EpyonMarx
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Name: Otaku
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 230lbs
Hometown: Neo Tokyo Tower
Alignment: Face
Physical Description: Blond hair, cut short (back and sides), slightly spiky on top. He has blue eyes, which somehow manage to change colour – blue is their neutral colour, but they can change to a wide variety of colours, including, when incredibly peeved, jet black. Clothing wise, outside the ring he tends to go casual, jeans and a variety of anime T-shirts. For ring attire, on a normal TV show or house show, he’ll dress in cosplay from whatever show he’s been watching recently (leading to some interesting cross-dressing on occasion), but on PPV, he dresses in a home-made, accurate replica of Jushin “Thunder” Liger’s costume in green and gold. Complete with black wig, and face-paint under the mask in case he needs to go Kishin.
Entrance music: The opening theme to the show “Jushin Liger”
Entrance Description: As the opening drone builds, the lights are cut. As the first bars play, various scenes from anime shows flash up on the big screen, until the lyrics kick in, when Otaku himself steps through the curtains, smoke rising around him. He poses for the fans, before walking to the ring, playing up to the fans as any face would. He climbs the ring steps, vaulting over the ropes, and, if his costume includes a cape, he poses, before swirling the cape off in one fluid movement, dropping it down to the ring attendant.
PPV Entrance Description: An identical entrance to that used by his idol, Jushin “Thunder” Liger.
Wrestling style: He’s a mix of a flyer and a technical wrestler – the closest two I can think of are Owen Hart, and (modern) Jushin “Thunder” Liger – able to pull off the big high-flying moves, but preferring a slightly more grounded attack. Unless he's in Liger mode - in which case he'll pull off some classic high flying moves.
Finisher:
1) Liger Sword – Stalling Brainbuster
2) Chidori/Lightning Blade – Two different moves, used to knock out an opponent. The Chidori is a high-speed flying forearm, used suddenly as Otaku’s hit the ropes to build momentum. If Chidori doesn’t work, or he can’t find the right time to use it, he might use Lightning Blade - a shining wizard-like knee delivered to the back of the head at high speed. Can be done against most standing opponents if he’s built up the momentum.
3) Angel Wings – a double chickenwing on a grounded opponent. Better known as Cattle Mutilation.
Other Moves:
Suplexes (various)
Ligerbomb (sitout powerbomb)
Shooting Star Press
Russian Leg Sweep
Texas Cloverleaf
Surfboard
Japanese arm-drag
Yakuza Kick
Flying headbutt
Fire (rarely used, it’s a reverse somersault from the top rope straight into a DDT – the opponent is getting up off the canvas, back to Otaku on the top rope)
Major strength: He’s a very well versed mat wrestler who adopts a Japanese style, so his major strength is probably his mat work. Other than that, his ever-increasing knowledge of anime and manga.
Major weakness: He’s also not all that strong or quick, so he makes mistakes and can be caught off guard. He’s a bit of a poser when in costume too.
History: A sportsman at school, he was on the wrestling and athletics teams (specialising in triple jump). He had a very normal childhood, nothing spectacular happened. His parents didn’t die horribly or anything like that. When he was 15 though, he began down a treacherous path – the path of the anime watcher! Since then, he’s been fascinated by it, watching a volume of a series a night.
His love of wrestling also started in high school, when he watched some tapes of New Japan Pro Wrestling. He fell in love with Jushin Liger and Great Muta, especially, and as he got older he decided to try following their path. He worked out, often watching his shows at the same time, and in the summer of 2007 he joined Empire Pro Wrestling.
His career as a pro wrestler… well, it didn’t really take off. He was let go by Empire Pro after one match (a win against Raptor), and his time in TEAM was just as short, although he was one half of the Lethal Lottery tag team champions for a time. Since being released, he’s worked mostly in the independent scene and Europe, touring as Otaku, but he did make some appearances in Japan under various masks, delighting fans with his near-perfect mimicry of opponents and Japanese stars. After one successful tour, where one night he shocked fans by challenging The Great Muta to a Muta vs. Muta contest, he came back to America and was contacted by Empire Pro. The reasons behind his release are unknown, but now that he’s back in Empire Pro, he’s hoping to spread the word of Anime, one costume at a time.
