"Only weaklings call others weak!"
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Basic Info
Name - Saoyama Saori ___________________________________________________________
Basic Info
Ring Name - Jungle Princess, Eagle Saori
Age - 19
Hair Color - Red
Eye Color - Green
Height - 4' 10" (149 cm)
Weight - 99 lbs. (45 kg)
Nationality - Japanese
Twitter Handle: @JungleFeva (No Link)
Stable/Tag Team: N/A
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Wrestling Info
Entrance Music - Evolutionary MechanizationWrestling Info
Alignment - Tweener
Fighting Style - With her background in Muay Thai and other martial arts, Saori is a fast, hard-hitting striker that uses kicks, knees, elbows, and overall aggression to overwhelm her opponent as she bounces around the ring and attacks her opponent from all sides, finishing them off with a solid kick or knee strike.
Type - Striker with some minor grappling (Muay Thai & Wrestling)
Basic Moveset - Knee Strikes, an Array of Kicks, Elbow Strikes, Clotheslines & Lariats, DDTs
Strengths - Saori's greatest strength is her speed and ability to overwhelm her opponent with fast strikes from unexpected angles that wear them down until a pin or knockout. While she isn't too strong, she's stronger than most give her size and build credit for and is adept at a few basic throws and submissions that can catch an opponent off guard once they get use to her speedy antics. She's a small gal with a lot of ways to surprise someone and capitalizes off that shock.
Weaknesses - Like with many that depend on their speed, Saori's striking power is rather weak unless she's built up momentum with the ropes or takes to the air. Being small and light even compared to her fellow lightweights also means she's easy to toss around and is a prime target for hard-hitting power moves even within her own weight class.
Signature Move(s)
- N/A:
Finishing move(s)
- Jungle Knee: A jumping knee strike done to a groggy opponent's jaw. Often followed up immediately with a pin as her opponent loses consciousness.
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Personal Info
Appearance:Personal Info
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Personality: Saori is your typical hothead. She's hyper, hot-blooded, and quick to lose her temper when she gets too excited. She has a real passion for wrestling and giving effort to things, hating it when those around her aren't trying or holding themselves back in their training or matches proper. She's competitive, rushes for victory, and takes any risk if it can give her a shot at a win.
Though in her Jungle Princess persona Saori tends to behave more like a typical wild child than a trained fighter.
History: Saori grew up with one goal in mind: to be a big, strong, and rugged wrestler like the ones she saw on TV. Every since she was young Saori was enamored by the flashy and confident Joshi wrestlers of the wrestler world. Large and power women that could take a beating and give on back. To the small Saori, seeing such women charged her into training her body to reach their level and entertain the world with her physical prowess. And to that end she did all she could to bulk herself up.Training in gyms, eating a special diet, and so on. She was lucky in a number of ways throughout her young life, able to take Muay Thai lessons from a former champion that lived in her area, and even getting a chance to be the attendant of a veteran wrestler overseas in Brazil before eventually debuting in the country herself. And under her Jungle Princess persona, Saori was a rising star within the Brazilian circuits, both popular and having a few accomplished matches under her belt.
However... she was still tiny.
Saori was talented, had plenty of potential, and racked up a fair amount of wins in Brazil. But despite her training and attempts at putting on weight and muscle her metabolism and overall training regiment never let her even break 100 pounds, nor did she even break five feet in terms of height. She was the lightest of lightweights, much to her chagrin. And even with her accolades in Brazil, she couldn't hide her annoyance at her own body as she left the country. Though once she came back to Japan she learned of LAW, especially noticing its lightweight division and how vibrant it was in terms of wrestlers and personalities. She saw a chance there. She wouldn't be the only shortest one in such a league, and she wouldn't just be seen as a cute face with a tribal gimmick either. She could make a name for herself, and with that thought in mind she took her Jungle Princess persona and auditioned for LAW, nailing a place as midcard wrestler.
Extra Facts:
- Knows a fair amount of Portuguese and tends to slip into it when annoyed.
- Saori is known to hunt and eat wild animals in forest and beaches, and is surprisingly knowledgeable in survival skills.
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Record
0 - 2 - 0
Record
0 - 2 - 0
- LOSE vs. Cassandra (Submission via Soul Torque)
Spoiler
The Jungle Princess takes on the Butterfly fighter, Psyche, in a double-debut match. Though the standard match turned hardcore as blows were traded, blood of spilled, and a chair made its way into the ring, ending with Saori's losing the match, but gaining a new sister-in-arms. - SOCIAL - Tokyo Night Encounter (w/ Cassandra Selinofoto)
Spoiler
In a chance meeting, Saori catches up with her Sister-in-Arms a few days after their match, growing their friendship through friendly competition that soon turns into a tense (if childish) declaration of a future rematch. - LOSS - vs. Yuzuha (Neck Ruiner followed by Pinfall)
Spoiler
A no-holds-barred match between lightweights immediately gets bloody and brutal as Saori takes on an opponent that matches both her size and perchance for ruthless brutality as the two push each other to the limit before her opponent puts down the Jungle Princess for the 3-count, leaving Saori with a bitter taste and a need for revenge.
___________________________________________________________Author's Notes - This is my first time taking a canon character so... not sure where to go with Saori here yet. She's from the Wrestle Angel series, which tends to have mostly standard matches with a bit of backstage drama for flare, but I'm clueless on the series and character save for some google translate descriptions. For now, she's another all-rounder in my roster that's willing to do almost any match.
Plot Ideas/Preferences
Recommended Matches - Standard, I Quit, Hardcore