While this topic was raised 9 months ago and it was decided to keep the IRM, it has been 9 months and the IRM has gone broadly unused. Overall Mechanics culture has trended towards coming up with one interpretation for players. If other interpretations are proposed, it would make sense to install IRM then but right now there is one, fairly unified, concept for Bottles.
Talk:Bottles Šuljak
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- Reverb/Shadowing
- Life as S.H.A.D.O.W.S. coordinator
Personal Life
Bottles “Bottles” Suljak is a short butch glassblower and blacksmith, and batter for the Core Mechanics.
Suljak acts as the Mechanic's core blacksmith, and has done so since the passing of the previous blacksmith, Cups "Cups" Varga. In addition to tools and art, some of Bottles' past projects include forging swords, marriage bats, tables, wind, peanut butter, beetles, and skyscrapers. Suljak is also a talented glassblower and frequently combines their metalwork and glass. They love to watch documentaries about random incredibly specific topics, giving them a vast amount of niche knowledge.
They are allegedly married to Lady Matsuyama, a fact corroborated by the fact that the two of them have been seen wearing Bottles-crafted rings. Suljak is famously private and has refused to comment on the matter. Matsuyama refuses to not comment on the matter, holding the current Core record for longest impassioned speech about how much she loves her wife.
Description
Suljak forged their own body out of molten iron and glass. They are transparent, illuminated from the inside with an orange light. They are designed to withstand high temperatures without sweating to help with glassblowing, as well as to be somewhat crack resistant to help protect them when playing Blaseball. They frequently do have to repair minor damage to their body, though their precautions tend to protect them from anything more serious. Suljak loves how tank tops show off her craftsmanship. A rotating collection of small glass brooches and flowers can sometimes be seen pinned to her clothes or uniform.
It is unknown what form Suljak took before they made themself a body and they appear to lack most internal organs, with some clockwork mechanisms visible in parts of their body. They are also capable of moving their mouth and eyes to form expressions or speak, despite those seemingly being made of glass.
A Lucky Save
After the Season 16 elections, parts of the Core were destabilized by the alternating of PolkaDot Patterson and the way that they had clung on to reality. Suljak was part of the team sent to help manage quantum fluctuations over and around the Prophesea. While Suljak was working on setting up sensors to detect incoming wave diversions. Partway through setting this up, the detectors all started beeping and Suljak took a step backwards, inadvertently stepping back into the Prophesea.
One of their teammates quickly came to pull them out, but Suljak later told researchers from U.P. that it felt like they had been standing there for over a year. Suljak reported that they had seen an entire possible timeline but wouldn’t share the details, though apparently called everyone on the Blaseball team immediately after and asked if they were OK.
Suljak was seen talking to Kelvin Drumsolo afterwards as well as spending time with several of the Shadows players including Cravel Gesundheit. Many Core denizens also noted that Suljak had come around their homes talking about the benefits of fax machines and going so far as to give them fax machines. This became an ongoing joke for several months.
After the season began, Suljak began working on Drumsolo’s combination mobility-device-and-drumkit to add modifications with the purpose of harnessing the interdimensional energy which still flooded the Core. On Day 3 as reverberations began to echo around the field, Drumsolo stepped forward and seemed to begin harmonically vibrating, burning hotter than ze ever had before. Drumsolo and Mindy Kugel swapped places before Drumsolo seemed to somehow catch the reverb and fling zirself back into the lineup in exchange for Suljak themself. After the game, Suljak gave Drumsolo a pat on the back before loudly and repeatedly talking about how cool fax machines were and how everyone in the Core should appreciate fax machines.
Pitching Career
Suljak struggled on the mound, though at times seemed to enjoy how badly they were doing as a pitcher. One of their signature moves was pitching a ball incredibly far out of the strike zone and loudly saying ‘oops!’ before smiling widely. They also made shirts for themself and Patterson which read ‘All Aboard the Party Train’ with the pair pictured driving a steam-powered locomotive.
Following the Feedback of Matsuyama, Suljak responded to all questions about their behavior by telling askers that it was ‘worth it’ and that ‘this couldn’t be avoided’ but that they and Matsuyama would ‘be together again - sort of, at least’. If pushed for an explanation, they would say that they were ‘doing this for the team’ before refusing to elaborate any further. They and Matsuyama called after the end of every game.
When the renovation options were revealed and a Fax Machine was among them, many of the Mechanics latched on to fax machines as part of their identity. Suljak also ran a propaganda campaign wherein they taped a printout of a picture of a fax machine with upwards pointing arrows and the word ‘this’ in all capital bolded letters beneath it onto their ‘All Aboard the Party Train’ shirt. It is probable that Suljak’s persistent efforts to introduce fax machines to Core culture had an impact on the decision to build a Fax Machine at the Pillars.
