Marco Escobar/IF-20.211

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Blaseball Worship

Escobar is the world's only known practitioner of an esoteric Blaseballic Rite. In accordance with their religious beliefs, Marco Escobar has no life outside of Blaseball.

When the Houston Spies aren't playing, Escobar can commonly be seen at their stadium or practice areas, looking utterly lost when not in the midst of a Blaseball-based scenario. Escobar has made several comments in interviews suggestive of a theological interpretation of Blaseball, and appears to regard multiple players, including teammates Morrow Wilson and Math Velazquez, as prophets—a classification which all of these players strenuously deny. Escobar pays very close attention to their chosen prophets during matches, considering their every move to be mystically significant. According to Escobar, Wilson and Math are "living vessels of the words of the Blaseball Gods" in their aspects as Atlas, carrier of the burden, and Kronos, lord of time, respectively. Math insists that Math is exactly what Math appears to be ("Math is math."), but Escobar remains convinced that Math is a prophet of some yet-to-manifest divine entity.  Morrow has simply declined to comment.

Escobar's fixation on Wilson does not end at believing them to be a living vessel for the gods—in fact, their interpretation of their teammate also positions them as the "god-man" destined to supplant the Blaseball gods in the "final days," or "twilight of the gods." Though Wilson has repeatedly asked how they can be both an aspect of the Blaseball gods and destined to destroy them, Escobar simply answers with, "Yes." Though Wilson has stated unequivocally that they do not agree with Escobar's assessment, Escobar seems to be nonetheless right about Wilson's Feedback trade—prior to Wilson's transfer, Escobar proclaimed that the coming game would be "the last sign before the Titanomachia."

Because Escobar believes wholeheartedly in Wilson's destiny, they have established a sort of one-sided rivalry between themself and the Tigerbeams alliance. To Escobar, both teams' affiliation with hell and/or the underworld constitutes "favor from the false gods." Some speculate that Escobar's blasphemy is to blame for the Spies' notoriously bad luck with blessings, but this has yet to be proven. Escobar has affirmed that their ultimate goal is to be incinerated during a match, stating that it's "the only way to enter Ballhalla."