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Concrete Mandible as an insect with a human assistant

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Hello! I’ve had this idea for a potential player for a little while now and here seems like as good a place as any to put it forward. Some of the ideas are pretty loose and I have some alternate ideas specific to Tokyo Lift, depending on the direction decided upon for them.

Due to a bureaucratic mistake, a two-banded weevil was drafted to the team instead of a human player. Due to official blaseball regulations, the mistake could not be undone and the insect now known as Concrete Mandible was confirmed as a Lift lineup player. On the field, it quickly became evident that Mandible, being an insect, was almost completely incapable of playing blaseball and seemed to not even know what it was, preferring instead to consume grain. As a solution the Lift found a volunteer to act as Mandible-Blaseball Liaison Officer: during training and games they waive their own independent existence and act as a physical extension of Concrete Mandible. As such, all accolades (and criticisms) they earn are credited to Mandible.

Further Ideas:

1. the insect and liaison are referred to as Concrete Mandible-A and Concrete Mandible-B, respectively.
2. if the Tokyo Lift end up having a weightlifting theme, perhaps they were initially recruited after impressing current team members with their ability to lift several times their own weight, before they realised that bugs were woeful at splorts. For added effect they could be an ant instead of a weevil.
3. ’Concrete’ is a nickname. Their highest stat is defence, and after a run of impressive performances players and fans commented that their defence was solid ‘like concrete’ and the appellation was quickly applied to Mandible themselves.
4. all interview questions are directed at the insect rather than the human liaison, as under the terms of their contract the liaison is considered to be part of Mandible. Addressing the liaison instead of the insect would be like addressing a players arm instead of their face

sunbeam, lopside#9772 (talk) 04:58, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Concrete Mandible as a Japanese Urban Legend

Concrete Mandible (コンクリート下顎骨) is a Japanese urban legend and a hitter for Tokyo Lift. According to the legend, the Concrete Mandible is a shapeshifter that can blend into concrete walls and sidewalks. The telltale sign of the mandible is it's mouth, which when hiding looks like a large crack running through the middle of a concrete surface. If a pedestrian touches the mandibles' mouth, the crack in the concrete will open up and swallow them whole.

Folklorist theorize that the Concrete Mandible legend has its origins in the American children's rhyme "Don't step on cracks or you'll break your mother's back." What the folklorists can't explain is how the actual Concrete Mandible wound up on a blaseball team. So far the mandible has not exhibited any of the bloodthirsty behavior characteristic of the legend, but many players are watching their step just to be safe.

(I used google translate to get the Japanese characters for the mandibles name. If someone who knows Japanese wanted to proofread it that would be swell.)