Aphrodite Lowell

Nicknames/Ring Aliases: Aphro, Little Love
Age: 21
Eyes: Blue
Hair Color: Blonde
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 124 lbs

Various Attire:

Wrestling Tactics: Aphrodite combines slippery (and sometimes dirty) ploys, a feisty offensive wrestling style, and a grasp of the technical tenets of wrestling into her overall wrestling style. Though her size might fool opponents into the belief that Aphrodite is solely a high-flyer or a speed-based wrestler, she can likely be best described as a wrestler who centers her style around a focus on submissions, a testament to her experience working as a model and a wrestler for a video and web content company where most of the competitive wrestling consisted of submission-style matches filled with simple, intimate holds. The same experience taught her about the mechanics of wrestling (especially down on the canvas) and how to utilize cheap tactics to secure an advantage (which was actually encouraged for entertainment’s sake). She is not above taunting, teasing, sexual chicanery, and other naughty tactics.

Despite her love for aesthetics, Aphrodite does not wrestle in a traditionally "attractive" style. She instead tends to ravenously latch onto or wrap around opponents with her arms or legs and stubbornly refuse to release them. Despite her size, she can maintain holds for a lengthy period of time so long as she has the leverage to do so, as she possesses fine muscle tone and strength paired with decent flexibility. When she is not in control of the match, Aphrodite's height as well as her active hands and legs challenge opponents; she wriggles free from many holds and, often, has a means to counter them if her opponent is not aware of her antics.

Finisher:

• Beauty Sleep (sleeperhold with bodyscissors): Any time a staggered opponent turns her back to Aphrodite, either when both competitors are standing or Aphrodite's opponent is on the ground and vulnerable, chances are "Little Love" will take the chance to launch her petite frame onto the opponent's back, wrap an arm around her neck in a sleeperhold, and secure the hold with her legs wrapped around her opponent's midsection and her ankles locked. She looks to force standing opponents to the ground. Most taller opponents still have some mobility, if they can deal with the loss of blood flow to the brain, the thighs around their torso, and Aphrodite's teasing whispers in their ears. Aphrodite has knocked out plenty of women (and a man or two) with this sleeperhold.
  
  
• Last Kiss (double-knee backbreaker/facebreaker): Aphrodite typically resorts to this finisher when an opponent starts to grow fond of womanhandling her, so to speak. As a counter to powerhouse throws, Aphrodite will often writhe her way free of her opponent's grip and, as she falls to the canvas, she will grab the opponent by the head and use her momentum to drag said opponent down with her. Aphrodite lifts her knees and, depending on her relative position to her opponent, maneuver so that, while her back hits the canvas, her opponent's back or face takes the brunt of the impact with her knees. Whether Aphrodite manages to hit the canvas without hurting herself is a toss-up - her hands are too occupied with her opponent's head to break her fall.
  

Preferred Matches: She quite likes the idea of almost any specialty match, save for the more violent ones; she has no desire to be left a bloody mess at the end of a match. Any match where she has an excuse to wear a cute bikini especially appeals to her, as her vanity dictates.


Personality: Given all the advantages that Aphrodite has enjoyed in her young life - looks, athleticism, intelligence, and social grace - it should be no surprise that she has developed a moderate level of megalomania. Aphrodite thrives when sufficiently praised, admired, or envied by others; her sense of self-worth, though considerable, relies fairly heavily on the attentions of others, whether those attentions are affectionate or malicious. On one hand, this trait makes her quite the type A personality - a charismatic, social butterfly, capable of engaging others (so long as they do not mind hearing Aphrodite talk about herself or of some interest of hers for minutes at a time). She has never struggled to make friends (admirers, really) or take charge, as her vanity does not invade every word she utters. On the other hand, this bright, exciting persona can fade when Aphrodite is faced with adversity or encounters a person or personality with which she clashes. As mentioned, Aphrodite's talents and appearance have opened many doors for her. While she is not opposed to hard work or paying her dues, she prefers it when the end result of her toil makes her look ever more the champion. When it does not, however, Aphrodite will let the whole world know either through whining or through a tantrum that belies her apparent physical charms.

Her strong personality can overwhelm more quiet individuals, and Aphrodite knows it and has manipulated her fair share of would-be friends and admirers in her twenty-two years. In her opinion, others have great value when they are providing something, either material or abstract, for her benefit. This opinion of others might make one believe that she does not need companionship, and she assumes the same. However, as mentioned above, Aphrodite's self-confidence is built on the way others regard her. In the past, Aphrodite has "made use" of "friends" and cast them aside only to have others take their place. Should her stock of admirers ever run dry, chances are Aphrodite could fall from her precious pedestal; until that day comes, though, Aphrodite will continue to offer her grace and skill to the world with pride and confidence.