Suljak faxed out fairly promptly, leaving Gesundheit in their place. During a game against the Yellowstone Magic, Gesundheit swapped places with Jaylen Hotdogfingers in the Feedback. Once this had happened, Suljak seemed to visibly relax and spent the rest of the season in Hawai’i with Matsuyama before returning to the Core for the elections.
Suljak was asked about how they felt about staying in the Shadows for the foreseeable future, especially given that their team’s chances of victory still seemed slim with the addition of Kelvin Andante to the rotation. Suljak responded by patting the side of the Fax Machine, smiling, and saying that Season 18 was going to surprise a lot of people. They then pulled a spanner out of their toolbelt and began making some minor adjustments to the Machine.
S.H.A.D.O.W.S.
While S.H.A.D.O.W.S. was a preexisting concept, and many members of the Core Mechanics Shadows team identified as part of the organization, it broadly consisted of a few people who gathered up balls at the end of games and not much beyond that. Historically, they had taken on maintaining The Pillars, which required a level of technical expertise and know-how as well as the resistance to non Blaseball related harm given by being a player, but this had fallen by the way-side due to the chaos of Renovations and ILB sanctioned equipment and modifications.
Suljak quickly assumed an coordination role in S.H.A.D.O.W.S., retraining their teammates and creating systems of accountability to ensure adequate fulfillment of their roles. S.H.A.D.O.W.S. began handling maintenance on items and renovations, as well as resuming care for the Pillars. Suljak also began organizing social events and team-bonding activities, using Kofi Gildehaus’s teashop as a central gathering point.
They also revamped the S.H.A.D.O.W.S. warehouse, establishing a daily cleaning rota and getting a coffee machine. While it is still improbably dark in there and time and space are still more fluid than they usually are, most things are now on shelves or against the walls and there are stricter rules about returning lanterns to the racks by the entrance and exit.
In lieu of the recent update to IRMs, I will be giving the one on this page the filebox format as it feels most appropriate
I'd like to remove the IRM from this player's page. This player only has one rumor and is the result of a collaborative lore jam, and new ideas can be added to the page and enhance existing consensus instead of replacing the entire thing.
The team has already expressed a desire to use IRM, and removing it would go against that
Objections were raised, so IRM isn't being deleted.
The wiki mods were alerted to the installation of the IRM without prior discussion to this page. At time of discovery, it contained one entry - Bottles Suljak/IF-60.111 - with default settings for the full page. The installation was performed by Beelijah, who can reinstall the IRM after 24 hours if there are no objections.
There's a general consensus that Bottles, as a glassblower and blacksmith, creates her own glass bodies. There's an idea of a human body and a dolphin so far. It would be fun to have an IRM for "Here's Bottles' current favorite project she's done".
This way, the IRM entries are building on one another and are all valid simultaneously, "yes, and"ing one another!
I don't think we need to have an in-universe explanation for IRM; both versions are inherently valid regardless of whether or not they technically coexist
sometimes the IRM feels a bit "only one of these ideas is valid at a time" to me. we definitely don't need to have an explanation, but I like the idea of framing the IRM as a "yes, all of these are valid and coexist", especially for the core
Bottles is a short butch glassblower and blacksmith, and batter for the Core Mechanics.
Bottles "Bottles" Suljak acts as the Mechanic's core blacksmith, and has done so since the passing of the previous blacksmith, Cups "Cups" Varga. In addition to tools and art, some of Bottles' past projects include forging swords, marriage bats, tables, wind, peanut butter, beetles, and skyscrapers. They love to watch documentaries about random super specific topics, giving them lots of random knowledge.
Bottles forges new bodies out of molten iron and glass to better line up with her self image. Her current body is made out of transparent glass, illuminated from the inside with an orange light. Bottles designed this body to withstand much higher temperatures without sweating, useful while glassblowing. Bottles loves how tank tops show off her craftsmanship. A rotating collection of small glass brooches and flowers can sometimes be seen pinned to her clothes or uniform.
They are allegedly married to Lady Matsuyama, a fact corroborated by the fact that the two of them have been seen wearing Bottles-crafted rings. Suljak is famously private and has refused to comment on the matter. Lady Matsuyama refuses to not comment on the matter, holding the current CORE record for longest impassioned speech about how much she loves her wife.
do you mind if I take the bit about lady and attach it to the irm I wrote?
go for it! I tried to incorporate your IRM into this one, so also feel free to suggest other parts of your IRM you think would work here!
Bottles "Bottles" Suljak acts as the Mechanic's core blacksmith, and has done so since the passing of the previous blacksmith, Cups "Cups" Varga. Suljak forges the team's bats by hand. Investigations into the link between Suljak not knowing what a blaseball bat is supposed to look like and the Mechanic's poor offensive stats has been inconclusive.
Suljak is a hobbyist glassblower and jewelry maker. They are allegedly married to Lady Matsuyama, however, Suljak is famously private and has refused to comment on the matter.
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