Taylor Parrish

Name: Taylor Parrish
Sex: Female
Age: 24
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 148 lbs
Nationality: Canadian
Alignment: Tweener
Entrance music: Shake the Ground - Cherri Bomb

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Wrestling Information

Overall Strategy: Taylor looks to take the "air" out of a match, essentially dragging the pace to a brutal, unsettling crawl. She looks to keep high-flyers and speedsters grounded, typically bringing them to the ground where she has a clear advantage over their typically smaller, slighter frames. As for heavy hitters, Taylor wants to goad them into a technical game, utilizing smart hand placement and positioning to avoid absorbing too much punishment. Rarely will she try to pick up the pace, unless she has sniffed out an advantage and wants to usher her opponent towards a quick submission or pin. Her aim will ultimately always be to get her opponent fatigued and on the ground, where Taylor excels, dishing out a variety lengthy, brutal submission holds on her opponents that often target a variety of body parts. She is also likely to add some dominating and humiliating aspects to the match once she gets into a position of control, for her and the crowd's enjoyment.

Offense: As stated, Taylor wants to slow the match down and, more often than not, react to what her opponent shows her during the early stages of the match. Once she has a feel for her opponent's style, she may open up her offense to land heavy hits that knock her opponent to the mat or go early and often for her opponent's legs for a swift-drag down or for their shoulders to flip them onto their backs or stomachs. However, when Taylor sees her opening, or simply wants to come out of the gate with an unexpected tactic, she prefers to go for sudden, relentless charges with plans to tackle an opponent or drag them down in some way. On the ground, she goes for coiling, tight holds and utilizes a strong lower body in particular.

Defense: Taylor's mindset justifies absorbing smaller blows and less devastating holds in favor of avoiding the big ones or earning the chance to counter them to devastating effect. She will stand and take a few shots to her arms and torso to avoid a disorienting strike to the face, and she will gladly turn a potentially crushing powerbomb or piledriver into a more common throw or slam if she can squirm away or latch on with her strength to prevent the power move. She hopes to lull an opponent into a sense of complacency or fury where they become overly confident or desperate to hit their heaviest moves, at which point she goes for a counter in an attempt to take control of the match. 

Preferred Matches: Submission (obviously), Handcuff, Iron Girl, will probably try anything once

Endurance: ★★★ - If an opponent allows Taylor to bring the match to a slow crawl early-on, Taylor tends to maintain her stamina particularly well, allowing her to unleash late ground assaults and power moves with vigor. If Taylor's opponent sets a fast pace, she tends to lag behind and become winded by mid- to late-match. She is similarly durable, but she has not been challenged much before to bring her to her limit of punishment.
Strength: ★★★★ - Taylor doesn't possess the upper-body strength of a true power wrestler, to be unleashed in horrifying bursts that can shift the momentum of a match. Instead, she has very good whole-body strength, especially in her legs and hips, that allows her to have the advantage on the ground and capably maintain her balance under various assaults.
Speed: ★★★ - Taylor may have quick feet in small areas, but she does not have sudden reflexes or blinding speed. Instead, she's faster than most strength-reliant opponents and slower than most speed-based opponents, though she does have a little dance in her step. 
Defense: ★★★★ - Taylor relies on smart, consistent defense that focuses on withstanding the smaller hits and avoiding the bigger ones. Obviously, against opponents that rely on those small hits to whittle opponents down, Taylor's at a disadvantage, but her defensive strategy and technique is solid.
Technique: ★★★★ - Taylor lacks technique on her feet against lighter opponents, putting her at a disadvantage unless she can ground them. However, on the ground, few are better than Taylor at precisely locking in a hold and maintaining a position of strength over opponents. 

Strikes: ★★ - If at all possible, Taylor wants to avoid drawn-out exchanges of strikes, as her game is not at all tailored to her exposing herself through strikes, and she tends to expose herself, as she lacks strong technique with swings. 
Submissions: ★★★★★ - Her bread, butter, the knife used, and the plate she eats it on. Taylor has a submission move for nearly any situation and for whatever body part is available to her, and locks them in tight. When given the chance, she will go for a submission before anything else, even if close to the ropes. 
Powerhouse: ★★★★ - Taylor can unleash powerhouse moves when she gets the opportunity, though she does not have the strength to bring down larger opponents. Smaller targets, however, are fair game. Taylor isn't looking for a powerbomb, but she will take it and make it hurt if available. 
Aerial: ★ - Taylor has little in terms of an aerial game, and rarely, if ever, wants to take to the air. If she's climbing a turnbuckle, chances are the match has not gone her way in the slightest, and she is having to try something completely out-of-the-ordinary to change the momentum. 
Counters: ★★★★ - Taylor's skilled at waiting out a chance to drag an opponent down mid-assault and isolating one of their body parts in a submission hold. This is the main way she shifts momentum in a match she was previously losing. 

