Vasarian_Brandy

Well... There will be no first-person in this card. I will have a match, but no first-person. I'm a bit too rusty to jump right into first person matches. Soon though. And also, when's the match due time? Am I seeing it as 9pm Pacific?

... This bears keeping an eye on for yours truly...

... You have got to be shitting me... (Busts up laughing)

Chris Fury Huzzah.

I think it's safe to say that that was someone wanting to be me, but failing miserably. Yeah. (Shifty eyes) Good card.

It's nice to see a new layer of snow on the ground in the winter. It's a gentle reminder of fresh starts. Very calming, therapeutic... Except when you look over to your right, and see a 6-foot showdrift that's holding your car hostage. I shake my head. "Shouldn't have woken up this morning." I knew better than that when I said it, but somehow it made me smile. It made the current predicament of unburying my little rental car a little more tolerable. But I'm glad I woke up when I did. If the snow was like this in the Rockies, it'd probably be ugly in Colorado Springs. The drive down would be pretty bad, and I needed to be on that flight to Des Moines on time. My smile grew a little more. 6 months... It had gone fast. 6 months from when I first realized something major was missing from an otherwise peaceful and easy life. 6 months from talking to friends, the family I had left, asking their advice on what might've been ailing me. 6 months til I got my answer and started on the path. The path to "un-retirement". Again. And people asked me, "Why are you coming back again? Why won't you leave it alone?" And for the longest time, I couldn't answer them. I knew there was something driving me, but I wasn't sure what. After 6 months, I finally know. It's a respect for the business that I've never lost...That I never fully appreciated before. I feel I have to give back more to the business that gave me the life I enjoy. Plus, I don't feel like I gave myself a fair shake after I left the first time. Things got so muddled and confused... I needed to leave to get myself straight. But the couple times I came back... Were pretty disasterous. A flash of light brought me from my thoughts... I looked down. Ah, the windshield. Progress. My thoughts turned back to their track... The fact that I had only won a title after my heel turn... It bothered me. It took a fundamental change in who I was, who I portrayed, for me to find success. I didn't want to be remembered like that, More importantly, I don't want to remember myself like that. I'm a good guy, and good guys win too. I know it. So... 6 months ago, I started training for a comeback. Training hard. Long hours. Hard sparring... My share of bumps, bruises, and A- spilled on the canvas. Leaning up, toning down, refining old moves, defining new ones... And now, 6 months later... I'm steadily unburying my car from the snow. But in it lies a new contract to the SWF. A new lease on life. I grin wider still. The car's not the only thing I'm digging out in my life...

It makes perfect sense, actually... And I thought about it... And realized Fury really did carve his name in Lara's chest all those years ago... And that's how I played it back then and since. (Laughs) I guess I put too much of 'me' in it sometimes: I get myself in character, but after it's all said and done, life's much different.

(Laughs) Well, when I first brought Fury in, he'd been wrestling Indies for about a dozen years or so... And I admit I wrote him as a bit of a spot monkey, and he sold his matches really well (almost too much so). So he's got a lot of miles on his body for the years he has. 31 ain't ancient... I'm 2 years and a little less than a month off it myself.

Thanks muchly! As for the smark terms, I can see what you're saying. Bear in mind, though, it -is- basically an internal conversation. And as (presumably) anyone in the business would be familiar with the terminology, I'd think it'd be used in the talk of business. Off-camera and away from the public eye, obviously, so as not to break kayfabe. Sorry if that made no sense just now, but I'm tired as all Hell and having to go into work shortly.

Like the man said... They're CRAZY DELICIOUS! Just like... Sports highlights... Yeah.

