#malakai the cannibal

[ella-error505]

Malakai

[pronounced: mae-lah-kay]

this name can mean “messenger” or “angel”. It's full of spiritual significance and divine promise.

a.k.a.: The Cannibal, A Son of Night, Heir of Under The Mountain, The Eater of Worlds, The Son of Amarantha, Bender of Chaos, Worldshaker.

[wrestlingisfake]

AEW Fake Rankings, 7/15/2024

Men's singles division - babyfaces

Swerve Strickland (AEW men's world champion)

Jon Moxley

Bryan Danielson

Will Ospreay (AEW international champion)

Mark Briscoe (ROH men's world champion)

Orange Cassidy

PAC

Kyle O'Reilly

Katsuyori Shibata

Tomohiro Ishii*

Men's singles division - heels

MJF

Adam Page

Kazuchika Okada (AEW continental champion)

Jack Perry (AEW TNT champion)

Chris Jericho (FTW champion)

Konosuke Takeshita

Roderick Strong

Kyle Fletcher

Big Bill

Rush

Unranked: Angelico, Anthony Henry*, AR Fox, Dalton Castle*, Jeff Jarrett, Marko Stunt*, Matt Menard, Rocky Romero*, Serpentico, The Beast Mortos*, The Butcher, Tommy Billington*

Jobbers: Ben Bishop*, GPA*, Kevin Blackwood*, London Lightning*, LSG*, Michael Allen Richard Clark*, MSG*, Rhett Titus*, Shaun Moore*

* - Not listed on the AEW's official roster

Right now the main storylines in this division appear to be: Strickland vs. Danielson; MJF vs. Garcia; Ospreay or MJF vs. PAC; Perry vs. a returning Darby Allin; and Briscoe, Cassidy, and O'Reilly against Strong, Matt Taven, and Mike Bennett. I'm confident Jericho, Big Bill, and Bryan Keith will continue feuding with HOOK, Samoa Joe, and Shibata, but that seems to be on hold (possibly creating room for the teased Jericho vs. Minoru Suzuki program).

Okada and Page seem a bit lost in the shuffle for now, even though they're both in the "blood & guts" double cage match on 7/24, and Okada has a non-title match with Strickland this week. Both men could be set up as challengers for Swerve, but not right away. My guess is they'll just be squashing a lot of undercard guys over the next six weeks.

The Don Callis Family is in a bit of disarray, what with Powerhouse Hobbs and Trent Beretta getting injured, Ospreay leaving the group, and Takeshita about to tour Japan for a month. On 7/13 Callis started an issue with Billington, Cash Wheeler, and Dax Harwood, but as it stands he won't have anybody to back him up against those guys except Kyle Fletcher. So I expect some big moves from Callis, and it'll take more than simply trying to recruit Rush.

Men's tag team division - babyfaces

The Acclaimed - Max Caster & Anthony Bowens

Lucha Bros. - Rey Fenix & Penta El Zero Miedo

Wheeler Yuta (ROH pure champion) & Claudio Castagnoli

Private Party - Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen

Shawn Dean & Carlie Bravo*

Komander (AAA cruiserweight champion) & Metalik*

The Outrunners - Truth Magnum* & Turbo Floyd*

Men's tag team division - heels

The Young Bucks - Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson (AEW tag team champions)

Matt Taven & Mike Bennett (ROH tag team champions)

* - Not listed on the AEW's official roster

The tag division is pretty lopsided, although that doesn't have to be a problem if you're keeping both sets of belts on the two heel teams. But if, for example, the Acclaimed actually dethrone the Young Bucks soon, they're gonna need a mess of heel teams to work with in a hurry. (In theory you could just cannibalize the trios division to fill the void, but I'm not a fan of doing that.)

Five months into AEW's alliance with CMLL, Kommander seems to be the only luchador left in AEW that hasn't severed all ties with CMLL's rival, AAA. I expect he'll either drop the title and stop working for AAA, or he'll gradually get phased out of AEW (which would be a huge mistake in my opinion).

