Post by caseyholliday on May 17, 2021 22:53:02 GMT -5
Casey Holliday finds herself in her own living room in the days following her previous match in Revo 1. Some stuff has been thrown around the room, as evidenced by some broken lamps as well as other small furniture being in pieces. A broadcast of the previous Legacy episode is paused and an angry, frustrated Casey just finds herself lost and confused as well. She’s so lost in her own mind at the moment that she’s not even aware of anything, or anyone, around her. This makes for an awkward moment when her twin brother Kevin Holliday walks in and sees the mess that she just made.
“What the hell, Casey?”
“What?” she says, looking back at him.
“What is all this? I know that things have been very frustrating for you ever since the…”
“Do NOT mention that company by name!”
“You just haven’t been happy at all ever since… ‘the thing’ happened.”
“What’s it to you?”
“Is it worth self-destructing your own confidence and your own career?”
“Oh is this the part where you’re going to try to protect me and guide me out of this fucking darkness, Kevin? Yeah, why don’t you try being embarrassed and humiliated somewhere and why don’t you try dealing with the psychological fallout of that, huh? Why don’t you deal with what I’ve been dealing with? Why don’t you try going from being on top of the world where you were before into a fucking joke overnight? Why don’t you tell me how it feels when that lingers into whatever else you do after that? It sure as hell hasn’t helped me anywhere else I’ve gone and that match I just had in Revo…”
“I gotta admit, that partner you had turned out to be a piece of shit…”
“That’s putting it mildly…”
Kevin still shows grave concern for Casey as he sits down next to her on the couch. Casey, however, wants none of it as she scoots away from him.
“Casey, I get that things haven’t gone your way lately. But you and I both know that you are more than strong enough to turn all of this around. You’re acting like ‘the thing’ was the worst thing that has ever happened to you in your career. You’re treating this like something that you can’t overcome. But I promise you, that’s exactly what you’re going to do. I can name two things in your career that were worse than this that you managed to overcome.”
“Yeah?” Casey says with a scoff, not really wanting to believe him. “Name them.”
“Remember when you lost to Michael X in Action Wrestling?”
Casey’s eyes narrow with anger when this gets brought up.
“That was pretty damn embarrassing for you, wasn’t it? It led to you being fired from that place and everything and you were the laughingstock of the business for a while. But you bounced back when you moved forward and landed… you know… ‘there’... and you dominated that whole company. You had the world in the palm of your hands. Well… that was… until ‘the thing’ happened. But the point is, you overcome that to have the best moment of your career so far.”
“That would’ve been extremely reassuring of the next thing after Action Wrestling wasn’t… you know… that thing.”
“I’ll go back further. Remember your rookie year?”
Casey rolls her eyes and even laughs at this.
“You mean when I didn’t know what the fuck I was doing in Supreme Championship Wrestling and I continued to act as if the whole damn sky was falling? Christ, was I stupid back then. Every loss felt like it was the most devastating thing that could ever happen to me. I remember how miserable I was and how I felt like I was already a failure in the wrestling business when I walked out of that company.”
“You weren’t. And you never have been! Yeah, you’ve been mocked and ridiculed here and there along the way, but at the same time, when you walked out of Supreme Championship Wrestling and moved on to UCI, you didn’t just became A prodigy, you became THE prodigy and you became that because you were driven to prove that you were better than what you had just dealt with before. You did the same thing when you were at ‘that place’. It’s frustrating, I know. It’s even more frustrating when you’re a victim of circumstance. Your last match in Revo1? That wasn’t your fault. You couldn’t save Jason Ryan from being a letdown. I know this may not mean much to you right now, but at some point, you’ve got to stop behaving like a victim of circumstance. That’s the way you’re going to get through this.”
“Yeah…” Casey reluctantly admits with a sigh. “You’re right. I just… I didn’t realize ‘the thing’ was going to affect me so damn much.”
“Don’t you think it’s about time you stop letting it and just move beyond it already? All you’re doing is holding yourself back from what you’re destined to be in this business. I’d hate to see you do that. Those people aren’t worth self-destructing your career over…”
Kevin stands up and calmly leaves Casey alone as he turns back toward the hallway and makes his way down that direction. Casey tries to act tough, but inside, she’s definitely feeling it a bit. That guilt is certainly crossing her mind as she thinks about the way things have been for her and how she hasn’t exactly helped her own situation in her own right. The broken furniture might as well portray her spirit at the moment and here, she’s wondering how the hell she’s going to pick up the pieces.
