Post by bigfan on Dec 4, 2016 14:32:31 GMT
ASTRID WHITE
Name: Astrid White
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 139lbs
Hometown: Reykjavik, Iceland via Singapore, Singapore
Physical Description: The most obvious thing about Astrid is her height; taller than most women by the age of thirteen and now reaching over 6 foot. This combined with her slim frame can make her look skinny at first glance, but on closer inspection she presents with the uber- toned and sinewy strength of a natural athlete at peak fitness. This only serves to highlight her second memorable feature; Astrid is strikingly, heartstoppingly beautiful, almond face blessed with perfect pale skin and a smile which could keep her home town of Reykjavik lit up throughout an entire arctic winter, all framed by artfully wavy chestnut hair which brushes the nape of her neck. The only feature which might be off-putting for the observer is Astrid’s eyes, grey-green pools which are far more likely to give a fierce and searching stare than reflect that megawatt smile.
Fighting Attire: White lycra halter top with sheer panels over her cleavage and solid black boy-cut trunks. Her signature symbol, a stylised A with an eye in the centre, tends to appear in micro over her left breast and macro on the right rear of the trunks. Astrid completes the look with white over-the knee muay thai boots with a black ring, and white elbow pads.
Entrance music: Radiohead – Climbing Up The Walls
Style: Technical striker with occasional power moves thrown in
Heel/Face: Tweener, an outsider to both the good and bad factions.
Gimmick: Outwardly emotionless ‘alien’ who likes to understand emotions in her opponents
Finishing Moves:
Fear Itself (Cradle powerbomb)
Whiteout (Arm-locked gogoplata)
Common Moves:
1) Muay thai knees
2) Fear of flying (Flying/running knee)
3) Snap brainbuster
4)Crucifix armlock, usually with elbows thrown at the opponents head
5) Rope assisted DDT
6) White heat (Yakuza kick)
7) Inverted Triangle Choke
8) Glima throw (suplex setup with the opponent’s back landing hard across Astrid’s hip and side, similar to Randy Orton’s backbreaker)
9) Uranage
10) Flowing DDT
11) Buzzsaw kick
12) Snowblind (Flying elbow)
13) Fear of falling (Lungblower, sometimes transitioned into the ‘Whiteout’ gogoplata)
14) Running powerbomb
15) Grounded arm trap neck crank
Signature Moves:
1) Fear of the unknown (Side, crescent, hook or axe kicks thrown in a random sequence to confuse opponents)
2) Fear of the dark (Scissored dragon sleeper)
3) Fear of heights (wrist clutch exploder suplex, usually stalled to ensure the opponent impacts the back of their head)
Background:
The only child of an English father and Icelandic mother, Astrid spent her early life in a prosperous home in Reykjavik. Despite being a capable student and athlete she was always an outsider, finding it hard to understand the people around her and seeming almost completely emotionless from a young age. Astrid’s social awkwardness wasn’t helped by physically looking down on almost everyone since her early teens, and she was seen as aloof and avoided by most peers. Worse still, rumours about her extremely violent responses to occasional bullying and limited understanding of the scale of her actions led to a change of schools, whispers of psychopathy following her. Astrid chose to throw herself into anything she could to avoid social situations particularly the long jump and basketball. She also excelled in Glima, the traditional Scandinavian combat system which suited her height, leg strength and attention to detail.
As her social isolation and apparent lack of emotional awareness grew the family tried a new start, moving across the world to Singapore. Here Astrid discovered her true passion, psychology, reading voraciously to try to get the insights into other people with she lacked in childhood. She also continued her studies in martial arts, proving exceptionally capable in adding eastern muay thai and taekwondo elements to her already prodigious Scandinavian combat background. And, as she left her protective home environment to begin university studies Astrid became aware of another passion, Japanese wrestling shows becoming her relief in between her psychological study. In particular Astrid loved the puroresu melding of martial arts and stagecraft, and was also drawn by the way in which the wrestlers carried themselves; impassive, strong and ruthless just like her.
Astrid’s studies led her under the wing of a Professor Markov, a Russian who was a foremost mind in the study of fear. Through him she became convinced that her social failings were linked to others fearing her. At first she tried to change her behaviour, but instead decided to embrace fear, choosing direct intimidation and psychological scare tactics both in her developing fight career and in social situations. As her studies moved to a close it seemed obvious that she should move into the wrestling circles she had loved from afar.
Within two years Astrid was a major player on the Japanese scene, a champion monster gaijin who used her physical and psychological gifts to get inside her opponents heads before destroying them. But as her professional persona became more successful she began to feel more and more of an outsider, rejected by the strict Japanese culture and shunned by wrestling peers who feared her. Letters from a Frenchwoman working for an American wrestling federation had been coming in for some time, and apparently they were keen to see what she could do. Astrid decided to once again abandon what she had built and move across the world to find those who wouldn’t fear her.