Post by Kenzie on Jan 20, 2022 5:19:52 GMT -8
CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY
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(Hailee Steinfeld)
BASIC INFO
Ring Name
Kenzie Rydell
Birth Name
Makenzie Judith Rydell
Nickname(s)
The Luminary
The Inspiration
Sex
Female
Age
26 years old
Place of Birth
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Currently Residing
West Bank, Louisiana, United States
Theme Music
“Happy Face” by Jagwar Twin
Height
billed as 5'8" / truly 5'7"
Weight
135 lbs
Alignment
Heel
Debut Year
2015
Ring Attire
Kenzie wears a pink camouflage sports bra with black trim, mesh accents, adjustable thin hook-and-loop shoulder straps, and a V-neckline when it's time to fight. Black fingerless tactical military gloves with pink accents protect her hands. On top of that, she's got pink camouflage skin-tight high-rise leggings underneath matching kneepads and black lace-up knee-high combat boots with a cushioned wool interior. She wears thick black warpaint around her eyes, too. The warpaint is traditional eye black grease commonly worn by athletes in other sports.
She dons a pink camouflage short shako military cap with a visor and flashy aviator goggles wrapped around the trim at the front during her entrance. She wears a matching pink marching band jacket too. Over the coat is a short military cloak fastened at one shoulder called a paludamentum. Removing the thin elastic hairband around her right wrist, she removes the hat and ties her hair into a ponytail to keep the strands out of her eyes before a match begins.
Twitter Handle
@ InspireMeKenzCONTRACTED TO?
Liberty
Your Preferred OOC Name
Mike
PERSONALITY INFO
Gimmick
In short, self-love. She’ll smile while she commits cowardly acts, then attempts to leave before the consequences catch her. She knows she’s in the wrong, yet that doesn’t matter. It’s the others who call her out on her misdeeds who are the real toxic negative people of Liberty Pro.
Strengths
1) THE GUARDIAN - The high-flying Muay Thai luchadora uses the art of eight limbs to deliver a combination of fists, elbows, knees, and shins to pummel her opponents at close-range. At a distance, she relies on aerial maneuvers. Instead of prioritizing sheer muscle power, Kenzie implements kinetic efficiency and rotational momentum to do the most damage.
2) THE DEFENDER - Advanced footwork techniques and quick reflexes are pivotal to avoid attacks and outmaneuver her opponents to dominate them over time. Parkour adds to her mobility. The southpaw capitalizes on momentum even further, bounce-stepping to change directions quicker and cover more distance, at the cost of expending more energy.
3) THE LUMINARY - In the closing moments of a match, Kenzie rallies the crowd. If she can successfully get their support, she channels their energy into a temporary adrenaline rush once per match. An adrenaline rush is a heightened state of physical and mental alertness which could turn the tide of the matchup in Kenzie's favor, but the effects are short-lived. If the opponent outlasts this, Kenzie is at a disadvantage.
4) THE BEACON - The adverse effects of doubt aren't such a problem after a conversation with someone supportive earlier in the night. When accompanied by any tag team partner(s) or a manager, that helps too.
Weaknesses
1) THE MIGHTY DEFEATIST - In large-scale matches (such as pay-per-views/supershows or championship opportunities), self-doubt occasionally takes a visual toll towards the end of the bout. This might take the form of hesitation, frustration, a decrease in precision, etc. This is when an adrenaline rush is the most beneficial.
2) THE GLASS CANNON - While her evasion techniques are a treat for the crowd, it’s a necessity. Kenzie is a fragile speedster, so she needs to rely on advanced footwork techniques and quick reflexes to stay in the match. Otherwise, getting hit with one big move could mean her night is over instantly.
3) THE SERAPH - Despite this fragility, Kenzie's been known to perform high-risk aerial maneuvers. If unsuccessful, the opponent could take advantage. She panders to the crowd often too, taunting to get them involved to feed on their energy, which leaves her vulnerable.
4) THE FEATHERWEIGHT - She might lift lighter opponents from time to time, but she mainly relies on non-lifting maneuvers and attacks that can work on every opponent instead.
FIGHTING INFO
Fighting Style(s)
(delete the ones that do not apply)
- Dirty: Your character has no qualms in cheating to win.
- Entertainer: Your character feeds off of the crowd, giving them what they want and using their cheers to drive them toward victory.
- High Flier: Your character uses their body as a projectile, throwing themselves from dangerous heights in new and creative ways to best incapacitate their opponents.
- Luchador: Your character relies on chain wrestling and spectacular sequences of offence to confuse their opponent and wow the crowd.