Yet, at the same time, she knows that all it takes is one match for everything to be right again and that one glimmer of hope is the one thing holding her together right now.
May 17th, 2021
Nearly two weeks later, Casey has the camera on in that same living room. She hasn’t moved anything around. She’s left it in the messy state that it’s been in, likely because she’s about to make a point. Once she knows that the camera is rolling, she wastes no time expressing her thoughts.
“I want to start off with a huge “FUCK YOU” to Jason Ryan for being a dead weight piece of shit! Yeah, I’m not one to sugar coat anything. I’m not your typical nice girl. If someone does something to piss me off, then they get to hear about it and Jason, the fact of the matter is, you cost me a shot at the Horrorcore title. I’m not someone that lets go of shit so easily and quite honestly, you’re a complete blight on the Legacy brand. You showed when I had to team with your dumbass, that you don’t have it in you to get to the next level and I KNOW that I do. Tomorrow night,t his company gets to see what I am all about when I’m not being dragged down by anything. Yeah, I admit that past events at past companies have lived rent free in my head for so damn long, but I’m getting to the point where I’m not giving a fuck about it anymore and here’s where I amg oing to be honest with YOU, Jessie Lee. Yous hould be thanking Jason Ryan right about now because if it wasn’t for him, I’D be challenging you for that Horrorcore title. But you know what, this tournament is going to have to do.
And the last time I was in a tournament similar to this? I won the whole damn thing. I get to repeat a little personal history here in Revo1, starting with you. This is my moment to prove EXACTLY what type of prodigy I am. You see Jessie, this room right here… after Jason Ryan all but fucking screwed me over two weeks ago… yeah, I shattered everything in sight because that’s how pissed I was. No, I’m not about to make a cliche ‘this is what will happen to you’ point. My point here is that this room… the shattered lamp, the broken coffee table, the snapped lamp post, the broken vase… at the risk of sounding like a damn victim… that’s basically been my spirit as it pertains to this business for the last two months, all because I was letting an event that with time is going to grow SO insignificant at some cheap rent piece of shit I wrestled at before matter for WAY too long. I brought that broken spirit into Revo1 wrestling and I’ll own up to the fact that it cost me.
But I’m not going to let it happen anymore!
I’m DONE being ‘victim’ and you don’t get to walk into that match tomorrow night and make me your victim because for TOO LONG this whole fucking year, I’ve let it happen,.I get it. You’re the heavy favorite. You’re the Horrorcore champion. You just survived a hell of a battle royal a few weeks ago with the odds stacked against you and you just beat the world champion. I bet that has you feeling really fucking good! Well, keep feeling as good as you can, Jessie, because that’s going to turn into overconfidence. You’re coming off a huge win, and you’re taking a ‘step down’ against someone who ‘hasn’t done anything’ or whatever cliche you’re going to come up with. Why should you take me seriously, right? Go on, do that. Carry that attitude going in, I dare you. You’re coming into this thing with the most momentum that you’ve ever had as we go into his tournament and all it takes, Jessie, is the WRONG opponent at the WRONG time to suddenly make ALL of that momentum go away and I hate to say it, but that opponent is ME! You may think that this is an easy draw for you.
It won’t be!
You’re in the same exact spot in this match as Khaos was in your past match and I happen to be in the exact same spot YOU were in, in that same match. YOU went out and you shocked the world by beating him.
Tomorrow night? I’m going to do the same thing! If nobody in this company but me believes that I can beat you, then so be it. I’m the only one that needs to believe! I’ve shocked the damn world before. I’ve done some amazing things in my career that many people would’ve never expected me to. Tomorrow night, I get to have my catharsis. I get to purge weeks upon weeks of frustration. When I know that there’s the ONE match that I HAVE to have, that’s when I’m at the best that I can ever be and again, that spells a hell of a lot of trouble for you, Jessie. Things may have not gone my way as of late because of something SO STUPID, but I’m DONE being a victim of that. I admit that I may have gotten a shorter end of the draw, but I’m not letting that get me down.
I know that all it takes is ONE match for EVERYTHING to turn around, ONE match for ALL the bullshit to go away and for me, this IS that match. This WILL be the match where it turns around for me because I’ve had it with being down in the dumps in more ways than one. You’re going to be the target of so much of my frustration Jessie. You’re in the wrong place at the wrong time, but I really couldbn’t give a fuck about that. I have to do what I have to do and tomorrow night, when I defeat you and shock the damn world, that’s precisely what I am going to do!
