Talk:Mags Banananana

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Waveridden (talkcontribs)

Hi all! I have an update for Mags that covers up through her time on the Lift, including placeholder-y stuff for the Mills and Wings. I'm imagining this as going after the "Basic Details" section.


Leaving Chicago

After a long life in Chicago, Banananana found herself Revoked by the fans. Ever a fan of the city life, she wandered to the New York Millennials and stayed there for a year, enjoying life in another city.

At the end of her season in New York, Banananana was traded to the Mexico City Wild Wings. In the process, she became a pitcher and found that she had something of a natural talent for it after playing plenty of games of catch with her grandkids. When reporters have attempted to tell Banananana that the two skills aren’t really comparable, she waves them off and then moves on.

Time in Tokyo

Banananana spent two years with the Wild Wings before wandering again, this time to the Tokyo Lift. Banananana stated that, as a fitness buff, she was drawn to the team because of their supportive fitness culture, although their vast workout resources certainly didn’t hurt. She also began running aerobics classes in the Legscraper.

Banananana became quick friends with Cudi Di Batterino, a fellow horticulturist, as well as Coolname Galvanic, whose friendship with Banananana was considered inscrutable and opaque by many. Banananana repeatedly referred to Galvanic as “a delight” and “one of my dearest friends.” Galvanic returned the favor by calling Banananana “great,” one of the highest compliments that it has ever given one of its teammates on the record.

Ever a grandmother, Banananana also formed an incredibly deep bond with Rylan O’Lantern. Given eir status as a literal fish out of water, Banananana felt sympathy for em and offered to allow em to rent out eir spare bedroom. Over the following seasons, Banananana became a caretaker for O’Lantern and referred to em as her grandchild. O’Lantern has also been heard calling Banananana “Nana Mags.”

Iznj (talkcontribs)

Mentioned in Guy Gulp's page, full text here:(x).

Referenced as a Tlopps card: "When traveling for an away game versus the Tokyo Lift Gulp happened upon a clearly abandoned, but highly interesting Mags Bananana Tlopps card in The Gym. The Card states that it's Tlopps official, but looks nothing like any produced before. It also chooses to depict the woman as a mlinion character instead. Despite it being torn down the side Gulp had done all ze can to restore the strange card to its former glory, whatever that may be."

Staradavid (talkcontribs)

Just a proposal to bring this page up to date by changing the IRM installed here to the Filebox format due to the content of the current pages!

The Tokyo Adrift/nAUtical Lift

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Spotter donut (talkcontribs)

An IRM entry for Mags as an older deckhand with a personal vendetta against trading companies exploiting smaller ports for tropical fruit produce, playing off Mag's pre-game ritual of Swearing an oath, for the pirate AU

Spotter donut (talkcontribs)

I plan to add the IRM to the page and shift the current contents to their own entry using IF-66.22.

Draft entry for Mags Banananana, from the Firefighters

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Meserach (talkcontribs)

The result of the Firefighter's lore jam. If you wish to see the jam itself, click here.

A few notes:

  • This version is devoid of minion content beyond a reference in Trivia to a love of minion memes, as that seemed to be the consensus. A minion IRM is planned, but I am also not averse to subtle minion references being added to the main article that stop short of her actually being one, but I’d need someone more familiar with the property to work out what these might be
  • There was excitement in the jam both for younger Mags (twenties) and grandma mags (50+). The balance seemed to be tipping toward the latter, so I’ve gone with that. Open to IRMs of course, but also potentially open to a compromise choice - make her 30 and give her more of amom energy?
  • I have not taken a position on what “Mags” is short for, if anything.


COMMUNITY LORE

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

IRM number: 60.22

(a subtle reference to the internal conflict in the jam between an older and younger version of the character)

Basic Details

Mags Banananana is a muscular Brazilian woman originally from São Paulo who uses she/her pronouns. Asked for her age, she typically replies “that’s for me to know and you to find out”.

Mags almost exclusively dresses in her signature colour, yellow - most notably, she is almost never seen without an oversize yellow handbag. This habit combined with her penchant for plantain-based cookery led to her being dubbed “the Banana Nana”.

Like all of us, she is from Chicago. Her jersey number is 872.

Personal Life

Mags Banananana had a varied career in her earlier life, having worked as a deckhand, a delivery driver and a librarian. In her retirement, she began undertaking volunteer work. Prior to joining the Chicago Firefighters, Mags was volunteering at the Chicago Fire Safety Awareness Center.

Mags is a keen baker, horticulturist and herbalist. In addition to blaseball, Mags also plays rugby and is keen on aerobic fitness.

Mags has been widowed at least once, although she refuses to clarify the details. She has an unknown number of children and grandchildren, some of whom can often be seen cheering her on at Firefighters games. Since joining the Firefighters’ lineup, Mags has quickly become adopted as a “team grandma” by the Firefighters.

Persistent rumours have paired Mags with Suzanne Suzanne, Declan Suzanne’s mother, as a couple, at least partly owing to Declan departing the lineup for the Shadows as Mags arrived on the team.

Trivia

  • Mags enjoys memes featuring Minion characters from the Despicable Me movie franchise. Her enjoyment appears entirely sincere regardless of the quality of the meme, which infuriates some of her teammates. (She claims to have never seen the films.)
  • Mags’ home has an enormous collection of objects that are yellow in colour.
  • Mags’ favourite food is apples.

Cheers

What follows is an incomplete list of cheers commonly used when Mags is playing:

  • “MAGS, IS BANANAS, BEE-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-A...” - used whenever Mags achieves anything whatsoever, there is no agreed end to this cheer.
  • “BA-NA-NA-NA, NA-NA-NA-NA, Hey HEY, Goodbye” - used when Mags hits a home run.
  • “Banahnahnah (doot dooo doodoodoo)” (to the tune of “Mahna Mahna”) - a walkout chant for when Mags is at-bat.
  • “I BANANA-CAN-A DO IT!!”
  • At various times almost any song which features “na na na” in the lyrics has been modified and used to support Mags.

Something we didn't have time to clear with the relevant teams but liked

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Meserach (talkcontribs)
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