Stephens Lightner
Stephens Lightner was a player in the Shadows for the Hades Tigers, and was with the team from Season β23, Day 44 until Fall Ball. Lightner has previously played for the Breckenridge Jazz Hands.
Official League Records
Lightner joined the ILB as a lineup player for the Breckenridge Jazz Hands with the Return of Blaseball.
Lightner hit a 3-run home run in Season β2, Day 78 in a game against the Hellmouth Sunbeams.
On Season β3, Day 46, Lightner swallowed a stray peanut and had an allergic reaction, resulting in a combined 10.17 → 5.67 stat decrease.
In Season β5, Day 106, during a 23 inning playoff game against the Canada Moist Talkers, Lightner had 9 plate appearances, all strikeouts. SIBR has deemed this accomplishment a "Triple Golden Sombrero", a.k.a. "the 9-gallon bloodhat".
On Season β13, Day 84, Lightner swallowed a stray peanut and had an allergic reaction, resulting in a combined 8.2 → 3.98 stat decrease.
During the Season β14 elections, Lightner retreated to the Breckenridge Jazz Hands' Shadows in exchange for Bauer Zimmerman as a result of the Jazz Hands' Foreshadow will.
On Season β23, Day 44, The Ampitheater Thieves' Guild stole Lightner from the Breckenridge Jazz Hands and gave them to the Hades Tigers.
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History
The Jazz Hands often refer to Lightner as Stephens "The Collective" Lightner. Not a single Stephen but rather an eclectic heap of Stephens, these multiple entities share not just a name but also the exact same location in space and time, even across dimensions. This is often understood by unidimensional observers as Lightner "flickering" between different individual Stephens. Incomprehensible to the mortal mind, this state of being has been described by Lightner as "nifty." The Lightner Project was established to investigate when and how this occurred. Preliminary results indicate the superposition took place prior to Lightner's career as a Race Carl driver.
After a decades long career as an undefeated Race Carl driver, Lightner left racing to pursue glory in the greatest game of all—Blaseball. Despite their age, Lightner quickly found a spot in the Jazz Hands' lineup, and have been a core part of the team for over █████ years.
Lightner is known for their unusual bat, which is made from the drive shaft of the Carl they drove to a legendary victory in the Daytona 42069. When asked why they were allowed to use such an unusual bat, The Commissioner did not provide any comment, because they were too busy Doing a Great Job.
When asked in an interview about how they navigate identity labels, Lightner replied, "I don't, don't try it either, next question."
Relationships
Many of the individual Stephens that make up Lightner's existence maintained relationships of varying sorts. After becoming Lightner, however, these relationships underwent various transformations, assuming they persisted; with effort, an individual Stephen can stabilize Lightner long enough to "pilot" a social interaction, but the effort involved is immense. As a result, Lightner expects any potential friend or partner to build a relationship of some sort with all of their constituent Stephens at once, as opposed to consistently interacting only with one Stephen.
Stephens, Colorado
After entering the Jazz Hands' Shadows, Lightner discovered that the instability of the Pit caused all of the different Stephens to spread out and no longer be restricted to the same physical location. This effect ceases when Lightner leaves the Pit. Free to explore the Pit in a large group, the different Stephens that compose Lightner founded a city named Stephens, Colorado within the Pit's expanse. Every citizen of Stephens, Colorado is a different Stephen from within the collective Lightner.
The Lightner Project
- The Lightner Project has approximately identified some of the Stephens that make up Lightner across the dimensions. However, the instability of Lightner makes the below report highly unstable. This time, the Interdimensional Rumor Mill reveals a Stephen from IF-23.428 out of its Stephen Registry...
Stephen Fredricks
Stephen Fredricks was the most infamous criminal housed at the IF-23.428 Englewood Federal Correctional Facility. In IF-23.428, they were responsible for the theft of thousands of priceless Colorado artifacts, including the Mlona Lisel, the Dlavid, the only remaining copy of Gland Tuft Otto Englewood Heights (pre-"Mature Content" patch), and a small church mouse named Lucifer who entertained the nuns at Santo Cristobal's Episcopal Daycare.
Stephens Fredricks was one of the most dangerous con artists in their dimension. Though they had been a part of Lightner for at least REDACTED of years, they were able to conceal their former identity as a con artist from The Collective, claiming that they'd been a fortune teller in IF-23.428 to manipulate Lightner into occasionally making decisions they wouldn't have otherwise made. Their former identity was outed on Season 8, Day 36, when in a rather boneheaded move they got careless and used their "divinity" to predict a 3-game winning streak for the Breckenridge Jazz Hands, which was immediately disproven by their loss to the New York Millennials. It was the first known incident of a Stephen acting against the interests of The Collective.
Fredricks is said to be responsible for Lightner's proficiency at stealing bases, due to being a master thief.
Fan Works
A Tlopps card of Lightner
Lightner wearing a triple golden sombrero in honor of their 9-strikeout game
A clean version of Stephens Lightner's Jazz Hands ID, by @VoxiSour
A filtered version of Stephens Lightner's Jazz Hands ID, by @VoxiSour
A clean version of Stephens Lightner's ID portrait, by @VoxiSour
A filtered version of Stephens Lighter's ID portrait, by @VoxiSour
