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| Minister Wighty | Mar 10 2017, 08:01 AM Post #1 |
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So as I've said in a few places, I've had some struggles lately with creating new characters and plotting new storylines. Just curious where you guys find your inspirations? Maybe it can help jump-start me. No fair starting a topic without contributing, so... here's five of my "most important" characters... The original Tier was sort of inspired partially by Al Snow and Mick Foley, partially by my musical tastes at the time. Graver was the... third or fourth in a long line of stupid ideas that finally stuck. He was mostly inspired by music I was into at the time. I was hanging around a lot of self-important assholes and watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force, so that was in there, too. But the core inspiration I took from a dream I had where I met Rob Zombie... and he was unexpectedly a complete and total egotistical asshole. Havok was inspired by Kefka from Final Fantasy VI. I... don't know how I could've made that more clear. Zombie Black was, as I've said before, a self-insert character. Seemed like everyone else had done one of these at some point, and I never really did in the e-fedding world, so I figured I'd give it a whirl. He's grown apart from me over the years, but we're still pretty similar. And Jericho Cruz was made in homage to Kevin Sullivan, though I took things in a different direction than I originally intended. |
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| Lita Maivia | Mar 10 2017, 08:37 AM Post #2 |
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Johnny Amazing was... you know, I don't know. I just wanted to play a clean cut babyface rookie dude that could be molded by the business and hopefully one day become a star. I wouldn't even say he was inspired by Ricochet as he was actually repped by Finn Balor when I first created the character. Ricochet came right before I posted the app, funnily enough. Brittany was pretty much the same, but a female version of Johnny. I just didn't really know a lot of the FIWers when I came back, nor did I know if any of them cared that much for me, so I needed to make sure Johnny had someone to interact with. The Brick Sharks were inspired from Zayn Malik leaving One Direction and it breaking my heart. Liam Payne (Caleb's rep) and Zayn Malik (Harley's rep) were the only two I liked in the band and I was saddened that one of them left while the other stayed behind. So I made them into efed characters with the intention of them being friends forever. Well, I screwed that up, didn't I? Kim Coulter is interesting because she's a lot like Maryse, but I made her years before Maryse was even a thing. I don't really know WHAT inspired her. She was just a departure from what I was used to playing those many years ago. Kennedy was a super face so when I went to NGIW I tried to go in a different direction. Sorry. That doesn't really help you, does it? |
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| Jade Justice | Mar 10 2017, 09:03 AM Post #3 |
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| Rob Storm | Mar 10 2017, 09:11 AM Post #4 |
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I don't know how much this is going to help you, my friend, but I want to reply and try to be helpful. I will throw in the two e-fed characters I have played and maybe that will jolt something. Rob Storm was basically me. Granted, a VERY grandiose version of me, but me nonetheless. That character was what I wanted people to see me as in real life. The white hat wearing, morally untainted good guy that never let anyone down and was always a righteous compass. I strived to achieve that on Slam!, TNT and even my stint in NGIW. When I killed the character off in 2006 it was because I knew there was no hope for me to be that person. So here I sit with Rob Storm as that unreachable star that shined so brightly. Father Pike was based off of a real life, mentally traumatized priest I knew while I was in Catholic school. He had suffered a car accident and afterwards kept saying he was talking to a "woman in his head" who was showing him the real path to life. He denounced his faith and last I head had ended up somewhere in Arizona. He believed everything he said after his "awakening" and never doubted he was right. I just feel like I should say that in my time following your characters I really don't see when you are "struggling." I know we are our own worst critics but I really feel that often, if I may be so bold, you really are too hard on yourself. I love your work both inside and outside of FIW and it's pretty brilliant. I am sorry I don't have anything else for you. I hope maybe in some small measure this assisted you. |
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| Minister Wighty | Mar 10 2017, 09:22 AM Post #5 |
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I appreciate that, really I do. For me it's not necessarily about the end result, it's about what how I feel when I write it. E-fedding is a hobby for me, and I love it and want to put my best into it, but I don't want it to take the life out of me doing it. Even though I get a lot of compliments for my work with Jericho Cruz or Trianna Charles or whoever else, if the work takes a lot out of me to write... it's not something I can commit to. I don't have the energy or the time to dedicate that much to producing that little. It might be good in the end! I might even think it's good in the end. But it's not about the final product. But thank you for your compliments and your concern. |
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| JesTheBarber | Mar 10 2017, 10:41 AM Post #6 |
