Angelica Mercier - "The Bionic Woman"

Name: Angelica Mercier, "The Bionic Woman"
Age: 21
Sex: Female
Nationality: American
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Ginger
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 128 lbs
Alignment: Face
Entrance music: Madeon - Finale

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Wrestling Information

Endurance: ★★★ - Her best trait, by pure force of enthusiasm and courage. She absorbs punishment and disregards exhaustion with a hell of a lot of determination and a fairly sturdy body. Faster opponents slow her as the match lengthens, and stronger opponents leave her with pain and a series of bruises. Angelica continues to fight in the worst of circumstances, and it has nothing to do with physical talent.
Strength: ★★ - With her general fitness, Angelica is stronger than the average woman, but she is not lifting a woman above her weight. Her legs and hips are sturdy and capable of keeping her upright against a show of strength from an opponent. She can certainly improve in this area, since she has the frame.
Speed: ★★★ - Angelica is not particularly fast, but she moves around the ring easily and willingly moves her feet to avoid blows from larger opponents. With long legs, she can take strides that allow her to close in and move away from opponents with a graceful ease. Better athletes and smaller, speedy opponents, however, can easily outmaneuver her.
Defense: ★ Angelica understands the most basic defense; she can throw up her arms to defend herself from hard hits. Her ability to anticipate incoming moves is mediocre, at best, and she lacks an ability to use the more resilient parts of her body to protect the vulnerable ones.
Technique: ★★ - Most of her wrestling knowledge comes from watching it on TV, and her physical technique is not developed. In most regards, she appears something of a mess of legs and wild grasps that sometimes prove unexpected and effective. At other times, they leave her devastatingly vulnerable.

Powerhouse: ★★ - See above. The few power moves that Angelica can perform are meant for women at or below her weight. She will attempt to grab someone and unleash a powerhouse move on them, but her plans do not always work out for her. This is a middling part of her expanding strategy, at best.
Striking: ★★★ - With long legs, Angelica is a strong kicker. She attacks with broad strokes, swinging her feet around with long, heavy strikes, and her flexibility makes her more than a little dangerous to attack an opponent from all angles. Sometimes her broad strokes miss, but for the most part, striking is one of her safest and most effective forms of offense.
Submission: ★★★ - Angelica knew a few things about submission holds before coming to AFW, and as mentioned, she is flexible enough to pull off unexpected, effective ones. Her technique may not be perfect, but her simpler submission holds can have another woman wailing and searching for a quick escape. Angelica takes pride in her ability to look like a true wrestler with a submission hold locked in, so she searches for the opportunity frequently.
Aerial: ★★ - Angelica looks good in the air and has good leaping ability, but the body control thing, she doesn't quite have figured out. She certainly feels heroic when she climbs on a turnbuckle, and she has some heavy elbows and knees to bring upon opponents. She cannot, however, execute difficult aerial moves (such as bouncing off the ropes) without trouble.
Countering: ★★ - Angelica knows how to get out of a lot of holds due to watching wrestling, but her strength and agility limits her. She cannot pry her way from the clutches of power wrestlers by any means. She does have long limbs and range against many women, which provides her a chance to strike back against throws and strikes.

Overall Strategy: Angelica carries...enthusiasm with her to the ring. Completely green when it comes to the practice of wrestling but a bright student and fan of the sport, Angelica can visualize and plan a performance in the ring, but her body does not always follow the plan. These plans more or less incorporate hitting more moves on the other woman than she takes, since as an outside viewer, this is primarily Angelica's perspective on the flow of a match. Whatever the case, Angelica never willingly surrenders in a fight unless she has arrived at a breaking point, and she is determined to give her all to a match, sometimes including using her own body as a weapon. Of course, she would rather a match not arrive at that desperate point, but until she shapens into a more focused and practiced wrestler, Angelica generally takes what opportunities she can get and stays on the offensive to seek an advantage.

