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Post by Downfall on Jul 20, 2020 12:52:57 GMT -5
Character Name: Downfall
Real Name: Daniel Conner Fehl
Nickname: The Purveyor of Anarchy, the Beast Unleashed
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Height: 6'
Weight: 217
Alignment: Unapologetically venomous and bristling-with-rage heel, yet with his own code of ethics.
In-Ring Style: Used to be a high flyer, but has now slowed his game down to a hard-hitting strong-style.
Put simply, a fully unleashed and uninhibited Downfall is mean as dirt, especially against people he has personal disdain for. His strikes are going to be so precise and so blistering that people watching at home are going to wince, and he won't hesitate to drop someone right on their neck.
He still retains enough of his younger mindset to pull out an extreme high flying move, in the heat of the moment.
Biography: See separate bio section below for more.
Previous/Current Feds
League of Fury, IEA, IEW, XWF, WCWA, EHWF,
Past Titles Held
League of Fury
1x Hardcore Champion
IEA
2x Tag Team Champion
IEW
1x World Champion
1x Anarchy Champion
2x Extreme Champion
2x Tag Team Champion
2007 Warrior's Pride runner-up
WCWA
1x Riot Champion
EHWF
1x World Heavyweight Champion
1x Tri-Atlantic Champion
1x World Tag Team Champion
2011 Mass Roster Rumble Winner
XWF
2x X-Treme Champion
Action Wrestling
2x World Heavyweight Champion
1x Hardcore Champion
1x Television Champion
1x Tag Team Champion
2021 & 2023 Wrestler Of The Year Tournament Winner, Finals 2022 (First ever two-time winner)
Attire: Downfall has a real old-school veteran crustpunk look to him, weathered, torn, scarred and tattooed. His limbs and back are covered in scars from years of hardcore wrestling, but his muscles are hard and compact. His hair is hacked into a rough-looking side-shave on the left side, with lines cut into it, and it's color is now an uneven, box-dyed black that fades back into his blonde at the roots. He has shaved his goatee off, but he has cultivated a wealth of stubble. He has a pierced eyebrow, both ears pierced. He has his signature tattoo of a red/gold Chinese dragon snaking from his mid left bicep to the middle of his back. He has a tattoo of a sword stabbing through an 8-ball on his right shoulder. To the ring, Downfall wears a black denim jacket that's been distressed and has several long, slashed cuts in the back akin to clawmarks; The jacket has a black denim hood on it which he can pull over his head; which he takes off before the match, and underneath that he usually wears a black tank top with a white Anarchy symbol on the front. Also in his entrance attire which he takes off before the match, he wears a skeletal, white bone mask with empty eye sockets and fangs, a wolf's skull made into a tribal mask. He wears black and ruby red wrestling boots with black kick guards, black knee pads. He wears long-fit black tights, black with a gold serpent wrapping around the sides, curled around the words "Downfall" with an Anarchy symbol in the O. He wears heavy elbow pads, and his wrists are taped up with black tape.
Theme song: "Before I Forget" by Slipknot
Pic Base: Alex Shelley, current-day
Entrance:
There's a pregnant pause in the air before the lights in the arena shut down, one by one, with an audible CHOOM as each section goes dark. The crowd sits in unsteady, uncomfortable silence there, in the dark, for a full thirty seconds. And then, cutting through the stilled silence, quickfire staccato burst of kickdrums and shredding guitar in the intro to Slipknot's opus "Before I Forget", and the Tron's image changes to a close-up of a wolf's eye, gold against a black screen, and the animatic changes to bared, slavering lupine teeth, opening, and then biting down; A spray of red blood splatters over the screen as Corey Taylor shouts "GO!!"
"Stapled shut! Inside an outside world and I'm
Sealed in tight! Bizarre but right at home
Claustrophobic! Closing in and I'm
Catastrophic! Not again,
I'm smeared across the page and doused in gasoline,
I wear you like a stain, yet I'm the one who's obscene.
Catch me up on all your sordid little insurrections,
I've got no time to lose, I'm just caught up in all the cattle.
Fray the strings, throw the shapes,
Hold your breath, listen;"
A spotlight cuts through the darkness to a point on the stage where Downfall's kneels one knee on the stage amid a cloud of pyrotechnic smoke and fog, head bowed, tracing the fingers of his right hand across the ramp, then he slowly raises his head to look at the ring. He's wearing his slashed denim vest with a black hood underneath, pulled up over his head, and, to chilling effect, as he looks up into the bright spotlight over him, smoke rolling onto the stage, it can be seen that his face underneath the hood is hidden behind a white skeletal mask with empty eye sockets, and a long snout culminating in pointed teeth: a wolf's skull.
