”Violence is art.”
Name: Marianne Chevalier-LaCroixNickname: Manon, the Martial Artiste, the Swan Queen, the Black Swan
Age: 28
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Height:5”9’
Weight: 129 lbs
Birthplace: Paris, France
Entrance Music:
Swan Lake by Dark Moor
Wrestling Information
Strategy: Manon believes that violence is the truest expression of art, and as such, it is never enough for her to simply win a match - she must do so masterfully, elegantly, beautifully, and she will not stop until she is satisfied with her work. She buffets the enemy with an onslaught of precise kicks and throws, whipping them around and keeping them disoriented as she dances around them. She is incredibly quick and agile, moving with an elusive ease, and she strives to do the most damage while taking as little as possible, keeping opponents at a distance with kicks and using her judo to counter them as they get in close.Style: Martial Artist
Type: Striker
Strengths
Manon is a cunning, wild, and merciless opponent. While she gives an outward appearance of grace and beauty, this is merely window-dressing, as she’s as brutal and fierce a fighter as you could ever find. Merciless, her drive to decimate opponents makes her a grueling opponent to fight against, to say nothing of her precision and speed. She’s particularly adept at weaving around opponents and taking advantage of openings. She can counter many attacks, and her flexibility and agility make her difficult to catch, meaning that her opponents must make every hit matter.
Weaknesses
Manon’s drive to fight can cut both ways. While it pushes her to fight, her need to dominate a match means that she will ignore opportunities to win straightaway, giving her foes more chances than they might have against more practical fighters. She’s also a bit lacking in size and weight - while she isn’t weak, she’s on the low end of her wieght class and is easily thrown about once caught. She tends to have the worst time against those who are significantly bigger than her, opponents that can take the punishment she dishes out and hit hard enough to give it back in spades.
Preferred Attacks: Knees, Kicks, Throws, Scissorholds, Chokes
Preferred Matches: Hardcore, NHB, Street Fight, Cage Match, Hardstyle Hentai
Attitude to Hentai: “If violence is art, then it stands to reason that sex is, as well. I am intrigued.”
Signature Match
Bloody Canvas: The match takes place in caged ring with no ropes and a pure white canvas. There are no pinfalls, and the wrestler can only win by submission or knockout after they make their opponent bleed.
Endurance:★★ - Her frame isn’t designed to take too much damage. However, her flexibility can make it hard for many submission moves to work on her.
Strength:★★★ - She’s fit and toned, though not much of a heavy lifter.
Speed:★★★★★ - She’s fast for her height, or any height for that matter.
Defense:★★★★ - An elusive opponent, excels at working her way around attacks..
Technique: ★★★★ - Is a quick learner, being taught by some of the best trainers money can buy
Wrestling Statistics
Strikes: ★★★★★ - Her long limbs and speed make her an ideal striker.
Submissions: ★★★★ - Has a bevy of grounded submissions to work over foes with..
Powerhouse: ★★ - She tends to avoid these, even with smaller opponents.
Aerial: ★★★ - Works well off the ropes, though calling her a high-flyer would be too much.
Counters: ★★★★ - Is an expert at turning attacks to her advantage and exposing weak spots.
Signature Moves:
Flight of the Swan
With an opponent leaning on the ropes in the corner, Manon runs at them, leaps off, kicks off their chest, and flips off to land on her feet in front of them.
Pirouette
Avante-Garde
Manon catches her opponent at the side of their head with a figure-four headlock. She can get into this a number of ways, out of anything that brings her legs near her opponent’s head, making this her most versatile finisher.
Black Swan Fallacy
With an opponent on their knees, Manon wraps her leg around the back of their neck, then falls back and rams their face into the mat with her full weight behind them.
Kani Basemi
While at her opponent’s side, Manon leaps up, captures her opponent’s thighs with a scissor, twists and brings them to the ground. Here, she can go for a bodyscissors or an effective kneebar, getting a submission striaght away.
