#BryanWheeler

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2022 anarchy Bryan || 2025 anarchy Yuta

(I put this in this post but it deserves its own bc I’m still chewing on glass)

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I’m just gonna reblog it again

He let his god damn hair down for him

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BRB burying myself alive

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“Bryan Danielson is at home recovering with his family and we understand Wheeler Yuta is also by his side”

EXCUSE ME WHILE I FLING MYSELF INTO THE BAY!!!!!

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“All I can really think about is those moments…when they had that bag over Bryan’s head…when they were trying to end him, when they were trying to make me watch for some reason. Jon keeps talking about some higher purpose and I don’t understand, all I understand is how afraid, how terrified, how concerned…how helpless I was...when all that happened.” - Wheeler Yuta gives insight on where his head is at after the events of All Out

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Yuta using Bryan’s words to guide him for the second week in a row now is so much.

So. Much.

BCC truly taking on the roles of manipulative parental figures has altered my brain chemistry.

The moment Claudio opened his mouth to say he was disappointed in Yuta after everything they’ve been through, going as far to say “I thought I taught you better” and “you’re old enough to make your own decisions” really reinforcing that idea of a broken family. Their bond being the most prevalent on screen for some time, the silly things they do just because it’s them like the crab dance, now he’s evoking this pure feeling of how can he have the audacity to say these things?

Then Mox saying he believes Yuta has the “strength” to “do the right thing” saying it’s all his choice and that he’s “free to leave” he’s “not trapped” it’s his “choice” when they were the ones who have put him in this situation, not only by doing what they did to Bryan but by purposefully leaving yuta in the dark then expecting him to fight alongside them. They have trapped him but they’re relying on the strong connection and emotions they know Yuta has tied to them.

Shaking their heads looking around at eachother saying Yuta is the one who has to look himself in the mirror each day, the fear of disappointing a mentor or parental figure being one most know well.

With Yuta himself he’s completely distraught, he doesn’t know what day it is, he’s forgetting things & he’s struggling because these past few years he’s been given that direction by the exact men trying to use his own emotional state against him… yet the one thing he is doing is guiding himself using the words of the dragon.

What a perfect direction to take this story, what a perfect way to elevate Yuta and make people care so deeply about what happens to him and what he decides to do.

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Catching up on roh from like - lol forever ago

Yuta beating Matt mako with:

Busaiku knee

Elbows

Cattle mutilation

in that order

Ian: “yuta stealing the skin of the man he betrayed and wearing it as his own”

The Yuta/bryan story has legit never fucking stopped despite it becoming less overt

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“One thing Bryan told me one time, one reason he loves professional wrestling, is because whenever he’s in the ring he feels like he’s just meant to be there and he can just put everything else on pause. I’m gonna try to channel that tonight.”

Fun (sob) fact:

1) that’s totally a shoot, Bryan’s said that multiple times & especially in relation to his depression, something Yuta suffers from as well.

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Anyway never forget that in a shoot interview Yuta was asked to name his most transformative moment in aew so far and he named the “beautiful hike” he went on with Bryan Danielson that “put a lot of things into perspective” and was “really special” as one of them

never forget Bryan took this photo and has video on of Yuta on his phone and Yuta shot the video for his okada promo

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Oh my fucking god.

Oh, it's coming! (Link)

Edit:

😱😱😱

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We really aren’t talking enough about the fact that Yuta is gonna be in the same space as Bryan at Starrcast like what’s he gonna do is he gonna stay in character is he gonna have a god damn existential crisis

am I gonna have to yell at him again this time in the middle of a ballroom

Don’t think I fucking won’t 😤

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These shots of Bryan backstage with Claudio and Yuta (and PAC) tho

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(I put an abridged version of this untagged on my blog but honestly i need to give it a longer tagged write-up)

So Yuta saw this side of my sign before his match against Willie Mack at the Oakland Collision:

while he was looking at the hard cam (which is where I was front row with @sonnykissed) and yelled “he’s DEAD he’s DEAD” right at me to which I think I cursed my head off at him idk I go into automatic when it comes to Bryan and slander and also Yuta being a shit post-murder.

(Watching it back now here’s what the camera caught: here’s the tail-end of him yelling ‘DEAD’ while I point at him and wave the sign and say ‘fuck you!’ I’m pretty sure 🤣)

So I’m randomly waving the sign during the match at times while also trying to update y’all on things

He does I have till 5 which I mostly miss and then once again curse him the fuck out (while apparently Nigel on comm also calls him out for it and also for Bryan ( thanks for that info @shes-a-voodoo-child)

When I listened back Nigel said “people questioned Yuta, I questioned Yuta when Moxley forced him to do what he did to Bryan Danielson” and then “I have till 5 an oft repeated phrase from the American Dragon Bryan Danielson, again Wheeler Yuta reveling on the fact that he was the one that caused the end Bryan Danielson’s career, at least for the time being.” AT LEAST FOR THE TIME BEING. do you miss your dragon Nigel? Do you know something? Are you gonna visit him in Napa while he’s on child and chicken duty before Sacramento and plot a revolution return? (A girl can dream okay)

So then Mox comes. I try to get him to see my sign but he doesn’t. He tries to brainwash Yuta into “finishing the job” and I yell over and over “don’t do it don’t do” (at that point we didn’t know he was telling him to take out cope on weds we thought he just wanted him to take out Mack which also happened) I can definitely hear myself screaming in the clip although none of the words are clear I’m sure I’m sure I’m booing and calling him a piece of shit among other things

But then I watch him in the ring stroke that briefcase, like lovingly stroke it and I see emotion on his face, real emotion and I’m like oh shit, What’s happening here? An Actual Yuta conflicted character arc after so long with legit nothing?

And my first thought as he stroked that briefcase that way was what was inside it. And the last time he ever saw what was inside it. And who was wearing it. And who it belonged to.

And I know for sure he was thinking of it, too. In fact it was pointed out to me by @extracurriculargrief that the last time he ever even touched the belt was this moment:

Was that going through his head?

So he’s leaving the ring and I’m still kinda pissed at him for doing mox’s dirty work even while realizing he could now be Going Through It and I start screaming “THINK ABOUT IT YUTA!!” while waving the still missing Bryan Danielson part of my sign. The same part he dismissed to me earlier.

(Apparently I can be seen on camera yelling at him on the fite feed. I have not been able to find the fite feed yet.)

And he’s standing by the ring post and turns to look at me while I repeat it over and over and he is staring at me, staring at the sign, solemn and serious and I can see his eyes because he moved his hair during that whole emotional moment and he says to me “I will. I will. I will” while nodding and still clutching that briefcase to his chest, still totally and fully in character.

And I nod to him and I think I smile a small sad smile, just completely overcome, and then I collapsed into @sonnykissed because that emotionally drained me and YEAH folks

Never expected to contribute to the death riders storyline (especially when I’d all but given up on them actually continuing the Yuta part of it in terms of Bryan) but here we are

Here we are. I have no idea what will happen here:

I’m going to the sacramento show and I was already planning to bring the same sign (but to update the days) but now I’m pretty sure I’m also going to update it with words coming out of the sad dragon’s mouth. He’ll be saying “think about it Yuta.”

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ARE U FUCKING KIDDING ME

Its fine their fine :’)

📸brainbuster

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“I’m his friend, I’m his training partner and you see what he’s doing to me. You can’t imagine what he’s gonna do to Swerve.” -

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A war may be looming but Bryan Danielson is having the time of his life (bonus for an amused Wheeler Yuta at the end; other post show caps and vid here)