Sebastian and Jessica Telephone were a pair of siblings and original Steaks all the way back in Season 1. Sources say they were never born and emerged from a payphone fully formed. With the Max Out Batter blessing Jessica, the older of the two of them, shot up to 5 stars at the end of Season 1 and then was immediately traded to the Pies with the Steal Best Hitter blessing, marking the start of Jessica Telephone’s career as a legendary batter who would go on to play for many teams
While Sebastian would remain firmly rooted in Dallas. After several seasons of separation (mostly, he calls, she lets it ring - she’s busy with the game, training, dealing with her fans, or simply just doesn’t want to talk) the Season 4 election comes around. Jessica is on the Philly Pies when back home Sebastian is targeted by the Alternate Reality decree and replaced by an alternate version of himself
Image of them that I drew so I’m legally allowed to use (og post)
I like to think that alternation changed Sebastian, because, obviously, he would be a whole different person. The new Seb is better at blaseball, too proud to call his deadbeat sister all the time, and immediately begins courting fellow Steaks player Conner Haley (by silently following him everywhere). This universe’s Conner is unused to the new, bolder Sebastian, but finds out that the new Seb was involved with the Conner Haley in his universe. While grappling with the slight tragedy of losing the original versions of each other, they navigate their new dynamic and learn the places where they differ. And maybe get a bit attached
Then Season 7 goes down. On day 65 Sebastian is hit by a Jaylen pitch and becomes Unstable. Two days later he is incinerated
Fast forward past all the expected sadness and we’re now at Day X of Season 9. The epic peanut battle commences, and Jessica, who was shelled for the second time since her brother died, is drafted for the SHELLED ONE’S PODS, and ends up hitting the game-ending home run and winning the first Day X for the Shelled One under its dominion.
Season 10’s Day X sees a similar defeat for the Crabs. The Pods make quick work of the Crabs, prompting the formation of a whole new team to go up against them: the Hall Stars, a team consisting of the most tributed players in the Hall of Flame. Including Seb. The Telephone siblings are reunited but in opposite sides of the god battle
…Until Seb, who still has the Unstable mod, is incinerated again
For the rest of the Expansion Era Jessica continues to make waves around the league. There are efforts to get Seb back through game mechanics but none succeed
There’s a thing about the Telephones being quantum waveforms and existing perpetually throughout time but that’s a topic for someone more well versed in timefuckery than me - anyway that phantom buzz in your pocket when your phone isn’t there? That’s them