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| dates= Jul 20, 2020&ndash;present
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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a player for the [[Canada Moist Talkers]], and has been with the team since [[Fall Ball]]. Reddick has previously played for the [[Hellmouth Sunbeams]].

== Official League Records ==
Reddick joined the [[ILB]] as a player in the [[Shadows]] for the [[Hellmouth Sunbeams|Moab Sunbeams]] with {{BetaSeason|1| the Return of Blaseball}}.

During the {{BetaSeason|15#Election Results|@ elections}}, Reddick joined the [[Hellmouth Sunbeams]]' lineup in exchange for [[Nagomi Nava]] as a result of the Sunbeams' {{BetaSeason|15#Wills|'''Foreshadow'''}} will.

During the {{BetaSeason|16#Election Results|@ elections}}, Reddick gained the {{ModLink|Ambitious}} modification as a result of the {{BetaSeason|15#Blessings|'''Posterizer'''}} blessing.

On {{BetaSeason|18}}, Day 66, Reddick’s [[Peanuts (weather)#Reactions|allergy]] was cured by [[REDACTED]]’s {{ModLink|Peanut Mister}}.

On {{BetaSeason|24}}, Day 88, Reddick retreated to the Sunbeams' [[Shadows]] in exchange for [[Lars Taylor]] due to [[Night]].

During the December 30, 2022 [[Fall Ball]], Reddick fell to the [[Canada Moist Talkers]].
{{Community Lore}}

==History==
===Origins and Death===
Little to nothing remains of Reddick's life before blaseball, presumably due to the events surrounding the opening of the Forbidden Book. Reddick does, nonetheless, know shi is of Hmong ancestry, spent at least a time working as an auto shop teacher at a school attended by [[Alaynabella Hollywood]], and signed up to join the Moab Sunbeams with the Return of Blaseball. Reddick claims shi has no memory to confirm these details, instead "knows them to be the last remnant truths about my past".

Reddick's earliest concrete memory was of hir soul being retrieved from the fang-studded depths of the Hellmouth by resident psychopomp [[Velasquez Meadows]], following the summoning of the [[Hellmouth]] and its subsequent retrocausal devouring of Moab and many of its citizens.

===Time in the Shadows===
Reddick settled in at the [[Shadow Moabbey]] after hir rescue, and dedicated hirself to the Aspirant Path undertaken by all who wait in the wings to play for the Sunbeams. Shi quickly became something of a mentor figure to other Aspirants, albeit an acerbic one who would generally only advise on matters outside of blaseball. Fellow initial Aspirant [[Jayden Wright]] corroborates this assessment of Reddick: "Shi barely joined the others on the bench with batting practice or the like... far more often spending hir time doing maintenance round the Moabbey. Shi had a real knack for it, too - though it meant shi'd never explain to anyone else how it was done, and only on a few occasions took the time to teach someone else how to fix it."

Reddick also took hir time in the shadows to grow accustomed to her new form as a phantasm, and the ability to possess objects. Hir favorite thing to inhabit is "trucks". Around Hellmouth and during blaseball games, shi is more commonly seen sporting the preferred fashion of Hellmouthian ghosts - a bedsheet, somewhat oilstained and topped with a trucker cap from hir collection.

==Career with the Sunbeams==
Reddick joined the Sunbeams roster from {{BetaSeason|16}}, relieving for [[Nagomi Nava]]. Shi maintains mostly-cordial, if unflinchingly honest, relations with the rest of hir team, but keeps a protective streak for the indefatigable and hard-working Wright.

Reddick's emerging from the Shadows also allowed hir to reconnect with [[Alaynabella Hollywood]], [[Seattle Garages]] player and former Sunbeam. The two believe that Hollywood was a particularly attentive and often present pupil of Reddick's, though any evidence to confirm as such was devoured - along with the other details of Reddick's life before Blaseball - clean out of causality by the Hellmouth when it opened below the city. Despite the Hellmouth's best efforts, Hollywood retained memories of melodies, lyrics, and other musical snippets which she strongly suspects were originally composed by Reddick, though she was unable to recall where she'd learned them until Reddick's unshadowing. While these were well-received by Hollywood's bandmates in Seattle, she chose not to release any music incorporating Reddick's work without her former mentor, now friend's blessing. Reddick hirself has said that while making music "isn't really my thing anymore", shi is still known to enjoy belting out tunes while driving.

