PROMO: Drift

[Vasarian_Brandy 0]

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...

[Toxxic 0]

Apart from smark terms like 'heel turn', I like this. Welcome back, Fury I don't have a stable to beat you up in parking lots anymore!

[JJ Johnson 0]

I do! Pick me!

[The Ill One 0]

A returning Fury~! (Y)~!

[Vasarian_Brandy 0]

Apart from smark terms like 'heel turn', I like this. Welcome back, Fury I don't have a stable to beat you up in parking lots anymore!

 

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.

[Bruce Blank 0]

Awesome to see more talent return to the SWF, look forward to reading your stuff

 

just one comments - something in your profile cracked me up, where you say Fury is "In good shape for his age" and then you're 31

 

like 31 is ANCIENT or something

[Vasarian_Brandy 0]

Awesome to see more talent return to the SWF, look forward to reading your stuff

 

just one comments - something in your profile cracked me up, where you say Fury is "In good shape for his age" and then you're 31

 

like 31 is ANCIENT or something

 

(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.

[Toxxic 0]

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.

 

You see, this brings up an interesting point for me. I've always viewed the SWF as having sort of two 'levels of reality'. As far as I'm concerned, Edwin really DID break Kibagami's neck all those years ago in a dispute over a woman, Janus really DOES have mental health problems and Johnny... *grits teeth* yes, Johnny really WAS a secret service agent. I don't view that the characters we write about have kayfabe and non-kayfabe - everything in the SWF IS kayfabe, and there is nothing else. The shots are stiff, the injuries and angles legit, the backstories real.

 

Then there's a second 'level' where we have the occasional joking asides in Pete and King's commentary about breaking kayfabe, Mark's old 'Breaking Kayfabe' articles and the Wrestling Panda segments I write sometimes. I sort of view that the two exist side-by-side without ever really interacting.

 

Does this make ANY sense to anyone? I suppose as much as anything else I'd find it difficult to write a dramatic match unless I thought that the two competitors viewed it as a real contest rather than a rigged exhibition. I don't know why that should make any difference, but it does.

[Vasarian_Brandy 0]

You see, this brings up an interesting point for me. I've always viewed the SWF as having sort of two 'levels of reality'. As far as I'm concerned, Edwin really DID break Kibagami's neck all those years ago in a dispute over a woman, Janus really DOES have mental health problems and Johnny... *grits teeth* yes, Johnny really WAS a secret service agent. I don't view that the characters we write about have kayfabe and non-kayfabe - everything in the SWF IS kayfabe, and there is nothing else. The shots are stiff, the injuries and angles legit, the backstories real.

 

Then there's a second 'level' where we have the occasional joking asides in Pete and King's commentary about breaking kayfabe, Mark's old 'Breaking Kayfabe' articles and the Wrestling Panda segments I write sometimes. I sort of view that the two exist side-by-side without ever really interacting.

 

Does this make ANY sense to anyone? I suppose as much as anything else I'd find it difficult to write a dramatic match unless I thought that the two competitors viewed it as a real contest rather than a rigged exhibition. I don't know why that should make any difference, but it does.

 

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.

[Longdogger_Pete 0]

So... you're saying Sigil really did tear off Mercury's ear?

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

If Pete is going to stick around for a while, we should talk him into marking again...

[Toxxic 0]

So... you're saying Sigil really did tear off Mercury's ear?

 

Well,you can use the 'That Was Bullshit' Revisionist History clause on things like that.