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| − | File:Grollis Zephyr Tredlocity.png|alt=A digital drawing of Zephyr on a blank white background. Grolis is a short figure with a big dark purple and pink zip up hoodie. The hood is pointy and long like a windsock and has a pink flame on the end. Their face is completely shadowed by the hood so only a pair of glowing yellow eyes are visible.|Art by [https://twitter.com/tredlocity @tredlocity] | + | File:Grollis Zephyr Tredlocity.png|alt=A digital drawing of Zephyr on a blank white background. Grolis is a short figure with a big dark purple and pink zip up hoodie. The hood is pointy and long like a windsock and has a pink flame on the end. Their face is completely shadowed by the hood so only a pair of glowing yellow eyes are visible.|Art by [https://twitter.com/tredlocity @'''tredlocity'''] |
| − | File:Grollis Zephyr Fancymancer.png|alt=A digital ink drawing of Grollis Zephyr, a thin and muscular Japanese person | + | File:Grollis Zephyr Fancymancer.png|alt=A digital ink drawing of Grollis Zephyr, a thin and muscular Japanese person with long black hair in a low ponytail and a shoulder tattoo with the number 02. Ze is wearing a loose-fitting tank top with an upwards arrow over a tight black sleeveless turtleneck, and loose track pants. Ze looks down at the viewer with a cocky smile.|Art by [https://twitter.com/Fancymancer @'''Fancymancer'''] |
| − | File:Grollis Zephyr buzzard Comp.png|alt=A series of digital sketches of Grollis Zephyr in various outfits. The drawings themselves are done with thick modulated dark grey lines, and rest on a desaturated desaturated blue-grey blank background. Grollis is a short black southeast asian person with short curly hair and a face that's always half-obscured, whether that's by a facemask or the shadows of a cap or hood. In one image, ze is wearing a pair of window earrings, a sleeveless modified t-shirt featuring an image of Balrog from the videogame Cave Story, a skirt, black undershirt or binder, and black wrist cuffs. Ze is glaring at the viewer. In another, ze is wearing a bra, lowcut geometric pants, and headphones. Hyr eyes are screwed shut in contentment as ze flaps hyr hands to the music. Three images show Grollis in a hoodie from different angles, looking somewhat irritated. A headshot of hyr in a cap that shadows the upper part of hyr face shows hyr gritting hyr teeth in frustration, and an image with a cropped hoodie with the hood pulled up shows hyr looking doubtfully into the distance.|Art by [https://twitter.com/ | + | File:Grollis Zephyr buzzard Comp.png|alt=A series of digital sketches of Grollis Zephyr in various outfits. The drawings themselves are done with thick modulated dark grey lines, and rest on a desaturated desaturated blue-grey blank background. Grollis is a short black southeast asian person with short curly hair and a face that's always half-obscured, whether that's by a facemask or the shadows of a cap or hood. In one image, ze is wearing a pair of window earrings, a sleeveless modified t-shirt featuring an image of Balrog from the videogame Cave Story, a skirt, black undershirt or binder, and black wrist cuffs. Ze is glaring at the viewer. In another, ze is wearing a bra, lowcut geometric pants, and headphones. Hyr eyes are screwed shut in contentment as ze flaps hyr hands to the music. Three images show Grollis in a hoodie from different angles, looking somewhat irritated. A headshot of hyr in a cap that shadows the upper part of hyr face shows hyr gritting hyr teeth in frustration, and an image with a cropped hoodie with the hood pulled up shows hyr looking doubtfully into the distance.|Art by [https://twitter.com/saltbuzzard @'''saltbuzzard'''] |