Men's trios division - babyfaces

Juice Robinson & Austin Gunn & Colten Gunn

Malakai Black & Brody King & Buddy Matthews

Darius Martin & Dante Martin & Action Andretti

Men's trios division - heels

The Patriarchy - Christian Cage & Killswitch & Nick Wayne

Cage of Agony - Brian Cage & Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun

Shane Taylor Promotions - Shane Taylor & Anthony Ogogo & Lee Moriarty

Premier Athletes - Josh Woods & Tony Nese & Ariya Daivari

Iron Savages - Boulder* & Bronson* & Jacked Jameson*

* - Not listed on the AEW's official roster

The trios division has been kinda wild lately because a lot of the bigger acts, like Chris Jericho's Learning Tree or Mark Briscoe's Conglomeration, have been nowhere near the trios title. Instead we've had two heel teams--the Patriarchy and the House of Black--chasing a third--Jay White and the Gunns--and two of those three teams are now down a man, so now it's Patriarchy vs. Robinson and the Gunns vying for the vacant title. I'm not even sure if AEW is trying to turn House of Black or the Bang Bang Gang babyface, but it's clearly happening one way or another.

(Technically, Buddy Matthews is out with a storyline injury and has yet to return. But since that was to cover for his legit honeymoon, and since WWE is heavily promoting the return of his wife Rhea Ripley for tonight, I assume Buddy doesn't have anything better to do this week than to stage his own return.)

Women's division - babyfaces

Toni Storm (AEW women's world champion)

Willow Nightingale (CMLL women's world champion)

Thunder Rosa

Hikaru Shida

Queen Aminata

Lady Frost*

Trish Adora*

Leyla Hirsch

Rachael Ellering*

Women's division - heels

Mercedes Mone (AEW TBS champion, STRONG women's champion)

Mariah May

Kris Statlander

Deonna Purrazzo

Skye Blue

Nyla Rose

Saraya

Serena Deeb

Harley Cameron

Anna Jay

Jobbers: Ava Lawless*, Kelly Madan*

* - Not listed on the AEW's official roster

It feels like the women's division is firing on all cylinders lately. We've got four key feuds--Storm vs. May, Mone vs. Britt Baker, Nightingale vs. Statlander, and Rosa vs. Purrazzo--not to mention Athena vs. Aminata and Billie Starkz vs. Red Velvet over in ROH. It also seems like Shida, Nyla, and Skye are being primed to step up when the time comes. This is really good--it feels like a division, and not just the same six women endlessly wrestling each other.

No televised AEW matches in over 30 days: Aaron Solo, Alex Reynolds, Angelo Parker, Bobby Dutch, Brandon Cutler, Diamante, Evil Uno, Griff Garrison, John Silver, Lance Archer, Lee Johnson, Marina Shafir, Taya Valkyrie, Vincent Marseglia

Everybody here is mainly working midcard matches for the ROH tapings. Right now I can't even tell that any of them are being set up for matches in the Death Before Dishonor show on 7/28, which seems like a waste. But all of them are still working regularly, even if you haven't seen them around lately.

No televised AEW or ROH matches in over 30 days: Abadon, Athena (ROH women's world champion), Billy Gunn, Britt Baker, Bryan Keith, Cash Wheeler, Colt Cabana, Danhausen, Darby Allin, Dax Harwood, Dustin Rhodes, Emi Sakura, Jay Lethal, Johnny TV, Kiera Hogan, Kip Sabian, Leila Grey, Madison Rayne, Mercedes Martinez, Nick Comoroto, Peter Avalon, Preston Vance, Red Velvet, Ricky Starks, Sammy Guevara, Satnam Singh, Scorpio Sky, Wardlow

Baker, Harwood, Wheeler, and Allin all just came back to TV. Lethal and Singh have been on-screen supporting Jeff Jarrett, but that's about it. (Singh was recently moved out of the official roster's wrestlers' section to the broadcasters' section, for whatever that's worth.) Athena is doing an angle on ROH where she says she can't wrestle but she has a title match scheduled. Velvet is also booked for the ROH PPV. The Patriarchy clobbered Sabian on TV the other day, but I'm not sure whether that means he'll be doing anything in the near future.

