Post by OWC President on Nov 12, 2010 10:21:55 GMT -5
He stands 5" 10' and at 194lbs, you may not think he is a formidable opponent. Yet, there are stupid people born every day and taking him lightly is the stupidest thing you could ever do. Braak is a very handsome man, built small and fast,obviously designed for high flying. His hair reachesdown to his waist and is snow white in colour, whilehis eyes are a disturbingly bright emerald green. He has a tattoo of a black blood drop underneath his left eye, and a tribal spikes tattoo that covers most of the right side of his face, stopping when it reaches his nose. He also has a red chinese dragon tattooed on his back, with it coiled into a circle, eating its own tail. A Japanese symbol is tattooed in the middle of the circle in black, as well. He wears black martial arts trousers which have the chinese dragon starting from the crotch and going down the left leg, and a red blood drop tattooed on the right knee. Outside of the ring he will often wear a T-Shirt of some kind underneath, or an entirely different outfit. He wears black gloves, but the right glove has a strange, triangular wrist band attached which goes up his forearm a ways. Just looking at him you know he is different and in front of him lays a question mark. You will never know WHO he is and spend your life trying to figure him out. He is one of the greatest wrestlers to EVER step foot in the SCWF, he went for two years without one single defeat and you can count on one hand the amount of men who have beat him. His finisher is The Path of Sorrow. Braak usually spits Black Mist into the eyes of his opponent to set this up. He then uses the opponent's thigh and shoulders to guide his knee up into their chin, causing them to stagger onto their knees. He runs into the ropes, then comes off with a brutal knee to the face/head.
(Heel)
Titles held: SCWF World, RRWF World.
Titles held: RRWF
1 time RRWF TV Champion (Vacated)
1 time RRWF World Champion (Vacated both times)
SCWF
1 time SCWF International Champion (Vacated)
2 time SCWF World Champion (lost to Lone Wolf,
Vacated)
Braak became one of the most revered rpers ever in the RRWF, SCWF, OWC. Braak's loyalty was unquestioned as he stayed with the federation through all three transititions and all three changes. Braak's skills by far were the most formidable in my eyes, I never have seen anyone with such striking description and an ablility to draw you into the rp he does quite like HE does. Braak doesn't just write an rp because each work he creates is a work of art, like a an artist with a brush stroke each work striking deeply and hitting home each time. Braak always set high standards for himself and before he lost to Lone Wolf he had been undefeated for over two years. Not ONE loss because even his peers agreed he was one of the best that anyone ever saw. Braak also gave tons of his time to the RRWF, SCWF and OWC. He served as one of the top behind the scenes rp critics for roleplayers and became one of the strongest authorities on how to do it right. Nobody ever questioned that Braak knew what he was talking about because let's face it he did. The rp work he put in was stunning to say the least as pages and pages of work just eminated from this man like it was nothing. Such a stark creative ability is extremely rare and Braak IS and will always be an original to me. He was a vice president and would always do what he said he would and even though he may not crow about it, he was the first English World Champion we have ever had in the RRWF/SCWF. A kind and understanding person out of rp he is, and very supportive and always trying to lend a hand. What better friend could you have asked for in the long run? Braak was one of the last standing soldiers in the first corporation saga and at one time he WAS the corporation as well as his character brought a new line of work to one of the characters that I created named Big Daddy Diamond. Of all the characters Diamond ever managed Braak was the best by far as a wrestler and world champion, his personna was ground breaking as in no man before he came here could make a man of smaller stature seem so formidable. In the age of giants Braak thrived well and went against the norm and came out on top more times than anyone ever did. World Champion? He epitomized the word as he brought the corporation their FIRST and Second World Title and held on to those titles with an iron grip and the only time he ever let them go is when they were vacated. Never before has anyone set a pace like Braak did, and not too many out there could hope to duplicate it. There are great ones and there are simply unbelievable ones and braak transcended that with honor and pride. Who could deny him his place in the Hall of Fame? Not one would deny he belongs here, not ONE would deny that he has busted his chops time and time again for this federation and even when it could have been fashionable for him to leave and go elsewhere, he didn't. To me I can only bow to such an honorable person because had it not been for him perhaps this place would not have been here or been here as long. Braak helped build the legacy through his work, he took on all the past greats and beat ALL the top wrestlers that ever came into the federation. Braak is the kind of man that never pre judged me as a friend and only wanted to rp, have a good time and set a precedent for quality and believe me, Braak did that. One of the hardest things I ever had to face is when he chose to retire from the SCWF to chase his own real life dreams and goals and that was commended and saluted for we all must move on. Yet, if you say rp, if you say great, if you say...LEGEND, make sure the top legend of all time is mentioned when you say it. Braak, they shall speak of you for many years to come and they shall never forget the impact and the sheer ferocity and style you brought to this creative game. So many and yes, yours truly stand in awe of you and your creative and powerful mind. He brought us some of the best competition EVER and drove his opponents into a state of stress trying to compete with him. Nobody could and it's has been and always will be an honor to remember your world titles, your work and you support. Many, many, many thanks great one.
