Topic on Talk:Wyatt Quitter
Speaking not as a representative of any team but as someone who has been monitoring and chipping into this discourse for a good while now, there are many glaring problems with this edit request regardless of whether or not it was made in good faith. As an observer of the issues that have cropped up over the last few months regarding the player, it’s very much clear that this is a continuation of the lasting discourse surrounding Wyatt Quitter’s blatant sexualization among certain Blaseball spaces. This in a vaccuum is fine and fans have a right to act however they would like regarding players in private spaces, but a situation such as this where that leaks into the greater fandom is unacceptable for multiple reasons, many of which have already been mentioned by others.
You have made your affection towards Quitter’s design known in the content of your posts, and the general focus on Quitter’s sexuality and relationships in this request is a very clear reflection of that. This obviously does not line up with wiki policy, as Wyatt Quitter’s romantic life should likely be left to fanfiction and lore writers to figure out on their own without the pressure of a wiki page dictating which relationships are more “canon” than others. And that’s not even mentioning the clear lack of endorsement from team representatives for the players you’ve chosen to highlight, and it’s also worth noting that very few of these relationships actually seem to be featured in Fancy’s public artwork like you claim they are.
In addition, Blaseball is not a community that should allow the boiling down of characters to their sexual appeal, as doing this to a popular design like Quitter’s not only puts estremely mysoginistic practices on a pedestal by nature but also once again opens the door for non-binary erasure, as has been a past concern itself in edits to Quitter’s page. Even though you have called Quitter non-binary on the wiki entry, you seemingly insist on exclusively using she/her to refer to them regardless of their accepted set of pronouns as are marked on the wiki page. Regardless of what headcanon or design we go off of when adding player lore to the wiki, focusing on superficial factors such as one’s body and conventional attractiveness is never acceptable.
Aside from the aspect of sexualization, the idea of Quitter’s lore being grounded in the art of Fancymancer is just as dangerous. While Fancy’s art may be the foundation of many others’ headcanons of the character, fans should be encouraged to have unique perspectives on players in the spirit of Blaseball, regardless of which interpretations are most popular. Fancy has also very clearly stated that he wants nothing to do with your so-called representation of his headcanons and designs, and I’m astounded that this notion on its own doesn’t end the discussion completely.
All in all, it’s truly shameful that this is the legacy that a character so beloved by the greater community has left behind. Marty, I sincerely encourage you to rethink your values and how they align with what you’ve attempted to add to the wiki page, and I wish you the best.