Reddick is a talented mechanic, with some speculating that hir knack for fixing machines is the result of an [[Adaptation]]. Reddick is both quick and uncouth in hir dismissal of such claims, warning anyone who's suggested that "the result of decades of hard work and experience got dropped in my lap by a past-devouring hell pit" will "very suddenly end up with an eighteen-wheeler in [their] living room." When not playing with the Sunbeams, Reddick is most commonly found tinkering away in hir garage, with adjoining car yard/scrapheap and petting zoo slash animal shelter.

==Fan Works==
<span style="font-size: 120%;">'''Fanfiction'''</span><br/>
<small>''For more fanfiction see the [https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Paula%20Reddick/works 'Paula Reddick' tag] on AO3''</small>
*[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31133081 life's a beach and then you die] by [https://twitter.com/revivificating Ash] - [[Velasquez Meadows]] finds a recently dead Paula.
*[https://archiveofourown.org/works/36122077 a long road we've been walking on] by staradavid - Paula Reddick and what it means to live, even when you're dead.
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File:Paula reddick by coblin.png|alt=Illustration of Paula Reddick, Hellmouth Sunbeams batter. Paula is an archetypal bedsheet ghost, hovering above the ground and wearing a black and yellow trucker cap. Paula holds a bat in their right hand and is pointing with their left. Around Paula's hands, the sheet is stained black with oil stains.|by [https://twitter.com/Krasi_Savov '''Coblin''']
File:You don't need a body license.jpg|by [https://twitter.com/revivificating/status/1389438961026744320 '''Ash''']
File:Obsessed with your vibes, QUEEN (gender neutral) of being 😐.jpg|alt=A digital drawing of Paula Reddick. Shi is wearing a pale blue burial shroud which partially obscures hir face. Shi has medium brown skin and gray hair. Shi is smiling.|by [https://twitter.com/bugsbenedict/status/1425663429184995328 '''@bugsbenedict''']
File:Ooga booga your power steerings gone off babe.jpg|by [https://twitter.com/revivificating/status/1399404033450860547 '''Ash''']
File:Life's a bitch and then you die.png|alt=A digital drawing of Sunbeams player Paula Reddick. Shi is a person with medium brown skin wearing a blue cloak with the hood pulled up over a pair of brown work overalls. The hood and hir wavy grey hair are partially obscuring hir eyes. Hir arms are crossed, shi has brown fingerless gloves on, and around hir waist is a tool belt with a wrench hanging from it. Shi is smiling.|by [https://twitter.com/viciathief/status/1449036905039994883 '''@viciathief''']
File:I'm a bad bitch, you can't kill me!.jpg|alt=A digital drawing of Paula Reddick. Shi is wearing a dark, teal blue burial shroud partially obscuring the top half of hir face over a dark grey boiler suit. Shi has medium brown skin and gray hair, and is holding a gold wrench in hir right hand. Hir mouth is slightly turned downwards.|by [https://twitter.com/bugsbenedict/status/1437266787725414400 '''@bugsbenedict''']
File:Shop class, '94.jpg|alt=A digital sketch of Sunbeams player Paula Reddick, alive, before the opening of the Hellmouth. Shi is an older Hmong individual wearing a boilersuit with a nametag that reads \"Reddick\" on the left breast, and a bandana covering hir hair. Shi is in her auto shop classroom, with the hood of a car open in front of hir, and is wiping both of hir hands on a rag.|''Shop class, ’94''<br />by [https://twitter.com/revivificating/status/1441866625058213894 '''Ash''']
File:🚚🌻.png|alt=A digital drawing of Sunbeams players Paula Reddick and Zack Sanders. Paula is a person with medium brown skin wearing a blue cloak over a pair of brownish-tan work overalls, which are in turn over a white shirt with rolled up cuffed sleeves. Hir wavy grey hair and the hood of the cloak are obscuring the top half of hir face. Shi is sitting and resting hir arms on hir legs. Zack, a darker skinned Black woman with sunflowers curling up around her arms and legs, is sitting next to her. Zack is wearing a cornflower blue button up shirt with a red ribbon around the collar, a black skirt that ends above the knee, and tall lace-up red sneakers. Her left elbow is on her knee, and she's smiling, resting her face in her left hand. A small sunflower obscures her right eye, and two more bloom behind her on each side.|Paula Reddick & [[Zack Sanders]]<br />by [https://twitter.com/viciathief/status/1451592947288395781 '''@viciathief''']
