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==Official League Records== | ==Official League Records== | ||
| − | Hitherto joined the [[ILB]] as a pitcher for the [[Tokyo Lift]] during the | + | Hitherto joined the [[ILB]] as a pitcher for the [[Tokyo Lift]] during the {{BetaSeason|10#Election Results}} elections after the [[Ascension]] of the [[Baltimore Crabs]]. |
| − | On | + | On {{BetaSeason|13}}, Day 73, Hitherto entered [[Party Time]] with the Lift. During the remainder of the Season, Hitherto partied 2 times, resulting in a combined {{Star Change|8.9|11.6}} stat increase. |
| − | During the | + | During the {{BetaSeason|14#Election Results|@ elections}}, Hitherto retreated to the Lift's [[Shadows]] in exchange for [[Cudi Di Batterino]] as a result of the Lift's {{BetaSeason|14#Wills|'''Foreshadow'''}} will, resulting in a combined {{Star Change|11.6|12.2}} stat increase. |
| + | On {{BetaSeason|24}}, Day 79, Hitherto joined the Lift's lineup in exchange for [[Kit Honey]] due to [[Night]], resulting in a combined {{Star Change|12.2|14.0}} stat increase. | ||
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| − | File:Val Hitherto 510 Bust.png|alt=A digital bust drawing of Val Hitherto, a Chinese trans man with short messy purple hair and an eyepatch. He has a pair of goggles on his head and some stars on his cheek, and is looking at the viewer with a confident smirk.|Art by | + | File:Val Hitherto 510 Bust.png|alt=A digital bust drawing of Val Hitherto, a Chinese trans man with short messy purple hair and an eyepatch. He has a pair of goggles on his head and some stars on his cheek, and is looking at the viewer with a confident smirk.|Art by [https://twitter.com/510five_ '''@510five_'''] |
| − | File:Val Hitherto 510 Full.png|alt=A digital drawing of Val Hitherto, a Chinese man with an eye patch. He is wearing a pair of goggles pushed up in his messy short purple hair, and a coat that is a trenchcoat on the right side, and a cropped leather jacket on the other. Underneath he is wearing a cropped blaseball jersey and a pair of steampunk pants. Both his posture and expression are cocky.|Art by [https://twitter.com/510five_ 510five_] | + | File:Val Hitherto candlewax.png|alt=A digital bust drawing of Val Hitherto, a Chinese trans man with an eye patch and goggles. He has messy black hair with pink tips, and is wearing grunge-style clothing with a necklace and a shirt with a ripped neckline. He is looking toward the viewer with a solemn expression.|Art by [https://twitter.com/C4NDL3W4X/status/1341149791015866369?s=20 '''@C4NDL3W4X'''] |
| − | File:Val Hitherto Chameleon.png|alt=A digital black-and-white ink drawing of Val Hitherto, a Chinese trans man with short spiky hair. He is wearing a pair of round steampunk goggles and coveralls, and is holding a large gem up to inspect. A chameleon sits on one shoulder.|Art by [https://twitter.com/ | + | File:Val Hitherto 510 Full.png|alt=A digital drawing of Val Hitherto, a Chinese man with an eye patch. He is wearing a pair of goggles pushed up in his messy short purple hair, and a coat that is a trenchcoat on the right side, and a cropped leather jacket on the other. Underneath he is wearing a cropped blaseball jersey and a pair of steampunk pants. Both his posture and expression are cocky.|Art by [https://twitter.com/510five_ '''@510five_'''] |
| − | File:Val Hitherto | + | File:Val Hitherto Fancymancer.png|alt=Digital ink drawings of Val, a transmasc man with a monocle, sideburns, stubble, and short light hair that is slicked back and spiky. In one image he is topless, showing his top surgery scars. In another he is wearing a jacket and skinny jeans while brushing back his hair with one hand, and in another he is wearing a Lift crop top. The final shows him in a Victorian dress as he tosses up a ball.|Art by [https://twitter.com/Fancymancer '''@Fancymancer'''] |
| − | File:Grollis Zephyr | + | File:Val Hitherto Chameleon.png|alt=A digital black-and-white ink drawing of Val Hitherto, a Chinese trans man with short spiky hair. He is wearing a pair of round steampunk goggles and coveralls, and is holding a large gem up to inspect. A chameleon sits on one shoulder.|Art by '''[https://twitter.com/saltbuzzard/status/1374370851525693442 @saltbuzzard]''' |
| + | File:Grollis Zephyr and Val Hitherto have brunch.jpg|alt=An Illustration depicting Grollis Zephyr and Val Hitherto sitting together at a cafe. Grollis, a young Ryukyunan person wears trendy clothing, and sits comfortably while smiling across the table. Val looks to be a young regency-era English gentleman with foppish blond hair and sideburns, as well as some form of contemporary military uniform with the jacket casually worn open. He leans across the table with an eager grin. In speach bubbles Grollis says: “Thanks for calling, I’m so glad that we can do something normal for once.” However, his speech bubble partially is cut off by Val’s, who appears to be interjecting over them, shouting: “Let’s heist Napoleon’s hat!”|Val Hitherto ropes Grollis Zephyr into a heist. Art by [https://twitter.com/Mindbleach_HiFi '''@A.I.'''] | ||
