Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2014 18:52:10 GMT -6
Personal Information
Name: Sam / styg
Email: PM me
Previous E-Wrestling Experience: Since autumn 2006
Instant Messenger Names: /jesosterone on Steam, limegonk on Skype. They the only two I ever use.
Character Info
Real Name: Laurel Saiko Yunokawa
Ring Name: Laurel Anne Hardy
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 148lbs
Hometown: Rhyl, Wales
Alignment: +4 or +5 to most fans, but -1 or -2 to those who find her schtick tiring and -3 or -4 to those who see her as an unhinged psychopath.
Entrance Music: "Candy Castle" by Glass Candy
Entrance Description:
Multicoloured spotlights swirl around the entranceway as the martial-sounding intro to Glass Candy's "Candy Castle" comes across the PA. As the beat kicks in Laurel Anne Hardy bursts through the curtain, cavorting energetically and twisting a feather boa around like a dancing partner. A moment later Evangelista walks through and stands beside Laurel, placing her hands on her hips as she surveys the auditorium with a smile.
David Zinkus: From Rhyl, Wales, weighing one hundred and forty-eight pounds, being accompanied by Evangelista and representing The Asylum...
The two young women share a good luck hug, then start down the aisle. Evangelista quietly takes up a spot by Hardy's corner for the evening while Laurel herself dances around the ringside area, interacting with the fans with hugs, high fives and handshakes. After completing a couple of circuits she leaps onto the apron and somersaults over the top rope. She hits each corner in turn, posing theatrically; atop one of them, she throws her boa into the crowd, prompting a scrum to catch it.
David Zinkus: She is "The Living, Breathing Installation Event Of The Millennium"... LAUREL... ANNE... HAAARRRDAAAYY!
Hardy moonsaults down to the centre of the ring and takes a deep stage bow before regrouping with her tag-team partner to go over last minute strategy.
Physical Appearance: Broad-shouldered, athletic build although not very well toned. Indeterminate ethnicity. Long black hair with a fringe. Cold grey eyes. A couple of large, fairly prominent scars by her right eye. Four tattoos - the stylised 'A' symbol of her stable, The Asylum, on her right wrist; a vibrant, colourful manta ray on her upper back; an abstract geometric design on her lower back; a candle with a water spray in place of a flame on her left hip (just the outline, currently).
Clothing: The phrase "too much" is not in Laurel's vocabulary. She has a hipster Harajuku art student look with lots of layers, lots of accessories, clashing colours, clashing prints. Staples include feather boas, indie band tees, full length bodysuits, bow ties, cheap neon plastic jewellery, fake flowers, elaborate fascinators or headdresses, and vibrant multicoloured makeup and nail varnish. She quite often doodles abstract designs on her own face or arms when she's bored, and often walks around barefoot.
(Picture base: Lovefoxxx)
Ring Attire: Varies from show to show, but the default is a neck-to-ankle bodysuit in a lurid psychedelic print, colourful fake flowers braided into her hair, and expansive, flamboyant, vibrant makeup. She usually wrestles barefoot. For big matches she might wear a specific costume.
Gimmick: Flashy, loudmouthed performance artist who views wrestling more as a platform for self-expression than as a combat sport.
Personality: Laurel has the soul of an artist, and loves nothing more than to show off. The whole reason she got into wrestling was to combine the adrenaline rush of creating art with that of fighting. She's exceptionally flashy and theatrical, always acting as if there's a spotlight on her, even when she's alone - it's just who she is, and she can't turn it off. She's also flighty, flaky and selfish, and although she's very protective of her friends and family, putting other people first doesn't come naturally to her. She likes to think of herself as enigmatic, but really she's something of a loudmouthed gobshite and a brazen attention-seeker and criminal. She rarely gets lastingly angry, but when she does, she gets unpleasantly vengeful and sadistic. But for the most part she's friendly, happy and not particular serious. When confronted by an enemy, she's usually more likely to get sarcastic and condescending than angry.
Although uneducated, Laurel is not stupid. She's perceptive and cunning, and has a surprisingly large vocabulary. She has a gift for spoken languages, speaking six fluently and several more passably, but struggles with written language; she can read and write English and Welsh but it takes a lot out of her. Until a few years ago, she was functionally illiterate.
