Post by Alice Gemini on Nov 5, 2022 6:42:40 GMT -5
“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.” “The following is a LAST MAN STANDING Match…” A 6 year old Alice Gemini peers up at her old box television that continues to static throughout whatever channel was on. She was on her way back to her room from her small kitchen with a small package of Scooby-doo gummies that she was only allowed to eat once in a blue moon from her parents not being able to afford much in terms of groceries. “And Downfall and Warpath are going at it immediately as we all knew would be the case!” She watches her very first pro wrestling match in her life. She forgets to blink as her eyes are glued to the screen despite the quality, her jaw might as well be on the ground with the shock of what she is watching. Pure violence and brutality. “A thunderous chair shot to the head from Downfall! This could be it!” Her mouth goes from shock to a slight smile as she takes her snack and jumps up onto her very worn couch in excitement and anticipation. As she continues to watch this extreme form of violence her smile grows with every brutal spot and hit with a weapon. “Downfall drills him with the Beast Kick!!! Warpath goes down! Start the damn count ref!” Alice jumps up with a yell of excitement! Her gummies go flying everywhere as she is now hyper focused on this wrestling match that a 6 year old girl has no business watching. Alice delivers a superkick to the cheap standing lamp on the side of the couch which causes it to fall over. The lightbulb inside breaks and Alice stops for a moment in fear as she stares at the lamp now not giving off any light. “And Warpath gets back to his feet right before the count of 10!” Alice stops caring about the lamp and runs right up to the screen of the television and starts cheering for Downfall. “Kill ‘im! Kill ‘im Kill ‘im!” She continues cheering him on with passionate child applause The screen door to her house bursts open with her father walking through with a 6 pack of Milwaukee's Best beer. Once upon a time, my favorite wrestler in the entire world was a man named Downfall. I would do my absolute best every single time you were on tv to make sure I saw you perform. I was such a little girl when I was first introduced to this world that we both love so much now. You were the very first wrestler I ever watched as this little girl and in a way you could say that you changed my life. Unfortunately for you, Downfall I’m all grown up and I can proudly say that the only wrestler I can call my favorite is… me. Alice Gemini is the only wrestler that I consider worthy of my admiration. Just me, myself, and… wait, I take that back because I made some very good friends here and I haven’t just simply forgotten or let go of what you did to Johnny. He was one of the few fellow wrestlers that actually accepted me and invited me into DISRUPT in CU:LT. I’ll never be able to truly repay him for that sort of acceptance when no one else wanted to see me succeed, no one else wanted to see me become one of the biggest fucking draws in all of Action fucking wrestling. You, Downfall, you have barely even acknowledged me at all since I’ve been here. I haven’t been able to approach you, I haven’t even met you for fucks sake and you’re the motherfucker that I looked up to growing up. I wanted to be just like you. You helped me grow this attitude and killer instinct that helped me get through high school and helped me even burst into the wrestling scene. In one year of my career I’ve already become a bigger draw than you. Sure, you’re just that old timer that people just watch for nostalgia sake at this point but I am the one people pay to see. Numbers go down when I take a week off and skyrocket when I’m on and that isn’t a coincidence. I just hope you’re ready to finally be in the spotlight again when you’re in the ring across from me one on one you old fuck. This match has a lot of weight to it and I'm sure you’re completely unaware of that. I’m winning this not only for me but for DISRUPT, for proving I’m the best draw in AW, and to prove to myself that I am better than the old man I watched so often. You’re going to realize very fast that Alice Gemini can’t fucking die. Jill couldn’t keep me down, Regan couldn’t keep me down, my own fucking father couldn’t keep me down. You’ll try your absolute hardest to put me away, but I just. Won’t. Die. “What the FUCK did you do to my lamp?! I said I was gonna be gone for five fucking minutes you worthless little shit. Now I gotta run to wal-mart and buy another lamp. Fuck, I just wanted to sit down and watch Downfall get his ass kicked. FUCK!” Alice looks up at her father having a temper tantrum and continuously screaming at her with profanity. “Now, go to your goddamn room, I don’t wanna see you for the rest of the fucking day.” as he walks off he mutters under his breath “I wish it was never again…” Alice rushes off to her room bawling her eyes out and dives into her small bed and hides under the covers. She cries and cries until she