Post by vespertine on Mar 15, 2022 21:46:10 GMT -5
Place: Denny’s, Daly City, Ca.
Time: 11:30PM, an hour after their band's show at the Cow Palace.
Date: Friday Mar, 12th, 2021
(A corner booth in a Denny’s restaurant somewhere off of Daly Blvd in Daly City. In the booth sits Vespertine and Nightelf. A third figure sits between them. She wears deep purple velvet and black, her cape with the hood is on the seat next to her. The only noticeable thing about her is the face mask she is wearing, that only covers half her face, like Phantom of the Opera mask, as that part of her face that is covered has been burnt either by the Sun or by fire. Vespertine looks over at her.)
V: Angel, uh, Britt, you can take that off. We aren’t here for theatrics.
(The newcomer shrugs and takes off her mask. Her face seems to be a combination of disfiguration and skin discoloration. The eye on the burned side of her face is milky white with no pupil. The other eye is normal with a purple iris. We can tell she'd once been a beautiful woman.)
Lizzie: Wow! What happened? Last time I saw you in a mask, it was in WCW, you were still in Dark Alliance, it was gimmick and that was JUST a mask.
Angel: A few years ago I played hero by leaping into a blazing house that was on fire trying to rescue my sister’s kid. Needless to say my wrestling career is over. As evident by the cane I use.
Vespertine: I was wondering about that. I thought it was just for show. Why do you need the cane?
Angel: I got hit with a burning timber leaping out the first floor window. I couldn't walk for a year. But I can now and the cane helps.
V: What do you do now?
A: IT work.
(Both Lizzie and Vespertine nod as if that explained everything. The waiter comes up and takes their orders)
Lizzie: (to Vespertine) We haven’t seen Angel in years. She suddenly appears and wants to get a bite to eat and this is the best place you can come up with? Really?
V: Shut up Elf. This is the only place I know open at 11:30 at night that is condusive to talking without loud music, people distracting us, or knowing and caring about us either.
L: (shrugging) Your town. You know what’s best.
V: (turning to Angel) So, hey. How you been? By the way what’s with the “I don’t want to see anybody else but Vespertine. I have a message for her.” It’s like you have a premonition of death for me. (they all laugh then fall silent) You don’t do you?
L: You used to be so good at those.
A: You know, I have been watching your career for a while. I lost you after Full Throttle Wrestling, found you again in Universal and followed you here to Revolution 1. What happened to you Vespertine?
V: What do you mean?
A: You aren’t the same balls to the wall, winner takes all, do or die trying Vespertine that I used to know and depending on the day one either loved or hated. I see you've won your matches a lot more here in Revolution but you don't seem to have the same fire in you like when we used to wrestle. What happened? You used to have major wins and victories. And if you didn’t win, woe be to the nearest person or foe who was in your sight because then you would raise hell if you lost and attacked them. What happened to that Vespertine? What happened to: if she didn’t win, she would rip the referee apart and then go berserk tearing apart backstage, not really crying over the loss but in a fury because she lost and didn’t want to start a losing streak. Ironically, if you do happen to go against Talia Skye and some of the others in Revolution, that's exactly what will happen? They have fire. You lost yours.
V: Did you see me at Wargames? I raised hell in that cell. My team won.
A,L: By jumping to the winning side? (both women look at each other, then Nightelf) That's so Vespertine.
A: But that isn't the Vespertine that we (indicating both her and Elf) KNOW. Or at least the one Lizzie trained to be all extreme. Seriously? That’s raising hell to you now? That’s like 70 year old woman in assisted living type of raising hell.
L: True, you were in a cage. But where was the blood? Where were the weapons? Where were you going Extreme. I wanted to see you fly around that cage, go to the top and powerbomb Talia off of it like you did with Rae. THAT, was the Vespertine, we used to know. And you didn’t do it to Talia either. You have upgraded from mean, hostile and aggressive to epicness and theatrics. Why?
V: Wait…what? No I didn’t. I never used to do that. Well maybe, once, with Rae but seriously, she had it coming. Was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
A,L: YES! You did.
L: Remember, when you started in WCW, first week, you went against me and then Widow. You beat us both, and at the time both of us were WCW’s top stars.
A: The Vespertine I knew was in two buried alive matches and an hour long Falls Count Anywhere match against Ms. Alison for the Women’s Title. You were suplexed off the loading dock onto a pile of pallets. You still won but came out bleeding the most. Remember that?
V: How can I forget?