Character history: Braak’s beginnings like in the ultra-humble land of WWF Attitude way back when. He was part of an imaginary stable I based upon The Brood, and he wasn’t even a big player in it. He was the Light Heavyweight component of the stable, no more, no less. He won plenty, but the stable was largely in charge, so that was no surprise. Since that humble beginning, Braak has appeared in every wrestling game I’ve ever owned, has appeared in several stories that I’ve written based on my own imaginary federation, and has been everything from a stable-leading mega heel in N64’s No Mercy to a tag team legend in Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth and Here Comes The Pain, along with his 6’11’’ partner, Edgecrusher.
His rebirth into the e-fedding world occurred late in the year 2001, in the IWF. Nothing of note occurred in it. The federation was so slow, and the booker was a git. I wrestled, and lost, one match, before I got tired and moved elsewhere. Braak then appeared in two versions of the RMWF, and Dusty Thompson’s fed CCWF, while Edgecrusher would go on to great success elsewhere to be a World Champion in NTICW and PCW. It was in CCWF that I came into contact with the president of this federation. Braak didn’t do much in either of these places, in all honesty. There were angles that seemed to be going places, but the promo identity was still developing and to be honest was still a bit weak, which resulted in various losses. After one of them, which proved the maxim that how the booker writes matches IS important, Braak was treated like a jobber despite me promoing harder than any of my opponents in a tag match. Its fine that I lost, as it was supposed to be a tag match and my partner didn’t RP at all, but for the effort I put in I was given NOTHING, and that was that as far as I was concerned. I simply no longer felt like the effort was worth it at that federation. Braak and Edgecrusher did a one-match ramraid of another federation, and won, before Edgecrusher was put onto the backburner, and Braak made his debut into RRWF, the fed two generations removed from this one.
Braak’s appearance in RRWF was belated, due to university holidays, but when he finally appeared, I, as the RPer, had hit gold. Braak was a solid fixture in my mind, and I knew from where he came and where he was going, I knew how he lived his life and why he did what he did. Vaguely. But that’s as good as you can get with this guy. I did not lose a single match throughout the entirety of RRWF’s existence. I sailed through to the TV Title, and after defending it several times vacated it in order to be pushed to the World Title. After winning that it became necessary to drop it due to summer holidays, and upon my return I won it again, defeating Dusty Thompson, Mystic, Nightstalker, Mach, and someone else that I cannot remember. I believe Dusty, who is considered quite legendary on the e-fedding circuit, later lost to me in a singles match, too. Shortly after that, backstage troubles caused RRWF to shut down. It was later reborn as SCWF, and Braak was brought in with the fast track to the main event, based upon his earlier achievements. The one match he lost here was to Lone Wolf, an RPer who, to my personal extreme satisfaction, announced via PM upon his retirement that I was the one who set the bar he RPed towards, and I was the one who defined what it took to be a champion in the federation, because I was ALWAYS the one to beat. I lost, but I think words like that are worth a hell of a lot, and it’s a pity Wolf didn’t go on to be as great a champion as he could have been. Braak won the World Title back in a disappointing six way in which only three people bothered to RP, and the match devolved into Nightstalker vs. Braak, for I believe the fourth time. I would like to say that Nightstalker was a superb opponent, an extremely talented RPer who was with the Boss’ feds for even longer than I was. He never got into the groove until SCWF, though, and he never managed to beat me, either. I hold a total of six victories over him, two in RRWF (one for the TV Title, and one for the World Title), and four in SCWF. But don’t let the stats fool you. He was brilliant, and took me to the limit every time. I think the best thing about the feud was that we built on our past matches to make each and every one mean something else. Then, university ended, I got my degree, and the chances of having internet contact seemed slim. I thus made the decision to retire, and this spot in the hall of fame was kindly offered to me, alongside two other legends from the past, Dr. Shazaam who I never faced, and Diablo whom I fought once only; and beat. It was another of those great matches which I remember fondly.
