Isabel Armstrong - The Temptress

Name: Isabel ‘Isa’ Armstrong
Ring Name: The Temptress
Sex: Female
Age: 21
Eyes: Green
Hair: Black
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 155 lbs
Nationality: British
Hometown: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Alignment: Tweener (Chaotic Neutral)

Entrance Theme:  Tir Na Nog by Celtic Women


Strategy: Isa likes to keep her strategy deceptively simple both on her feet and on the mat. Wear her opponent down anyway she can until they’re exhausted and broken and she can basically have her way with them. On her feet, that means using her agility, flexibility and striking ability; on the mats, she favours frequent pins and slow grinding submissions designed to drain the fight out of them as much as to actually make them tap.

In particular, Isa likes to target the legs, the neck and the midsection. It’s hard for her opponents to fight back if they can’t walk or breathe, not to mention many female fighters rely on kicks or scissors.

The downsides of this strategy is that, while Isa can adjust it to many opponents, it’s utterly unworkable against some. And sometimes it can slide into her toying with an opponent when she really ought to just end it (or she gets so lost in wearing them down that she just lets opportunities pass her by.
Type: Striker/Submission Grappler with pro wrestling elements

Preferred Attacks:
- Basic slams, takedowns and throws
- Kicks
- Knee strikes
- Leglocks
- Pins (especially grapevines)
- Scissorholds
- Smothers

Preferred Matches:
Almost anything (except hentai) but favours multi-fall submission themed rules.

Physical Statistics:

Endurance: ★★★☆☆

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Strength: ★★★★☆

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Speed: ★★★★☆

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Defence: ★★★☆☆

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Technique: ★★★★☆

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Wrestling Statistics:
Strikes: ★★★★☆

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Submissions: ★★★★☆

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Powerhouse: ★★☆☆☆

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Aerial: ★★★☆☆

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Counters: ★★★☆☆

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Signature moves:
Axe Kick
Kip up Hurricanrana
Slingshot Dropkick/ Slingshot Thrust Kick
Standing Inverted Headscissors
Swinging Neckbreaker into Handstand Kneedrop

Finishing moves:
Gae Bolg (Back to belly Piledriver): Ducking down to tuck her head between her opponent’s legs, Isa then grabs them by the back of the knees and straightens up, draping them over her back. Wrapping her arms around their thighs, Isa goes up on her tiptoes and then drops sharply to a kneeling position, spiking her opponent’s head into the mat. For the finishing touches, she will either hold the opponent for the pin or pull their head up high between her thighs, roll to her side and finish them with a powerful headscissors.

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Scathach’s Knot (Augmented Banana Split): Lying down on her side behind her opponent, Isa wraps both legs around one thigh and both arms around the other, before straightening her back and driving her hips forward to force her opponent into the splits. Then Isa forces her opponent over until they’re face down on the mat and takes them beyond a full set of the splits. At the same time, she squeezes the thigh trapped in her own legs and can also apply an ankle lock or Achilles tendon lock to the other leg.

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Personality: A young woman visibly oozing confidence, Isa Armstrong is a bad girl… just not too bad. She’s a thrill seeker who loathes being bored. She’s flirty and playful, sultry and sassy and, when she chooses to be, perfectly capable of wrapping people around her little finger, particularly those who find her attractive. Isa flirts about as easily as she breathes and isn’t above doing so just for kicks – even if the object of her interest is otherwise spoken for (that just makes it more fun). Messing with people is something she enjoys, mostly because Isa finds it fun to shake people up and see how they react but also because she’s got a sharp sense of humour (some might say ‘trollish’).

It'd be a push to say she’s selfish – but you could certainly call her self-centred.

Since starting her wrestling career (and winning), Isa has discovered a competitive edge and a taste for fighting – the rush of the fight and the thrill of the win - that she never thought she’d have. Generally, she isn’t one for actually breaking the rules but she’s happy to fight sneaky or bend the rules a little and Isa can be surprisingly ruthless or even vindictive if the mood takes her. Nor is she always the most gracious of losers, especially if she feels her opponent slighted her. Nor is she the best at taking responsibility for her own mistakes.

Past/History: Though she was born and grew up in Belfast, Isa’s family wasn’t native to the United Kingdom or even Western Europe. Her father was born in then-Communist Romania before making his way west when the Iron Curtain fell. He’d made his living as a wrestler as he went, earning the name of ‘the Bear’ for his signature finishing move, before eventually he settled on the Irish circuit (as much as any wrestler could settle at least).

Her mother, who was born in London although her parents had been first generation immigrants to the UK, was a nurse he’d met after what could have been a career ending injury. She’d helped him through a bout of depression and they’d fallen in love, before eventually marrying a couple of years later. A daughter followed in the natural way and the early years of Isa’s childhood were pretty normal, unremarkable even, aside from her father’s travelling.