The last I heard about Guevara is that his suspension was lifted some time ago, so I can only assume they haven't come up with a story to bring him back, or they're holding off so he can return alongside Tay Melo. Scorpio has been doing some weird vignettes to set up his return, although I can't remember seeing one in a while. I'm starting to wonder what's up with Wardlow, Starks, and Vance, and at this point I've given up hope Danhausen will ever be back.

No televised AEW or ROH matches in 2024: Dralistico, Luther, Mark Sterling, Michael Nakazawa, Mother Wayne, Paul Wight, Penelope Ford, Prince Nana, Rebel, Sonjay Dutt, Stokely Hathaway

Dralistico and Ford are the only ones on this list that I would expect to see wrestling regularly. Wight is clearly semi-retired, if not retired altogether. Luther, Sterling, Nana, Dutt, and Stokely could wrestle, but they're firmly established as seconds. I can't even remember the last time I saw Nakazawa or Rebel. Shayna Wayne, to my knowledge, has never been a pro wrestler, but I suppose sooner or later the Patriarchy will do a comedy mixed tag match.

Inactive

Adam Cole (left leg - ankle fracture)

Adam Copeland (left leg - tibia fracture)

Angel Ortiz (right shoulder - pectoralis tear)

Bandido (left arm - wrist fracture)

Chuck Taylor (left ankle - necrosis)

Daniel Garcia (storyline - "cervical injuries")

Eddie Kingston (right leg - tibia fracture, ACL/meniscus tear)

HOOK (storyline - fireball to the face)

Jamie Hayter (right shoulder - unspecified injury)

Jay White (storyline - unspecified injury)

Julia Hart (unspecified injury)

Keith Lee (unspecified injury)

Kenny Omega (diverticulitis)

Kota Ibushi (right ankle - multiple ligament tears)

Mark Davis (left arm - wrist fracture)

Matt Sydal (right foot - reconstructive surgery)

Miro (unspecified injury)

Powerhouse Hobbs (right knee - unspecified injury)

Riho (right arm - unspecified fracture)

Ruby Soho (pregnancy)

Samoa Joe (on leave - filming Twisted Metal TV show)

Tay Melo (maternity leave)

Trent Beretta (unspecified injury)

The Blade (lower back - unspecified injury)

Yuka Sakazaki (left leg - unspecified injury)

I don't expect Hook, Jay White, or Garcia to be gone for very long--ideally all three should return to set up grudge matches at Wembley Stadium. I'd say the same for Joe, except I don't know how long it will take to wrap up his filming schedule.

I don't know when Adam Cole will be back, but the fact he took a brainbuster from MJF in May suggests he's coming along pretty well. The big question is what there is for him to return to, now that the guy he turned heel on has also turned heel, and has moved on to new business. So there may be no rush to get him back on-screen, unless they have a story in mind.

Ortiz expects to be back around August. Melo is training for her in-ring return, but I wouldn't know how long that will take. I heard recently that Bandido is getting his wrist re-evaluated, but it's been a tough recovery so I won't be surprised if he's not back soon. I never heard of Copeland tearing any ligaments, so if he just had a broken bone that may not take much longer to recover from, although at his age I think he should take his time.

Everybody else on this list is a total question mark as far as I know. And I think it's worth remembering what Britt Baker recently said about suffering a mini-stroke during her time away. There are a lot of injury reports floating around online, but we never really know everything the wrestlers are going through when they're not on-screen.