In December 2013, at Leanne Evangelista's insistence, Laurel underwent the Hare PCL-R personality test and was determined to be borderline psychopathic. It hit Laurel hard and she completely no-sold it at first. She's never been scared of anything in her life, and she knows - incontrovertibly knows - that she is the hardest person on the planet. But suddenly she's found herself scared of one thing: the possibility of becoming like Alexander StarrZoe or Malcolm Drake. She can't deal with it at all and is in complete denial, which is in itself new and unsettling to her. Thanks to her friendships with Evangelista and Annie Zellor, however, she's started coming to terms with her condition and finally publicly admitted it in June 2014.
Outside of wrestling, she's involved in performance art and theatre and works part time as a waitress at a hotel in Manchester. She's always on the go and doesn't sleep much - she claims not to need it, although that might be down to the amount of coffee, cigarettes and cocaine she shovels into herself. She's full of energy and dances a lot.
Strengths:
1) Laurel is almost inhumanly flexible and acrobatic, capable of mind-bending feats of agility.
2) Creativity. Laurel's mind is always working and she's excellent at coming up with new things off the top of her head. This means she's great with counters, especially the big moves that turn the momentum of a match back in her favour. It also serves her very, very well in a hardcore environment, and she has a reputation for being able to employ weapons in unorthodox ways.
3) Very, very high pain threshold. If she has an upper limit on the amount of punishment she's willing to take, it's never been reached yet. Getting busted open doesn't faze her for even a second.
4) Thanks to her broad frame, she is surprisingly strong for her size and can lift cruiser men without too much trouble.
5) Never backs down. Laurel has never encountered a challenge too intimidating for her to admit defeat. In a battle of nerve or will, she's virtually impenetrable.
Weaknesses:
1) Stamina. Laurel wrestles a high-energy style but doesn't really have the conditioning for it. She's got a chronic bronchial problem, and is a smoker. Her lungs give out quicker than most people's. She'll try to push herself through it but will be slowed.
2) Flashiness. Laurel would rather lose a jaw-dropping spectacle than win a bland, forgettable match. She wastes time adding unnecessary extra showiness to her moves, and she's never met a risk she didn't take, no matter how little she'd gain.
3) Despite extensive technical training, Laurel is no technician when it comes to match time. She doesn't care about knowing how to best apply moves or refining her technique. Her moves are selected for visual flair rather than efficiency, meaning she doesn't perform them optimally, and doesn't guard against counters much. She doesn't fight with much of a game plan - she rarely works specific body parts, for example.
4) Never backs down. Laurel's determination isn't really "heart"; she literally, pathologically lacks a functioning fear response. The flip side of never backing down is that she rushes headlong into bad situations, and never admits when she's in the wrong. She is more than ready to engage an enemy in an arms race of barbarism and depravity. In fact she's quite often the one initiating it.
Biography: Born in a gypsy caravan park to a half-Welsh, half-Portuguese hippy mother and an itinerant Japanese musician father, Laurel Yunokawa was raised in a commune which travelled around North Wales. She never went to school, and never really learned how to function in polite society, not seeing the problem in - for example - walking around barefoot, or the fact she views the law as optional extra, especially with regards to theft.
After some initial wrestling exposure in backyards and the illegal bar circuit of North Wales as a teenager, she moved to Liverpool to get professional training. She was one of the standouts in her class, along with another young woman named Leanne Evangelista. Although they didn't have much in common superficially, they understood each other well on a deeper level and quickly became close friends. She lived homeless for a time, and later in a dingy squat, before moving in with Leanne's parents, sleeping on their sofa. During this time she worked as a waitress and bartender to make ends meet.
Leanne was a friend of rock star, pro wrestler and ex-MMA talent Mark Chapman, and through Mark, introduced Laurel to a number of current and former wrestling stars including Sarah "Baby Dogg" Warner, Amy Ngoudje and Damien Synn. With the backing of these individuals, Laurel and Leanne landed tryouts with Global Extreme Wrestling, and were referred to the Battlegrounds Academy in Ontario, run by multi-time World Champion Shane Tallin and his wife Nikki.
