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Crosspost from Bright Zimmerman

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Staradavid (talkcontribs)

Nic is mentioned a few times in a proposed irm to bright zimmerman's page: "Though he joined after their first championship, by all accounts Zimmerman was fast friends with Nicholas Mora, often spotted pouring over textbooks with him as early as mid-Season 2. In coming years, they would continue to be sat next to each other for nearly every press event, and were often seen having lively debates in Latin in the Pies’ dugout during games where neither pitched. "

"However, this changed after being reunited with Nicholas Mora upon his acquisition by the Breath Mints. For the duration of Mora’s tenure in the Breath Mints shadows, the two were nearly inseparable, and Zimmerman was reportedly left devastated by Mora's forging and sequestering to the vault during the ILB Semi-centennial. "

Xitharus (talkcontribs)

Nicholas Mora is a Afro-Cuban astrologer and one of very few mortals whose mind witnessed the vast cosmos and survived.

In the glitch in reality at the end of season 1, Mora saw the infinity of causality. his mind would have shattered—were it not for the guiding light of the stars, the only constant across the multiverse. It left him a single minded obsession with stargazing, often needing to search for Polaris in times of stress. As a result, he is easily distractable, and can come off as standoffish and cold to his teammates. Many times Mora would get distracted mid-pitch.

Mora's exchange to the tigers helped tremendously; though few stars were visible from Hades except through the hole of Hellmouth itself, as it happened Polaris was always visible from the Tiger pit. His transfer as a batter also gave him ample time to ground himself amongst the stars in between his at-bats.

Still, he is left with one burning mystery: all the stars he saw were constants across the multiverse... with the sole exception of the sun itself. What in Hades is up with that?

FAE (talkcontribs)

I really like this interpretation of Mora, especially using his fixation on stargazing as explaining why he was bad at pitching and better at batting. Also always a fan of having more non-white backgrounds!

Loser Rocker IRM Proposal

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GothicDouble (talkcontribs)

I'm very open to suggestions for rephrasing or adding/removing things for this proposed entry

Introduction

Nicholas Mora seems like an average guy except for his inability to speak any language other than Latin, which unfortunately causes many complications both for his ability to be coached in Blaseball and for his failed music career. While Mora's language background would make him perfectly suited for Gregorian chanting, he spurns such an "ungroovy" genre and instead insists that the spirit of rock and roll calls to him. Despite being a grumpy old man his mannerisms are that of an immature teenager who constantly rolls their eyes at their parents, "parents" in this case being the management of whichever Blaseball team he happens to be on. Mora usually skips practice if he can help it, and in such cases he can be found either picking at his out-of-tune guitar, or spraying obscene Latin graffiti onto the stadium while giggling to himself.

Music Career

Mora's music career consists of him playing at random garage shows, though funnily enough he has never played at a Garages show. He also likes to play his guitar in the dugout during games, knowing that helpless listeners cannot do anything to stop him. It's not that his music is terrible or anything, it's just very... experimental. Mora's self-described futuristic plucking techniques are usually interpreted by others as sounding antiquated. Former teammate Paula Turnip has described his playing as "pretty okay, I guess."

Though Mora prefers rock and roll music he usually finds more success in playing heavy metal, the reason being that the few people who attend his shows assume his unintelligible lyrics are due to the genre and not the fact that he is screaming in classical Latin.

IRM Standardization

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TectonicPlates (talkcontribs)

Proposal to format Nick's IRM as filebox

Peaksykid (talkcontribs)

I want to add a little bit of lore to Nick's page about his shoes based on some conversation we had in Tigers chat a while back. Proposed addition is as follows, under a category called "Shoes controversy"

On Day 62 of Season 16, Mora gained a pair of Shoes from Glitter weather. He was reportedly quite excited by this event and informed everyone that this particular pair of shoes were the sandals that he had worn to run the original Marathon. They were of terrible quality, and proceeded to fall apart and be devoured by Consumers several times over after being repeatedly repaired by Salmon and the Smithy. Mora continually refused to take the shoes off, even when they were broken and full of holes, and was recorded as saying "If they were good enough for Marathon, they're good enough for right now," and then spitting rudely over his shoulder.

