Ask Me Anything (OOC)

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.