Sloth

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So it's really on a case-by-case basis, but I am more privy to "traditional" concepts since I've seen some truly strange and mind-numbing ones in the past.

@Gowi

Moon Knight, otherwise known as Jason Todd!

Maximum Comics – Insurrection \ CLOSED

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Byrd seems like he might be out of games altogether. He's been away from the Hype for a while.

@HenryJonesJr

I see him lurking all the time. So I don't know, maybe he's waiting for an itch to suit him.

@Gowi

He's been around on the Guild? Though mostly in more politically minded nation RPs from what I've seen.

He also has a cool Doug MacArthur avatar.

Maximum Comics – Insurrection \ CLOSED

So....need another player?

@HenryJonesJr

Depends.....you seen Byrd anywhere?

Global Pro Wrestling

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I mean, Drayden doesn't really have to go over.

@Jordan

Just a joke on my part. I mean, nobody wants a Kane vs Tajiri situation, do they?

(Make it happen bookers! You don't want an angry Japanese man with lawyers on your ass for racial discrimination!)

Global Pro Wrestling

Oh lord, poor Kintaro's being fed to Bork.

Minor question regarding the promos, but should we assume they occur in the weeks preceding the tournament show? And, more importantly, is there any restriction as to what kind of promo we use? IE: Vignette, press conference, etc? I ask purely because I've got a few ideas in mind.

Gotham City Stories (Always Accepting)

When she became of age Kate enlisted in the military like her parents. Unfortunately she never got to serve. She was discharged after it came to light that she had a relationship with another woman. She spent the next few months of her life lost in a daze. Her whole life she thought she would enlist and fight for something worth fighting for. Suddenly her clear vision of the future was engulfed in shadows. And it didn't help that her father wasn't so accepting of the situation.

[@Konica

The "Don't ask, don't tell" law was abolished circa three or four and a half years ago, so unless Kate either joined up before she was even finished in high-school, whatever sexist, homophobic piece of shit wanted to discharge her for it would get into deep shit from the military chain of command for it, and even if they managed to discharge Kate on phantom charges, considering she's a Kane, wouldn't they have lawyers all over that situation in a hot minute?

Also how can she be in the closet if she got discharged for being homosexual? Does she just not talk about? Did nobody bother to look in to why she was discharged?

Global Pro Wrestling

Name: Akira (明) Miyamoto (宮本)
Ring name: Kintaro, formerly known as 'The Great Akira' during his time in the AJW
Age: 24
Billed from: The Island of Okinawa
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 190 lbs.

Alignment: Face
Gimmick: The smarks of the Global Pro Wrestling audience are well aware of Kintaro's time in the Association of Japanese Wrestling as The Great Akira, an enigmatic, menacing and methodical being garbed in elaborate costumes and headdresses baring symbols of the Shinto gods who's face was hidden behind equally extravagant face-paint as a tribute to the legendary Great Kazuki, but for now, Kintaro's gimmick is simply that he is a prodigious incoming talent from the Far East. However, Kintaro's psyche is still warped from his time as Akira, and he retains trace mannerisms from his days in Japan. Most notably, Kintaro still holds no qualms about spraying mist in his opponent's eyes when he is sufficiently desperate. The longer a match goes on, the deeper Kintaro delves towards the Akira character, whether it be by crawling and snaking his way around ringside, biting the top rope and staring at his opponent or even using his own blood as a crude ink for his face-paint. In short, Kintaro is a man on the edge of insanity, and it's only a matter of time before he is pushed to the breaking point.
Entrance Music: Kintaro, Akira
Entrance Description: As the newest member of GPW's roster, Kintaro keeps his entrance simple, seeing as he's not near popular enough to start getting into pyrotechnics and other such theatrics. For now, Kintaro's entrance consists of him wearing a plain Japanese-style vest, interacting with the fans at ringside, entering the ring and sitting on the top turnbuckle of corner post furthest away from the entrance ramp with his feet resting on the second, anticipating (or sizing up, if he enters second) his opponent before the beginning of the match.