Offense: Angelica alternates between kicking and trying to reel opponents in with her hands for her initial offense. What she might do once she has someone reeled in is anyone's guess. She would often like to execute a power move against a smaller opponent to get them on the ground and start tangling them into various submission holds. With larger opponents, she wants to grapple and out-step them. In practice, she does not always keep her focus on her strategy, nor does she execute it perfectly. With momentum, her offense can prove quite effective, in that she knows how to respond to moments where she has control by continuing to apply holds and giving her opponents little time to breathe. Occasionally, she becomes so enraptured by the fanfare and intensity that she becomes too keen on maintaining offensive momentum, which leads to trouble.

Defense: Angelica struggles with protecting herself early in matches with a poor willingness to present a consistent defense. This leads to her taking more punishment than she ought, and as a match drags on and she starts actively trying to protect those sore areas and bent appendages, it may be entirely too late. Here, her determination to endure serves her better than any particular defensive strategy, as she will withstand a hold a few seconds longer than other women and prove so stubborn (and loud) that she may be frustrating to opponents. Her instincts sometimes serve her well, in the times when she can snap back against an incoming blow and send the other woman to an unfortunate crash, but these moments of genius come with great inconsistency.

Finishing moves:

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Preferred Matches:
If it gets her in the ring, she will probably leap at it.

Characteristics

Personality: Angelica is a bright soul who has nonetheless spent much of her life quietly adhering to responsibility rather than pursuing her dreams of wrestling. Now, this has changed, and her enthusiasm has become unfettered. Angelica could not be more thrilled to be wrestling in AFW, and she has an incredible determination (see also: stubbornness and possibly also stupidity in certain situations) to make it all work for her long-term. That means, she will work ceaselessly to be a valuable member of the company and keep herself doing what she loves and making the money necessary to maintain this lifestyle. And through whatever that might include, she will likely remain upbeat.

Inexperience governs her relationships with others, as she has always been a tad overly friendly and naive. Angelica may offer kind words even to her enemies, though limits to her tolerance exist. Generally, she has a great deal to learn about the world beyond her previously simple lifestyle, and though she wishes to dive into the deep end, so to speak, of the wrestling world and engage with all of its many characters, she is prone to ending up in over her head with circumstances and relationships.

History: Born in New Hampshire to a suburban family with a strong French ancestry, Angelica Mercier carried no predisposition towards wrestling nor sports in general. Her family preferred education and togetherness over extracurricular activities and socializing, and Angelica, as the younger child, fit her parents' mold as an adept student and something of a homebody.

With teenage years come boredom, however, though Angelica gained only a token amount of the typical teenage rebelliousness. She did not catch it nearly as bad as her slightly older brother, however, who developed a fascination with fighting any male of his age that he could locate. Angelica's parents asked her to spend more time with him, and she did. She ended up, to her great dismay as a lover of fashion and books, having to watch wrestling with him to keep him occupied. At first she merely kept him company while reading, but eventually, she would start to eye the screen, especially when there were striking, charismatic women on the screen. She started to ask questions, and her reading slowly crept away in favor of watching matches intently.

It grew to a level where she and a boyfriend, similarly interested in wrestling, would spend some of their time tussling, and though this relationship didn't last into her last years of high school and into college, her love for the sport had grown to the point where she thought she might train when she left for college. Her parents, who were willing to partially pay for her education, were having none of it, and she merely received self-defense training and a gym membership.

College began, and while Angelica attended to her studies and worked at the school library, she continued to nurture a small dream to someday wrestle. To her great fortune, that opportunity came, but not in the way she expected. When a fantastic internship opportunity at an advanced library in Japan arose, Angelica took it, both because it was indeed a fine opportunity and because she wanted to be closer to the home of AFW.

She proceeded to try out four times in a year when the temptation hit her, and she did not receive a contract.

Dejectedly, she told herself she was resigned to being a simple, quiet librarian her whole life. But, she continued to build herself nonetheless to improve. Finally, at the end of her fifteenth month in Japan before she was to return home, she told herself to try one last time, and hold nothing back with her personality. She also made some bold claims - that she was the Bionic Woman, who would never willingly surrender in a match because she could take any amount of punishment.

This time, she got the contract, and the small drawings she had crafted of a wrestling outfit during her idle time became relevant. Angelica had made it to AFW.

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