Velasquez Meadows

Velasquez Meadows
Art by @_iznj
Basic Information
Former Team(s)	Hellmouth Sunbeams
Status	Incinerated
Batting	(1.3)
Pitching	(3.0)
Defense	(1.2)
Running	(3.0)
Items	None
Dates Active	Jul 20, 2020–Aug 4, 2020
External Links	Blaseball-Reference Player Changes Player Page
Personal Information
Evolution	Base
Peanut Allergy	Not Allergic
Coffee Style	Macchiato
Blood Type	AAA
Fate	57
Biographical Details
Pronouns	any
Species	Management, Human (Possibly a Giant Duneworm) (formerly)
Other Background Information
Heliolatric Zodiac	Blood Euphony
Favorite Fish	Rhys Trombone

Velasquez Meadows was a lineup player for the Hellmouth Sunbeams, and was with the team from Season β1 until being incinerated on Season β3, Day 23.

Official League Records

Meadows joined the ILB as a lineup player for the Moab Sunbeams with the Return of Blaseball.

On Season β3, Day 23, Meadows was incinerated and replaced by Alexander Horne. Earlier in the same game, Breckenridge Jazz Hands pitcher Ogden Mendoza had already been incinerated, making this the first game with a double incineration.

COMMUNITY REPORTS
The remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.

Personal Life

Velasquez "Asphodel" Meadows was born and raised in Moab, Utah. Meadows experienced a strong spiritual sensitivity and affiliation with the Moon from a young age, and reported frequent accidental forays to the edges of the underworld in their youth. They were trained for the role of a psychopomp by Nagomi Sr., notable wolf wrestler and "grandmother" to fellow Sunbeams batter Nagomi Nava. Meadows' duties to guide the dead to the afterlife were mostly ceremonial until the end of Season β1, when the Hellmouth opened and disrupted the passage of souls.

Meadows has speculated that eir Adaptation was "the ghost stuff, but, backwards, somehow", lending further credence to the theory of retrocausal Adaptation.

Meadows was a well-known and well-respected senior member of the Hellmouth community, most often spotted about town with Sandoval Crossing and Rhys Trombone. Meadows has described the incineration of the latter as "deeply upsetting", as the Blaseball gods' ultimate jurisdiction over the souls of players (and their enshrinement in the Hall of Flame) was not common knowledge at the time. Meadows' soul-shepherding abilities are thus restricted to non-blaseball players, or "the ordinary folk."

During a Season β2 game, Meadows was struck by a bolt of blinding fire. His skin was then gleaming bronze, etched with runes and sigils that spell in a panoply of tongues: "BEWARE". Other sources have said Meadows was an adult Giant Duneworm, however these accusations have so far gone unfounded.

Meadows was incinerated on Season β3, Day 23, twenty-one days after the incineration of Rhys Trombone. Most of hir final days were spent with Crossing, as well as a good amount of time spent with Dudley Mueller, Trombone's replacement. Mueller has yet to comment on the discussions the two had, but it appears to hold Meadows in high esteem - and its quiet, strong, purposeful personality reminds several Sunbeams players of Meadows vimself.

Legacy

Nagomi Nava, under Sandoval Crossing's initial tutelage, took on the bulk of Meadows duties as Hellmouth's resident psychopomp. While most ghosts of Hellmouth now know to seek out Nagomi Nava when the time comes for them to cross, the souls of older former members of the community will often linger around Meadows' childhood neighborhood instead.

Meadows' ghost is able to maintain a presence on the Immaterial Plane, stymieing permanent attempts to imprison them in the Hall or pull their soul into the Hellmouth. They credit this to their existing ability to traverse afterlives, along with the timely vengeance of Alexander Horne hitting a Grand Slam Horne Run at his first at-bat following his replacement of the incinerated Meadows. While Meadows can possess eir remnant ashes scattered in the Solarium, he has an easier time communicating as a phantom. Their spectral form can only manifest under pure moonlight, and they are banished back to the Hall when exposed to sunlight or artificial light.

Meadows' phantasmal appearance is mostly identical to eir appearance in life prior to the return of Blaseball, including his hair which has always floated "with an eerie sereneness, like ze is underwater, or being tugged by the tide."

Meadows manifests where they can, including at late-night moonlit batting practices of former Sunbeams such as Alaynabella Hollywood and Malik Romayne, as well as their god-daughter, Esme Ramsey of the Charleston Shoe Thieves. They offer moral support, batting tips, fatherly advice, and ancient hexes. Meadows's Ghost also serves as the Sunbeams' team manager.

Fan Works

Fanfiction
For more fanfiction see the 'Velasquez Meadows' tag on AO3

• life's a beach and then you die by Ash - Velasquez Meadows finds a recently dead Paula Reddick.
• you held me when i fell apart by staradavid - Velasquez Meadows and a life well lived, even while dead.

Videos

• sun - moon - earth by Olive

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  by Ephesos on Discord

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  Mini-Blaseballer
  by @HetreaSky

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  Velasquez Meadows and his tattoos by @_iznj

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  by Ash

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  Velasquez Meadows as a psychopomp by @glassgoblin

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  by @_pysics

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  by @_iznj