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Rob Garcia, I took his name from my friend Thumper. A big heavy set cholo whos real name is Rob. And I got Garcia from my good friend Abe Garcia who at the time was the brother of my girl friend. He was murdered and I thought I'd use his last name as a tribute. The first part of Robs career, I just tried to make him a dumb ass hardcore wrestler who could make people laugh. I was so terrible at writing at the time it never got over. So Seph and Kyle kinda convinced me to rejoin FIW. I had one character in mind, but since Rob Garcias longest rival is Neo Carner. I am hoping to continue that feud one day down the line. So instead of bringing in a new guy, I just brought back Rob and reinvented him. But this time I said to myself, that I was going to go about this like as if it were me. All of us would love to be in the business or actually be a pro wrestler and for some this is as close as we will get and thats okay, we can experince it here. We will never actually know what its like to be a wrestler or what really goes on behind the scenes. So this is the place for us to be apart of it and live our lives. So, I took the rich thing from this social media semi famous guy me and my friend follow on Facebook and always make fun of (He's our inside joke) named JP Garcia. He is such a douche bag and always trys to portay himself as this nice inspirational guy, but he always gets called out by people who really know him! LOL! . But I didn't want that personality. SO I took the rich thing and I took advice from Stone Cold Steve Austin. Where he said be your self but turn the volume up times 10. So just like Jade, basically Rob is kinda me if I was a heel wrestler with the personality amped up. Now I am not a real evil heel, but if I was a pro wrestler this is how I'd want to be. Its more fun for me this way and I think its cool. Knowing that Jade Justice is almost a shoot of herself makes me want to read her promos even more now. Because the lines of reality and a work are there. Its like dealing with a legit person. I don't know if this helped at all. I hope it did. It never hurts to try and experiment with some new things. You seem to have a colorful, big personality. It might hit a home run with this type of character development. Oh and I picked Almas as his character because I needed a hispanic wrestler. Lol |
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| BleakInfinity | Mar 10 2017, 10:47 AM Post #7 |
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Well, I'll start off with my current characters: For Eversol, jeez, where to I begin? For starters he was Bleak many years ago so I suppose you could say that was an entirely different character. He was definitely based on the music I used to listen to as well. He would quote a bunch of lyrics from different bands and loved to wrestle a hardcore style so it was pretty much based on my taste in music and wrestling at the time. When I decided to evolve the character and have him team with Nathaniel, Nate and I just decided to use our first names and some "rich" sounding last name. Other than our first names (with slightly different spelling), they're nothing like us. They're both heavily taken from the Evolution angle in WWE. I was a huge Orton fan back then when he was The Legend Killer so Eversol was basically a turned-up version of not only the Orton character at the time but some of the backstage stuff I'd heard about Orton as well. When he was brought back over to FIW, I was trying to play a face as a challenge for myself as I'd always played heel. Ultimately, I was never comfortable playing him face so he turned heel and then finally when I decided to have him be repped by Orton he kind of took on a new role of just being the biggest prick imaginable. Basically a frat boy, douche bag. When I think about it, the inspiration was just every egotistical athlete that doesn't care what they say. They're really good at what they do and they rub it in any chance that they get. For Mercedes, she was basically a lot of the girls in my home town. They speak "Spanglish" and may have been into gangs but they grew up and became wonderful women. Their past sort of gives them an edge where they seem confident but underneath it all, they're still like any other person that questions themselves at times. Another part of it was that, again, I wanted to play faces at the time. With Mercedes, I found it a lot easier and somehow she was getting over. I'd say inspiration comes from just about anything, really. Usually for me it's based on someone in real life I may know and I turn up the volume, so to speak. Or it's from pro wrestling and I turn it up as well. |
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| Steve | Mar 10 2017, 06:38 PM Post #8 |
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Jack Manson's inspiration was based off of the first CAW I made, a dash of Steve Austin, and my love of hardcore wrestling at the time. Of course over time he has evolved and become a bit exaggerated version of me. Down with the Sickness by Disturbed also weighed heavily in creating him. Ethan Adam was 100% inspired by the song Ladies and Gentlemen by Saliva. I heard the song and instantly I had the character start running through my head. Just so happened to be driving by a Ethan Allen furniture store during the brain storm and thought the name Ethan would work out perfectly and Adams just sprung to mind while I was trying to find something that wasn't a complete rip off of the furniture store. LOL. I also stole the whole ETHAN ADAMS shouting his name in third person in RP's from Mr. Kennedy microphone schtick. At the time Davey Richards was working a local independent promotion here in Washington and a lot of the wrestlers said he was on roids. I took that and used it in the early stages of the Ethan Adams story where he was battling addiction to steriods. Also liked Davey's style at the time so I adopted that as well. Jack Manson Jr., came about after a long struggle trying to find a new character that would suit me. I know there was mention in conversation with Lita about using Kevin Owens as a rep and she kept prodding me to make a character with Owens as the rep. LOL. At first I didn't have anything I was happy with and used the Xander Xavier Xross character who in my opinion was a flop. I went back to the drawing board with the Kevin Owens repped character and the idea of using a 2nd generation wrestler. Jack Jr. is a very exaggerated version of myself. He's much less of an asshole than I am.
