Post by Gemini Battle on Sept 23, 2016 8:31:07 GMT -5
Decisions
(TV Title RP)
Afternoon quickly came in New York City washing away the morning dew and bringing that wretched humidity that had been plaguing the city since Operation: Nimbus had competed. But Gemini was already up enjoying a cup of coffee and reading the paper. The news of bombings in New Jersey and New York didn’t surprise him. People were desperate for attention and unfortunately violence is a Universal Language.
He wasn’t tired, though he should be. He had just fought a tremendous Battle with ZMac and is looking forward to facing Teddy Blaze in the King of all Media Match. It didn’t really occur to him the amount of responsibility he was undertaking headed into War. He was not only defending his Television Title but he was fighting for the Internet Title, the title of King of all Media and then competing in War.
After he disposed of Teddy Blaze in their singles match he would have the length of the Thomas Bates vs Corey Black title match to rest up and then reenter War at whatever fortunate position he finds himself in. The worst part is not knowing and you don’t find out when you’re going to enter until that night.
But he knows exactly what he’s stepping in against when he fights Teddy Blaze. 3 Stages of Media Hell.
Invidia: What are you doing up so early?
She asked wearing nothing but one of Gemini’s button down shirts. Every time he saw her wearing just that he felt like he had won an award, there was nothing more attractive than watching a woman wear a man’s dress shirt.
Gemini: It’s fucking 1PM.
Invidia: But we didn’t go to bed until about 7 in the morning… and didn’t fall asleep until 9.
She said as she walked over and rubbed her finger through his matted hair. The beautiful woman found Gemini attractive and he couldn’t for the life of him understand why. But he accepted and embraced the fact, but he was in no mood at the moment.
Gemini: I’ve got a lot on my mind. I’ve got 13 days to prepare, and we’ve already been through so much in the past 24 hours that it’s hard for me to keep my mind straight. The world is spinning faster than I can keep up with it and I need to get back to my happy place. I need to fight.
She poured herself a cup of coffee and then sat on the chair across from him crossing her legs and sipping from the pearl white mug.
Invidia: Well I hope you don’t plan on fighting today, we’ve got to meet with the others and see what they want to do about chasing Wrath.
Gemini: What the fuck do you mean, meet with the others?
Invidia: Well, they deserve to know what we know…
Gemini: Fuck that. We hold that close to our chests. Do you know what will happen if we tell them that Ira is another dimension? They would bail on the plan. No, we move forward. We let them look in a fruitless search while we figure out what the best plan of action is.
Invidia: Well they’ll know something’s up when we don’t show up anymore when we go.
Gemini: When we go where?
She puts her cup down, uncrosses her legs and leans towards Gemini.
Invidia: *sigh* Through the Wave. We need to find and help Ira. They’ll kill him and kill our kind. We need to save Capua.
Gemini: Do we? Do we really? What have they done for us. They’ve sent us to this hell and expect us to save them while we provide food and sustenance for them.
Invidia: We were chosen to do this…
Gemini: But I didn’t CHOOSE to do this. I didn’t CHOOSE to be the embodiment of Gula.
Invidia: You sound so human.
This was absolutely meant to be an insult but for the first time Gemini didn’t feel it as such. He was beginning to feel for this race in a way he never had before.
Gemini: Maybe I am, Invidia. Maybe being human isn’t as bad as we were taught it would be. We can feel. We can love and hate and it all means something. It makes us stronger. It makes us weaker, but it makes us human. You are still stuck in this world thinking that emotions are a sign of weakness, but I disagree.
Emotions are a sign of strength. It’s the lack of emotions that makes humans weak. Take Teddy Blaze for example. This man was his strongest last year while he was teaming with Vic and Spencer trying to clean up the company and trying to make things better for everyone in the WCF. And even after Vic left and Spencer left he maintained his vigilance and stayed. He fought for what he believed in.
But it turned out that it was all a façade. He didn’t mean a single goddamn thing that he claimed that he stood for. He lied to everyone and the way that he treated Spencer Adams when the opportunity came for two of the greatest People’s Champions to face off against each other he broke his promise and broke Spencer’s face.
He feigns remorse, but truly has shown none. He cares not about his action, only the results and though I completely believe that the end completely justifies the means it does not work when your entire career you have been preaching just the opposite. It wasn’t about winning or losing, it was about fighting fair and fighting the good fight.
