Lore: Sucks at Blaseball. That's it everyone go home we're done here

this suggestion i made here before the season started, except because of Al Pastor's meddling, Batson accidentally got signed up as a position player

I'm gonna be popping in and out so i won't be super active in the conversation but here's my pitch-

it makes sense if they were chosen because they had NV's bat, NV probably tried to talk to them about Elsewhere too...

I do like Rat Batson being a curious soul from elsewhere that got attached to and followed back Rat Mason. Maybe to the point of playing something like fetch where the only available "sticks" are bats

Honestly I'd love a Morbious the living vampire situation where Batson isn't a vampire, they're a completely separate creature that's often mistaken for a vampire. A situation that leads to a lot of corrections and frustrations as he repeatedly has to explain he's not a vampire he's a werebat or something

yeah it is FANTASTIC, i love the fact they come back from elsewhere...

Rat Batson isn't using a bat because none of the bats are theirs, they wasn't ever expecting to play.

if ratson batson came to our LA from rat masons Elsewhere they def have that explorer vibe i got from NV,

Batson doesn't have a bat because they gave it to their son. Batson is not their actual name but a nickname

oghhh what if Batson was from the little leagues and got swept away from a stray flood which is why they suck

if ratson is from the little leagues and is also a werebat i bet gwiffin is mentoring her a bit...

hi is this where we're jamming? sorry im late i was busy trying to cram election thoughts into one 2000 letter message anyway I think I saw someone mention that RatBat should be a chimera of some sort and I think that's pretty awesome Also based on their absurdly high moxie I think they literally just walk up to the plate without a bat and start taunting the pitcher until they walk or strike out

im gonna mostly be lurking bc i dont feel super strongly in any particular direction but i really love the idea of macy and her rats coming back from elsewhere and shes got this slightly-larger-than-normal bat clinging to her shoulder and someone asks '... whatcha got there?' and she holds up her starbucks and says 'a coffee??'

@elsewhere Macy was looking for rat in Elsewhere and called out to Batson thinking it was Rat

you're telling me a fruit made this bat?

Batson comes back with rat from elsewhere Batson gets hired as bat boy NV hits home run Batson retrieves bat NV talking to Batson about elsewhere NV poofs right in front of Batson Batson is now standing right where NV was and is holding NV's bat Welcome to the team

oh oh if we're doing some nonstandard anatomy, like human sized batfeet or human with bat arms. cannnnn we give them mobility aid(s)? please

Greer or McMason or whoever is helping train and acclimate Batson is also trying to help them control their transformations better

omg little rat with a big telescope... they probs take such good care of the bat...

They learned that from rat's pregame

batson is very much not a blaseball bat imo.

i do think that it is possible to still have Batson be a bat wanderer from Elsewhere and also an alternate universe version of Rat Mason. from a very different universe, maybe, but still. its name is like, too perfect. the sim is pretty much dropping this right into our laps.

ok so side note but since his pregame ritual is posing for pictures, what if its like when animals photobomb people trying to take portraits. so always a bat flying into the frame.

What is a bat but a rat with wings. Batson is rat mason’s magical girl disguise

well jello is here now but i was filling in w the "drawing ideas" route

What if the "posing for photos" is Batson flying in the way of people trying to take photos of Mcdowell

(please don't bonk me for thinking about the wiki already i'm sorry) ratson seems like a really cute character to have a bunch of irms for with all these different versions

WAIT a cheer for it could be "BAT AT RAT, RAT IT BAT"

bat-gical girl. is this anything

Favourite fruit could be something acidic (lemon maybe?) due to it balancing out their basic blood

im picturing ratbat as human sized. maybe a little lanky. 5'10"

batson wields the bat by flying and clutching it with its feet

Lycanthropy is a complicated issue and it takes many forms, the bat strain isn't really all that well known and its a mystery how any of it works, especially for Batson

ratson but it's pronounced like watson send tweet

anyways here's a handy dandy chart of taco names

idea: Batson is the same size in any given alternate interpretation as the corresponding Rat Mason. so if Rat Mason is a little rat on Macy's shoulder, Batson is a little bat on Bacy's shoulder. if Rat Mason is an anthro rat, Batson is an anthro bat. if Rat Mason is a teensy rat, Batson is a teensy bat.

it just hit me that batson imprinting on rat could mean rat could have a "growing up" arc like not literally aging up but learning to be more responsible and being like the parent batson kinda needs

In any case I think currently we're mostly determining who they are and how they got here and if Batson ends up being shadowed all of this is still valid

also just very into the idea of bat n rat being best friends regardless of interp

Batson encountered many players in elsewhere but rat was the only one to come towards them rather than just giving a look and walking away

RatBat sucks at swinging the bat at balls because it was only trained to hand bats to people