"I! Am the world before I am a man,
I! Was a creature before I could stand,
I! Will remember before I forget...
BEFORE I FORGET THAT!!
I! Am the world before I am a man,
I! Was a creature before I could stand,
I! Will remember before I forget...
BEFORE I FORGET THAT!!"
In his left hand, he is carrying a long, curved, black iron crowbar. The arena lights brighten, and then, he begins his walk down to the ring, holding the crowbar perched over his shoulder and behind his neck. He cracks his neck to the side in an aggressive manner as he gets to the end of the ramp. Then, he goes around to the ring, pacing over to climb on the apron, and he takes just a moment to breathe it in as he rests a leg on the ropes themselves, and slowly pulls the wolf skull mask up to rest on the top of his head, before pacing to the turnbuckles and ascending, quickly, to the second rope, crossing his wrists in an X. He hops down, taking the skull mask off, shrugging out of the slashed denim vest, and laying the crowbar down in the corner, circling the ring like a shark, tensely pulling on the top rope to stretch.
Favorite moves (at least 15 moves): Busaiku knee, spinning backfist, roundhouse kick, spinning wheel kick, axe kick, hurracanrana, triangle choke, sharpshooter, keylock, bow and arrow stretch, springboard moonsault, flying elbow drop, lung blower, bulldog, springboard tornado DDT, tilta whirl backbreaker, reverse neckbreaker, corner splash.
Signature moves: 1. Babylon Burning - Hammerlock lariat. Starts with an arm twist, then he hammerlocks an opponent's right arm behind them and holds it with his left as he stands at their side, then uses his free right hand to swing for a devastating lariat.
2. Eden's Demise - Snap dragon suplex, done at such speed and ferocity that it looks like he's purposely dropping them on their neck.
3. Lock, Step & Gone - Shotgun dropkick, usually sending an opponent into the turnbuckle and bouncing off.
4. The 11th Hour: a lifting double arm DDT, better known as Moxley's NJPW version Death Rider.
5. Twist of Cain - Heel hook, often done as a counter to a kick, and then really trying to dig this in as if he is trying to sever the opponent's tendons by stretching it as hard as he can.
Finisher(s):
Primary finisher: Godkiller
Description - Most people don't kick out of this. Inflicts HEAVY damage. Fireman's carry into a double knee facebuster. Picture a GTS into a Codebreaker.
Note: Max weight limit to hit this 350 pounds. Any bigger than that, and he wouldn't even try.
Secondary Finisher - Beast Kick
Description - Superkick. Usually done with all the energy he has left to give it a finality, can also be used QED to lay opponents out backstage or in case of a squash match.
Submission finisher: Bad Wolf
Description - Lebell Lock.
Strengths:
1) Killer instinct. Downfall is an expert striker, trained in multiple disciplines of BJJ, Muay Thai and Krav Maga, and his arm and leg strength is phenomenal. His kicks are savage and he goes for a knockout frequently.
2) Resilience. Downfall has endured many brutal hardcore contests and long lasting games of human chess, he has shown an amazing ability to soak up punishment and keep going.
3) Speed. For a man his age, he can keep up the pace against the quickest opponent.
Weaknesses:
1) Arrogance. Downfall thinks he is the best in the world, bar none. His ego sometimes blinds him and makes him overestimate his abilities, or underestimate an opponent.
2) Age. Downfall is getting upward in years, for a wrestler. Coupled with years of hardcore wrestling, there is a substantial amount of wear and tear and old scars.
3) Smaller stature. Obviously won't win a power game with bigger, stronger wrestlers.
