Strawberry Meringue

Ring Name: Strawberry Meringue
Real Name: Stephanie Mendez
Age: 22
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Bleached-blonde
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 130 lbs
Nationality: United States (Phoenix, Arizona)
Alignment: Face

Entrance Theme: An eleven-second audio clip of an AFW intern saying "Strawberry sample clip.  Um...upload before the show, this is a placeholder."

In the Ring

Style: Strawberry brings matches down just by being in them.  Her style is glacially slow, owing to her apparent lack of willingness to put anything beyond the bare minimum of effort into not messing up her moves.  She tends not to be aggressive at all (why go to them when they can come to you, after all?) and more often than not can't be bothered to do anything more than the basics - and even those are often a half-step away from being botched.  Worst of all, her slumbery antics tend to wear on whoever's in the ring with her as well - yawns are contagious, after all.

Every once in a while, in a brief burst of effort, she'll pull off an amazingly complex maneuver.  She can never be bothered to follow up on it.

Preferred Matches: After a battery of invasive medical tests, the AFW medical staff officially diagnosed Strawberry as 'too apathetic to be sexually aroused', causing management to ban her from participating in hentai matches due to 'unfair advantages'.  She doesn't particularly care what kind of match she's put in.

Strengths: Totally unflappable, actually quite good at wrestling
Weaknesses: Severe Ambien addiction, monumentally apathetic, perpetually sleepy, unable to muster up the effort to do more than the absolute least amount of work necessary

Signature Moves
Sunday Driver - Ostensibly a Gotch-style piledriver, she can rarely work up the motivation to make it much more than a leg-assisted DDT.
Ennuiziguri - It's a standing kick to the head.  Doing it on anybody who isn't completely prone is a bit too much work.
450 Splash - Well, she signals for the 450 splash, but by the time she gets up to the top rope, Strawberry tends to realize it's a long way down to the mat and ends up just going for sort of a lazy knee drop.

Finishing Moves
Uh, That Japanese Move - Emerald Flowsion.  She always calls the move before she does it, but in an unusual move of tactical wisdom, she waits to do so until her opponent is actually up on her shoulders.

Personal Information

Attire: Plaid skirt, wrestling shoes with stockings, and a band t-shirt (usually whichever one was at the top of her drawer that day).  During her entrance, she usually wears a stylized hoodie or zip-up jacket, but unzips and discards it prior to a match actually starting.  Although Strawberry has more than a few elaborate ear piercings, she never worked up the effort to get them taken out, and doesn't seem to particularly care about the potential safety hazard.

Hey does this taste like zolpidem tartrate to you guys:

Sometimes she likes to sit around the apartment and feel like garbage:

Personality: Eternally listless and rarely more than 50% there at any given time, Strawberry appears to have some kind of pathological aversion to anything but the minimum possible effort. She doesn't even open her eyes all the way most of the time, and the dull monotone in which she speaks tends to lilt upwards at the end, as if she was perpetually asking a question.  This trait is exacerbated by the fact that she's a shockingly good wrestler when she sets her mind to it - which is basically never, because that's way too much effort to put forward.  She does at least take care of herself - for example, she stays in shape with regular gym visits, although her activities there are pretty much entirely limited to hanging motionlessly from the pull-up bar, which CrossFit International rates as only slightly better exercise than the walk in from the parking lot.

Just being around her seems to have a somnolent effect on people, like some kind of lazy plague.  It might just be contagious yawn syndrome or something but she seems to suck the life out of nearly everywhere she goes, dragging the pace of the conversation or activity down to a crawl.  Listening to her talk is like lying down next to an oscillating fan - incredibly boring, kind of sleep-inducing, and possibly lethal to Koreans.

In her spare time, Strawberry's hobbies include sleeping and perusing books of carpet samples.

History: There appears to have been a significant mistake at some point, and no one is sure who made it.

As part of the yearly development program, AFW talent scouts reported to HR recommending the recruitment of one Strawberry Meringue, a sublimely talented prospect from the southwest U.S. who had been tearing up the independent scene with a dynamic, high-energy style and a charismatic disposition.  The offer was sent, the necessary paperwork was signed, and some time later, Strawberry arrived at Friction...just not the Strawberry that the brass had been expecting.  What they got, far from the description the scouts gave, was an unmotivated layabout who seemed barely fit for the kawaii division, with a crippling addiction to the sleep aid Ambien and an absolute refusal to put forth more than the bare minimum required to do a wrestling move without falling over in the process.  There was one impressive moment during her evaluation runthrough, wherein she pulled off an inverted wristclutch exploder into a rollthrough crossface, but then she got bored and failed to actually apply torque on the hold.

Discussions were raised among human resources, including the possibility that they'd somehow gotten the wrong Strawberry Meringue (was it really that common a name for wrestlers?), but the reality of the situation was that nothing could be done; Strawberry had an impressively large downside in her contract and if they wanted to release her from it, it'd be way more money than AFW was willing to spend.  For now, they had to resign themselves to setting her loose on the Friction roster and hoping she'd manage to draw enough interest or money to justify the amount that they'd paid for her - or, failing that, get smashed by somebody and quit the federation so they didn't have to pay her.

So far they have not succeeded in either, and Strawberry remains in a holding pattern, entirely through no virtue of her own.