Hello all, the Lovers along with some none-Lovers have rewritten sections of Ortiz Lopez's wiki pages in regards to previews concerns about her backstory and physical description. Below is the Summary of Changes followed by the text that will be added to the page.
Summary of Changes
The “Early History” of Ortiz Lopez has been completely redone. There have also been changes to the “Engagement with Blaseball and Early Career”, and “Eating Fire”. Previously, Lopez was the remnant of Nahua deity, Xuihcoatl. This has been changed to have her be a pueblan milk snake, who was granted consciousness and the ability to take on a human form by Xiuhcoatl.
The purpose of edits to the “Engagement with Blaseball and Early Career section was to make it cohesive with the “Early History”. The purpose of the edits to “Eating Fire” was cohesion, as well as adding in more details about her connection to Xuihcoatl.
Concerns about Lopez’s sexualization and objectification have been addressed primarily by changes to language used to describe her, and decentering her sexuality in her transfem identify, as well as changing much of the language used to describe her.
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Wiki Summary
Lopez, a pansexual trans woman given new life by the gift of divine touch, is the most confident and seductive player in Internet League Blaseball. Lopez stands at a mighty seven feet tall. She has bright pink skin, no eyes, red snakes for hair, and a heart full of kindness for her fellow teammates. Always ready to defend her teammates from harm on and off the field, the only thing more dangerous than Lopez on the field is her social media game. It's no exaggeration to say that this gigantic gorgon possesses such inner and outer beauty that Aphrodite herself would admire her.
Early History
Ortiz Lopez started life as a Pueblan milk snake, and at an undisclosed time in her life (a lady never reveals her age) was struck by a bolt of fiery lightning from the entity Xiuhcoatl, the serpent god of the Nahua, being used as a divine spear. This impact granted Lopez consciousness and transformed her, filling her with a latent power that transformed her at the time into a ball of shining energy, similar to a small sun, nearly impossible to look upon for her sheer beauty. After this event, being disconnected from a distinct physical form allowed Lopez to travel through the world outside of her natural habitat, and observe the Nahua people she felt she belonged with more closely. She roamed the land, watching, observing humans and growing alongside her tribe even as an entity of pure energy, and found herself drawn to the beauty and delight of the human experience and wanted to be a part of what the human world had to offer. She found words for what she was, what she wanted, and claimed them for herself, proudly expressing herself as the beautiful being she had always longed to be.
Manifesting the latent power within herself, she began making a human form for herself. At first, she mirrored the masculine people she had first observed; however, after some time, she came to realize that this form did not suit her, and she embraced the feminine one she bears now. At 7 feet tall, she has bright pink skin, no eyes, red snakes for hair, immeasurable pride in herself, and a heart full of kindness for her fellow man. The origins of her name root in her attempts to maintain her connection to her cultural heritage while making her name her own, Lopez opted to go exclusively by her surnames, Ortiz Lopez. The form was chosen based on Lopez's own aesthetic eye and she loves the form that she has established for herself, keeping a few marks of her original snake form such as the snakes in her hair, and the pinkness of her skin. Lopez chose the form of a gorgon to express her ties to Xiuhcoatl, and molded her human form into one that made her feel the most confident and true to herself. To Lopez, she is the peak of physical attractiveness, and she flaunts it happily. As a gorgon, Lopez does have the power to turn her observers to stone, but chooses not to exercise this power often as it quote, "Gives me a bit of the heebie jeebies."
Engagement with Blaseball and Early Career
A short time later, Lopez met Percival Wheeler and Knight Triumphant in a bar near Mexico City after a practice match against the Mexico City Wild Wings. They then spent the evening together drinking and revelling (and in the case of one Percival Wheeler, starting a fight with some skinheads that Lopez quickly put an end to). They then talked about Knight Triumphant's newly started Blaseball team, The San Francisco Lovers. Lopez, Wheeler, and Triumphant immediately hit it off and Lopez agreed to join the team, and keep seeing both Wheeler and Triumphant in the process, starting some of her longest term relationships to date.
Her early career was rather lackluster as she got stuck in the habit of letting her snakes bat for her while taking selfies (or giving the absolute best hugs) with her hands. Given her snakes are just snakes, and not sentient or conscious in any way, this led to some rather inconsistent play for her, the snakes swinging sometimes wildly and dragging her across the field to steal bases seemingly at random. As her career has gone on, she has trained with her snakes and now can anticipate swings more readily with the pit sense input from her multiple snakes, making her a hitter to be loved and feared (Lopez still has a way to go when it comes to pitching, however.) This has definitely affected her overall confidence (and perhaps her ego) and has helped her feel more at home and comfortable on the field.
Lopez, while beginning on the San Fransisco Lovers, embraced the nature of Blaseball, having stated in interviews about potential Feedback, "Every team wants to get a piece of this eventually, who am I to fight it?"
Eating Fire
In the process of playing with the Lovers Lopez became close with her teammates, and was terrified that tragedy could befall her lovers and friends at any moment. She was especially shaken by the horrible fate that her love Pitching Machine befell under the control of The Great Shelled One, and wanted to become stronger to protect them. She spent several months communing with herself, digging deep for the power within, to find something to protect herself and her friends. This triggered Lopez's latent power gained from the god Xiuhcoatl, allowing her to swallow down the comparatively pitifully weak fires of the Umpires and granting her the Fire Eater modification. While many years had passed since she was first introduced to the power of Xiuhcoatl, Lopez had always carried this power, dormant, within her. Since this power has manifested, Lopez has spent much of her free time sharing the history and culture of her past with her fellow teammates, embracing her own history and origin as a proud Nahua woman touched by the god Xiuhcoatl.
As a vivacious and proud trans woman, Lopez has gripped her own power firmly in her own two hands (or hundreds of snakes, depending on if her hands are full), using it to protect herself and the ones she loves from the horrors of Blaseball, and spreading the love and light she has always held within herself across the league.
