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Family and History
Esme Ramsey moved to {{Fog|Moab}}, Utah at a young age with her adoptive father, [[Velasquez Meadows]]. However, by the time she could remember, the two of them had moved in with Meadows’ boyfriends [[Sandoval Crossing]] and [[Rhys Trombone]] and she had three dads. Ramsey was an only child until high school, when her dads took in [[Randall Marijuana]]. After an initial fascination with the weird kid that came to town alone on a bus, Ramsey adjusted quickly to being an older sibling and all that it entailed.

While in school, Ramsey made good friends with [[Zack Sanders]]. The two played on the same blaseball team together, spent their afternoons throwing rocks at Marijuana’s friend [[Emmett Internet]], and Sanders was known to spend more time at Ramsey’s house than her own. After high school, Ramsey followed her passion for baking and went off to culinary school. While home for Spring Break her first year, Ramsey drank from a pool of primordial malice<ref>Allegedly, to impress a [[Zack Sanders|woman]] they were dating at the time.</ref> and reportedly witnessed the [[First Pitch]]<ref>Or an approximation thereof.</ref>. There has been no confirmation if there were further side effects.

After finishing Culinary School, Ramsey returned to {{Fog|Moab}} for a short time before feeling inexplicably drawn to join the fledgling Shoe Thieves while her family was signing up to play for the [[Hellmouth|Moab Sunbeams]].

Blaseball Career
Ramsey established herself early as a reliable hitter, going as far as being named the team's MVP in [[Season 2]] due to their consistency and high RBI count. Ramsey plays the little-known defensive position of "longstop", a variant of the more commonly used shortstop that places the player almost entirely in left field. This allows Ramsey to share batting tips and spare blueberry muffins with left-fielder [[Velazquez Alstott]], as well as to see approximately two seconds into the future.

A turbulent [[Season 4]] for the Shoe Thieves left them looking hopefully to the season’s election, paying particularly close attention to the Grappling Hook that was up for grabs, as it would be incredibly useful to the team both in and out of the game. At Ramsey’s suggestion, the lineup drew straws to determine who would receive the hook if they won the blessing. She supposedly won the contest despite calls of foul play from all other participants. In the end, the Shoe Thieves did manage to snag the blessing, but new arrival to the team [[Richardson Games]] managed to steal it out from under Ramsey: an impressive feat when the entire team has theft down to an art. However, this has not stopped Ramsey from referring to the grappling hook as hers every chance that she gets.

In [[Season 9]], the Shoe Thieves had a remarkably successful season ending with an underdog championship win against the [Baltimore Crabs]. The celebration was quickly cut short when Ramsey and the rest of her team were pulled into a game against the Shelled One’s Pods. Whether outmatched in skill or simply exhausted from winning the Internet Series, the Shoe Thieves lost the game and the whole were thrown back to the immaterial plane, beaten, battered, and Cursed.

Just when Ramsey thought the stress of [[Season 10]] was over after dealing with Flinch, the Shoe Thieves’ surprising Internet Series appearance, their near escape from a second showdown with the Shelled One’s Pods, and her front row seat to Day X, the Season 10 election granted her the Haunted modification. It was surprising for the whole team when Day 1 of [[Season 11]], deceased Shoe Thief [[Atlas Jonbois]] haunted Ramsey in order to have a go at blaseball once more. They had so much fun with it that they came back again on Day 5, the first player from the Hall of Flame to haunt twice.

Ramsey adjusted remarkably well to being haunted, possibly in part due to the guidance of her psychopomp [[Velasquez Meadows|dad]], whom she had a long private conversation with following their first haunting on day 46. For eight seasons Ramsey remained haunted, being inhabited over 1,000 times, before Haunted was reformed into Flippers in the Season 18 election. The only comment she made after the reform was "it’s very quiet” and “[she] can think of a few different uses for these flippers."

Personal Life
Upon first moving to Charleston, Ramsey was surprised to discover that [[Forrest Bookbaby]], a fellow {{Fog|Moab}} resident who was several years her senior, had also joined the team. Bookbaby had been one of her babysitters when she was younger and had even tutored her in algebra, so it was less surprising to learn that he had been signed up to be the Shoe Thieves’ accountant. Despite all of this, they didn’t talk much about their shared childhood and several teammates were unaware that they even knew each other prior to blaseball before Bookbaby was transferred to the [[Philly Pies]].

Ramsey became fast friends with [[Morrow Doyle]] and [[Workman Gloom]], being similar in age and all sharing a legitimate fondness for blaseball. The three were quite the unit, frequently found planning heists over a plate of Ramsey’s famous snickerdoodles, or at the batting cages, or requisitioning the clubhouse TV to watch Jeoplardy and Wheel of Flortune together.

After [[Workman Gloom]] feedbacked to the [[Canada Moist Talkers]] in [[Season 4]], Ramsey took over primary care of their dog, [[Beasley Gloom]] until he was subsequently traded to the talkers as well during [[Season 9]]. While in Ramsey’s care, she took him for lots of walks, and made sure he knew he was a very good boy.

Ramsey plays jazz stand-up bass and sings in the Esme Ramsey Quartet that she started with some of her fellow Shoe Thieves, a passtime inspired by growing up with a [[Rhys Trombone|dad]] that had a strong appreciation for jazz and occasional performances with her school’s jazz band as a vocalist. Original members of the quartet included [[Joe Voorhees]] (piano), [[Gunther O'Brian]] (drums), and [[Antonio Wallace]] (ribcage xylophone). Over the years as players have left the team, the Quartet membership has changed, but Ramsey and Voorhees have always been constants.

While not partaking in blaseball-related activities, Ramsey divides her time between her apartment in Charleston and back home in Hellmouth. She can often be found in the kitchen, working her way through a stack of recipe cards from the league’s fellow bakers or
<choose uncached>
<option>deep diving in the waters of Sunken Charleston for antique diving boots.</option>
<option>writing poetry.<ref>A hobby Ramsey vehemently denies having.</ref></option>
<option>listening to her<ref>inherited from Rhys</ref>collection of jazz on vinyl.</option>
<option>meticulously managing her households in The Silms.</option>
<option>maintaining her aquarium full of baby bamboo shrimplets.</option>
</choose>

Quotes
On their relationship status: "One Time a fan asked me to marry her. I said she can do whatever she wants. I think there was a priest there? It's whatever."
On cooking tips: "It's easier to fit the ball in your mouth if you cut it in half first." Also: "I learned this technique in culinary school. It's called 'digestion'."
On fashion: "Why are you speaking to me?"
On preferred pronouns: "Who gave you permission to refer to me at all?"
On baseball: "Look, I've seen the beginning and end of everything, I've stared directly into the blinding visage of the being that threw the First Pitch, I've seen the entirety of time and space laid out before me like a cheap hotel continental breakfast buffet. And you know what? Last game I struck out twice, my team has a losing record, and one of our best players just transferred to the [[Canada Moist Talkers|Wet Faces]] or whatever. None of it matters. We're all gonna die. You either eat [expletive deleted] or play ball. I'm gonna play ball."