- Puroresu: Your character uses moves based on full-contact martial arts - strikes, kicks, punches, takedowns, and submission maneuvers.
- Submission Expert: Your character has a varied arsenal of submission holds, and looks to end matches via submission where possible.
Finishing Move(s)
1. "Sacred Light" — springboard float-over cutter. She can hit this cutter just as easily using the ring apron, the barricade, parkoured off the wall, or another elevated surface.
2. "Photon Kick" — 540 tornado kick to an opponent who's stunned, rising, kneeling, hunched forward, or in any other position that leaves them open. It can even catch a diving opponent out of mid-air.
Signature Moves1. "Halo Leglock" — spinning inverted figure four leglock.
2. "Radiant Splash" — diving corkscrew body press transitioned into a pin.
3. "Blinding Arrow" — running corner front dropkick after a wake-up taunt.
4. apron leaping clothesline
5. backflip headscissors takedown
6. corner backflip kick into a shoulder tackle
7. corner slingshot hurricanrana
8. dragon screw leg whip
9. handspring Pelé kick
10. legsweep DDT
11. Muay Thai knee strikes in a clinch
12. rolling wheel kick
13. savate kick
14. springboard tornado DDT
15. standing moonsault knee drop
16. step-up enzuigiri
Preferred Weapon(s)
baseball bat
steel chair
Preferred Match Type(s)
Battle Royale / Multi-Person Match
"I Give Up" Match ("I Quit" Match)
Submission Match
Disliked Match Type(s)
Hardcore Matches
Table Matches
Ladder Matches
Why Your Character Competes
- Experience: Your character wishes to learn and develop, to become a bigger and better competitor in the ring.
- Glory: Your character fights to win. Championship titles are their ultimate goal, and they see their in-ring success as the true path to legendary status.
- Fame: Your character sees competing as a means to further their name into a household brand, to become famous.
- Passion: Your character competes because they love wrestling, they love the crowd and the adrenaline of performing.
- Riches: Your character sees competing as nothing more than a way to make money.
Attitude Toward Teamwork
- Selective: Your character will team with a close circle of friends/allies, but not with those from outside their group.
Attitude Toward Cheating
- Sneaky: Your character will cheat when and where they can, but only if they can get away with it.
KNOWN RELATIONSHIPS
(Include managers, tag partners, close friends, foes, allies or family)
CHARACTER HISTORY/BIO
When Blake Rydell was growing up, tales of the patriotic uncle he never met circulated like a myth throughout the family. The stories told of how he courageously represented the United States of America against communism in the Vietnam War. With those stories in mind and eyes set on the television as the twin towers fell, he enlisted while his wife, two daughters (a seven-year-old Makenzie Judith Rydell, and a four-year-old Megan Rydell) waited for him back home with tears streaming down their faces after giving him the tightest of hugs. Thankfully, Blake Rydell returned from his tour in Iraq, but he continued to work stateside in the years since. This meant that the two siblings needed to adjust to their new normal as Army brats.
After every relocation, Kenzie needed to get to meet classmates and teachers. She needed to understand what she missed before she got there to grasp the schoolwork and before she knew it… It was time to leave again. Knowing that the family would need to adapt to their surroundings quickly, Kenzie grew accustomed to spending approximately two to three years in the same place until it was time to move onto the next location across the country, and sometimes it was even quicker than that! Just when she gained friends, it was time to start again and despite those kids claiming they’d keep in contact with her after Kenzie left the state, the promise was broken like clockwork. It might not have been their fault. It was easier to maintain friendships with the people seen consistently than with the girl that faded from memory with each passing day. It hurt her all the same, though. She lost interest in attempting to gain a real relationship with the people around her until she met her best friend Spencer Walsh in the 2010 school year.
With the time to graduate and decide her future quickly approaching, she saw two options written out for her to choose: She could follow her years of JROTC by enlisting in the military or she could apply to colleges across the country. With those choices in mind and eyes set to the television, two modern-day warriors stood across from one another without a hint of doubt in their eyes. One fights with honor and beautiful athletic maneuvers while the other cheats with underhanded tricks and an overabundance of strength. It was like a comic book come to life; a Shonen Jump anime where everything was a tournament arc with the chance to become the champion on the line as a crowd of fans surrounded the twenty-by-twenty ring to show their roaring approval!