Haters.
Gonna.
Hate!
Casey lets out a sigh of relief as she shuts off the camera...
“What the hell, Casey?”
“What?” she says, looking back at him.
“What is all this? I know that things have been very frustrating for you ever since the…”
“Do NOT mention that company by name!”
“You just haven’t been happy at all ever since… ‘the thing’ happened.”
“What’s it to you?”
“Is it worth self-destructing your own confidence and your own career?”
“Oh is this the part where you’re going to try to protect me and guide me out of this fucking darkness, Kevin? Yeah, why don’t you try being embarrassed and humiliated somewhere and why don’t you try dealing with the psychological fallout of that, huh? Why don’t you deal with what I’ve been dealing with? Why don’t you try going from being on top of the world where you were before into a fucking joke overnight? Why don’t you tell me how it feels when that lingers into whatever else you do after that? It sure as hell hasn’t helped me anywhere else I’ve gone and that match I just had in Revo…”
“I gotta admit, that partner you had turned out to be a piece of shit…”
“That’s putting it mildly…”
Kevin still shows grave concern for Casey as he sits down next to her on the couch. Casey, however, wants none of it as she scoots away from him.
“Casey, I get that things haven’t gone your way lately. But you and I both know that you are more than strong enough to turn all of this around. You’re acting like ‘the thing’ was the worst thing that has ever happened to you in your career. You’re treating this like something that you can’t overcome. But I promise you, that’s exactly what you’re going to do. I can name two things in your career that were worse than this that you managed to overcome.”
“Yeah?” Casey says with a scoff, not really wanting to believe him. “Name them.”
“Remember when you lost to Michael X in Action Wrestling?”
Casey’s eyes narrow with anger when this gets brought up.
“That was pretty damn embarrassing for you, wasn’t it? It led to you being fired from that place and everything and you were the laughingstock of the business for a while. But you bounced back when you moved forward and landed… you know… ‘there’... and you dominated that whole company. You had the world in the palm of your hands. Well… that was… until ‘the thing’ happened. But the point is, you overcome that to have the best moment of your career so far.”
“That would’ve been extremely reassuring of the next thing after Action Wrestling wasn’t… you know… that thing.”
“I’ll go back further. Remember your rookie year?”
Casey rolls her eyes and even laughs at this.
“You mean when I didn’t know what the fuck I was doing in Supreme Championship Wrestling and I continued to act as if the whole damn sky was falling? Christ, was I stupid back then. Every loss felt like it was the most devastating thing that could ever happen to me. I remember how miserable I was and how I felt like I was already a failure in the wrestling business when I walked out of that company.”
“You weren’t. And you never have been! Yeah, you’ve been mocked and ridiculed here and there along the way, but at the same time, when you walked out of Supreme Championship Wrestling and moved on to UCI, you didn’t just became A prodigy, you became THE prodigy and you became that because you were driven to prove that you were better than what you had just dealt with before. You did the same thing when you were at ‘that place’. It’s frustrating, I know. It’s even more frustrating when you’re a victim of circumstance. Your last match in Revo1? That wasn’t your fault. You couldn’t save Jason Ryan from being a letdown. I know this may not mean much to you right now, but at some point, you’ve got to stop behaving like a victim of circumstance. That’s the way you’re going to get through this.”
“Yeah…” Casey reluctantly admits with a sigh. “You’re right. I just… I didn’t realize ‘the thing’ was going to affect me so damn much.”
“Don’t you think it’s about time you stop letting it and just move beyond it already? All you’re doing is holding yourself back from what you’re destined to be in this business. I’d hate to see you do that. Those people aren’t worth self-destructing your career over…”
Kevin stands up and calmly leaves Casey alone as he turns back toward the hallway and makes his way down that direction. Casey tries to act tough, but inside, she’s definitely feeling it a bit. That guilt is certainly crossing her mind as she thinks about the way things have been for her and how she hasn’t exactly helped her own situation in her own right. The broken furniture might as well portray her spirit at the moment and here, she’s wondering how the hell she’s going to pick up the pieces.
Yet, at the same time, she knows that all it takes is one match for everything to be right again and that one glimmer of hope is the one thing holding her together right now.
