Post by The Revenant on May 10, 2020 19:59:20 GMT -5
(Jake Karnes, The Revenant walks into camera shot, his apartment is a bit disjointed, showing signs of when Cassidy Kaine was leeching off Jake. Jake is dressed casual, pair of beat up blue Jean's that's slightly faded like a good warn pair should be, he wears a maroon muscle shirt with The Revenant in grey lettering across the front. Jake slowly walks up to a boombox and hits play, which brings to life the song The Jester by Badflower. Jake takes a seat in a brown beat up armchair next to the radio and he looks to the camera as the words of the song play.)
JK: “I remember what it used to be like, entertaining the diehard fans who paid their good dollar to cram into those bingo halls and VWF buildings, just to lose themselves in this combat sport… So many warriors and so few of us who really connected with the fans on a personal level. You really think those kids wanted to see some jerk face win, just because he claimed he was the toughest guy in the room?
Nah, they wanted to extend their disbelief for a few hours to see true superheroes stand before them and vanquish the evildoers in real time. I played their hero with a smile and a knack for bringing out laughter in all in attendance…”
JK: “But that was another time wasn’t it? That was old Just Kidding Jake Karnes, it wasn’t this man begging for redemption… It wasn’t this man who thought he was doing the right thing by bringing in a potential MURDERER… It wasn’t this man who thought he was doing the right thing by turning the said murderer over…
Everything used to be so ‘normal’, well as normal as this life can truly be… I put on the tights, I put on the boots, I put on the smile, and I put on the matches that people would go home talking about finding it hard not to call their friends just to tell them the crazy shits their hero Jake Karnes just did.
Maybe that’s the reason I still find Cassidy my responsibility… I just want to be someone’s hero again…”
JK: “I am getting my second chance though, so maybe I should just dive right in, huh? Maybe I should forget ol’ Just Kidding and really dig in to The Revenant and prove to everyone out there that I bring with me, the very same abilities that got me to that NBW World title shot…
Hmph, shot, huh? Yeah the very word resonates within me, without me evening meaning for it to… A blink of an eye and the path I thought I was on was derailed and flipped upside down all at once… The smoke barely had time to settle before I caught wind of why I was standing on the other end of that Glock…
Worst part is, Cassidy didn’t even feel any sort of way about it… He literally shrugged it off and walked away, leaving me with a bullet wound and blood smeared memories…”
JK: “The Kaine’s are a family full of men who put their own vices before anyone else’s, it is a proven fact, friends… I go into this multiman matchup and I see Damian Kaine will be one of my foes standing across from me… He is a man who’s lived an interesting life, to say the least… One would even say he’s warn many of faces, but I think he’s gone through a number of personality wake up calls… I believe I heard some rumblings from Cass one night that his cousin was found naked in a corn field before, which screams out he needs some serious counseling. He went missing for some time, but come on I doubt it was long enough to wake the kid up from all of the cult shit he was succumbed to or the trippy space travels he partook.
He had his moments of being an entertainer, probably picking up on some of his Uncle Nova’s ‘high’ flying mesmerizing maneuvers. Only difference, when was the last time Damian Kaine was more than just a Guardian/Brotherhood flunky? He made a big comeback by besting Bonnie Blue in a one on one match up, but now he’s regulated with curtain jerker noob match to get the fans warmed up for the bigger players…
Ha, I know I’m claiming the match we are all in is just a warm up match for the fans, but come on, call an apple an apple and an orange an orange… We SHOULD know what we are going into, that way we know how to make a true statement in that match. Luck must be on my side, because Damian Kaine isn’t going to bring his best game possible to this match, because he’s going to be too butt hurt that he has to compete in a curtain jerker match… But there’s no shame in my game, kids, I’ll throw down in a bar outside of Tallahassee if I have to, because I JUST WANT TO COMPETE! I NEED THIS AND I NEED MY REDEMPTION!”
JK: You really think anyone in this match wants this more than I do? You really think a Bum Fight reject like Jordi Trash is here in APW to outshine every opponent who is placed before him? He doesn’t even have the chops to best a guy like Ralph ‘The Human Vomit’ Grosse, if he actually fought in NBW’s Bum Fight Division… Lucky for Jordi, The Russian Princess isn’t about paying her fighters in sandwiches and scratch off tickets.
If it comes down to me and The Trash Man, there shouldn’t be any sort of doubt in your mind that I’m the guy who takes the trash out, not the kind who keeps it around because I believe it might be ‘worth’ something someday… That’s the only explanation of why Jordi has been kept around along as he has in this life… It can’t be his ‘boyish’ good looks or his mad mat skills… Just as the Bum Fight Division was sent away with the barbaric New Blood Wrestling, I see the same fate for Jordi The Trashman...”