Throughout the above, I’ve mentioned Braak as a separate entity many times. There is a reason for this. When I RP, I, as a person, take a backseat, and allow Braak, the character, to take control. I often have little say on what he does or says, and have only the barest amount of directive influence over the content and meaning behind his words. Braak’s one of the rarest of the rare: A living, breathing character who does his own thing and couldn’t give a ****** what I as his handler have to say about it. It has, and perhaps will be, an honour to work with him, win, lose, or draw.
This brings on the question, WHO is he? WHY is he? What was it about him that made him so ****** successful? Really, I think, that’s what you’re reading this to find out, surely? Well, the answer’s not especially simple, but it’s instructive.
Braak was an enigma. That was his defining feature, and his greatest weapon. You never quite knew where he was coming from, or from what angle he would attack. Insults fell off him like water off a duck’s back, yet his replies were usually deeply cutting and effective. Why? Because Braak was smart. Braak didn’t attack people’s bodies, he attacked their minds. He laughed at their achievements and ripped holes into their personalities, using quirks of speech and manner to fuel the fire that burnt their houses down as he drove them wild with anger by refusing to play their games, all the time making them play his. Braak was emotionally cold, heartless, cruel, and viciously practical. He knew how to win matches. He would beat down the unpinnable and pin the indestructible, never trying to meet an opponent on turf they could win on, always trying to wrongfoot them and take the angle they hadn’t covered. Most importantly, he never allowed pointless anger to overwhelm him. If he was angered, that anger became a cold, hard power source that drove him on to humiliate his opponents all the more, because the one thing he knew for sure, was that his opponents hated losing to him. And of course, they lost to him a hell of a lot.
In IC (In-Character) background, Braak was born in Japan, a peculiar thing to note since he is clearly Western. He is decidedly not normal, and has exhibited supernatural powers on various occasions, nothing so gauche as fireballs and lightning bolts, mind; more subtle manipulations of the world, making things go his way, and also he seems to be able to be invisible to normal people. All of this apparently stems from something he calls The Flux. What exactly The Flux is, nobody’s sure about, not even him. It seems to be some kind of quasi relgious/philosophical belief in fate and destiny, though whether Braak is simply insane or not is yet to be determined. Regardless of such issues, Braak is seemingly motivated purely to fulfill the objectives he believes The Flux requires of him. These objectives have taken Braak throughout the wrestling business, and the objective seems mostly to consist of being the best he can be. At times Braak has demonstrated an almost insane devotion to this entity/force, at others he seems self-motivated and extremely random. But in all things he is mysterious, philosophical and soft-spoken.
(Heel)
Titles held: SCWF World, RRWF World.
Titles held: RRWF
1 time RRWF TV Champion (Vacated)
1 time RRWF World Champion (Vacated both times)
SCWF
1 time SCWF International Champion (Vacated)
2 time SCWF World Champion (lost to Lone Wolf,
Vacated)
Braak became one of the most revered rpers ever in the RRWF, SCWF, OWC. Braak's loyalty was unquestioned as he stayed with the federation through all three transititions and all three changes. Braak's skills by far were the most formidable in my eyes, I never have seen anyone with such striking description and an ablility to draw you into the rp he does quite like HE does. Braak doesn't just write an rp because each work he creates is a work of art, like a an artist with a brush stroke each work striking deeply and hitting home each time. Braak always set high standards for himself and before he lost to Lone Wolf he had been undefeated for over two years. Not ONE loss because even his peers agreed he was one of the best that anyone ever saw. Braak also gave tons of his time to the RRWF, SCWF and OWC. He served as one of the top behind the scenes rp critics for roleplayers and became one of the strongest authorities on how to do it right. Nobody ever questioned that Braak knew what he was talking about because let's face it he did. The rp work he put in was stunning to say the least as pages and pages of work just eminated from this man like it was nothing. Such a stark creative ability is extremely rare and Braak IS and will always be an original to me. He was a vice president and would always do what he said he would and even though he may not crow about it, he was the first English World Champion we have ever