Valentina Cousins

General Information

Name: Valentina Cousins

Age: 22

Eyes: Red (usually for effect, contacts). Her natural color is brown.

Hair: White

Height: 5'6"

3 Sizes: B80/W65/H85

Origin: United States

Alignment: Heel/tweener

Entrance Music: "Mie chan"- Thug Murder


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Wrestling Information

Strategy: She has perfected the waiting game. She will usually stand back, seize up opponents and trust her skill rolling with the punches and freakish pain tolerances until she feels confident enough that she can "read" her rival, or her rival itself makes a faux pas. She will then attempt to create and exploit openings to move into range with a hard hitting throw or stun blow, to then take things to where she really shines- submission, whittling down her opponent until she is exhausted enough to fall prey to a submission or pinfall.

Style: Defensive and slow-paced, he will always try to move on the outside and wait for an opening. Though she's not especially strong, she has good technique and fine skills to manipulate balance, so her throws and slams can pack some rather unexpected punch. Her main strength, however, is her ability to restrict opponents and inflict pain through locks and holds, as well as her own ability to endure it. Her personality makes her a glutton for punishment, and she can take lots of it.

Type: Submission, endurance fighter, grappler, technical.

Preferred Attacks: She will usually favor fast punches and kicks that she can throw quickly as a counter or use to put distance with her foe. She's not above using her elbows and knees in a pinch, if she's hard pressed. She tended to trust inertia to compensate for her lack of weight when she was younger, but in the days since she's gained legit throwing skills- not only from wrestling but judo as well.

Preferred Matches: She used to aim for anything with a high humiliation factor- Bed Wrestle, Sumo Panties, Humiliation matches... and to be fair, she does still enjoy those. However, he early experiences and matches saw her gain a measure of respect for the drive and dedication of the other, and she has matured enough to finally accept that her early rocky feelings for the Kawaii rooster were entirely her fault.
Of course, she'll never admit to that while on character, it's just too convenient a ploy for her role. But she doesn't need to.

She has since been open to do regular wrestling matches, and with the right person, she might even accept some of the lewder stuff.


Endurance: 5/5 (Specialising in submission and having been the girl everyone loves to doormat for long, she's gotten accustomed to taking LOTS of punishment).
Strength: 2/5 (Definitely not strong, and she knows it, so she focus on other areas)
Speed: 3/5 (Very agile, but not very fast on her feet. Which suits her more defensive style well)
Defense: 3/5 (Very good at escaping submissions or rolling with throws and slams, average in blocking and countering blows)
Technique: 4/5 (Older and having worked hard since the early Kawaii days, she actually has a fairly impressive technical acumen. Maybe not up there with the best, but defnitely noticeable)

Favored moves:

Hip toss, Hair mare, Cobra Clutch, Abdominal Stretch, Figure Four Leglock


Finishing moves:

King Cobra Reversal: Borrowed from her training in other grappling arts, she normally uses this as a surprise move to turn the tide. While she is on her back on the ground (either unwillingly or having let herself be downed as a ruse), she will wait for the rival to mount or pin her, then quickly lock him into a kakato-jime, or foot choke, wrapping her legs around her rival's neck  and using her shin bone to put pressure into their windpipe. For someone flexible enough, this can be done very quickly and leaves the rival- especially an unexpecting one- in a very dangerous chokehold.

Tail Spin: She quickly Irish whips her opponent, but cancels the movement, pulling the arm back towards her. While the opponent is unbalanced by the sudden direction change, she moves in, locking her neck and reaching for her knee into a single movement. If successful, she uses her own forward momentum and her rival's one into her to launch into a Fisherman´s Suplex.

Characteristics

Visual Appearance:

Ring Costume (Regular Matches)


Ring Costume (More risqué matches)


Regular Street Wear


Personality:

Brisk, loud, endlessly energetic, overtly flirtatious and aggressive and with a mouth that insists on giving out cheques she can't cash, Valentina seems to permanently be on a 110% over-the-top mood she just won't drop, no matter how much he might annoy fans and rivals alike.  She's always loud, pushy, full of snide remarks and wisecracks for almost any situation you can think of, and seems to have a permanent need to make her presence and opinions known whether the rest of the world likes it or not. Most of the time, they don't. And she knows it full well- that's exactly why she does it.

She talks in a loud voice, moves her arms and legs a lot in doing so, and is fond of leaning against stuff, throwing her feet on tables, sitting spread-legged and whatever will make the rest of people uncomfortable. Her clothing usually also reflects this, going for the military-inspired trousers and hip-hop styled tank tops, hoodies and other attire.