JK: “Then there’s DJF… Something way more than a ‘LOST SOUL’... Good God, have you read the man’s and I use that word lightly, but his bio is a snooze fest to say the least. Brothers, mothers, sisters, and creepy uncles… Maybe Damian should bring his Uncle Nova with him and they can join the fuckaround gang that is the Franco family… The guy is indeed a lost soul and he’s going to be pushed in his first outing, further than his little body can take. He gets winded reading a good book, I could only imagine what happens when someone puts him through the rope routine.
With all that said though, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t looking forward to seeing what this DJF kid brings to the ring, along with DK, Trash, and myself… So many walks of life coming together in a curtain jerker match and there’s no telling who’s going to walk away the victor…”
JK: “But if I have anything to say about it, I will be the one to STAND OUT because this is my second chance and I'm not going to waste it… This jester isn’t going to be screwed over any longer, kids… The Revenant has returned after being left for dead and I will not let any more opportunities pass me by…
You want to stop me? Well, I’m right here and I’m begging you to give me your BEST SHOT.”
JK: “A gun couldn’t get the job done, so you should really ask yourself, what do you have to bring to put me down for good?”
JK: “You can look at my past and believe you know the future of the man who sits before you, but I tell you, that 'jester' is dead and gone… He went away with a BANG and all that remains is this broken man who sits before you… But I am a broken man who's rebuilding…
It all starts at Monday Night Metal and having a Kaine involved in my comeback match is simply poetic, to say the least… Something inside of me wants Damian Kaine to see this match as something personal, at least then I know it'll bring something out of him, instead of him not mentally showing up. I don't want a phoned in, Damian Kaine, I want the guy who showed up in Action Wrestling and brought that fight to his old leader, Bonnie Blue… I want the kid at his best, so there won't be any doubt left looming in the air… I am better than the Kaine family, plain and simple…
I'm better than the heroin induced Jordi Trash… I'm better than that Lost Dimwitted, Soulless DJF…
We all know this is a curtain jerker match, but I'm back to prove that no matter where I am on the card, there's no one willing to fight as hard as I am to be here… Jake Karnes has fought off death and no matter what shot you bring… The Revenant isn't going away!"
(A knock at the door steals Jake's attention and he slowly rises from his chair. The camera turns to see Jake open the door and the lovely Ms. V stands at the door in her lady in red attire.)
JK: "V… What have I done to acquire a follow up questioning?"
V: "Well you see, I just so happened to notice you're doing your little dance off with Cassidy's cousin this Monday night and thought it best to check in on you beforehand… To assure you don't do anything…"
JK: "Stupid?"
(V traces Jake's broad shoulders with a once over stare.)
V: "Your words, not mine… I was more thinking in the lines of something you'll regret… I can see how this whole Kaine family thing can be very personal to you… I suppose Damian Kaine is guilty by blood, then?"
JK: "Damian Kaine has plenty to be guilty for in his life, but I don't plan to use my hatred for what happened to me by Cassidy's hands, to compel me to rip Damian's head off… I'll defeat Damian Kaine because he's an opponent, just like Jordi and DJF… I just find it ironic that my return to the ring involves a Kaine, since it was a KAINE who cost me my livelihood before."
V: "You're so strong willed, Mr. Karnes, I can see that's why death spat you back out when your cards were already folded… Do tell me, what do you plan to do with this second chance, hmmm?"
JK: "You want the truth, V?"
(V nods slowly, inviting Jake into her ever growing web.)
JK: "Anything I damn well please…"
(V goes to speak after the words hang in the air for what feels like hours, but Jake cuts her off.)
JK: "You're shocked? Well you should be, because the jester is no longer, V… I will no longer play it safe out there and I am going to do whatever it takes to reach the top once again. They can give me all the opening matches they so desire and I'll win them all. They can throw me in a cage match with rabid gorillas and I'll win it whilst laughing… You can continue to hang around and prod me for more answers and you can watch over my shoulder to see if maybe I'm harboring some ill feelings toward the Kaine family or anyone else involved with my initial shooting… But no matter what you do, I'll suggest it is in your best interest to not stand in my way."
[Jake grabs hold of the door.]
JK: "I assume we have an understanding, Ms. V?"
(V goes to talk and Jake shuts her down again.)
JK: "Good, now if you could just be on your way, that'd be great."
(Jake shuts the door which pushes V out into the hallway with more questions than answers on her puzzled, besmirched face.)
V: "Well, we shall just have to see about that, Mr. Karnes…"
Like a jester at the ball
Rub my shoulders with the kings
I was draped in gold and velvet
Breathing in applause
While I was jumping through the rings
JK: “I remember what it used to be like, entertaining the diehard fans who paid their good dollar to cram into those bingo halls and VWF buildings, just to lose themselves in this combat sport… So many warriors and so few of us who really connected with the fans on a personal level. You really think those kids wanted to see some jerk face win, just because he claimed he was the toughest guy in the room?