Wrestling Style: Kintaro is a man known for his versatility and explosiveness, a true wrestler's wrestler who knows how to put on a show and chain together move after move to make both competitors look good, what would today be known as a ring technician, only without the specialty in submission holds. While capable of mixing in a couple of suplexes to his spots, Kintaro's lack of size and strength is evident when he competes against the larger members of GPW's roster, though he makes up for his lack of size with extraordinary quickness, lightning kicks, a penchant for high-flying antics, and the ability to use almost any of his moves at almost any time.
Finishing Move: Springboard Tornado DDT, dubbed "The Rising Sun" by American audiences.
Signature Moves:

• Asian Mist (Typically preempted by Kintaro clutching his throat as if choking; color dependent on costume; occasionally used theatrically as Akira)
• Enziguri
• Shooting Star Press (Running, springboard, or top rope)
• Handspring Back Elbow

Global Pro Wrestling

Sexton Love (heel)
The Masked Magician (face)
Kintaro (face)
Sammy MacDougal (face)
Mitchell Wolf (heel)
Drayden (face)
Michael Starblazer (heel)
Michael's tag-team partner (presumably heel)

@ZeusTheMoose

On this note, Kintaro could easily have a face-heel turn the more Akira-like he becomes.

Once your wrestler is complete and once Kintaro's CS is done, we will have enough wrestlers to begin our first show. I pretty much have the tournament match-ups set.

@mattmanganon @Ciphra @Sloth Could you please post your wrestlers in the Char section so we have things a bit more organized. It's nice to see the entire roster in one place.

@ZeusTheMoose

On it, just got to get a few finishing touches done and I'll ship him over.

Gotham City Stories (Always Accepting)

Probably needs hella edits

Name: Jason Peter "Jay" Todd

Alias: The Red Hood
- Formerly: Robin II

Age: 24

Occupation: Unemployed

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Skills & Abilities:

• A naturally gifted athlete trained by the likes of Batman, Ducra, and the League of Shadows in a wide array of skills ranging from martial arts to acrobatics and espionage.
• etains a vast amount of knowledge regarding Gotham's underworld and even the Black Market from his childhood and first stint as the Red Hood. As can be expected, he also has a fearful reputation lingering over him.
• Spends his spare time building and repairing certain vehicles. Everyone needs a hobby.
• Though not on the level of Bruce or Tim, Jason possesses a fairly analytical and perceptive mind that elevates him above certain members of the Batfamily when paired with his personal experience in the less pretty side of Gotham.
• Though he's recently begun turning away from firearms, Jason is still a crack shot with his pistol, and is a little too knowledgeable with explosives and military hardware. He also claims to be the best knife fighter in the Batcave.

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Equipment:

• A variety of knives, guns, tear gas, and other military grade knickknacks usually kept in his almost innumerable jackets.
• A customized Ducati Diavel specced to recreate Jason's R-Cycle.
• Jason's helmet is effectively toxin proof and allows him to breathe underwater, coming with its own explosive defense system and numerous vision settings. You know, average Batman upgrades.

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Personality & History:

Straight outta Gotham

Born to Catherine Haywood and Willis Todd, Jason never knew his father, who not only abandoned his new family but was in and out of Blackgate before Jason ever learned how to walk. Childhood in Crime Alley is rough, rougher yet when you don't have a father figure. Young Jason resorted to petty theft and fell in with a number of street gangs in order to survive, which imbued him with a certain level of grit and toughness not found in the other members of the Batfamily. Well, at least until Bruce started accepting assassins. And Stephanie Brown.

Growing up with a drug addict for a mother was hard, but Jason tended to stay away from home as often as possible, leaving Catherine to her devices while Jason built his reputation as the local street menace. Before long, Catherine fell into a deep bout of depression, and when Jason returned home from one of Gotham's secondary schools, he found his mother's body strewn out across the bathroom floor. Notifying the authorities, Jason sat there for a good twenty minutes before an ambulance arrived. Interviewed and shuffled off to the nearest orphanage by the police, Jason would escape only weeks later.

Boosting the Batmobile

As expected, Jason fell back into a lifestyle of petty crime in order to feed himself, the only major difference being that he generally avoided the numerous street gangs of the area. Just why he chose to steal the tires off of Batman's personal mode of transportation is a thing of mystery, even to Jason himself, who shrugs it off as something he had to do when asked by others.

To his dismay, or rather, extreme luck, Batman would arrive before he'd finished on the third tire, catching the then fourteen year old red-handed with the tool used to do the job. Rather than reprimand him, Batman offered to give him a spin. One bad decision after another led to Jason's first time seeing the Batcave, and soon enough, he had donned the red and green tights and yellow cape to begin training as Robin, despite one Lucius Fox's dismay at Bruce's approval of such.