| + | File:Val Hitherto sawyer Monochrome.jpg|alt=A digital bust drawing of Val Hitherto, a Chinese trans man with an eye patch and goggles pulled back behind his short bangs. He has a black coat and a low-necked t-shirt on. He is grinning and looking to one side with a contented expression.|Art by [https://twitter.com/C4NDL3W4X '''@C4NDL3W4X'''] | ||
| + | File:Grollis Zephyr pursues Val Hitherto.jpg|alt=An illustration depicting Val Hitherto, with a painting under their arm, running from Grollis Zephyr down a Japanese residential alley. Val has the curly blonde hair of a regency fop, a monocle, a skin-tone tanned slightly darker than their hair, and a toned, masculine build under a mint green victorian dress. Grollis Zephyr flies through the air behind them, trailed by cherry blossom petals the same shocking pink colour as their tokusatsu costume. From behind Grollis shouts: “As both your teammate and Emissary of the Tokyo Council of the Arts, I’m asking you to please stop stealing priceless artifacts!” Val replies: “Oh, come on Groll, this is great cardio!”|Val Hitherto in the act of art theft, pursued by Grollis Zephyr. Art by [https://twitter.com/Mindbleach_HiFi '''@A.I.'''] | ||
| + | File:Val hitherto buzzardtable.png|alt=A digital drawing of Hitherto, a Chinese man with spiky pink hair and sideburns held back by asymmetrical pink goggles on his forehead, a purple coat with the sleeves pulled up, and a pink shirt. He has a crooked nose, a slight mustache, and a soulpatch beard, and he looks toward the viewer with a tired smirk.|Hitherto as of Season 23, by '''[https://twitter.com/saltbuzzard/status/1410375002445201412 @saltbuzzard]''' | ||
| + | File:Val Hitherto "trans port".png|alt=A digital drawing of Val Hitherto, a young Chinese man with a mustache, rectangular glasses, short spiky hair dyed pink at the ends, and a t-shirt with the words, trans port. He looks to one side.|Space truck stowaway Hitherto by '''[https://twitter.com/saltbuzzard/status/1462979124134350856 @saltbuzzard]''' | ||
| + | File:Brokyo in Pink.png|alt=a flatly colored digital drawing of five players, on an old paper textured pink background. from left to right: val hitherto, a short trans chinese man with a slight mustache, acne scars on his cheek and chest, and scars on his knuckles from picking his fingers. he wears a red trench coat over a v-neck shirt, a choker with a heart pattern, and goggles on his forehead which holds up spiky hair, dyed pink on the ends. there are scars around one eye which is cloudy. he looks to the side with a slight grimace as he raises one hand to gesture as he talks. gerund pantheocide, a short muscular butch transfem vietnamese person with a scar on one cheek, slings one arm over val’s shoulder as she grins and gestures at grollis, who is towards the right. they wear a bandanna covering their eyebrows, a t-shirt and one fingerless glove, and a black denim vest covered in patches and pins. she has a nazar hanging on one hip. coolname galvanic, a tall thin albino japanese person with long hair and heavy scarring beneath both eyes, stands in the center and back of the image, and looks towards yusef fenestrate. it wears a large sunhat with a sunflower and round sunglasses, and its face rests in a neutral, slightly frowning, expression. yusef fenestrate, a tall black egyptian wearing an oval-shaped stained glass window mask over the entirety of xer face. ve has immaterial hair that floats behind vim in varying shades of dark brown, and wears a hoodie over a turtleneck, as well as jeans which have had small landscapes painted along the legs. sie looks at coolname as ae rests one hand in gerund’s hair and the other loops around grollis zephyr to hold hyr hand. grollis zephyr, a black japanese person with short hair, a face mask, and an button-up t-shirt over a cropped binder and sweatpants. ze has large earrings, a nazar hanging from hyr neck, and the scleras of hyr eyes are slightly bluish while hyr irises are slightly oblong and vertical. hyr body faces slightly away from the group, and ze looks at gerund out of the corner of hyr eye as ze holds yusef’s hand. |Hitherto, [[Gerund Pantheocide]], [[Coolname Galvanic]], [[Yusef Fenestrate]], and [[Grollis Zephyr]] in the early Expansion Era. Art by '''[https://twitter.com/saltbuzzard/status/1493291523617796102 @saltbuzzard]''' | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:55, 23 February 2023
Val Hitherto was a lineup player for the Tokyo Lift, and was with the team from the Season β10 elections until Fall Ball.
