Cutlass Wrestling [Former Members]

If you have any questions about Cutlass or are considering wanting to have one of your characters have come from it, feel free to shoot me a message to chat with me about it. I'd love the chance for additional world building and making some preexisting relationships with my characters. Any character that winds up being from this company is free to add their characters to this listing.

Caroline's role in the promotion's story followed her character's journey as an antagonist to, and frequent victim of, the Indomitable Empire. Established as The Fair Maiden (or the Damsel in Distress, as her opponents often called her), she played a member of the nobility of a smaller and much weaker kingdom, facing constant threat of conquest. The story took a lot of inspiration from the archaic tropes associated with Shakespeare's era, with a smattering of Game of Thrones' flavor to capitalize on the show's popularity. Caroline's opposition to hentai matches was also worked into the plot. The Fair Maiden was a shy, chaste woman, constantly railing against the Empire's use of sex to subjugate its opponents and upholding herself as a woman of virtue. With few skilled allies, however, The Fair Maiden would never pose a serious threat to the Matriarch's rule, protected as she was by her Vanguard, who stood strong against every threat the Empire faced.

Per Caroline's demand, The Fair Maiden was never a direct participant in any matches that allowed for hentai, though she could occasionally be spotted watching from the sidelines, her character's presence required even if she wasn't there to wrestle. Second-hand embarrassment for the women who melted in Vanguard's embrace was usually the worst outcome, but during a fateful tag match, Caroline made the mistake of cheating on behalf of her team, interfering from the sidelines by tripping Lexi when she tried to rebound off the ropes for a splash. Silently resolving to pay Caroline back for the act, the two women refused to let her leave after the match was over, dragging her into the ring for an unplanned scene that would become the best and worst moment of the young woman's Cutlass career.

Lexi trapped the Maiden in her dreaded finisher, the stockades, while Mackenzie grabbed a mic to chastise her for cheating and wonder aloud what they could do to punish her for it. With Lexi teasing Caroline's vulnerable crotch and threatening to go even further, Caroline panicked and begged for Mackenzie to show mercy and call Lexi off. Holding the mic to Caroline's lips, Mackenzie easily extracted an apology, and after some added groveling for good measure, the two women finally released Caroline and watched her flee in terror.

This humiliation sparked an in-character rivalry between Lexi and Caroline that helped move her out of the roster's background. It also forced her to confront her long suppressed desires, with the thought of being trapped and ravished by Vanguard never leaving her after that. Each subsequent encounter with them, whether wrestling for the audience or talking in private, would strip a little more of her apprehension away.

With Mackenzie occupied by her own rivalries, Lexi would remain the larger fixture in Caroline's story, an inscrutable and clever opponent that Caroline often struggled to match. The Azure Shield was observant enough to see past Caroline's attempts to hide how flustered she would get whenever she shared the ring with Mackenzie or herself, especially when Caroline was on the losing end of things. She had discovered a budding masochist inside the shy southerner, nurtured by her wrestling career.

Lexi's observations were always put to great effect, allowing her to get inside the blonde's head and attack her where she was weakest. With a noticeable amount of sexual tension building between the two, Caroline and Lexi eventually worked out a conclusion to this story arc that both of them were comfortable with. In character, Caroline would be taken captive by the Empire and confronted with a demand to abandon her claim to power and offer her hand to the Azure Shield in an arranged marriage that would unite their kingdoms. Caroline would resist this, facing off against Lexi and Mackenzie in a climactic “Escape the Castle” match where she would attempt to flee the castle and escape her fate. Failure would see Vanguard catching the Fair Maiden and dragging her into the castle's torture chamber, where they would surely break her will to resist the Matriarch's demands.

Before the match could ever take place, however, Caroline received a call from Japan. Friction had just announced plans to expand their roster to accompany the brand's growing popularity, and some of her better spots with Vanguard had reached their talent scouts. She received an offer to sign with the promotion. The next day, she broke the news to Lexi and Mackenzie that she was leaving.

Why exactly Caroline felt so compelled to cut and run that she wouldn't record one final match is unknown, but the most popular fan theory was management attempting to renege on their agreement not to involve Caroline in explicit sexual content. There was a lot of pressure from fans to see Lexi consummate her arranged marriage with Caroline after the conclusion of their match. Caroline's contract forbade hentai matches, but a loophole regarding the definition of “match” may have allowed them to add the Maiden's dungeon encounter with Vanguard to the show, instead of leaving it to audience imagination. Whatever the reason may have been, the Maiden's sudden departure resulted in a hasty rewrite that would leave The Azure Aegis standing at the altar. The Fair Maiden had chosen to run from her destiny, evading capture and fleeing in the middle of the night.

For Caroline, missing the chance to finish spinning her story as the Fair Maiden was a source of lasting regret, but the sudden collapse of Cutlass a few months later only proved to Caroline that she had made the right choice for herself. Now wrestling under her own name in Tokyo, it didn't escape her attention when Vanguard resurfaced in Kyoto, making a debut that had Caroline struggling to watch through the slits between her fingers. It was tempting to try getting in touch with them again, but they seemed so ruthless now. How would they respond to the girl that had abandoned them, assuming they remembered her at all?