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Post by Downfall on Mar 11, 2021 13:56:20 GMT -5
The Cast Rumiko Fugikawa Age: 35 Nationality: Japanese-American, first generation Picbase: Act Yasukawa Biography: Withering contempt for him personally mixed with kindness and compassion for the community she's chosen as a home were the strongest impressions Ru made on Daniel, forcefully, as she chose to leave him laying with an impromptu display of quick skill. We have since learned that Rumiko is the quiet, studious, dependable second child, the one who stayed behind to live sensibly and went to school to study dentristy, wanting a quieter life than her brother. The younger sister of Daniel's oldest companion in wrestling, Rumiko met Daniel when he showed up on the doorstep of a shuttered old warehouse space in San Fransisco's Japantown/Pine Street district. Rumiko, acting as the executor of all of her family's effects, was there simply to walk through the property when she found Daniel attempting to break in, to try and see the dojo that had once been there, the last dream of her brother, Hinata. However, Daniel did not know that Hinata had supposedly died years before. Fast talking got them both to meet at an understanding, and Rumiko allowed Daniel to rent the space for the dojo from her, acting as a landlady. However, she still carried bitterness towards him, because due to some circumstances she wasn't aware of, Daniel ended Hinata's burgeoning wrestling training in their parent's homeland of Japan and crippled his leg, sending him back to the states. And, to Rumiko, Daniel injuring her brother and sending him back led to him never recovering. As they have grown closer, in a tenant/landlady situation, Rumiko has witnessed Daniel's dark impulses spread out into the community, especially once he declared himself a Kingpin of this block and began recruiting students in the dojo as a sort of personal guard. And Rumiko also learned the truth, from Daniel, about her brother. Despite this, Daniel grew protective of his new home in the dojo, and, amazingly, protective of her, as well... and even though Rumiko looked in Daniel's eyes and beheld a darkness there that terrified her in the moment, (and still does terrify her now); the allure of him is powerful, and she has begun to feel stirrings of affection for the angry, lost soul... and, perhaps more disturbingly to her, she may begin to see some sense in his bleak, nihilistic worldview. Adam Miller, fka Warpath Age: 40's or older Nationality: Caucausian American Picbase: Josh Brolin Picbase: For years in the IEA and the subsequent IEW, Warpath and Downfall were bound together, whether feuding or as teammates. Much of Warpath's background he told through parables in the middle of his promos, so his backstory before he showed up in a small regional fed named CeFWA in the early 00's was limited. He purports an unlikely history of growing up orphaned and living on the streets as a child, and performing unsavory gang activities to get by on the streets of his native Detroit, before making his way to live in Mexico, where he was saved by a rival Mexican cartel's henchman by an elderly luchador, who took the young man in and trained him in wrestling. Yeah, we aren't sure if that's the truth, either. Regardless, Warpath was an intimidating, muscular man, an engine of destruction who held a shrewd mind for business and came up as a ruthless, antagonistic counterpoint to the young Downfall. Warpath and his gang, the Disciples of Destruction, formed Downfall and Jason Twisted's first feud for their Tag Team titles, and after the IEA closed down soon into 2003 and rebranded as the IEW, Warpath took some time off to heal injuries before returning to action in 2005, and, shocking the world and after weeks of video packages promising he was coming for vengeance, he assisted Downfall in retaining the IEW World title! The two men partnered for all of 2006 into 2007... until Downfall began growing jealous of Warpath's growing influence and leadership in his Inner Circle, and Downfall, sensing him as a threat, brutally attacked Warpath and threw him out, which led to a feud that lasted all of 2007 and ended in the House of Pain match which cost Daniel his career in the IEW at Frosts of Fury 2007. Warpath would continue on in the IEW as a solo act, and won the World title there, having several more feuds against Matt Rison and Christian Stylez until IEW closed in 2010. In 2010, shocking the world yet again, Downfall and Warpath teamed up yet again in the WCWA, wreaking havoc and rampaging throughout the ringside area before being arrested. Proclaiming themselves Anarchy United, the ultimate outsiders there to bring WCWA to ruin. However, Warpath lost his first match, against Phoenix Halliwell, due to a distraction. Seeing as Anarchy United were not under contract, Warpath chose to retire, leaving Downfall in WCWA on his own. Enjoying a life of retirement, Adam would not show his face again until this year, when, curious about Downfall putting his career on the line for a SECOND time against Johnny Bacchus (the way he had previously against Warpath in the House of Pain) he met Daniel for a night out where the rivals heatedly debated philosophy, but ultimately, parted on good terms. Except, in a complete shock, it was revealed that Adam was working for the true kingpin who was trying to retake control of Japantown, Hinata Fugikawa! Uh-oh... Hinata Fugikawa Age: Roughly Daniel's age Nationality: Japanese-American, first generation Picbase: Ronnie Yu (younger), as yet unseen (older) Biography: We met Hinata much younger, in a flashback to Daniel's formative training as a Young Lion in one of the most notoriously difficult dojos for wrestler training in Japan. We learned that Hinata was a standout, a precociously gifted athlete and the shining star of the program. Hinata, the first-born son of Japanese immigrants who moved to San Fransisco, travelled back to the homeland when he turned 18 and enrolled