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Topic Started: Mar 9 2008, 02:04 AM (421 Views)
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Colossus is backstage, alone in a room with no one but a cameraman. Dolly likes to keep the young man talking. Apparently, it makes for great DVD sales whenever they slap together a "Best of BQWA Promos" collection every year. Whatever. It lets the 24 year old get stuff off his chest. And boy, is that chest heavy. Colossus is in dress apparel, looking somewhat fancy, almost like dinner-at-a-fancy-restaurant fancy. His wedding ring is visible but not ostentatious. His blue silk tie draws your eyes upward to his own piercing blue orbs...

Colossus: "I hear chatter every once in a while. It's roughly the same tune. 'Kid, you're 24. Your time will come. Ric Flair never won a major title for years, so wait your turn.' Wait my turn. It's a common theme. Never really said to my face, per se, but it gets whispered. I'm a Fusion guy, not a Meltdown product. So I've gotta wait my turn, get in line behind everyone else. Patience is a virtue, I hear. Patience. Calm. Relaxation."

"They are virtues, and they have their place. But this business isn't one of them. Every time I look at the top of the card and see Big Evil in bold, World Heavyweight Champion, it grates on me. It's death by a thousand cuts. He's beaten me twice that I remember, one time with the strap on the line. So it's not that he can't wrestle. Far from it. It's that he doesn't embody a champion. Every time I see him, it's always about Evil. It's never about the gold he wears around his waist. It's a cancerous selfishness."

"The entire resurrection of the EWA proves my point. It was a power play, a recasting of the glory days of Evil's past. But he didn't just have the stones to come out and say that, because if he did, I would have at least respected the endeavor. There's nothing wrong with a little nostalgia for a beautiful, bygone era. But he had to wrap it in the 'resurrection of real wrestling' nonsense."

" He couldn't just come out and say: 'You know what? Those were the best goddamn days of my life, where I was happiest, most productive, most at peace with myself. And I want them back, no matter how fleeting or temporary it may be.' No, he had to cloak it in platitudes about what 'real wrestling' was and how we all fell short except his chosen band of fellow travelers. We got lectures in the middle of the ring, not about the beauty and history of the BQWA Heavyweight Title, not about the courage and power of the men who came before him and called themselves Champions, but about how everyone just didn't get it. How we couldn't possibly understand what EWA symbolized, its greatness, its ineffable magnificence."

"And it just.......rang...........hollow. Evil's resurrection of the EWA was an edifice with no firm foundation. Christ warned against building one's house on sand, because there was nothing underneath it for support if the wind blew, or the waves crested high. It just....rang....hollow. No matter how the Champ spun it, no matter how many men tagged along for the ride, no matter if Kid Disturbed believed in it, or Gogz, or Halo........it just.....rang....hollow. In this newest incarnation, there was no camaraderie, no joy, no sense of togetherness or purpose. There was nothing beyond inflicting pain and chaos, and the will to tear down instead of building up. The original EWA, from everything I've seen, was a band of brothers, and whether you liked the style or not, you had to at least respect the men who practiced it. It was a family, yes perhaps a dysfunctional one, but when the chips were down....a family. For the past several months, I never saw a family, not once. I saw a group of cobbled-together mercenaries, intent on brutality and pain. And you can't win with that, Big. You can cause a hell of a lot of damage. But you can never win."

"You had to have realized that at some point, perhaps toward the beginning, perhaps at the end, when Plus stuck a sword through the heart of the beast. But it was true then, and it's true now. If what you preach is total violence, with no foundation of any kind underneath, you reap what you sow. And you got it, Big. Anarchy, dissension, a general feeling of indifference and malaise. THAT was your reincarnation of EWA. And because of THAT, Big, whenever wrestling fans in the future look back and shoot the shit with one another...and start tossing out the list of their favorite promotions of all time....the refrain will be crystal-clear..."

Colossus' voice changes to your generic white-guy back and forth

"Hey, Jim...remember the EWA? That shit was KING back in the day!"

"Which one, Matt? The original? Or that half-assed retread that never really got off the ground?"

"Ohhh, shit. I almost forgot about that. Fuck. Yeah, I wish he had just let it be what it was...I really loved watching those guys, but you're right...they ruined it."

Colossus' voice goes back to normal, but he speaks more slowly this time. Occasionally, he becomes animated, leaning forward in his chair in bouts of clear emotion.