Outside the ring, however, she tends to be pensive and prone to introspection, usually speaking very calmly and after having considered things for a time. She is also extremely studious and focused when it comes to all things wrestling. The change is so abrupt that it usually surprises people who see it for the first time- and can even sometimes amaze people accustomed to her. In the end, she is actually a quite happy person. She loves wrestling, and is grateful for each day she can spend doing it. She'd probably make an excellent face if she showed herself more like she is, but just finds heeling way more fun.

[b]Past/History:[/b]

Valentina grew up in an almost all-male extended american family, being the only girl. Witch a franchise gym monitor for a father and a host of infant to teenaged brothers, it was almost an inevitability that the otherwise quiet, pensive "Tina" (how her out-of-the-ring friends call her) was exposed to damn-near excessive amounts of wrestling on cable TV at most any time during her childhood. What no one (not even herself for the most part) expected was that the would grow so utterly fascinated by it all- the intensity, the physical prowess, the techcnical nuances, the perfectly timed and coordinated stunts.

She became almost obsessed with it, watching and dissecting pay-per-view events and videos with nigh-unhealthy intent- something she still does studying her potential rivals, in fact.  As expected, it wasn't long before she started to practice what he saw first with cushions or giant sized teddy bears (which she wasn't short on) and then with pugnacious siblings (which she wasn't short on, either). This quickly taught her to fight into the defensive, since not all the enthusiasm in the world could bridge the strength gap with her teenage male sibling.

After growing moving to Japan due to a very advantageous relocation offered to her father, Valentina eventually heard of the AFW, and was instantly elated. There he was, a chance to put everything she knew in practice and get recongition and maybe money with it, too! With her expansive studies, her practice and the fact that the US was the cradle of prowres, she was sure she´d break into the upper ranks in no time. She fished for the direction of the AFW´S camp, got geared and got into the middle of one of the training sessions, challenging "any and all" who thought they could take her on. She hadn't even thought for a moment this might not work.  I mean, how good could the imitation Japanese thing be against the real deal, right?

She quickly and very humiliatingly found out. It was lucky that, by sheer dumb luck, she'd hit the Kawaii division camp and not the main rooster, or God  knows what might have happened. Without malice, but decided to teach the brash girl a painful but necessary lesson, the more experienced and better trained Kawaiis ran her through all the manners of pain, humiliation and indignity they themselves were no strangers to. Silent, with pursed lips and tears in her eyes, Tina left for home...

... and came right back the next day. And this time, things were different. This time, they hit and humiliated her twice as hard. Again, she left home with a destroyed pride and bruises...

...and came right back the following day.

This routine repeated itself each day for a month. Eventually, the other girls saw that they were not getting the idea of being a wrestler out of her head, and they just ran with it. It was her funeral, after all, and there was no denying she was showing promise. Her resistance to abuse was up there with the best. No matter how much she got beat up, she always came right back up for more. She also learned fast. As in, really fast. And although her mic skills were a bit too dramatic and over the top, there was no denying she could get a reaction- even if was an annoyed one. After some months of boot camp, Valentina was led to the main registration office and officially enrolled on Friction.

From that moment on, the girl declared all-out war on the whole camp, donning her eyepatch, "bad girl" image and questionable tactics into the fray, and declaring loud that she won't be satisfied with herself until she has personally humiliated back everyone who humiliated her in the first place. Tina launched into a string of matches where she aimed to humiliate her opponents any way she could, as her own way of getting back, and antagonising everyone, from wrestlers to fans. They rarely went well, and after a string of losses and open hostility from the public and the media, she decided to sit down and rethink her approach.

She realised she had been too antagonistic and brash, had strayed from the line of the good to the cheesy gimmick, and had launched herself into a very technically complex gimmick without being ready for it. Another quick chat with management saw Tina "retire" in a fit of rage after a specially demeaning "Humiliation Match" against Fran which again, ended in a humiliating defeat for her and take a break, living the life of a college student, learning other grappling martial arts and acting skills and generally, finding herself away from the shadow of her past.

Now, 2 years later, Valentina is back and ready to set the record straight on an unsuspecting string of newcomers. She knows that some wrestlers and fans might still remember the old her and be antagonistic. She counts on that. But this time, she's decided to be the girl everyone loves to hate... instead of the girl they actually hate.


AFW Information

Record:
Wins: 0
Losses: 3
Draws:  0

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