#yuniesky torres

[orbleglorb]

for day two (and maybe 3) of "blasetober," take some art i made a while back but never shared

[ID: a drawing of yuniesky torres and nadeem abu-zaid from blaseball. except that's entirely my fanon and their names in the sim are conditional yuniesky and chester abu-zaid. nadeem is a black person with their coily black hair tied up in a ponytail and they are wearing a yellow and orange shirt and thick brown gloves. they have a continous glucose monitor on their arm, peeking out from under their shirt sleeve. yuniesky is a cuban man with tan skin and curly black hair. his glasses are being pushed up by nadeem, who has their arms around him and is kissing him on the face. yuniesky is laughing and blushing, and has one arm around nadeem's shoulders and the other on the side of their head. he's laughing and blushing. /end ID]

#describing this was hell because that required me to Look At My Art #and now im like. does this even look good? should i post it? #such is the curse of looking at your art for too lkng #*long #blasetober #<- idk what else to call this #conditional yuniesky #yuniesky torres #chester abu-zaid #chester isn't pictured btw #nadeem abu-zaid #blaseball #houston spies #orble art

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Cuba anuncia una selección de béisbol a tope con la liga mexicana para los Panamericanos de Lima 2019

La Habana 15 may (EFE).- La Comisión Nacional de Béisbol de Cuba anunció este miércoles la composición de la selección que se enfrentará a equipos de la Liga de México en una serie de cinco partidos preparatorios para los Juegos Panamericanos de Lima 2019, informa el portal deportivo Jit.

En la selección se incluyen cuatro peloteros que no participaron en el entrenamiento previo que realizó un grupo de jugadores cubanos en México.

Ellos son el jardinero Ariel Sanchez y los lanzadores Yadián Martínez, Misael Villa y Rafael Sánchez, y el objetivo es "evaluarlos y observar sus desempeños en diferentes renglones de juego", según explicó el jefe del departamento técnico de la comisión nacional de la disciplina, Ricardo Eizmendiz.

La nómina cubana estará integrada por los receptores Frank Camilo Morejón, Alfredo Fadraga y Yunior Ibarra, y en los jardines estarán Yoelkis Guibert, Yuniesky Larduet, Sergio Barthelemí, Yoelkis Céspedes y Ariel Sánchez.

Como jugadores de cuadro jugarán Yordanis Samón, Carlos Benítez, Raúl González, Jorge Enrique Alomá, César Prieto, Orlando Acebey, Andrés Hernández y Yurién Vizcaíno,

En el cuerpo de lanzadores figuran Wilson Paredes, Frank Luis Medina, Pablo Guillén, Pedro Álvarez, Dariel Góngora de la Torre, Yariel Rodríguez, Yadián Martínez, Yosimar Cousín, Misael Villa, Andy Rodríguez, Rafael Sánchez y Norge Carlos Vera.

(c) Agencia EFE

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[orbleglorb]

For Yunie? 👀👀👀

5. Can they cry on command? If so, what do they think about to make it happen?

11. If someone was impersonating them, what would friends / family ask or do to tell the difference?

18. Who do they love truly, 100% unconditionally (if anyone)?

19. What would they do if stuck in a room with the person they’ve been avoiding?

20. Who do they like as a person but hate their work? Vice versa, whose work do they like but don’t like the person?

40. How do they respond to a loose handshake? What goes through their head?

53. Who would / do they believe without question?

frothing at the mouth. thank you

5. can they cry on command? if so, what do they think about to make it happen?

he can cry on command & doesn't even have to think about anything to force it. he's just like "i should cry now" and cries. he doesn't do it very often. probably not since he was a teen

11. if somebody was impersonating them, what would friends/family ask or do to tell the difference

oh this is fun because he lies about literally everything. i think it would be something like "do you love me/care about me?" because yunie is very good at seeming like a nice, caring and well-adjusted person, and people often think he is good with words and people. the truth is, he's not, and puts a lot of effort into appearing that way. so if you ask him one (1) thing about how he personally feels about you he will just stare blankly and open and close his mouth a few times. the other side of that coin is people tend to think he is heartless and hates everyone etc etc. either way, people impersonating him would think the answer would be "yes" or "no" when really it's a computer blue screen.

i think they would also touch the impersonator, because yunie has a very bad reaction to being touched. the #1 way to get him to stop being fake nice is touching him, or heaven forbid grab him. he will do everything he can to get out of their grip. he bit someone's finger off before because they restrained him (long(ish) story). it is a desperation and fear so hard to replicate that it's an easy tell, but most are hesitant to do it because What If He Attacks.

18. who do they truly, 100% unconditionally love, if anyone?

i think ivy. like, he loves more people than just ivy, and they'd have to do A Lot to make him stop, but ivy is the only person that he would visit in jail if they mass murdered people. he has a soft spot for kids who have been fucked up by things far, far outside of their control but in the control of someone else who just doesn't care, because he's been there. he would never stop caring for them, even if they hated him. even when they do hate him. smiles evilly

19. what would they do if they were stuck in a room with [a] person they've been avoiding?

kill himself. im serious. if you locked him in a room with his parents he would find some way to end his life then and there. he hates confrontation and he hates being stuck somewhere and unable to get out. if there's not a window to jump out of he's ending it all

20. who do they like as a person but hate their work? vice versa, who do they hate as a person but like their work

like as a person but hate their work: nanci grackle. he's so fun to watch from afar and entertaining af to talk to. but he's got some really weird experiments going on

hate as a person but like their work: margo. he hates margo so much. i'll link the post where i wrote about this when i find it (found it). unfortunately xe makes wonderful food

40. how do they respond to a loose handshake?

he's grateful because they aren't Gripping Him and he isn't overcome by fear of Person Touchign Me

53. who would / do they believe without question?

ivy and his grandma. also nadeem, but that takes much more time.

