UserWiki:NautALoid
Early Life
Grollis Zephyr spent hyr youth chasing roles in films and television shows to follow in the footsteps of hyr mother, fitness coach and action movie star Arda Zephyr. Despite hyr surname’s fame, hyr unenthusiastic acting left directors unimpressed. After many rejections, Grollis readily admitted defeat and took on the more low profile job of working as a theme park tokusetsu actor while continuing to live with Arda.
Lazarus Pit
In hyr freetime, Zephyr pursued hyr own passions as an avid amateur speleologist, ecologist, obscure bootleg game connoisseur, and taxidermist. Ze gained notoriety in spelelogical communities for hyr contributions to the exploration and mapping of several cave systems, and one time stated that the slow rate at which caves change was a welcome change of pace from a busy and stressful life of dealing with an ever-changing world. Hyr explorations would eventually re-uncover the Lazarus Pit located under Dilsneyworld, and some have observed that in low lighting ze appears almost bioluminescent, possibly due to side effects of prolonged contact with the water of the Pit. Zephyr has advised against other amateur speleologists and thrillseekers exploring the Pit, stating that rumors of the Pit offering immortality are misleading, overblown, and wildly dangerous.
Joining the Lift
When the Lift formed, the late captain and founder Stijn Strongbody appointed Arda to be one of the team’s coaches and she convinced Grollis to join the team’s rotation, as ze “really need[ed] to get out there and socialize more.” Grollis readily accepted, likely more because of former team owner Nandy Slumps’s acquisition of the rights to Dilsneyworld and the Pit beneath than the slightly insulting implications behind hyr mother’s suggestion.
Upon joining the Lift, Zephyr quickly joined the late “Brokyo” clique consisting of Val Hitherto, Coolname Galvanic, Yusef Fenestrate, and Gerund Pantheocide. The group were known for their ill-thought out but endearing antics, and Zephyr often hosted game nights in which they would play the funniest of the bootleg games ze had dredged up from the bowels of the internet. As none of them were particularly proficient with computers, game nights often resulted in their computers becoming increasingly laden with various viruses and malware.
As a pitcher, hyr career was strikingly mediocre but other members of the rotation were often worse. Never the biggest problem, but never an asset, Zephyr drew fan ire both for hyr unfriendly personality and hyr consistently lackluster on-field performance.
A Rivalry
In their first season together, Zephyr and Pantheocide realized that they pitched in the exact same way, and the two entered a light-hearted rivalry. As Zephyr ended the season with a better record than Pantheocide, Pantheocide endeavored to party once more than Zephyr, attaining a lead. This lead continued for the duration of their time together on the rotation, as every improvement one made was quickly followed up by the other. As time went on the rivalry had started to sour, and Pantheocide put an end to it when she moved to hitting and became the team’s star hitter and co-captains with Fenestrate. Zephyr, feeling that despite all hyr growth ze had been left behind not only by Pantheocide but by Fenestrate and Galvanic as well, fell from that friend group entirely. In the following seasons, Zephyr drifted between the Lift’s social circles, befriending a number of players, but with the exception of Elwin McGhee’s alternate and Rylan O’Lantern, most did not stay on the team for long. This led Zephyr to believe that ze would always be left behind in some way or another, no matter how much ze changed, and ze spent more and more time in the Lazarus Pit.
Following Pantheocide’s death in Season 21, Zephyr was one of three players on the team who partied, and the only one of those three to have known Pantheocide. After getting shadowed and voicemailed onto the lineup, Zephyr finally became a better pitcher and baserunner than Pantheocide, and the same season as Pantheocide was resurrected by the ILB Semi-Centennial, Zephyr benefitted from a division hitting boost that ended hyr career at a frustrating 0.02 batting stars less than hyr formerly deceased rival, in the same position in the lineup Pantheocide had initially occupied.
Skipping
During hyr stay in the shadows, Zephyr decided to go deeper into the Lazarus Pit than ever before, spending months in the twisting fractally depths without emerging. After voicemailing into the lineup as a batter for the first time, something about Zephyr was fundamentally different, and ze commented that ze had “finally found what dwells at the bottom.”
Despite hyr vague words, it is suspected that Zephyr’s Skipping modification is connected to whatever ze experienced in the Pit. Hyr attitude on the field became visibly more lackadaisical, Skipping
Trivia
- To Grollis’s chagrin, when Mags Banananana arrived on the Lift she quickly fell into a relationship with Arda Zephyr, becoming Grollis’s unofficial step-mother. Grollis has since joined a group chat of Banananana’s other children, step-children, and grandchildren.