The girls eventually made their pro debut in GEW as a tag team, aligned with the mysterious new Asylum faction, courtesy of their friend and fellow trainee Serena Raine. The Asylum waged war on GEW, declaring that the company had become soft and decadent, and that The Asylum would save it from itself by destroying it. This, naturally, meant turning against the friends who'd helped her into GEW in the first place - some of whom she has since mended bridges with, some of whom she has not. Among other transgressions, Laurel and Leanne notched a tainted handicap victory over GEW's biggest franchise player, Kameron Chase, at the company's tenth anniversary show, and to prove their loyalty to The Asylum's mysterious leader Noumenon beat down their friend Amy Ngoudje and put her on the injured list. During this time Laurel also appeared with the Baltimore indie Death Company Wrestling, and the British comedy promotion Super Combat Discount Megamart.
Laurel's first big success came early in 2011 when she won the second Nasty 8 deathmatch tournament, representing SCDM. After successively upsetting veterans Max Static, V and Kaji Fireson, she went onto face Brad Jackson in an electricity-based deathmatch to crown the inaugural Nasty National Champion. Although Laurel came up short, the young rookie lasted over half an hour against the wrestling legend Jackson and controlled a significant portion of the match, impressing many. Later the same year she repeated her success in a hardcore environment by winning the 2011 GEW Torneo Extremo, a 16-person elimination deathmatch featuring a number of the company's biggest stars; for these wins, and her performances against legends and multi-time world champions, the International Journal of Wrestling named her Rookie of the Year 2011.
Thanks in large part to The Asylum's efforts, GEW closed down in summer 2011. Laurel moved to Helter Skelter Wrestling and started to make a name for herself with an undefeated streak, taking down former GDW World Champion Brittany Lohan among others, until she was sidelined with an injury. She returned in January 2013, signing with the GFC's promotions FRONTIER and FRONTLINE. She and Leanne - now competing as The UK Dragons - answered an open challenge by The CarnEvil Connection, which brought them to WARPED and thence into conflict with The Carnies' stable AbominationZ. In time Laurel found herself leading the WARPED seikigun against AbominationZ. To help combat AbominationZ' resources, she reformed The Asylum, now contrite over GEW's demise and vowing to protect wrestling companies from villainous stables trying to make the same mistake they themselves had made.
The Asylum's return was capped off by Laurel branding her personal symbol onto AbombinationZ member Alexander StarrZoe live on air; in retribution, Starr kidnapped Leanne's sister Lily. A brutal, bloody war ensued between the two camps. Meanwhile Laurel was also getting into a bitter personal rivalry with Malcolm Drake, leader of Frontier Grappling arts faction The Murder, over which of them was capable of the most extreme acts of brutality. She also signed with Future Wrestling Alliance, forging successful partnerships with Isabella Sanchez-Raye and later Allison Lorraine. Her rise to the top of the FWA card was sealed when she chose to enter a 30-person timed entry battle royale at #1, and lasted until almost the very end.
However Leanne, pushed beyond breaking point by Laurel's habit of getting them involved with wrestling's biggest monsters, snapped and turned on her longtime best friend. Each feeling betrayed by the other, the two women aired each other's demons in vicious promos before meeting in a hardcore match at FRONTIER's 50th anniversary show. It was essentially a 45-minute bloodbath as the two friends exorcised the frustrations that had been building for many months, and it ended in a draw when they finally reconciled and left the arena together in floods of tears. The match was later named FRONTIER's Match of the Year, something the pair have mixed feelings about.
Despite their relationship being rocked they decided to continue teaming together for the GFC Invitational tag team tournament, and overcame the legendary team Total War in the first round - but fell hard to The Shoot Kings in the second round in a match which saw the Dragons get barely any offence in. Leanne called an end to the team to focus on her solo career again, and although Laurel isn't giving up their partnership without a fight, she's also looking to reestablish herself as one of wrestling's top deathmatch competitors.
Wrestling Style: Pure flash and showmanship. She considers herself an artist more than an athlete; she's physically very, very capable and received excellent training, but she tends to focus on spectacle. She tries to pull out something new and unorthodox every match, and adds unnecessary flash to everything. She's of the opinion: why walk when you can cartwheel? Why add a flip, when you could add two or three flips instead? Why go for a snap suplex when you could go for a twisting fisherman hammerlock cravate suplex? Unsurprisingly, she plays to the crowd a lot.