When Mora gained Ego+, he was spotted spray painting the shoes gold with a can of spray paint while they were still on his feet. He was heard to refer to the shoes constantly as "his drip" and claimed they made him look cooler. Reports vary as to whether this was true.

Mora finally dropped the shoes on Day 44 of season 20 to pick up a pair of Hearty Sunglasses, but only after hanging them up in a display case in the hallways under Sixth Circle Stadium.

Clare Mccall Crosspost

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Waltztangocache (talkcontribs)

Crossposted from the proposal for FFs pitcher Clare Mccall's page.

  • Through their archivist work, Mccall has learned to read texts written in a number of classical languages, including Ancient Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit. Mccall used her Latin skills and, “skeleton experience” to assist in death-related research being done by tigers pitcher Mummy Melcon, as well as to befriend Melcon’s teammate Nicholas Mora.

Aldon Cashmoney (III) crosspost

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ElloElloEllo (talkcontribs)
  • Nicholas Mora has attempted to embezzle the fortune on a number of occasions, claiming that he requires 'better drip' due to his shoes breaking all of the time. Hades sees him coming a mile off every time he tries.
  • Nicholas Mora is surprisingly kind - at least by Mora standards - to Aldon III, seeing in vim something very reminiscent of Frasier Shmurmgle, a puppet doomed to have a short life.

Ayanna relationship crosspost

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ElloElloEllo (talkcontribs)

Crossposting some inter-player relationships from Ayanna Dumpington's lore proposals:

  • Ayanna developed several friendships with fellow Stripes, including working on cracking Zion's jaded shell, attempting to befriend Mora (to mixed success), jazzercise with Mummy and Paula Mason (and Nandy Slumps), and having an admiring outlook towards Paula Turnip.
  • Mora, specifically, makes out that he finds Ayanna to be an annoying pest, but sometimes inexplicable nice things happen for Ayanna that nobody can figure out who did...

Profile picture change

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FAE (talkcontribs)

There's a proposal to switch the profile/userbox page for Nicholas Mora. A switch was made but without a talk page discussion, so initiating one here so others may offer input to the proposed change.

The proposed image is the following:

File:Nicholas Mora my behated.png

If you have feedback about the change, please comment here!

ElloElloEllo (talkcontribs)

The proposed one does have tiger trappings which makes it more up to date, considering the previous is in Pies colours still.

FAE (talkcontribs)

Yeah, I definitely think it should at least be changed to one that's Tigers-themed now. I lean more towards this piece by AAzurelos because it captures the whole obnoxious philosopher, Diogenes-esque vibe that a lot of the team ascribes to Mora and also has the amazing spectral eel.

ElloElloEllo (talkcontribs)

I really like that one for Mora, too!

Silverfallingstar (talkcontribs)

I'm a bigger fan of the AAzurelos image of Mora because of the very on brand toga + blaseball uniform look that matches his vibe. Also the spectral eel is very fun

Funktasticdog (talkcontribs)

Thanks for opening up the convo FAE! I love the pic by AAzurelos just as much.

FAE (talkcontribs)

Making the profile image switch to the one discussed here!

IRM: Nicholas Mora, the Puppeteer

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UmpireHunterV (talkcontribs)

Nicholas Mora

Despite all the chatter and rumours about him, Nicholas Mora remains a rather mysterious individual. Very little is known about his past or ancestry, but he has been observed to possess some supernatural powers; including, according to him, the gift of True Vision, allowing him to perceive the true forms of beings which usually would escape mortal comprehension (such as Landry Violence and Moody Cookbook, two of his old teammates). Nicholas Mora is also incapable of speaking any language besides Latin. Both of these statements have been contested by fans, who believe Nicholas to simply be bragging or lying, as he is has earned a reputation as an unreliable narrator.