| − | File:Little Grolly.jpg|alt=Digital drawings of Tokyo Lift player Grollis Zephyr dressed as a tokusatsu hero. Ze are wearing a pink hero costume with white boots, yellow gloves, a yellow cape, and a pink helmet that completely covers hyr face with a yellow up arrow emblem on it. Ze's holding up a blaseball in hyr right hand. There's a smaller drawing on the right that's a headshot of Zephyr unmasked. Ze has tan skin and white hair, and is smiling.|Art by [https://twitter.com/alienmandy_/status/1318014098789920769 @alienmandy_] | + | File:Little Grolly.jpg|alt=Digital drawings of Tokyo Lift player Grollis Zephyr dressed as a tokusatsu hero. Ze are wearing a pink hero costume with white boots, yellow gloves, a yellow cape, and a pink helmet that completely covers hyr face with a yellow up arrow emblem on it. Ze's holding up a blaseball in hyr right hand. There's a smaller drawing on the right that's a headshot of Zephyr unmasked. Ze has tan skin and white hair, and is smiling.|Art by [https://twitter.com/alienmandy_/status/1318014098789920769 @'''alienmandy_'''] |
| − | File:Classic 70’s-style Grollis Zephyr.jpg|alt=A mixed-media illustration of Grollis Zephyr, whose costume evokes 1970's masked hero tokusatsu shows. The background is a photograph of 1970s Tokyo. They stand atop a building on the 1970's Tokyo skyline, giving a thumbs-up to the viewer. Tokyo tower is visible in the far background. The caption reads "Let's lift together".|A vintage Grollis Zephyr in front of the Tokyo skyline. Art by [https://twitter.com/Mindbleach_HiFi @A.I.] | + | File:Classic 70’s-style Grollis Zephyr.jpg|alt=A mixed-media illustration of Grollis Zephyr, whose costume evokes 1970's masked hero tokusatsu shows. The background is a photograph of 1970s Tokyo. They stand atop a building on the 1970's Tokyo skyline, giving a thumbs-up to the viewer. Tokyo tower is visible in the far background. The caption reads "Let's lift together".|A vintage Grollis Zephyr in front of the Tokyo skyline. Art by [https://twitter.com/Mindbleach_HiFi @'''A.I.'''] |
| − | File:Grollis Zephyr uniform Fancymancer.png|alt=A digital ink drawing of Grollis Zephyr, a thin and muscular Japanese person with spiky black hair and a Lift uniform with the number '02,' as well as a batting helmet with wing decals on it. Ze wears a big glove, a scarf, and pitching glove on hyr right hand. Hyr back is to the viewer and ze turns hyr head to look towards the viewer with a confident smile.|Art by [https://twitter.com/Fancymancer @Fancymancer] | + | File:Grollis Zephyr uniform Fancymancer.png|alt=A digital ink drawing of Grollis Zephyr, a thin and muscular Japanese person with spiky black hair and a Lift uniform with the number '02,' as well as a batting helmet with wing decals on it. Ze wears a big glove, a scarf, and pitching glove on hyr right hand. Hyr back is to the viewer and ze turns hyr head to look towards the viewer with a confident smile.|Art by [https://twitter.com/Fancymancer @'''Fancymancer'''] |
| − | File:Yusef and Grollis.png|alt=Yusef is a tall black Egyptian person with a window for a face. They are wearing a dark halter top and a long skirt with wide horizontal stripes of grey, powder blue, and purple. They have a belt loosely wrapped around their waist and powder blue short laceup | + | File:Yusef and Grollis.png|alt=Yusef is a tall black Egyptian person with a window for a face. They are wearing a dark halter top and a long skirt with wide horizontal stripes of grey, powder blue, and purple. They have a belt loosely wrapped around their waist and powder blue short laceup boots on their feet. Their long curly hair is tied up in a large bun. They are walking, with one arm around Grollis's shoulders. Grollis is a shorter black japanese person wearing a black beanie and a neon yellow cloth mask that matches hyr neon yellow socks and black flip flops. Ze is wearing a dark grey jean jacket with rolled up sleeves and a beetle pin, a slightly cropped dark green top, and black wristbands. Hyr pants are a Thai fisherman cut and have a pastel beetle pattern on them. Hyr eyes' scleras are slightly blue-tinted.|Yusef Fenestrate and Grollis Zephyr, by [https://twitter.com/saltbuzzard @'''saltbuzzard'''] |
