Ascension: Starr vs. Callihan

[Dominic Reynolds]

General Manager Starr vs. Caitlin Callihan
(Steel Cage Match)
(General Manager Starr will resign his position and be fired if he loses)

It finally gets settled, General Manager Starr finally has his chance at redemption. The two of them will meet inside of a sealed steel cage where the only way to win will be via pinfall or submission. The question is though, after everything that has happened, will it even be worth it anymore? Even if General Manager Starr logically gets his dominant win that he so desperately possesses, will it mean anything to him? I guess we are going to have to tune in to see once and for all. With the latest bombshell that General Manager Starr has vowed to step down if he loses, this just got that much more interesting.

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See; Sheamus vs. Kendall. I combined the two into one roleplay and it would have left me drained to do two. I don't think I could have done any better and to force it would be a disservice to the character and the feud.

[Dominic Reynolds]

Time and time again I get asked the same set of questions…

Why do you hate her so much?

Why are you unable to let this go?

At first to be totally honest I thought it was competitive spirit, I thought it was simply a drive to avenge the embarrassing showing that I had when our paths crossed that one fateful night.

But after hearing Kenneth speak to me the way he did in that night, I really started to look for the answer…the real answer to that question.

And then it finally dawned upon me.

I hate her…because I am jealous of her.

I am jealous of her and what she stands for…

Hell, even envious.

I have made a name for myself over the course of my very long career by giving into the pandering drivel of the “consummate professional”. When Kenneth and I ran XWCW, I looked forward to the promotional shoots, the fancy parties to attract new investors, the press, the cameras, the attention…it was a drug that intoxicated me. I became hooked…addicted to the same old song and dance. After XWCW closed its doors and my other business ventures progressed, it was always the same thing, the same routine, the same puppet show that took place every night of the week.

I was in heaven.

Going to SCW, stepping into the role of wrestler again rather than executive proved to be refreshing for the simple fact that it gave me an entire new bevy of opportunities to hop on the proverbial band wagon. Despite the glaring flaws in the administration, I relished the opportunity to bask in the spotlight. Just by the nature of the natural charisma and talent that I possessed I was destined for big things like always, and that meant even more chances for me to revel in the “extras”.

But then I came across her.

Her message and her vision were perceived as a simple one, but I did not understand it. Night after night I would see her, watch her with every ounce of my attention; she represented the opposite of everything that I had ever known everything that I had been used too.

And they loved her for it. They would wear copies of her porcelain mask to show their support, they would bring signs to profess their admiration, and her name would be chanted incessantly at shows.

I would never tell anybody this, but it got to me. The fact that she was my polar opposite, yet on a meteoric rise to the top enraged me. I couldn’t understand her idealism and because of that I viewed her as a threat. So I had made the judgment call to handle her like I would handle any other threat that had gotten in my way over the years prior.

I had to eliminate her.

My opportunity came in that match, but almost immediately from the moment that opening bell rang I knew that I had made an incredibly stupid mistake.

I underestimated her.

I was able to witness first hand just how incredible she was, even as I was taken down to the mat, groggily watching her fly from the top turnbuckle as she crashed down onto me and pinned my shoulders for the mat. It was as incredible as it was infuriating.

How did she do it?

How was she able to achieve what she has achieved, do the things she did, think the way she thought?

Not only did I fail to eliminate her, but also she was not going anywhere. Even when the same Neanderthals in SCW management came to me and Ken with their hats in their hands looking for us to save them, she still stuck around.

But now she yet again did something that I was unable to predict or expect; she revealed that there was another who was similar to her. At first he only went by the two letters of his name to maintain the silly façade of mystery. My anger and my obsession grew with her, and now him as I continued time and time again to simply understand, to simply wrap my head around the fact that two such polar opposites to me could be as successful as they are.

It further infuriated me when the business tactics that had proven to be so fail safe for me over the years, the same tactics that helped me expand the wealth and power that my father’s passing had thrust upon me…they exposed them as simple, almost juvenile tactics that were ripped to shreds with simple clever wording of a performers contract.

The decision later to sign SCW over to the two of them proved to be me trying to “flip the script”, I figured that perhaps if I did something that the two of them were not expecting that it may restore the balance of power that I was used to.

But it did no such thing.

I still continued to pursue her ravenously, but it was to no foreseeable or perceivable end. It was just me trying to eliminate her for the simple fact that I just did not understand.

This has carried on for over two years now, how pathetic is that?

The family that I lost when I turned my back on beautiful Ariana that fateful night but finally got a second chance with, my foolish behavior has all but removed them from my life for a second time. I think it was a matter of pride that I told myself the lie that I did.

I always did have a knack for lying; I just did not think that I would be lying to myself for all this time.

This may come as a shock to you when I say this, but I truly regret my actions over the past two years. Honestly if I could go back and change things I would, but the fact of the matter is a simple one.

This has gone on between the two of us for long enough and it needs to stop.

The possibility of a victory has honestly become an afterthought now; this just needs to be put to rest.

One way or another, our tumultuous story will finally come to an end at Ascension.