Laurel is an ultraviolence specialist, which she claims is due to the style's creative freedom. That's true, but she also has a brutal sadism in her, which she can switch on and off at will like a light. She can callously slit someone open one minute, and then be all smiles and jokes with someone else the next. She doesn't get why people find this unsettling.
Laurel is left-handed, and fights with a southpaw stance.
Finishers
1. "Flower Plower Mk. III: Terror From Beneath!" - Straightjacket front flip piledriver. It starts with the opponent doubled over. Laurel puts the opponent's head between her legs then reaches under the opponent and straightjackets their arms across their front (i.e., under them, from a spectator perspective - it's the same setup as Claudio Castagnoli's Ricola Bomb). Clasping the opponent's hands, Laurel jumps into a front flip, going forward over the opponent as in a sunset flip. Using the straightjacket plus the fact she has the opponent's head wedged between her thighs, she pulls the opponent off their feet and over Laurel, and as she lands in a sitout position, the opponent's head gets spiked into the mat. Due to the straightjacket, the opponent can't protect themselves with their arms.
2. "Party Hardy: The Melancholy Of Sunday Afternoon" - Fisherman suplex lift flipped into powerbomb lungblower
3. "Stronger Than Dirt" - Corkscrew shooting star elbow drop
Signature Moves
1. "Battlegrounds Uppercut" - European uppercut, pushing the opponent's head down with her other hand
2. "Flower Plower Mk.I" - Cross-arm somersault neckbreaker
3. "L.A.H.O.O.Q." - Roundoff backflip headscissors takedown
4. "Mass Queraid" - Slingshot front flip split kick to two opponents
5. "Party Hardy: The Hangover" - Fisherman suplex lift flipped into sitout powerbomb
6. "Super Duper Acid Party" - Labai throw as counter to opponent's strike, followed by shining enzuigiri
7. "The Poseidon Misadventure" - Diving or slingshot front flip leg drop to the back of a doubled over opponent's neck
8. Spear
Regular Moves
1. Arabian press
2. Armlock DDT
3. Armtrap headbutts
4. Backflip over opponent, or onto their shoulders
5. Bow and arrow stretch
6. Capoeira kicks
7. Cartwheel roundoff into dropkick to face of opponent sitting on mat
8. Cartwheel roundoff leap into flying clothesline or leg lariat to seated opponent
9. Diving back elbow to standing opponent
10. Diving senton leg drop followed by standing backflip leg drop
11. Dragon suplex (plus bridging, avalanche and deadlift variants)
12. Flipping wheelbarrow facebuster
13. Hadouken
14. Headbutt, often as a counter to an oncoming opponent
15. No hands somersault plancha
16. Octopus stretch
17. Pantsing or wedgie
18. Pele kick
19. Rebound tornado into armdrag, DDT or rana depending on the circumstances
20. Reverse chinlock neck snap
21. Rolling thunder
22. Roundoff backflip corner back splash
23. Running cartwheel roundoff into leaping leg lariat
24. Sack of potatoes lift into sidewalk slam, especially as a counter to a running opponent
25. Springboard bulldog
26. Springboard corkscew senton
27. Springboard phoenix dragonrana
28. Tiger feint kick
29. Turnbuckle run tope over corner
30. Wheelbarrow bulldog
31. Whisper in the wind
32. Old school British tricks like Lady of the Lake and Russ Abbot special
Name: Sam / styg
Email: PM me
Previous E-Wrestling Experience: Since autumn 2006
Instant Messenger Names: /jesosterone on Steam, limegonk on Skype. They the only two I ever use.
Character Info
Real Name: Laurel Saiko Yunokawa
Ring Name: Laurel Anne Hardy
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 148lbs
Hometown: Rhyl, Wales
Alignment: +4 or +5 to most fans, but -1 or -2 to those who find her schtick tiring and -3 or -4 to those who see her as an unhinged psychopath.