| − | File:Grollis Zephyr and their beverage of preference.jpg|alt=An Illustration of Grollis Zephyr in casual clothing holding up a water bottle. His broad, Ryukyunan features and stylish haircut make him appear similar to a younger version of the pop star Gackt. Zephyr holds their water bottle facing the viewer and has a speech-bubble which reads: "Sponsor? No this is just water. Hydrate or die-drate, right?"|Grollis Zephyr out of costume | + | File:Grollis Zephyr and their beverage of preference.jpg|alt=An Illustration of Grollis Zephyr in casual clothing holding up a water bottle. His broad, Ryukyunan features and stylish haircut make him appear similar to a younger version of the pop star Gackt. Zephyr holds their water bottle facing the viewer and has a speech-bubble which reads: "Sponsor? No this is just water. Hydrate or die-drate, right?"|Grollis Zephyr out of costume, by [https://twitter.com/Mindbleach_HiFi @'''A.I.'''] |
| − | File:Grollis Zephyr tywyso.jpg|alt=A digital ink drawing of Zephyr on a blank white background. Grollis is a winged Japanese person with long black hair in a loose braid, baggy pants, a fanny pack, sunglasses, and a tank top. Ze holds a pair of drumsticks in one hand and a blaseball in the other. One of hyr arms is covered in rose and thorn tattoos.| | + | File:Grollis Zephyr tywyso.jpg|alt=A digital ink drawing of Zephyr on a blank white background. Grollis is a winged Japanese person with long black hair in a loose braid, baggy pants, a fanny pack, sunglasses, and a tank top. Ze holds a pair of drumsticks in one hand and a blaseball in the other. One of hyr arms is covered in rose and thorn tattoos.|By [https://twitter.com/tywyso/status/1391668451358351361 @'''tywyso'''] |
| − | File:Grollis zephyr buzzardtable.png|alt=A digital drawing of Grollis, a black | + | File:Grollis zephyr buzzardtable.png|alt=A digital drawing of Grollis, a black japanese person wearing a short-sleeved hoodie with an image of Balrog from Cave Story printed on the front. Ze is looking to the side with a frown.|S22 Zephyr by [https://twitter.com/saltbuzzard @'''saltbuzzard'''] |
| − | File:Grozep s24.png|alt=A digital drawing of Grollis Zephyr, a black | + | File:Grozep s24.png|alt=A digital drawing of Grollis Zephyr, a black japanese person with a slight unibrow and mustache, long dreadlocks tied back in a bun, fingerless gloves, and hoop earrings. Ze is sitting in a relaxed position on the ground as ze looks at the viewer with a slightly sour expression.|Zephyr as of Season 24, by [https://twitter.com/saltbuzzard/status/1423723467954958340 @'''saltbuzzard'''] |
| − | File:Brokyo in Pink.png|alt=a flatly colored digital drawing of five players, on an old paper textured pink background. from left to right: val hitherto, a short trans chinese man with a slight mustache, acne scars on his cheek and chest, and scars on his knuckles from picking his fingers. he wears a red trench coat over a v-neck shirt, a choker with a heart pattern, and goggles on his forehead which holds up spiky hair, dyed pink on the ends. there are scars around one eye which is cloudy. he looks to the side with a slight grimace as he raises one hand to gesture as he talks. gerund pantheocide, a short muscular butch transfem vietnamese person with a scar on one cheek, slings one arm over val’s shoulder as she grins and gestures at grollis, who is towards the right. they wear a bandanna covering their eyebrows, a t-shirt and one fingerless glove, and a black denim vest covered in patches and pins. she has a nazar hanging on one hip. coolname galvanic, a tall thin albino japanese person with long hair and heavy scarring beneath both eyes, stands in the center and back of the image, and looks towards yusef fenestrate. it wears a large sunhat with a sunflower and round sunglasses, and its face rests in a neutral, slightly frowning, expression. yusef fenestrate, a tall black egyptian wearing