Most recent edits in bolded italics. Minor Edit: 2/10 - Changed entrance music Major Edit: None ----- Smarks Board Name: Vasarian_Brandy Wrestlers Name: Christian Fury Nicknames: The Fury Height: 6'3" Weight: 222 lbs Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio Age: 31 Face/Heel: Face side of tweener Stable: None Ring Escort: None Weapon(s): The ever-present kendo stick, but only in hardcore / no-DQ matches, or moments of desperation. Quote: "Life is a lesson of pain, loss, and anguish... Today, -I- am your teacher!", "Chalk one up for the grizzled veteran!" Looks: Physically, Christian Fury is in good shape for his age. Decently tall, lean... He's not bulging muscles, but the ones he shows are well-toned. Long, red hair... Not quite fire-engine red... A bit darker. Tanned complexion. Small goatee. When not scheduled to wrestle (or backstage before a show), Chris Fury usually wears his long, red hair in a ponytail to keep it out of his face. His black leather jacket is usually either being worn, or close to Fury's side. The "Fury" on the back of the jacket is written in a silvery-red stylized script. He wears black denim jeans with silver-colored stitching, a pair of "Marauders", and a form-fit, short-sleeved muscle shirt... The shirt is a simple black. Accessory-wise, he wears a pair of silver-framed, reflective sunglasses, and a simple gold ring on a silver chain, which hangs around his neck. In the ring, not much changes... The "Marauders" gain a nice steel toe. Ring Entrance: The locale goes somewhat darkened, and "Remember The Name" by Fort Minor spins up. Fury comes out to a minor pop, but mostly a non-commital reaction. But he doesn't mind. He walks straight from the back to the ring, kendo stick in hand, the only thing happening is some white sparklers on the entranceway. His SmarkTron display is also pretty simple: Old matches, training footage, an occasional red stylized-script "Fury"... Mostly in time with the music. He ditches the kendo stick at ringside as he slides in, eyeing his opponent / eyeing the entranceway, depending on when he comes out. Stats: ¯¯¯¯¯ Strength: 4 (He's toned down from his past... While working on his quickness and finesse, he's lost a bit of pure bulk) Speed: 7 (A new conditioning program has helped him pick up some speed to help focus on a slightly 'flightier' move set) Vitality: 7 (Conditioning has also helped his endurance and pure toughness. He's a tougher nut to crack nowadays) Charisma: 2 (His old fans have pretty much moved on, and he's not too concerned about making new ones. He's in this to prove himself to the business, and also to himself) Style: Cruiser-style speedster, but with access to a big move or two. He'll give bigger guys fits with speed, then hit them hard when he can, using his higher-than-average vitality to hang in before turning on the jets again... Smaller, speedier folk he can easily go toe-to-toe with and hit them with a few 'heavy' moves to rattle them. Signature moves: Note: While a bunch of these are finisher-style moves, Fury simply doesn't have the pure Strength / experience with the moves to give them the finisher impact you'd expect. What they -do- accomplish is a continuation of working the head / neck / "wheels" of his opponent. - Twist Of Fate - "Trip To The Dawg Pound": Stratusfaction - Flatliner - Dragon Sleeper - Grapevine Ankle Lock - Springboard Huracanrana - Damascus Head-Leglock Common moves: Note: Similar to the Sig Moves, most of these are used to work the head / neck / "wheels" of Fury's opponent. There are a few "impact" moves designed to generally wear the opponent down. - Spinning heel kicks to the head - Irish whip into a backdrop (using opponent's momentum to put them over) - Short-arm and irish whip clotheslines (see above) - Nerve strikes, focused on the neck - Top turnbuckle legdrop - Sleepers - Shoulder charges to a cornered opponent - Sleeper slam - Forward and regular Russian legsweeps - Crossface chickenwing - Victory roll (this will only rarely get a match-ending pin) - Sickle hold / Muta lock - Lifting leg stomp - Scissors kick (either off the ropes or off the top turnbuckle) - Spinning toe hold - Tiger suplex - Rolling cross-arm German suplexes (mostly on the lightweights, and usually in groups of 3... He might try 4, but it's no guarantee) Rare moves: Note: Some of these are older moves (or modifications thereof) he used to know. They probably aren't as potent as they used to be. - Spear / Gore (the most 'common' of the rares) - Sidewalk slam - Double spinning back fist (fingers laced together) - Cuyahoga-sault (Think of Taker's "Old School", but instead of a chop, it ends in a diving moonsault... Or it ends with Fury just driving the opponent back-first to the mat. If the moonsault hits, it's a major move, inciting a gargantuan pop... You can picture it, I know you can. But there's a reason this one's a rare move... He has yet to really pull it off) Finishers: - "Dead Man's Curve": Nearly identical to the "619", but Fury threads through the bottom 2 ropes, letting him deliver a more "uppercutted" kick under his opponent's jaw. He might have somewhat lowered Strength, but combined with higher-than-average Speed, this finisher is a heavy shot more geared to the big guys. - "Lightning And Thunder": The ol' Double Stunner comes back for another play. The first is just a quick kneel-down Stunner (not a full drop). Fury then stands, taking a couple of quick steps to the side before dropping the opponent into a more "normal" Stunner... The second half resembles the "RKO", and is done this way because of Fury's lost weight and Strength. He'll bust this finisher out with lighter opposition, or if he got a good pop coming in... See Notes for more details. Notes: - Proud, but not pompous. Tactically minded, but not the most stunning technique. He's still knocking off ring rust. - He generally works the lower body with the basics (takedowns, dragon screws, sweeps... Submission-style moves focused on the lower part of an opponent). He also tries to focus towards the head and neck of bigger wrestlers (running under the mantra "Kill the head, and the body will die"), and the midsection of lighterweights (to try to take away general Stamina, slow them up more)... But these are by no means set in stone. - He'll have issues with the HOSS~! style of wrestler with big power movesets (Stamina can only go so far), and will be slowly frustrated over the course of a match with ultra-speedsters like Wildchild (unless he works the legs into oblivion, they still have speed to spare over his). - His moves... He tries to show a little passion and flair to draw the fans behind him, but sometimes there's hesitance and "unsureness" in them, due to being out of the regularity of the sport for so long. - LDP and Fury have a bit of history feuding (with titles involved and without) in the past, back when Fury's life was quite a bit darker, so LDP is not going to be heavily complimenting Fury anytime soon. - Though his overall Charisma is 2, he will get (non-cheap) hometown pops in Cleveland and surrounding communities. Shows in Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania will have him well-received, due to his past with the independent circuits. He will also get light pop (but more than normal) in Washington State, due to having lived there for a while up to this point. Bio: More to come...