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| Digitalwheelin | Mar 10 2017, 07:13 PM Post #9 |
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Nathaniel Alexander is really my only long-standing character, but I also had Kellyn for a while and Lilith back in the Samael days. Starting with Nathaniel, Bleak pretty much touched on some of the development for the character cause it was the same for Samael/Nathaniel as it was for Bleak/Eversol. Samael started off as a rip-off of the Undertaker. Lol. I was a huge fan of the Ministry version of the Undertaker at the time. It had been a few years since that version faded and the American Badass Undertaker came to be, so I thought I could get away with taking the Ministry Undertaker and making my own character out of it. So, I did that. There honestly wasn't a whole lot of thought put into the character. The name, his finishing moves, and even his nickname (The Death Angel) were all band names that I had either heard or listened to at the time cause I was a metal head. Lol! His reps were ever-changing. His speech patterns, word choice, and overall demeanor were all modeled after the Ministry version of the Undertaker. Much like Undertaker, over the next couple years, Samael started to transition into less of a dark, brooding, wax-poetic type character and was more of a tough-talking prick, ala ABA Undertaker. Then toward the end of his run, I sort fo stumbled into the idea of him playing mind games with his opponents and I started doing that for a while. Flash foward to NGIW where Nathaniel Alexander was born. As Bleak said, he and I just used modified versions of our first names and added "rich-sounding" last names to them. At the time, Bleak and I had thrown around the idea of having them be emotionally/maturity-stunted frat boy types. Guys who were well into their 30s and trying to act like they were still college kids or younger. They were vulgar as all get out and we made sure to put over their "we're rich and screw you if you don't like it" attitudes. And like Bleak said, Nathaniel is the polar opposite of me in terms of the way he acts. He is a Grade A prick and I'm not at all like that. Lol. As for the rep, I can't remember where I got the idea to use Tom Hardy. When I brought Nathaniel over to FIW, I decided to change him a little bit. I've always been a fan of mafia/gangster movies, so when we (Lita, Bleak and I) started with the Coulter Crew stuff, I turned him into my own version of Henry Hill from Goodfellas. In gangster movies, mafia members look at what they do as nothing more than a business. Nathaniel did the same with the wrestling industry--it was a means to make money no matter the consequences or costs. But like any gangster/mafia guy, he has a temper, and a very short fuse. The only thing I kept during the transition from Samael to Nathaniel was the mind games stuff. TL;DR: Samael was inspired by nothing more than the music I listened to and my fandom of Undertaker. Nathaniel was inspired by gangster/mafia flicks. I was going to get into my inspiration for Lilith and Kellyn, but this post is already long enough as it is, so I don't think I'll get into that. Or, if you want me to, I'll tack it on here later. |
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| MrOtaku2399 | Mar 10 2017, 09:17 PM Post #10 |
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Hopefully this helps some. Kira i created back about 2 or 3 years ago i think,i think that time is right but that's not really the point.It was a few years ago and i created him first as just a guy to be brought up in a new group me,and two other guys had made.I don't know really how i made the Kira you guys are more familiar with though,I do know his name Kira,Is a pun from how japanese say killer and also inspired by Light Yagami AKA Kira from Death Note.His last name Izumi Means dark or water i think is what i read up on.I wanted to make him go really far off and really crazy i think.I thought of a tragic backstory that could tear him up inside and out and eventually thought of what his backstory is now,His mother murdered and his father a violent drunk.He is heavily inspired by death note,tokyo ghoul,as well as a bit of higurashi and the band Dir En Grey as well.I try to add a bit of me into every one of my characters too.Some thoughts of kiras are my own and some things he does are things i think in that situation i would do as well. For Yuki i wanted to try to push my self and do something diferent than what i was used to.She'll get back to her old self eventually but she was inspired by just Kana or Asuka,which ever you know her as.I tried to make her egotistical and she's somewhat inspired by the 2ne1 song I Am The Best. For Sang-Hyun he's pretty much me trying to make