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Just finished Peter Benchley’s Amazon. I will miss it… SPOILER ALERT The funny thing is that when I was watching it back in the early 2000′s as a kid I stopped at the episode where one of the characters is having a trippy dream in which she sees herself and the others going back into the city, watching everything going somehow wrong and feeling empty “like nothing that they went through mattered”. I was angry and confused about the story at that age lol, and somehow I though it ended there…? Not sure. Anyways, like ten years later I was surprised to see on youtube that it continued and I think i only watched the rest of the episodes - learned the series is unfinished. Now, I realized I hardly remember anything about the story and watched the whole thing and I’m like oh wow. I somehow got attached to it and I’m gonna miss the characters and all. Naturally every fan thinks it’s a shame that Amazon wasn’t finished. A second season would have been much needed. Questions left unanswered: - Will Karen arrive to civilization and get help to save the others? - Will Jimmy survive? - Will the Chosen be impressed by the found “lost words” a.k.a. the Bible held by Dr. Kenny? - Will Elder Balaam stay stupid like Malakai, continue shit stirring or finally listen to the smarter people? - Will he and Pia get together? (there was obviously something there) - Will Elder Cole continue leading the tribe or will he die? I can see that coming for various reasons. - What will happen to Korakal and his tribe? He’s a far too good character to die. He could be able to lead both tribes, but in any ways Will and Andrew are both on his side. If Falconer John would join them, they could be invincible. - What could the Cannibal Witch plan on next time? (not even sure how much she was injured last time by Andrew’s new year bullets?) - What will happen to Malakai? Seems like he would reign as evil nr. 1 and I can even see him ally with the Cannibal Witch. Or she might just eat him, that’d be definitely better. - What will happen to the Chosen? Anyhow, lots of pressure for the Chosen to keep considering their ways and learn adapting as The Bible possibly won’t be enough to save them. But i think we can all see them still thinking that, and forging any kind of religious belief that will lead them to an inevitable end. Many possibilities.

[ella-error505]

I have a concept for a fanfic that I have to share with someone because I can't get it out of my head, so here goes:

I always see the trope of Amarantha and Rhysand having a daughter, but what if they had a SON.

So, the son was born and died Under the Mountain, Amarantha killed him when he was very young and Rhys never even knew he existed. But, because of the magic that his mother used to trap the High Lords (which is said in the books she doesn't even know what it is or what it does, only that fulfills it's mission) he doesn't die but ends up breaking the barrier between world and falls into another world.

Things happen in between and the boy by chance ends up with his friends in Prythian, and he and Rhys meet. The son ends up living in the Town House, but just part-time because he still spends time with his friends doing their business as people traveling around the multiverse.

To all this, Nyx was already born, the son has hair the color of Amarantha; she killed him leaving him to bleed after tearing off his wings, so now he has scars on his back and since she did not take them out well he suffers from chronic pain because they did not heal well. Rhys doesn't know this, until he sees the scars on his back. Imagine the anguish, his relationship with Nyx which would be a "I wish I had what you have but I want you to have everything at the same time", the drama of succession (because the son is by law of conquest Amarantha's heir and thus could theoretically claim the title of High King of Prithyan if he wishes), And his powers are a consequence of the magic that his mother used when he was born to absorb/eat power and is nicknamed the Cannibal because of that, because he can absorb EVERYTHING from a person if he wants and leave them in ashes.

I CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD and I'm thinking about writing it. Any opinions?

(Character Concept Here)

[ella-error505]

Malakai Magic — Power Adsorption

“The ability to steal other people's power is a rare daring of the multiverse; it is one that is rare to see from birth. But Malakai had been absorbing the power of the world around him ever since he had come into the world. It was like a second pair of lungs. If he inhaled deeply, he could absorb everything from one person, or a dozen if he wanted. But he didn't realize that he was inhaling most of the time because it was a natural physical action of his.

Those lungs were like a black hole that ate everything, and he had only once used the full potential of them.

Malakai didn't want to do it ever again.”

[ella-error505]

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Maella I Targaryen (daughter of Queen Rhaenyra I Targaryen and Ser Laenor Velaryon)

Malakai, The Cannibal (son of Amarantha and Rhys, from Under The Mountain)

Naurind, The Formidable (child of Celebrimbor, only daughter born of the House of Fëanor)