Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2017 20:05:17 GMT -5
#OOC: Hope you all enjoy reading this! ^__^
“We are each our own Devil, and we make this world our hell.”
- Oscar Wilde
The video package began with those words, written in English in delicate, seemingly handwritten white text, before it was replaced by a segment of a show held in Tokyo’s famed Korakuen Hall. The venue was filled to capacity wrestling fans, cheering and booing in equal parts for the young Japanese woman standing in the centre of the ring, clad in her ring gear.
That woman was Sara Yoshiko Saint, also known as Saint Saito.
“Omae wa...” she yelled into the microphone in her hand, before she paused and stared at the crowd, seemingly annoyed that they wanted to join in on the use of her catchphrase. She was wagging her finger at them when the video suddenly cut to another segment of a show, this one at Ryougoku Kokugikan, and Saint Saito was dressed in jeans and a black t-shirt with the word #SaitoClan emblazoned across it. Saito sat in the corner of the ring, the camera hovering for a close-up and she grinned wryly as she looked up at the bright lights hanging above her, playing with the tongue of her black baseball cap as she was about to speak into the microphone.
“...Omae wa...” she began, sounding amused as she spoke. Then, the video cut to another segment of Saint Saito, this time standing in the centre of the ring at the Tokyo Dome, again dressed in her ring gear. Around her waist was a large golden belt, filthy and covered in dents and scratches as though it’s holder held very little respect for it. In her hand, yet again, was a microphone, into which she spoke.
“Omae wa mou...” she said angrily, her voice carrying across the entire venue as she strode toward the black ring ropes and climbed the middle one. As she moved, music--”Fuck You” by Archive--began to play over the video. “SHIN! DEI! RU!!” Saito finished, glaring hotly at the camera as it filmed her before she climbed down the rope and beat her chest a couple of times and raised her arm in triumph. The video then cut to a close up to the young woman’s face, as Saito stared into the lens and slowly cocked her head to the side before it cut to her walking down the ramp at some venue, some show, dressed smartly in a white blouse and dark suit and smirking.
There’s a look on your face
I would like to knock out
See the sin in your grin
And the shape of your mouth
All I want is to see you
In terrible pain
Though we won’t ever meet
I remember your name
The video cut to Saito wearing that same suit, standing above some fallen wrestler with a bloodied face, one of her feet pressing down on his chest as she stares down at him, grinning. Cut to a shot of the young woman walking toward the ring at Korakuen Hall, dressed in her ring gear and a black #SaitoClan t-shirt and baseball cap. She suddenly ended her stride and looked at a little boy wearing the same t-shirt and cap ensemble, and she smirked at him. Her hand balled into a fist as she raised it into the air, and slowly brought it down to brush against the child’s waiting fist. Cut to another shot of Saito walking down the ramp at some big venue, clad in red ring gear and the hood of a beautiful looking red robe pulled across her head. With her Aunt Sumie walking behind her, Saint Saito took her journey toward the ring like she owned it, like she owned the person waiting inside of it, and the look in her eye suggested that she intended to make that fact known.Can’t believe you were once
Just like anyone else
Then you grew and became
Like the Devil himself
Pray to God, I think of…
A nice thing to say
But I don’t think I can...
So fuck you, anyway
Suddenly, the video cut to Saito in the ring, struggling with another woman who forced her to the ropes. The referee moved quickly to break the two away from each other, and Saito soon held her hands up and allowed the referee to move her opponent away. It wasn’t even a second later that Saito spat in her opponent’s face. When the video cut to another scene, it was of the young Japanese woman arguing with somebody on a commentary team. Their words were drowned in silence over the lyrics of the song that played, but one could tell that the commentator was growing angrier with each second that Saito spoke, before she suddenly spat in his eye and then leapt over the commentary table, raining forearms across his face as officials worked to separate the two.You are scum, you are scum
And I hope that you know
That the cracks in your smile
Are beginning to show
Now the world needs to see
That it’s time you should go
There’s no light in your eyes
And your brain is too slow
The video shifted to a scene where Saito was ringside, dressed in her civilian clothing as she walked the length of the ring, and then suddenly swept the referee’s leg out from under him with her hand before walking away, whistling as though she had done nothing wrong. She was back in the ring when the video cut to another scene, perched on the top turnbuckle as her opponent charged, fist at the ready. Saito caught the oncoming blow and then fell backwards, threading the arm in her grasp between her legs and locking it in place as she laid there, suspended upside down, and her opponent silently screamed in the agony this rope-hung version of a juji-gatame--Saito’s ‘Seijin Saitogatame’--was inflicting on her. Afterwards, moments later, the scene cut to a young woman kneeling in the centre of a ring, trying to shield herself as Saito repeatedly hammered her in the chest with shoot kicks, hard enough that perhaps they threatened to cave it in. Saito suddenly stopped, and then screamed in her opponent’s face before she violently knocked her down with a roundhouse kick to the head that was fast enough to almost not be seen.
