okay, this is going to physically pain me to say and I apologize in advance, but PB probably came off as quite abrasive at first but has since had time to . . . ugh . . . come out of their shell

YES nutty and sexton friends. they were the only 2 in our rotation so long ofc they were friends a bit

I think sexton severely resented peanut bong at first but also was acutely aware this is guy was the only chance he had to catch some kind of a break so he forced himself to be his friend

i think pb could be the kind of person who takes community college classes for fun - not any "serious" subjects or anything (maybe some philosophy classes) but stuff like underwater basket weaving and other arts, classes where he can socialise a bit y'know?

also re gay bong ive got a concept for u: his boyfriend is like him but a strawberry (pb and jelly. get it. i think its cute)

he's been in the shadows most of this time so i think it would be fun if he had well-developed relationships to a bunch of our recently unshadowed players, i.e. NV, yummy, chelle, otten

from what i read on the wiki yeah, the bongs were A Thing in miami and you know? i think hes having a much better time not having to perform to any expectactions now

and probably likes to cook people breakfast

like he's certainly not in like, pre-resurrection Tillman territory or anything but I did get the impression he was a bit . . . difficult? but like that might just be kind of a defense mechanism kind of thing, and again, it's been a long time

yeah i think bong is probably pretty good at crafts and household stuff?

Takes swing dancing classes

my contribution

a man can only stand so many jerseys that smell like pepito took a dip in a mud puddle and then the baja blast tank in that order thrown on their floor/couch/kitchen appliances

at this point I'd imagine PB is quite chill, probably doesn't mind having the actual LA fans at arms length -- but I also don't think he's really had a chance to deal with that experience either, it's just kind of been put on hold for a really long time

omg bongers is the starboard emote...this can only go well

he def has like super cute frilly but practical aprons

bong is the taco who does laundry

I bet he was thrilled to be named MVP

Invited all the tacos and had a good time knowing he did something to help

like the MVP thing might also have been at least partly a "wait, I had forgotten, there are people who do really like me?" kind of thing, probably a critical moment for them actually

Really into Dleath Glrips

OK I AM HERE a bit late, but i had a thought i wanted to enter into the consciousness since being shadowed, both otten and batson have had official jobs at the stadium (even though they do various other stuff!) i think that pbong would take it on himself to have a lot of responsibilities, but i think having an official occupation, in name, could be fun to play around with. my first thought was part of the media team. you know, replay coordinator, choosing which cameras to put on. gets up to all kinds of mischief, but has an INSANE eye for catching stuff other people have missed. during boring home games he focuses on funny people in the crowd, he draws circles around players that la leguna is talking about over the broadcast, stuff like that. i think pbong is probably one of the most tech-savvy people on the tacos and is surprisingly humble about that fact, but due to the fact that everyone else on the team tends to suck, he's happy to step in and help

id also like to resurrect the philosopher bong hc. hes a multifaceted gentleman with many interests and hobbies!

i love Bong Philosopher but i think one of the things he has a knack for is insane would-you-rathers and hypotheticals he knows all his deep intellectual theory, but he'd much rather get a tally of who on the team would rather find 1000 roaches in their attic or a person who had been living there. that kind of thing

Bong was really shaken up after he shelled Nerd Pacheco. It'd be easier if he could just write it off as leftover Sheleld One influence, but on some level he wanted to do it and that scares him.

has the team told him about what happened to Nerd post-unshelling? did they need to?

wait-- idea. even before seeing it on the news or whatever, bong knows when the superallergic procs.

on another note: Yummy says "BONGERS" all the time but gets flush and shifty-eyed around actual peanut bong and has no idea how to talk to him it's like meeting hatsune miku in the store. what do you even say

ok uh. yall know that dude who recreates recipes from the great depression on tiktok? bong does silly kitchen stuff like that (with more of a cartoon slapstick humour than the og guys flavour of humour)

everyone was super mad at him when he fell to the tacos both because of rage at the pods and also because all the previous tacos fell elsewhere

we had some conversations about him and actually getting along well with sexton since they were both stuck on that awful pitching rotation at the time

bong, being even more peanut connected than the average honey roasted player, inherently just kind of knows when someone swallows a nut or is shelled

Peanut Bong sometimes goes undercover in a Lil Mijo mascot costume and also a Peanut Bong mascot costume

i think theyre the same actually. but bong, whos ability to eat things is closer to the average human, has to keep reminding her that he cant eat like. couch stuffing. cause she gets carried away

I will say, if there is any one player on this team who is prone to cartoonishly melodramatic overacting as just part of his routine…

i think they do disagree weirdly strongly on things but they're incredibly minor and they both play it up for laughs. like "how much brown sugar do you use in chocolate chip cookies" level

like he'll just do random things in really intense Shakespeare mode, not because he's actually that invested but because he's bored

"Yummy!!! Put that pillow stuffing down before I bestow a terrible peanut curse upon your children's children!!!"

