Ryuji "Skullface" Sugawara

Name: Ryuji Sugawara, "Skullface"

Gender:Male

Age:22

Sexuality:Bisexual

Hair Color:Blonde
Eye Color:Blue

Nationality:Japanese

Height:5'9"

Weight:148lbs

Alignment:Heel

Entrance music: Carpenter Brut- The Widowmaker

Wrestling information

Fighting Style: Ryuji loves to toy with his foes, constantly playing mind games and pretending not to take the match seriously, all to get them riled up and prone to make mistakes. He generally favours a mix of fast and brutal strikes and painful submission holds, though he also isn't above using moves designed to humiliate his opponents. Of course, if the fight starts going against him (or even if its going his way), he isn't using dirty or illegal moves, or smuggling weapons into the ring, to ensure his victory.
Strategy: Generally, Ryuji will try to get in his opponent's head and get them angry, frustrated, and prone to make mistakes. All the while, he will slowly but surely disable their ability to fight back, until he can score a decisive win (typically by submission, though he won't say not to a pinfall or knockout)

Preferred Matches: Ryuji will fight in anything from standard matches, to hardcore to matches with stipulations. He also will not say no to hentai matches, though he'll try to break the rules in those as well.

Attitude to Hentai: "Fine by me, but the mask stays on."

Stats

Endurance:3/5
Strength:3/5
Speed:4/5
Defense: 4/5
Technique4/5

Strikes: 5/5
Submissions: 4/5
Powerhouse: 2/5
Aerial: 4/5
Counters: 2/5

Favoured Moves:
-Lots of strikes like forearm chops, drop kicks and hard snap kicks; submission holds such as abdominal stretches, torture racks and chokeholds/sleepers; Ryuji isn't shy about throwing in a few lewd holds as well

Finishers and signatures

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Seam stretcher-- Skullface uses a modified octopus stretch, latching a leg over his opponent's head and using his other leg to pin one of their legs in place. Grabbing their other foot, he will lean back and stretch his opponent's legs in both directions, causing them incredible painin their crotch area. In hentai matches, Skullface will also take the opportunity to start playing with his opponent's crotch as well.

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Head, Meet Floor- a brutal but effective psycho driver. Ryuji may keep his opponent in a trophy rack hold first, all the more to humiliate them.

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Eye of the Needle-- Ryuji avoids an opponent's clumsy blow and latches his legs around their head, flipping them down hard onto the mat and hopefully stunning them long enough for a pinfall.

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The Easel- After flipping his opponent upside down, Skullface locks their head between his thighs and pulls downward on their feet, stretching their legs and back even as he squeezes their head. He also uses a much more lewd variation of this hold in hentai matches.

Personality:
In his day to day persona, Ryuji comes across as constantly bored and a bit of a snob, but is otherwise outgoing and charming around other people. He is extremely intelligent, athletic, well read, and extremely active in social circles (especially in the club scene). As Skullface, however, he gets to let a lot of his worse traits out: he is brutal, sadistic, and arrogant in the extreme, often toying with and humiliating his opponents, delivering biting insults in mid-fight, and often doing everything in his power to humiliate them. He seems to revel, not only in frustrating his opponents and the ref, but also in earning the hatred of the audience: he sees a wrestling match as a drama, and has appointed himself the villain.

Backstory:
Ryuji was born to a wealthy family, with his parents having long held ownership over a major marketing firm in Tokyo. As such, Ryuji never wanted for much in life: he went to the best schools, was given the best education, and was guarunteed a minor position in his parents' company (with the expectation, though, that he would fairly work his way up).

However, Ryuji eventually grew bored of this idyllic life: he craved adventure and excitement. Throughout college and now university, He dabbled, as every spoiled rich kid does, in clubbing, women and drugs, but eventually realized that what he really needed was a hobby. Through clubbing he took an interest in costume design and cosplay; on the side, meawnhile, he started getting involved in underground fighting circuits. He had been trained in taekwondo, judo and fencing as a kid, and he eagerly started to train himself further when he realized the unique kind of rush fighting gave him. When he was battling an opponent, he felt he could be himself...and the less rules there were, the better.

It wasn't long before he discovered the AFW, and after training further to become proficient at pro wrestling, he joined the league. Already deciding to adopt a heel persona, he made a mask for himself, both to give himself a suitably villainous look and also to keep his wrestling life separate from his personal one. And with that, his villainous persona of "Skullface" was born.

Appearance

Ring Attire:

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Entrance Attire:
(Takes the jacket off before the match

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Regular Attire:

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Likes:
-Cosplaying, or any excuse to dress up
-Clothing, and designing outfits
-Clubbing
-Fine wine
-American comics

Dislikes:
-Having to replace or repair damaged clothing
-Coffee
-Rules and regulations
-Waking up early

Fun Facts:
-Ryuji is a bit of a snob for wine, and could probably tell you the vintage and year just by sniffing it
-Ryuji's parents still don't know about his little hobby, and he would prefer not to tell them if he could
-Although Ryuji enjoys dominating and humiliating people in the ring, outside of it he is often much more civil and amiable with people, even though he still comes across as a bit of a snob. He will become particularly interested in you if you start talking about clothing
-Ryuji is currently pursuing a degree in fashiond design. While he has admitted it to very few people, he really enjoys designing clothing and costumes (he made his current ring outfit himself-- it took him forever to make the mask)