Entrance Music: "Candy Castle" by Glass Candy
Entrance Description:
Multicoloured spotlights swirl around the entranceway as the martial-sounding intro to Glass Candy's "Candy Castle" comes across the PA. As the beat kicks in Laurel Anne Hardy bursts through the curtain, cavorting energetically and twisting a feather boa around like a dancing partner. A moment later Evangelista walks through and stands beside Laurel, placing her hands on her hips as she surveys the auditorium with a smile.
David Zinkus: From Rhyl, Wales, weighing one hundred and forty-eight pounds, being accompanied by Evangelista and representing The Asylum...
The two young women share a good luck hug, then start down the aisle. Evangelista quietly takes up a spot by Hardy's corner for the evening while Laurel herself dances around the ringside area, interacting with the fans with hugs, high fives and handshakes. After completing a couple of circuits she leaps onto the apron and somersaults over the top rope. She hits each corner in turn, posing theatrically; atop one of them, she throws her boa into the crowd, prompting a scrum to catch it.
David Zinkus: She is "The Living, Breathing Installation Event Of The Millennium"... LAUREL... ANNE... HAAARRRDAAAYY!
Hardy moonsaults down to the centre of the ring and takes a deep stage bow before regrouping with her tag-team partner to go over last minute strategy.
Multicoloured spotlights swirl around the entranceway as the martial-sounding intro to Glass Candy's "Candy Castle" comes across the PA. As the beat kicks in Laurel Anne Hardy bursts through the curtain, cavorting energetically and twisting a feather boa around like a dancing partner. A moment later Evangelista walks through and stands beside Laurel, placing her hands on her hips as she surveys the auditorium with a smile.
[b]David Zinkus:[/b] From Rhyl, Wales, weighing one hundred and forty-eight pounds, being accompanied by Evangelista and representing The Asylum...
The two young women share a good luck hug, then start down the aisle. Evangelista quietly takes up a spot by Hardy's corner for the evening while Laurel herself dances around the ringside area, interacting with the fans with hugs, high fives and handshakes. After completing a couple of circuits she leaps onto the apron and somersaults over the top rope. She hits each corner in turn, posing theatrically; atop one of them, she throws her boa into the crowd, prompting a scrum to catch it.
[b]David Zinkus:[/b] She is "The Living, Breathing Installation Event Of The Millennium"... LAUREL... ANNE... HAAARRRDAAAYY!
Hardy moonsaults down to the centre of the ring and takes a deep stage bow before regrouping with her tag-team partner to go over last minute strategy.
Physical Appearance: Broad-shouldered, athletic build although not very well toned. Indeterminate ethnicity. Long black hair with a fringe. Cold grey eyes. A couple of large, fairly prominent scars by her right eye. Four tattoos - the stylised 'A' symbol of her stable, The Asylum, on her right wrist; a vibrant, colourful manta ray on her upper back; an abstract geometric design on her lower back; a candle with a water spray in place of a flame on her left hip (just the outline, currently).
Clothing: The phrase "too much" is not in Laurel's vocabulary. She has a hipster Harajuku art student look with lots of layers, lots of accessories, clashing colours, clashing prints. Staples include feather boas, indie band tees, full length bodysuits, bow ties, cheap neon plastic jewellery, fake flowers, elaborate fascinators or headdresses, and vibrant multicoloured makeup and nail varnish. She quite often doodles abstract designs on her own face or arms when she's bored, and often walks around barefoot.
(Picture base: Lovefoxxx)
Ring Attire: Varies from show to show, but the default is a neck-to-ankle bodysuit in a lurid psychedelic print, colourful fake flowers braided into her hair, and expansive, flamboyant, vibrant makeup. She usually wrestles barefoot. For big matches she might wear a specific costume.
Gimmick: Flashy, loudmouthed performance artist who views wrestling more as a platform for self-expression than as a combat sport.
Personality: Laurel has the soul of an artist, and loves nothing more than to show off. The whole reason she got into wrestling was to combine the adrenaline rush of creating art with that of fighting. She's exceptionally flashy and theatrical, always acting as if there's a spotlight on her, even when she's alone - it's just who she is, and she can't turn it off. She's also flighty, flaky and selfish, and although she's very protective of her friends and family, putting other people first doesn't come naturally to her. She likes to think of herself as enigmatic, but really she's something of a loudmouthed gobshite and a brazen attention-seeker and criminal. She rarely gets lastingly angry, but when she does, she gets unpleasantly vengeful and sadistic. But for the most part she's friendly, happy and not particular serious. When confronted by an enemy, she's usually more likely to get sarcastic and condescending than angry.
