Garm Takanashi

Special thanks to Old Man Tai who allowed me to adopt Garm and wrote the bulk of the profile!

Name: Garm Takanashi
Sex: Female
Age: 32
Eyes:  Amber
Hair: Dyed blonde with some turquoise in the back
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 165 lbs
Nationality: Japanese
Alignment: Heel
Entrance Theme: The Destroyer

Wrestling Information

Strategy: While Garm is primarily a power grappler with hard strikes, most of her weight is from muscle instead of fat, and she’s surprisingly agile for someone her size, able to pull off dropkicks and very limited and mostly simplistic form of high flying off the middle turnbuckle, usually just for clotheslines, shoulder tackles, and cross bodies.

Style:Flying Bruiser.

Preferred Match: Single Match, Hardcore, and Tag matches.

Endurance: ★★★

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Strength: ★★★★

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Speed: ★★

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Defense: ★★

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Technique: ★★★

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Favored moves:  Loves using shoulder tackles to knock lighter opponents to the ground, throwing hard punches, occasionally leaping off the middle turnbuckle for a flying shoulder tackle or clothesline.

Finishers:

Moonsault: An admittedly awkward and unpolished move, and one that Garm doesn’t often use, as it has a short range and while she’s just agile enough to pull it off, requires her to be relatively fresh to pull off, making it less likely for her to go for it as the match goes on, and should she miss, it takes a lot out of her. Still, on the occasions she does pull it off, it’s pretty effective, landing her entire weight on her opponent.

Top Rope Splash: An alternate finisher from the Moonsault, used when she’s too tired or beat up to go for the former, due to its simplicity, though it lacks the extra height. Garm simply climbs to the top rope and leaps off, landing with all of her weight down on her opponent in a big splash.

Tour Of Hell - A Reverse Swinging Powerslam, Garm scoops her opponent up in her arms and swings their body in the reverse direction of a standard powerslam.

Characteristics

Personality: Nowadays, Garm likes to consider herself as a prizefighter of sorts, willing to get in the ring for the right price or the right match, but otherwise content to sit outside and perform her bodyguard duties, so long as nobody gets in her face. Outside of the ring, she’s a loudmouthed braggart who likes to talk big and eat big, but as long as she isn’t provoked into a fight, she is easy enough to be around.


History:

Garm has always, since childhood, been a big, boisterous, bruiser. From getting into fights at the playground, to competing in eating contests at fairs, to getting suspended from school, Garm was always provoking or letting herself be provoked into some kind of fight or competition. It was natural then, that she would choose the career path of a professional wrestler, where she could eat big, talk big, and fight big, and at the time, there was no bigger place to fight than the Wrestle Angels league.

While she never achieved much title success in Wrestle Angels, with her biggest win being a singles win over main star Chigusa Yuuki, Garm never really minded, content with fighting whoever was bold enough to step into the ring with the big bruiser.

Eventually though, the decisions by the leagues hire ups to push and promote the cuter, fancier dressed “Idols'' of the roster meant Garm was getting pushed further and further to the sidelines, competing less against bigger names and instead being relegated to facing the smaller and younger rookies and training girls, most of whom she beat with ease. Eventually, without real challenges, Garm stopped having fun in the ring and became one of the many girls who chose to leave Wrestle Angels before it sank into a sea of debt and bankruptcy.

For a few years after leaving the ring, Garm found work as a bouncer, content with that line of work until she got a visit from another former Angel, Hazuki Musumi, who had an interesting proposal for her. Hazuki was joining the AFW, a wrestling league that started the same time as Wrestle Angels and had eventually eclipsed it so in popularity that they finally bought the league outright.

Hazuki desired to sign up and finally gain the glory for herself that she never got in WA, and wanted to hire Garm to be her bodyguard and tag partner. With Hazuki’s promises of big pay, and that she would only have to get in the ring with competitive fighters and not small jobbers, Garm found herself excited and eager to put on her old ring attire and ply her trade once again.

Attire/Appearance:

Garm Takanashi:

Full Body:

A tough fight:

Not all foes go down easily:

Fun Facts:

Not all you can eat- Garm is a big eater, and has in fact, been banned from a couple different restaurants as a result.

A bully, or Just competitive?- While Garm will never actually turn down a challenge, she has no interest in fighting weaklings who can’t compete with her, desiring strong fighters and enjoying the idea of being defeated as much as she does winning.


Allies: Hazuki Musumi- One of the few allies she made in Wrestle Angels, She discovered Garm had left wrestling after WA folded and became a bouncer. Using the promise of better fights and higher pay, she convinced Garm to enter AFW with her as her bodyguard and tag partner.

Wins 0/Losses 1

Garm was defeated by Alaina Sanders via DQ

AFW History

1. Garm and Hazuki debut
2. Garm takes on Alaina Sanders in a tough match involving cheating! LOSS