Sutton Bishop

Sutton Bishop are a lineup player for the Hellmouth Sunbeams. Bishop have been a member of the team since Season 5, Day 91, when they replaced Emmett Internet due to incineration in a game against the Hades Tigers.

Sutton Bishop
Art by @churgalax
Basic Information
Team	Hellmouth Sunbeams
Status	Active
Batting
Pitching
Defense
Running
Personal Information
Item	None
Armor	None
Evolution	Base
Coffee Style	Black
Blood Type	A
Fate	70
Soulscream	IOAHXIOAHXIIIXUIIIXUIIAUIIAAUIIAA
Biographical Details
Pronouns	We/They
Species	Human Village, Goose

Official League Records

Bishop currently have no notable events in the official recordbooks.

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

History

Sutton Bishop, the player, is the only way the inhabitants of Bishop Sutton can interact with the outside world. It's a goose. It's absolutely ripped. And it only has one setting: Blaseball.

Alexander Horne

Bishop Sutton (grid reference ST587597) was a small village within the Chew Valley in Somerset. It lay east of Chew Valley Lake and north east of the Mendip Hills, approximately ten miles south of Bristol on the A368, Weston-super-Mare to Bath road. Bishop Sutton and the neighbouring village of Stowey formed the civil parish of Stowey Sutton until The Blexit occured.

Following on from Blexit, Bishop Sutton is now a small village located within a quaint British pocket dimension. There is no known way to enter or exit Bishop Sutton. The neighbouring village of Stowey is now confused, but will get over the loss with time.

They are currently playing for the Hellmouth Sunbeams through Sutton Bishop, a vaguely liquid goose construct with many legs and a cricket bat.

The Blexit

During a local bly-election, the people of Bishop Sutton found themselves inexplicably voting for an alternative option on their ballot paper known as "BLEXIT" the results were as follows:

The Bishop Sutton Bly-Election

Name	Party	Total Votes	Placed
BLEXIT	UNKNOWN	458	1st
Mrs. Bishop Sutton-Dripping	The Popular People's Party of Bishop Sutton	0	2nd
Mr. Bishop Sutton-Sedgewick	The Bishop Sutton Liberation Front	0	2nd
Lord Bishop Sutton III	The Bishop Sutton Independence Party	0	2nd
Rev. Bishop Sutton-Robinson	The Labour Party	0	2nd
Miss Bishop Sutton Jr.	The Liberal Democrats	0	2nd
Mr Bishop Sutton Jr.	The Conservative and Unionist Party	0	2nd
Spoiled Ballots		5	-

Immediately after the count, the village and all of its inhabitants found themselves transported into a pocket dimension, where all roads led back to the village itself. When this even happened is down to debate, as no one can remember a time before the Blexit.

Since Blexit, no human being has been able to leave Bishop Sutton, regardless of how hard they try - but the village elders wonder why anyone would actually want to leave, as Bishop Sutton is absolutely lovely, has won Village of The Year on several occasions in the past, and is a contender for this years Britain in Bloom competition.

The Sun's Blessing

The Sun, taking pity on the now lost village, created an avatar for them to control known as Sutton Bishop. The Sun searched the village to find an entity strong enough to be imbued with the wishes of every villages person, and eventually came across the perfect creature: a horrible goose.

The power of The Sun coupled with the strange desires of the people of Bishop Sutton warped the horrible goose into a horrible goose-slime blob hybrid with multiple tentacled appendages. A mysterious psychic connection was made between the goose and the local pub The Hellmouth that allows anyone within the pub to have some control over Bishop (providing they are over the legal drinking age).

The Hellmouth Pub

In order to control Bishop, the villagers of Bishop Sutton gather in the village's pub, the Bishop Sutton Hellmouth Pub. The pub was always called the Hellmouth Pub, of course, and every day the villagers have always shown up to cheer on the Goose.

During the events of Emmett Internet's incineration, a minor hellmouth opened in the basement of the pub, connecting the village to the outside world for the fist time since the Blexit. The minor hellmouth was just the right size to allow Bishop to escape the village into the real world.

Pub-goers are able to watch the antics of Sutton Bishop via a small, cheap box TV with dodgy satellite reception.

The collective mood and energy of the crowd of Blaseball watchers drives Bishop, directing their movements and actions, though the goose inside occasionally fights back and goes off and does their own thing with a resounding 'HONK!'.

Strangely, the Bishop Sutton Model Village and Tea Gardens does not have a model of The Hellmouth where The Hellmouth should be, instead it has some kind of dark, forboding smear that gives you a headache if you look at it for too long.

The Hellmouth only sells one drink: a warm, frothy beer that has been adversely affected by the minor hellmouth in the basement. If you ask for wine, the landlord will laugh and then have you thrown out into the street.

Personality

Sutton Bishops personality varies wildly depending on which villagers are currently in the pub, how drunk they are and whether or not the goose brain inside Bishop's gelatinous body has assumed direct control.

When controlled by the villagers, Sutton Bishop tends to be reasonably well spoken, and in keeping with the rustic aesthetic of the village of Bishop Sutton. They refer to themselves as 'We' to help infer the somewhat democratic process involved in controlling the Bishop entity in the pub. Sutton Bishop will often use their Blaseball platform to showcase the many wonderful things about Bishop Sutton, including (but not limited to) the artisanal jams, cheeses and flower displays.

When controlled by the goose, the entity known as Sutton Bishop is referred to as 'it' or 'that horrible goose' by those around it. The change in personality is dramatic and terrifying, as Bishop gives into the beast within. In this state Sutton Bishop is extremely unpredictable; stealing objects, honking loudly and mutating into unspeakable shapes of feathery terror.

Sutton Bishop curses The Sun before every game, as it knows the sun has cursed it to an eternity of being controlled by the villagers that it once harassed on a daily basis.

Career

Season 5

Bishop arrived on the field shortly after Emmett Internet's incineration. Some technical difficulties were had due to the strange reverberations of the new minor Hellmouth opening in the vicinity of the Bishop Sutton Hellmouth Pub, resulting in the confusion of fans and villagers alike as the new Bishop took up their bat for the Sunbeams.

Fan Art

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  Sutton Bishop trading card, by @churgalax

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  Tlopps card by @slavfoxman