Thrust from the life of a street urchin into the halls of Wayne Manor, Jason took to his new role in gusto, seeing as he had no biological family he cared for, and before long was legally adopted by Bruce Wayne, though he's obviously stopped adding Wayne to the end of his name, for rather blatant reasons.

A Death in The Family

Jason, unlike those who have since donned the mantle, did not have a particularly long and dignified run as Robin, but rather a short and tumultuous six months of heated arguments with Bruce and trying to prove to himself that he deserved the costume just as much as his predecessor. Jason was particularly unforgiving to Gotham's street criminals than his contemporaries, partially due to his troubled past and partially due to his naturally aggressive demeanor.

The only particularly noteworthy event during his time as the Boy Wonder was when he foolishly chased a lead regarding a weapons shipment to an abandoned warehouse in the Bowery. Caught in a trap by the laughing man of Gotham, Jason was beaten nearly to death with a crowbar and trapped in the building with a large pile of explosives.

His last thought was one of regret when he heard Bruce pull up in the Batmobile.

Resurrection

Dead for almost four years, Jason's body was recovered by Talia and Ra's al Ghul for unknown purposes. Jason does not know just how long they maintained his corpse, but after they had dipped him in a Lazarus Pit everything came flooding back to him. Manipulated by the Demon's Head, Jason trained with the League of Shadows for a period of roughly three months before he managed to learn of the Joker's still being alive. Jason managed to escape the League's compound without being discovered by Talia or Ra's, though it was rather obvious to both just where he intended to go.

Jason maintains that he never intended to enact vengeance on Bruce; the man was still the closest thing he ever had to a father figure, but he needed to learn a lesson Jason himself had learned all those years ago on Gotham's streets. Crime can never truly be stopped, only controlled and regulated.

Integrating himself into Gotham's drug trade rather violently, the Red Hood quickly gained the Dark Knight's attention, and before long, Jason was leading his former mentor on a goose chase to one final showdown. Stuck in his old apartment in Crime Alley with Batman and The Joker, just above where he'd attempted to steal the tires of the Batmobile all those years ago, Jason presented Bruce an ultimatum: His life, or The Joker's.

Of course, Bruce being Bruce, managed to get the gun out of Jason's hand. Betrayed and feeling truly alone, Jason activated a timed bomb and made his escape from the area, never to be seen in Gotham again until years later.

The Lost Days

Following his encounter with Bruce and The Joker, Jason chose to travel the world, seeing as Gotham was no longer worth his time or his anger. The next three or so years would be something of an adventure for Batman's fallen son, who would end up spending time in a number of situations; From Freedom Fighting in Qurac, mercenary work in Vlatava, freelance vigilantism in Zandia and even a trip to Santa Prisca just to screw with one of Batman's foremost adversaries.

While on a trip in Bhutran, Jason was approached by Talia, and after making a right fool of himself by shooting at her, Jason was hauled off to an unknown mountain range in the northernmost region of the country and delivered unceremoniously to Ducra, otherwise known as the head of the All-Caste, an ancient order of Monks, or something. Though reluctant, Ducra agreed to train Jason and help him master his anger and sorrow. It was Jason's time in the Chamber of All, reliving all of his past memories and coming to terms with them, that he saw that his time spent trying to find a purpose in anywhere but Gotham was the exact opposite of what he needed to do.

Deciding the life of a monk wasn't for him, Jason left the All-Caste with a new sense of understanding. Ducra gave him a letter from Bruce informing him of his wedding to Catwoman. Though he'd already made up his mind, seeing that Bruce was willing to build bridges after everything Jason had done was a reassuring thought.

He packed his bags and made his way back home.

Reconnecting

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Extra

• Perhaps as a carry over from his time on the streets, Jason likes to assign nicknames to his closer acquaintances, such as "Barbie" for Barbara and "Circus" for Dick.
• Frequently caught talking to inanimate objects, such as [his bed](http://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m73u9pmIkc1r9pw60o1_1280.png).

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Story Arc:

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Gotham City Stories (Always Accepting)

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Definitely something we should cover in Episode One!

@Gowi

The Batcave, April 3rd, 2015.

Jason Todd: "So how about that weddi-oh god.....I'm really, really late for that, aren't I?"

Everyone: "That, and Bruce has been off world for a month..."

Jason Todd: "........My time has come......"