"Big, because of your ego, there will always need to be instant clarification about your most prized gift to the wrestling world. About which EWA are we speaking? The one that helped re-define hardcore and technical wrestling? Or the other one? The bastardized, mercenary version that degraded a multiple-time women's Champion as some kind of friggin' prop bet, or sent Aaron Nexus' career on a rocket to the Sun, or gave fans the nasty after-taste of a misused, criminally wasted Charles Everton. You never used to have the problem of explaining yourself when it came to EWA. Now the first question on the lips of the wrestling world will always, ALWAYS be.....'What happened?'"

"So to come on back to my original point, Champ...about me hearing whispers in the back, about how it's not my time, not my turn, that patience is a virtue. Listen up, big man, and that goes for everyone else in the Meltdown locker room."

"I have WAITED for months and months, day in and day out having to deal with the warmed-over abortion that called itself EWA. I have WAITED for months, watching Big Evil slowly suck the prestige out of the greatest Title in this sport like a goddamned vampire, because he couldn't just be honest with the world and say he wanted to relive the glory days ONE MORE TIME. I have WAITED through a song and dance wrapped up in speeches, and been lectured by the World Heavyweight Champion about how we JUST DON'T GET IT..."

"I have WAITED, Big, as you slumped that gold over your shoulder like a woman would wear a scarf, like it's just another accessory. I have WAITED as the EWA metastasized into every corner of the body that is BQWA, with no one to say STOP except for A-freaking-Plus and me. And I have WAITED as Johnny Karisma jerked us around yet ONE MORE TIME when the stakes were highest."

"So pardon my emotion, Champ. Because when I hear whispers about waiting, I can't help but smile and choke back some choice words. But no more. I'm gonna find a gear you didn't even know I had. And I'm gonna find it at the Rumble. And I don't care if I'm #1, #30, or anywhere in-between. I will be the last man in that ring, Big Evil, and I will walk into Immortals VII as the #1 Contender for the greatest prize in this business. And guess what?"

"I'll find that same gear, one more time."

"Because I WAIT...for my wife. I WAIT...for my family. I WAIT...for all those I love. I WAIT...for a judgment in the next world based on my actions in this one."

"But Big? I WILL.....NOT.....WAIT....for the King of Do-Overs. I will not WAIT for a man who got down on his knees and choked whatever life was left in the concept of the EWA, who drained it of its very life-force in the hopes that it would rejuvenate him. But the EWA was like a bad blood transfusion, Big. It just....didn't....take. It rejected the host into which it was injected. It denied you the essence you so craved. The EWA would not be party to the abominations you created."

" And when Plus mercifully destroyed whatever loose fragment was still left of the EWA, Big, it THANKED HIM. Silently, it praised his very name for allowing the dead to rest in peace, free from the sickening rot you had stuck in its core. It was better off dead, Big, but you conjured it back again with black magic. And now, it rests again."

"One more time, Big, in case your ears were closed at first."

"I"

"will win"

"the Rumble."

"And then I will WAIT......but only until Immortals."

"Because then, the waiting stops. And your era ends. And I place the heart back into the body of the BQWA, a heart which you so casually ripped out in a butchered quest for past days."

"My name is Colossus, Big Evil........"

The camera cuts off, but everyone knows how that sentence ends.

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Television. A powerful form of media used to inform and entertain billions of people around the world. In the realm of television the possibilities are endless. You flip one channel and you find yourself viewing the latest in technology from around the world, another flip and it's Saturday morning cartoons from the 70's filling your screen, another flip and you're watching Dale Jr. leading the pack with five laps left to go....and one last flip gets you onto a video of a young man filled with passion, hope and determination.

That's not what Johnny sees. That's not passion...it's ignorance. That's not hope....it's youth. And that's not determination....it's foolishness.

As we fade in Johnny is sitting in some God forsaken excuse for a VIP lounge as he awaits his turn to go out and sign a few autographs for the ungrateful little punks who, come MeltDown, will be boo'ing him just as hard as their filthy lungs will allow. The TV infront of him crackles in a way that only a piece of shit television can. Johnny places the remote onto the coffee table in front of him before turning to the camer next to him.

Karisma: Have you ever watched the movie "four Rooms"? If not, I suggest you pick it up...totally underrated piece of cinema. The movie is starred by Tim Roth who plays a bell hop working on New Years Eve in, what used to be atleast, one of the mots prestigous hotels in Los Angeles. Now, what's so interesting is the there are four chapters to the movie, each of which is directed by a different director. Now, I'm not going to lie and say I know what two of their names where because I don't, but the last two chapters were directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. It's in Tarantino's room that one of character's says the following line..."The less we make declarative statements, the less likely we are to look foolish in retrospect." I've always wanted a use for that quote...and now thanks to two ceratin indivulas I finally have it. The first is you, Colossus.

