What do you prefer, being a fed head or
being a member of a roster?
Member,
definitely. Too much grief that fedheads
have to deal with, I’m not even sure how Olek does it.
You're part of rp feds and angle feds,
do you prefer one over the other or is it a case of them fulfilling different
wants from the game?
They do
fulfill different things for me. If I
have a good story (and by story I mean CD, outside of the ring stuff, anything
off camera) to tell then I love roleplay feds.
RP feds allow me to do that more-so than angle feds. The good thing about angle feds, and mine in
particular being GCW (cheap plug!) is that it allows you a little bit more
freedom, a little more creative control.
Plus there are some angles that cannot be run in roleplay feds due in
large part to certain things having to happen (i.e. one wrestler has to win a
certain match or else the angle won’t work or won’t be as good, but anyone can
potentially win in a roleplay fed).
Angle feds allow a little bit more leeway than roleplay feds where you
are constrained to how the matches turn out, the roleplays.
Are there any of your lesser known
characters that you want to push as active rp characters in the future?
I’m having a
ton of fun with my newest creation Aubrianna Powers. She’s currently active in GCW (the angle fed)
and MCW (a RP fed but with a word count).
I also created a Dean Ambrose-eccentric style character named Alan
Monroe who I am excited about.
Ultimately it depends upon how much of a story do I have to tell. I’d love to be more active with Alan but I
have no CD material for him yet. But I
do have CD material for Aubrianna thus she’s making more progress right now.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if
a woodchuck could chuck wood?
42
Most loved character of yours?
Angelica
Jones still has a special place in my heart as she is the one I’ve had the
longest active. Marie is a close second
though.
Best character portrayal you've seen
played out?
Omar’s
portrayal of Kennedy Street. I am a big
Kennie fan! :-P
Favorite handler to rp against and why?
It’s hard to
say because I haven’t really been facing any one person consistently lately but
over the last several years one particular handler and I really did work some
magical matches/feuds and that would be Omar.
The two different feuds between Marie and Skyy (one in IWC and one in
UWA) and then Marie and Regan in SCW.
Favorite memory of fedding?
There are so
many and this may sound like a cop-out but I’ll give a blanket answer by saying
anything I’ve done with my buddy Sinner over the years. He and I met in the original version of GCW
in 2002 and then we continued fedding together throughout the time I ran GDW
for 11 years and we’re still fedding together in the new angle fed version of
GCW. Sinner and I have done many great
things together and have made many great memories.
Best lesson this game has ever taught
you?
Don’t take
things so seriously.
Why did you get into efedding?
Wrestling. I was a huge wrestling fan and I always
wanted to BE a wrestler but I knew I could never do it due to health reasons
among other things. I learned about the
mail-in version of fedding but I didn’t want to do that. Later I learned about the G-Feds (anyone
remember those?). The rest is history.
What was your first character and why
after all these years you still do it?
The Wolf was
his name and he would later evolve into “The Very Best”…….*big cheesy
grin*……Steve Powers. I know earlier I
said Angelica was the longest active I had and that’s true. Steve Powers took a VERY LONG layoff before I
ever brought him back lol But Steve was my first. I still do it because it’s addictive. I love wrestling and I love telling their
stories. My characters still have
stories to tell and I’m not done until those stories are told.
Who are some of your favorite handlers
to work with?
Omar and I
have had some great RP battles in the past.
Randy and Was and I have made great magic together as tag partners for
various partners. Of course my all time
favorite to work with is Sinner.
Whenever we start brainstorming together it’s like Niagra Falls instead
of a well. Ideas start flowing wildly.
What was your favorite feud?
That feud
leading into the four way at Invictus (Katelyn Beuhler vs. Taylor Chase vs.
Abigail Lindsey vs. Marie Jones) was exceedingly fun. Big credit to everyone involved as well as
Dave for making it special.
If you could bring one character back
whether your own or someone else who would it be?
