Post by max on May 7, 2018 14:33:52 GMT -5
SHANE ATWATER
PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME: Shane Michael Atwater
GENDER: Male
PICBASE: Joseph Cannata
RACE: Caucasian
NATIONALITY: American
D.O.B./AGE:April 12th, 1985/33 years old
HOMETOWN: Seattle, WA
RESIDES: Los Angeles, CA
PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION
RING NAME(S): Shane Atwater
NICKNAME(S): "The Man Who Would Tap Out the World" (coined by SVW commentary)
BILLED FROM: Los Angeles, CA
HEIGHT: 6 feet 3 inches
WEIGHT: 240 pounds
TRAINED BY: "Iron Ogre" Akitoshi Takayama
CROWD AFFILIATION: Face. Fluctuates between Lawful & Neutral Good, if you want to go by that spectrum.
PROFESSIONAL DEBUT: January 20th, 2002
EXPERIENCE: 16 years
ACCOLADES: Inaugural HKW Crowned Royalty tournament winner. Only 3-time World Champion in HKW history. GFP/NKP Openweight Champion. GFP/NKP Tag Team Champion. 2-time SVW Defiance Champion. 2017 SVW Face of the Year.
CONTRACT TYPE: Part-Time
STATISTICAL INFORMATION
In Arcadia PRO, I would like to incorporate a familiar-ish statistic system in order to further display your character's physical and mental strengths and weaknesses. You have a 36 point pool. Now you can further describe the statistic if you'd like. Do all you can in order to illustrate how your character is. You have an "_" out of 10 system.
STRENGTH: 4. Power has never really been his focus. His grip strength is excellent, but he isn't just throwing people around like ragdolls.
SPEED: 5. Quick and agile, particularly with transitions, but not lightning fast.
TOUGHNESS: 7. Can take a beating, and hang on when it comes crunch time, but nobody's invincible.
INTELLIGENCE: 10. Incredibly strategic and analytical. Always a step or two ahead, and able to easily adjust on the fly when necessary. this is the strongest part of his game.
CHARISMA: 1. Doesn't particularly like the promotional aspect. He'll talk when he has to, but people get behind him for what he does in the ring much more than outside of it.
STAMINA: 9. Can fucking go. When matches go into deep water, he thrives when others fail.
Use a F - S system.
SPIRIT: S
HONOR: A
MALEVOLENCE: D
TALENT: B
VIOLENCE: C
POTENTIAL: A
WRESTLING INFORMATION
WRESTLING STYLE: Technical. A blend of Japanese, European, and American styles and disciplines, all employed in concert to create a nearly unbeatable submission wrestling arsenal. Augments his grappling with strikes and a handful of high impact suplexes, with the main focus always being the mat game.
MATCH TACTICS: "Everybody Taps" isn't just a slogan, and "Tap Out The World" isn't just a manifesto. It's the defining principle behind everything Shane does. He may have to augment his game now and then, step outside of those parameters when he's thrown into gimmick matches, and of late, his credo of "No More Half Measures" might have made his style that much more physically punishing...But everything he does. Every strike, every transition, every throw, is designed to find a weakness, or create a weakness where there is none, before targeting that weakness for the eventual submission victory. If you don't tap out, you'll pass out, and possibly get yourself hurt in the process, particularly if you've drawn his ire.
CHARACTER PERSONALITY: More than a bit of an introvert. Private, stand-offish to most in order to keep himself under the radar. Tends to be extremely level-headed, but when pushed, can be utterly ruthless, which has happened more and more often as his career has gone on. Generally personable, if a bit cool toward those around him.
CHARACTER ANALYSIS: Generally "good". Always tries to do the right thing, stands up for those who are being victimized when necessary. The guy who's more than happy to put the "bad guys" in their place, even if it takes things getting a little ugly to do it. Prefers to work alone to avoid complications (both for himself and those around him) but will do what it takes for the greater good when necessary. Otherwise remains focused on the singular goal of proving that he is in fact the best technical wrestler, if not just the best wrestler period, walking the planet.
GIMMICK DESCRIPTION: "The Professional." The calm, cool, collected wrestling machine with ice water in his veins.
MOVESET INFORMATION
FINISHERS
(Preferably, a submission finisher or signature needs to be added.)
PRIMARY FINISHER: The Crucible [Arm Trap Crossface]
SECONDARY FINISHER: Parabola [Wrist Clutch Olympic Slam. Impact Finish that can also be used to feed into the Crucible]
DESPERATION FINISHER: Lateralus [Reverse Ushigoroshi (Canadian Backbreaker Rack Lift to Facebreaker Knee Smash)]
FINAL FINISHER: The Kobayashi Maru [A-Dise Lock. This is proverbial "Ace in the hole". Never been countered. Never been escaped. If this hold is applied, it is a submission victory 100 percent of the time.]
SIGNATURES
1. The Package [Lightning Lock. There are multiple variations of this hold. Shane will utilize as many as necessary, and possible chain variations together to keep the opponent guessing.]
2. The Knot [Chickenwing Octopus Stretch]
3. The Whale & The Wasp [Rolling Fisherman's Suplexes chained into a Sit-Out Spinebuster]
4. Schism [Sheer Drop Falcon Arrow]
5. Tope Suicida
REGULAR MOVESET
(15 is the minimum; you can keep past the 15.
