MK1 flirty Intros w/ Pro-Wrestler!Reader
(Featuring: Johnny Cage, Kung Lao, Raiden, Sindel, Kenshi)
Notes: Was lowkey basing reader off of Tina Armstrong from DOA. Reader and Johnny know each other because Reader’s success as a wrestler had them cameo in one of Johnny’s movies. One of Liu Kang’s champions.
Johnny Cage 🕶️
Johnny: Whatcha gonna do when Cageamania runs WILD on you?! 😎
Y/N: And this is why I didn’t come back for Ninja Mime 2 🙄
Johnny: I would love for you to be the Ms/Mr L/N to my Johnny Savage 🥴
Y/N: Why can’t you ask me out like a normal person? 😒
Johnny: How much for your championship belt?
Y/N: Come back when you survive Tommy the Hun. 😤
Y/N: You would NEVER last in MY ring, pretty boy. 🥱
Johnny: So you DO think I’m pretty. 😏
Y/N: Cage you have got to stop the wrestling puns.😒
Johnny: Don’t act like they’re not making you chuckle, tiger 🥴
Johnny: You know, I AM a bachelor again. 😏
Y/N: Hmm…but are you a suitable one? 🤔
Kung Lao 🎓
Kung Lao: My fighting prowess vs your circus act. 😏
Y/N: Lao have you ever been on the receiving end of a Crossface? 😤
Y/N: Are all farm boys as cute as you. 🥰
Kung Lao: *chuckles* No, I’m one of a kind. 😘
Kung Lao: I had heard wrestling was fake but that exploding barbed wire match was too brutal! 😨
Y/N: *laughs* Aww, look at you all worried. 🥰
Y/N: Y’know…I think I’d look good in your hat…and nothing else. 😉
Kung Lao: Hm?🤨….Oh!😐 Ohhhhh…😳
Kung Lao: After this match, you HAVE to meet Madam Bo! 😃
Y/N: Already taking me to meet your mother figure, are you? 😏
Y/N: Farm boy, huh? You must be good with your hands. 😏
Kung Lao: I’d like to think so.🥴
Raiden ⚡️
Y/N: My eyes are up here, Raiden. 🤭
Raiden: Yes!😳 I apologize!
Y/N: Y’know, I’m a sucker for farm boys.
Raiden: *tries to hide his blushing*
Raiden: It’s amazing how quick you initiate those holds.
Y/N: Thanks. I can show you a few if you want…privately of course.
Raiden: What did Madame Bo pull you aside for?🤨
Y/N: Oh you know…the usual…thinly veiled threats about what would happen if I broke your heart….maybe not so thin.
Kenshi🗡️
Kenshi: What do you see in Cage as a friend? 🤨
Y/N: He grows on you, trust me. ☺️
Kenshi: I’m not someone you should get involved with. 😔
Y/N: I know how to handle wise guys, Kenshi.
Y/N: I should’ve done more to protect you. 🥺
Kenshi: You cannot blame yourself for this, Y/N.
Kenshi: I caught one of your matches when you were in Japan. You’re technicality is impressive.
Y/N: Oh! 😯 Thank you! 😊
Kenshi: How did you get roped up into that Ninja Mime cameo?
Y/N: *groan* It was a favor to Cris.
Y/N: Sento doesn’t watch…does it?
Kenshi: I…..hadn’t thought of that.
Sindel 🔊
Sindel: Wrestling is a revered art form in Outworld. What about Earthrealm?
Y/N: Depends on your definition of revered. 😅
Sindel: Can you keep up?
Y/N: I won’t lose my breath, Empress.
Sindel: So already a champion? Interesting.
Y/N: Yeah, it’s not the same as Earthrealm champion but..yeah~🥰
Y/N: So Li Mei is…..👀
Sindel: *chuckles* it’s feels nice to have someone be jealous over me again. 🥰
Y/N: So how much work is there being a consort?
Sindel: About as much as being the Empress.
Y/N: Will Mileena and Kitana think this weird? 🥺
Sindel: They will come to love you, dearest. 🥰
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Doing work on This is Your Lifepath season 2 has got me thinking about lists of inspirations again. So I rounded up some lists in upcoming projects.
(Ritual Magic for Besties isn't here as its bibliography is fairly short and more explanatory rather than list-y, also like it comes out later this month so you can just wait)
PSYCHODUNGEON
The games listed are primarily about mechanical influence (which is why they're mostly a very large slice of Belonging outside Belonging games). Big exceptions are Subway Runner and DD.TV which are both there for post-dungeon fantasy influence. ACWtM is there for the influence on the asymmetric roles, which are a divergence from how BoB setting elements tend to work, and so my own Fear the Taste of Blood is there because working on that is how I understood that element better.
Probably should clarify Moonstruck is the comic (as like loose setting influence) rather than the film (which bangs but doesn't relate much to PSYCHODUNGEON).
NHSmackdown is a wrestling/performance art show by a friend of mine which was focused on being a nurse. The influence is in how it got me reflecting on being trapped in job which is nominally doing good but isn't protecting you and is honestly actively harming you.
Nemesis Revealed
Nemesis Revealed is a storytelling game of great rivals, where you play someone's nemesis, their dark counterpart and follow their story. It has multiple playsets which frame a different hero to create your nemesis in opposition to.
So the game influences are either in mechanics or in the structure of a book basically. Whereas the other section primarily focuses on specific influences for different playsets (there's a sort of conventional street level superhero, a gender-twisty tokusatsu inspired story, as well as strange space knights and near-distant future mecha crews). It's a scattershot and probably reads very opaque without context (I think that's how all my bibliography lists look which is probably why I place them at the back, where a reader will find them already armed with context, rather than at the start as a taste setter).
Transgender Deathmatch Legend II: Grand Slam
TDL2 actually has two separate lists. There's a traditional bibliography. I referenced my own work I've drawn on because it seems honest. Fox in the Forest is there for influencing the original mechanic. Hieronymus influenced how i wanted the shape of the book to be. Stealing the Throne influenced some non-fighting mechanics.
The other references are more for how they influenced specific scenarios (like one is loosely Raid inspired but turned into smashing up a GIC, while another is a direct Warriors-riff).
I included the Party of One episode i did cause it helped clarify how i felt about the game. British lads hitting each other with chairs is there because it's a mood.
Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats was a fringe theatre show I did set up for and it ended up influenced the content of a work-in-progress show I did called Crossface (which was a wrestling inspired character comedy performance drama). Some of the content for Crossface has been recycled into some personal essays I have in the book. So paying tribute to that root felt important.
But before that section TDL also has a Recommended Reading list. It's mainly stuff that I think conveys what's enjoyable about wrestling. I wouldn't say everything was a direct inspiration, but if you read the book and played the game and wanted to know more about wrestling; there's a little roadmap in the book.
(Though being serious this appendix is obviously super subject to change before release if anything horrific comes out about anyone featured, obviously the danger in recommending any wrestling tbh)
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I've been enjoying the Heel Work by this handsome British stud, James Pharrell, seen here wearing classic black trunks and boots. He defeats his opponent, JJ Lynch, with this devastating Crossface, which he maintains well after the bell rang. You can watch the entire match on YouTube.
For me, the fun really begins after the match, when Pharrell decides to let the audience know how amazing he is, while standing with one foot (along with his buddy) PLANTED ON THE BEATEN MAN'S BODY!
Damn, that's hot -- poor JJ Lynch forced to lie there obediently, accepting his place as the Beta Male in this situation. Even Pharrell's little buddy gets to own this poor loser!
Love me an arrogant, trash-talking Heel!
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