yellowstone Magic lineup player Annie Roland in a game with Blooddrain weather, bringing it from to . Forbes was the first to be subject to Blooddrain's weather effects.

On Season β10, Day X, Forbes pitched against THE SHELLED ONE'S PODS, and lost after a single hit. Forbes then gained the Mild modification. Due to the Crabs' subsequent Ascension, Forbes was absent from the ILB from the Season β10 elections until the Descension.

During the Season β12 elections, Forbes' defense was increased by 3.3 → 4.0 as a result of the Crabs' The Rack blessing. Additionally, Forbes benefited from a 3.7 → 4.3 increase to pitching as a result of the Firefighters' Tag Team Pitching blessing.

Forbes was traded to the Boston Flowers in exchange for Parker Parra during the Season β15 elections via the Flowers' Equivalent Exchange will.

During the Season β17 elections, Forbes' Overpowerment was increased and their Unthwackability was decreased as a result of the Grounded blessing.

On Season β22, Day 19, Forbes was incinerated and replaced by Backpatch Rolsenthal.

COMMUNITY REPORTS
The remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.

Box of Brock Forbes Files

Dust billows as the file box lands on the table. While many archives in the Interdimensional Rumor Mill are unified in some way, this... definitely isn’t one of them. The accompanying Rumor Registry explains all of the contents... wherever it is... but for now you grab the folder labelled IF-806.44 and start reading...

Interdimensional Time Share: Finer Details

Brock Forbes is not one to open up in interviews, but, after some leg pulling by Parker Parra and Nora Perez, did allow one meeting with a UMBC research team studying bioattunement among dimensional anomalies, though they said they were mostly there to support a nervous Parker. The interview itself was never published, but inferred details recorded in the paper's explanations are paraphrased as follows.

(Due to frequent resurfacing of alternate Brocks throughout the interview, all Brocks who fronted for the session are collectively referred to as Brock.)

Brock Forbes has all their infinite alternate selves superimposed over one body. They can see and hear into every alternate dimension or history (smell tests were pending but cancelled prematurely). As long as one point in space overlaps with all Brocks, any singular Brock can move their body independently of the throng, giving Brock a theoretical two-Brock diameter sphere of influence. However, the density of superimposed alternate selves affects tangibility in a way Brock referred to as 'focusing,' explaining that unifying overlapping Brocks or bringing particularly close alternates to front for added physical presence requires discrete conscious effort. Total synchronicity results in, their word, 'hypertangibility,' which is apparently "a little more nuanced" than indestructability/inviolability. Brock agreed to a total synchronicity test, pitching a ball held by every Brock simultaneously, which ████████ ██ ██████████ ████████ ██ ██ ████ ██████ ███ ███ ███████████ ██ ███ ██████ ██████ ██████.

When asked to explain the variance behind alternate Brocks, including physiological characteristic shifts, as well as biomechanical, hypercarcinized, elemental, conglomerate, and other deviations, Brock said "nah," and refused to elaborate.

Mentally and emotionally, Brock explained that all Brocks are 'here' rather than 'there,' when asked to elaborate they referred again to focus regarding their ability to perceive alternate timelines. The Inderdimensional Time Share is an psychological coping mechanism designed across all Brocks in order to help communicate and synchronize across alternate selves (Brock referred to this headspace as 'the inifinte f███scape,' which has since become the accepted scientific nomenclature in the field). Every Brock is a conscious and their own individual, though they share the same lived experience among one another. There is a stratification of alternate selves at front, creating what researchers described as "a general shimmering, with a handful of noticable translucent limbs, heads, and torsos superimposed at the ready to manifest in full." Brock explained that this phenomenon is not endemic to their condition but is a psychological byproduct of their combat and pitching experience, no other similar cases have come forth to test this explanation since. The Time Share is managed by an infinite rotating roster of Brocks in charge of algorithmic assignment and meta-discussion about the IF, with an intent of keeping a number of diversely selected alternate selves to take front at any time for the purposes of flexibility, environmental awareness, well-roundedness, and pragmatism. One Brock is in charge of focusing synchronicity to a higher degree than the others for the sake of interfacing with nonanomalous individuals in this dimension.

Brock has explained that every self is conscious about the act of being appointed to front by the Time Share, and every self is aware that mathematically speaking there is almost no chance whatsoever that they will ever front again. This results in a difficulty to open up to others or connect with them, due to feeling like all personal relationships are transient and will be handed off to someone else. Brock maintains very pragmatic, professional relationships with colleagues and teammates with an understanding that it will benefit all Brocks in the future to network as needed, but that he as an individual has trouble forming emotional bonds and attachments to others. It is not impossible, he pressed on, but simply requires far more time, effort, and pain than friendships among others seem to cost.

Brock has further explained that the migraines caused by focusing too hard or for too long are a part of why they engage in exorbant cannabis use, in further part because it lets them ease up on their focus, quiets down the cacophony of the IF, and blends the kaleidoscopic visions of other worlds into a slightly more pleasant static. Because all Brocks share their lived experience, and "are pretty unanimously chill," the headspace is largely pretty copacetic in most situations. When asked if the migraines might be induced from stress, due to the vast majority of alternate timelines being confirmed postapocalyptic lifeless wastelands (to which Brock asked very firmly "who told you that?"), or from the heartwrenching hurt of experiencing timelines where things are 'better' than here or even 'good,' Brock explained that whatever Parra explained to them beforehand should have been left at the door.

Brock has been shown to be able to take small objects (a pen, a blaseball) and unfocus them across realities, which they referred to as 'hammerspacing' them. Different physical characteristics of the object affect the amount of 'focus' needed to do so differently, including density, electromagnetic charge, volume irrespective of mass, and so on. This is corroborated with video evidence of Brock pitching, where blaseballs appear in their hand like a kaleidoscope of rotating prismatic hands coming together. When asked about dispersing a living test subject (one rat, or one volunteer researcher), Brock simply said "no," and refused to elaborate.

Brock has explained that it is nearly impossible for them to die, as they are infinite and fractal, and any grevious injury that affects the Brock at front would simply have another Brock take charge and let the wound fade into the kaleidoscope of the IF. When researchers entertained the possibility of a two-Brock diameter sphere of influence, like, say, the heat bubble of an incineration event, Forbes immediately rose from their chair and ended the session.

Chants

• "Can't stop the Brock"
• "Brock our Rock"

In Literature

Runolfio Peeper, the Crabs Poet Laureate, wrote the following ditty about Forbes:

A haze of smoke drifts from the pitcher’s mound
Where Brock (or “Fat Joint”) Forbes can now be found.
All know performance boosting drugs are banned
But drugs that make you worse? Those are just grand!

In terms of blaseball rankings Brock is meager
His bat is weak—his blunt is the big leaguer
Dazed and high, Brock often flunks his pitch
But measured by his chill Forbes is thrice rich.

Trivia

• Forbes can frequently be seen spacing out on the pitcher's mound before a pitch.

Fan Works

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  Art by @glassgoblin

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  Art by @glassgoblin

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  The wedding of Forbes and Adalberto Tosser, art by @glassgoblin

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  Art by Toasthaste

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  Mini-Blaseballer by @HetreaSky

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  Brock Forbes linking arms with Dunn Keyes (right) by glassgoblin

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  Brock Forbes of the Boston Flowers by glassgoblin