Nah, they wanted to extend their disbelief for a few hours to see true superheroes stand before them and vanquish the evildoers in real time. I played their hero with a smile and a knack for bringing out laughter in all in attendance…”
And then the cooks would sound a bell
And all the kings would lick their lips
But I couldn't find a placemat
The dinner table's full
And there's no room for me to sit
JK: “But that was another time wasn’t it? That was old Just Kidding Jake Karnes, it wasn’t this man begging for redemption… It wasn’t this man who thought he was doing the right thing by bringing in a potential MURDERER… It wasn’t this man who thought he was doing the right thing by turning the said murderer over…
Everything used to be so ‘normal’, well as normal as this life can truly be… I put on the tights, I put on the boots, I put on the smile, and I put on the matches that people would go home talking about finding it hard not to call their friends just to tell them the crazy shits their hero Jake Karnes just did.
Maybe that’s the reason I still find Cassidy my responsibility… I just want to be someone’s hero again…”
Is there anybody out there
Looking out for me?
Just say you want me
Just say you need me
Is there anybody out there
Looking out for me?
Does anybody need me?
Is every last soul just fucking me over?
With tears on their shoes
And ice on their shoulders
Is there anybody out there
Looking out for me?
JK: “I am getting my second chance though, so maybe I should just dive right in, huh? Maybe I should forget ol’ Just Kidding and really dig in to The Revenant and prove to everyone out there that I bring with me, the very same abilities that got me to that NBW World title shot…
Hmph, shot, huh? Yeah the very word resonates within me, without me evening meaning for it to… A blink of an eye and the path I thought I was on was derailed and flipped upside down all at once… The smoke barely had time to settle before I caught wind of why I was standing on the other end of that Glock…
Worst part is, Cassidy didn’t even feel any sort of way about it… He literally shrugged it off and walked away, leaving me with a bullet wound and blood smeared memories…”
Lord, I live to entertain
All my pride is in my praise
I hum along with this vibration
And hope to God I make it
JK: “The Kaine’s are a family full of men who put their own vices before anyone else’s, it is a proven fact, friends… I go into this multiman matchup and I see Damian Kaine will be one of my foes standing across from me… He is a man who’s lived an interesting life, to say the least… One would even say he’s warn many of faces, but I think he’s gone through a number of personality wake up calls… I believe I heard some rumblings from Cass one night that his cousin was found naked in a corn field before, which screams out he needs some serious counseling. He went missing for some time, but come on I doubt it was long enough to wake the kid up from all of the cult shit he was succumbed to or the trippy space travels he partook.
He had his moments of being an entertainer, probably picking up on some of his Uncle Nova’s ‘high’ flying mesmerizing maneuvers. Only difference, when was the last time Damian Kaine was more than just a Guardian/Brotherhood flunky? He made a big comeback by besting Bonnie Blue in a one on one match up, but now he’s regulated with curtain jerker noob match to get the fans warmed up for the bigger players…
Ha, I know I’m claiming the match we are all in is just a warm up match for the fans, but come on, call an apple an apple and an orange an orange… We SHOULD know what we are going into, that way we know how to make a true statement in that match. Luck must be on my side, because Damian Kaine isn’t going to bring his best game possible to this match, because he’s going to be too butt hurt that he has to compete in a curtain jerker match… But there’s no shame in my game, kids, I’ll throw down in a bar outside of Tallahassee if I have to, because I JUST WANT TO COMPETE! I NEED THIS AND I NEED MY REDEMPTION!”
If any chord that I could strum
Make me feel less like a man
I'd slam my fingers in the doorway
And shatter all the bones
So I could never strum again
JK: You really think anyone in this match wants this more than I do? You really think a Bum Fight reject like Jordi Trash is here in APW to outshine every opponent who is placed before him? He doesn’t even have the chops to best a guy like Ralph ‘The Human Vomit’ Grosse, if he actually fought in NBW’s Bum Fight Division… Lucky for Jordi, The Russian Princess isn’t about paying her fighters in sandwiches and scratch off tickets.
If it comes down to me and The Trash Man, there shouldn’t be any sort of doubt in your mind that I’m the guy who takes the trash out, not the kind who keeps it around because I believe it might be ‘worth’ something someday… That’s the only explanation of why Jordi has been kept around along as he has in this life… It can’t be his ‘boyish’ good looks or his mad mat skills… Just as the Bum Fight Division was sent away with the barbaric New Blood Wrestling, I see the same fate for Jordi The Trashman...”
Is there anybody out there
Looking out for me?
Just say you want me
Just say you need me
Is there anybody out there
Looking out for me?
For me?