in the dojo to follow a dream. The Hinata we knew here was flighty, head in the clouds, and friendly, making him a studied contrast to the arrogant, sullen and brash younger version of Daniel Fehl. Despite their differences, the two roommates were friendly, and Daniel looks (or... looked, at the time) at Hinata almost as a brother in the way that they underwent some of the most torturous, brutal training side by side. Even the most ardent spirits would break in the glass-filled room of that dojo known as the House of Pain, but Hinata stayed positive, and encouraged Daniel to be his best self. However, by Daniel's own admission, the pressure of their teachers seeing Hinata as their golden child, and his own arrogance began to get the best of him, and he took it out on Hinata in a routine karate match... ruthlessly letting out his devil side against Hinata, Daniel recounted bleakly later, that he grabbed Hinata in a heel hook and wrenched so violently that Hinata's ligaments and tendons were destroyed. This spelled the end of Hinata's dream as a wrestler, and he left Japan. We didn't get more of the story, but, according to Rumiko, he returned to Pine Street and, at least on the surface, embraced a new dream! He would be a teacher in his own dojo, and teach kids of the neighborhood kendo practice. It is known, at some point after 2007 when Daniel lost his job in the IEW, that he visited Hinata then, and perhaps they made up. But perhaps not. We don't know. We do know, that Daniel didn't visit Hinata again, until Hinata died, apparently of an opiod overdose. Since then, the dojo was overgrown and run down into a dilapidated, bombed out shell, and Pine Street descended into being a crime-ridden gang territory, thus cruelly darkening Hinata's dream. However, the word on the street is, that the gangs that run this neighborhood, that Daniel has been fighting under, have a boss they fear... who sits alone in his office building, plotting revenge on the world that gave up on him, and the man who first decimated his dreams... a man named Hinata, who's merest mention made Daniel startle in shock. If this is the same Hinata, it remains to be seen what he wants, or what he and his lieutenant have planned. Michelle Taylor-Bennett Age: 39 Nationality: White, American Picbase: Kim Raver Biography: If there was a constant in Downfall's life, it's been Michelle. He met her as a young boy, a real meet-cute as he worked at a bodega in southside Chicago and he laid his eyes on a slim, coltish young girl from the neighborhood that had aspirations of being a model. They began dating, although neither one had a stable home situation; and Daniel began telling Michelle his dreams of following in his father's footsteps working territories and travelling the world to wrestle. Michelle became increasingly confused by Daniel's tendency to see only the glamour of the business his father was dedicated to, while noting that his father was not a good man. The generational curse began to creep in to Daniel, as his temper and arrogance began to build. They reached a point where hearts break as Michelle was offered a contract with a modelling agency in New York, but Daniel wanted to go to Japan to train in a famous dojo. Two years later, Daniel returned, vastly changed. It frightened Michelle. But, he convinced her to leave modelling just as she was starting to get some big breaks, and she joined him on the road, touring American and Canadian indies, working as a manager, and when the pair signed up for the IEA (which rebooted into IEW) Michelle became a business manager for a growing stable that Daniel began recruiting, starting with an enigmatic and frightening sociopath named Jason. This "Inner Circle" of Daniel's began to take off, capturing every title in the IEW, often with Michelle's help. However, Daniel engaged in a bitter, year-long rivalry with a former Inner Circle member named Warpath, and he lost a "Loser Leaves IEW" match; giving Michelle a hard choice, to stay and keep managing the team they had built, or to go home with Danny. She chose to retire as a manager in 2008, not coming back when Daniel signed contracts with companies like XWF or WCWA, although they remained lovers. Daniel became obsessed with getting back his lost status, and began freezing Michelle out, becoming increasingly distant. With Daniel gone, she began growing closer with the few contacts she had left after the IEW broke up, namely backstage interviewer Alec Myers. However, Alec began to grow dangerously attracted to her, and while they began hanging out and drinking and reminiscing about the old days, Alec slipped pain pills in with her wine. Nothing happened except for a kiss, witnessed by Daniel. When this was discovered, it caused a bitter rift between them all. Daniel moved out, Alec tried to apologize, and Michelle struggled with the addiction before kicking it. Michelle had, here or there, attempted to kickstart her modelling career, but, as beautiful and striking as she is, she'd found little interest in a woman her age. Michelle started sleeping with, and sharing a living situation with Ted Burke, a businessman. She has begun working as a property manager and real-estate agent when Daniel came back to her, asking her to help manage his team and asking for advice. Things are tense in the present, as her relationship with Ted and staying with him is more about being lonely, but she is hesitant about how closely tied to Downfall's world she wants to be. Yet, there was still so much love between them, and no matter what happens, she feels like he may always be her soulmate. So much happened to Michelle this past year, though. Primarily, she broke things off with Daniel again, after a very complicated series of circumstances led her to seeing Daniel, naked in bed with another woman. Also, a series of adventures that may (or may not, multiple choice y'know) have really happened or been all in her mind led to her walking away from Daniel, seemingly for good, and going