Post by alexandriaduvall on Jul 30, 2024 21:34:42 GMT -5
Alexandria Duvall is sitting with a picture frame. She's looking at it with disgust and she flips it forward before she speaks her mind.
Alexandria Duvall: This picture that you see here is of my training class when I first started doing this. You recognize me way over here on the right clearly being distant from everyone else and having no confidence in herself. I hate to admit that this is where it started for me and worse, I hate to admit that I wasn't someone that was seen as much. I mean... you have this bitch on the opposite side of me that is friends with one of the trainers... you have this asshole here related to another one of the trainers and it was nepotism everywhere.
I wasn't treated as fairly as some of the other students in my class because I wasn't related to, or I wasn't friends with, the right person. I was seen as a pushover or someone that was going to just fill up the locker room. I admit that part of it was on me being so shy and weak and stupid as I was. But even then, I wasn't given a fair chance. So, I did the only thing that I could do and that was to create my own break and find my own way through the shadows of people half as talented as I was getting double the nurturing and the attention and the hype that I was. Which I did...
Karma in this business is funny... because half of this class didn't make it...
Alexandria pauses and throws down the class picture, shattering it to bits.
Alexandria Duvall: Some have had viable careers and their own successes, but the one that was most successful out of my own class was the girl that nobody wanted to pay attention to because she wasn't a "golden child" of the trainers that ran that god forsaken, and thankfully closed, wrestling school.
And that last match that I had here, yeah I exploded because I was pissed. I was pissed because of the three wrestlers in that match, I know in my heart that I wanted it more and that I fought the best match. I certainly put more effort into it than both of my opponents did. But in the end, the most overrated wrestler in the company who gets by on children's tales references and overhyping the other places he wrestles in, who treats this business and every match like just another day in the office.
Alexandria pauses again to take a deep breath.
Alexandria Duvall: The natural order of where things should be will fall into place eventually. I'm being a bit brash here, but knowing my experiences of seeming small at first only to rise above the bullshit in the end, I'll rise to be one of the best and the brightest this place will have because that's what I've done before and that's what I'll do again. I'll be one of the perennial championship contenders here and a marquee name while everyone's going to be saying "Donnie who? I don't remember him. When did he work here?"
To the task at hand... Tom Carradine.
This won't be easy. From what I've seen, the guy has won here more often than not but is that going to stop me? Fuck that. Fuck lying down for the guy. He's coming off of a win against Owen Traeger so the momentum is definitely on his side at this point, but if you think for a second that it's going to get me down and that I'm just going to lie down and quit, then forget it. Do I like the guy personally? No. Do I like his attitude? Not really. Seeing how he talks down to other people, I can basically expect to be treated the same way but the thing about that is, I'm the wrong bitch to treat that way. You treat the wrong person that way and that person is going to come back, punch you right in the mouth and knock you the fuck out. If that's the role I'm playing tomorrow, then so be it at the end of the day. I don't give a shit about his win-loss record, or the fact that he won the last match he was in or the fact that he might have his friends around here.
I'll give him his due on the fact that he's racking up wins, and that unlike Donnie Dipshit, he's not a vanilla wafer promo talking and acting like a little kid that never grew up past his Nicktoons phase. But that same spirit that kept me going when I was down in the dumps during my training and when I was being neglected and forgotten about for the "golden children", hell the spirit in me that blossomed when I decided to do this against all odds when someone in the Indies I worked as a ring announcer for at one time told me 'you have no chance of making it', and whatever spirit I had in me as a child to grow up with a single father who was more than man enough to raise me on his own, without ever introducing a stepmother into my life thank god, it's going to keep pushing me through.
This has never been an easy thing for me and I've had to overcome a hell of a lot of shit just to get to THIS point in my career. So yeah, maybe I'll act out and get pissed off but the fact of the matter is that from day one, I've wanted this and no matter how dark the shadows have been, I've always been able to shine through. Tomorrow? It's going to be another one of those instances and I'm damn sure not going to allow the bullshit of what happened in the triple threat to get me down. So Tom, overlook me at your own peril. You're fortunate that I even had an iota of respect for your abilities and what you've done here so far for me to even give you THAT much...
