#aly leaf

favorite thing about them: literally everything. she's perfect. she's a transfem mexican american environmental activist who's kinda nerdy, really likes bowser, and is at her core a genuinely kind person! all in all she was just a normal well-adjusted individual, up until the wyatt masoning turned her into a cognitohazard tangle of vines at least. she's been through so much and she's seen/participated in a lot of the most iconic blaseball events, and she ended up dealing with a bunch of the consequences of those more or less on her own. she's not naturally an angry person but there's a lot of frustration and resentment in how the lift traded her away after she shelled some tacos when just a few seasons prior they gave quitter the literal 'trust' will for doing the same. it stung that the team that claims to prize self-improvement had given up on her when at a time that she needed help most, and that was fresh in her mind when the next team she was on was literally waiting for the day she would roam away so they could improve. so many teams had become better because of her absence, she would not roam and let the thieves be yet another one. just. sorry for the paragraph but everything about her arc is so compelling to me. i have written text walls about her arc before, and i will write text walls again.

least favorite thing about them: not enough people care about her!! character-wise, she had a nasty tendency to bottle things up which led to her reaching her breaking point without anyone noticing until it was too late, and she holds a grudge like few people can.

favorite line: "alejandro leaf is the main character of blaseball." aly's just one of the most sentient blaseball players, some notable moments include: her shelling 2.5 former teammates in a single game where she was losing horribly, dying (the first not-unstable pitcher incin since s3) to deprive the thieves of parties because they were waiting for her to roam, holding the record for the most seasons without a natural roam, never haunting during her 2 seasons in the hall, roaming out of the hall to the talkers to pick up an evolution during their 9-pitcher season, and immediately roaming to the fridays to die again.

brOTP: i have a real soft spot for aly and yusef's friendship. i just think they get along well. at some point i started a comic about them meeting up in the horizon but put it down and haven't picked it back up yet.

OTP: i don't actually have a present-day pairing i like for her? i do think she dated baldwin breadwinner in s1-3 but that fell apart after the wyatt masoning, and she dated zack sanders for a while before the snackrifice but it ended (on good terms) during the grand siesta. i don’t thing she’s been in the right mental state for dating for a while now though.

nOTP: for their sakes i hope jt and aly are never on the same team again, last time they were on the lift together they both ended up bringing out the worst in each other and shelling ppl for the first time.

random headcanon: sometimes i think about her looking up to her older cousins who lived nearby when she grew up. one of them definitely was the reason she realized she was trans. on a different note, i think a lot of her youth ended up getting somewhat overwritten by the wyatt masoning so there would just be these moments where she almost remembers something that never technically happened.

unpopular opinion: she got reverted to her pre-plant form after dying for the first time. i still love plant aly, but most important blaseball events in her life have all been tied to physical transformations and a quasi-reset just makes a lot of sense for how i personally see this part of her story. someone once compared her first death to how some seeds need fire to germinate and i just think about that sometimes.