Talk:Elwin McGhee/Archive
I love the work @elwin_mcghee put in for the Lift's first season and would use that as a foundation. They don't have DMs open so I'm just trying to keep things in the spirit of a character they've fleshed out already.
McGhee is a being made entirely of clarified butter, kept solid through even the most heated of competitions through sheer force of will. Their can-do attitude is considered to be the force that emulsifies the Lift, though their disposition turns sour when reporters ask if an alternate Elwin made from removed milk solids exists.
Elwin Draft
Elwin McGhee is a sentient being composed mostly of grass-fed butter. He typically takes the form of a dog (breed and size varies) or a block of butter about the size of a refrigerator. The butter Elwin is composed of is most similar in chemical makeup to ghee, a clarified butter invented in India. This butter has a low melting point, which can cause Elwin to liquify during particularly warm weather.
This does not seem to bother Elwin at all, and he has been seen enthusiastically finishing team practice sessions as a puddle.
Elwin was recruited to the team by Val Hitherto, who accidentally attempted to use Elwin to butter his crumpet while on a brief vacation to the Butter Timeline. While in the Butter Timeline, Elwin worked as a bartender and a shepherd. He has been known to use his weekends to bartend or shepherd, so he doesn’t get rusty.
Elwin occasionally speaks with a terrible Cockney accent. There is no discernible reason for this, as Elwin has never been to England. He is, however, according to sources in Ireland, related to Celtic fae. He has reportedly been seen sitting in faerie circles, with an invisible force giving him pats on the head.
Elwin's butter has the strange effect of granting life to inanimate objects after prolonged exposure. So far, Elwin has been seen to grant life to:
- Multiple sweatbands
- At least two Lift uniforms
- One blaseball bat
- The lower half of the Lift stadium
The most notable example of this is the granting of sentience to Concrete Mandible, fellow lift player and former statue. This was accidental, and happened because Mandible’s head was “a great napping spot,” according to Elwin.
Mandible and Elwin remain good friends to this day, and Mandible will still occasionally take a nap with Elwin on its head.
Elwin Draft
Born on a small farm in County Kerry, its unknown exactly when Elwin McGhee was created, but rumours of the “Butter Beast of Ballybunion” date back to at least the mid 18th Century. It’s possible that some of these rumours refer to Elwin’s father Shivam, a barrel of Indian Ghee, delivered to Ireland at a similarly unknown date. Whether Shivam was sentient before arriving in Eire is, like much of the Grass-Fed Fielder’s early history, a mystery. What is certain is that he was seized by the British forces that then occupied the country, before being liberated by Elwin’s mother, Siobhann, a rebellious and independent woman reputed to have the blood of the Tuath de Danann, the fey folk of Celtic Myth, running through her veins. Some say that it was her fey magic that brought Shivam to life, before the two fell in love. What is certain is that the two ran away to the relative safety of the west of Ireland, and had a child together, whom they would name Elwin McGhee, or in the original Irish, Elwin Mac Ghee, translating literally to “Elwin, Child of Ghee.”
Elwin would be raised among the wild coast and the rolling hills of Kerry, and given as close to a normal Irish childhood as is possible for an amorphous mass of shapeshifting butter, taking an early love of the Gaelic games, especially rounders and hurling, eventually earning a place on the county hurling team. This is where many of the folk tales around Elwin originate, with opponents cursing them, and inventing elaborate explanations for why they were overcome by the “Diabhal Sleamhain.” There was, however, an unfortunate incident one winter where, unable to melt off the requisite mass, Elwin over-ate at a christmas dinner and grew to approximately thirty feet in height, destroying about half the village over the course of the evening’s drunken revelry. This was fortunately dismissed as ‘just a bit of craic,’ proving definitively that you can get away with just about anything if you’re on the County team.
Elwin would enjoy a long and storied hurling career, and upon their retirement planned to return to their parents’ farm, before being approached by a friend who suggested that they use their sporting fame to open a GAA-Themed Sports Bar in Tokyo. Said friend and Elwin both, however, unfortunately overestimated the popularity of the GAA in Japan. Despite briefly serving the best pint of Guinness east of Abuja, the bar went fairly quickly bankrupt. It was at this point that one of the bar’s few patrons, and a gym buddy of Elwin’s, Lance Serotonin, suggested that Elwin put their remarkable pace to use playing for the newly formed Tokyo Lift. Elwin accepted the offer, but with their experience lying solely in the strictly amateur gaelic games they are yet to grasp the concept of professional sport, and are thus still trying to get a sheep farm started to make a bit of money. (No mean feat in a high-rise apartment in central Tokyo)
IRM
Hi I'm intending to implement the IRM for Lift players over the coming week Spotterdonut (talk) 10:49, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
