Name: Arlise Christiaens
Ring Name(s): Titania, and for a short time, wrestled as the "Battle Bunny" (and still does when she feels like it)
Nicknames: Lise
Age: 23
Hair Color: Red
Eye Color: Gray
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 153 lbs.
Class: Middleweight
Entrance Music: The Crownless Queen
Alignment: Tweener
Nationality: Belgian
Arena Outfit 1
Arena Outfit 2
Bikini/Alternate Outfit for Mats, Apartment, etc.
Tactics: 7/10 - Usually picks the right move for the situation, but oftentimes, she overthinks to her detriment.
Strength: 9/10 - For her height and weight, she is notably powerful and can lift heavyweights.
Speed: 5/10 - Not especially fast, but quick and graceful like a dancer in limited space.
Endurance: 8/10 - She can take plenty of punishment due to a thick frame and powerful will.
Sexuality: 5/10 - Alluring and saucy when she has control, but not overbearing. Immensely quick to distraction when not.
Charisma: 8/10 - Charming, graceful in the spotlight, and alluring; not the best speaker but good enough.
High-Flying: 2/10 - Rare, and usually, it's something simple like a butt drop.
Striking: 6/10 - Not a great striker, but good enough to hold her own unless the opponent is martially trained.
Powerhouse: 8/10 - Her strength, thick frame, and technique can make her powerhouse moves devastating.
Submissions: 10/10 - A top-tier submission expert who can squeeze and smother with the best of them.
Counters: 5/10 - Improved, but struggles to think when trapped and tends to try to withstand rather than escape holds.
Technique: 9/10 - Near every throw and submission hold looks picture perfect.
Wrestling Style: Classic grappling/apartment wrestling
Wrestling Strategy: Arlise wants to use her above-average strength (especially for her size) and athleticism in a variety of ways. Her primary tactic involves staying in close with an opponent and maintaining hand and body contact to snatch opponents into technically sound power moves and submissions. However, she does rely on some agility against heavy hitters. If faced with striking, Lise unleashes more blows, knees, and kicks to the center of the body than wider swings that leave her exposed. Only on rare occasions will she take to the turnbuckle. Though a clean wrestler, Lise is prone to using her body for...distraction, if she has the inclination, and can (sometimes inadvertently) taunt.
Favored/Signature Moves:
Suplexes
Tombstone/Kneeling Piledrivers
Keister Bounce
Quick Body/Headscissors
Breast Smothers
Double Toed Leglock
Stomach Claws
Finishing Move/s:
Falling Starlight: A variation on the Royal Butterfly where, instead of tucking the opponent's head near her shoulder/armpit, Lise lets their face rest against her chest in a smother for a few seconds before she shifts to execute the throw.
Here, without the smother
Here
Her composure does not always hold up, however. Because of her determination to gain respect as one of the best, Lise has a tendency to overly push herself when on the receiving end of an opponent's onslaught, leading most of her matches to end with her knocked out or generally unable to move. A touch of masochism may also play into this tendency. Her success (and sometimes her health) can be hindered by these traits.
Her high intelligence, however, pins her with some...eccentricities. Lise has a tough time "escaping her own head," as it were, and may be prone to distractions and fascinations both in everyday life and right in the middle of her matches. These can include fussing endlessly over the clothes she chooses to wear, becoming enraptured by exceptionally attractive or interesting people, and very nearly forcing friends to share her interests, which can all or in part be attributed to her unfortunate upbringing. Also, she lacks a proper social filter, and makes shameless and saucy comments to anyone and everyone.
History: Arlise knew little about the father who spent most of his life in jail a couple of years after her mother gave birth to her. The important parts, that she shouldn't be like him and that she would have to be an adult early in life to help her mother, she quickly figured out on her own. Arlise was a bright student, diligent around the house, and aggressive with those who taunted her just because of her father's reputation. With an older sister who she saw as too much of a rebel to be helpful, she had to mature early, and she did so for the most part, minus the emotional outbursts she would tend to have. The tendency of her mom to appease her older sister only added to these outbursts. She began to soothe her temper by participating in sports, and including those where she could compete against those who were bigger and stronger.