#asks 4 sasha #it's inbox clean out day baby #yuniesky torres

[orbleglorb]

doing this entire ask game with yuniesky. because i want to

this post got so long that my computer is starting to fuck up the post. if the formatting is hell, i am sorry.

Objects.

💭 Thought Balloon - what is your oc's MBTI, enneagram, and/or other personality aspects (if known/interested in)?

don't perceive him. [continues to write the rest of this fucking post]

🚗 Car - does your oc have a driver's license? can they drive/operate any automobiles/machinery besides cars?

he can drive cars, and that's it. he's a great driver. he also has really terrible road rage. the first emotion most of the spies ever saw out of him was pure rage and it was because he was driving in houston

✈️ Airplane - does your oc like traveling, or do they consider themselves a more homey person?

he likes to travel every now and then. gets antsy otherwise. doesn't like traveling as much as the ILB requires.

🎮 Video Game Controller - what are three of your oc's favorite hobbies?

programming (programs a lot of random stuff. things you'd find on bored button. he does programming for work and such, but does stuff for fun every now and then. also does a bunch of random generators, professionally he did/does work for shieves, garages and spies management), hacking (goes hand in hand with programming, but it's a bit different. knows quite a bit of fk because the people operating the blaseball databases are more magicky folks and that doesn't work for cybersecurity), and... that's it. that's what he's built his personality around.

💍 Ring - does your oc have any piercings? do they want any (more) piercings?

used to have pierced ears. they were pierced back when he was a little girl. took the earrings out and his ears closed up.

🖊 Ballpoint Pen - does your oc have any tattoos? do they want any (more) tattoos?

has a partly-finished stick and poke of a heart on his arm that a friend did while he was asleep. this was back in high school. he woke up in the middle of it so it's just like, one curve.

📚 Books - what level of education has your oc most recently completed/is currently in (GED, undergraduate, grad school, PhD, etc)?

he joined blaseball in high school and dropped out as a result, then got his GED around season twelve or something. a while after he joined. he told the other shieves he had finished high school (he lied and said he was 18 when he joined. he was 16, almost 17). esme (for some reason) thinks he started college and dropped out and nobody else knows anything about his background, so that's what he tells people now.

🎻 Violin - does your oc play any instruments? what is their skill level (beginner/intermediate/advanced/virtuoso/etc)?

okay. okay. one headcanon that is so dear to me is that he played bassoon or french horn in high school band. he was, like, third chair. decently good but not the best. stopped a long time ago but his grandma got his instrument (and some of his uniform) from his parents. so now that's just in their apartment.

🩹 Adhesive Bandaid - does your oc have any physical and/or mental disabilities?

autism. probably carpal tunnel. not to the point of being disabling, probably

🩸 Drop Of Blood - what's your oc's blood type?

A (he was a shoe thief)

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Symbols.

🎶 Musical Notes - what kind of music does your oc like? do they listen to music very often?

he doesn't listen to music. there's a couple of songs he does like listening to, but he doesn't listen to music at all in his free time. he does have a soft spot for the timba and son cubano genres, since that's what he grew up with. he listens to those songs on the rare occasions that he allows himself to be nostalgic. his grandma, who he lives with, loves music and plays timba a lot. so he hears it almost all the time.

💯 Hundred Points Symbol - share three random facts about your oc that others may not know.

umm. 1) went to a residential mental health treatment program far from home. because im projecting. i don't share that part much because i don't want to trigger someone (and i know a lot of blaseball fans prefer to keep it silly (which i feel gets unrealistic but whatever)). but im projecting. 2) he is trans, ftm, uses he/him but occasionally she/her. usually just in mental dialogue, though. everyone uses he/him for him. 3) youngest of four kids and is estranged from his family, besides his grandmother. in the coronation era, they do start reconnecting. very slowly and awkwardly.

💤 Sleeping Sign - is your oc a light sleeper or a heavy sleeper? how are their sleeping habits?

leans more towards light sleeper, but isn't too much of a light sleeper. his sleeping habits are. um. classified. none of your concern. what are you, a cop? (at one point he had completely reversed his body's sleep schedule and became pretty much nocturnal. had to change that when he played blaseball).

🔱 Trident Emblem - can your oc swim? do they enjoy swimming?

he can swim but it's not his favorite activity. mostly because of dysphoria, but also because he struggles with the sensory issues of going from dry to wet (and then wet to dry).

🔺 Red Triangle Pointed Up - does your ocs know how to use any weapons?

nope. he can fight pretty dirty, though. weapon of choice is his teeth and nails

🔶 Large Orange Diamond - does your oc know cpr? do they have any other medical expertise?

he does not know cpr

[heads up: first paragraph is gross! second paragraph involves self harm mentions]

knows how to deal with buttpee. essentially, buttpee is just. your poop coming out as the same consistency as your pee. happened to him in wilderness treatment because he ate a wild carrot. pro tip: don't fucking do that.

he knows a lot about harm reduction when it comes to cutting/self harm and can treat cuts quickly & decently.

🚫 Prohibited - does your oc drink/smoke? do they do it regularly, or is it more on occasion or for special events?

smoked once and hated it. drank lightly as a rebellious teen but hated that too. hates being under any sort of influence, to the point to where just taking his prescribed medicine freaks him out

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Nature.