JK: “Then there’s DJF… Something way more than a ‘LOST SOUL’... Good God, have you read the man’s and I use that word lightly, but his bio is a snooze fest to say the least. Brothers, mothers, sisters, and creepy uncles… Maybe Damian should bring his Uncle Nova with him and they can join the fuckaround gang that is the Franco family… The guy is indeed a lost soul and he’s going to be pushed in his first outing, further than his little body can take. He gets winded reading a good book, I could only imagine what happens when someone puts him through the rope routine.
With all that said though, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t looking forward to seeing what this DJF kid brings to the ring, along with DK, Trash, and myself… So many walks of life coming together in a curtain jerker match and there’s no telling who’s going to walk away the victor…”
Is every last soul just fucking me over?
With tears on their shoes
And ice on their shoulders
Is there anybody out there
Looking out for me?
JK: “But if I have anything to say about it, I will be the one to STAND OUT because this is my second chance and I'm not going to waste it… This jester isn’t going to be screwed over any longer, kids… The Revenant has returned after being left for dead and I will not let any more opportunities pass me by…
You want to stop me? Well, I’m right here and I’m begging you to give me your BEST SHOT.”
Woah, Is there anybody out
There looking out for me?
Just say you want me
Just say you need me
Is there anybody out there
Looking out for me?
For me?
Woah, Is every last soul
Just fucking me over?
With tears on their shoes
And ice on their shoulders
Is there anybody out there
Looking out for me?
For me
JK: “A gun couldn’t get the job done, so you should really ask yourself, what do you have to bring to put me down for good?”
Is every last soul just fucking me over?
With tears on their shoes
And ice on their shoulders
Is there anybody out there
Looking out for me?
JK: “You can look at my past and believe you know the future of the man who sits before you, but I tell you, that 'jester' is dead and gone… He went away with a BANG and all that remains is this broken man who sits before you… But I am a broken man who's rebuilding…
It all starts at Monday Night Metal and having a Kaine involved in my comeback match is simply poetic, to say the least… Something inside of me wants Damian Kaine to see this match as something personal, at least then I know it'll bring something out of him, instead of him not mentally showing up. I don't want a phoned in, Damian Kaine, I want the guy who showed up in Action Wrestling and brought that fight to his old leader, Bonnie Blue… I want the kid at his best, so there won't be any doubt left looming in the air… I am better than the Kaine family, plain and simple…
I'm better than the heroin induced Jordi Trash… I'm better than that Lost Dimwitted, Soulless DJF…
We all know this is a curtain jerker match, but I'm back to prove that no matter where I am on the card, there's no one willing to fight as hard as I am to be here… Jake Karnes has fought off death and no matter what shot you bring… The Revenant isn't going away!"
(A knock at the door steals Jake's attention and he slowly rises from his chair. The camera turns to see Jake open the door and the lovely Ms. V stands at the door in her lady in red attire.)
JK: "V… What have I done to acquire a follow up questioning?"
V: "Well you see, I just so happened to notice you're doing your little dance off with Cassidy's cousin this Monday night and thought it best to check in on you beforehand… To assure you don't do anything…"
JK: "Stupid?"
(V traces Jake's broad shoulders with a once over stare.)
V: "Your words, not mine… I was more thinking in the lines of something you'll regret… I can see how this whole Kaine family thing can be very personal to you… I suppose Damian Kaine is guilty by blood, then?"
JK: "Damian Kaine has plenty to be guilty for in his life, but I don't plan to use my hatred for what happened to me by Cassidy's hands, to compel me to rip Damian's head off… I'll defeat Damian Kaine because he's an opponent, just like Jordi and DJF… I just find it ironic that my return to the ring involves a Kaine, since it was a KAINE who cost me my livelihood before."
V: "You're so strong willed, Mr. Karnes, I can see that's why death spat you back out when your cards were already folded… Do tell me, what do you plan to do with this second chance, hmmm?"
JK: "You want the truth, V?"
(V nods slowly, inviting Jake into her ever growing web.)
JK: "Anything I damn well please…"
(V goes to speak after the words hang in the air for what feels like hours, but Jake cuts her off.)
JK: "You're shocked? Well you should be, because the jester is no longer, V… I will no longer play it safe out there and I am going to do whatever it takes to reach the top once again. They can give me all the opening matches they so desire and I'll win them all. They can throw me in a cage match with rabid gorillas and I'll win it whilst laughing… You can continue to hang around and prod me for more answers and you can watch over my shoulder to see if maybe I'm harboring some ill feelings toward the Kaine family or anyone else involved with my initial shooting… But no matter what you do, I'll suggest it is in your best interest to not stand in my way."
[Jake grabs hold of the door.]
JK: "I assume we have an understanding, Ms. V?"
(V goes to talk and Jake shuts her down again.)
JK: "Good, now if you could just be on your way, that'd be great."
(Jake shuts the door which pushes V out into the hallway with more questions than answers on her puzzled, besmirched face.)
V: "Well, we shall just have to see about that, Mr. Karnes…"
