Emergency DE: Sportball

[bjornwilde]

As suggested by aberration :

What kinds of sports or games do your characters enjoy, either to watch or play? Are there any that are specific to their canon/world, and do you know how or do you have any headcanons about how to play them?

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[needsmoreresearch]

aaaaaah sorry! i lost track of what day it is, whoops!

I've got a canonically soccer-loving William Douglas.

[bjornwilde]

No worries! (I would've taken the time to PM you but work was being pushy and I wanted to get something up. You can have tomorrow if you'd like?)

[bjornwilde]

Star Wars has grav-ball, which I think is something like football or soccer. I kind of head canon that the ball changes weight through out the game, but true details on the game are vague. I don't think either of my SW gals care much about it.

Ahsoka seems like she'd be into racing sports like pod racing or the like. I can see her interested in fencing as well, though the war keeps her busy.

I feel like there has to be Mandalorian sports Sabine loves but being away from home doesn't get to follow very much. I kind of have an idea for a sky race with jetpacks and combat but haven't thought too much about it.

Sam seems like he'd be into baseball, football, and basketball. I'm sure he has specific teams he follow, and likely roots for any Air Force team out of loyalty.

[iprotectyou]

Neither of my boys are into sports. They're both nerds. Baze is into sparring, which I suppose could be a sport, and Autor's into running, but the only person he competes with is Sunshine.

[cottoncandypink]

Wilford plays baseball, which wound up happening because he had a baseball bat in his room. Eventually that turned into him playing in college.

As for sports that are specific to his world, I suppose things like Pool Parties count? They're definitely unique to his world. Wilford's probably played in the past, but these days he just get angry at people skydiving into his pool and going splat on his roof.

[exiled_heir_of_the_eighth]

Sahaal watches Blood Bowl on the bar's television when it's on. That's not from 40k, but it is from Warhammer Fantasy, a game made by the same company and with some of the same characters.

As for how you play it, it's basically American Football but played by orcs, elves and undead corpses amongst other races, and with the ability to maim and kill opposing players on the pitch.

[thebattycakes]

Barry obviously likes to run, but that's only since being struck by lightning. He's been a fan of basketball for much longer. Barry and Joe have spent a lot of time shooting backyard hoops and watching the Central City Miners both on TV and once in a great while at the stadium.

Cisco doesn't really do sports much, but by Barry and Joe he'll become a Miners fan as well, mostly though just to spend time hanging out with the guys.

Matt is of course a boxing fan thanks to his dad. He doesn't follow it as closely as he once did, but he'll listen to a bout if he happens to come across one. Every once in awhile he and Foggy will also do Friday Night Fights or Boxing After Dark with beers and a pizza.

As for Matt boxing, his whole fighting style is built around it. It's something that's ever present and his go-to fallback when he's in the thick of things.

Logan doesn't really follow any sport in particular, but he'll hang around for watching a game if there's beer present and the company is good. I'm also sure he'd play baseball or softball if pestered into it by those who have the ability to drag him into such things. And of course he'll grouch about it while not so secretly enjoying it.

Charlie was/is a boxer. His whole life revolves around the ring and his inability to give it up.

Bill is a fan of football (American). He played in high school and will toss a ball around if ever given the chance. He's also a big Colts fan and likes Madden on the Xbox.

Hellboy doesn't much care about sports. He doesn't exactly have the opportunity to play any, and there are far better things to watch on television.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Bastion knows sports exist. I don't think they could tell different sports apart except by looking at what kind of equipment is being used.

Everyone gets a sport for the Summer Games event, and Bastion's was boxing, mainly because it was an excuse to give them an emote resembling the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. The Summer Games also introduced Lúcioball, which is kind of like 3v3 soccer, if it was played on rollerblades with sonic tech enabling the players to move really fast (fast enough to skate on the walls of the stadium) and boop the ball around, and also the ball is roughly twelve feet in diameter. I don't think this is compatible enough with Lúcio's backstory to actually be canon, but it's a beloved Summer Games feature nevertheless. The Summer Games themselves seem to be a real sporting event, since Mei has a shirt with the logo in Rise and Shine.

Lúcioball is supposed to force everyone to play as Lúcio, but in the first year there was a glitch that let you enter the game as a different, random hero, and I was curious about it so I did it several times after learning how to trigger it. (People got suspended for using the glitch to shoot the enemy team dead and score goals while they were respawning, since Lúcio couldn't do damage in that game mode but other heroes were completely unmodified. I resisted that temptation.) On one of these occasions I spawned as Bastion. Apparently they made a good goalie in sentry configuration, according to other people who used the glitch, but I was worried about accidentally killing an enemy player that way so I stuck to recon configuration. The giant soccer ball is bulletproof, it seems.