through a white light in a door to a new life. Without Michelle, it must be said, to act as an anchor and to remind him of his humanity, Daniel's darker impulses have begun to slide. As Daniel told Rumiko, Michelle was his dream girl... all he had ever done, everything he had in his life, he attributed to her. And so it was that she popped up again, picked up and delivered, so to speak, to Daniel's doorstep... completely changed, and completely lost. As if by some malign magic or some conditioning we haven't seen... Michelle's entire memory and personality have been erased! She is now a blank slate, and completely regressed to childhood. Thus, the one person that acts as a center, as a home, for him, isn't herself right now. Daniel still hasn't decided how to proceed around her... but the spark of that connection, that needs to be with her, wants her around. Time will tell if she will start coming back to herself. The Past Donald Fehl, aka: Erich Von Himmel Age: 73 Nationality: White, American Picbase: Stephen Lang Biography: It's often said that Daniel looked up to his father with stars in his eyes. That is, until he formed a relationship with the man himself. Donald is and always has been a nasty piece of work, if only due to being partly a product of his time and tenure in wrestling. Donald broke into wrestling decades ago, when NWA territories in every state were ascendant. His training was backbreaking, but he emerged as a hard-bodied (if undersized) technical wrestler playing the part of the most hateable bad guy at the time, a German Nationalist named Erich Von Himmel. In his prime, he was brilliant, and he serves as a physical mirror to what his son would eventually shape himself in. But then, bad decisions. Then, drugs and falling in debt as he began to get booked less; the advent of televised wrestling got him. Donald refuses to let Daniel know the things he did to get by in that era. When he had his son, he was always on the road. And when his son grew up, he showed so much disinterest and disdain for his son that a hunger began to grow for the son to get him to show some pride in him. Daniel, imagining a life where Donald was always home and present, watched tapes of him religiously, seeing him as a hero. And then, came the time when Daniel followed him to Japan, and signed up at a dojo that fed in to a company he was doing tours for, explicitly so that the two of them could bond. Little did Daniel know, his father was deeply indebted to a criminal organization at the time. Donald did everything he could to push Danny out of the life; on some level, wanting him to be a better man than him. He enlisted the Black Dragon's thugs to assault his son, but Daniel knew that Donald was behind it. The two wouldn't speak for years after that. But as Daniel grew into his career and became a successful World champion in IEW, Donald had his eyes on it. Later, when Daniel was trying to build himself back up from scratch, he reached out to Donald for advice, but he found only drunken criticism, leading Daniel to realize he really never would get Donald's respect. Donald does respect Danny, much more than he lets on. But he sees the demon that ruined him has taken hold of his son as well, and wishes more than anything that he could save Daniel from himself and break the cycle. They exist now in a toxic, mutual love-hate. In early 2021, Donald succumbed to cancer, but not before Jason visited him and made him call Danny in a panic. Jason Twisted Age: ?? Nationality: ?? Picbase: Sean O'Haire Biography: Jason Twisted is, by more careful design than any sense of purported "anarchy", completely multiple choice. His true background is obscured, records of him contradict each other, even his real name is given as several aliases. He is prone to providing outlandish backstory of where he came from, and some evidence that he's planted even suggests a supernatural, immortal, or demonic true nature. Those who meet him regularly feel like the devil himself has come to them. Jason is a frightening, intimidating figure, one that was of use when he joined Downfall's Inner Circle in the IEA. Yet, Downfall could never really put his finger on who his partner really was. That was because, Jason was manipulating things all along, and even turned on Daniel in 2005, beating him savagely and attempting to usurp control of the Inner Circle. Sometime later, Jason searched for "redemption" and became a sort of mentor for the serial killer clown, Sicko, forming a tag team with him. But Jason was manipulating and poisoning Sicko as well, intending to use him as a weapon only he could control through drugs. Jason ascended to the top of IEW in Downfall's absence before the IEW closed. Since then, Jason has popped up here and there... but his intentions, often sinister, are always rooted in jealousy and envy, because at the very bottom, he's wished for the success and love in Danny's life. Possibly. It's never clear. Some of his goals in recent years, tormenting Sicko and Downfall both, are even nebulous on how canon they are, once again owing to whether anything about Jason is even real. He is always a harbinger of bad news, a cacklingly evil and fucked up figure who wants nothing more than to tear down. Jason has been taunting and mocking Danny throughout 2021, and also showcasing a frightening array of dark magic powers that it was not clear if he possessed before. Using these powers, he was there when Danny's father died, and he challenged Danny to a fight out on the beach at Long Point Key. Danny disarmed Jason, who revealed an ace up his sleeve: That he had bewitched Serenity! Serenity stabbed Danny and they left him for dead. But Jason was not done. Fleeing to another, "familiar" dimension and hiding out in Las Vegas, living the good life of hedonism, Jason continues using dark magic to peek into our world and taunt and bedevil Danny and his circle with riddles, while plotting a stronger attack. He wants to show that Danny is nothing but rotten and evil.