May 17th, 2021
Nearly two weeks later, Casey has the camera on in that same living room. She hasn’t moved anything around. She’s left it in the messy state that it’s been in, likely because she’s about to make a point. Once she knows that the camera is rolling, she wastes no time expressing her thoughts.
“I want to start off with a huge “FUCK YOU” to Jason Ryan for being a dead weight piece of shit! Yeah, I’m not one to sugar coat anything. I’m not your typical nice girl. If someone does something to piss me off, then they get to hear about it and Jason, the fact of the matter is, you cost me a shot at the Horrorcore title. I’m not someone that lets go of shit so easily and quite honestly, you’re a complete blight on the Legacy brand. You showed when I had to team with your dumbass, that you don’t have it in you to get to the next level and I KNOW that I do. Tomorrow night,t his company gets to see what I am all about when I’m not being dragged down by anything. Yeah, I admit that past events at past companies have lived rent free in my head for so damn long, but I’m getting to the point where I’m not giving a fuck about it anymore and here’s where I amg oing to be honest with YOU, Jessie Lee. Yous hould be thanking Jason Ryan right about now because if it wasn’t for him, I’D be challenging you for that Horrorcore title. But you know what, this tournament is going to have to do.
And the last time I was in a tournament similar to this? I won the whole damn thing. I get to repeat a little personal history here in Revo1, starting with you. This is my moment to prove EXACTLY what type of prodigy I am. You see Jessie, this room right here… after Jason Ryan all but fucking screwed me over two weeks ago… yeah, I shattered everything in sight because that’s how pissed I was. No, I’m not about to make a cliche ‘this is what will happen to you’ point. My point here is that this room… the shattered lamp, the broken coffee table, the snapped lamp post, the broken vase… at the risk of sounding like a damn victim… that’s basically been my spirit as it pertains to this business for the last two months, all because I was letting an event that with time is going to grow SO insignificant at some cheap rent piece of shit I wrestled at before matter for WAY too long. I brought that broken spirit into Revo1 wrestling and I’ll own up to the fact that it cost me.
But I’m not going to let it happen anymore!
I’m DONE being ‘victim’ and you don’t get to walk into that match tomorrow night and make me your victim because for TOO LONG this whole fucking year, I’ve let it happen,.I get it. You’re the heavy favorite. You’re the Horrorcore champion. You just survived a hell of a battle royal a few weeks ago with the odds stacked against you and you just beat the world champion. I bet that has you feeling really fucking good! Well, keep feeling as good as you can, Jessie, because that’s going to turn into overconfidence. You’re coming off a huge win, and you’re taking a ‘step down’ against someone who ‘hasn’t done anything’ or whatever cliche you’re going to come up with. Why should you take me seriously, right? Go on, do that. Carry that attitude going in, I dare you. You’re coming into this thing with the most momentum that you’ve ever had as we go into his tournament and all it takes, Jessie, is the WRONG opponent at the WRONG time to suddenly make ALL of that momentum go away and I hate to say it, but that opponent is ME! You may think that this is an easy draw for you.
It won’t be!
You’re in the same exact spot in this match as Khaos was in your past match and I happen to be in the exact same spot YOU were in, in that same match. YOU went out and you shocked the world by beating him.
Tomorrow night? I’m going to do the same thing! If nobody in this company but me believes that I can beat you, then so be it. I’m the only one that needs to believe! I’ve shocked the damn world before. I’ve done some amazing things in my career that many people would’ve never expected me to. Tomorrow night, I get to have my catharsis. I get to purge weeks upon weeks of frustration. When I know that there’s the ONE match that I HAVE to have, that’s when I’m at the best that I can ever be and again, that spells a hell of a lot of trouble for you, Jessie. Things may have not gone my way as of late because of something SO STUPID, but I’m DONE being a victim of that. I admit that I may have gotten a shorter end of the draw, but I’m not letting that get me down.
I know that all it takes is ONE match for EVERYTHING to turn around, ONE match for ALL the bullshit to go away and for me, this IS that match. This WILL be the match where it turns around for me because I’ve had it with being down in the dumps in more ways than one. You’re going to be the target of so much of my frustration Jessie. You’re in the wrong place at the wrong time, but I really couldbn’t give a fuck about that. I have to do what I have to do and tomorrow night, when I defeat you and shock the damn world, that’s precisely what I am going to do!
Haters.
Gonna.
Hate!
Casey lets out a sigh of relief as she shuts off the camera...