🌈 Rainbow - what is your oc's sexual orientation/gender identity? what pronouns do they use?

as stated above (refer to "hundred points symbol"), he's a trans male and uses he/him, and although he is occasionally okay with she/her, he doesn't really. say that. unless he's close with someone. he's grayromantic & graysexual, as he doesn't experience either of those two forms of attraction frequently. so he's like, super embarrassed to have a dumb little crush* on a-z (*he is in love). he's great at ignoring it tho

🎄 Christmas Tree - what is your oc's favorite holiday?

likes any holiday that allows him to set off fireworks. so, he likes fourth of july, but not because he's a patriot, but because he can blow shit up and nobody is going to stop him

personally i believe that the fourth of july in the blaseball universe (and this one) (i want to blow things up) should be a holiday that rarely anyone has any sort of historical context for and it's just a fun thing now. like halloween

🐶 Dog Face - does your oc have any pets?

i've been sitting on the idea of him having a cat. but i think it would be fun for it to be a cat that lives at HQ. cat is to be enjoyed by everyone

🐈 Cat - does your oc prefer a wide circle of friends or a few close friends?

neither

🐷 Pig Face - what is your oc's favorite animal?

el gato!!

🐉 Dragon - what is your oc's favorite mythical creature?

thinks the fresno night crawlers are the funniest thing in the world

🍃 Leaves Fluttering In Wind - what is/was your oc's favorite subject in school?

none of them. however, band was the most tolerable because there were people he liked in it

🌴 Palm Tree - does your oc have a green thumb? do they enjoy gardening?

NO that shit is gonna DIE

🍎 Red Apple - where was your oc born? do they still live in/around their place of birth or do they live somewhere else? how do they feel about their birthplace?

was born in texas (san antonio), and his family moved to florida to be closer to his dad's family (and farther from his mom's) (the grandmother he currently lives with is his mom's mother). he doesn't remember san antonio. they moved when he was a wee baby. he didn't hate florida but he always planned on moving out of his hometown, and thought it would be smart to do a lot of research on various states and then travel to them to decide which he wanted to live in. if he didn't love any of them, he'd probably just stay in florida. and then he was taken to a wilderness therapy camp in utah. so. he got to travel! he was being transported from wilderness to a residential treatment center when he ran away and applied to be an employee for the moab hellmouth sunbeams IT department. in order to be guaranteed a job (because the treatment staff were after him), he signed up for a new experimental program where you may accidentally be reborn as a player. he didn't read the contract. after getting the job, he was property of blaseball (and the entities that run it). although you have to be 18 to sign legally-binding contracts in the USA, that's not how blood contracts work. legally and metaphysically, he belonged to blaseball once he signed the contract. he was the shoe thieves' season 9 post season birth. he lived a pretty decent life in charleston. worked a couple part-time jobs to make a living, since shadows players don't get paid as much. lived in the league housing (note: i have a personal headcanon that all teams have league-supplied apartment buildings in or near the stadium or clubhouse [or wherever they hang out], because one of the main ways they recruit blaseball players is by preying on those in poverty and those with nowhere else to go. like the military) because he never really worked enough to save up for an apartment of his own, and even though he hated being part of a team(tm), he knew it wasn't a great idea for him to live alone. where he would just stew in his thoughts all day. he had the same sort of experience in seattle, where he lived from around season 15 onwards. except they kept trying to get him to play an instrument. he would rather be tortured to death than play an instrument in front of people (in his mind, they are almost the same thing). he NEVER mentioned his time in high school band around the garages. he doesn't even like music. he fucking HATED seattle. it was cold and rainy and people wanted him to PERFORM. he's already performing, since living a lie is a type of performance. out of all of the places he lived before being swallowed by a black hole, he liked charleston best.

after being dropped to the spies, yuniesky was greeted by his grandmother (her name is antonia btw), who he had gotten back in touch with a bit before being whisked away to utah. she obsessively kept track of blaseball, especially when the falls started. she knew that usually, people fell at a park or another place with lots of open space, and then the spies found them and took them to HQ. so when yuniesky fell, she just went to HQ and took him once he was brought there. there's been a lot of confusion about how she found HQ, and how she broke in to stock the kitchen that one time, and isn't it really convenient that yuniesky fell to houston right after his grandmother started living in a two-bedroom apartment there? but she's nice so the spies don't think about it too hard. and when they do, they typically find themselves with a headache. surely a coincidence. but, in short, yunie is happiest in houston. he stays there after blaseball ends.

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Hearts.

❤️ Red Heart - what are three of your oc's positive traits?

he's resourceful, determined, and, despite his best efforts, is gentle and caring towards people he cares about.

🤍 White Heart - what are three of your oc's neutral/questionable traits?

he keeps to himself, he's kinda sensitive, and when he decides to do something, by god he's gonna fucking do it.

💔 Broken Heart - what are three of your oc's negative traits?

trying soooo so hard to be a robot of a human being. lies about everything to make it harder for him to get closer to others. thinks he is simultaneously better than everyone and also the worst human being alive.

💘 Heart With Arrow - what and/or who do(es) your oc consider the most important to them?

his grandmother, antonia. she's cared for him and, overall, trusts him. she may not always be able to take what he says at face value, but she is the only one that can really tell when he's lying, so he doesn't typically lie to her. also, she lets him have autonomy, even when he's not being trustworthy. she's the most nurturing parental figure in his life.

🧡 Orange Heart - does your oc tend to prioritize family or friends?

family, but only antonia. he doesn't really have friends lol. whenever he becomes friends with some of the spies, he still prioritizes her over them, but still prioritizes them over the rest of his family?? so essentially: antonia is his first priority, followed by the Spies (although some are higher up on the list than others), and then the rest of his family.

💛 Yellow Heart - how many languages does your oc speak? what language(s) are they learning, if any?

english and spanish.