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Post by Downfall on Mar 16, 2023 12:58:42 GMT -5
Favored Hardcore match spots:
"Crooked" moonsault to the outside: very nearly a graceful triangle jump from the apron, to the ropes, to moonsault off onto either a standing or downed opponent. (What differentiates it is the reckless speed by which it's done and the fact that Downfall jumps just slightly off-center of the turnbuckle, onto the metal ring and the ropes themselves. This is meant to be a very loose, dangerous move that shows Downfall pulling out a move that was more standard when he was in his twenties as he gets extreme, however that can be defined.) Ladder dive swanton: Another "going old school" moment and using the element of a ladder match or super high spot, going back to his younger days and pulling out one of his high flying signatures (2001 called it the Dark Sider), he would throw caution to the wind and fling himself off like a comet falling to earth. No regard for safety or protecting himself on this one. Apron snap dragon suplex/Eden's Demise: Done with a very quick, "fuck your neck vertebrae, bitch" timing and execution, it's distinctly meant to look as if he's trying to hurt someone, using the "hardest part of the ring". Opponent seated in front of the guardrail/Yakuza kick: Downfall would maliciously pick up a steel chair, set it down in a corner, force his opponent to have a seated (and pummel them into being dazed, if they're already not) in the chair, back up ten or fifteen paces, and charge them with a Yakuza kick-like face wash which connects solidly with the seated opponent's face. Could kick them out of the chair and throw them to the floor. Could punt them into the front row. Could run right through them. Beast Kick a weapon out of opponent's hands into their face: Should the opportunity present itself. Joint manipulation/Pentagon armbreaker/Bad Wolf three-step setup: For when he's feeling especially vicious towards an opponent, he could thread joint manipulation/targeting the arm, hand and wrist of an opponent, stomping the wrist cruelly, "snapping" the fingers. Step two after that is an absolutely wince-inducing Pentagon Jr inspired armbreaker where he ties one arm up with a hammerlock, extends the other arm straight up and falls straight back, "snapping" the arm in a direction it's not supposed to go. Step three, done with utter malice is pounding on the wounded arm after this, locking it between his legs, and applying the Bad Wolf/Lebell lock. HARDCORE FINISHER - Crowbar-assisted Bad Wolf: Apply the arm wrench into the portion of the hold where he's got his leg wrapped around it setup for a crossface, but feeding the crowbar in under their chin or in their mouth, wrapping both hands around it and PULLING back with all his might.
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Post by Downfall on Jun 29, 2023 21:29:59 GMT -5
Biography, aka; The Road So Far... In many ways, for the man chose the name Downfall, wrestling is in his blood, and bound to his soul. It might, in some ways, be one of the only things that he's passionately loved, or perhaps, one of the only things that this desperado has let in enough to love him back. Beginnings -
Downfall was born Daniel Conner Fehl, the only natural son of a faded star of the old territorial NWA days, Donald Fehl. Donald left his mother when he was a young boy. Donald, under the alias Erich Von Himmel, was an absent parent, always on the road touring, even as age began to creep in and he began to lose some of his acumen. But Danny grew up religiously watching tapes, idolizing his father even as his father was living the gimmick of one of the most hateable, despicable heels in the business. When Donald did come home, infrequently, Danny found that, perhaps, that wasn't a gimmick, as Donald treated him with disinterest. Danny tried many things to win his father's approval, but growing up with such a disinterested creator kindled a hunger in him at the same time as it made the teenage Danny sullen and mean, with a stripe of arrogance running in his veins that told him that his father passed down his skill for wrestling into his DNA. By the time he was 17, Danny was lying about his age and forging forms to take classes and training at a notoriously brutal local wrestling school in southside, run by a miserable old cunt named Jarod "Scrap"Irons. At this time, Danny also was working as a stock boy at a local bodega and being laughed at for being a white kid in a minority neighborhood, but one day stocking shelves he met a breath-takingly beautiful blonde girl from the block. Michelle Taylor-Bennett, a young girl who dreamed of modelling for runways in New York City. They formed a strange and strong bond, the two inner-city kids with big dreams of running away. But Danny was chasing his father, and wanting to win approval by exceeding his father and living his dream of wrestling for a sold-out stadium in Japan. So, when he just turned 18, Danny left Chicago, and Michelle behind, to go on tour with the wrestling company his father toured with in Japan. -Japan, the early years, "Selling his soul for this" -
