Post by Adrian Flamingo on Feb 22, 2009 13:11:32 GMT -5
My e-fedding career started 5 or 6 years ago during my junior year in high school in a very unconventional way I suppose.
The Official TNA E-Fed
After not being interested in wrestling since WCW was bought out by the WWE, a little company called TNA caught my attention one day when I saw Raven on their website. So, being the fan I was, I signed into their message board in time to see that the company was allowing the message board to start an official e-fed that was free to use anyone they wanted save for WWE wrestlers out of fear of a lawsuit. So, if you wanted to be a canon TNA wrestler you were pretty much already in, but if you were an original character then you had to try-out. So, about 30 of us with original characters were put into a big battle royal to crown the holder of the TNA I-Cup. I was entered Number 20-something and ended up winning second place. The next week, I won the I-Cup from the guy who beat me for first the week before.
Now, it's important to mention that this was the FIRST time I had ever even heard of an e-fed much less been in one. My character was Jester Catastrophe, a protoge of Raven who was obsessed with history and clown make-up I suppose. Anyway, by my early success, I was paired up with one of the Mods (who hated my guts) and told to play as Authority figures in addition to our current roles. So, we went with a married, metropolitan couple who had family ties to the company who wanted to run it into the ground and sell it for next to nothing. My character, Maximillion Adams, became one of the most hated and most fun characters to interact with because I let everyone do whatever they wanted with him. Essentially, he was humiliated on a nightly basis. I also had a brief stint running the "developmental" section of the fed as Don Callis in addition to holding the tag belts for 6 months by playing Eric Young and working with a rper who played as Alex Shelley with a Fight Club gimmick.
It was also during this time that I met a rper named Kyle who played a character named Poe and another character named Mister Jones. Although we rarely worked together, we usually chatted with each other because we were growing frustrated because the people running the fed were progressively moving away from the actual wrestling element of the fed. The straw that broke the camel's back came when I introduced a manager and a tag team partner to my Jester character in order to bolster the tag division, but the mods freaked out because this somehow "ruined" a convoluted storyline that involved a 8 foot albino woman named Tyrannis being in love with Raven or some bullshit like that. Anyway, I was openly lambasted by the moderators and I chose to quit the fed. Kyle, who also grew frustrated because of various factors (one of which was his world heavyweight title reign was ended by a guy whose character "committed suicide" a week after winning the title, thus denying him a rematch) also quit and we went into the e-fed market.
Alpha Championship Wrestling
So, we tried our luck in various places until he informed me of a fed he had a pretty good level of success in playing a psychotic psychiatrist named Dr. Alexander Starkweather. I was linked here and decided to give it ago. My first character though, was highly forgettable. So forgettable, in fact, I don't remember his name. Anyway, his gimmick was that he was from West Virginia and he was a proud, blue collar man who wrestled to help support his younger sister. I had one match and went back to the drawing board.
I was a fan of Larry Sweeney of Chikara fame and I really wanted to do something associated with that type of gimmick but turned up to 11. So, in about twenty to thirty minutes, I created my most well-known character (next to my portrayal of Alex Shelley which I'm told is quite good). "Astonishing" Adrian Flamingo was loud, brash, and very pink, and it wasn't long until I found my first rivalry in a man named Thunderkiss.
TK was a character that had a lot of similarities to my own, but as our friendly rivalry went forward, TK started turning his volume from 10 up to 20. It wasn't much longer until he start progressing up the ranks and I was stagnated in the midcard. Now, I'm excluding a feud or two I had, but ultimately, I just wasn't making the progress that I wanted to. So, I took a break and found some inspiration in a man named Brian Pillman and an opportunity of a lifetime from a rper named BK.
The Official TNA E-Fed
After not being interested in wrestling since WCW was bought out by the WWE, a little company called TNA caught my attention one day when I saw Raven on their website. So, being the fan I was, I signed into their message board in time to see that the company was allowing the message board to start an official e-fed that was free to use anyone they wanted save for WWE wrestlers out of fear of a lawsuit. So, if you wanted to be a canon TNA wrestler you were pretty much already in, but if you were an original character then you had to try-out. So, about 30 of us with original characters were put into a big battle royal to crown the holder of the TNA I-Cup. I was entered Number 20-something and ended up winning second place. The next week, I won the I-Cup from the guy who beat me for first the week before.
Now, it's important to mention that this was the FIRST time I had ever even heard of an e-fed much less been in one. My character was Jester Catastrophe, a protoge of Raven who was obsessed with history and clown make-up I suppose. Anyway, by my early success, I was paired up with one of the Mods (who hated my guts) and told to play as Authority figures in addition to our current roles. So, we went with a married, metropolitan couple who had family ties to the company who wanted to run it into the ground and sell it for next to nothing. My character, Maximillion Adams, became one of the most hated and most fun characters to interact with because I let everyone do whatever they wanted with him. Essentially, he was humiliated on a nightly basis. I also had a brief stint running the "developmental" section of the fed as Don Callis in addition to holding the tag belts for 6 months by playing Eric Young and working with a rper who played as Alex Shelley with a Fight Club gimmick.
It was also during this time that I met a rper named Kyle who played a character named Poe and another character named Mister Jones. Although we rarely worked together, we usually chatted with each other because we were growing frustrated because the people running the fed were progressively moving away from the actual wrestling element of the fed. The straw that broke the camel's back came when I introduced a manager and a tag team partner to my Jester character in order to bolster the tag division, but the mods freaked out because this somehow "ruined" a convoluted storyline that involved a 8 foot albino woman named Tyrannis being in love with Raven or some bullshit like that. Anyway, I was openly lambasted by the moderators and I chose to quit the fed. Kyle, who also grew frustrated because of various factors (one of which was his world heavyweight title reign was ended by a guy whose character "committed suicide" a week after winning the title, thus denying him a rematch) also quit and we went into the e-fed market.
Alpha Championship Wrestling
So, we tried our luck in various places until he informed me of a fed he had a pretty good level of success in playing a psychotic psychiatrist named Dr. Alexander Starkweather. I was linked here and decided to give it ago. My first character though, was highly forgettable. So forgettable, in fact, I don't remember his name. Anyway, his gimmick was that he was from West Virginia and he was a proud, blue collar man who wrestled to help support his younger sister. I had one match and went back to the drawing board.
I was a fan of Larry Sweeney of Chikara fame and I really wanted to do something associated with that type of gimmick but turned up to 11. So, in about twenty to thirty minutes, I created my most well-known character (next to my portrayal of Alex Shelley which I'm told is quite good). "Astonishing" Adrian Flamingo was loud, brash, and very pink, and it wasn't long until I found my first rivalry in a man named Thunderkiss.
TK was a character that had a lot of similarities to my own, but as our friendly rivalry went forward, TK started turning his volume from 10 up to 20. It wasn't much longer until he start progressing up the ranks and I was stagnated in the midcard. Now, I'm excluding a feud or two I had, but ultimately, I just wasn't making the progress that I wanted to. So, I took a break and found some inspiration in a man named Brian Pillman and an opportunity of a lifetime from a rper named BK.