💚 Green Heart - does your oc prefer being inside or outside?

inside. 100%. weather doesn't bother him much, but he cannot stand feeling like he's being watched. not as much privacy outside as there is in his room

💙 Blue Heart - does your oc have any cool/special powers and/or abilities? how are they with magic, if it exists in their world?

none (assuming this is about magic stuff)

💜 Purple Heart - what is your oc's ancestry/genetic background?

cuban. i haven't lored his dad's side of the family at all, but antonia's family immigrated to texas from cuba as a young kid.

🖤 Black Heart - has your oc killed or seriously wounded anyone before? have they even broken someone's heart and/or broken someone's trust?

broke someone's finger.

also, hurt a lot of the spies's feelings when it was revealed that he had, essentially, lied about anything he ever said. he could not for the life of him understand why. he thought he was getting a good grade in spy. and then everyone was like "you hurt my feelings :(" and he's like "skill issue"

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Foods.

🎂 Birthday Cake - when is your oc's birthday? how old are they? what are their sun, moon, and rising signs (if known)? what about their tarot card, ruling planet, and ruling number (if known)? do they fit the typical traits of these sun, moon, and rising signs?

december 29th, he's a capricorn (sun sign). he's in his late 20s. just going off of what moon & rising signs are meant to represent, and the different "personalities" that the zodiacs are meant to represent, i'd say he's an aquarius moon and capricorn rising. im going to say that, yes, he fits the typical traits of these signs, because i literally chose them based off of whether or not i thought they fit them. astrology is fun! nothing to actually base your life around, but fun! anyway, i chose capricorn sun b/c he's responsible, disciplined, and practical, but also distant, unforgiving, and a staunch pessimist. also, the website i was looking at said "capricorn dislikes: everything at some point" and yeah. that's so him. i chose aquarius moon b/c he's observant and pretty naturally curious (although he's scared to explore anything). also, despite how he seems, he does care about others and wants to help them, but still remains objective in all he does. i picked capricorn rising because he's frugal, cautious, and incredibly self-contained. the website i was looking at said, "You [capricorn rising] are rather world-wise at a fairly young age, even something of a cynic. Often the world doesn't seem like a safe, friendly place to you, and you tend to approach life in a guarded, conservative manner. You are generally calculating and careful and are rarely spontaneous, fluid, open, and childlike." and like, yeah! this basically describes him!

🍝 Spaghetti - what is/are your oc's favorite food(s)?

frita cubana (described as a cuban burger), medianoche sandwich (cubano sandwich on different bread), guava, french fries, and braised pork belly.

🍰 Shortcake - what is/are your oc's favorite sweet(s)/dessert(s)?

pastelitos de guayaba y queso (guava and cream cheese pastry), torticas de coco (coconut cookies made with corn flakes), sour patch kids, mike & ikes, and chocolate chip cookies.

🍦 Soft Ice Cream - what is/are your oc's favorite ice cream flavor(s)?

cookies & cream

🍔 Hamburger - is your oc good at cooking? are they good at baking? which one do they prefer?

good at both, but prefers baking because it requires more concentration and precision.

🥯 Bagel - what does your oc's typical breakfast look like? do they usually eat breakfast?

his typical breakfast is 2 chips he forced himself to eat.

🥪 Sandwich - what does your oc's typical lunch look like? do they usually eat lunch?

he rarely eats lunch. he has anorexia & relapses whenever things feel out of control. and brother. they're outta control.

🍛 Curry And Rice - what does your oc's typical dinner look like? do they usually eat dinner?

if something is offered to him, he'll eat it. or if someone invites him out to eat, he'll go. typically doesn't have a full meal otherwise, but still eats. dinner is the only meal he consistently eats because his grandma is home and awake and will be able to tell if he doesn't eat.

🍸 Cocktail Glass - what is your oc's favorite alcoholic drink, if they can drink?

none <3 anything intoxicating or addicting is terrifying to him and he will not touch it

☕ Hot Beverage - does your oc prefer coffee, tea, hot chocolate, milk, water, or some other drink? how do they like to take their drink (ex. coffee with milk, hot chocolate with whipped cream, a specific kind of tea, etc)?

black coffee is his go-to. otherwise, he drinks water. he also likes smoothies and cuban milkshakes (batido de trigo) but doesn't drink either often.

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People.

😊 Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes - what are your oc's career/general life desires? what do they want to get the most out of life?

he signed up for blaseball as a teen so he would be able to survive without his parents and hasn't actually done anything else with his life. he doesn't really have any sort of aspirations.

😖 Confounded Face - is your oc an introvert, an extrovert, or an ambivert? do they let people in easily, or are they more reserved?

introvert, VERY reserved. lies all the time to avoid letting ppl get to know him.

🤔 Thinking Face - what are some of your oc's quirk's mannerisms?

nose scrunch and (gently) biting his tongue when he's thinking.

🧐 Face With Monocle - is your oc more logical or emotional?

i hate this question because it treats the two things like they are mutually exclusive. your emotions fuel your logic and vice versa. he thinks he's incredibly logical, and he's rarely outwardly emotional, but his emotions/fears/etc do impact his life A Lot.

🤓 Smiling Face With Glasses - is your oc chatty or quiet? are they at ease in social situations, or are they more shy?

quiet. he's shy but not outwardly nervous.

🤩 Face With Starry Eyes - is your oc a planner, or are they more spontaneous in their actions?

PLANNER. can't do anything spontaneously, even if it's like, being invited to go out to dinner or something.

😥 Sad But Relieved Face - is your oc prone to getting stressed out, or is it easy for them to keep their cool?

he is always stressed out but is pretty good at hiding it.

