Post by The Masked Salaryman on Oct 21, 2014 11:42:21 GMT -6
Personal Information
Name: Sean
Email: You know this by now.
Previous E-Wrestling Experience: Too much.
Instant Messenger Names (Skype, AIM, Yahoo): You also know this.
Character Info
Name: "The Artist of War" Simon Raines
Twitter Handle (if applicable): @aowraines
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 201 lbs.
Hometown: Now billed from Okinawa. Lives full-time in San Diego, California though.
Age: 20 (Apparent age. In actuality, it's two-hundred something, minimum, and seemingly only going higher and higher...)
Alignment: +3. He's been around long enough in (R)W now that it's apparently he's kind of a goody-goody. His ongoing rivalry with REVOLUTION helps this a bit, too.
Entrance Music: "Holy Diver" by Killswitch Engage
Entrance Description: As "Holy Diver" by Killswitch Engage begins to play, a most unusual man in most non-unusual attire emerges from the back, pumped up as he explodes out from behind the curtain, arms pumping to try and whip the crowd into a frenzy.
Wearing a (R)evolution Dojo t-shirt, red trunks, red boots, and red kneepads, the self-proclaimed Artist of War runs down to the ring, diving in under the bottom rope. As he's introduced, he whips his shirt off, and flings it into the crowd.
David Zinkus: Coming to us from Okinawa, he stands six feet tall, and weighs in at two-hundred and one pounds! This is "THE ARTIST OF WAR" SIMON RAINES!
Raines begins to shadow-box in his corner, getting ready for the task at hand, throwing a grin to the fans in the front row, and waiting for referee instructions.
Physical Appearance: Pale, dark haired, and ripped. (Picbase is Prince Devitt/Finn Balor)
Ring Attire: Traditional trunks, boots, and elbowpads. He owns these in various colors - red is his standard for most matches. Big matches he'll break out blue for. Title challenges is white. He'll wear gold if he ever wins a title and has to defend it. He also usually wears a (R)evolution Dojo shirt to the ring that he'll throw into the crowd before the bell.
Gimmick: Warrior monk.
Personality: Happy-go-lucky, yet slightly (okay, more than slightly...) strange. Think an unholy cross between Rob Van Dam, Brian Kendrick, and Paul London.
List up to three strengths of your character; they can be in-ring related, personality related, whatever you think helps define your character:
1. Martial arts expertise. Raines is a world-class martial artist in a way that next to no one in the wrestling industry can match. He throws strikes in bunches and has an evasion and counter game that makes him a nightmarish opponent for anyone who wants to stand and trade with him. This may or may not be because he has hundreds of years of experience. >.>
2. Man With A Plan. In spite of his atrocious win-loss record in (R)W, Simon Raines truly believes that he'll be able to turn things around. He doesn't let any one individual result get him too high or too low, and while he's a fairly emotional guy a lot of the time, he's (usually) able to divorce that when objectively looking at his career and where it is that he wants to go. It's an even-keeled approach that will (someday) pay dividends)
3. Endurance. He's in phenomenal shape, and you're not gonna tire him out. Coupled with strength #1, your best bets to beating Simon are to knock the wind out of him with a grappling move, tap him out, or get him in a clinch and work him over if you must strike with the Artist of War.
List up to three weaknesses of your character:
1. Very little technical training. Put a good hold on him and his chances of getting out of it except by using the ropes are rather low. This includes, you know, SIDE HEADLOCKS.
2. High risk style. Simon Raines lives and dies by taking chances. Lots and lots of chances.
3. Artistic streak. He loves embellishing his offense with doofy flips and twists, just because. He also refuses to finish with a move that's not named, so you'll never be seeing rollups or cradles out of him. Even if he has an opponent dead to rights with, say, the flying triangle, he'll release it and try to clap on a finisher or signature move instead.
Athletic Background: Trained in Muay Thai, Tae Kwon Do, and Capoeira. Also has about four months of proper training at the Dojo under his belt, now.
Biography: Raised on a US military base in Okinawa. Spent much of his time after graduation from high school travelling around Asia training various fighting styles. Had signed with iiW, but the company closed after he moved to America before he could debut. Seeing a chance to get actual proper WRESTLING training, he decided to throw in his lot with the (R)evolution Dojo.