There were dozens of promotions to choose from on television nearly every single night. Each had their own style and presentation; their own stars and their own staunch supporters. A handful of federations were international in scale, available to watch nationwide and beyond. The majority were territorial in nature, small local venues concentrated in a small subsection of the United States. On rare occasions, the smaller promotions grew into more prominent operations when it became financially possible, but it was far more common to see the small-time main eventers outgrow their humble beginnings until it was time to rise to a more well-known promotion. Through it all, Kenzie couldn’t stop watching it all happen in front of her along with her father and her younger sister on the couch. While it started as a passive affair, it soon became obvious no matter where the family was stationed, there was always more to see of this constantly evolving medium with no end in sight.
Sure, sometimes the matches weren’t great, and occasionally the stories were uninspired, but that didn’t matter. Kenzie might have been forced to start at the beginning repeatedly thanks to her dad’s career choice, but at least this could be her escape; her refuge from the repetitive monotony of always having to reintroduce herself to a whole new batch of people. She grew to crave the consistency. She wanted to be like all the heroes she cheered for from wherever she called home. Kenzie’s father might have fought in the military, but this was her calling: she wanted to become a professional wrestler!
When Spencer told Kenzie about Nashville’s infamous Phoenix Academy wrestling school weeks before graduation day, the two immediately jumped at the occasion (after a lengthy discussion with their respective parents about the logistics of the trip, of course)! With the steep tryout/tuition fee between the two in their way, though, Kenzie insists on using the money she earned from her part-time jobs through the years while she was still in high school to knock out her portion of the cost. The part-time jobs include her time as a waitress, a cashier, and even a babysitter on separate occasions. Spencer gets a loan from his business-savvy divorced father to afford his $4,000 manager training tuition fee, and the additional cost to rent out the small two-bedroom apartment in Nashville every month until Spencer could find a suitable source of outside earned income, which he promised to reimburse with interest as soon as possible.
It took two long, arduous years for them to graduate from the Phoenix Academy. Shortly thereafter, the owner of the wrestling school personally called to recommend Kenzie Rydell compete in the EXODUS Pro Call Your Shot Invitational Battle Royal at the historic Autumn Effect 3 supershow in what would become EXODUS Pro's final show before it's closure! While she didn't win her debut bout, she did eliminate the former EXODUS World Champion Adrien Cochrane. This achievement earned the respect of the man Kenzie idolized from home and after approaching him after the show, Cochrane became Kenzie's mentor ever since.
In the coming months, Kenzie takes part in the second season of Inferno Wrestling until its end and then signs an exclusive contract with New Generation Wrestling in 2016. She wins the Rags 2 Riches 2016 battle royal and then the NGW Five Lakes Championship! She even earns the opportunity to challenge the NGW Unified Heavyweight Champion Gavin Grimes in an attempt to become a double champion. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to walk out the winner of the hard-fought matchup but her fall from grace was yet to come.
On July 2nd, 2016 at the NGW show entitled “City of Sin” in Las Vegas, Kenzie has the worst night of her career when she was meant to win back her NGW Five Lakes Championship. In a public display of intoxication, Kenzie has been battling against alcoholism ever since culminating in her admitting herself into an alcohol addiction rehabilitation center shortly after NGW went under hiatus on August 13th, 2016.
It took Kenzie six months to reemerge in #FSociety Wrestling in February 2017 newly clean and sober. Notably side by side with her mentor Adrien Cochrane once again, she helped Adrien incite a revolution against Chris Night's tyrannical reign of terror. On the final episode before #FSociety's closure, Kenzie overcame the odds and defeated her multi-time world champion employer in a blockbuster matchup to fulfill the ultimate goal of the revolution. In doing so, she earned the respect of Chris Night himself. Granted access to the Nightfall fighting facilities, Night personally taught Kenzie invaluable lessons to become an even better competitor in the aftermath.
After that, Kenzie quickly joined CWC's Empire Pro promotion in her arguably most successful pursuit yet. She became the number one contender for the Great Lakes Championship twice and earned the chance to win the Canadian Championship a total of three times. Most prominently, Kenzie stood at the top of the mountain when she was given the opportunity to challenge for the prestigious Empire Championship twice. Unfortunately, all of these chances would lead to narrow failure in the closing moments of the match. This gave Kenzie the reputation of choking in large-scale matches.
Championships/Contenderships:
1x Valiant Pro Mayhem Champion
1x NGW Five Lakes Champion
1x HYBRID Duality Champion (as a member of stable “The Guardians”)
1x NGW Unified Championship number one contender
2x Empire Pro Great Lakes Championship number one contender
2x Empire Pro Empire Championship number one contender
3x Empire Pro Canadian Championship number one contender
2x HYBRID Wrestling Evolution Championship number one contender
1x [R]evolution Pro Resistance Championship number one contender