UserWiki:NautALoid

using this to write out a draft for a weird rumor.

A Metaphysical Retcon

Before it joined blaseball as a pitcher for the Tokyo Lift, Coolname Galvanic did not exist. As a worker in the Field of Eggs, employed in monitoring the minutiae of the conditions necessary to irrigate the Naming Pool and properly form the Eggs, it had on occasion glimpsed its own name reflected in the platonic body of the Pool and knew that the egg containing its own name, its essence as a player, hadn’t yet been formed. The player known as Coolname Galvanic would presumably only come into true existence at some point in the future when it entered active play as a replacement player on one of the current twenty blaseball teams.

The entity that would become Coolname Galvanic, [insert position here] for the [insert team here], did not exist, and was not a blaseball player. For now, it both was and was not an employee for the Field Of Eggs, a memory not yet anchored in reality. And from what it understood from all the times it watched as the formless replacements of the recently incinerated emerge from eggs and metaphysically harden into individuals with histories extending far before their hatching, all to replace the fallen in playing blaseball for their lives, it was all but guaranteed to have been created for the same reason.

To carry the awareness that one does not yet truly exist, but will in the future, to know that everything one experiences is merely set-dressing to embellish a version of oneself that presumably is being created at the same time as oneself, the backstory, is occurring, to know that the first presumed purpose for one’s life is as hollow and meaningless as anything because it did not exist in that narrative until after the story happened–it knew it did not exist, that it could not impact the world around it in any meaningful way until its Egg was Generated, Found, and Hatched to play Internet League Blaseball.

A meeting of Surnames

Just as it knew it rightly did not yet have a name, as the egg that generated that name had not formed, it also knew, as surely as anything, that it would be named Coolname Galvanic. So it was with mild interest that it one day to met a fellow League employee that would one day be known as Squid Galvanic. While Coolname was at least adjacent to being a gardener, tied to the Field of Eggs in location and duty, Squid was a courier, constantly in motion as she ran messages across the League.