actually I really like this?? Yummy was likely one of the first people PB interacted on the Tacos with who didn't like, have any preconceived notions of who Peanut Bong was or how godawful a player he was, none of the snackrifice baggage

but anyway, at that point, end of s12? PB is pretty much convinced they're a failure and everyone hates them, they still have Nerd fresh on their mind, they are at rock bottom

Yummy would know who he is, but wouldn't have the personal baggage that came with finding him after S10 Day X

the other tacos more than likely, now that its all done with, feel a little guilt over the way they treated bong at first because it really was no ones fault that he came back and none of the other tacos

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and then a season later the MVP hits and while he probably wouldn't admit it there were likely many tears

i know very little about pbong but very much about NaN so I have a feeling NaN and peanut bong probably wouldn't be buddies at first? But then they probably bond over "Wow we both have relations with a god* and both had our names changed permanently by blaseball and thats a little messed up"

bong otten and batson are the shadows with stadium jobs squad and they all hang out regularly. sometimes bong does feel a little bit like the other two are closer with each other than they are with him but that doesnt stop them too much from hanging out outside of stadium work

in particular i'd guess that after chomp and shadowing, batson probably made a bit of a point of gently encouraging otten to hang out with him and pbong as a way to help her out with recovery

someone has to come down to the shadows to get help fixing a broken projector and he's just in this dimly lit room, spins around in a spinny chair to face them, "You have entered the dominion of the great and powerful Peanut Bong, what is your purpose here?" "…it's the projector again, isn't it? Goddamn that stupid ing thing yeah I'll be right there."

yeah she was definitely feeling pretty awful after that but gentle reminders from batson and bong that they still care about her and being shadowed isnt the end of the world really helped

Knows what to do in any situation involving bears

and velociraptors

his immediate response is probably something like "Yeah, no! God! Terrible! Awful! Absolutely 100% do not recommend having in your head all the time! Kept complaining about discipline and hot dogs and stuff, very annoying!" the truth is probably very repressed and very unpleasant, I can't imagine that experience being anything but traumatic

"How do I feel about it? MY HEAD. IS A PEANUT NOW."

LA is not a LOT more chill than Miami, but it is more chill to an extent, and I think PB is having a good time not having to live up to his family name (because his family is a THING in Miami iirc)

and like all of these things are very real and dark and hilarious but they're also? kind of deflections??

Peanut Bong strikes me as very much the sort who tries to either avoid or laugh off his trauma, with varying degrees of success -- he struggles to face things

thinking: is chelle the only person who actually ever refers to him as "Peanut"

I already headcanon NV as helping Yummy pull out of a fairly dark first couple of seasons -- xe may well have played a similarly supportive role with PB, if not quite so immediately effective (not generally connecting as well, decent-to-moderate generational gap, PB being way more walled off at this point), but every little bit counted

a thought: chell was not a blaseball player until season... 11? because she was a postseason birth so odds are, she never even knew that he used to be a Dan, and i don't know if that's worse

I think pbong swears a lot specifically so they can't use his clips on tv during interviews and stuff.

During interviews when pbong swears, his mouth gets censored and a text bubble with qbert style gibberish appears. It’s unclear who is doing this

Doing things just because they're funny is something I imagine pbong and Vito have in common

one last thing before I go to bed: I don't know how or even if the other teams handled the whole "Dan-->Peanut" thing lore-wise, s3 being the Wild West of lorecrafting that it was, but I wonder if it's the sort of thing where like your memory kind of glosses it over, like you don't straight-up lose all memory of Dan Bong, but it does require you to take a moment to think about it and go, "Wait a minute, in some of my memories this guy has a human head, and then in all my other memories his head is a giant peanut -- that's actually really ing WEIRD, isn't it???"

Season 20, Day 33 CRACK!!! Another one. Long, high, going well past the warning track, never a chance of catching it. Summers Preston, for the second time tonight, begins a long, leisurely trot around the bases. The Dale have hit yet another home run. You'd think they'd be happy. Instead the Miami bench sits in stunned silence, watching the scoreboard, hoping against hope it might work normally, just this one time. The display flickers. The score now reads 4 to minus 3. The Dale, against all logic, lose 2 more runs. Pandemonium. Disbelief. Humiliation. Utter chaos. Bats and balls go flying across the dugout. The players lost their remaining words a long time ago; the only sounds to come from the bench are exasperated cries of despair. As Michelle Sportsman prepares to face the next batter, a song begins playing over the loudspeakers. It is at once foreign and depressingly familiar. Wyatt Dovenpart leans against the dugout wall and lets out a heavy sigh. They know perfectly well that this is not a song the Dale would play in their own stadium, certainly not in this situation; and there is only one member of the traveling Tacos entourage who would know their way into the soundbooth at Worldwide Field. Jomgy Rolsenthal takes a third strike looking. She never had a chance, not with the deafening tune of Eduard Khil's Ya ochen rad, ved ya, nakonets, vozvrashchajus domoy ringing in her ears. "I swear, one of these days I'm going to kill that peanut."

I switched tabs for a moment and came back and all the redactions were re-redacted again and my god this conversation looks so much cooler than it is

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