I've heard this quote before... Sportscenter, methinks. But still funny.

In my world, yes.

Color me bored.

Fury's "Maybe I Should Read More Matches Before Predicting Instead Of Just Picking Semi-Random Names" Predilections~! MAIN EVENT INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE MATCH Jay Hawke vs. Wildchild vs. Stryke - So... You're asking me to choose between another Cleveland-based wrestler, and another serviceman... Oh, and someone else. (Snicker) Gotta give love to someone thats stats change on a bleed... BEST OF 5, ROUND 1! LIGHTBULB DEATHMATCH! Akira Kaibatsu vs. Bruce Blank - Light blub tubes... Mmmmm... Anyway, can't go wrong with a guy that has a nickname that's also another name for a real nasty fart. HARDCORE MATCH JJ Johnson vs. Manson - The winners are the fans and the phlebotomists. Free blood-letting! HANDICAP MATCH Zyon/Spike vs. Kevin Coyote Special Guest Announcer: William 'Justice' Hearford - Skipe and his friend Zion... 2 against 1 is usually bad odds. SINGLES MATCH Landon Maddix vs. TORU Takahara - Takatahadara for teh weeen! SINGLES MATCH Ghost Machine vs. Max King - Not sold on Ghost Machine Version Whateverthefook. SINGLES MATCH Tim Dillon vs. The 70's Dude - Just win, dude. (Marks)

Thanks for beating me to the punch.

Y'know... I just read that... And that was... FREAKING HILARIOUS!!! Ya think I popped the crowd too much? ----- ... As I jump on the table, raising my hands over my head, waiting for that long-anticipated crowd pop... ----- Heh.

Is this anything like the Patriots and the Diet Pepsi machine they drafted?

Boo, biatches.

Happy Happy to all of you. (Point) Yes, even you.

Twins still suck. Out! (Ducks, grins)

Just... Meh...

'Bout time someone noticed. (Changes)

Merry Merry all of you... A little late, but oh well. Hope the New Year goes well for y'all.

Same to you, oh... (Snicker) Superior One... (Snicker chuckle)