Ring Personality: Aphrodite loves when the crowd loves her and when incidents tilt in her favor. When she has neither advantage, she becomes hasty and temperamental. Regardless of the circumstances, she tends to be rather mouthy in the ring, her tone often ranging from mocking to uncomfortably sweet. Her bright charisma and fighting spirit (when winning) might peg her as a Face, but she might come across as more of a Heel due to her willingness to resort to dirty tactics and the disappearance of that fighting spirit in favor of pouting when she loses momentum. As such, she is a clear 'Tweener.

History: Aphrodite's parents - residents of rural California - pampered their only child as best they could as upper-middle-class citizens. While Aphrodite certainly lived in comfort in her quiet neighborhood, her life lacked excitement or intrigue; with few children on her street, Aphrodite turned to television and, once it became mainstream, the internet to occupy her idle mind. From an early age, she developed an interest in the ways beautiful women became famous - as athletes, as singers and dancers, as models, as actresses, and the like. As she developed into her teenage years, she dabbled in all of these areas. While her middle-class school did not offer many extracurricular activities, she, already an A student and a popular young woman, decided to try her hand at cheerleading, singing, and school plays. She excelled in all three, and the admiration that other students held for her only increased. It helped her fame that she was developing into a lovely young woman who, despite the opposition of her conservative parents, preferred to dress in all the latest fashions and wear entirely too much makeup for her age. Her parents were similarly wary of her apparent dream to achieve fame by any means possible.

Once old enough, Aphrodite strove to expand her horizons, but in her rural hometown, she could find little in the way of modeling opportunities or other activities of interest, especially for a youngster. Well aware she lived in the shadow of Hollywood and, therefore, of opportunity, Aphrodite begged her parents many times to leave their small town and move to a larger city where she could "blossom," but they refused. Not deterred, Aphrodite remained on the lookout for opportunities. As months passed, though, what had once been optimism became frustration, and Aphrodite managed to convince herself, as she neared college age, that her "window" was closing and that soon, she would be too old to take advantage of any prospects for stardom. Out of spite, she spent her junior year of high school looking for what she called a "job for a peon" where she could toil and hopefully convince her parents to listen to her, but she ultimately valued her school and social life - as star cheerleader, skilled pianist, and the star of the school's rendition of Much Ado About Nothing - over teaching her parents any lessons. Thus, her pouting continued.

Aphrodite graduated, and despite her maneuvering, her parents would not pay her way into the state's finest college for film due to the extravagant price. She begrudgingly accepted a cheerleading scholarship to a smaller college in southern California; at least she would be out of the house and could pursue her dreams on her own time. She again scoured all options unsuccessfully for several months, staying sane by gathering quite a following on campus, until she came across an opportunity posted online - someone, with a very professional-looking ad and website, asking for those interested in modeling to come for "tryouts." Aphrodite attended, needless to say, and found the "modeling" to be far different than she expected. The ad originated from a widely-known and prosperous company specializing in creating both fantasy and competitive wrestling content involving its models.

On the first day, the idea of wearing a bikini and rolling around the floor with another woman did not appeal to her, mainly because she felt misled. The company owner told her that she was the best-looking, most athletic woman who had visited; unsurprisingly, his praise swayed her. When she considered it, she decided that many paths to fame existed. She returned the next day and tried out; for a first-timer, she excelled, already having the body and the charisma needed, and was hired. Some of the veteran girls trained her for several weeks while Aphrodite indulged in modeling and chatting up all the cameras pushed into her face. After several months, she became good enough to become one of the company's premier girls. Only once Aphrodite did not return home over spring break did her parents realize that she was no longer attending college; they had a falling out once Aphrodite revealed how she was spending her days.

She remained with the company for nearly three years and starred in numerous videos, becoming a favorite among the "underground" female wrestling community. It was not exactly the stardom that Aphrodite had dreamed of, but it fed her narcissism. Never did seeing herself in flattering photos or videos in which she posed victoriously over other women, sporting a bikini, grow old. She hoped that new opportunities would arise and lead her to a more prestigious modeling career, however. Surprisingly to her, modeling companies did not pursue her - AFW did. Since joining the company, Aphrodite had trained an eye on the growing female wrestling phenomenon, jealous of how famous some of their star wrestlers became - and of how much money they likely made. When AFW contacted her, she immediately accepted, abandoned her company without apology, and packed her bags immediately in hopes of becoming an international wrestling superstar.

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