A: You really can’t. But I think that is why you are lost so much in your last fed and you're blazing your way to the top this fed isn't going the way you planned. You’ve lost it, Vesey. You’ve lost you’re edge and you don’t know how to get it back. (she pauses to let her words sink in.) I have an idea for you that you might like.
L: Oh… not another Dark Alliance or Pain Inc. I don’t think Revolution needs that.
A: (ignores Lizzie) Vespertine, do you remember Lady V, the Assassin? You, me and Widow formed AWW our last run in WCW and we took down everyone who was thrown in our path. Even Jim, Dark Alliance founding member AND president to WCW, was afraid of us. You could bring her back
L: That could work. I don’t think I was in WCW then as a wrestler but as the Women’s Division GM. I definitely remember that stable.
V: Well, Angel, Widow and I formed AWW because we were tired of Dark Alliance and Pain Inc and wanted to have a theme, a stable of our own, be badass, take names, break bones, and we didn’t care if we garnered titles or not, we just wanted to do things differently our own way. We did what we loved and took out anybody who got in our way. Do you remember what AWW stood for?
A: I think it was short for: Awesome Women Wrestlers. Our theme was that we were bountyhunters and assassins. I carried a crossbow to the ring. Widow carried a sawed off Shotgun.
V: Yeah, I carried a samurai sword.
L: Widow had that nurse’s get up with an eye patch. How apropos she would carry a shotgun. (pauses) Why didn’t you ask me to join? I would’ve loved to be a bountyhunter.
V: I never trusted you after you backstabbed me for my tag team partner and then you and Ms. Alison became a tag team and tried to get what she and I did but you two didn’t have the chemistry we did. I don’t think you ever got the tag team belts. Alison and I not only got the tag belts but I got the World Title and she wore the Women’s title too.
A: Elf, she got you there. And you and I, uh sorry Lizzie, you and I never did get along. We always had differing ideas about the direction we wanted to take Dark Alliance.
L: But she trusted me enough to be drummer for the band.
V: Double drums? You are damn good at it too. The only other drummer I know that can play double drums with a foot pedal is Jukka from Nightwish.
L: True dat.
V: Anyway, you have to remember, I was the silent assassin and I did very little talking. That was hard for me.
A: Yeah Widow and I did most of the talking. But you don’t need to recreate the stable. Just recreate the character. Or something like it. Get your fire back. And if you don’t want to talk much, get a manager or valet or whatever you want to use. But I bet you, if your focus isn’t on titles, and just on collecting bounties and names, your run in Revolution will be that much better. Anyway, it’s just an idea, think about it. I just was in town on a business trip, saw you guys were performing and wanted to give you a little help/advice. Plus see how my old stablemates are doing.
(The waiter comes back with their food, sets it before them and goes off. They all dig in. For a few moments nobody says anything as they are into their food.)
A: Hey uh is Stick still your sensei? Is O still his right hand man?
V: Yes and yes.
A: If you need a manager, one of them could do it.
V: What about you?
(Angel looks directly into Vespertine’s smiling face and gets closer and just stares at her with the white blind cataract of her bad eye. Vespertine squirms uncomfortably.)
A: Do I look like I could manage anyone anymore? Do you think anybody wants to see THIS in public (indicating her face) And if I was attacked, I couldn’t run very fast or very far and the only weapon I could use is this cane which is just a cane. I would be beaten down just for being your manager AND for looking like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Elf: Probably more for the latter than the former.
V: Quasimodo! (suddenly is dawns on her) OHHHHHHH!!!! You’re right. Yeah, that would be a good idea. You know though, I could hire a bodyguard or two from the Hand, they would protect you. But it just dawned on me, that your face would be of great help. You would scare the hell out of them.
A: I'll think about it, but right now, I could, guide you in the right direction and help you come up with an entrance, outfit etc and help train you. If you still want me. I always was good at doing entrances.
Elf: Damn right you were. Even I was inspired, amazed, and intrigued by your various entrances and outfits. And we were part of the same stable, Dark Alliance.
V: Well, if what you say is true and I have lost my edge, then yes, your guidance would be most welcome. Maybe spirital advisor.
Elf: (choking on food suddenly) No, Occultic Baddass.
V: Deformed Devil of the Darkness, manager of Vespertine.
Elf: Wraith. Oh better yet! Banshee! Her gimmick, is she screams everytime Vespertine does a bad move.
A: Are you two quite done with the names?
E,V: Yes, mom, sorry.
(They laugh, and then get to eating,)
Time: 11:30PM, an hour after their band's show at the Cow Palace.
