Velasquez Meadows

Velasquez Meadows
Art by @_iznj
Basic Information
Team	Hellmouth Sunbeams
Status	Incinerated
Batting
Pitching
Defense
Running
Dates Active	Jul 20–Aug 4, 2020
External Links	Blaseball-Reference Player Changes Player Page
Personal Information
Item	None?
Armor	None?
Coffee Style	Macchiato
Blood Type	AAA
Fate	57
Soulscream	IXEAAIXEAAIEAAXIEAAXIEEXAEOEXAEOEAIAXAAIAXAAAUAAIAUAAIAXUIOAXUIOAXUIAXAUIAXAUIEAOAIEAOAI
Biographical Details
Pronouns	Any
Species	Management, Human (Possibly a Giant Duneworm) (formerly)

Velasquez Meadows was a lineup player for the Hellmouth Sunbeams. Meadows had been with the Hellmouth Sunbeams since Season 1 and remained with the team until their incineration.

Official League Records

On Season 3, day 23, during a game against the Breckenridge Jazz Hands both Meadows and Jazz Hands player Ogden Mendoza were incinerated by a rogue umpire. Meadows was succeeded by Alexander Horne.

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 ████, 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 his youth. He was 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 1, when the Hellmouth opened and disrupted the passage of souls.

Meadows has speculated that his 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 2 game, Meadows was struck by a bolt of blinding fire. Their 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 3, Day 23, twenty-one days after the incineration of Rhys Trombone. Most of his 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 himself.

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 him in the Hall or pull his soul into the Hellmouth. He credits this to his 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 his remnant ashes scattered in the Solarium, he has an easier time communicating as a phantom. His spectral form can only manifest under pure moonlight, and he is banished back to the Hall when exposed to sunlight or artificial light.

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

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

Gallery

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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 goblin

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  by pysics