Although uneducated, Laurel is not stupid. She's perceptive and cunning, and has a surprisingly large vocabulary. She has a gift for spoken languages, speaking six fluently and several more passably, but struggles with written language; she can read and write English and Welsh but it takes a lot out of her. Until a few years ago, she was functionally illiterate.
In December 2013, at Leanne Evangelista's insistence, Laurel underwent the Hare PCL-R personality test and was determined to be borderline psychopathic. It hit Laurel hard and she completely no-sold it at first. She's never been scared of anything in her life, and she knows - incontrovertibly knows - that she is the hardest person on the planet. But suddenly she's found herself scared of one thing: the possibility of becoming like Alexander StarrZoe or Malcolm Drake. She can't deal with it at all and is in complete denial, which is in itself new and unsettling to her. Thanks to her friendships with Evangelista and Annie Zellor, however, she's started coming to terms with her condition and finally publicly admitted it in June 2014.
Outside of wrestling, she's involved in performance art and theatre and works part time as a waitress at a hotel in Manchester. She's always on the go and doesn't sleep much - she claims not to need it, although that might be down to the amount of coffee, cigarettes and cocaine she shovels into herself. She's full of energy and dances a lot.
Strengths:
1) Laurel is almost inhumanly flexible and acrobatic, capable of mind-bending feats of agility.
2) Creativity. Laurel's mind is always working and she's excellent at coming up with new things off the top of her head. This means she's great with counters, especially the big moves that turn the momentum of a match back in her favour. It also serves her very, very well in a hardcore environment, and she has a reputation for being able to employ weapons in unorthodox ways.
3) Very, very high pain threshold. If she has an upper limit on the amount of punishment she's willing to take, it's never been reached yet. Getting busted open doesn't faze her for even a second.
4) Thanks to her broad frame, she is surprisingly strong for her size and can lift cruiser men without too much trouble.
5) Never backs down. Laurel has never encountered a challenge too intimidating for her to admit defeat. In a battle of nerve or will, she's virtually impenetrable.
Weaknesses:
1) Stamina. Laurel wrestles a high-energy style but doesn't really have the conditioning for it. She's got a chronic bronchial problem, and is a smoker. Her lungs give out quicker than most people's. She'll try to push herself through it but will be slowed.
2) Flashiness. Laurel would rather lose a jaw-dropping spectacle than win a bland, forgettable match. She wastes time adding unnecessary extra showiness to her moves, and she's never met a risk she didn't take, no matter how little she'd gain.
3) Despite extensive technical training, Laurel is no technician when it comes to match time. She doesn't care about knowing how to best apply moves or refining her technique. Her moves are selected for visual flair rather than efficiency, meaning she doesn't perform them optimally, and doesn't guard against counters much. She doesn't fight with much of a game plan - she rarely works specific body parts, for example.
4) Never backs down. Laurel's determination isn't really "heart"; she literally, pathologically lacks a functioning fear response. The flip side of never backing down is that she rushes headlong into bad situations, and never admits when she's in the wrong. She is more than ready to engage an enemy in an arms race of barbarism and depravity. In fact she's quite often the one initiating it.
Biography: Born in a gypsy caravan park to a half-Welsh, half-Portuguese hippy mother and an itinerant Japanese musician father, Laurel Yunokawa was raised in a commune which travelled around North Wales. She never went to school, and never really learned how to function in polite society, not seeing the problem in - for example - walking around barefoot, or the fact she views the law as optional extra, especially with regards to theft.
After some initial wrestling exposure in backyards and the illegal bar circuit of North Wales as a teenager, she moved to Liverpool to get professional training. She was one of the standouts in her class, along with another young woman named Leanne Evangelista. Although they didn't have much in common superficially, they understood each other well on a deeper level and quickly became close friends. She lived homeless for a time, and later in a dingy squat, before moving in with Leanne's parents, sleeping on their sofa. During this time she worked as a waitress and bartender to make ends meet.