an oval-shaped stained glass window mask over the entirety of xer face. ve has immaterial hair that floats behind vim in varying shades of dark brown, and wears a hoodie over a turtleneck, as well as jeans which have had small landscapes painted along the legs. sie looks at coolname as ae rests one hand in gerund’s hair and the other loops around grollis zephyr to hold hyr hand. grollis zephyr, a black japanese person with short hair, a face mask, and an button-up t-shirt over a cropped binder and sweatpants. ze has large earrings, a nazar hanging from hyr neck, and the scleras of hyr eyes are slightly bluish while hyr irises are slightly oblong and vertical. hyr body faces slightly away from the group, and ze looks at gerund out of the corner of hyr eye as ze holds yusef’s hand. |[[Val Hitherto]], [[Gerund Pantheocide]], [[Coolname Galvanic]], [[Yusef Fenestrate]], and Zephyr in the early Expansion Era. | + | File:Brokyo in Pink.png|alt=a flatly colored digital drawing of five players, on an old paper textured pink background. from left to right: val hitherto, a short trans chinese man with a slight mustache, acne scars on his cheek and chest, and scars on his knuckles from picking his fingers. he wears a red trench coat over a v-neck shirt, a choker with a heart pattern, and goggles on his forehead which holds up spiky hair, dyed pink on the ends. there are scars around one eye which is cloudy. he looks to the side with a slight grimace as he raises one hand to gesture as he talks. gerund pantheocide, a short muscular butch transfem vietnamese person with a scar on one cheek, slings one arm over val’s shoulder as she grins and gestures at grollis, who is towards the right. they wear a bandanna covering their eyebrows, a t-shirt and one fingerless glove, and a black denim vest covered in patches and pins. she has a nazar hanging on one hip. coolname galvanic, a tall thin albino japanese person with long hair and heavy scarring beneath both eyes, stands in the center and back of the image, and looks towards yusef fenestrate. it wears a large sunhat with a sunflower and round sunglasses, and its face rests in a neutral, slightly frowning, expression. yusef fenestrate, a tall black egyptian wearing an oval-shaped stained glass window mask over the entirety of xer face. ve has immaterial hair that floats behind vim in varying shades of dark brown, and wears a hoodie over a turtleneck, as well as jeans which have had small landscapes painted along the legs. sie looks at coolname as ae rests one hand in gerund’s hair and the other loops around grollis zephyr to hold hyr hand. grollis zephyr, a black japanese person with short hair, a face mask, and an button-up t-shirt over a cropped binder and sweatpants. ze has large earrings, a nazar hanging from hyr neck, and the scleras of hyr eyes are slightly bluish while hyr irises are slightly oblong and vertical. hyr body faces slightly away from the group, and ze looks at gerund out of the corner of hyr eye as ze holds yusef’s hand.|[[Val Hitherto|Hitherto]], [[Gerund Pantheocide|Pantheocide]], [[Coolname Galvanic|Galvanic]], [[Yusef Fenestrate|Fenestrate]], and Zephyr in the early Expansion Era. By [https://twitter.com/saltbuzzard/status/1493291523617796102 @'''saltbuzzard'''] |
| + | File:Grollis zephyr domino bootleg butchcatss.png|alt=A fully colored digital drawing of Grollis Zephyr and Domino Bootleg sitting at a table together listening to music. They lean toward each other, and each holds a single earbud to their ear.|Zephyr and [[Domino Bootleg]], by [https://twitter.com/butchcatss @'''butchcatss'''] | ||
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Revision as of 04:39, 4 June 2022
Grollis Zephyr is a lineup player for the Tokyo Lift, and has been with the team since the Season 10 elections.
Official League Records
Zephyr joined the ILB as a pitcher for the Tokyo Lift during the Season 10 elections after the Ascension of the Baltimore Crabs.
