Your 2019 SCW goals, plans and targets.

[Ruppy]

Might as well throw myself into this.

For Blackbourne, I just want to keep him moving forward and seeing what more I can do with him. I'll be honest, it's been a very long time since I've had this much fun writing a character, from pushing the limits of my imagination to keep building up his "demon army" and how he presents them all to his struggles dealing with what's happening in reality and what's happening in his own imagination as two different sides to the same coin. Even though the initial idea behind him was "E-Wrestler Me 2.0" it feels refreshing to have been able to hit the ground running with a character that's not Thirteen or my old Aaron Rupp/D'Aubergine character (version 1) since my last attempt to do this, Brett Sinclaire, kind of fell apart a bit when I brought him here after VWA's closure. I'd love to be able to add some other title reigns to his name too.

Thirteen... I can't believe I'm saying this, but for perhaps the first time ever I find myself in a really awkward position with him. I've been talking with Olek about this for a while now, and considering I've actually been struggling a bit to get motivated to write for Thirteen (especially when compared to the stuff I've been doing with Blackbourne) I think right now we're at this point where Thirteen might function kind of like SCW's version of the Undertaker (fitting as he'll always be my favorite wrestler). He's definitely in part-timer territory now and will probably only surface if I have something I want to do with him RP-wise or if I feel there's a particular feud he'd work well for. When I originally brought him back two years ago my goal was primarily to see if I could add to the Adrenaline and World Title reigns he's had here as well as the amazing storyline Olek did for him that gave him his notoriety for the longest time in hopes of cementing a Hall of Fame spot for him, as the other two Hall of Fames he entered are either in now-closed feds lost to time or said Hall of Fame access was later rescinded because of handler issues I've long since left behind. Considering he's easily my most accomplished character (when I stated in his THotF promo last year he'd basically done almost everything a wrestler could do, I wasn't kidding) that would basically be the icing on the cake for me to finally have him ride off into the sunset. I guess if I did want anything possibly out of this year for him, outside of a HoF nomination... I've been toying with the idea of Thirteen finally changing his stance on, outside of his sister character, taking his wrestling secrets to the grave with him and becoming kind of a mentor for a newer technical-based wrestler, though I actually kind of prefer the idea of not making said character myself because I don't want to do "Thirteen 2.0" at this point, but the idea of working with someone else using Thirteen as a manager and/or occasional tag partner (through his part-time status) is certainly something I'm open to.

Beyond that and in a more general sense, the biggest thing I'm aiming for out of this year is completing what I've taken to referring to as my "e-wrestling bucket list" or the things I want to say I've accomplished in this game before the day comes I finally retire after doing this for almost two decades now. I've checked off just about everything one could do in this game (mostly with Thirteen, as mentioned earlier) but there's two that still linger. The first is finally winning a Royal Rumble style match, which basically means hopefully this is the year I can nail down the win in THotF. The other, bigger one I'm aiming to knock out? Kind of along the same lines as J's male character she just brought into EMERGE, I want to prove more to myself that I'm able to write a female character that can both stand on her own and basically doesn't end up sliding down into... that territory, as I'm hesitant to really say it but I'm sure you all have an idea of what I'm talking about. I also want to prove I can pull this off with a completely new female character that's standing on her own, as Thirteen's sister Seven/Kelly Marsh-Asher and I guess to some small degree Blackbourne's girlfriend Liane Forte both have the problem of piggybacking off a story I already started with a male character I'm established and comfortable with, which makes it easy to keep them out of that problem area (Blackbourne's recent feud notwithstanding) because I already have a guideline for what I'm doing. Any other time I've tried a female character from scratch it's fallen apart for one reason or another, and I want to finally get that blockade to my writing abilities out of the way. I'm very slowly piecing together some character ideas and one will probably surface in EMERGE at some point for this purpose (so I can keep my SCW focus on Blackbourne), but I'm still kind of in the planning stages for exactly what I want to try to make this work.