Date: Friday Mar, 12th, 2021
Outfit: Nightelf wears a camo outfit with no sleeves. Her hair is done up in braids down to her waist.
Outfit (Vespertine) (not her but what she is wearing)
(A corner booth in a Denny’s restaurant somewhere off of Daly Blvd in Daly City. In the booth sits Vespertine and Nightelf. A third figure sits between them. She wears deep purple velvet and black, her cape with the hood is on the seat next to her. The only noticeable thing about her is the face mask she is wearing, that only covers half her face, like Phantom of the Opera mask, as that part of her face that is covered has been burnt either by the Sun or by fire. Vespertine looks over at her.)
V: Angel, uh, Britt, you can take that off. We aren’t here for theatrics.
(The newcomer shrugs and takes off her mask. Her face seems to be a combination of disfiguration and skin discoloration. The eye on the burned side of her face is milky white with no pupil. The other eye is normal with a purple iris. We can tell she'd once been a beautiful woman.)
Lizzie: Wow! What happened? Last time I saw you in a mask, it was in WCW, you were still in Dark Alliance, it was gimmick and that was JUST a mask.
Angel: A few years ago I played hero by leaping into a blazing house that was on fire trying to rescue my sister’s kid. Needless to say my wrestling career is over. As evident by the cane I use.
Vespertine: I was wondering about that. I thought it was just for show. Why do you need the cane?
Angel: I got hit with a burning timber leaping out the first floor window. I couldn't walk for a year. But I can now and the cane helps.
V: What do you do now?
A: IT work.
(Both Lizzie and Vespertine nod as if that explained everything. The waiter comes up and takes their orders)
Lizzie: (to Vespertine) We haven’t seen Angel in years. She suddenly appears and wants to get a bite to eat and this is the best place you can come up with? Really?
V: Shut up Elf. This is the only place I know open at 11:30 at night that is condusive to talking without loud music, people distracting us, or knowing and caring about us either.
L: (shrugging) Your town. You know what’s best.
V: (turning to Angel) So, hey. How you been? By the way what’s with the “I don’t want to see anybody else but Vespertine. I have a message for her.” It’s like you have a premonition of death for me. (they all laugh then fall silent) You don’t do you?
L: You used to be so good at those.
A: You know, I have been watching your career for a while. I lost you after Full Throttle Wrestling, found you again in Universal and followed you here to Revolution 1. What happened to you Vespertine?
V: What do you mean?
A: You aren’t the same balls to the wall, winner takes all, do or die trying Vespertine that I used to know and depending on the day one either loved or hated. I see you've won your matches a lot more here in Revolution but you don't seem to have the same fire in you like when we used to wrestle. What happened? You used to have major wins and victories. And if you didn’t win, woe be to the nearest person or foe who was in your sight because then you would raise hell if you lost and attacked them. What happened to that Vespertine? What happened to: if she didn’t win, she would rip the referee apart and then go berserk tearing apart backstage, not really crying over the loss but in a fury because she lost and didn’t want to start a losing streak. Ironically, if you do happen to go against Talia Skye and some of the others in Revolution, that's exactly what will happen? They have fire. You lost yours.
V: Did you see me at Wargames? I raised hell in that cell. My team won.
A,L: By jumping to the winning side? (both women look at each other, then Nightelf) That's so Vespertine.
A: But that isn't the Vespertine that we (indicating both her and Elf) KNOW. Or at least the one Lizzie trained to be all extreme. Seriously? That’s raising hell to you now? That’s like 70 year old woman in assisted living type of raising hell.
L: True, you were in a cage. But where was the blood? Where were the weapons? Where were you going Extreme. I wanted to see you fly around that cage, go to the top and powerbomb Talia off of it like you did with Rae. THAT, was the Vespertine, we used to know. And you didn’t do it to Talia either. You have upgraded from mean, hostile and aggressive to epicness and theatrics. Why?
V: Wait…what? No I didn’t. I never used to do that. Well maybe, once, with Rae but seriously, she had it coming. Was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
A,L: YES! You did.
L: Remember, when you started in WCW, first week, you went against me and then Widow. You beat us both, and at the time both of us were WCW’s top stars.
A: The Vespertine I knew was in two buried alive matches and an hour long Falls Count Anywhere match against Ms. Alison for the Women’s Title. You were suplexed off the loading dock onto a pile of pallets. You still won but came out bleeding the most. Remember that?
V: How can I forget?
