The Friction Spotlight featuring Taylor Parker!

Taylor threw her hands up. "ONLY BECAUSE I DIDN'T SIT ON HER FACE!"

Celeste would sit in the back of the audience in her full ring atire waiting till she got the signal that it was her turn for her question. She will walk up so Taylor and Adrian can see her saying in her vampire like accent " I am known as the Carpathian Impaler from a unknown village in the Carpathian mountain range so my opinion is I can't place my vote on either wrester even though they are both well known because the only way to really know their skill is to face them." She will ask both of them " how does the really unknown wrestlers get the attention to move onto at least mid card fights instead of just grabbing the scrap matches the veterans pass on?"

Taylor curiously raised her eyebrows. "Are you sure you didn't want to ask Adrian about making Halloween costumes and stuff?" She asked the bizarre new girl, and glanced over at Adrian. "Adrian, how come you don't come from an unknown village in the mountains? It'd at least make the crazy shit you wore at our last match a little more believable."

She looked back at The Impaler and tried to get serious. "Look, it's real simple, man. If you keep getting booked in little matches, just win. Beat everyone down, make it look easy, and do it with style. Look good doing it, ya know, and I dunno if you have any fans but remember that you only have a job because of them.

"It also helps if Lukretia has a thing for you, but I don't personally recommend that. All that really got me was a title defense while I had broken ribs, and a welcome-back match against a grizzly bear. Everyone loves a sexy winner."

Another question, another piece of snark from Taylor. She's just jealous that she couldn't make costumes as detailed as me she told herself, Taylor did make her own costumes and T-shirts but they were for the most part, pretty basic. At least compared to Adrian who even when she wasn't creating a cosplay outfit, usually had to deal with a variety of materials, colors and design facets.

"I'm gonna have to disagree there slightly Strawberry. After all, you lost a lot of matches but you still got noticed by higher ups." She pointed out "I was undefeated but we were still ranked about the same, you probably a little higher because Lukretia liked you for some reason and I apparently offended her by succeeding by being the wrong kind of scheming bitch or something." The former cosplayer explained, when the rankings were first introduced the two were 8 and 9, despite having very different records. "You've got to find a way to impress someone if you want to move up. Showing constant improvement's a good way to go about that, if you beat someone who never wins: it doesn't really do anything for you but if you barely lose on a technicality or something against someone who never loses, that's probably gonna do a lot more for you both in standings and as an actual wrestler."

"Well that's just because I looked so damn good doing it, dude!" Taylor bragged with a wry smile at Adrian as she looked down the table at her. "I can't help it if people wanted more!"

With a giggle, she went back to Celeste. "But totally, you can win like a bitch and lose like a champ. I guess, ya know, maybe Adrian's right, and it's more about what you put into it. People want to see your heart, ya know. Your fighting spirit. Tōshi. They don't want to see you spitting green shit in someone's face and hoping for a cheap pin."

"When was the last time I even did that?" Adrian asked, it had always been a threat that Adrian would bust out the mist but it had been like a year and a half since the last time she used it.

"Oh, who cares, I don't pay attention to you," Taylor said with a dismissive wave of her hand. "Last thing I wanted to see was Natasha dry humping you to death while you laid there and blushed. I don't get your cosplay references, so you're not that interesting."

In the second row sat one of the women Taylor had seen fit to mention a few times that night already, the woman from France and the current holder of a contract for the hentai title Natasha Loclear, dressed simply in black pants and a dark blue top. She had previous history with both Adrian and Taylor, having fought the cosplayer a couple times already with their most recent match having been a loss for Natasha, which Taylor had seen fit to mention earlier while also referring to her in a manner Natasha hadn't expected or particularly enjoyed, and until tonight her past experience with Taylor had left her with a neutral outlook on the former Entropy champion. Their first meeting had been as team mates for the Temple Games back when Natasha first joined the AFW, Taylor looking down on her from the start given her participation in hentai matches, but as bad as that had gone their second run in at a night club after Taylor's return to wrestling had gone over quite smoothly and the two had even shared a few laughs.

Those feelings were quickly souring however as she sat there in the audience listening to Taylor slip a second insult to her already, Natasha's fingers tapping against her knee in her sole outward showing of her annoyance with both women in that moment. Listening to their thoughts on the hentai division didn't help either as both women said they would scrap it if they could, obviously neither of them seeing hentai wrestlers as being as serious about wrestling as they themselves were, quite the arrogant view Natasha thought to herself. It seemed they hadn't noticed she was in the crowd, that or they just didn't care, but Natasha was tired of just sitting silent and had a question of her own.

She rose from her seat and stepped up to the microphone when it came time for the next question, clearing her throat to get their attention if it wasn't already on the audience and the next speaker. "Well I would introduce myself but you've done that a couple times already Taylor, though I do prefer to be called Natasha instead of the bitch who had it coming." Natasha began with a faint smile on her lips, giving both women an annoyed glance however to make it perfectly clear she hadn't enjoyed that part of the interview. "As for my pick I have to go with you Taylor, for while Adrian is certainly durable without some chairs to even the odds I don't see her putting you out." As she finished her smile faded and a more serious tone appeared in her voice. "As for my question you both don't hide the fact that you look down on the hentai division in general, desiring it to be removed, but when it comes to the women who make up that division do either of you see them as serious competitors? Do you see any of them as serious wrestlers as you have both described earlier?"

"Hah!" Taylor laughed loudly, and then leaned forward into the microphone and folded her hands neatly on the table.

"Well Natalia, let me put it this way," she began, in as serious a tone as she could muster. "No, I do not. And if you want to run off and bring Akashi in here, then go for it. I'll say that to her face. I do say that to her face! And I'm crashing at her place tonight, so maybe we'll fight about it later. I'll tweet the results.

"But seriously..." She slung one arm over the back of her chair and slouched. "Dude, sex and fighting are different. What, you think doing your goddamn Kegels five times a day is gonna put you on my level? You think your tongue-and-tickling skills are gonna carry over? Uh-uh. Man, you have no idea what it means to put in the work I do. I mean, I gotta give it to her, Adrian has really stepped it up since I've been gone. She looks stronger, she's leaned out... You think she got that way by DJ'ing up on her giant, lesbian lover?

"Besides, I've got all the hentai I need, and the matches are way more intense than anything you skanks do in the ring."

There. That ought to triple-knot Natasha's expensive panties.

While a vein on Adrian's forehead bulged when she saw Natasha stepping forward to ask. And of course she'd side against the former cosplayer, even if it meant giving the vote of confidence to Taylor, who'd done nothing but insult the French woman. And continued to insult her. "Damn." Adrian said, turning her head towards Taylor as she let out her outburst. She knew that they both didn't exactly like the hentai division, but this was one subject that really took off with the blonde, and now Adrian had to say something to match up. "True though, look at Natalia. Used to be a really big deal, like considered a fearsome grappler by a lot of people here who people didn't want to get on the mat with her and stuff. By the time we started to get rolling, she's looking at the hentai division and we both clown her. Akashi's been on a slide since she put focus on getting some rather than actually wrestling matches. The more people focus on sexing each other up the less they can about actually wrestling."

"Not like I'm anti-sex or anything but, it's a hobby, not a job. Don't make it one, sucks a lot of the fun out of it."