Leanne was a friend of rock star, pro wrestler and ex-MMA talent Mark Chapman, and through Mark, introduced Laurel to a number of current and former wrestling stars including Sarah "Baby Dogg" Warner, Amy Ngoudje and Damien Synn. With the backing of these individuals, Laurel and Leanne landed tryouts with Global Extreme Wrestling, and were referred to the Battlegrounds Academy in Ontario, run by multi-time World Champion Shane Tallin and his wife Nikki.
The girls eventually made their pro debut in GEW as a tag team, aligned with the mysterious new Asylum faction, courtesy of their friend and fellow trainee Serena Raine. The Asylum waged war on GEW, declaring that the company had become soft and decadent, and that The Asylum would save it from itself by destroying it. This, naturally, meant turning against the friends who'd helped her into GEW in the first place - some of whom she has since mended bridges with, some of whom she has not. Among other transgressions, Laurel and Leanne notched a tainted handicap victory over GEW's biggest franchise player, Kameron Chase, at the company's tenth anniversary show, and to prove their loyalty to The Asylum's mysterious leader Noumenon beat down their friend Amy Ngoudje and put her on the injured list. During this time Laurel also appeared with the Baltimore indie Death Company Wrestling, and the British comedy promotion Super Combat Discount Megamart.
Laurel's first big success came early in 2011 when she won the second Nasty 8 deathmatch tournament, representing SCDM. After successively upsetting veterans Max Static, V and Kaji Fireson, she went onto face Brad Jackson in an electricity-based deathmatch to crown the inaugural Nasty National Champion. Although Laurel came up short, the young rookie lasted over half an hour against the wrestling legend Jackson and controlled a significant portion of the match, impressing many. Later the same year she repeated her success in a hardcore environment by winning the 2011 GEW Torneo Extremo, a 16-person elimination deathmatch featuring a number of the company's biggest stars; for these wins, and her performances against legends and multi-time world champions, the International Journal of Wrestling named her Rookie of the Year 2011.
Thanks in large part to The Asylum's efforts, GEW closed down in summer 2011. Laurel moved to Helter Skelter Wrestling and started to make a name for herself with an undefeated streak, taking down former GDW World Champion Brittany Lohan among others, until she was sidelined with an injury. She returned in January 2013, signing with the GFC's promotions FRONTIER and FRONTLINE. She and Leanne - now competing as The UK Dragons - answered an open challenge by The CarnEvil Connection, which brought them to WARPED and thence into conflict with The Carnies' stable AbominationZ. In time Laurel found herself leading the WARPED seikigun against AbominationZ. To help combat AbominationZ' resources, she reformed The Asylum, now contrite over GEW's demise and vowing to protect wrestling companies from villainous stables trying to make the same mistake they themselves had made.
The Asylum's return was capped off by Laurel branding her personal symbol onto AbombinationZ member Alexander StarrZoe live on air; in retribution, Starr kidnapped Leanne's sister Lily. A brutal, bloody war ensued between the two camps. Meanwhile Laurel was also getting into a bitter personal rivalry with Malcolm Drake, leader of Frontier Grappling arts faction The Murder, over which of them was capable of the most extreme acts of brutality. She also signed with Future Wrestling Alliance, forging successful partnerships with Isabella Sanchez-Raye and later Allison Lorraine. Her rise to the top of the FWA card was sealed when she chose to enter a 30-person timed entry battle royale at #1, and lasted until almost the very end.
However Leanne, pushed beyond breaking point by Laurel's habit of getting them involved with wrestling's biggest monsters, snapped and turned on her longtime best friend. Each feeling betrayed by the other, the two women aired each other's demons in vicious promos before meeting in a hardcore match at FRONTIER's 50th anniversary show. It was essentially a 45-minute bloodbath as the two friends exorcised the frustrations that had been building for many months, and it ended in a draw when they finally reconciled and left the arena together in floods of tears. The match was later named FRONTIER's Match of the Year, something the pair have mixed feelings about.