😓 Downcast Face With Sweat - is your oc open-minded or stubborn? are they inquisitive or do they prefer to keep to their bubble of knowledge?

ehhh both? he's VERY stubborn and hates being wrong but won't deny facts if they challenge his worldview. if he's proven wrong in an argument he will just shrug and go "oh ok" and then leave and bang his head against a wall.

😞 Disappointed Face - does your oc attract others, or do they tend to be left alone?

he hates it but he does attract others. every1 wants to know what the fuck is up with him

🤒 Face with Thermometer - does your oc get sick easily?

no

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family With Mother, Father, Son, And Daughter - how many people are in your oc's immediate family? how many people are in your oc's extended family? do they have aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc? who in their family are the closest with? are they close with their birth family, or do they have a found family?

HEHE. he has three siblings & his parents in his immediate family. idk about extended family. he lives with his grandmother, who is his mom's mom. she is divorced from his grandfather and doesn't see him at all. yuniesky is ONLY close with his grandma. he has a found family amongst the spies, but it takes a while.

ok that's all <3

#yuniesky torres #blaseball (organizational)

[orbleglorb]

Tell me about your OCs!

Mask :)

i do feel legally required to make this one about yuniesky torres

mask: Does your OC wear a mask, literally or figuratively? What goes on beneath it? Is there anyone in their life who gets to see who they are under the mask?

yunie wears a mask, figuratively. he might wear a mask literally if it didn't make him stand out too much. there's a lot of conflict, for lack of a better term, going on under it. he is constantly trying to calculate his surroundings and decide what the "best" course of action is. he's always been a "do what it takes to survive in the moment" kind of person, and that led to a bunch of little lies adding up. so now that he doesn't have to survive in the moment, he's dealing with keeping up with all of those little lies because it's easier than coming clean. there are people who get to see completely under most/all layers of the mask eventually. i think ivy is the first

#yuniesky torres #asks 4 sasha

[orbleglorb]

26

the call be the forgetter because

uhh i'm assuming you're talking about the kisses prompt list. because the other prompt list just has "free prompt" and no prompt was provided

26. new year's kiss

yuniesky and nadeem sat on the rooftop of nadeem's apartment building, shoulders and knees pressed together for warmth. it didn't seem to get very cold in houston, but there was a chill in the december air -- soon to be january air -- and they had brought up less blankets than they thought they'd need.

"when does the firework show start?" yuniesky asked.

"soon," nadeem answered. "it's 11:59 now."

as if on cue, the crowd began loudly counting down. nadeem snuck their hand into yuniesky's, and yuniesky laced his fingers through theirs and rested his head on their shoulder. within a few seconds, fireworks appeared in the sky. yuniesky turned towards nadeem to find that they were already facing them. nadeem placed a cold hand on yuniesky's cheek, causing him to shiver.

"oh, sorry," nadeem said, removing it.

"'s'alright," yuniesky said and held both of nadeem's hands as he leaned in for a kiss.

#haven't written a kiss before. forgive me if the pacing sucks #also im working on the other writing prompts sent!! just a bit of a slow writer #yuniesky torres #nadeem abu-zaid

[orbleglorb]

Secret, monster, hate, and/or future for yuniesky Torres?

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

anything. ever. most especially being in a wilderness program*. he's not ashamed of it (at least, he feels no more shame than normal), but it's an incredibly revealing thing. he lies about his favorite ice cream flavor because he's scared to become Known. he's not sharing shit

monster: Is your OC monstrous in any way? Is there something that makes them monstrous? Are they aware of their own monstrosity? Do they accept it or reject it?

ehhhhhh? i don't think so. maybe in the case of like... callous disregard for people's emotions. i wouldn't call that monstrous, tbh. monstrous is like,,, violent? imo? and i don't think a lack of empathy makes one monstrous. he just desperately does not want to feel compassion.

in regards to whether or not he accepts or rejects it... i think he thinks he accepts it. he's decided it's something he can't fix (partially true), but is still afraid that there's something broken about him (untrue). also his entire life since the age of 16 is one long con to not get attached to anyone or trust anyone so he's never betrayed again. and that does tend to dampen relationships.

hate: What does your OC hate? Why? How do they act towards the object of their hatred?

hates margo. sorry. he knows it's unreasonable but xe's just too damn happy. xe shouldn't be like that. really, he doesn't like that xe isn't normal. he doesn't like a-z and chester for the same reason, but they're just so hard to not like. it's much easier to hate margo. a-z and chester are mostly quiet. they don't purposefully draw attention. a-z dresses like that because they're from another world and they miss it desperately. chester is a-z's service animal, it's not like it can be left at home. it's not really their fault people stare. and they're just so damn nice.

margo? margo is loud. they wear loud clothing. margo will talk with fans on the street for almost an hour, if they're nice. xe runs a bar that gets super loud and is the main hangout spot for the spies. and it smells a little like cigarette smoke, and that's not margo's fault, but yunie likes to pretend it is so he can stay mad at xem for existing. worst of all, margo likes him! margo wants to be best buds! margo will talk with him for hours and hours and seemingly ignore any signs that yuniesky wants to leave (note: yuniesky does not give signs or social cues. he just thinks about leaving really hard and assumes it's the same thing). xe laughs louder than yuniesky can yell and talks faster than yuniesky can think. xe's a combination of everything yuniesky despises in a person.

future: uhh i forgot to copy and paste this one but it was like... what's their worst possible future and what are they doing to avoid it?

i think i answered this? but i have a different answer now. i think their worst possible future is getting into contact with their family and being so guilt ridden by not fixing his relationships before they died that he detransitioned and became catholic again.