Alexandria maintains an angry look on her face before she walks out and the scene cuts.
Alexandria Duvall: This picture that you see here is of my training class when I first started doing this. You recognize me way over here on the right clearly being distant from everyone else and having no confidence in herself. I hate to admit that this is where it started for me and worse, I hate to admit that I wasn't someone that was seen as much. I mean... you have this bitch on the opposite side of me that is friends with one of the trainers... you have this asshole here related to another one of the trainers and it was nepotism everywhere.
I wasn't treated as fairly as some of the other students in my class because I wasn't related to, or I wasn't friends with, the right person. I was seen as a pushover or someone that was going to just fill up the locker room. I admit that part of it was on me being so shy and weak and stupid as I was. But even then, I wasn't given a fair chance. So, I did the only thing that I could do and that was to create my own break and find my own way through the shadows of people half as talented as I was getting double the nurturing and the attention and the hype that I was. Which I did...
Karma in this business is funny... because half of this class didn't make it...
Alexandria pauses and throws down the class picture, shattering it to bits.
Alexandria Duvall: Some have had viable careers and their own successes, but the one that was most successful out of my own class was the girl that nobody wanted to pay attention to because she wasn't a "golden child" of the trainers that ran that god forsaken, and thankfully closed, wrestling school.
And that last match that I had here, yeah I exploded because I was pissed. I was pissed because of the three wrestlers in that match, I know in my heart that I wanted it more and that I fought the best match. I certainly put more effort into it than both of my opponents did. But in the end, the most overrated wrestler in the company who gets by on children's tales references and overhyping the other places he wrestles in, who treats this business and every match like just another day in the office.
Alexandria pauses again to take a deep breath.
Alexandria Duvall: The natural order of where things should be will fall into place eventually. I'm being a bit brash here, but knowing my experiences of seeming small at first only to rise above the bullshit in the end, I'll rise to be one of the best and the brightest this place will have because that's what I've done before and that's what I'll do again. I'll be one of the perennial championship contenders here and a marquee name while everyone's going to be saying "Donnie who? I don't remember him. When did he work here?"
To the task at hand... Tom Carradine.
This won't be easy. From what I've seen, the guy has won here more often than not but is that going to stop me? Fuck that. Fuck lying down for the guy. He's coming off of a win against Owen Traeger so the momentum is definitely on his side at this point, but if you think for a second that it's going to get me down and that I'm just going to lie down and quit, then forget it. Do I like the guy personally? No. Do I like his attitude? Not really. Seeing how he talks down to other people, I can basically expect to be treated the same way but the thing about that is, I'm the wrong bitch to treat that way. You treat the wrong person that way and that person is going to come back, punch you right in the mouth and knock you the fuck out. If that's the role I'm playing tomorrow, then so be it at the end of the day. I don't give a shit about his win-loss record, or the fact that he won the last match he was in or the fact that he might have his friends around here.
I'll give him his due on the fact that he's racking up wins, and that unlike Donnie Dipshit, he's not a vanilla wafer promo talking and acting like a little kid that never grew up past his Nicktoons phase. But that same spirit that kept me going when I was down in the dumps during my training and when I was being neglected and forgotten about for the "golden children", hell the spirit in me that blossomed when I decided to do this against all odds when someone in the Indies I worked as a ring announcer for at one time told me 'you have no chance of making it', and whatever spirit I had in me as a child to grow up with a single father who was more than man enough to raise me on his own, without ever introducing a stepmother into my life thank god, it's going to keep pushing me through.
This has never been an easy thing for me and I've had to overcome a hell of a lot of shit just to get to THIS point in my career. So yeah, maybe I'll act out and get pissed off but the fact of the matter is that from day one, I've wanted this and no matter how dark the shadows have been, I've always been able to shine through. Tomorrow? It's going to be another one of those instances and I'm damn sure not going to allow the bullshit of what happened in the triple threat to get me down. So Tom, overlook me at your own peril. You're fortunate that I even had an iota of respect for your abilities and what you've done here so far for me to even give you THAT much...
Alexandria maintains an angry look on her face before she walks out and the scene cuts.