[sdelmonte]

Cyborg was one of those kids who played anything with a ball, and he was a star American football player in HS before the accident. I think he still likes watching, but misses playing enough to not really go out of his way for any sports he misses.

Poirot never got into sports, as player or as fan. He was baffled by soccer in his youth, and even more baffled when he got to London and found the city defined by who supported what club.

Swamp Thing probably had some interest in sports, being from a football crazy corner of the world, but adhered to the usual nerdy scientist stereotype.

[for_everyone]

Both Hera and Kanan learned various time-killing and gambling games at different points growing up, such as sabacc, pazaak, and dejarik. Between them, Kanan tends to be better at the card games, while Hera usually bests him at dejarik. Sabacc has... some canon established rules? Honestly they don't make a lot of sense to me. But its deck draws pretty directly from the real world Tarot deck. Pazaak has very straightforward rules that basically make it a rough equivalent to blackjack, though with a wider variety of card values. I actually have a desktop pazaak game that's just pulled straight from Knights of the Old Republic. I'd imagine - and believe it's canon - that there are many different variations of these games across the galaxy, played in different ways, e.g., the "Corellian Spike" variation of sabacc. And in my head, for instance, different areas/languages have different names for the sabacc face cards.

In terms of sports, well - there's a lot across canon and legends, though I think a lot are races. I'd imagine Twi'leks have blurrg races, but I'd have to think about others. Regardless, neither Kanan nor Hera have been that invested in them. Kanan might have at certain points been involved in gambling on races, maybe even racing himself a few times in swoop races or something like that, but that's about it. And I know I've written a line for Hera where she says she'd race her ship against others, especially Corellian flyboys. It's probably never a good idea to challenge her on that.

[bjornwilde]

Interesting that they don't list Grav-ball on that. ETA: Never mind, it's listed under ball games.

I also half wonder how much the team picked up watching grav-ball since it's a big sport on Lothol, at least according to the "Servants of the Empire" book series.

[misslucyjane]

Canonically Steve loves baseball, to the point that he remembers games in detail. (I like baseball, but not that much.) He'd probably be a pretty decent player. Lots of homers and fastballs ;).

I stole a detail from a favorite fic by having Sherlock refer to doing MMA fighting to keep him limber and ready to fight when necessary. When he exercises in-bar I usually have him swim.

[death_gone_mad]

The first two sports in canon that popped into my head were Gnomeball and Werewolf Skullball. The only real reason why Skullball usually has that werewolf qualifier in front of it is because only werewolves play it, but that just makes it redundant, doesn't it?

annalaliath has been trying for years to get me to start a game of skullball going in Milliways but I am the lazy and a bad friend for not enabling crack. :P

Anyhow, the goal of Skullball is to kick a skull through a course of 10 goals. It is sort of a hybrid of golf and soccer football with an irregularly shaped ball that doesn't quite bounce and roll the way you expect it to and a course that is more a golf course than a soccer pitch. Completing the course in the least amount of time, rather than the least amount of kicks, is the goal.

As much fun as kicking a skull around can be, it seems a bit too petty for Amascut to enjoy. :P

As for gnomeball, it is something like rugby with four teams on a peanut shaped pitch and the goal is up in the air, so the ball has to be thown into it. There is also padding and helmets reminiscent of American football.

Besides that, there are various footraces, cheese rolling (because British people gonna be British), and the various minigames inside the game. A lot of them are bloodsports, but there are odd ones, like competitive brewing (on an island with a zombie problem).

If Amascut had to choose one to watch, she would likely choose Soul Wars. So much slaughter and such a good scam. The respawns would annoy her, though. The only thing sporty about Fairy Fixit that sticks out at me is maybe she might enjoy a fancy flying/ aerial acrobatics competition, but no such sport has been highlighted in canon.

[chanter1944]

Sariel's been playing cricket for fun since she was a kidlet, straight up through Starfleet Academy; she's a decent batsman and a better bowler. Windies absolutely still exist in her century (and you can bet she supports them), only potential test match opponents aren't limited to fellow Earth sides anymore. :) The mun knows diddly ding dong about cricket except what she's heard off BBC snippets, say sorry.

Sariel's also fair at football/soccer, about which her mun's at least got half a clue. Not sure if she supports any given club there, as she's less invested in it than she is in cricket.