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*definition below the cut. TW for institutionalization, troubled teen industry

a wilderness camp is a type of teen institutionalization where teens (traveling in groups) are forced to carry heavy packs that contain survival stuff thru the wilderness with a group of other teens. there's usually a couple of "guides" and a gaggle of other kids with you. a therapist comes like once a week. they can be very dangerous & kids have died from these. even when it's not a risk to their lives, it's fucked up to do to teens.

yuniesky's life since the age of 16 is just one huge reaction to being put in wilderness treatment after finally opening up to someone

#yuniesky torres #asks 4 sasha

[orbleglorb]

Intrigued about a beginner's guide to being normal

this one has slowly become more and more of me projecting onto a character, yuniesky castellanos torres (aka conditional yuniesky). it deals with pretty heavy topics because i am really projecting so hard. honestly, if i write this, i may have to write a personal version & then a sanitized version the blb fandom will not find upsetting. ngl i am worried ppl are gonna think less of me for my yunie lore? i don't share the darker stuff, but ppl have liked the things i have shared! but also i have changed a lot of that lore! so idk lol

i'll use this summary as a litmus test, i suppose. warning for mentions of teen mental health treatment & gooning (if you don't recognize the term, you're probably fine) (unless that was a term only used at my rtc)

the story follows yunie from him joining blaseball up until all players were released. i have not written down that much, it mostly lives in my head. yuniesky runs away from a wilderness camp* in the moab desert and signs up as an employee in the city of moab. by the time staff find him, he legally belongs to blaseball and they can't do shit. he travels around to a few teams as a tech guy and meets conditional, the computer program, who has become incredibly unruly and uses its sentience to be a nuisance. and Yuniesky gets along with conditional. and since conditional is, like, a super important program that holds important information, yunie kinda just gets the job of being condi's caretaker. they become besties! yunie gets reborn as the shieve's s9 postseason birth and lives in their shadows (and works as their tech guy) for a long time. to avoid talking about where he came from & his past, yuniesky lies. and it's fine for the most part. nobody really talks to him. except for his grandma, who tracked him down like a fucking secret agent or some shit (haha. HAHAHAHA.) and is now doting on him, making sure he's ok, etc. his parents and siblings are too, but he's still pissed at them so he ignores them <3 being gooned** really broke his trust and now he struggles to be open in any capacity. so when his fellow teammates and shadow players ask about himself, he lies. and they keep building up. he gets worried that they'll find out, but luckily he is taken to seattle. crisis averted![citation needed]

yuniesky lands on the spies. he moves in with his grandma, which is really good for his mental health! but now she knows about his lying habit and wants him to stop. but there's two fucking shoe thieves on the spies so there's no way he's doing that shit. the problem? he can't remember what he lied about. he was 16 when he joined. he doesn't fucking remember! and even worse, they want to be friends. not just the former shieves, all of them. so yunie just. keeps lying. up until he gets closer with ivy, which was a TOTAL accident. ivy just needed to get out of a flash flood. then they needed homework help. then they decided he was their bestie/older brother. and ivy figures out that he's lying. and oh. oh it goes so badly. so bad. they have an argument at HQ (read: ivy yells at yunie about "betrayal" and "lying to your friends is bad" and yunie's like "you're not my friends lol. you're my coworkers. and we're spies"). yunie doesn't get why people are pissed. yunie thinks he is a good spy and the closest to normal he will ever be.

i didn't mean to type that much but whatever.

trigger warnings for the notes (basically an explanation of anything w an asterisk): residental treatment/troubled teen programs, ableism, mental & physical harm towards children with mental illness, kidnapping

*for those unaware: wilderness therapy camps are nomadic camps where kids are forced to walk a lot and it's supposed to be theraputic somehow. i'm not joking. you get landmarks you gotta be at, and if you're not there, you're punished. several kids have died in these programs because of neglect, because these camps run year-round in places like moab where it's hot as balls during the summer and colder than a witch's tit in winter. most of the camps are based in utah, supposedly because mormons have less strict rules on what counts as child abuse, but idk how true that is.

**i have no fucking clue what the actual term for gooning is. i can't find these companies anywhere. but in the rtc we called them goons. basically, a group of people are paid by a kid's parents (or sometimes the government) to come into their room in the middle of the night (usually 3 am), take the kid out of their bed, and force them into a vehicle and transport them to a treatment center. some kids don't learn that their parents paid for it until after they've arrived at the treatment center. gooning can leave victims with injuries and immense trauma.

#yuniesky torres #blaseball (organizational) #a beginner's guide to being normal #asks 4 sasha

[orbleglorb]

👀👀👀 okay I was gonna send asks after I finished answering them but I LOST THE POST :( I would LOVE to hear more about yuniesky tho 👀👀👀👀

are you talking about this post?

if so. i am working on a post that answers every single question on that ask game for yuniesky. because Im Normal <- lying

um anyway :^) yuniesky is a vague outline of an average person. there is nothing he wants more than to be unnoticeable and normal. unfortunately he is neither of those things. tbf he is relatively unnoticeable. he has an entire strategy in place to ensure that he is. he is a different person around different people, although he's managed to stay relatively consistent among blaseball teams. he doesn't really talk to people besides the spies and his grandma. he got along well with the shoe thieves, but tried his damn hardest to avoid the garages at any cost. there is no way in hell they were going to get him to play an instrument. much less in front of people. which is something he used to do all the time because he was in high school band. he played the french horn. but he'd rather lay down on a highway than let anyone know he used to be a teenager so that never gets brought up. plus he forgot how to play it between him dropping out & running away and being sent to the garages.

