Post by David Alastair on Jun 20, 2006 1:22:54 GMT -5
After another long drive and recovery day at the Rosenzwieg house, all seemed quiet. No sudden attacks, Kyoko and Mentor were recovering well, to the point where Mentor called him on his cell during the drive home. It was refreshing to hear her voice again, especially through the turmoil the past couple weeks provided.
The chaos surrounding Alastair was perplexing, confusing, and all too exciting.
However, adrenaline was pumping through his veins again, as everything was flashing before him. Even when Creeping Death bladed him and sent him into unconsciousness, David was smiling widely on the inside. The crucifixion match, an idea stemmed from the ever so controversial “Sandman on the Cross” segment and the numerous deathmatches David was part of in Japan’s DMW wrestling promotion. It passed through all the paperwork and the red tape with flying colors, and was given blessing by management.
In their words, “It was all too perfect for both personas.”
Also, with the hardcore title on the line, it made the match ever so sweeter. David’s original proposal, in having the crucifixion match with the previous Hardcore Champion, Josephine Miyazaki fallen through even before Alastair put the match rules and regulations together. After one of the Slam shows a good month or so ago, David approached the bulky blonde with the idea to have it in the near future. However, “JoJo” had other ideas. After throwing nearly every single word in the book at The New Messiah, she flatly refused.
Now if David remembered clearly, Josephine went a little like this…
JoJo: What the fuck are you thinking, gaijin boy?! I’m not the fucking type of person you can go up and ask out of the fucking blue! Your deathmatches in *my* country were pale in comparison to what me and my fucking sister did for fucking three years! Now, get the fuck out of my face and if you dare challenge me to some crack shoot match, I’ll break your fucking spine!
David smirked at the thought. Good thing that proposal never got off the ground.
Now, Creeping Death was a different story. When David issued the idea to Seth Lerch and Logan (in character, off camera), Creeps was the first one to sign the proposal. All David was required to do in talking to Creeping Death was simply state the proposed rules, to both him Kayfabe and to the viewers at home. The conversation was quick, effective, and satisfying, in comparison and contrast to David’s conversation with Ms. Miyazaki. Hence, the result was the “Crucifixion Match 101” promo, stating the rules of the match to loyal WCF fans. And no, no kids were harmed during the segment. David simply asked off camera to the kids that they should just play along, as everything would be okay and work out in the end.
This all made for the Creeps/David angle.
However, there was one slight problem.
The number of incidents surrounded the ones who were closest to David. For one, Kyoko was the manager of Alastair as well as a friend of David’s since day one of Alastair’s arrival to WCF and return to the States. Alastair had feelings for her, but now’s not the time to consider leaping into a relationship, especially on the tail end of David’s rehabilitation. Horowitz was David’s personal trainer and good friend of the Rosenzweig family. Megumi was the sister of Mentor’s fiancée, to whom David was living with during the rehabilitation period after Tasha’s sudden death and David’s nervous breakdown. The two shared some romance and chemistry, but Tasha’s image in Megumi at times caused David to step away. Megumi then lead to Mentor, who David confided in and helped Alastair rise out of the ashes of sorrow and self-hate.
However, Mentor failed to acknowledge the fact that David did need to vent out the anger at times. And so, Mentor was successful in returning the bounce in David’s steps but also failed in the proper use of David’s sorrow-induced madness.
That is, until Mentor’s older sister found an old ECW tape from one of her wonderings of Nekomi’s shopping district.
Out of curiosity, David popped it into the VCR and took a look at it for himself. After watching the video tape, Alastair found purpose. As if destiny was calling to him, he also came across a poster advertising a wrestling clinic held by Japanese wrestling legend “The Great Dragon” and bright newcomer Isamu Ryuu.
Scrapping all the money he had, he left under the cover of darkness and attended the seminar early. While the other attendees filed in, “The Dragon” paired David with Ryuu to wrestle. Utilizing the skills Alastair obtained by quarterbacking his respective high school and college to numerous conference championships, David’s catch-as-catch-can, hard hitting, and quick thinking caught up to Isamu Ryuu.
As David was about to finish with a victory, impulses caught up to him. The impulses, in turn, had driven Alastair to near insanity and outside of the ring, prompting a count out.
With events falling before him, “The Dragon” came up with an intriguing idea. Why can’t David Alastair obtain a gimmick that will eventually set the world ablaze? Even though a “Messiah” gimmick (Dragon was playing off of Alastair’s Jewish heritage) was already created by one William Welch, how about a demented, tortured, paranoid Messiah?