Wrestling Style: Martial-arts heavy spotmonkey.
Finishers
1. From Cambodia With Love (Top rope moonsault double kneedrop, aka Frightmare's Super Kneecolepsy)
2. Phuket (Running Bicycle Knee to the face)
3. The Saigon Strangle (Crossface chickenwing with bodyscissors. Sometimes he'll suplex his opponent with the CFCW grip, then float back over and lock it in against VERY persistent foes)
Signature Moves
1. The Great Leap Forward (Top rope somersaulting front dropkick)
2. Kamikaze of '81 (Straitjacket Tornado DDT)
3. Cut Off at Khyber Pass (Rolling koppou kick to a bent over opponent, usually set up by a double palm thrust to the abdomen)
Regular Moves You don't need to fill out all the slots for moves.
1. Brazilian-style roundhouse kick
2. Front dropkick (think joshi-style)
3. Heart punch (sometimes thrown repeatedly to an opponent trapped in the corner. RIP Ox.)
4. Flying triangle choke
5. Bridging Indian Deathlock/"Mutalock"
6. Inverted Death Valley Driver (Spicy Drop style, not Burning Hammer)
7. Straitjacket Release German Suplex
8. Inverted sidewalk slam (gutwrench suplex lift, then drop straight down, opp's body parallel to mat)
9. Single arm DDT
10. Flying headscissors
11. Springboard knee to the face (Seth Rollins' move)
12. Top rope Senton (not Swanton) Bomb
13. Top rope somersault cannonball into standing opponent.
14. Low-flying tope suicida (between second and third ropes)
15. Handspring mule kick
16. Monkey flip
17. Running cannonball to seated opponent in the corner
18. Rolling Butterfly suplexes
19. Pop-up sit-down facebuster
20. Stump puller
21. Terry Funk-style piledriver
22. Muta-style ribbreaker
23. Spinning vertical suplex
24. Running double knees to opponent in the corner
25. Hip Toss (he loves to do it in the middle of a string of much more complicated moves, just for lulz)
Name: Sean
Email: You know this by now.
Previous E-Wrestling Experience: Too much.
Instant Messenger Names (Skype, AIM, Yahoo): You also know this.
Character Info
Name: "The Artist of War" Simon Raines
Twitter Handle (if applicable): @aowraines
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 201 lbs.
Hometown: Now billed from Okinawa. Lives full-time in San Diego, California though.
Age: 20 (Apparent age. In actuality, it's two-hundred something, minimum, and seemingly only going higher and higher...)
Alignment: +3. He's been around long enough in (R)W now that it's apparently he's kind of a goody-goody. His ongoing rivalry with REVOLUTION helps this a bit, too.
Entrance Music: "Holy Diver" by Killswitch Engage
Entrance Description: As "Holy Diver" by Killswitch Engage begins to play, a most unusual man in most non-unusual attire emerges from the back, pumped up as he explodes out from behind the curtain, arms pumping to try and whip the crowd into a frenzy.
Wearing a (R)evolution Dojo t-shirt, red trunks, red boots, and red kneepads, the self-proclaimed Artist of War runs down to the ring, diving in under the bottom rope. As he's introduced, he whips his shirt off, and flings it into the crowd.
David Zinkus: Coming to us from Okinawa, he stands six feet tall, and weighs in at two-hundred and one pounds! This is "THE ARTIST OF WAR" SIMON RAINES!
Raines begins to shadow-box in his corner, getting ready for the task at hand, throwing a grin to the fans in the front row, and waiting for referee instructions.
Physical Appearance: Pale, dark haired, and ripped. (Picbase is Prince Devitt/Finn Balor)
Ring Attire: Traditional trunks, boots, and elbowpads. He owns these in various colors - red is his standard for most matches. Big matches he'll break out blue for. Title challenges is white. He'll wear gold if he ever wins a title and has to defend it. He also usually wears a (R)evolution Dojo shirt to the ring that he'll throw into the crowd before the bell.
Gimmick: Warrior monk.