Cuchulain. No question about it. He was in GDW with me and in MWA for a short
while with me. Cuchulain was not only
one of the best writers I’ve ever seen but one of the single best comedy
writers I’ve ever seen. No matter how
seriously you take your character, he could parody your character and you’d
laugh your ass off at the way he made fun of him/her. He was that good. His best roleplay I read was a parody of
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I wish
I had saved it.
What are some of your favorite
characters you have seen or even promoted.
Cuchulain,
obviously.lol Sierra Devereaux was a fun one from MWA (kind of similar to
Kennedy only she was a lot more foul mouthed than Kennedy plus she had a pet
duck). Heel Kennedy was fun. Sophie James (#GingerNation!).
If you could do one thing different what
will it be?
I never
would have had GDW go on hiatus in 2012 or whenever it was.lol No excuses, that was on me, but I did feel
pressured into agreeing to the hiatus.
Looking back I truly don’t think a hiatus was necessary, that we could
have kept going and had we kept going, GDW could have been around today. Oh well.
What is the one thing you don’t see
these days that you wish was still around?
Can I say
GDW? Lol Seriously though, one thing that is “different” about today than back
then is Twitter. So I’ll turn the
question around a little bit and say I wish we were back in a game with no
twitter. I don’t really think twitter
has an overall positive effect on e-fedding.
There are some good things to it, granted, but I do think the overall
effect of twitter is a negative one.
Finally.... Street or Chase?
Of course
Street. Kennedy to be precise.
Most of the characters you handle are
female. Why do you think that is, and why do you think it's so popular for guys
in the game to handle mostly or all female characters? We don't usually see the
reverse, curious on your thoughts on that.
I can tell
you why I started writing female characters.
GDW back in 2003, the first year of operation, was suffering a severe
lack of female characters and we (the staff) were considering shutting down the
women’s division. I always enjoyed the
idea of a women’s division and I didn’t want to see it go away. So to give it some life support I created my
first female character for the division.
Her name was Angelica Jones and I intended on her being temporary, just
long enough until others could join and GDW didn’t need her anymore. Obviously she did not stay that way.lol I really enjoyed what I was writing, I felt I
was doing good, so I kept going with Angelica.
As to why I’ve kept up with the female characters? Well, Angelica and so many other characters
I have were inspirations. Angelica was
inspired by a fictional character. She
has a sister Kayla and then I was inspired to create my second female character
(Meagan Richards, eventually becoming Meagan Collins after getting
married). The inspiration behind her was
initially the Paige character off of Charmed but Megs would take on a vastly
different trajectory.lol Megs became evil incarnate.lol Not sure if that answers the question but for
the vast majority of my female characters over time with the exception of just
a few were inspired by TV, movie, or literature. I just felt to myself that their story could’ve
been told different, possibly even better, so I put a different spin on
it. Some of them, like in Meagan’s case,
took on a huge difference where there’s no similarity at all anymore. Beyond that, I honestly don’t know why I
continue to write female characters. There
was a time many years ago when I was not as wise to the sociology of gender in
society that I would’ve said something along the lines of “oh, it’s just
because women are more open with their emotions and that gives me more CD
material”…but I don’t think that’s it. Why
don’t we see the reverse is another very good question. Another one I don’t know the answer to and if
I had to put something out there it’d be a pure guess. What I can tell you is that I have seen many
real females in my time in e-fedding who handled male characters. There were at least four of them (at one
time) in MWA. Two or three in the early
days of GDW. So I’ve seen it
frequently. Maybe not recently but
definitely frequently in my time.
Why the redhead obsession?
It was
really a downhill spiral, the best way I can describe it. I based Angelica Jones off of another
fictional character who had red hair and I kept the red hair as part of my
Angelica character. When I decided to
expand the family (daughters, etc) I just thought, well, there’s a good chance
they’d probably be red heads too since Angelica is one. Kayla Jones was not a redhead by MY choice,
though. Kayla was originally created by
someone else who made her a redhead. Her
name was Shawna and we RPd together in the first GCW and a few years in
GDW. We ended up deciding to do a slight
retcon of her character’s bio and make her Angelica’s sister. It just so happened the picbase she had
originally chosen was a redhead. Shawna
would eventually stop RPing but she allowed me and another mutual friend
(Lassie) to have co-control of the character.