Can’t believe you were once
Just like anyone else
Then you grew and became
Like the Devil himself
Pray to God, I can think of
A nice thing to say
But I don’t think I can
So fuck you, anyway
Saito was lying on the mat in the next shot, her opponent--a young man--lying beside her and clearly dazed. She looked at the camera and smirked, and spoke as though she were having a casual conversation with a friend. The video then cut to the same match, in which the young man slung the Japanese girl across the ring with an Irish whip, and had a lariat at the ready for her when she suddenly rolled under his arm and laid lazily on her side with her head resting on one hand and the other covering her mouth, yawning as though she were bored with the match and with him. She did something similar in the next shot, where Saito was whipped into the corner, but instead of hitting the large corner pad she pulled herself over it and lazily laid across it, yawning at her opponent.
Bet you sleep like a child
With your thumb in your mouth
I could creep up beside
Put a gun in your mouth
Makes me sick when I hear
All the shit that you say
So much crap coming out
It must take you all day
Saito was arguing with a fan in the next shot, and had to be pulled away by the referee lest things came to blows. Things still came to blows, when Saito shoved the referee back and then spat in his face. The video then cut to the same close up of the young woman’s face, head cocked to one side. She slowly cocked her head to the other side as she still stared into the camera, before the video suddenly cut to a shot of her repeatedly driving her knee into the midsection of some poor young man. She eventually stopped, and then roughly shoved him down onto the mat when the video cut to a new scene. Another young woman, sitting in the corner and crying her eyes out as Saito knelt before her on one knee, dressed in red track pants and another black #SaitoClan t-shirt. She held a microphone to her lips as she berated the other young woman, the words unheard over the music. It wasn’t long before Saito slapped the poor girl in the face in between sentences, nor was it long before she suddenly rose to her feet and booted her in the face.
There’s a space kept in Hell
With your name on the seat
With a spike in the chair
Just to make it complete
When you look at yourself
Do you see what I see?
If you do, why the fuck
Are you looking at me?
When the video cut to another scene, it was of Saint Saito charging a man in the corner and taking a leap to drive her knee into his face--a variation of her finishing move, the ‘Saito Smash.’ The scene quickly cut to Saito doing the same to another man in another match in another venue, and the same again to another woman. All three opponents fell into sitting positions against the thick corner pad as Saito backed away from each of them before the video cut to quick shots of Saito charging them again and hitting them with a second Saito Smash to their faces. Then, the video cut to quick shots of Saito grabbing her opponents by the head, jumping, and then driving her knee into their faces with more Saito Smashes, and then to a shot of a young man standing ringside with his leg trapped in steel guardrail. Saito took a running start and leapt in the air and smashed into his trapped leg with a shotgun dropkick--’Saito Kurasshu,’ a shout out to her mother, Emi Saito--and then it cut to a shot of Saito doing the same move again in the ring, crashing into the face of another one of her opponents, and again on a third who sat in the corner.
Why the fuck are you looking at me?
Me?
Why the fuck are you looking at me?
Why the fuck
Why the fuck are you looking at me?
Why the fuck
Why the fuck are you looking at me?
“You...” Saito said into the camera, suddenly speaking English as the video cut back to the close-up of her face. She kept on staring intently through the lens for just a brief moment, before she spoke again.
“You are already dead.”
And with that, the young woman known as Saint Saito broke into an amused chuckle which grew into roaring laughter within moments, and then, very suddenly, the video package finally cut into blackness.