Alt Trust
During the Season 18 Election, the Mechanics voted to Alternate-Trust Andante. The idea had been seeded early in the season due to Andante's apparent difficulties as a pitcher.
Andante, who at the time was accused of committing star fraud (the act of falsifying one's stars so that they are not representative of true ability) due to anomalies in eir pitching performance, had little desire to be replaced by an Alternate and so approached the █████ ██████ and proposed a plan which would allow em to remain and to look after eir friends. Andante would remain but with 'randomised' stats which would be closer to representing Andante's true abilities as a pitcher. While Andante would have to continue to perform to eir star count (to ensure the allegations didn't gain any more weight), ey'd be able to be more use to eir team and potentially to the █████ ██████.
Unbeknownst to Andante, there would be a heavy (or rather, Unheavy) price for this bargain. Andante's soul became Negative, and Andante has been described as, under certain lighting, having the outlines of what appear to be Tarot designs appear on eir skin as well as on occasion levitating both eirself and blaseballs.
Andante allegedly felt that these aesthetic shifts were 'way less cool than I was expecting' and according to colleagues took dramatic steps to make them more extreme, which apparently led to structural damage to eir residence. Andante has been described as having a 'total color scheme overhaul', with one Mechanic stating that 'blue hair Kelvin is purple now and I've had to come up with an entirely new class of Kelvin classification'. Bandmate and colleague Drumsolo has, perhaps relatedly, begun insisting that zir spouse is in a parallel dimension now and that it is 'very tragic that ey've been replaced by a legally distinct shampoo stealing bathroom destroying stranger but it is what it is' and has also stated that ze's grateful that zir 'divorce count has reset because oof'.