anyway this image describes every single interaction he's had with every team he's been on

[ID: two screenshots of a scene from "Meet The Robinsons." the scene is flashback scene of a young boy named Goob walking down a school hallway, carrying his belongings with his head down and body tense. the other two boys in the hallway say "Hey Goob, what's up? Cool binder!" and "Hey Goob, wanna come over to my house today?" Goob doesn't respond, but in the narration, future Goob says "They all hated me." /end ID]

#yuniesky torres #asks 4 sasha

[orbleglorb]

give me your biggest yuniesky lyric 🤲

smiles at you like someone who is completely normal and well adjusted

i cannot simply pick lyrics from one song. so here's several

from yuniesky's POV

"I shine only with the light you gave me (I could have been anyone, anyone)"

-- the moon will sing by the crane wives

I played video games in a drunken haze I was 17 years young Hurt my knuckles punching the machines The taste of Scotch rich on my tongue ...

I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me

-- this year by the mountain goats

Anda preparándote Para cuando todos te den la espalda Será esplendoroso Como una coreografía Que preparan todo el día

-- lobo mayor by fother muckers

(rough translation: Get ready / for when everyone turns their backs on you / it will be splendid / like a choreography / practiced all day)

from someone else's POV (who? idk)

When I look you in the eyes I will start to realize You're pathetic, in the worst ways You're spineless, like on most days When I look you in the eyes I will start to realize You're not going anywhere Going anywhere

-- pathetic/spineless by the garages

Sure, you can forget about all the things you've done But what about the rest of us? (What about the rest of us?) High-tail it when it gets to be too much But what about the rest of us? (What about the rest of us?)

-- down the river by the crane wives

#asks 4 sasha #yuniesky torres #thank you for asking about my boy

[orbleglorb]

Temporary Omniscience, Sonic screamer, and precognition for Yunie? Or whoever else

link to the ask game

🤯Temporary Omniscience: What is the single most important piece of information that your OC would want to know? What would change their world?

i think there's a LOT of stuff he'd want to know, but the most important would probably be what comes next. he just wants to know what's the next big thing that will happen so he can plan accordingly. a bit of a boring answer, i know. there's a lot of other stuff he'd love to know without going and finding out -- how's his family doing, if they miss him, etc. but most important, in his mind, is what comes next.

🤬Sonic Screamer: Does your OC have a temper? What do they do when they snap?

not so much anymore! he was really angry as a teenager and would blow up pretty easily then. now, he's either better at handling anger or better at burying it. nobody knows, not even him

🔮Precognition: If your OC could get a glimpse of what was to come, would they want to know? Would it do them any good?

yes. he always wants to know. it is vital for his health that he knows everything that is going to happen ever

#yuniesky torres #asks 4 sasha

[orbleglorb]

6,11,15 for yunie?

6. What is your character's preferred way of coping with stress or difficult situations?

well. his preferred way is having roughly four or more hours of alone time where he can simply stew over the situation and make a chart that plans out every outcome he can think of, complete with a pros and cons list for each outcome. and then make a more educated decision from there. that is usually not realistic so his second coping mechanism is pretending like it's not a big deal. the only time he failed to do this was when rivers rosa died (i have Extra Lore about that one)

Is there a specific physical feature or item that holds special significance to your character? Why is it important to them?

i've been pondering this one for a while. i think he had a really special stuffed animal or something as a kid/teen that was his comfort object & his parents threw it out because he was "too old" for it. no comfort objects since then (or if he has any, he won't admit it)

Describe a defining moment in your character's life that marked a turning point or significant change in their path.

getting sent off to mental health treatment in utah (im projecting leave me alone im projecting)

#blaseball (organizational) #yuniesky torres #asks 4 sasha

[orbleglorb]

Hiya! For the ask game: Yuniesky Torres and/or Parker Loser with 17, 24, and 25?

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17: What is the worst thing you have put your OC through story-wise?

yuniesky: mental health treatment. because i was projecting.

parker: being a banesball player. i haven't fleshed out his backstory much </3

What is an alternative life path your OC might have gone down? How different would their life be if they'd made those decisions?

yuniesky: oh boy. devout catholic housewife. if he had just decided to ignore the part of him that thought he wasn't supposed to be a girl, or the part of him that had questions about/disagreements with catholicism, he could have been a very different person.

parker: actor/model. he was into theater and is pretty attractive, and got a couple of offers from modeling agencies, but he didn't want to be in the spotlight. and then the horrors

What is your favorite thing about your OC?

yuniesky: i heart projecting on him, and also i enjoy characters that try very hard to repress emotions/their humanity

parker: he is so utterly clueless and it is very funny

#asks 4 sasha #yuniesky torres #parker loser

[orbleglorb]

For the ask game: 10. What gets them out of bed every morning?

16. What would they say to their past self? When would they go to? Why?

link to the ask game

HI. SORRY. WAS AT THE VET FOR A LONG TIME AND THEN MY PHONE WAS ALMOST DEAD SO I HAD TO GET OFF MY PHONE. AND THEN I FORGOT

ummm im going to do this with yuniesky torres (aka conditional yuniesky) (im slowly oc-ifying him)

10: what gets them out of bed in the morning?

usually the knowledge that they have to get up or else things will completely fall apart (in his eyes, anyway). he's used to being the only tech guy. he also has the full-time job of being conditional's (sentient computer) best friend and condi makes sure he gets places on time.

