Talk:Nagomi Nava/Archive

Halo

Back in late August, beams chat on the discord came up with a halo idea that was popular enough to feature in some Nagomi art, but never ended up on the wiki. Posting this here both as notice of a change, and in case I forget, I want to put some Halo'd Nagomi art in the article as an inset, with the caption "Spiritually sensitive spectators have reported seeing a half-shadowed halo around Nagomi's head. It is rumoured to shine like the sun during an eclipse."

Fire eater

Suggested in the discord, as an explanation for Nagomi Nava now being a fireeater:

After the Season 9 events of the Shell descending once again, Nagomi was found to be in quiet negotations with the Hellmouth Cirque du Soleil. Noone is exactly sure how the Cirque persuaded the shy and quiet Nagomi to do a once in a lifetime performance, but rumours suggest it was related to extra funding for the cat cafe. However this was achieved, Nagomi was a very quick learner and she is now taking her skills as a fireeater to the blaseball field. The Beams were very proud when on the first day of Season 10 Nagomi ate a Rogue Umpire's fire and proceed to score a Magmatic home run.

I don't particularly dig this; my objections here being:

1. it seems contradictory to the character we've built, as noted
2. while Cirque du Soleil is a fun name, I don't feel too comfortable namedropping a multi-billion-dollar corporation into the Hellmouth, much less Nagomi signing a contract with them, much less with the implication of being effectively blackmailed into it through cats
3. saying that Rogue Umpire incinerations are just normal fire brings up the question "okay, why doesn't anyone do literally anything about it and just lets themselves be slowly set on fire?"

It's also been noted in #sunbeams that "the narrative significance of nagomi being the last remaining player who was blessed by precognition refusing to die and redirecting the energy of the umps to knock it out of the park is literally too dope to be explained with normal things that aren’t just “blaseball is like that”"

Slavfox (talk)

That's very fair, I wrote that little exerpt in about ~30 seconds based off comments on the discord while trying not to give any opinions on my end. The main reason for this was because of a discord comment roughly being 'i can't get the concept of gomi looking the umpires in the eyes as she swallows their fire through sheer willpower and then immediately turns around and hits a homerun every time' There's also the idea of having the fire eating being related to precog, which seems like a very exciting time. Castaras (talk)

And just copying over some more notes from discord conversation:

1. I'd kinda dig a narrative of Nagomi becoming able to eat flames completely unaided, just out of sheer spite
2. got precog only to immediately see that her two precog friends will die
3. Fun fact she used to have fire blood iirc
4. decided she won't let that happen
5. didn't make it in time
6. yeah literally just like out of spite and anger she really said i am going to live and i am going to destroy you whatever it takes you’ve taken them away from me and now i’m all that’s left hope you’re ready for it
7. "You take my fire blood away? Okay I'll just eat it to get the flames I need"

Castaras (talk)