#spooky-general anyways Batson making bat noises very cute

hey question what is it called when you do something then regret it but keep doing it anyways and regretting it more and more? anyways found a good werebat image for general reference cw: bat

since everyone else has different bats which have different weights and such batson is bad at swinging them

here's my "Rat Batson Is A Version Of Rat Mason" idea in more detail: idk if they initially were named something like Rat Pork and just had a version of the wyatt masoning happen and their-universe Wyatt had the last name Batson or if they always had that name, but i think that in the universe they were from, Wyatt Dovenpart was known as [this first name has been redacted for some reason] Devanport, and has been missing since season 3. and also the magic got all the blessings in season 1

i think instead of having batson being a blaseball bat.... what if macy found a rat elsewhere, but it ended up being a bat? she didn't realize this, and named it rat,

yess.... maybe ratbat was an explorer that tried to... idk hitch a ride on the immateria? but it got them stuck in their bat form and all messed up until Macy found them

Just thinking about some stuff to do with echo location. 1) Echo location is used by bats the find the flying trajectory of bugs, maybe this translates to blaseballs and is why they get so many walks - they already know if they need to swing or not. 2) Echo location literally locates echos, hence why they have ended up on the same team with a player with echo - maybe they heard the echos from elsewhere and, using Rat as a guide, followed the echos out

This is off the current thread but I sort of imagine that "Rat Batson" isn't their real name. They're very shy you see and met Rat in immertia and there was a misunderstanding and Rat was so excited to meet someone with the same first name and it just sort of snowballed from there and it would be awkward to fix it now and all...

F O C U S BATSON

rat batson was the bat boy bat boy for season 15, truly a high honor for the tacos! after the rogue umpire finished incinerating our hero nick vincent (RIV) and came back to their senses, they saw Batson hauling a bat away from the home plate area and simply assumed that was the same player who had always been in this lineup spot but had just had a particularly strong shark attack or something. batson didnt want to cause a scene, so they simply stepped up to the plate when their time came. al pastor was furious because he didnt get to swindle someone onto the roster to fill this spot but it was too late- batson had found themself a Blaseball player. except they sorta kinda extremely had no idea what they were doing and didnt take a bat with them to the plate. Everyone else on the tacos thinks this is really weird but nobody wants to say anything.

also quick interjection i love the pun "bat boy bat boy" so i was wondering if we could have an unnamed bat boy bat boy boy who takes care of batson and is its boyfreidn

spider style bat ratson

Do like Batson being interested in magic tricks, only problem is that doing stuff like shuffling cards is kinda difficult with bat hands (maybe Rat M helps as an assistant?)

cw: bats, this was one design i was initially picturing in my head for bat/batboy

I like that idea that Batson was a Traveling Huckster before ending up with the team. Went all around the world doing ball and cup games and other such things. Was never really good at it because any time they got close to having something go in their favor their transformations went out of control and revealed the gig or scared people off. And that meant moving to a new place or running from the authorities. Which is how they ended up caught in a steam and getting floated off to Elsewhere. They hoped the LA gig would be temporary when Rat found them as a soaked bat on the ground and brought 'em to LA, but things took a turn and now they're signed up for good.

Omg I can imagine both Mason and Batson watch the TV and seeing news about Uncle Plasma and Liquid Friend going undercover to do some detective work. They turn to each other and within the hour are wandering around in detective hats and magnifying glasses.

Batson doing small games and parler tricks while sitting in the dugout to keep people from getting bored?

I like the idea of a lost af (as french bread) minor leaguer who ended up forced to play

proposal: Greer, Halex, Rat M and Rat B form a special club called the Night Tacos on account of all being nocturnal animals (owl, coyote, rat, bat). on the Latesiesta they stay up all night eating snacks and watching a cheesy movie.

Rat Batson is the Mimikyu to Rat Mason's Pikachu

okay personality-wise i think batson is the sweetest person alive. just the brightest spark you can imagine. but in the batter's box they are SO mean. unreasonably confident, makes fun of pitchers for every ball they throw. "i literally don't have a bat, just strike me out" begging them to strike them out. AND THEN THEY WALK!!!!!

Everytime Batty does something cute mcmason gives them a little apple slice

Rat Batson is Rat Mason's alternate dimension good twin. We've had the evil one the whole time

Batty: I coulda hit that ball! I would hit it so hard! I woulda went gestures with little arms just so far! Mcmason: uhuh gives apple slice Batty: and then I would have- oh. Thank you!

just doodled a bat child

Vito, getting pulled over: wheres my drivers license?! long and exaggerated string of single syllable noises and bone chattering y'know what wheres your license, huh?! Yeah, I'd like to see that, bet you don't even got one of those, bet you don't even- slowly driving away bet you don't even have a signature on that license, bet you don't even disappearing around the corner don't even have toyota corolla-

they have to turn in a circle to swing the bat which is why they're so bad

Wears hair ties as wristbands so they always have them when they need them? Which honestly pretty often

