Talk:Elijah Valenzuela

Fall Ball saw the return of Valenzuela to the Hawai‘i Fridays, a homecoming that was met with overwhelming excitement from fans. Despite the many changes since he was last on the islands, Valenzuela had no issue settling back in, even taking up his old spot in the lineup with pride.

I have a lot of concerns about the early parts of the background section. I'm too busy to vibe check it at the moment so I'm just going to do some typographical corrections, but via ongoing discussion with the Fridays on Discord regarding the Sovereign Nation of Hawai'i page, I think some of the backstory must be rewritten to accommodate for the new direction. I'll post some ideas when I have time to work them out.

As a jazz hands fan, I look forward to what you come up with. I've definitely also had some concerns about Elijah's early background - especially regarding the apparent implication within it that he is not (or not explicitly) native Hawaiian, while having a pivotal role within a revolutionary movement that is probably best left to the indigenous Hawaiians that the current Sovereign Nation page itself points to as the ones the structure of the new nation is created in tandem with (though I am aware you are discussing how to change that page). Also his unawareness of the nature of pineapple farming in Hawai'i despite being a farmer and presumably someone born and raised in Hawai'i (especially if it is later made explicit that perhaps he is a Native Hawaiian person) seems Odd, to me at least.

Hi, I have lore about Elijah Valenzuela about how he has adapted to Breckenridge after the alternation

Summary of Additions:

-Addition of his nicknames, Eli and Elii, to the infobox

-Valenzuela's teammates growing closer to him, including a friendship with Siobhan Chark and Dervin Gorczyca

-Valenzuela being troubled by a lack of record of Thomas England in this universe

-Valenzuela being proud that Hawai'i was free in this universe, though pained that same could not happen in his universe until he swapped with the successful original Valenzuela.

The lore block text can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/120zpwT7fm3axBjCFJcCDjj1zu8u910QiLTfKJYmljao/edit?usp=sharing

Gonna remove the JHLore banner & the fake IRM; the Discord community's talking about whether we'll need to bring them back, but for now they're just clashing w/ wiki standards.

Between a couple people, the Jazz Hands on the Official Blaseball Discord have produced a lore block in accordance to Inumo's summary, with that doc available in a google doc here

Included in the doc is a plan to rearrange the existing writing on this page into slightly different headings, specifically splitting Elijah's time on the Fridays and his time on the Jazz Hands into two separate sections for ease of navigation. None of the existing writing will otherwise be changed.

From the Jazz Hands on the Official Blaseball Discord, a proposed lore update for Eli now that he's an Alternate:

Eli's Alternate (hereafter Elii) was much like Eli, in that he started a revolution in Hawai'i. Unlike Eli, however, Elii's revolution failed, and he was captured as a political prisoner. He was held in prison until the Return of Blaseball, at which point he was dumped onto the Hawai'i Fridays by the people in power (i.e. the United States Department of Justice) as a way to placate those calling for his release and exhaust any revolutionary spirit left in him, as even in the early days Blaseball was a constant & tiresome splort. When the Fans then voted to Open the Forbidden Book and turned it Elii's "exercise regime" into mortal peril, well, it was no skin off their nose. Somehow, Elii managed to survive, but the wear of Blaseball had its desired effect: Elii's fire had dimmed greatly after everything, and his parole bracelet made it impossible to get away. He got very good at precisely hitting cops "on accident" while pitching, though.

Things changed with the Season 16 elections, as Elii was unexpectedly swapped with Eli. The Hands removed Elii's parole bracelet, and Howell Rocha helped him work through his experiences before she left for the Miami Dale. It was clear Elii wasn't the same person as the Eli that left, though; none felt the changes more strongly than Steph Weeks. Steph and Elii are not in a relationship at present.

There was much anxiety over what happened to Eli after crossing dimensions, but news arrived in the form of a message written on Collins Melon after they returned from Elsewhere on Season 18, Day 28. The writing was heavily blurred by Immateria, but the Hands could make out that Eli had started another revolution in alternate Hawai'i, and was in the midst of establishing an independent nation of Hawai'i once more.

Both Eli and Elii play the hano, a Hawaiian nose flute.