Promo: Choices

[The Amazing Rando 0]

It’s been a long few days between Madison Square Garden and the Hershey Park Arena, but the Walters’ brothers got there, and early. They sit alone outside the closed up amusement park, staring past the gates at the chocolate wonderland as security rides past, checking them out along with a hapless SWF cameraman, whose wobbly motions behind the lens seem to indicate his disapproval of being called out for duty so late.

 

“Who told you?” Matthew asks the cameraman, whose inaudible respond leaves Matthew sighing to himself and shaking his head. “They always have to be watching us, don’t they? What is the point…”

 

Next to him, Devon lays across a bench, his long legs hanging off the edge as he looks to be trying to sleep. Matthew pulls a small piece of paper out of his pocket and unfolds it, taking a moment to read through it in the parking lot light before turning back to the camera.

 

“It seems they decided my brother would be facing….Martin Hunt? I am not very familiar with this guy, and apparently neither is my brother. We talked about this on our way down through Pennsylvania and neither of us are too sure exactly what we will be doing Wednesday night.”

 

Matthew crumples the paper up and tosses it toward a garbage can, almost missing. Devon stirs and rolls over, his back now facing the camera, apparently trying to sleep.

 

“Why does my brother have to fight this guy? Give me some good reasons! What did he ever do to us? Do they think it’ll be entertaining? Is that it? Do they think it’ll be fun to watch two people mindlessly attack each other, all for the thrill of victory? Well let me say this…there is no thrill in victory. This camera right now can look into my eyes and the eyes of my brother and know that with victory, there always comes a price. It may be the price of pain in the body of the defeated. It may be the price of bloodshed, of insanity, of having to walk away from a destroyed man and hear the cheers of a crowd that could give a damn how the lives of anyone involved are affected! How would you feel, Mr. Cameraman, if I stood up right now and beat you until you could barely walk, and tomorrow you went to your bosses crying and complaining and all they could say was ‘well, he sure kicked your ass!’? You wouldn’t like that too much, would you?”

 

Matthew stands up, eying down the cameraman as he moves closer and closer. His anger seems to be growing with every step. The camera shakes and moves backwards, trying in vain to retreat.

 

“STOP!”

 

The camera stops, still slightly shaking. Matthew gets close to the lens.

 

“You wouldn’t like to be laying face down in the middle of this parking lot and have security drive past here and cheer me or worse…ignore you as you lay here unconscious! You wouldn’t like that at all! I can see that fear in your eyes, the same fear that would be in anyone’s eyes if the possibility of no one caring about them existed. We all look for attention, don’t we, Mr. Cameraman? You would do anything, even come down here in the middle of the night with your little camera, if it meant your bosses might give you a raise or a promotion, or treat you just a little better than before! Well I don’t look for that kind of approval and neither does my brother. We look for balance, not recognition. We look for harmony, not the cheers or jeers of the crowds. We look to make it known, that as long as there are people out there making the wrong decisions in life, they are going to have to deal with the consequences of those actions!”

 

Matthew turns his back on the camera and walks back over to his place on the sidewalk next to the bench his brother sleeps on.

 

“So come Wednesday night, it seems Martin Hunt has a choice. He can call it all off, he can walk away…no harm, no foul…or he can look into my brothers eyes and attack, knowing full well that once he does…there is only one choice for my brother to make…

 

 

…and whether he, or anyone else, likes it or not…that is karma...

 

 

...Now shut that thing off, I’m going to sleep.”

 

With that, the camera slowly fades out as Matthew lays his back against the concrete, staring at the stars as the scene goes to darkness.

[Toxxic 0]

This is very well-written Rando, but I'm still struggling with the notion of two Hindus as wrestlers. So they're pacifists, they won't attack unless attacked first. I know the back history says that's all they've ever done, but surely there's work for two seven-foot blokes on a construction site or something? I just really don't consider this a likely scenario.

[The Amazing Rando 0]

It is more the fact that, because of them screwing up years ago, they undeservedly beat the hell out of some people and were jailed. The younger, taller, quieter one had/has always dreamed of wrestling, and saw the jailing as their "just desserts" for what they did wrong.

 

Also, they are converted hindu, and so while their hearts are in the right place, sometimes they do make mistakes, hence why Matthew seems to come off as a bitter shithead some/most of the time.

 

 

The entire poor/homeless scenario is slightly farfetched, I'll grant that...but I liked the idea of them just kinda going with the flow. It's one of those "heart in right place" type of things. Hopefully tomorrow's show will help explain things a little bit better.

 

I try not to openly consider them hindu or call them by that name, it's just a small part of their backstory.

[Toxxic 0]

The other thing is that Karma just happens. That's why it's karma. It shouldn't need someone going around 'balancing' it, it balances itself in the end anyway.

 

Now, if these guys were full-blown heels with an aggressive pacifist streak ("If you get in the ring with me then it's out of my hands...") and were going around 'balancing' things however they wished, that's a gimmick i could get behind.

[The Amazing Rando 0]

Then wait a few months... I haven't planned anything out yet, but I know the various directions in which one or both of them can go for storyline purposes.

[Angel_Grace_Blue 0]

I agree with the Toxxicle. It's on Hunt to not show up? If Devon is so committed to Hindu, why would he be in the ring/even be wrestling in the first place?

 

If I were still active, I'd write a match where Lil' Buck was cautious and waited for Devon to make the first move, and end up with a time limit draw.

[The Amazing Rando 0]

I did go into my stats just now and add in a few little details to help better understand the two characters. I know that there are many things that don't make sense, so I hopefully cleared some of that up. I was hoping to get it clearer and clearer over the next few weeks and give my character some real direction....which I still will be doing, but now it will at least give everyone else a heads up on why they act the way they do in promos and during matches.

[King Cucaracha 0]

Rando is actively writing matches for the fed.

 

Toxx and Drea are not.

 

 

Therefore, your winner by contribution...RANDO!

 

 

EDIT: But, seriously...it may need a little tweaking to make it work. But, there's also scope to do a promo before a match stating that Walters can strike first in a particular match, because let's say for example Landon has been a jerk towards Megan, or that ELM has been ruthlessly attacking people. Besides, it's not like all Hindus are honest.

 

The other thing is that Karma just happens. That's why it's karma. It shouldn't need someone going around 'balancing' it, it balances itself in the end anyway.

 

Yeah, but that's real life karma, not 'character progression' karma.

Edited August 11, 2005 by King Cucaracha

[HollywoodSpikeJenkins 0]

If I were still active, I'd write a match where Lil' Buck was cautious and waited for Devon to make the first move, and end up with a time limit draw.

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Damn...Drea beat me to it.