During the Season 20 elections, Zephyr retreated to the Lift's Shadows as a result of the Lift's Move will, resulting in a combined 14.9 → 15.4 stat increase.
On Season 21, Day 76, Zephyr joined the Lift's lineup in exchange for Rylan O'Lantern at Tokyo Fitness Center via the Ratified Voicemail.
During the Season 22 elections, Zephyr gained the Skipping modification as a result of the Record Scratch blessing.
COMMUNITY REPORTSThe remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.
Box of Grollis Zephyr 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-19.97 and start reading...
Early Life
Grollis Zephyr spent hyr youth chasing roles in films and television shows to follow in the footsteps of hyr mother, fitness coach and action movie star Arda Zephyr. Despite hyr surname’s fame, hyr halfhearted acting left casting directors unimpressed. After a few gigs in minor roles and many rejections, Grollis admitted that hyr interests lay elsewhere, eventually taking on a part-time job as a theme park tokusatsu actor while continuing to live with Arda.
Lazarus Pit
In hyr freetime, Zephyr pursued hyr own passions as an avid amateur speleologist, ecologist, obscure bootleg game connoisseur, and taxidermist. Ze gained particular notoriety in spelelogical communities for hyr contributions to the exploration and mapping of several cave systems, and one time said that the slow rate at which caves change was a welcome change of pace from a busy and stressful life of dealing with an ever-changing world. Hyr explorations would eventually re-uncover the Lazarus Pit located under Dilsneyworld, and some have observed that in low lighting ze appears almost bioluminescent, possibly due to side effects of prolonged contact with the water of the Pit. Zephyr has advised against other amateur speleologists and thrillseekers exploring the Pit, stating that rumors of the Pit offering immortality are misleading, overblown, and wildly dangerous.
Joining the Lift
When the Lift formed, the late captain and founder Stijn Strongbody appointed Arda to be one of the team’s coaches and she convinced Grollis to join the team’s rotation, as ze “really need[ed] to get out there and socialize more.” Grollis readily accepted, likely because the Lift’s stadium often came to rest directly above the Pit.
Upon joining the Lift, Zephyr quickly joined a close-knit group known as “Brokyo,” consisting of Val Hitherto, Coolname Galvanic, Yusef Fenestrate, and Gerund Pantheocide. Their antics caused Strongbody and the other more responsible members of the team many a grey hair, as Fenestrate and Pantheocide’s common sense appeared to be nullified in the presence of the others. At one point they made a short-lived band in which Zephyr played the drums, and Zephyr often hosted game nights showcasing the worst of the bootleg games ze had dredged up from the depths of the internet. Of the group, Zephyr was most often seen in the presence of Fenestrate and Hitherto.
As a pitcher, hyr career was strikingly mediocre but other members of the rotation were often worse. Never the biggest problem, but never an asset, Zephyr drew Fan ire both for hyr unfriendly personality and hyr consistently lackluster on-field performance. Despite Fans jeering at hyr from the stands, ze appeared unphased, merely saying, “they hate me because I lose games? Well hey, if they’re not careful, I’ll take that as a challenge. I’d be happy to lose more if they try me.”
A Rivalry
During their first season together, Zephyr and Pantheocide realized that they pitched “in the exact same way. Like literally, we’re pitching twins,” and the two entered a good-natured rivalry. As Zephyr ended the season with a better record than Pantheocide, Pantheocide endeavored to party once more than Zephyr, attaining a lead. This lead continued for the duration of their time together on the rotation, as every improvement one made was quickly followed up by the other. Pantheocide unintentionally put an end to it when she moved to hitting and became the team’s star hitter and co-captains with Fenestrate. Zephyr, feeling that despite all hyr growth ze had been left behind not only by Pantheocide but by Fenestrate and Galvanic as well, fell from that friend group entirely. In the following seasons, Zephyr drifted between the Lift’s social circles, befriending a number of players, but with the exception of Elwin McGhee’s alternate and Rylan O’Lantern, most did not stay on the team for long. This led Zephyr to believe that no matter how much ze changed, ze would always be left behind in some way or another, and ze spent more and more time in the Lazarus Pit.
