Raiden

Name: Raiden Naozumi
Sex: Male
Age: 22
Eyes: Heterochromatic – one green, one yellow
Hair: Red. Bright red.
Height: 5’9”
Weight: 193 lbs
Nationality: Japanese
Alignment: Tweener
Entrance music: “Flyers”, by BRADIO

Wrestling Information

Strategy: He tends to go for high-flyer tactics and submission moves; anything to use his opponent’s weight against them.
Preferred Attacks: Hurricanrana, camel clutch.
Preferred Matches: Anything, really.

Endurance: 4/10
Strength: 2/10
Speed: 6/10
Defense: 6/10
Technique: 7/10

Signature moves:
~ Midnight Storm – After a hurricanrana, he’ll try and pull his opponent in for a sleeper hold; if hentai, he’ll try and do a few hentai moves instead, putting them in a chokehold.

Finishing moves:
~ Thunderclap – He goes onto the turnbuckle and goes for a frankensteiner, but he doesn’t end it there; when he gets the opponent on the mat, he does a few poses over his opponent’s body – and puts them into a ceiling lock, with their face locked in his armpit.

Characteristics

Wrestling Attire:

Relaxed Attire:

Casual Attire:

Personality: He seems to be a nice enough guy, but there always seems to be something darker lurking beneath. He goes out of his way to try and make friends, but for the most part, he won’t be afraid to throw them under the bus – unless they get close to him, something that he’s made it quite hard to do. He’s walled himself off, trying to get by with just the bare necessities – a couple of acquaintances to get through the day, maybe even someone to roll around with in bed. But the last thing he’s expecting is someone who he can open up to and get close with; he’s had a few too many issues in the past with that. Even though it’s the number one thing in the world that he wants.

Past/History: Born to a mother who died in childbirth and a father who didn’t know what to do with a child, Raiden never really got very far in life. His father owned a gym with his late wife’s brothers, and they got by, making the rent on time, getting food – but only by living together. And each of them cherished Raiden. They tried to spoil him as much as they could – even though that wasn’t much. But Raiden wasn’t the type of kid to ask for everything in the world; he found himself perfectly content with American comics. Taking his allowance, he would rush out to the comic book store and pick up the latest issue of Doom Patrol, or X-Men, and often grabbing others – but his favorite comic was always Batman. But not for Batman himself – no, for Robin. He always resonated with Robin, understanding his history, feeling bad for the fact that he always got shafted for Batman. Jason Todd was no exception.

Of course, that didn’t go so well for him. He was constantly bullied for being the kid to sit and read comics on the side of the playground – but he wouldn’t take it either. Most of the bruises he ended up with were because he tried to attack them and fight back and ended up on his ass with a bunch of big dudes around him. So what did his father and two uncles do when he began coming home with black eyes and bruises everywhere the eye could see? They began to train him. That was where he learned how to wrestle for the first time; what better way of turning someone’s strength against them than to grapple? Despite their recommendation, Raiden found himself sitting and watching professional wrestling – and working some of their tactics into his sparring. He never got too big or muscled – but he knew how to give a beating, or to at least learn how to take one against someone who was way bigger than him, and live to fight another day.

For him, he was becoming more like his heroes – he was fighting the bad guys, learning how to get out of bad scenarios! But then the gym began to fail. His father and uncles tried to keep it from him, but he knew; it was then that he learned out how to use his size. He began to pickpocket people, and was pretty dang good at it too; he’d take the money or something valuable, sell the goods to a fence he knew down the road, and bring home the money and stash it for his father to find later. But after a while, people began being more careful. He couldn’t do that shit anymore.

And then he saw it: there was a professional wrestling tryout being held nearby soon. He went out and tried his way through, and, despite being destroyed in the ring, he ended up making the cut; he wasn’t too great on the offense, but he was great at making his opponent look good. And the person he went against ended up getting pushed through as well – and became his first boyfriend. But it didn’t last long; all he wanted was a fuck toy, and when Raiden tried to go for more, he was shut down, and bad.

Which began a sort of trend. He was cute enough to get whomever he wanted, but no one wanted to spend any real time with him. He would just be used and cast aside. At some point, he just took it with stride; fuck everything else, he would just get his kicks in. And to make sure of that, he began to train more; the people who he would try and use before they used him, he made them train him, try and get him better. He was a great copycat; his signature move came from his fifth boyfriend, and his finisher from the eighth.

To him, AFW just seemed like the next logical step. He had to move on up.  

Fun Facts:
~  Get to know him, you’ll know he loves comics. Just talk your ear right off on it.
~ Bisexual
~ His English isn’t great; having learned it from comics, speaking it is a little harder on him, but he’ll beat you up if you mention it.

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AFW Information

Record: 0-1-0
Wins:
Losses: Kei, by pinfall.
Draws:

Championships/Accomplishments:

Friends: David Blake
Allies:
Rivals:
Enemies:
Crushes:David Blake (Boyfriend)

Timeline

Chance Encounters (non-wrestling RP with Dave)
Two Geek Jobbers Walk into a Bar (non-wrestling RP with Dave)
Stuff of Nightmares: Raiden vs. Korrath (Dream Match)-- LOSS, BY PINFALL
Kei vs. Raiden: The Jobber's Debut -- LOSS, BY PINFALL
Victoria Archer vs. Raiden Naozumi -- ONGOING
Ivan Komorov vs. Raiden: Hardcore Match -- ONGOING