Among these sports, wrestling became her passion. Her focus on other sports and activities dwindled in favor of wrestling when Lise started working some small-time jobs, and while she couldn't dedicate all the time to training that she wanted, she nonetheless became a serious competitor since she could easily pick up new techniques and keep focused on her matches when others were more prone to distraction. She lost the opportunity to have many friends during this busy time of her life, but when the door opened for her to wrestle for money, she had no complaints. Still living quietly with her mother, whereas her sister, also a wrestler herself, had moved on, Lise nonetheless became a fixture at a local promotion, which she utterly dominated.
She became regional, using her earnings to help her mother emerge from their meager circumstances, to buy an apartment of her own, and to dote on herself for the first time in her life with as many material possessions as she could afford. Maintaining her position and respect as a headliner for years, the League of Anime Wrestling soon came with an inquiry as to her interest in a contract. Despite the complaints of the regional promoters and their efforts to keep her in place, Arlise decided that she would take the next step, and accepted the opportunity.
Facts/Quirks:
- Struggled mightily to learn English initially and nearly made herself sick trying to learn it on into her upper teens. This is still a sore point for her, and even now, she has an occasional issue with stiff speech or slightly misplaced words.
- Despite this English struggle, she speaks French and German as well, and quite fluently. Dutch she can understand but not speak.
- Her eccentricities likely come from a psychological issue, easily explained by the uneven upbringing that she had to endure. Attachment issues, lack of focus, and masochism seem to be common for those in her situation.
- She owns two iguanas, Salvatore and Gotchi. They are surprisingly large, and she picked them out for this very reason.
(1) Arlise Christiaens vs. Lauren Fredericks - (Official Victory by Pinfall, via Heart's Cross) - In her debut, Arlise earns a win against a woman thirty pounds heavier, by beating her at her own game (complete).
(2) Not So in the Past - On her way to a celebratory shower backstage after her debut, Arlise wanders into a conversation with a veteran, makes a comment that is needlessly saucy for no good reason (as she does), and gets herself another match set for later in the month (complete).
(3) Fit Like a Prince(ss) - (Unofficial Victory by Submission, via Bodyscissors) - The bragging of some guy Arlise assumes dropped in from the soup kitchen leads her to try and put him in his place, though their spar leads to a feeling of mutual respect (complete).
(4) Arlise Christiaens Vs. Mizaki Tantka: A Bounce, a Smother, and a Tapout - (Official Loss by Knockout, via Breast Smother) - With the people in charge learning of Arlise's bunny-related past and noting how well...endowed she is, she gets placed in a potentially fun and potentially awkward match with a woman right around her size. Unfortunately for her, her opponent's body gets the best of her, mentally and physically (complete).
(5) Never Surrender - Needing the grappling practice after her most recent bout, Arlise sets up an ad for other LAW wrestlers and is visited by a beautiful Brit newcomer seeking pointers (complete).
(6) Arlise vs. the Amazon - (Official Loss by Knockout, via Headscissors) - After the weeks have passed, Arlise gets her submission match against a veteran she watched when she was young. Off her game from her recent loss and from having a little too much fun outside of the ring, she is dismantled to the point of developing something of a fear for the Amazon's violence (complete).
(8) We're Doing What Now?: Domino vs. Arlise Christiaens - (Official Loss by Pinfall) - Arlise forgoes a return to the ring after her recent struggles to instead do battle with a man in one of her strongest realms, apartment wrestling, in a high-stakes prisoner of war match (complete)
(9) Owning Her Shadow - With her record bad enough to leave her flirting with the title of "rookie bust," Arlise is compelled to complete a psychological evaluation by LAW administrator (complete).
(10) Official Match vs. Peggy McIntyre - Note: Ended due to gap in time between posts, but still recorded as a win at Highfly's courtesy (cancelled/complete).
(11) Official Match vs. Sayako Jun - (Official Win by Submission, via Heart's Crush) - An angered Arlise, a rare sight, gives a loudmouth her just desserts by crushing her with the exact "Belgian ass" she so easily insulted.