Official League Records
Hitherto joined the ILB as a pitcher for the Tokyo Lift during the Season β10 elections after the Ascension of the Baltimore Crabs.
On Season β13, Day 73, Hitherto entered Party Time with the Lift. During the remainder of the Season, Hitherto partied 2 times, resulting in a combined 8.9 → 11.6 stat increase.
During the Season β14 elections, Hitherto retreated to the Lift's Shadows in exchange for Cudi Di Batterino as a result of the Lift's Foreshadow will, resulting in a combined 11.6 → 12.2 stat increase.
On Season β24, Day 79, Hitherto joined the Lift's lineup in exchange for Kit Honey due to Night, resulting in a combined 12.2 → 14.0 stat increase.
COMMUNITY REPORTSThe remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.
Box of Val Hitherto Files
- Dust billows as the file box lands on the table. While many archives in the Interdimensional Rumor Mill are unified in some way, this... definitely isn’t one of them. The accompanying Rumor Registry explains all of the contents... wherever it is... but for now you grab the folder labelled IF-31.344 and start reading...
Personal information
Background
When pressed for biographical details the player known as Val Hitherto will offer only that he "moved around a lot as a kid". This may or may not be true. His Lift teammates, however, know that Hitherto is a time-traveller from the 2Xth Century, where he worked (works, will work) in the intersection between art history and quantum physics as an Art Rescuer.
In the Authenticity Economy of 2XXX museum curation is a cutthroat business. The biggest players will pay huge sums to specialists who can cast themselves back through time with extreme precision, scooping up long-lost cultural artefacts in the last milliseconds before they would otherwise have been destroyed by fire, military action or natural disaster. It remains a controversial practice, but the major museums present it as "proactive conservation" and charge big money to view these works not seen in centuries.
Hitherto made his name, whatever that will be at the time, by recovering three Titians and a Velasquez previously regarded as lost in the Alcázar de Madrid fire of 1734. By 2XXX he was (is, will be) something of a celebrity with his dashing, devil-may-care approach and a reputation for delivering the goods against impossible odds. This reputation was tarnished when it came to light that he had developed a technique for Rescuing a work, then Rescuing it again a few milliseconds earlier; for some years he had been delivering one original to the museum funding the operation but keeping another for his own private appreciation.
It was difficult to prove that any crime had been committed, since Hitherto had on every occasion adhered to the letter of the contract, but his actions sparked an international crisis. In a society based on monetising scarcity, the powerful museums' claim to exclusive ownership of any given artwork was no longer guaranteed. Worse was to come when Hitherto's double-dip algorithm was leaked and widely shared. Within days the market was flooded first with lost Titians, then with countless identical examples of extant Monets, van Dycks and Picassos, fatally undermining the global cultural-economic system.
A disgraced Val Hitherto fled to Now to evade the clutches of Prado-Guggenheim Corp, the HermitageMet Consortium and a legion of private investors whose prestige and net worth had collapsed overnight, their hitherto valuable paintings now legally indistinguishable from those on tens of thousands of walls worldwide.
With the Tokyo Lift
It is difficult to reconcile Future-Hitherto's playboy image with the odious little squirt who swaggered into Stijn Strongbody's Tokyo lab, unless eye-rolling, sniggering and the ability to start a fight in an empty room are considered suave in the 2Xth Century.
It is also unclear whether he approached the future Lift captain with a view to playing blaseball or just to pick his brains as a world-renowned mathematician. Hitherto was able to escape the Future with some, not all, of his time-travel technology; this is much less reliable than his full rig, and he seemed reliant on Strongbody's help and indulgence for the extremely complicated calculations required to use it. What Strongbody sought in return has not been disclosed.