Denouement
With an opponent on their front or back, Manon brings her leg up for a full split, then falls forwards and drops her leg onto them with full force.Mating Call
It’s rare for opponents to capture Manon’s interest in a more intimate fashion, but when it happens, this is the move she used to finish them off with. The move is effective painful, but also allow her to force pleasure into them with the grinding of her thigh, and she can kiss and lick away at will.
The National Razor
Manon’s most dangerous move, reserved for her most troublesome foes. She gives them a kick to the stomach to drop them to their knees, then backs off, run towards them, leaps up and gives them a powerful axe kick to the back of their neck.Personal Information
Personality
Distant and aloof, Manon often moves as if she’s the only person in the room, because in her mind, she is - or, at least, the only one that matters. She’s been raised to believe that she’s a cut above the rest, that she’s elite and better than the unrefined masses, and she’s taken this philosophy to heart in disturbing ways.
Manon doesn’t look at people as living, breathing beings, but more as tools that she can use for her art. Their bodies are the canvas, her body is the brush, and she seeks to turn them into masterpieces, and she will not be satisfied until her work is complete. If that means battering them and leaving them as an unconscious mess, then so be it, and she lives for the thrill that she gets in dismantling an opponent. In her view, a match is not truly over until one of the fighters in broken, both mentally and physically, and she will go to almost any lengths to reach this point.
Manon doesn’t look at people as living, breathing beings, but more as tools that she can use for her art. Their bodies are the canvas, her body is the brush, and she seeks to turn them into masterpieces, and she will not be satisfied until her work is complete. If that means battering them and leaving them as an unconscious mess, then so be it, and she lives for the thrill that she gets in dismantling an opponent. In her view, a match is not truly over until one of the fighters in broken, both mentally and physically, and she will go to almost any lengths to reach this point.
History
The La-Croix family have a long and storied legacy within French history, with many claiming that they’re descendants of Napoleon Bonaparte himself. While this is the subject of much debate, it’s truth is of little consequence - the La-Croix family believes it, most of their fellow Frenchmen believe it, and they act and expect to be treated as such, often finding themselves as influential people in whatever industry they desire to participate in.
This was the world that Manon was born into, with her parents being one of France’s most celebrated fashion designers. Manon was hailed as something of a prodigy, even at a young age, as she came up with unique designs more readily than many veterans of her craft. She was also a gifted athlete, and she excelled at ballet. While she was haughty and often rude, few could doubt her talent, and she seemed destined to carry her family’s legacy into a new generation.
Marianne, however, cared little for any of it. While she showed promise at her art and was a natural on the runway, she often found the world of fashion to be somewhat lacking. So many smiling faces, telling her what she wanted to hear, sycophants hanging on her every word. So clean and pristine, so fabricated and false. She found herself growing so bored of it all, hating the professions she had been railroaded to without her consent. She wanted a challenge. She wanted to be pushed.
It was perhaps by fate, then, that Marianne found the thing she sought through an accidental search on Google for a college project. She came across a cage fight online was instantly mesmerized by it. She was not so naive as to have never heard of such things, but seeing one, witnessing such a raw, brutal fight, created a spark within her. The visceral cruelty of it. The sweat, the blood, the tears. The emotion of two primed fighters, reducing themselves to beasts. The grand triumph of one and the utter devastation of another.
It was beautiful.
Marianne hired the services of top-level martial artists and began to train in secret, becoming well versed in both judo, tae kwon do, and muy thai over the course of a year, taking to them with the same natural aptitude that she had displayed in other areas, blending all the styles together and mixing them with the same grace and poise she took from ballet. She reached a level suitable for competition with astonishing speed, and began to compete in underground venues, taking up the name of Manon and wearing a mask to give her some air of secrecy. While she didn’t always come out victorious, she won far more often than she lost and improved with every encounter.