Following Pantheocide’s death in Season 21, Zephyr was one of three players on the team who partied, and the only one of those three to have known her. After getting shadowed and emerging onto the lineup, Zephyr finally became a better pitcher and baserunner than Pantheocide, and the same season as she was resurrected by the ILB Semi-Centennial, Zephyr benefited from a division hitting boost that ended hyr career at a tantalizing 0.02 batting stars less than hyr formerly deceased rival, in the same position in the lineup Pantheocide had initially occupied.
Skipping
During hyr stay in the shadows, Zephyr decided to go deeper into the Lazarus Pit than ever before, spending months in the twisting Infinite depths without emerging. After voicemailing out of the shadows and into active play as a batter, something about Zephyr was different, and when asked ze merely commented that ze had “finally found what dwells at the bottom.” It is suspected there is some connection between hyr comment and hyr earlier claims of the misleading and dangerous nature of the Pit, but it is uncertain whether ze has actually taken the Pit up on its “offers of immortality.” Regardless, Fans speculate that whatever ze had experienced in the Pit, it transformed hyr nature in such a fundamental way that ze was unmoored from the normal passage of time, Skipping through blaseball and showing up to bat with strikes and balls from pitches that hadn’t happened in the same timeline the Fans watched. Even as the end of Blaseball drew near, ze began to approach each game with a carefree sort of irreverence, quite literally skipping up to the plate without appearing to care about the outcome.
Trivia
- Zephyr's face is always partially obscured in photographs and videos, though the cause of obfuscation varies. Common causes range from sunglasses, face masks, shadows, a bird conveniently flying past just as the photo is taken, a dirty camera lens, to the files themselves becoming corrupted. Nobody has observed this phenomenon when meeting Zephyr in person.
- To Grollis’s chagrin, when Mags Banananana arrived on the Lift she quickly fell into a relationship with Arda Zephyr, becoming Grollis’s unofficial step-mother. Grollis has since joined a group chat of Banananana’s other children, step-children, and grandchildren.
- Zephyr made a brief background appearance as Dilsney’s first gay character in the film “MBP 2: Miku Binder Primate,” a modern reimagining of the classic "MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate," starring Stijn Strongbody.
- After Zephyr’s computer became unusable due to the vast array of viruses ze accrued while downloading bootleg games, it was enshrined in a glass case in the Legscraper’s conservatory, next to the memorial gardens.
Fan Works
Art by @tredlocity
Art by @Fancymancer
Art by @saltbuzzard
Art by @alienmandy_
A vintage Grollis Zephyr in front of the Tokyo skyline. Art by @A.I.
Art by @Fancymancer
Yusef Fenestrate and Grollis Zephyr, by @saltbuzzard
Grollis Zephyr out of costume, by @A.I.
By @tywyso
S22 Zephyr by @saltbuzzard
Zephyr as of Season 24, by @saltbuzzard
Hitherto, Pantheocide, Galvanic, Fenestrate, and Zephyr in the early Expansion Era. By @saltbuzzard
Zephyr and Domino Bootleg, by @butchcatss
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| Buried | James Nolan · Summers Preston | |
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| Stats | Season | 1 · 2 · Full List |
| Beta | 11 · 12 · 13 · 14· 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · 24 | |
| Circuits | Gamma 1 · Gamma 2 · Gamma 3 · Gamma 4 | |
| Events | Coffee Cup · Fall Ball | |
| Ballpark | Tokyo Fitness Center | |
| Community Lore | ||
| Staff | Macaquey Caulkin · Kumuscle · 200% Beef Hotdog and Chips (the Third) | |
| History | Tokyo Lift's History · Legscraper · Beef Wings · Beef Wings Corp | |
| Fan Culture 📣 · Fan Works 💌 · Tlopps Cards 🃏 | ||
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