1. European Uppercuts [favored strike. standing, running, rolling, cornered, et cetera]
2. Forearm Strikes
3. Dropkick [often done utilizing the "AJ Styles Sequence"]
4. Running Knee Trembler
5. Snap Suplex
6. Snap Belly-to-Belly Suplex
7. Northern Lights Suplex
8. Double Underhook Suplex
9. German Suplex [Bridging, Release, Rolling]
10. Bridging Tiger Suplex
11. Single Arm DDT [often utilized to set-up holds]
12. Armbars [Any & All Variants. Matchwriter's Discretion]
13. Leglocks [Any & All Variants. Matchwriter's Discretion]
14. Cravate [Stepover Toehold, Inverted, Arm Trap Inverted]
15. Stretch Plum
16. Strangle Hold [Alpha, Gamma, Beta]
17. Stepover Toehold Facelock
18. Indian Deathlock
19. Inverted Indian Deathlock
20. Shane is a submission wrestling expert. If there's a hold out there, he knows it, and more than likely all the counters that go along with it, the counters to those counters, et cetera. Feel free to be creative in this regard in lieu of a list of literally every hold that has ever existed.
ENTRANCE INFORMATION
ENTRANCE THEME: "Cochise" - Audioslave
ANNOUNCER INTRODUCTION: | ERIN LAMBERT: Introducing at this time...From Los Angeles, California...standing six feet, three inches tall, weighing in tonight at two-hundred-forty pounds...SHAAAAAAAAANE ATWATER!
ENTRANCE DESCRIPTION: The lights go dark, and a rhythmic, rattling hum intensifies, the lights beginning to strobe with the drumbeats as they kick in. Soon enough, a rumbling bass line follows, and the drums begin to pick up as the screens flash with words, each one punctuated by the punch of the snare.
TAP OUT THE WORLD
The drums and bass come to a crescendo as the heavy guitars of “Cochise” by Audioslave hit, an eruption of pyrotechnics lighting up the sight of Shane Atwater, standing on the middle of the stage. He pauses there a moment, head bowed, saying a few silent words to himself as the crowd surges with a positive response and the music roils around him. Throwing the hood on his vest back and looking out at the crowd before stalking down toward the ring with purpose, only pausing to slap hands with a few fans here and there before making his way to ringside. He pauses momentarily before climbing onto the apron, kneeling there momentarily with his hand on the top rope, head bowed as he takes a quiet moment to hype himself up before he climbs into the ring, immediately heading to mount the middle turnbuckle in the nearest corner. He takes in the scene a moment longer before throwing a single fist in the air to an eruption of cheers. He nods, the hint of a smirk playing across his face before he climbs down, rubbing his hands together and cracking his neck before heading to his corner to await the start of the match.
CHAMPIONSHIP ENTRANCE DESCRIPTION: The lights go dark, and a rhythmic, rattling hum intensifies, the lights beginning to strobe with the drumbeats as they kick in. Soon enough, a rumbling bass line follows, and the drums begin to pick up as the screens flash with words, each one punctuated by the punch of the snare.
TAP OUT THE WORLD
The drums and bass come to a crescendo as the heavy guitars of “Cochise” by Audioslave hit, an eruption of pyrotechnics lighting up the sight of Shane Atwater, standing on the middle of the stage, the Arcadia Pro [INSERT] Championship glinting from it's place firmly strapped around his waist. He pauses there a moment, head bowed, saying a few silent words to himself as the crowd surges with a positive response and the music roils around him. Throwing the hood on his vest back and looking out at the crowd before stalking down toward the ring with purpose, only pausing to slap hands with a few fans here and there before making his way to ringside. He pauses momentarily before climbing onto the apron, kneeling there momentarily with his hand on the top rope, head bowed as he takes a quiet moment to hype himself up before he climbs into the ring, immediately heading to mount the middle turnbuckle in the nearest corner. He takes in the scene a moment longer before unstrapping the [INSERT] Championship from around his waist and holding it up for the crowd to see, to an eruption of cheers. He nods, the hint of a smirk playing across his face before he climbs down, giving the [INSERT] Championship a last look before handing it off to the official, rubbing his hands together and cracking his neck before heading to his corner to await the start of the match.
BIOGRAPHY
It would be preferred, but it's not mandatory. Update this as you go.
Shane Atwater spent most of his early career as a mid-level attraction in the independent scene, touring the Western US and becoming proficient as a mat technician.. He then spent several years honing his craft in Japan under the tutelage of the famous “Iron Ogre” Akitoshi Takayama. While there, Shane gained renown for an innovative submission hold that when applied, guaranteed victory with no chance of escape. Dubbed the “Kobayashi Maru” in a nod to the unsolvable problem from a television show in Shane’s childhood, the hold and Shane’s continued growth as a submission wrestler brought him newfound notoriety in Japan, and eventually brought him onto the radar of Hard Knox Wrestling, who he signed with in 2014. He saw immediate success, winning the Crowned Royalty tournament that same year and quickly establishing himself as a star on the rise (while also being embroiled in a brutal feud with Jack Warren, which would last the entirety of the calendar year of 2015 and beyond). After a failed attempt to win the World Championship, and another after that (both stolen out from under him by Warren) Shane took a sabbatical and returned to Japan, winning the then-GFP World Tag Team Championships as part of a makeshift team with Kickass Smurf. The two defended their belts against all comers, before Shane made his return to Hard Knox Wrestling at Warren’s goading, eventually defeating his arch nemesis, taking the HKW World Championship, and breaking his arm in the process. Soon after that Smurf and Atwater lost their tag team championships to Annie Zellor and The Crimson Baroness, only for Atwater to bounce back by winning his first major singles championship in Japan when he defeated Ricky Valero for the NKP (formerly GFP) Openweight Championship. With his career surging forward, Atwater looked for even more new challenges, and more competition to push himself to the next level. TBC.