Personality: Happy-go-lucky, yet slightly (okay, more than slightly...) strange. Think an unholy cross between Rob Van Dam, Brian Kendrick, and Paul London.
List up to three strengths of your character; they can be in-ring related, personality related, whatever you think helps define your character:
1. Martial arts expertise. Raines is a world-class martial artist in a way that next to no one in the wrestling industry can match. He throws strikes in bunches and has an evasion and counter game that makes him a nightmarish opponent for anyone who wants to stand and trade with him. This may or may not be because he has hundreds of years of experience. >.>
2. Man With A Plan. In spite of his atrocious win-loss record in (R)W, Simon Raines truly believes that he'll be able to turn things around. He doesn't let any one individual result get him too high or too low, and while he's a fairly emotional guy a lot of the time, he's (usually) able to divorce that when objectively looking at his career and where it is that he wants to go. It's an even-keeled approach that will (someday) pay dividends)
3. Endurance. He's in phenomenal shape, and you're not gonna tire him out. Coupled with strength #1, your best bets to beating Simon are to knock the wind out of him with a grappling move, tap him out, or get him in a clinch and work him over if you must strike with the Artist of War.
List up to three weaknesses of your character:
1. Very little technical training. Put a good hold on him and his chances of getting out of it except by using the ropes are rather low. This includes, you know, SIDE HEADLOCKS.
2. High risk style. Simon Raines lives and dies by taking chances. Lots and lots of chances.
3. Artistic streak. He loves embellishing his offense with doofy flips and twists, just because. He also refuses to finish with a move that's not named, so you'll never be seeing rollups or cradles out of him. Even if he has an opponent dead to rights with, say, the flying triangle, he'll release it and try to clap on a finisher or signature move instead.
Athletic Background: Trained in Muay Thai, Tae Kwon Do, and Capoeira. Also has about four months of proper training at the Dojo under his belt, now.
Biography: Raised on a US military base in Okinawa. Spent much of his time after graduation from high school travelling around Asia training various fighting styles. Had signed with iiW, but the company closed after he moved to America before he could debut. Seeing a chance to get actual proper WRESTLING training, he decided to throw in his lot with the (R)evolution Dojo.
Wrestling Style: Martial-arts heavy spotmonkey.
Finishers
1. From Cambodia With Love (Top rope moonsault double kneedrop, aka Frightmare's Super Kneecolepsy)
2. Phuket (Running Bicycle Knee to the face)
3. The Saigon Strangle (Crossface chickenwing with bodyscissors. Sometimes he'll suplex his opponent with the CFCW grip, then float back over and lock it in against VERY persistent foes)
Signature Moves
1. The Great Leap Forward (Top rope somersaulting front dropkick)
2. Kamikaze of '81 (Straitjacket Tornado DDT)
3. Cut Off at Khyber Pass (Rolling koppou kick to a bent over opponent, usually set up by a double palm thrust to the abdomen)
Regular Moves You don't need to fill out all the slots for moves.
1. Brazilian-style roundhouse kick
2. Front dropkick (think joshi-style)
3. Heart punch (sometimes thrown repeatedly to an opponent trapped in the corner. RIP Ox.)
4. Flying triangle choke
5. Bridging Indian Deathlock/"Mutalock"
6. Inverted Death Valley Driver (Spicy Drop style, not Burning Hammer)
7. Straitjacket Release German Suplex
8. Inverted sidewalk slam (gutwrench suplex lift, then drop straight down, opp's body parallel to mat)
9. Single arm DDT
10. Flying headscissors
11. Springboard knee to the face (Seth Rollins' move)
12. Top rope Senton (not Swanton) Bomb
13. Top rope somersault cannonball into standing opponent.
14. Low-flying tope suicida (between second and third ropes)
15. Handspring mule kick
16. Monkey flip
17. Running cannonball to seated opponent in the corner
18. Rolling Butterfly suplexes
19. Pop-up sit-down facebuster
20. Stump puller
21. Terry Funk-style piledriver
22. Muta-style ribbreaker
23. Spinning vertical suplex
24. Running double knees to opponent in the corner
25. Hip Toss (he loves to do it in the middle of a string of much more complicated moves, just for lulz)