Despite their relationship being rocked they decided to continue teaming together for the GFC Invitational tag team tournament, and overcame the legendary team Total War in the first round - but fell hard to The Shoot Kings in the second round in a match which saw the Dragons get barely any offence in. Leanne called an end to the team to focus on her solo career again, and although Laurel isn't giving up their partnership without a fight, she's also looking to reestablish herself as one of wrestling's top deathmatch competitors.
Wrestling Style: Pure flash and showmanship. She considers herself an artist more than an athlete; she's physically very, very capable and received excellent training, but she tends to focus on spectacle. She tries to pull out something new and unorthodox every match, and adds unnecessary flash to everything. She's of the opinion: why walk when you can cartwheel? Why add a flip, when you could add two or three flips instead? Why go for a snap suplex when you could go for a twisting fisherman hammerlock cravate suplex? Unsurprisingly, she plays to the crowd a lot.
Laurel is an ultraviolence specialist, which she claims is due to the style's creative freedom. That's true, but she also has a brutal sadism in her, which she can switch on and off at will like a light. She can callously slit someone open one minute, and then be all smiles and jokes with someone else the next. She doesn't get why people find this unsettling.
Laurel is left-handed, and fights with a southpaw stance.
Finishers
1. "Flower Plower Mk. III: Terror From Beneath!" - Straightjacket front flip piledriver. It starts with the opponent doubled over. Laurel puts the opponent's head between her legs then reaches under the opponent and straightjackets their arms across their front (i.e., under them, from a spectator perspective - it's the same setup as Claudio Castagnoli's Ricola Bomb). Clasping the opponent's hands, Laurel jumps into a front flip, going forward over the opponent as in a sunset flip. Using the straightjacket plus the fact she has the opponent's head wedged between her thighs, she pulls the opponent off their feet and over Laurel, and as she lands in a sitout position, the opponent's head gets spiked into the mat. Due to the straightjacket, the opponent can't protect themselves with their arms.
2. "Party Hardy: The Melancholy Of Sunday Afternoon" - Fisherman suplex lift flipped into powerbomb lungblower
3. "Stronger Than Dirt" - Corkscrew shooting star elbow drop
Signature Moves
1. "Battlegrounds Uppercut" - European uppercut, pushing the opponent's head down with her other hand
2. "Flower Plower Mk.I" - Cross-arm somersault neckbreaker
3. "L.A.H.O.O.Q." - Roundoff backflip headscissors takedown
4. "Mass Queraid" - Slingshot front flip split kick to two opponents
5. "Party Hardy: The Hangover" - Fisherman suplex lift flipped into sitout powerbomb
6. "Super Duper Acid Party" - Labai throw as counter to opponent's strike, followed by shining enzuigiri
7. "The Poseidon Misadventure" - Diving or slingshot front flip leg drop to the back of a doubled over opponent's neck
8. Spear
Regular Moves
1. Arabian press
2. Armlock DDT
3. Armtrap headbutts
4. Backflip over opponent, or onto their shoulders
5. Bow and arrow stretch
6. Capoeira kicks
7. Cartwheel roundoff into dropkick to face of opponent sitting on mat
8. Cartwheel roundoff leap into flying clothesline or leg lariat to seated opponent
9. Diving back elbow to standing opponent
10. Diving senton leg drop followed by standing backflip leg drop
11. Dragon suplex (plus bridging, avalanche and deadlift variants)
12. Flipping wheelbarrow facebuster
13. Hadouken
14. Headbutt, often as a counter to an oncoming opponent
15. No hands somersault plancha
16. Octopus stretch
17. Pantsing or wedgie
18. Pele kick
19. Rebound tornado into armdrag, DDT or rana depending on the circumstances
20. Reverse chinlock neck snap
21. Rolling thunder
22. Roundoff backflip corner back splash
23. Running cartwheel roundoff into leaping leg lariat
24. Sack of potatoes lift into sidewalk slam, especially as a counter to a running opponent
25. Springboard bulldog
26. Springboard corkscew senton
27. Springboard phoenix dragonrana
28. Tiger feint kick
29. Turnbuckle run tope over corner
30. Wheelbarrow bulldog
31. Whisper in the wind
32. Old school British tricks like Lady of the Lake and Russ Abbot special