When she was sixteen, things changed as they are prone to do. Her dad’s career, or at least the in-ring part of it, had run its course and he retired to Belfast to open a wrestling school to train a new generation of wrestlers.

Isa herself wasn’t all that interested at first. Or, at least, she didn’t think she was – she still spent plenty of time at her dad’s school, because she worked out there and got to use the mats for dance practice when they were free. And, of course, it was where she met her best friend.

By contrast to Isa, Bela Carrow had been a fan of wrestling since ever she could remember and had signed up for the junior classes the second she was allowed. Somehow, she and Isa found themselves talking and then they were virtually inseparable. More often that not of an afternoon, they could be found on the mats, Isa protesting her total lack of interest while helping Bela through her drills.

No, Isa’s interest was in competitive pole dancing, a choice that had led to some interesting discussions with her parents at 16 when she needed their permission to start classes. Before that, she’d spent time on gymnastics and she found working with Bela helped her build flexibility and leg strength.

What tipped her over the edge into participating in a wrestling match herself was, as one might say, a series of unfortunate events.

It was the summer holidays the year she started pole dancing lessons. Bela had been training for long enough that she’d managed to persuade Isa’s dad to let her stage a little mixed-gender tournament with some of her other friends from the wrestling classes. It was going to be an eight person elimination tournament, three rounds with a voucher for the winner.

Bela had thought she’d got seven people lined up but one had to drop out, leaving a space that she needed filled – when Isa walked in for her workout, looking decidedly grim. Knowing it was a long shot, Bela begged her best friend to make up the numbers. It wasn’t like any of them were that good, she argued, Isa had decent odds and might actually enjoy it.

It was mostly just for fun. Where was the harm?

Under any other circumstances, Isa would have smiled, bowed out as gracefully as she could and left them to find someone else. Not interested.

On that particular day however… Well, she’d not been having a good day at all.

Her boyfriend had dumped her for another dancer (specifically a bleach-blonde all-American transfer student who Isa had thought was a friend). Thanks to that, her gymnastics practice that afternoon had gone about as wrong as it could possibly go barring an injury. And, to top matters off, she’d got caught in the rain while walking to her dad’s school and was a touch damp around the edges.

Isa had been having one of those days. So she said “Sure, I’m in” before she really thought about it, at least partly to be contrary but also because part of her really wanted to make someone hurt.

She promptly regretted her choice but she was too proud to take it back.

Luck of the draw saw Isa matched up against one of the boys involved. He was cautious to start with, not least because she was his teacher’s daughter, but soon started to show off a bit when he realised he had more training than her. The dancer was able to use her flexibility and endurance to slip his crude submission attempts but wasn’t able to take the offensive herself – it was only a matter of time before he scored a matchbook pin with a little friendly trash-talking to boot.

Then the boy started to groan. Isa had instinctively crossed her ankles, squeezing her legs around his ribs. After a moment, she managed to roll him off, lock the bodyscissors down properly and then he tapped quickly. Really quickly. It turned out genetics, pole-dancing and gymnastics had given Isa some very strong and dangerous legs.

It was the first time Isa had wrestled anyone outside playful ‘training’ with Bela and it shocked her almost as much as the watching audience that she’d been both good at it and had enjoyed it. The second match of the tournament for her was against another boy and it had a similar ending, this time when Isa caught him in a headscissors that got her a tap even faster than the bodyscissors.

Maybe there was something to this wrestling lark after all…

That took her to the final, where she lost to Bela - her best friend wasn’t going to underestimate her, she’d seen what Isa’s limited moveset included and had an idea how to deal with it.

But that just made Isa more eager. In the wake of the tournament, it was surprisingly easy to convince her dad that she ought to be getting private lessons. That led to BJJ training with one of his friends and, next time Isa and Bela rolled, Isa was the one with her hand held high. Since then, she has beaten all her father’s students and most of those in her BJJ classes at least once, her style earning her the affectionate nickname of the Anaconda from her teachers.

With their support, she travelled more widely within the UK, working the independent scene with some notable success over the last year, but is now looking to spread her wings a little wider.

Fun Facts:
- Isa likes to stream semi-regularly, usually workouts, demonstrating moves or the odd game but also anything else that catches her fancy.
- Isa’s got a notably low and sultry voice, think Laura Bailey (Catwoman from the Telltale Batman games, Lust from Fullmetal Alchemist/Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood) with a subtle Irish accent.
- She’s a fully trained and qualified pole dancer, which has a great deal to do with her endurance, flexibility and overall strength.
- She is also extremely resistant to stretch-based holds (eg Boston Crab)

AFW Information

Record (W/L/D):
0 – 0 – 0

Championships/Accomplishments:

Relationships:
Friends: TBA
Allies: TBA
Rivals: TBA
Enemies: TBA
Crushes: TBA

Bump - I've redone Isa's bio almost entirely, looking to give her a fresh start in AFW.