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 230lbs
Hometown: Neo Tokyo Tower
Alignment: Face
Physical Description: Blond hair, cut short (back and sides), slightly spiky on top. He has blue eyes, which somehow manage to change colour – blue is their neutral colour, but they can change to a wide variety of colours, including, when incredibly peeved, jet black. Clothing wise, outside the ring he tends to go casual, jeans and a variety of anime T-shirts. For ring attire, on a normal TV show or house show, he’ll dress in cosplay from whatever show he’s been watching recently (leading to some interesting cross-dressing on occasion), but on PPV, he dresses in a home-made, accurate replica of Jushin “Thunder” Liger’s costume in green and gold. Complete with black wig, and face-paint under the mask in case he needs to go Kishin.
Entrance music: The opening theme to the show “Jushin Liger”
Entrance Description: As the opening drone builds, the lights are cut. As the first bars play, various scenes from anime shows flash up on the big screen, until the lyrics kick in, when Otaku himself steps through the curtains, smoke rising around him. He poses for the fans, before walking to the ring, playing up to the fans as any face would. He climbs the ring steps, vaulting over the ropes, and, if his costume includes a cape, he poses, before swirling the cape off in one fluid movement, dropping it down to the ring attendant.
PPV Entrance Description: An identical entrance to that used by his idol, Jushin “Thunder” Liger.
Wrestling style: He’s a mix of a flyer and a technical wrestler – the closest two I can think of are Owen Hart, and (modern) Jushin “Thunder” Liger – able to pull off the big high-flying moves, but preferring a slightly more grounded attack. Unless he's in Liger mode - in which case he'll pull off some classic high flying moves.
Finisher:
1) Liger Sword – Stalling Brainbuster
2) Chidori/Lightning Blade – Two different moves, used to knock out an opponent. The Chidori is a high-speed flying forearm, used suddenly as Otaku’s hit the ropes to build momentum. If Chidori doesn’t work, or he can’t find the right time to use it, he might use Lightning Blade - a shining wizard-like knee delivered to the back of the head at high speed. Can be done against most standing opponents if he’s built up the momentum.
3) Angel Wings – a double chickenwing on a grounded opponent. Better known as Cattle Mutilation.
Other Moves:
Suplexes (various)
Ligerbomb (sitout powerbomb)
Shooting Star Press
Russian Leg Sweep
Texas Cloverleaf
Surfboard
Japanese arm-drag
Yakuza Kick
Flying headbutt
Fire (rarely used, it’s a reverse somersault from the top rope straight into a DDT – the opponent is getting up off the canvas, back to Otaku on the top rope)
Major strength: He’s a very well versed mat wrestler who adopts a Japanese style, so his major strength is probably his mat work. Other than that, his ever-increasing knowledge of anime and manga.
Major weakness: He’s also not all that strong or quick, so he makes mistakes and can be caught off guard. He’s a bit of a poser when in costume too.
History: A sportsman at school, he was on the wrestling and athletics teams (specialising in triple jump). He had a very normal childhood, nothing spectacular happened. His parents didn’t die horribly or anything like that. When he was 15 though, he began down a treacherous path – the path of the anime watcher! Since then, he’s been fascinated by it, watching a volume of a series a night.
His love of wrestling also started in high school, when he watched some tapes of New Japan Pro Wrestling. He fell in love with Jushin Liger and Great Muta, especially, and as he got older he decided to try following their path. He worked out, often watching his shows at the same time, and in the summer of 2007 he joined Empire Pro Wrestling.
His career as a pro wrestler… well, it didn’t really take off. He was let go by Empire Pro after one match (a win against Raptor), and his time in TEAM was just as short, although he was one half of the Lethal Lottery tag team champions for a time. Since being released, he’s worked mostly in the independent scene and Europe, touring as Otaku, but he did make some appearances in Japan under various masks, delighting fans with his near-perfect mimicry of opponents and Japanese stars. After one successful tour, where one night he shocked fans by challenging The Great Muta to a Muta vs. Muta contest, he came back to America and was contacted by Empire Pro. The reasons behind his release are unknown, but now that he’s back in Empire Pro, he’s hoping to spread the word of Anime, one costume at a time.