a modern ric roode and just an all around ass whole who you want to hate. Another guy i had who was here for a little while was Jordan Rayburn.He is basically me at the core through and through.First he was a redneck rocker kinda dude.Later on i lost a belt i had one,I had that thing for probably a month or two and defending it every night was a pretty big deal too.I lost it and than decided for him to go crazy with rage and anger at that point he was inspired by the joker.He was also a samurai,a ghost like thing and all sorts of otehr things.I've had him going sense 2013 and i think now he's just me with another persons face and maybe a bit exagerated really. I hope this can help some and if it doesnt than sorry. |
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| Craig | Mar 10 2017, 09:49 PM Post #11 |
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The inspiration for Clay Krueger came from Frasier Crane. A big fan of the programme, the original idea was for him to be Dr. Clay and then the 'Chainsaw' Krueger side would come later as he became more integrated into professional wrestling. The problem was, I quickly realised that he must adapt in order to be successful and in some ways he continues to do that to this day. Xenia comes from my watching of UFC and MMA more than wrestling these days. As you yourself pointed out Wight, she started out talking exactly as a UFC fighter would. Now she's just a contrast to the rest of the Hellcats and I guess that's my inspiration for her, to fill the gap. We have plenty of face Hellcats, we needed a strong heel. Everybody else has sort of been a stop-gap. A challenge, something to try my hand at. Nikita Luck was that. Lara probably was at some stage. The only other one that sticks out in my mind was Dimmu Borgir. Originally he was the Undertaker, just without some of the WWE limits. Sort of Undertaker in Lucha Underground. Teleporting and setting off explosions. Fun stuff. |
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| Minister Wighty | Mar 10 2017, 10:12 PM Post #12 |
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I totally picked up on this, and it's fully half the reason I love him. |
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| Mjölnir | Mar 10 2017, 10:27 PM Post #13 |
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Joe initially started out as a novelty jobber based solely around the notion of his entrance theme, Sunglasses at Night. He wore his sunglasses. At night. That was it. When he really became his own character was when I pulled from Joe from Protomen lore, Protoman from...a lot of different interpretations, and Alec from Dark Angel, Dean Winchester from Supernatural. As his run in NGIW progressed, some of Jason Todd from Batman lore and Tony Stark seeped in too. That's the long and short of it. I often find that for a singular character it can take multiple places of inspiration. Just different pieces and facets are picked up from each one and kinda thrown into a melting pot. |
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| Leucippides | Mar 10 2017, 11:54 PM Post #14 |
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A lot of inspiration for Crystal comes in the form that...I want her to work as someone with her background making it here. So I suppose it's my stubbornness that keeps her going. That's, perhaps, the simplest way I can put it. I'll admit there have been a few hiccups along the road, but I take that as inspiration as well in trying to turn things around again for her. I've said this before with Colin, but a lot of inspiration for him comes from the classic "Promoland" of Mick Foley. |
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| JesTheBarber | Mar 11 2017, 12:40 AM Post #15 |
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This is pretty cool seeing where peoples ideas come from. Forming out of a song was really interesting for me. If you're dry on ideas, just think about what you'd do if you made it into a major wrestling promotion and how you'd get yourself over. You can always change your gimmick up or alignment if you get board of it or want to freshen it up. I am having a lot of fun with Robs new gimmick and promos. I hope you find something that does this for you as well. You're a great writter and I don't want to see you lose interest. Specially since I just started here. lol! Even if you don't want to use yourself, what I do on our podcast for the characters I make in skits or for our "Sponsors." Me and Manskie use real people we have met in life and exaggerate their personalities. Steve Irish guy is a real person, as is Juanito and a bunch of others. I hope any of these ideas help get your groove back, brotha. |
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