Danny endured punishing regimens of training that bordered on abuse from the masters of the dojo as a Young Lion. They particularly singled him out for being a soft, entitled and arrogant white boy in their country. But Daniel committed fully to the training, and he relished the time spent on tour with the company as a Young Lion, as it allowed him, somewhat to get to know his father as an equal and hear stories from him. Except that Donald was always trying to push his son out, and even had some level of concern and care for him in making it so Danny would quit. In this misguided manner, Donald asked a gang of criminals known as Black Dragon to assist him in beating Danny mercilessly. Danny found out one of the masked assailants was Donald, and that he had been in debt to the gangsters for this, culminating in his first shocking betrayal and the coloring of his world forever. Heartbroken and sullen, Danny continued his training with a new chip on his shoulder and a growing desire to ruthlessly break someone's arm. From the first time after Danny started going down this dark path, his trainer who had mocked him looked Danny in the eye and noted that he fights like a "beast unleashed", giving him his nickname. Downfall made his main roster debut in Japan over 22 years ago. After touring Japan, he went back to America, and he went straight to reunite with Michelle. He promised her big paydays and their names in lights, main eventing the Toyko Dome, and asked her to join him by his side, walking away from her modelling career. Their first few shows in the US were with the indy fed League of Fury. However, Danny began growing intensely frustrated at the low pay and low stakes of wrestling in indies. He wanted to be a star, and this wasn't what he thought it was going to be. One night, bitterly complaining to Michelle about how he wanted nothing more than to make it, they passed a crossroads. And Daniel made a wish. A wish to be great, for a period of time. And then, success began to show up for him and his career turned a corner as bigger companies took notice of him. The Inner Circle, Danny gets his wish -Starting with Jason, Danny began to grow even more arrogant, and more obsessed with gaining power. He began recruiting muscle-bound mercenaries, forming a strong, unbreakable stable he called the Inner Circle. There were ups and downs, but the assistance of the Inner Circle, and the presence of Jason as a chief enforcer, helped fuel Danny forward, claiming multiple championships and dominating the IEW. The Inner Circle as a unit would go on to hold the IEW in it's grip until it closed in 2010. Downfall also grew something of a reputation backstage as the biggest asshole you'd ever meet, a political nightmare who held back those underneath him. His bad attitude and disregard of authority figures became as notorious as his high asking price. He also began to extrapolate his love of punk music, and the IEW's Anarchy division, by taking on the anarchist persona of the School of Punishment. In time, Downfall claimed his boyhood dream, and fulfilled his promise of becoming great, being on top of the world in 2006 when he won his first World Title. However, his period of time on the top seemed poised to come to an end. A former member of the Inner Circle, Warpath, began to push back on Danny's rule as the leader. Downfall betrayed Warpath, and the two had a long, bitter and destructive feud all throughout 2007, which had an escalating series of matches such as Buried Alive and Last Man Standing stipulations before they finally decided to settle things in the most brutal match possible... a House of Pain match. With the added stipulation that if Downfall lost, he'd have to leave IEW forever. Unfortunately, despite his best efforts, Downfall was beaten. As he walked away from his big main event spot, Michelle going with him, the light seemed to leave his eyes. Living on the road, running with the Beast -
Downfall then took off in his old, ratty Corvette, cultivating a journeyman persona and an embittered, darker edge. Gone was the cockiest, most arrogant little shit you've ever heard of, the newer Downfall was hard. He more often solved problems using his fists. He trained, nonstop in Muay Thai and BJJ, perhaps reasoning that he couldn't rely anymore on Inner Circles. That he had entrusted his future in devils like Jason and it had cost him everything. Now, Downfall only trusted himself, and he was more savage. Downfall had small tenures of being under contract with other mainstream feds, but the bottom kept falling out on him and he wasn't able to hang onto things for very long. During his tenure in the WCWA in 2010, for example, he felt like he had found Michelle cheating on him with his friend Alec Myers. He savagely beat Alec within an inch of his life, and he broke ties with Michelle, becoming an angrier and more devilish figure that talked to a nightmare hallucination of himself, with distorted reptilian features he called his Beast. Downfall and this manifestation of his darkest side did capture a few titles. He even was able to start a run towards the main event of the EHWF federation, that started with winning their secondary title, winning their Roster Rumble from the number two spot, and then cashing in to win the EHWF World Title. However, shortly after the License 2 Kill pay-per-view, EHWF closed. Downfall kicked around several indy feds, but he wasn't able to attain that level of mainstream success anymore. AW Wrestling, new starts, The Vanguard -Downfall signed with Action Wrestling in July 2020, thinking at first only of the payday of being on a mainstream televised brand again. His rise up the card was met with frustrating set-backs and a few disappointing losses. But he had been challenged every step of the way, and began to