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Update for CBs time in the Core

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Geometea (talkcontribs)

Update for CBs time on the Mechs, her adapting to life in the Core, her remarkable bond with Christian Combs and her time in the Desert. Also mentioning her relationship with Zack Sanders/their marriage/the complexities of that dynamic.

Time in the Core

It has been said that Sports skated into the Core at the time when she was most needed. The Mechanics were eyeing a shot at the championship, but had some players who had other priorities like looking cute or causing trouble.

While no one knows for sure whether Sports and Foxy Pebble in some way planned or influenced their Feedback, both players certainly seemed to fit in well where they ended up. The Mechanics had - if not infinite, certainly an unknowably large amount of - space for her to do her art and were all excited to see Sports unleash her talent all over it. When asked about her work, Sports told reporters for the DownTown Tlimes that maintenance-tunnel art was pretty different from street art but that she was having a great time figuring out how to incorporate new and varied environmental oddities into her creative process before doing a series of 360 degree loops away down one of the maintenance tunnels, spraying paint behind her as she went.

Following their arrival in the Core, Sports moved in with another recent Feedback to the Core, Christian Combs. The two were next to each other in the lineup and, while Combs had already been with the Mechanics for a few years, the pair quickly grew close.

It’s said that Sports and Combs would often go out to some of the larger spaces within the Core where the pair constructed an airship based off designs Combs had come up with earlier in their life. Sports acted as Combs’ First Mate, however passengers on the ship would note that other than Sports referring to Combs as Cap’n, the pair seemed to act as equals with very little sense of hierarchy between them.

Combs and Sports were often referred to as the Cannon Crew and would back each other up with plays, being a dominant and powerful pairing in the lineup. After becoming an Undertaker, Sports didn’t notice other players being swept Elsewhere but immediately dived in when Combs was swept away.

Alternate

During the dimensional flareup in the Core at the end of Season 21, Sports was Alternated. She reported feeling little to no difference and denied any claims that she was from another universe, heavily implying that it would be very hard for the ILB to find a replacement for her on such short notice. While the dimensional flareup was happening, she was being fitted with a prototype Arm Cannon by Bottles Suljak. The shift in reality seems to have made it a part of her, something which has bolstered her pitching but has proven cumbersome in batting. While she has stated that she was planning on being able to remove the Arm Cannon, she has figured out how to load it up with paintballs which has had some interesting artistic implications and has also decorated in a way that she has described as 'kinda dope tbh'. Despite offers from Suljak and other Mechanics to find a way to detach it, she has said that it feels like a part of her now and that she's very excited to be Cannonball pitching cannonballs. She followed that up by telling the Pillars Express that she would like to pitch now please and would appreciate it if Fans would let her pitch.

While Sports seemed remarkably unchanged by her Alternation, other Mechanics were impacted by the flareup much more deeply. Combs had also been Alternated and had been replaced by a version of themself from another universe. While the pair remained close, their relationship underwent some strain and Sports moved into her own flat.

Late Expansion

Sports remained a batter for the Mechanics, despite her new aptitude for pitching. Over the course of the end of the Era, Combs was Redacted following being struck by a pitch from Niq Nyong’o. Sports retreated into herself, barely paying attention in games unless batters walked her or struck her out.

During Season 24, the Mechanics headed for the Desert alongside other teams including the Hellmouth Sunbeams.

It was one of the first times Sports had seen Zack Sanders in some years, prompting some revelations about the nature of their relationship for her teammates. Sanders, who had heard about Sports being Alternated, was surprised to find her still openly very much the same person with full knowledge of their past.

Over the course of their time in the Desert it came out that the pair were actually married and had been for some time, though hadn’t been actively together for a while. Self-identified divorce connoisseur and teammate of Sports, Kelvin Drumsolo offered to put Sports in touch with zir lawyer, something which she was very quick to turn down.

It’s unknown if the pair actually reconnected during their time in the Desert but they were seen talking privately a few times and the initial awkward atmosphere between the two notably improved over time.

Cannonball Lovers Update

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Delightified (talkcontribs)

Hi, first time contributor to the wiki, and it is ofc an update for a player who has already left the team, who we had a lorejam for over the Siesta. To summarize what I go through in the writeup: - Cannonball requesting a transfer to SF & the Lovers in order to have new space for her street art, with an error in the paperwork causing her to end up on the rotation instead of the lineup - Her adapting to her new position steadily, bonding with Karato while surfing together & working on her graffiti - Enemies to lovers relationship with Pitching Machine, followed by both her sadness at losing PM to the Georgias & her relief at being back in the lineup.

The full writeup is located here, in case you want to read it in full.

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