A: You really can’t. But I think that is why you are lost so much in your last fed and you're blazing your way to the top this fed isn't going the way you planned. You’ve lost it, Vesey. You’ve lost you’re edge and you don’t know how to get it back. (she pauses to let her words sink in.) I have an idea for you that you might like.
L: Oh… not another Dark Alliance or Pain Inc. I don’t think Revolution needs that.
A: (ignores Lizzie) Vespertine, do you remember Lady V, the Assassin? You, me and Widow formed AWW our last run in WCW and we took down everyone who was thrown in our path. Even Jim, Dark Alliance founding member AND president to WCW, was afraid of us. You could bring her back
L: That could work. I don’t think I was in WCW then as a wrestler but as the Women’s Division GM. I definitely remember that stable.
V: Well, Angel, Widow and I formed AWW because we were tired of Dark Alliance and Pain Inc and wanted to have a theme, a stable of our own, be badass, take names, break bones, and we didn’t care if we garnered titles or not, we just wanted to do things differently our own way. We did what we loved and took out anybody who got in our way. Do you remember what AWW stood for?
A: I think it was short for: Awesome Women Wrestlers. Our theme was that we were bountyhunters and assassins. I carried a crossbow to the ring. Widow carried a sawed off Shotgun.
V: Yeah, I carried a samurai sword.
L: Widow had that nurse’s get up with an eye patch. How apropos she would carry a shotgun. (pauses) Why didn’t you ask me to join? I would’ve loved to be a bountyhunter.
V: I never trusted you after you backstabbed me for my tag team partner and then you and Ms. Alison became a tag team and tried to get what she and I did but you two didn’t have the chemistry we did. I don’t think you ever got the tag team belts. Alison and I not only got the tag belts but I got the World Title and she wore the Women’s title too.
A: Elf, she got you there. And you and I, uh sorry Lizzie, you and I never did get along. We always had differing ideas about the direction we wanted to take Dark Alliance.
L: But she trusted me enough to be drummer for the band.
V: Double drums? You are damn good at it too. The only other drummer I know that can play double drums with a foot pedal is Jukka from Nightwish.
L: True dat.
V: Anyway, you have to remember, I was the silent assassin and I did very little talking. That was hard for me.
A: Yeah Widow and I did most of the talking. But you don’t need to recreate the stable. Just recreate the character. Or something like it. Get your fire back. And if you don’t want to talk much, get a manager or valet or whatever you want to use. But I bet you, if your focus isn’t on titles, and just on collecting bounties and names, your run in Revolution will be that much better. Anyway, it’s just an idea, think about it. I just was in town on a business trip, saw you guys were performing and wanted to give you a little help/advice. Plus see how my old stablemates are doing.
(The waiter comes back with their food, sets it before them and goes off. They all dig in. For a few moments nobody says anything as they are into their food.)
A: Hey uh is Stick still your sensei? Is O still his right hand man?
V: Yes and yes.
A: If you need a manager, one of them could do it.
V: What about you?
(Angel looks directly into Vespertine’s smiling face and gets closer and just stares at her with the white blind cataract of her bad eye. Vespertine squirms uncomfortably.)
A: Do I look like I could manage anyone anymore? Do you think anybody wants to see THIS in public (indicating her face) And if I was attacked, I couldn’t run very fast or very far and the only weapon I could use is this cane which is just a cane. I would be beaten down just for being your manager AND for looking like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Elf: Probably more for the latter than the former.
V: Quasimodo! (suddenly is dawns on her) OHHHHHHH!!!! You’re right. Yeah, that would be a good idea. You know though, I could hire a bodyguard or two from the Hand, they would protect you. But it just dawned on me, that your face would be of great help. You would scare the hell out of them.
A: I'll think about it, but right now, I could, guide you in the right direction and help you come up with an entrance, outfit etc and help train you. If you still want me. I always was good at doing entrances.
Elf: Damn right you were. Even I was inspired, amazed, and intrigued by your various entrances and outfits. And we were part of the same stable, Dark Alliance.
V: Well, if what you say is true and I have lost my edge, then yes, your guidance would be most welcome. Maybe spirital advisor.
Elf: (choking on food suddenly) No, Occultic Baddass.
V: Deformed Devil of the Darkness, manager of Vespertine.
Elf: Wraith. Oh better yet! Banshee! Her gimmick, is she screams everytime Vespertine does a bad move.
A: Are you two quite done with the names?
E,V: Yes, mom, sorry.
(They laugh, and then get to eating,)