His personality, as confirmed through interviews with several teammates, is that of an infuriating trickster, who often slings petty insults and pranks at anyone unfortunate enough to find themselves in his proximity. Recently, the target of the brunt of his bullying has been one of his new teammates, Matteo Triumphant; videos have surfaced online of numerous arguments, which often tend to end with Matteo being tricked into releasing the horse spirit Triumphant, and promptly getting kicked through the nearest window by the aforementioned equine apparition. Despite that, Nicholas' pranks have rarely lead to grievous injury.

It is no secret that Nicholas has turned to the hobby of puppeteering to facilitate communication in spite of the language barrier. He makes his many puppets himself, and is quite adept at both crafting and manoeuvring them, often through supernatural means. Though in theory they should be employed to solve misunderstandings, in practice, the old man has discovered new and exciting ways of tormenting and ridiculing his victims through the puppets. When asked about their thoughts on the Tigers player, fans and ex-teammates alike agreed that "when it comes down to it, Mora is a bitter, opinionated, arrogant and sadistic old fart."

Time on the Pies

Recently unearthed stone tablets indicate that Nicholas was separated from the Hades Tigers at the end of season 1. Though not much is known about his time in the Tigers, or the incident which separated him from them, the tablets indicate he was somehow spirited away in a freak accident when the Book was opened, and that his passage through the Lethe apparently made him forget how to speak any language other than Latin (which he had until that point elected to use exactly because it was impractical, and for no other reason than his personal amusement). There are rumours of his angering the gods by playing some trick or another on them, and thus some fans speculate these gods might have used the instability caused by the opening of the Book to curse Mora and banish him from Hades. A lot of these rumours come from Nicholas himself, and the stories he has told have differed wildly. Regardless of what exactly happened, it lead to him playing for the Philly Pies, who all collectively remember him always being on the team.

His time among the Pies was, according to him, "nothing short of miserable": here, no one spoke Latin, nor did anyone appreciate his brand of "humour". Due to his incapability to communicate, both through the language barrier and his own stubbornness, Nicholas ended up playing as a pitcher during his time on the pies, a job he was clearly terrible at. Instead of reflecting on his way of doing things, he doubled down, and elected to cause as much trouble and suffering as he could. Some say this was in a sort of retaliation to his feelings of isolation, but it only earned him an even more terrible reputation, and the ire of all his new teammates. Though he declined to comment on the matter and was quite rude whenever the matter was brought up in interviews, it is clear from his behaviour during these seasons that this did nothing to improve his own mood.

Shmurmgle History and Speculation

Stricken with grief and loneliness after his exile and the incineration of his old friends, Mora became melancholy. His only solace in escaping Hades was he could finally gaze at the stars once more. In a bout of inspiration, Mora began to work on his masterpiece; it is said in some stories that he pulled a constellation out of the sky, and threaded its very stars into the seams of his felt puppet. Enamoured with his work, he elected to give it its own life and will, and set it free upon the world. Most blaseball scholars agree that this puppet's creation was his one true act of love. The puppet was dubbed Frasier Shmurmgle, and he quickly became a player for the Tigers, before being incinerated only 29 days after he began to play.

According to some sources, Nicholas and Frasier's separation was also a result of a divine curse, perhaps even the same one which caused his banishment in the first place. Nicholas being unrepentant, punishment befell his son; and thus, the puppet was dragged through the river Lethe and into Hades, robbing him of his memories of life on the surface and of his own creator. There is no record ever showing Frasier's entry into the realm of the dead, and this is one of the only plausible explanations as to how he could have ended up there. One blaseball scholar specializing in psychology and the dark arts interprets Frasier Shmurmgle's behaviour (sowing discord and animosity) as one last part of his connection to his father, an attempt to get closer to his absent parent through imitation.

ElloElloEllo (talkcontribs)

Confirming this is added as an IRM.

Nesblitt (talkcontribs)

style thing: always refer to the player by last name