come into his own. In addition, meeting a new protege named Serenity, and the return of his oldest nemesis Twisted, have made him question his very complicated legacy. A longterm feud with Dionysus over the Television title culminated in them being paired together as a tag team in Battlegrounds, a partnership which, while not successful initially, came to a head when they teamed together in the Havoc match. Downfall has now begun to change his entire mindset and way he's done business. While still retaining a badass, elder punk mindset and determination to be the best, we are beginning to see an entirely newer and more honorable Downfall emerge. Eventually, Downfall and Dionysus' team, after hitting a few setbacks, did manage to claim the AW Tag Team championship. For a time, they formed a strong bond albeit slightly as an odd-couple tandem, with Downfall now walking a delicate balance between returning to his old ways, and listening to this darker nature, or walking the path of better angels proposed to him by Dionysus. Unfortunately, the record reign of the Vanguard came to an end at Evolution 2022! But in the aftermath, Downfall and Dion affirmed that their bond was never going to die, and that they would still be available when the Tag division needs them. Seeing that Dionysus went on to his much deserved main event push, Downfall struck out on his own, to redeem other, shadier parts of his legacy the right way, in honor of the Vanguard. Shedding -After a disappointing 2022, and being denied the opportunities he felt he deserved, Downfall was confronted, once again, by his old teammate, Johnny Bacchus. The relationship had soured into a lot of bad blood, and in the run-up to their match, something seemed to snap in Downfall. Or, rather, he seemed to shed off his skin, perhaps reneging his motivation to do the right thing. But to him, he has not changed his alignment at all, he just sees things differently. He mercilessly crushed Bacchus with an iron crowbar, and then claimed a place in the All-In Ladder match. Bacchus would go on to screw Downfall out of that match in revenge, using a crowbar against him. However, Downfall had begun starting anew, and there was something a lot more reptilian and cold about his demeanor. He is done holding back. While unsuccessful at winning All-In, Downfall did settle things against Johnny Bacchus... culminating in the SECOND time in his career where he determined there was no other recourse than to put his career entirely on the line. However, this time, he triumphed, saving his career and ending Johnny's. Just when he thought he would begin to focus on the Hardcore division full-time, he was interrupted by the return of Corey Black... who, for reasons unexplained, specifically targeted Downfall. Downfall and Corey would clash first in Hardcore Games, where Corey Black emerged with the Hardcore title after Downfall injured multiple superstars. Downfall would then lay several brutal beatings on Corey Black before attributing his decision to enter Wrestler of the Year and go to the finals his second year in a row, wanting to meet Black there. Downfall decimated several popular superstars on his way, including the AW World Champion, but fell to Spencer Adams in the Turmoil finals. The feud with Corey Black escalated in brutality until it reached it's fever-pitch at a Deathmatch at XIII, where Downfall won a match so brutal it was likened to attempted murder. Downfall would then go on to brutalize several more superstars, before being confronted by his old partner, Dion. This is the crucible where he showed the world who he really was. Nihilism, Everything Ends -Bleakly nihilistic to the core and taking out his frustration at the world, Downfall vowed to show AW that everything that was built decayed in time and that only he had the strong enough will to make lasting changes. Dionysus objected to him brutalizing such low-level Hardcore division wrestlers as RBD and Joey Scala, so Downfall gave him a warning to stand down, before accepting a challenge and taking on Dion in a match for the Hardcore title. Downfall fully embraced his darkest, most venomous sides, first unleashing an uncompromising verbal beatdown and using his pulpit as Hardcore champion to spew righteous rhetoric before brutally destroying Dion with his crowbar. Now Downfall has finally stepped into what he firmly believes is his truest arc... the culmination of all things and the end point everyone meets. He unleashed this bitter, destructive wrath on Holo Make and his running buddy, Max Daemon in turn, destroying Daemon at Evolution, piqued at Daemon's disrespect for him; and yet also believing in his heart he did what he did for the interest of the company and in elevating the division. In the middle of all of this, Downfall's personal life has reached a crossroads. He finally confronted the crime boss he had defied, who, ultimately, had been pulling strings all along, including recruiting Warpath to act as a heavy. And Downfall was surprised to see that it was in fact, Hinata, his first partner. Hinata asked Downfall a very pointed question that struck to the core of Danny's arc... if given a chance to have everything you've ever wanted, at what point in attaining it are you finally satisfied? This is a question that Downfall has come to ponder, in time. It may be that he even has to admit to himself, in the end, nothing lasts forever, and everything dies.
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