16. what would they say to their past self? when would they go to? why?

yuniesky would go to his teenage self and just shout "SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!" and leave. (if you want a more satisfying answer: he would either go to 14 y/o him and tell him to get his shit together, or go to his 18 y/o self and... also say "get your shit together" but in a different way. more like "stop compulsively lying it's gonna bite you in the ass later." but the thing is, yunie knows himself, and he knows that any version of his past self is going to flip him off and ignore him. so like. he's just gonna shout "SHUT THE FUCK UP" and call it a day)

#asks 4 sasha #yuniesky torres #conditional yuniesky #blaseball (organizational)

[orbleglorb]

i'm shamelessly biased, how about a snippet from any of the wips including ivy

(alternatively, more of the garages prequel because i'm going 👁️ at it and also i'm shamelessly biased)

hi ok i prommy the later chapters/parts of this fic will have more ivy stuff but for this specific scene it's just yuniesky having an internal monologue for most of it. also, the other ivy fic has more ivy stuff, but it's in the notes app on my phone and i didn't feel like getting my phone

fic beneath the cut because this snippet is kinda lengthy

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He didn't find the patience, but he did find a towel. He tossed it to Ivy, who immediately wrapped it around themself. They were shivering, and probably soaked down to the skin. The air conditioning probably wasn't helping, but it was May, and Houston got warm pretty quick. Yuniesky waved Ivy over to the couch and pulled out a small space heater that they kept in the corner at all times – mostly because there was nowhere else to put it – and turned it on. Ivy gladly curled up in front of it.

Abuela came out of the kitchen and handed Ivy a warm beverage and a small cloth to wipe their glasses with. Ivy took both items with shivering hands. 

"The tea hasn't steeped for very long, it might still taste like hot water," she warned.

"That's fine, thank you, Miss Torres," Ivy said.

She laughed. "My last name is Castellanos. But you can just call me Antonia, okay?"

"Oh, okay," Ivy said, looking a little embarrassed. "Thank you, Miss Antonia."

Yuniesky laughed a little at Ivy's enduring (albeit a tad misguided) politeness and finally shrugged his computer bag off his shoulder. The fabric was properly soaked, and he had to wipe off the buckle with his sleeve in order to get a grip.

"Ivy, are you sure you don't need another towel? A blanket? You're still drenched," Antonia said.

Ivy and his grandmother kept talking in the background, but Yuniesky was too busy doing a mental inventory to listen. He had a box of clothes to give away, and it seemed rude to not offer any of them. But what the fuck did he even have in there? All clothes pertaining to high school were given away long ago, as was the bright yellow shirt he earned in Utah. He probably just threw that away, actually, but all that mattered was that it was gone. There were a lot of clothes that were too small for him now. That was going to make him feel like shit. And it would make it harder to eat today. But they'd fit Ivy. And, again, it felt cruel to let them shiver like a dog that just got a bath against its will.

"There's a box of clothes I need to give to Goodwill in the hall closet. They can take something out of there," Yuniesky said.

Ivy and Antonia both looked at him with a look of immense surprise.

"Oh, sorry, did I interrupt? I wasn't listening," he admitted.

"No, no, just- thank you, Yunie. Ivy, if you want to follow me, we can get you something dry and you can change in the bathroom, okay?"

Ivy nodded and got up, mouthing a quick "thank you" to Yuniesky before trotting behind Antonia. Yuniesky just nodded in acknowledgment. He didn't like that they were surprised, although he knew why. A year ago, he wouldn't have offered any sort of belongings, past or present, to anyone he knew. Hell, two years ago, he wouldn't have even stopped to get Ivy out of the flash flood. He would have decided it wasn't his problem and kept going. 

#fun facts: #antonia is named after the man that made (makes?) the spy vs spy comics for mad magazine (antonio prohías) and also nick castellanos #because i just really felt like i should include a reference to him somewhere #since he hit 2 home runs on blaseball cancellation day #wip wednesday works #blaseball (organizational)

[orbleglorb]

Hi! For the ask game, 👁️ and 🌌 with anyone of your choosing!

i'll answer these with blaseball characters, since i've already answered the second question for my OCs.

the blb characters i picked are just my blorbos. they aren't connected in any way except I Like Them.

👁️ EYE - what colour are their eyes? do people notice their eyes? is there anything special about them (shows emotion easily, literally magical…)?

Parker MacMillan: I've been going back and forth between green eyes and red eyes. because red would be cool, but idk he strikes me as a person with green eyes. nothing special about his eyes. unless i decide on them being red. eyes are typically not red.

Conditional Yuniesky (aka Yuniesky Torres): dark brown, nothing special about them.

Declan Suzanne: same as above :3

🌌 MILKY WAY - what was the inspiration behind your oc? what was the first thing you decided about them?

I am repurposing thing to mean "first headcanon you decided on, and why you did."

Parker MacMillan: sighs dreamily. there's something wrong with him. his cringefail behavior and killstreak enamored me. so, of course, my first headcanon (i think) was that animals love him for his unnaturally warm swag. actually wait. i guess the first headcanon would have been "firewalker basically makes him a space heater." but i think that's a pretty common headcanon? idk actually

Conditional Yuniesky: idk how to separate "headcanon" from "genuine irm," because i did sort of help create yuniesky?? like i was there for his initial lore jam & shared stuff afterwards and people said "wow those are good ideas wyatt" and i've been living on that high ever since. i guess the first "headcanon" would be that he lives with his grandmother in houston, and that his grandmother was the one that created conditional (yunie's supercomputer bestie).

Declan Suzanne: used to be in the circus. i actually have no reasoning for this & i have no idea where it came from.

#i don't think im going to maintag this lol #asks 4 sasha #parker macmillan #conditional yuniesky #declan suzanne #<- for organizational purposes #'im not gonna maintag this' *tags two popular characters instead*