Now I have full control of the character. So yeah, it’s more or less something that
kind of just spiraled out of control lol
Which way did he go, George?
That way!
What is your favorite angle that has
been played on shows?
Blood Grove
was fun and very unique. Big credit to
the handlers involved in that one.
What is your favorite roleplay arc?
(Whether its your own OR someone elses)
“Moving On
From The Past” would have to be my favorite because I got to fill in some of the
blanks about Kimberly Williams’s back story, I got to find a voice for Kimberly
Williams, and I finally ended the long standing rivalry between Marie and
Kimberly. I accomplished a great deal
right there.
What are peeves you have in this game?
Twitter is a
big one.lol Another one that used to be a big problem but not so much anymore
is people who take CD material that is clearly marked as off camera and use it
in their promos.
What do you personally value in regards
to character development?
The challenges
to the character. Perhaps that’s why
sometimes I have a hard time coming up with character development ideas that I
like and want to run with, because to me they seem rather easy for the
character to deal with. Too easy. I want to challenge them in every aspect of
their lives. I’ve put Angelica through
hell during the time I’ve written for her.
Not sure if that answers the question but I do prefer things that really
and truly challenge the character in terms of its development. In general I like character development
because it does allow you to get into the head of the character, their
personality, more so than an on camera promo does.
When is Marie going to be single? I'm
asking for a friend.
Not for a
while!
What's the one character/gimmick you've
always wanted to try but didn't?
Now that is
a tough question because I have done just about everything that I wanted to do
at least once. I can say that I never
really got a chance to do a long term political character in the vein of JBL or
a cult/super-religious character either, for that matter. I have two characters that’d fit those molds
(Ronald Duane Kennedy, aka: RDK, the political character; Cross, the super-religious
one; Leviticus was a cult leader once, as well) but I never had much
competitive success with them. The ideas
run dry fairly quickly. There are certain
things that I have done in angle feds that I just didn’t think would work out
in the competitive environment of a roleplay fed for one reason or another. Randy and I ran a fun gimmick where two of my
characters were forced by virtue of losing a match to two of his characters to
be his characters’s personal cheerleaders.
It ran its course and we stopped it.
Though I’m not sure it’d work out in the competitive environment of a
roleplay fed, too many wild cards and x-factors to consider that we can’t
control etc etc, so I never tried it.
Which is the proudest show you've ever
written as a fedhead?
The GDW
Reunion Show last year was awesome. Not
many matches, not many segments, but it achieved its goal. GDW didn’t end on the proper note that I felt
it deserved and this reunion show allowed me to give it the send-off that it
truly deserved. Some may have felt it wasn’t necessary, some GDW alum may have
even felt that I shouldn’t have done it.
I don’t care. I was one of the
two co-founders and I wanted to do it, and I had the blessing of the other
co-founder to do it if I wanted. GDW was
my baby and while I would love to bring it back someday I realize that I will
probably never again get back into fed heading.
So if GDW really is going to be gone for good, I thought I should at
least give it the proper “funeral” so to speak.
Another one I’m very proud of would be the very first GCW Resurrection
event back in 2012. I named it “Resurrection” because, well, this was the first
GCW event in over ten years I’d say.lol
I was bringing it back, only as an angle fed. It was an experiment, I had never had ANY
experience in angle feds and truly wasn’t sure how it would turn out, but I had
some help from randy and eventually G joined up, as well as JJ and others and
we’re still putting out great shows to this day. But it all goes back to that first event in
2012 when I brought it back. Very proud
of how that show turned out.
What was your biggest disappointment
thus far?
How GDW came
to an end. I mentioned it earlier so I
won’t go into much more detail other than to say had I been more vigilant then
maybe I could’ve saved it. But oh well.
