Kelvin Andante

Kelvin Andante
Art by EpicToast on Discord
Basic Information
Team	Core Mechanics
Status	Shadowed
Batting	(2.1)
Pitching	(3.3)
Defense	(2.8)
Running	(2.3)
Modifications	AlternateThis Player is an Alternate... Player is replaced with an alternate reality version, stats are randomized.  NegativeThis Player is a Negative. Negative players have negative eDensity.  ScatteredThis Player returned from Elsewhere a bit Scattered.
Items	Smokey Cannon ●●
Dates Active	Mar 4, 2021–present
External Links	Blaseball-Reference Player Changes Player Page
Personal Information
Evolution	Base
Peanut Allergy	Not Allergic
Pregame Ritual	Friendship bracelets
Coffee Style	Americano
Blood Type	Fire
Fate	77
Biographical Details
Pronouns	Ey/Em/Eir

Kelvin Andante is a player in the Shadows for the Core Mechanics, and has been with the team since the Descension.

Official League Records

Andante joined the ILB as a player in the Shadows for the Core Mechanics during the Descension.

During the Season 17 elections, Andante joined the Core Mechanics' pitching rotation in exchange for Jolene Willowtree via the Mechanics' Foreshadow Will.

On Season 18, Day 84, Andante retreated to the Mechanics' Shadows in exchange for Jolene Willowtree as a result of Core Pillar Center's Fax Machine.

During the Season 18 elections, Andante's alternate was called and arrived with the Negative modification as a result of the Mechanics' Alternate Trust will.

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

Origin

Kelvin Andante was born █████ in ████████████ to parents ████████████████████. Records from ████████████ show that Andante was an academic child, placing highly in several Spelling Blees as well as achieving 'Most Improved' in the ███████████████████ hlandwriting competition 7 years in a row. Andante was reportedly not particularly athletic, struggling with hand eye coordination. Ey were diagnosed with Dyspraxia at the age of four.

There is not much information on Andante's teen years other than one picture of em in a report from ███████████████ where ey can be seen with various other unidentified teenagers. The picture is captioned 'Kevin Andrews [center right] along with the remainder of group 7b'. Andrews famously went on to be a legendary pitcher for the ████████████████████████, though there is little information as to who ey were or eir personal life.

Reports from the time indicate that ███████████████ were interested in synthesizing Blaseball players for the ████████████████████████, following annihilation of star pitcher ██████████████████. No records survive to indicate whether they succeeded or not, but these experiments may be an explanation as to Andante's apparent temperature control powers as well as ability to project stable Unfire in the place of hair.

Arrival in the Core

In interviews, Andante has claimed that ey struggled with exposure to heat as an adult and found that life in ████████████ was too hot for em, stating that ey fell into the Core in an attempt to leave. Andante is known to be a member of U.P. and joined just prior to signing up for the Core Mechanics, and the official records of that organization state that Andante was found in a supply closet a few days before the Decension wearing what appeared to be a false moustache that fell off five minutes later.

The U.P. report goes on to state that Andante did find the temperature fluctuations in the Core challenging and became unwell, requiring medical intervention.

While Andante's medical records are heavily redacted due to eir association with ███████████████, information on eir blood type is accessible. It seems that this was AA originally before becoming █ and then Fire.

Musical Career

There is little evidence that Andante had been a musician prior to arrival in the Core. However, 14 months after eir arrival, ey and fellow Core Resident Kelvin Drumsolo announced the formation of their indie-punk-folk-new wave-experimental band Kelvin and the Kelvins. While they initially only performed covers for friends at open mic nights they achieved some popularity within the Core and began writing their own music, often in collaboration with other musically orientated Core Mechanics.

Shadows

Andante was not originally part of the blaseball team the Core Mechanics as ey were apparently in ████████████ while the team was winning their first championships. During the Descension, when it became clear that the team were going to return to Internet League Blaseball, Andante signed on and joined the Shadows. When asked, ey stated that ey were not expecting to have to play due to general lack of splorting talent but wanted to be with eir fellow Mechanics and help out where possible.

The friendship bracelets that many members of the team now sport are credited to Andante, who would often be seen making them while on the Bench.

Active Play

In the Season 17 Elections, Andante was called up to the rotation in exchange for Core veteran Jolene Willowtree. Andante and Drumsolo were seen arguing after this and it was announced that Kelvin and the Kelvins were going on hiatus shortly after. Andante stated that while fans were expecting em to return to the shadows via the Core Pillar Center's newly built Fax Machine, ey were very excited to have the opportunity to play. Andante initially proved unskilled on the mound, but seemed to have an odd habit of suddenly playing with surprising talent and failing to give up the required 10 runs. Fans speculated about possible relation to legendary former big leagues pitcher Kevin Andrews, due to Andante looking oddly similar to eir reported appearance. Andante has not addressed these rumors. Andante returned to the shadows after Season 18 day 84, stating that ey’d had eir fun but that if the team really wanted to win it, they’d need someone a bit more serious in play.

Alt Trust

During the Season 18 Election, the Mechanics voted to Alternate-Trust Andante. The idea had been seeded early in the season due to Andante's apparent difficulties as a pitcher.

Andante, who at the time was accused of committing star fraud (the act of falsifying one's stars so that they are not representative of true ability) due to anomalies in eir pitching performance, had little desire to be replaced by an Alternate and so approached the █████ ██████ and proposed a plan which would allow em to remain and to look after eir friends. Andante would remain but with 'randomised' stats which would be closer to representing Andante's true abilities as a pitcher. While Andante would have to continue to perform to eir star count (to ensure the allegations didn't gain any more weight), ey'd be able to be more use to eir team and potentially to the █████ ██████.

Unbeknownst to Andante, there would be a heavy (or rather, Unheavy) price for this bargain. Andante's soul became Negative, and Andante has been described as, under certain lighting, having the outlines of what appear to be Tarot designs appear on eir skin as well as on occasion levitating both eirself and blaseballs.

Andante allegedly felt that these aesthetic shifts were 'way less cool than I was expecting' and according to colleagues took dramatic steps to make them more extreme, which apparently led to structural damage to eir residence. Andante has been described as having a 'total color scheme overhaul', with one Mechanic stating that 'blue hair Kelvin is purple now and I've had to come up with an entirely new class of Kelvin classification'. Bandmate and colleague Drumsolo has, perhaps relatedly, begun insisting that zir spouse is in a parallel dimension now and that it is 'very tragic that ey've been replaced by a legally distinct shampoo stealing bathroom destroying stranger but it is what it is' and has also stated that ze's grateful that zir 'divorce count has reset because oof'.

Publication of this material was authorized by ███████████████.

Fan Works

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  Andante refusing to be faxed in Season 18. Art by EpicToast on Discord