A lot of mummy's lore still revolves around her original interp as an actual mummy from Ancient Egypt, which had many racist connotations. Even her modern interp as a tigertaur originally came about from Sphinx imagery and it's not generally great that one of our few black characters is reduced to pretty stereotypical imagery.
After the lorejam that took place, I propose making changes to the wiki page with the following that was agreed on:
History
Mummy Melcon is an elder Hijabi and Arab Actress who was born in Alexandria, Egypt before moving to Cairo, Egypt for her acting career. Prior to her athletic career, she also acted in blaseball movies. She visited Hades for research, promotion and The Hades Film Festival. There, she met Yazmin Mason who was a fan of hers. Melcon was in the stands on Season 7 Day 71, wearing a bootleg “Hade Tigger” jersey also part of her film costume. When she witnessed Yazmin’s incineration, along with the state of the team following it, Melcon hopped the railing onto the field and took up Yazmin’s pitching. While researched for her acting, Mummy was not a trained pitcher and her beginnings were quite shaky.
Melcon speaks Egyptian Arabic natively, Egyptian Sign Language (ESL), English and French. Melcon speaks with a low raspy voice like the pages of her books because she binge drinks coffee. As a hobbyist historian, Melcon has a fondness for reading, collecting, and preserving old books. Coming up near the birthplace of coffee, Mummy also has a personal interest in ethically sourced. As an avid drinker herself, she sees it as a great principle of hers to ensure her supply doesn’t come from questionable sourcing practices.
Melcon is also a multidisciplinary scholar. She majored in linguistics and sociology. She originally majored in one, but her studies intersected with the other. Later, after completing her sociology doctorate, Melcon ended up entering the other field. Her scholarly background is what also led to her interest in Hades as a rich source of primary sources for the events of the past millennia, and for immortals who have insight on Hellenic and other dead languages.
Melcon is not particularly close with anyone on the team, due to her being busy with studies, acting career, and promoting and sourcing ethical coffee business. Being older and very approachable, a lot of the younger Tigers go to her for insight
Umpire Incident in Season 13
Prior to season 13, Melcon had witnessed Raúl Leal defend his teammate from a rogue umpire incineration. Since then, Melcon had been working on a hypothesis on how it occurred, and how it could be replicated without the Iffy Jr.
On the first day of Season 13, Melcon took the mound and pitched as she normally did throughout the game. At the bottom of the 7th inning, Melcon's studies came into play as the eclipse glimpsed, and an umpire’s eyes turned white, and turned to face Melcon. She remained calm and collected, as she carefully observed their movements. At that moment, Melcon had an epiphany. There is no proper documentation on what exactly transpired, but it’s said that since that day, the technique is safeguarded and preserved amongst the Hades Tigers.
Trivia
- She uses her notoriety as an actress and a blaseball player to promote local coffee growers and ethical coffee sourcing. She has had a tv show spotlighting coffee growers.
- She refuses to wear an official team jersey, even after she joined the team and was told she can wear an official one, she was heard saying:
"This one is nice and worn in. They already saw me in this anyway." Referring to her Hade Tigger Jersey.