Most alarmingly, however, she began to pick up a penchant for going beyond what the matches allowed, never being satisfied with simply winning and preferring to batter her opponents past the brink. It was never enough to simply win - she needed utter destruction.
With this mindset, it was only a matter of time before she would cross the law. After winning an exceptionally tense match with a rival, Manon ignored the referee’s urging and continued the beating after the bell was rung. When the official tried to stop her, she knocked him out with a kick and went back to the mauling, requiring security in the club to break it up. She was sued, and this resulted in her secret ventures coming to light, creating a great scandal that found her disowned from her larger family.
Manon couldn't have cared less. Now addicted to the fight and without the burden of secrecy, she paid off the official and went about seeking more competition. She didn't have to look for long, though, as she had been eying LAW for the longest time, enticed by the prospect of a federation with such strong financial backing and little in the way of legal hurdles. Japan was her next destination…
This was the world that Manon was born into, with her parents being one of France’s most celebrated fashion designers. Manon was hailed as something of a prodigy, even at a young age, as she came up with unique designs more readily than many veterans of her craft. She was also a gifted athlete, and she excelled at ballet. While she was haughty and often rude, few could doubt her talent, and she seemed destined to carry her family’s legacy into a new generation.
Marianne, however, cared little for any of it. While she showed promise at her art and was a natural on the runway, she often found the world of fashion to be somewhat lacking. So many smiling faces, telling her what she wanted to hear, sycophants hanging on her every word. So clean and pristine, so fabricated and false. She found herself growing so bored of it all, hating the professions she had been railroaded to without her consent. She wanted a challenge. She wanted to be pushed.
It was perhaps by fate, then, that Marianne found the thing she sought through an accidental search on Google for a college project. She came across a cage fight online was instantly mesmerized by it. She was not so naive as to have never heard of such things, but seeing one, witnessing such a raw, brutal fight, created a spark within her. The visceral cruelty of it. The sweat, the blood, the tears. The emotion of two primed fighters, reducing themselves to beasts. The grand triumph of one and the utter devastation of another.
It was beautiful.
Marianne hired the services of top-level martial artists and began to train in secret, becoming well versed in both judo, tae kwon do, and muy thai over the course of a year, taking to them with the same natural aptitude that she had displayed in other areas, blending all the styles together and mixing them with the same grace and poise she took from ballet. She reached a level suitable for competition with astonishing speed, and began to compete in underground venues, taking up the name of Manon and wearing a mask to give her some air of secrecy. While she didn’t always come out victorious, she won far more often than she lost and improved with every encounter.
Most alarmingly, however, she began to pick up a penchant for going beyond what the matches allowed, never being satisfied with simply winning and preferring to batter her opponents past the brink. It was never enough to simply win - she needed utter destruction.
With this mindset, it was only a matter of time before she would cross the law. After winning an exceptionally tense match with a rival, Manon ignored the referee’s urging and continued the beating after the bell was rung. When the official tried to stop her, she knocked him out with a kick and went back to the mauling, requiring security in the club to break it up. She was sued, and this resulted in her secret ventures coming to light, creating a great scandal that found her disowned from her larger family.
Manon couldn't have cared less. Now addicted to the fight and without the burden of secrecy, she paid off the official and went about seeking more competition. She didn't have to look for long, though, as she had been eying LAW for the longest time, enticed by the prospect of a federation with such strong financial backing and little in the way of legal hurdles. Japan was her next destination…
Appearance
Full Regale
Striking a pose
Gearing up
Queen of the Catwalk
Before her descent
+ While she isn’t sure she buys into the idea that she’s descended from Napoleon, she is an ardent admirer of the man, and has read his history in extensive detail.
+ Most assume that, as a Frenchwoman, Manon is good at cooking. This couldn't be further from the truth. She always had servants for that, and while she has more than enough money despite being cut off from the family, she can’t afford hired help anymore and quickly learned that she has no talent at all in the kitchen.
+To make some extra funds, Manon designs outfits for other wrestlers.
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