had in the RRWF/SCWF. A kind and understanding person out of rp he is, and very supportive and always trying to lend a hand. What better friend could you have asked for in the long run? Braak was one of the last standing soldiers in the first corporation saga and at one time he WAS the corporation as well as his character brought a new line of work to one of the characters that I created named Big Daddy Diamond. Of all the characters Diamond ever managed Braak was the best by far as a wrestler and world champion, his personna was ground breaking as in no man before he came here could make a man of smaller stature seem so formidable. In the age of giants Braak thrived well and went against the norm and came out on top more times than anyone ever did. World Champion? He epitomized the word as he brought the corporation their FIRST and Second World Title and held on to those titles with an iron grip and the only time he ever let them go is when they were vacated. Never before has anyone set a pace like Braak did, and not too many out there could hope to duplicate it. There are great ones and there are simply unbelievable ones and braak transcended that with honor and pride. Who could deny him his place in the Hall of Fame? Not one would deny he belongs here, not ONE would deny that he has busted his chops time and time again for this federation and even when it could have been fashionable for him to leave and go elsewhere, he didn't. To me I can only bow to such an honorable person because had it not been for him perhaps this place would not have been here or been here as long. Braak helped build the legacy through his work, he took on all the past greats and beat ALL the top wrestlers that ever came into the federation. Braak is the kind of man that never pre judged me as a friend and only wanted to rp, have a good time and set a precedent for quality and believe me, Braak did that. One of the hardest things I ever had to face is when he chose to retire from the SCWF to chase his own real life dreams and goals and that was commended and saluted for we all must move on. Yet, if you say rp, if you say great, if you say...LEGEND, make sure the top legend of all time is mentioned when you say it. Braak, they shall speak of you for many years to come and they shall never forget the impact and the sheer ferocity and style you brought to this creative game. So many and yes, yours truly stand in awe of you and your creative and powerful mind. He brought us some of the best competition EVER and drove his opponents into a state of stress trying to compete with him. Nobody could and it's has been and always will be an honor to remember your world titles, your work and you support. Many, many, many thanks great one.
Character history: Braak’s beginnings like in the ultra-humble land of WWF Attitude way back when. He was part of an imaginary stable I based upon The Brood, and he wasn’t even a big player in it. He was the Light Heavyweight component of the stable, no more, no less. He won plenty, but the stable was largely in charge, so that was no surprise. Since that humble beginning, Braak has appeared in every wrestling game I’ve ever owned, has appeared in several stories that I’ve written based on my own imaginary federation, and has been everything from a stable-leading mega heel in N64’s No Mercy to a tag team legend in Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth and Here Comes The Pain, along with his 6’11’’ partner, Edgecrusher.
His rebirth into the e-fedding world occurred late in the year 2001, in the IWF. Nothing of note occurred in it. The federation was so slow, and the booker was a git. I wrestled, and lost, one match, before I got tired and moved elsewhere. Braak then appeared in two versions of the RMWF, and Dusty Thompson’s fed CCWF, while Edgecrusher would go on to great success elsewhere to be a World Champion in NTICW and PCW. It was in CCWF that I came into contact with the president of this federation. Braak didn’t do much in either of these places, in all honesty. There were angles that seemed to be going places, but the promo identity was still developing and to be honest was still a bit weak, which resulted in various losses. After one of them, which proved the maxim that how the booker writes matches IS important, Braak was treated like a jobber despite me promoing harder than any of my opponents in a tag match. Its fine that I lost, as it was supposed to be a tag match and my partner didn’t RP at all, but for the effort I put in I was given NOTHING, and that was that as far as I was concerned. I simply no longer felt like the effort was worth it at that federation. Braak and Edgecrusher did a one-match ramraid of another federation, and won, before Edgecrusher was put onto the backburner, and Braak made his debut into RRWF, the fed two generations removed from this one.