File:Special Eyes.jpg|alt=A digital drawing of Paula Reddick. Shi is a ghost, wearing a shroud that's wrapped around hir shoulders and covering hir head like a hood. Whereas this shroud normally covers the top half of hir face, this time it is exposed, revealing completely white eyes encircled with glowing yellow light. Hir wavy hair is pulled into a low side bun, and lit candles sit on both shoulders. Shi is smiling ever so slightly.|''Special Eyes''<br />by [https://twitter.com/revivificating/status/1462268122090643461 '''Ash''']
File:Gimme your ectoplasm.jpg|alt=A digital drawing of Sunbeams player Paula Reddick depicted as the archetypal bedsheet ghost. Shi has hir arms folded in front of hir and is wearing a light yellow Sunbeams blaseball cap.|by [https://twitter.com/Poltergeisz/status/1389436421245706244 '''Chamomile''']
File:Familial Parallels.jpg|alt=A digital drawing of Paula Reddick and Forrest Bookbaby depicting hir death and his incineration. Paula is a ghost with brown skin and silver-gray hair wearing a dull teal shroud, shi looks distressed. Behind hir is an erupting volcano and formations of desert rock. Forrest is a man with dark hair with a teal highlight, wearing sunglasses, a teal and red uniform, and blue colored hearing aids. He is engulfed in flames, and behind him is the solar eclipse symbol and a checkered pattern reminiscent of the Hall of Flame with a pattern of four swords on top of it.|''Familial Parallels''<br />by [https://twitter.com/bugsbenedict/status/1464624759052849152 '''@bugsbenedict''']
File:Be where you gotta be at the end of the world.jpg|alt=Art of Paula Reddick handing hir bat to Lars Taylor as shi enters the Shadows and he emerges from them to take hir place in the lineup. Paula is a ghost, wearing a shroud pulled up over hir work clothes that covers the top section of hir face. Shi has thick gloves on, candles are lit on both of hir shoulders, and shi is colored in shades of blue and purple. Lars is dressed like a cowboy, like he usually does, wearing a poncho, a pair of thigh-highs, and their signature cowboy hat. He's taking the bat from Paula's left hand, and stepping out into the light, illuminating him in shades of pink and orange.|''Where you gotta  be''<br />by [https://twitter.com/revivificating/status/1453544158170435592 '''Ash''']
File:We keep ending up with these dads (gender neutral) somehow.jpg|alt=A digital drawing of Howell Franklin, Elvis Figueroa, and Paula Reddick. Howell is a werewolf with brown fur, wearing an orange hoodie and sitting with their arms crossed at a table. Standing on the table is a single gnome with a white beard and red conical hat wearing a teal sweater and black pants, one of the many that make up Elvis. They are leaning against Howell's shoulder and appear to be mid-conversation with Paula, a ghost wearing a pale bluish-green burial shroud that partially obscures hir face. Shi has wavy white hair and is floating next to the table.|Reddick with [[Howell Franklin]] and [[Elvis Figueroa]]<br />by [https://twitter.com/sapphriarocks/status/1478290301403865091 '''Olive''']
File:MiniPaula.png|Mini-Blaseballer<br />by [http://miniblaseball.surge.sh/ '''@HetreaSky''']
File:They are chillign.png|thumb|alt=A digital drawing of Jayden Wright and Paula Reddick. They are sitting on a couch with two tables on either side, each with a candle. Jayden is a brown-skinned woman with long black hair and a 'crown' of sharp bones. She is curled in the corner of the couch reading a book. Paula is a ghost, wearing a glowing teal robe so only half hir face is visible. She is embroidering yellow thread into a pattern on black fabric.|Relaxing with [[Jayden Wright|Jayden]] in the [[Shadow Moabbey|Moabbey]]<br />by '''[https://twitter.com/sapphriarocks Olive]
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