I just finished watching your latest piece of over-hyped bullshit and I must say you even had me going there for a minute. I wanted to jump out of my seat, start pumping my fist in the air and chant GO COLOSSUS GO! GO COLOSSUS GO! But let's cut from the bullshit and see what this really is Colossus. You and I both know you don' fully believe the shit pouring from your mouth. You're smarter than that. My question is, then, if you don't honestly believe it then why would you say it? Because, you're hoping that by some off chance you're right. I mean, if you say all this and then lose the Rumble it's no big deal. There can only be one winner, right? But if my some miracle you win...oh.....I can only imagine the ego you will build up. And then, it won't just be the Rumble...now it'll be you versus my main man, Big Evil in the main event of the grand-daddy of the all. That's what you want. And after you get it, it'll be the same song and dance as before. "I'm going to beat Big Evil for the championship" you'll say week after week and then when that day finally comes...you'll lose. And you'll looks foolish.

Now don't fret little Colossus, you're not the only person who needs a lesson in humility. Because now we move from Colossus, to A+. Hi, buddy. I watched your little video on BQWA.com and I must say it's rather heart touching. A+, the champion of the people, having one last go before hanging up his boots at Immortals...well, Plus, I have just one question for you. What even makes you think you're getting to Immortals? Inacse you've become so full of yourself that you don't even bother to read the show cards anymore I am your oppoent this MeltDown and if you think what we did to Whacko was bad you just wait good sir. You see, I've been waiting for this very moment for months and months and now that it's finally here I am going to enjoy every last fucking moment of picking you apart piece by piece until you have nothing left to fight for...or with. It brings a tear to my eye, because all those months I stayed by your side, forcing on the smiles, leading you along all seem worth it now and I can not wait for the final pay off.

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Best... reading... ever.

So I sit and read every word of Colossus, take it in, slow down when the character is talking slow and speed up iwth the emotion.. completely fucking incredible promo, and absolutely cements it that I want you to win the Rumble. Simple as. I marked for the character, marked for the promo, marked for the message being sent and marked for the fact that EVERYTHING you said made sense, it's not just "I know what would make a neat promo".

So to put it simply, in my head is simply GO COLOSSUS GO.

Then Karisma makes me feel like teh smuck for buying the hype, gives me another end of the perspective. The emotionless, realistic, just a kid who is getting too hyped up look.

Literally incredible to read, I just wish they could replicate the experience of reading promo's here in real wrestling. Maybe then I would actually go out of my way to do more than read results and watch PPVs.


Oh and, Karisma Vs Plus this Meltdown.. can't fucking wait.

Hopefully, Mr Colossus Sir, you can roleplay again before Meltdown so I get a take on the match with Kid for the number one spot, as the ONLY fault in the roleplay is that it didn't address that. Totally not a prob if you roleplay again.

Awesome, awesome shit people.
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BRilliant stuff. Great reading the both of you. THis is how rp-ing should be, one replying to the other.

You both write well, with awesome description. The dialogue flowed well and work well off each other.

Looking forward to reading more
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Mar 9 2008, 08:19 AM
Hopefully, Mr Colossus Sir, you can roleplay again before Meltdown so I get a take on the match with Kid for the number one spot, as the ONLY fault in the roleplay is that it didn't address that. Totally not a prob if you roleplay again.


Hey, DM....check out the Johnny Cash inspired hype video I put together for me vs. KD. It didn't address the match PER SE, but it did build up KD, and he responded really well to it. I really liked that promo, probably one of my top 5 or so favorites to write.

To be fair, I was inspired by the use of that same song at the end of a TV show I like--that new Terminator show on Fox (at least here in the States it is, not sure where non-Americans would get it/watch it...)

I'm also glad you liked the promo. I liked writing it. And JK's response was, par for the course, excellent.
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On TBS. Very Funny.

If you don't know that I've read this promo at least 8 times before leaving this feedback, then you need a lobotomy. Firstly, I needed to because any promo that mentions me is, slobviously and ricockulously great. Secondly, if you haven't read my latest piece of work yet *cough cough cheap plug cough cough*, then I suggest you do, because it features a rebuttle to thou, sir. I've always been a fan but the past couple of months you've come into your OWN character instead of what we've developed for you, which makes me proud. Your dialogue is bar none and I must say I am more of a fan of your dialogue than anything else.
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