Braak’s appearance in RRWF was belated, due to university holidays, but when he finally appeared, I, as the RPer, had hit gold. Braak was a solid fixture in my mind, and I knew from where he came and where he was going, I knew how he lived his life and why he did what he did. Vaguely. But that’s as good as you can get with this guy. I did not lose a single match throughout the entirety of RRWF’s existence. I sailed through to the TV Title, and after defending it several times vacated it in order to be pushed to the World Title. After winning that it became necessary to drop it due to summer holidays, and upon my return I won it again, defeating Dusty Thompson, Mystic, Nightstalker, Mach, and someone else that I cannot remember. I believe Dusty, who is considered quite legendary on the e-fedding circuit, later lost to me in a singles match, too. Shortly after that, backstage troubles caused RRWF to shut down. It was later reborn as SCWF, and Braak was brought in with the fast track to the main event, based upon his earlier achievements. The one match he lost here was to Lone Wolf, an RPer who, to my personal extreme satisfaction, announced via PM upon his retirement that I was the one who set the bar he RPed towards, and I was the one who defined what it took to be a champion in the federation, because I was ALWAYS the one to beat. I lost, but I think words like that are worth a hell of a lot, and it’s a pity Wolf didn’t go on to be as great a champion as he could have been. Braak won the World Title back in a disappointing six way in which only three people bothered to RP, and the match devolved into Nightstalker vs. Braak, for I believe the fourth time. I would like to say that Nightstalker was a superb opponent, an extremely talented RPer who was with the Boss’ feds for even longer than I was. He never got into the groove until SCWF, though, and he never managed to beat me, either. I hold a total of six victories over him, two in RRWF (one for the TV Title, and one for the World Title), and four in SCWF. But don’t let the stats fool you. He was brilliant, and took me to the limit every time. I think the best thing about the feud was that we built on our past matches to make each and every one mean something else. Then, university ended, I got my degree, and the chances of having internet contact seemed slim. I thus made the decision to retire, and this spot in the hall of fame was kindly offered to me, alongside two other legends from the past, Dr. Shazaam who I never faced, and Diablo whom I fought once only; and beat. It was another of those great matches which I remember fondly.
Throughout the above, I’ve mentioned Braak as a separate entity many times. There is a reason for this. When I RP, I, as a person, take a backseat, and allow Braak, the character, to take control. I often have little say on what he does or says, and have only the barest amount of directive influence over the content and meaning behind his words. Braak’s one of the rarest of the rare: A living, breathing character who does his own thing and couldn’t give a ****** what I as his handler have to say about it. It has, and perhaps will be, an honour to work with him, win, lose, or draw.
This brings on the question, WHO is he? WHY is he? What was it about him that made him so ****** successful? Really, I think, that’s what you’re reading this to find out, surely? Well, the answer’s not especially simple, but it’s instructive.
Braak was an enigma. That was his defining feature, and his greatest weapon. You never quite knew where he was coming from, or from what angle he would attack. Insults fell off him like water off a duck’s back, yet his replies were usually deeply cutting and effective. Why? Because Braak was smart. Braak didn’t attack people’s bodies, he attacked their minds. He laughed at their achievements and ripped holes into their personalities, using quirks of speech and manner to fuel the fire that burnt their houses down as he drove them wild with anger by refusing to play their games, all the time making them play his. Braak was emotionally cold, heartless, cruel, and viciously practical. He knew how to win matches. He would beat down the unpinnable and pin the indestructible, never trying to meet an opponent on turf they could win on, always trying to wrongfoot them and take the angle they hadn’t covered. Most importantly, he never allowed pointless anger to overwhelm him. If he was angered, that anger became a cold, hard power source that drove him on to humiliate his opponents all the more, because the one thing he knew for sure, was that his opponents hated losing to him. And of course, they lost to him a hell of a lot.
In IC (In-Character) background, Braak was born in Japan, a peculiar thing to note since he is clearly Western. He is decidedly not normal, and has exhibited supernatural powers on various occasions, nothing so gauche as fireballs and lightning bolts, mind; more subtle manipulations of the world, making things go his way, and also he seems to be able to be invisible to normal people. All of this apparently stems from something he calls The Flux. What exactly The Flux is, nobody’s sure about, not even him. It seems to be some kind of quasi relgious/philosophical belief in fate and destiny, though whether Braak is simply insane or not is yet to be determined. Regardless of such issues, Braak is seemingly motivated purely to fulfill the objectives he believes The Flux requires of him. These objectives have taken Braak throughout the wrestling business, and the objective seems mostly to consist of being the best he can be. At times Braak has demonstrated an almost insane devotion to this entity/force, at others he seems self-motivated and extremely random. But in all things he is mysterious, philosophical and soft-spoken.