hears the tv again followed by the popping of her fathers beer can. Her crying stops as she flings the blanket off of her and she tries to put the most angry expression across her face. She marches over to the bathroom and steps onto her stool so she can look at herself in the mirror. She looks at herself with her long black hair and now red eyes from her crying and scowls with all her might. Something changed in this little 6 year old girl at that very moment. I’m gonna be the best at everything I do. People are gonna pay thousands and thousands to see ME. She steps down and it transitions into her grown foot wearing big gothic platform boots. She glances back at her mirror and she looks pissed off before smirking at herself with perfectly applied make-up and her bright white hair. I am the draw. She steps out of the bathroom to meet a realtor who’s showing her around a gorgeous beautiful house. “Well? Gorgeous bathroom huh? Just wait until you see the other ones, oh and the master bedroom? To die for. You’re gonna love this house, Alice. It’s one of the nicest in all of Forest Glen, Chicago!” Alice smiles at the realtor and follows her down the black and white hallway to see the rest of this house that she’s planning on buying. “Through these failures I have still found success. Losing happens to the best of us but what separates the winners from the losers is what we do in these defeats. I’ve lost some big time matches and I’m not afraid to admit this but in these losses I have still found myself being one of the biggest money draws AW has ever seen because the people want Alice Gemini, they want to see ME. No, they don’t pay their hard earned money to see bitches like Regan and Jill despite their success. No no no, They still dress like me, wear their make-up like me, wear the face paint I wore one time just like ME. Even in defeat, I still fucking win. When Regan beat me did people talk about her winning afterwards? No, they talked about me and how much resilience I have. I will always be the talking point of any match I am involved with because no one outsells me. These people resonate with me because I am just simply me. I am true to myself and believe every single thing that I say. These common poors can cheer for me and rep my merch because they feel that I had a very relatable upbringing to theirs because I was raised in the slums, the asshole of Chicago. I was raised with no parents from a very young age and parental duties were taken over by a nightclub owner. What about that would be relatable? All of these people view tragic backstories as relatable but it’s not, it’s sympathetic and that is never something I want. I want- no, I demand people to stop caring about who I was and look at who I am now… Who I will become. The woman who slays the legends of Action Wrestling. Not only am I going to win rookie of the year but on the same night I’m taking home wrestler of the year. Unprecedented and never before seen. No one has ever risen to this level of stardom ever in the history of this company as fast as I have and yet here I fucking stand. My true legend begins this Monday when I drop Downfall on the back of his goddamn neck and send him out of town just as he did to my friend. His defeat to Alice Gemini will be the end of him and his arrogant geriatric ass. He has always believed in himself and thought of himself as the best in the world and maybe that’s why I looked up to him as a little girl because I wanted to grow up and become strong like that and I did. I took his level of arrogance and I fucking doubled that shit. I know that I’m arrogant but I have every right to be. At such a young age I’ve already planted myself into the main event scene of everywhere I go because I fit in as if the scene was molded around me. I was meant for this and was meant to be the very best of everywhere I fucking go. Downfall finally takes his final fall against me and then I go on to win this entire tournament. It won’t be vanguard in the finals because Downfall isn’t making it past the first round. To end the aspirations of my once favorite wrestler has become MY aspirations. I want- I need to see you fail and have you be crushed under my very expensive gorgeous boots. You might as well not even fly to Louisiana because that will be the land where Downfall finally takes off his boots and hangs them up if you stand across that ring from me. You’ll learn the pain that this brutal bitch can truly inflict on another human being. Especially in a match that I need. A match that you need and will lose.” “And Downfall has been defeated… He has lost to Warpath in the House of Pain match and he now has to leave IEW forever…” A distraught young Alice backs away from her television in shock and heartbreak. She begins to cry and walks outside to her garage and scowls at the small punching bag that was only partially inflated. She lets out a small little roar and punches it with all her might.   ꧁༺ “𝕴 𝖍𝖆𝖙𝖊 𝕯𝖔𝖜𝖓𝖋𝖆𝖑𝖑. 𝕳𝖊’𝖘 𝖑𝖊𝖆𝖛𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖒𝖊…” ༻꧂ |