Our present time period is regarded as a safe harbour for temporal fugitives because it is (will be, will have been) so poorly understood by future historians. Academics in 2XXX describe a fundamental breakdown in consensual reality which prevents the objective and precise evidence-gathering possible in the centuries before and after. It is an ideal place for Hitherto to live in anonymity, or would be if only he could resist the limelight. Instead the nebulous realities of Blaseball offer a stage for continued fame in the Now while remaining vague and unpindownable to future historians, enemies and law enforcement agencies.
Hitherto began his splorting career as an irritating pitcher, a braggart less adept at delivering the ball than he was at riling the batter into mistakes. Asked by journalists about Hitherto's insufferably smug on-field persona, Gerund Pantheocide shrugged and asked what they meant by "on-field".
Hitherto was often late to the pitcher's mound. Unlike teammate Grollis Zephyr this was not due to executive dysfunction, but to his propensity for being accidentally-on-purpose recruited into the Prussian Hussars during the second Schleswig War. During one away game against the Breckenridge Jazz Hands spectators were puzzled when Hitherto appeared to have grown a full beard between the fourth and fifth innings. He explained it as "just a condition I have, it's the altitude". Lift players speculate that Strongbody had some mechanism to immediately recall Hitherto from his time-travels, based on the occasional sight of him pitching in a cardinal's robes or a Regency ballgown and muttering darkly that he "was in the middle of a thing".
At the end of Season 14 Hitherto was moved into the Tokyo Lift's Shadows. Several explanations were offered for this, the most convincing being that given by a furious Nandy Slumps which media outlets delicately summarised as "for his own continued good health". In an attempt to keep him out of trouble, Hitherto was put in charge of the Legscraper's Beef Wings snack outlet. To the team's surprise - and his own undisguised disgust - Hitherto made the concession a success, adding a "Cursed Franchise of the Year" award to his earlier trophy for "Blaseball's Most Slappable Face". In time he was forced to recruit many other Shadowed players to meet growing customer demand.
Even with this distraction Hitherto continued to command media attention, with regular speculation about his being cut from the team altogether. At one point he seemed set for a return to active play, only for rookie Kit Honey to be handed the spot in mysterious circumstances.
It was late in Season β24, after nearly ten Seasons in beef wings exile, that Hitherto made his comeback. Hearing of an imminent Night shift, Hitherto burst from the beef wings van; as cameras turned to follow the commotion he sprinted through the crowd and vaulted a fence onto the field. Bearing down on a helpless Kit Honey, Hitherto tore off his sauce-stained beef wings apron, threw it in the outgoing batter's face and turned, arms spread wide, to reveal a t-shirt custom-rhinestoned with the words "DID YA MISS ME, BINCHES?!?!"
Hitherto played out two-and-a-half games as an unremarkable batter before plunging into the Black Hole (Black Hole).
Personal life
Off the field, Hitherto's fashion sense is eclectic. He often combines a vintage cavalry jacket with ill-matching garments from different time periods, accessorised by chunky tinted goggles which may be part of his time-travelling apparatus. He continues to collect, but mostly for adventure rather than profit, and with a current emphasis on European military uniforms of the 18th and 19th centuries. He is still searching for period boots that can accommodate elevator heels. The contemptible little weasel frequently poses as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army circa 1822 in order to score more of those sick epaulettes.
Hitherto has volunteered little information about his private life in 2XXX, beyond that he is "very single" there and "likes beautiful things". Among current and former Lift teammates he is most readily tolerated by Engine Eberhardt and fellow pitcher-turned-batter Grollis Zephyr. He had a complicated rivalry with art thief Silvaire Semiquaver and a straightforwardly antagonistic one with Nandy Slumps.
Hitherto occupies several corners of the notorious Tokyo Divorce Polygon, a diagram chaotic both in its complexity and, in Val's case, its chronology. On at least three occasions he has been (will be, will have been) acrimoniously divorced from himself. He is often the butt of teammates' jokes and is routinely blamed for the team's misfortunes, something the nauseating homunculus absolutely deserves.
Fan Works
Art by @510five_
Art by @C4NDL3W4X
Art by @510five_
Art by @Fancymancer
Art by @saltbuzzard
Val Hitherto ropes Grollis Zephyr into a heist. Art by @A.I.
Art by @C4NDL3W4X
Val Hitherto in the act of art theft, pursued by Grollis Zephyr. Art by @A.I.
Hitherto as of Season 23, by @saltbuzzard
Space truck stowaway Hitherto by @saltbuzzard
Hitherto, Gerund Pantheocide, Coolname Galvanic, Yusef Fenestrate, and Grollis Zephyr in the early Expansion Era. Art by @saltbuzzard