I remember a time where Teddy faced off against ZMac and the opportunity arose where he could break his promise to the people and smash ZMac in the face with a chair. And he chose not to. He chose not to hurt a man who deserved to be hurt but when he stepped into the ring with his best friend he didn’t even hesitate to try to break him in order to win.
Because he has no poise, he has no prominence nor does he have the ability to comprehend what he had done. He feigns remorse but truly has shown none.
Invidia: You said that already.
She was getting bored.
Gemini: No shit, but does that make it less true. You’re not understanding it either, Invidia. You’ve consumed a woman in order to be here. You still feel her heart beating inside of you. You feel her emotions when she feels them. You have no reason to be jealous of Bonnie Blue yet you were. You were envious and you fed off your own envy. You weakened yourself because of human emotion.
Invidia: Because emotion makes you weak.
Gemini: But it tried to make you stronger. You fed for strength but your Capuan side refused to recognize the brevity of the situation. We feed because we must, but I’ve realized that we have a choice in the matter. It’s our choices that lead us towards our final goals. It’s the choices we make as humans that will lead us to a better tomorrow.
Invidia: And you still want to destroy all Capuans?
Gemini: I’m not saying that. I’m saying that we have a choice. You’re ready to drop everything that we’ve created to jump to another Universe to chase a Prophecy that we may not even fully understand. We may not NEED Ira at all. It may all be a bunch of bullshit.
Invidia: But shouldn’t we try, Gem. Aren’t you doing the same thing by giving up on what you fought for this whole time and destroying the place where we came from? How are you any different than Teddy Blaze?
Gemini: Maybe I’m not. Maybe Teddy and I are far more similar than even I understand. But that’s precisely the thing. I’m beginning to understand. I’m seeing clearer now. But where we differ is our capability to feel. Teddy is gone. He has officially become a sociopath, but instead of being an intimidating and domineering force such as KL Henson was, he’s simply using his lack of emotions to try to intimidate and instill fear as Oblivion does.
But he has neither the size nor the skill to do as Oblivion does. He also doesn’t have the psychopathic tendencies to instill fear. He has become powerless to comprehend emotions and he will do whatever it takes to win. Unfortunately for him I DO understand what it’s like to feel. And just because I understand it doesn’t mean that I fear it.
I know what it’s like to be stepped on, beaten and flat out destroyed. I know what it’s like to lay down and let someone get over on you because you are powerless to do anything about it. And because I know how that feels it means that I know what it will feel like when I do that to people, and when I do that to Teddy Blaze.
He thinks that he’s getting a one over on me by instituting a Lumberjack rules match to open up our contest. But I’ve fought dozens of creatures and come out unscathed. And he doesn’t seem to realize that he has no one left. He has no friends, or any allies to call on. He will call upon the masses and they will side with the man who praises them not challenges their every move.
The he decided to lock us in a cage together. Like locking a rabid animal in a cage with a fresh piece of meat Teddy Blaze thinks that by limiting the places he can run that he gains some sort of edge. His skill set is based on having free movement, but he’s trapped himself in the cage with a man who has the technical skill set better than almost everyone else in the world, and a fighting style that is drawn upon close quarter combat.
And if somehow he steals a win we will set up the final prize above the ring with the only way to retrieve it being to climb a ladder and take it down. And that’s exactly what I’ll do to complete this chapter of my story and start a new one.
But what Teddy doesn’t realize is that his story is over. He underwent this drastic change in personality and he has nothing else to show for it. He thought he could change who he was and it would make people forget that he is a loser, and a wannabe athlete. He’s a luchador who failed at being a luchador so he took off his mask, put on some glasses and failed at being intimidating as well.
He wants to be ZMac but he can’t even get to that level. His role in the WCF is to lay there and take a beating. For him to challenge me to this match and think that he’s being the puppet master in our exchange is not only laughable but ludicrous and obscene. I orchestrated this whole thing, and because I know that it takes putting something on the line in order to get something else I put my Title on the line as well.
But confidence is knowing the ending before it starts, I think Teddy told me that once. And I KNOW that I’m walking out of the match with the Internet Championship over one shoulder, and I KNOW I’m walking out of the match with the TV Title over the other shoulder… and I KNOW that I’m walking out of WAR with the King of All Media crown on my head…
And I KNOW that after that’s all said and done that I’ll be entering War and leaving the entire night with all the straps, and all the power as I am named the Number One Contender for the WCF World Championship.
Invidia got up and left the room. He hated to see her go but loved to watch her leave. But part of him thought that she may never come back.
Fuck her.
