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RE: "it's not clear who this narrative is even written for."

We're discussing and digging further into the origins of where this idea came from (it was first suggested in October, and was then picked up in later months over the Grand Siesta by a user who seemed to really like the concept and had a cultural connection to it in some shape or form (what that is, I can't say because this user has since left the Blaseball community. But we'll try to find out.) We basically took the work she did and energy and enthusiasm she had for it and are attempting to carry this across the finish line, so to speak.

We'll continue to reflect on this though and make adjustments as necessary, including perhaps removing this narrative entirely if we're unable to find a satisfying resolution. You are correct however "it's clear this is because a hispanic name was given a character whose design is largely based off of greek pop mythology". This is one of those rare blaseball situations where people saw nominative determinism and went in the entirely opposite direction with the player's design, in a sense white-washing them and we're doing our best to address that in this rework (whether that's through this version or a different version we resubmit.)