Finishing moves:

Maple Leaf: A reverse figure-four headscissor hold which traps the opponent's head (and, occasionally, an arm alongside the head) in Taylor's tightly-locked legs and applies pressure from the glute and thigh muscles. Taylor typically attempts this hold if she has the top position with the opponent's head towards her legs, and though it's difficult to get fully locked in, it's also a difficult escape for her opponent. It can occasionally render an opponent unconscious if breathing is inhibited or if the referee lets Taylor maintain it. Plus, the hold is somewhat humiliating for the opponent, being wedged into Taylor's butt, and rather enjoyable for the blonde.

Shake the Ground: Taylor's standing finisher, this move is a cobra clutch leg sweep that she usually unleashes against an opponent on the offensive towards the end of the match. Taylor delays it long enough to blow a quick kiss to the crowd and wrench the opponent's trapped leg between both of hers before executing the slam with a vicious efficiency. She hates the name with a passion, since she named it lazily once she picked her music.

Characteristics

Personality: Taylor was recognized as an outspoken, charismatic type from the time she was in school straight on through her first years as a wrestler. She produces smiles and triggers quick conversations when in social situations, as she has no issue being the center of attention. There was a time where she did not necessarily crave being that center of attention and simply felt comfortable with it, but her success as a wrestler in an indie league saw her slowly become more addicted to fanfare than she might have expected. Taylor has become somewhat cocky, ranging from a well-hidden certainty that she will beat someone to a little too much blatant showmanship in the middle of an important match. Deep down, it's possible she believes herself already a headliner coming into AFW, since she so easily dominated the middling wrestlers of her Canadian promotion.

While she may come from a family oriented towards a more traditional view of wrestling and sports, she views wrestling as more of a passion and a form of entertainment and fanfare than a job. She trains and fights hard, yes, but coming from a background in both indie wrestling and more niche types of wrestling where showmanship is the key to success, Taylor knows that she must look and perform her best on a regular basis and add some flair. It is possible that she has developed a sense that she can simply arrive for her match, expect to win, and seek to show off for her fans, but she does not admit that sense even to herself.

Past/History: Taylor Parrish was born in Toronto, Alberta, Canada, the second and last child her parents had. Taylor, from a young age, looked up to her older brother, who had interest in sports; she attended many of his baseball and football games, as well as his wrestling matches. Once old enough to endeavor into sports and school herself, she became a social butterfly who took up volleyball and softball. 

Once she hit secondary school, she wanted to follow in her brother's footsteps and wrestle, but unfortunately, she soured to the experience due to a sexist wrestling coach and decided to abandon her plans. Instead, she spent some time dabbling in martial arts before she learned that a small wrestling promotion in Toronto was willing to train female wrestlers to wrestle on contract for the promotion. Taylor signed up immediately, though she was a year too young to be involved, and spent that year training before she got her first taste in the ring. She enjoyed the experience of fighting a fellow woman and working with a crowd so much, she opted against college and began searching for ways to work her way up the ladder in wrestling. 

For a couple of years, she remained bogged down in the small promotion without a fresh opportunity, though her popularity and charisma made her a headliner in Toronto. In fact, she was dominant, without a great deal of competition to challenge her lofty position. Despite this, the pay wasn't great, but Taylor had become such a fan of wrestling that she couldn't bring herself to try and get a job on the side. Her eyes were set on the big prize - AFW - and she worked hard to make sure they noticed her. It took them some time, nonetheless, and in that time, Taylor paid for her needs by finding jobs in niche parts of the wrestling world, like videos for small websites all the way to session wrestling on a few select days of the month.

Said headlining in Toronto finally saw her popping up on AFW's radar, and upon receiving information about the promotion, she pursued a spot and later accepted a contract to join the Friction roster for the company, after some proof of her prowess. 

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Hello!

About five hundred years ago I joined here (or 2014, but who's counting?), and I ended up having some life stuff happen and forgot about this place's existence. Taylor here was my one character, and I think I might officially declare myself back and ready to write, if that's alright. I touched up her profile a little bit and will continue to flesh it out more like I planned to when I made her, so...here goes!

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