RAT BATSON IS THE ONLY TACO WITH A LEGAL DRIVER'S LICENSE

omg hoot they tie their ears back in a bun when they need to bat

Sexton: Ok Macy you found them so you're gonna take care of them, ok. Macy: Oh boy I'm gonna teach them how to shoplift and jaywalk and stick gum under faucets a- Sexton: Oh no no no. Being an older sibling means now you have R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y Macy:

Ok. The clothes and piercings on tiny gremlin Batson stay the same size when he hulks out maybe

Ok ok thought: When macy brought back batson, she went through a horrible transformation, from the horrible younger sibling to the suddenly responsible older sibling

pulling at their dirty pant leg (dirty with dust or dirty with ash why doesnt she know which) is a small...thing. not a rat. rat shaped. “uh...” she says. “hello,” the little thing says, ever so politely in its many-toned voice, “I’m sorry to bother, but i just wanted to give this back to you- you dropped, you see, in the Place, but i think something happened and....” it looks around, “where are we? where am I, more specifically. i’ve never seen so much.....metal.” its face twitches, a flat nose crinkling up under two large, large eyes, be-speckled with iridescent shades. “oh....” she points....around, “are you from, uh-“ she wipes at her eyes- theyre stinging a little, “were you from the other Place?” “yes! you dropped your hat,” it presents her taco hat to her, in a little clawed hand, “and i wanted to give it back. but it appears i was being too nice, again.....” macy takes the hat numbly. “thanks....,” a rat pops out of the hat and crawls up her arm to sit on her shoulder, “uh, sorry, but i think that means youre stuck here, now? at least for a bit.....or, yknow, forever.” she laughs, a hollow sound behind her sharp teeth and clever eyes. “Oh, thats not good at all,” the thing mutters, “i had dinner to prep. peaches and banana, a very filling meal.” macy stares blankly down at the rat-shaped-thing. it looks back up at her. it has two very, very large ears, held up with a velvet blue scrunchy. she thinks they’re wearing an apron. “oh, gods,” she mutters, “you don’t even know what a blaseball is, do you?” it tilts its head at her. one of the ears flops over. (part 2)

“oh, no, i’m-“ her eyes sting again. “i’m so sorry. i’m-im-i’mso-i’m so sorry.” she cries. macy is an ugly cryer, she knows that, but she lets it happen because its always best to just let it all out, like mcdowell always says. “oh, please, dont cry. its okay. i’m sure i can learn whatever a...blaseball....is. i was president of the chess club in high school! i’m sure this will be similiar.” it rubs its little clawed hand over hers, like she was the one who needed comforting. she puts up a rat from her head and wipes her tears with its little fluffy body. she gets her tears out, lets herself be comforted, then she feels that little bit of ‘ill show them’ rise up in her like it always did when someone tried to say ‘no macy’ or ‘not now macy’ or ‘stop stealing rats macy’ “youre right, little bat. you’re gonna learn a blaseball,” then she puts the rat down, and grins, “because i’m going to teach you a blaseball. welcome to the tacos, buddy.” she holds out her hand to shake. it shakes her hand, very confused. “whats a taco.” (part 3)

Rat Batson has 3 siblings, and all of them are lycanthropes of different animals.

i believe macy very firmly is the Cool Older Sibling who teaches bat how to do things like steal from vending machines

ratM: "I am going to teach you how to do so many crimes" ratBat: "aw hell yeah i love crimes" [grabs camera] ratM: "you already screwed up let's start over"

had another idea, not aure if already done or not opposing pitcher finds themselves getting stared down by what appears to be a bat after the game bat: "I want you to do me a favor... I want you to go and tell all your friends about me." opp. pitcher, remembering all the walks that were drawn: "W-what are you...?" bat, staring intensely into their eyes: "I'm Batson."

i missed the batson lorejam but i would like to propose an addendum to this, and that is that rb and rm are the magical rat sailor squad, but they can still be a bat and a rat respectively

rat batson is immateria this is out there but what if NV was researching (that's why they went elsewhere), managed to bring the light of the sun2 into the immateria with the sun dialed, and then when NV didn't come one day rat batson came looking; picking up the letters lost in Elsewhere and taking a name based on the stories NV told them

They took the form of rat at first, and have been experimenting to try to figure out what shape they're "supposed" to be, that's why they're bad at bats

also can we have a magic-esque irm mission to turn every tacos player into a sailor moon magical person? my best friend made this joke after i told fae about my hc for the rat sailor squad and it hasnt left my brain alone

RatBat: "You're not even gonna strike me out? Man, I don't even have a bat! And to think you have 4 stars. See you on first base, loser." Vito: sniff "they grow up so fast..."

https://twitter.com/lata_batson/status/1381317849721937922 thanks to the fans of @unlimited_taco i was moved back to my real job as batboy!! on my way out, Sexton handed me this. good luck out there, horse guy. [Image ID: a signed blaseball bat in a rickety cardboard case resting on some tissue paper. it is my most prized possession.] Twitter

headcanon: Ratson received a bat and was immediately like "i don't know what to do with this, i'm going to the shadows. bye."