With that, the New Messiah gimmick was created…
(To be continued in Part II…)
The chaos surrounding Alastair was perplexing, confusing, and all too exciting.
However, adrenaline was pumping through his veins again, as everything was flashing before him. Even when Creeping Death bladed him and sent him into unconsciousness, David was smiling widely on the inside. The crucifixion match, an idea stemmed from the ever so controversial “Sandman on the Cross” segment and the numerous deathmatches David was part of in Japan’s DMW wrestling promotion. It passed through all the paperwork and the red tape with flying colors, and was given blessing by management.
In their words, “It was all too perfect for both personas.”
Also, with the hardcore title on the line, it made the match ever so sweeter. David’s original proposal, in having the crucifixion match with the previous Hardcore Champion, Josephine Miyazaki fallen through even before Alastair put the match rules and regulations together. After one of the Slam shows a good month or so ago, David approached the bulky blonde with the idea to have it in the near future. However, “JoJo” had other ideas. After throwing nearly every single word in the book at The New Messiah, she flatly refused.
Now if David remembered clearly, Josephine went a little like this…
JoJo: What the fuck are you thinking, gaijin boy?! I’m not the fucking type of person you can go up and ask out of the fucking blue! Your deathmatches in *my* country were pale in comparison to what me and my fucking sister did for fucking three years! Now, get the fuck out of my face and if you dare challenge me to some crack shoot match, I’ll break your fucking spine!
David smirked at the thought. Good thing that proposal never got off the ground.
Now, Creeping Death was a different story. When David issued the idea to Seth Lerch and Logan (in character, off camera), Creeps was the first one to sign the proposal. All David was required to do in talking to Creeping Death was simply state the proposed rules, to both him Kayfabe and to the viewers at home. The conversation was quick, effective, and satisfying, in comparison and contrast to David’s conversation with Ms. Miyazaki. Hence, the result was the “Crucifixion Match 101” promo, stating the rules of the match to loyal WCF fans. And no, no kids were harmed during the segment. David simply asked off camera to the kids that they should just play along, as everything would be okay and work out in the end.
This all made for the Creeps/David angle.
However, there was one slight problem.
The number of incidents surrounded the ones who were closest to David. For one, Kyoko was the manager of Alastair as well as a friend of David’s since day one of Alastair’s arrival to WCF and return to the States. Alastair had feelings for her, but now’s not the time to consider leaping into a relationship, especially on the tail end of David’s rehabilitation. Horowitz was David’s personal trainer and good friend of the Rosenzweig family. Megumi was the sister of Mentor’s fiancée, to whom David was living with during the rehabilitation period after Tasha’s sudden death and David’s nervous breakdown. The two shared some romance and chemistry, but Tasha’s image in Megumi at times caused David to step away. Megumi then lead to Mentor, who David confided in and helped Alastair rise out of the ashes of sorrow and self-hate.
However, Mentor failed to acknowledge the fact that David did need to vent out the anger at times. And so, Mentor was successful in returning the bounce in David’s steps but also failed in the proper use of David’s sorrow-induced madness.
That is, until Mentor’s older sister found an old ECW tape from one of her wonderings of Nekomi’s shopping district.
Out of curiosity, David popped it into the VCR and took a look at it for himself. After watching the video tape, Alastair found purpose. As if destiny was calling to him, he also came across a poster advertising a wrestling clinic held by Japanese wrestling legend “The Great Dragon” and bright newcomer Isamu Ryuu.
Scrapping all the money he had, he left under the cover of darkness and attended the seminar early. While the other attendees filed in, “The Dragon” paired David with Ryuu to wrestle. Utilizing the skills Alastair obtained by quarterbacking his respective high school and college to numerous conference championships, David’s catch-as-catch-can, hard hitting, and quick thinking caught up to Isamu Ryuu.
As David was about to finish with a victory, impulses caught up to him. The impulses, in turn, had driven Alastair to near insanity and outside of the ring, prompting a count out.
With events falling before him, “The Dragon” came up with an intriguing idea. Why can’t David Alastair obtain a gimmick that will eventually set the world ablaze? Even though a “Messiah” gimmick (Dragon was playing off of Alastair’s Jewish heritage) was already created by one William Welch, how about a demented, tortured, paranoid Messiah?
With that, the New Messiah gimmick was created…
(To be continued in Part II…)
