The House of Marvelous

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

Just about three years ago, I wrote the first HOLT report for the purpose of enhancing a then-ongoing storyline between Wild & Dangerous and Justice & Rule. I'd always meant for the HOLT to be part of my lasting contribution to the fed (for whatever that's worth) and, after my storyline, I offered it up for everyone to use. Unfortunately, people eventually stopped giving me stuff to put in it, and it was only a matter of time before I ran out of new ideas, so I stopped doing it altogether... You see, some time ago, people started writing these "swf.com exclusive" promos to describe all the stuff that was going on with their characters that didn't make it onto the show. And, while they've all been great, that was the exact sort of stuff that the HOLT report was dependent on to sustain itself (HOLT does stand for Happened Off Live Tv, after all), so when people all started to do the ".com exclusive" promos, the HOLT really ceased to be useful.

 

So now, I've got this House of Marvelous thing. I was going to debut the House of Marvelous two years ago, but I needed for the WC/MVS storyline to run its course before I did that, and since Mike left the fed rather abruptly before that happened, Sir Marvelous went back into storage...

 

Call me whatever you want, but I've always been the sort of wrestling fan who believes that the opening promo segment should be reserved for the legitimate main event/upper midcard characters. But, I also happen to be of the opinion that there should be some reasonably high-profile segment on the show for the rest of the talent (or whatever upper midcarder didn't get the opening promo). And, as a kid, I was always a really big fan of the interview segments like the Body Shop, and even the Brother Love show. Plus, dialogue > monologue, AFAIC, so it's always better to have someone else to play your character off of, something that bland face interview guys like Ben "Craig DeGeorge" Hardy can never quite pull off...

 

So, the question is, do any of you guys have any interest in the House of Marvelous? If it's kept around after Genesis, is anybody going to use it?

 

EDIT - There was supposed to be a poll, but apparently I'm retarded or something...

Edited September 14, 2006 by Mr. S£im Citrus

[Toxxic 0]

It works as far as I'm concerned, although 'Sir Marvelous' is a completely bizarre name. I'd say let's keep it around as something we can use if we want.

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

It works as far as I'm concerned, although 'Sir Marvelous' is a completely bizarre name. I'd say let's keep it around as something we can use if we want.

"Sir Marvelous" is based entirely on a friend of mine, an old shipmate from when I was stationed aboard the USS Harry S. Truman. And when I say based on him, I mean Sir Marvelous looks like the guy, talks like the guy, and more or less acts like the guy. The guy upon which Marvelous is based is also the biggest Flair mark I've ever met, and has a tendency to imitate Flair's mannerisms; "Sir Marvelous" is actually a name he gave himself.

 

As I've mentioned a couple of times before, when I originally joined the fed, instead of the Wildchild, I was going to write as a character upon whom WC was part of the prototype for; in fact, my original character concept was actually who I had intended for WC to mature into: as in, he starts out wrestling as Wildchild, and then, over the course of several years, he matures as a person and as a wrestler, and his style progressively evolves, until eventually he develops into my original concept character. After several months of writing WC, I decided instead to give him a background that was distinctly different from that OC, and I have continued in that direction ever since.

 

What I have not previously said about that OC was that he was supposed to be one-half of a tag team. I was originally going to join up with my best friend, and we were going to write as a tag team; the "Sir Marvelous" character (based on our mutual friend) was going to be our manager. But, my friend got cold feet at the last minute, and I ended up joining by myself. I didn't want to debut my OC as a singles wrestler, and I also didn't want to risk ruining my "best" character in case it turned out that I wasn't any good at this, so I went with WC instead. And, since my OC is a heel, and WC is a face, and Sir Marvelous was going to be a heel (and I would prefer him to be portrayed as a pro-heel host, if anyone decides to use him), I didn't want to pair them up.

 

Anyway, that's the abridged version of the origin of Sir Marvelous. I'm sorry if I didn't explain the name thing to satisfaction.

[HollywoodSpikeJenkins 0]

keep it. I want a talk show segment anyway.

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

So... nobody but Toxxic or Spike has an opinion?

[Secret Agent 0]

I say keep it!

[Bruce Blank 0]

I'm all for keeping it, hell I'd probably end up using it quite a bit instead of just having Ben "I'm useless" Hardy act like a microphone stand

[Angel_Grace_Blue 0]

I like it, too. It's "neat".

[Toxxic 0]

So... nobody but Toxxic or Spike has an opinion?

 

Not one that counts, obviously.

[HollywoodSpikeJenkins 0]

High five, Toxx.

 

 

*jobs Toxx to a backslide*

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

Okay, well, since at least a handful of people seem to be for it, I guess I'll replace Birdman's stats with details about Sir Marvelous and the HOM set sometime here in the next couple of days.

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

Bumped for the following announcement:

 

Details about the House of Marvelous set, as well as bio information for the host and his bodyguard are now available in Birdman's old stats post.