Post by Kris on Jan 5, 2021 0:37:41 GMT -5
VITAL STATISTICS
RING NAME: Erin Gordon.
NICKNAMES: The Oncoming Storm.
HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 5'8" / 163 lbs.
HOMETOWN: Blooming Valley, PA
AGE: 34 (12/7/1987).
ALIGNMENT: Face.
GIMMICK: Erin is a small-town widowed farmer that is wrestling to prove to her son, Benson, that it's never too late to pursue one's dreams... and more importantly? That it's important to get back up and try again when you fall, no matter how long it takes to get back to your feet. (To go into further detail: Erin's a woman of great wit, but not necessarily of equal intelligence. The best example that I can think of is that she knows damn well that fire will burn her, but she's ignorant of the science behind it beyond on a basic level. She doesn't much care for people that have to 'pretty their words up to make a point', seeing them as snakes oil salesman/women with very few exceptions since most people that have to do that usually have a closet chock full of skeletons, in her experience. Simple and functional is the name of her game, really. Since she's got an impressionable young mind watching her on TV, she's big on the idea of giving him a good example to look at-- which means she'll bust her ass to make liars and cheaters especially look as silly and impotent as they ought to be. She's also, well... the best way to describe her approach to things is 'small town direct'. There's no time for waxing poetic or puffing up big, in her eyes. The fight's what matters, and by God-- she's gonna bring that fight to you whether or not you're ready for it.)
PICBASE: AJ Cook as seen in season 10 onward in Criminal Minds.
APPEARANCE:
Erin wears a uniform, for lack of a better word, of jeans and tank-tops in plain colors, with insulated flannels and a beat-to-Hell Carhartt coat in the winter. In the ring, her attire is simplistic black spandex, a cropped tank top paired with knee-length shorts. The consistent things in either case are the black shitkicker boots that are well-worn, but solid... and the simple ponytail she pulls her hair back into, like, 99% of the time.
TWITTER: Erin... doesn't have one. She did years ago, but she's long since abandoned it.
BIOGRAPHY
The middle child of the Humes family on Old Route 198 in Blooming Valley-- and the only girl besides-- Erin grew up juggling the responsibilities of a student and of a farmer's daughter. Since her mother was a tomboy herself, the fact that Erin was spared precisely none of the harsher, more 'manly' tasks around the place wasn't much of a surprise... though she also had plenty to do with a woman's work as well. Above all else, though, she learned how to hold her own in any fights with her brothers fast--and in defending her honor against most of the boys that tried to pick on her in school. She made decent grades in high school up through her junior year when her first and only boyfriend, Silas Gordon, knocked her up after prom. Graduating was a struggle, but she managed it before settling into the role of mother and wife alongside of Silas, even starting up a new farm with him a couple miles down the road of her family's estate, for lack of a better word. Things were good--not rolling in dough good, but good enough to ride out the hard times and be able to rent a cabin for a week in the summer when things were better.
Of course, that all went to Hell the afternoon that Erin got a phone call saying that her husband had been killed when the tool and die machine he'd been on had malfunctioned and drawn him into it.
She got a settlement for his passing, but there's not much value put on the life of a simple laborer--and that money's only making do in the long term because of what the farm brings in to supplement it. Things are steady enough, though, for her to make a play at a dream that all the Humes kids had, but none of them ever pursued; professional wrestling. With the support of her family and with her son, Benson having christened her with a moniker she couldn't help but think was ridiculous, she set out to do her level best to make something happen... and to prove that it's never too late to chase a dream if you want it bad enough.
Her time in SCW was successful enough to make that dream seem like a reality. With the exception of a hard-fought bout against Tarja where she fell short of winning the Vegas Championship, as of yet? Erin was undefeated in the ring, most notably putting 'The Good Doctor' Amy Jo Smyth square on her ass after a rather intense war of words. With the advanced notice of SCW closing in October, she found herself having to scout other opportunities...but none of them stuck. There was a period where she was signing the dotted line one day, and the company was closing the next before she could even lace up her boots. Her last attempt to hang in a company was in HOW, where Eric Dane put her on the shelf during a match by targeting the injured knee that's dogged her for most of her career.
Her signing the dotted line in AWF proved that he failed.
QUOTES & CATCHPHRASES
- Erin... doesn't really have any of these yet for during matches, though those will surely come with time. After every match, though, win or lose? She'll use both her hands to make a rough 'B' shape before making the shape of a heart, her way of dedicating her efforts to her son back home.
MOVESET, STYLE & ENTRANCE
FINISHERS:
- "Nor'easter" (Spinning Backfist from Hell.)
- "Windswept" (Slingblade as done by Masato Yoshino)
SIGNATURES:
- "Dragging Winds" (Sliding Lariat.)
- "Downpour" (Head Pull Backbreaker)
- "Twist'er Off." (Arm Triangle. In submissions matches, this is what she'll go for.)
OTHER MOVES:
- ...the moves everyone knows. C'mon, you know what I mean.
- Spinning back elbow.
- Chop block, both to the back and the front of the leg.
- Jumping corner clothesline.
- Springboard Clothesline.
- Surprisingly stiff clotheslines overall, actually.
- Punching combos
. - Lou Thesz Press with mounted punches (sometimes diving).
- European uppercut.
- Diving European Uppercut.
- Superman punch.
- Bionic elbow.
- Running corner high knee.
- Swinging neckbreaker.
- Running swinging neckbreaker.
- Fist drop.
- Second rope fist drop.
- STO.
- Second rope back elbow (possible use as an Irish Whip counter).
- Drop down uppercut (as a back body drop counter).
- Various and sundry speed-and-dexterity-based dodges.
WRESTLING STYLE:
Erin is a speed-based brawler. Basically? She makes up for her comparatively small size by putting a lot of momentum behind her blows each and every which-way she can--and she's got a surprising amount of wallop to bear even without it. Think like the Scout from Team Fortress 2 with fists instead of a baseball bat, just in a less graceful manner.
ENTRANCE THEME:
"Hurricane" by Thrice
ENTRANCE DESCRIPTION:
The overhead lights slowly go dark as the first strummed chords of 'Hurricane' fill the air, the crowd's cheers rising in response to the woman that is about to emerge. Gray lights flare into being around the curtain when the song starts proper, illuminating the outline of the Oncoming Storm as she stands with her shoulders square, her hands curled into fists at her sides... and the AWF United States Championship around her waist. The wind machine is on behind her, blowing her hair around as her gaze moves over the assembled crowd and the surroundings alike... before it settles upon the ring. As 'Hurricane' cuts to the chorus, she makes her way down the aisle, not shying away from the hands that reach out for her. Erin's focus never wavers, even as she grabs onto the ropes and hauls herself up onto the apron. Wiping her feet, she climbs into the ring between the top and middle ropes before she heads to her corner, turning to rest her back against the turnbuckles. Only then does she play a little to the crowd, a single fist thrusting itself skyward to earn more cheers as her music fades, the Oncoming Storm removing her title and handing it to a production assistant for safekeeping.
CHAMPIONSHIPS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1x AWF United States Champion (current)
ALL ABOUT YOU!
YOUR NAME: There are those who call me... Kris.
HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT US? Uh--I signed up in NLW, and decided to come be a pain in Adrien's ass.
