In the spirit of lucha…

…I gave way too much thought to wrestlers’ orientations if they were wrestlers, lol. (Jargon translation: faces are good guys, heels are bad guys, tweeners are guys who tend to act a bit naughty like heels but are funny and charming like faces, jobbers are workaday wrestlers who are only there to make the main guys look good. A wrestler can be ‘booked’ on a wrestling show as one or the other, being ‘pushed’ is being heavily promoted, being ‘over’ means you’re popular/the crowd respond to you, whether you’re a heel or face.)

Lewis: pushed as a face, but many are lukewarm to hostile towards him (cf, Roman Reigns)
Nico R: they’re trying to book him as a heel, but he’s getting over with people as the alternative to Lewis, who’s being shoved down their throats (cf, Rusev)
Dan: a natural face, always and forever (cf, Finn Balor)
Seb: natural tweener. Had a good run as the type of heel people loved to hate, but he has too much charisma to be a true heel. (cf, Austin Aries)
Kimi: got over as a face despite not really having any face-like traits… or any heel-like ones either. (cf… probably Stone Cold Steve Austin, lol)
Max: a dyed in the wool heel, from a heel family. (cf, Charlotte???)
Checo: natural face, even more so than Dan 
Valtteri: shy lil face 
Hulk: another face, though in a slightly different, cheekier mould
Felipe: the faceiest face to ever face (cf, Bayley? Felipe is a hugger lbr)
Alonso: natural heel. The sly, I’m-smarter-than-all-of-you kind. Occasionally acts more face-like but he can’t hide his natural heel tendencies for long (cf, EC3 [except I love EC3 and do not love Alonso lol])
Carlos: natural face, from a beloved face family (cf, Cody Rhodes)
RoGro: I feel like he’s booked as a face, but he has his heelish moments. He might have to turn. Seems like he might cause trouble backstage. (cf Paige? I was thinking Pascal for Paige, but it might apply more to RoGro. Keeps turning from face to heel to face to heel!)
Daniil: a face, but not given the push he deserved (cf, Daniel Bryan)
Jenson: another undisputed natural face 
KMag: another face who perhaps hasn’t got the push he deserves yet (cf, Neville)
Jolyon: broadly speaking a face, but he’s not over with anyone except raving patriots. No-one gaf (cf, Jack Swagger)
Pascal: booked as a face and initially heavily pushed but again seems like he might lose that push due to being a bit difficult backstage (cf, Emma???)
Stoff: booked as a face, heavily pushed before he’s even properly debuted 
[I was going to do the rest but tbh they’re all pretty much jobbers, soz >.>] 

I was trying to think of more comparisons, but it got hard to think of so many truly successful faces! If anyone has any suggestions (or disagreements with my assessments!) let me know! This was actually a lot of fun but somehow I doubt anyone except me will actually have the slightest interest lol.

I know I say this over and over but the thing I struggle with most in writing is getting things down, seeing how they work, and then altering or deleting them if necessary. I find it SO HARD to write things down if I’m not certain about them, because what if I write something and it’s wrong and it makes the story go completely wrong and I can’t get it back? What if I write something and I don’t realise it’s wrong until it’s too late? Nobody will even know – but *I’ll* know, and the characters will know, and they (and I) will judge me. 

Seriously. I’ve never been a person who does a lot of editing – I prefer to get it all cemented in my head first, and then commit it to visible words. But sometimes you’ve just got to pave the way to get to where you’re going, and then worry about making sure it’s right later.

I cannot stress enough how stupid that “Better to regret something you have done than something you haven’t done” bullshit statement is, cos I keep looking back on great experiences I’ve had and thinking how easily I could’ve ruined them by doing or saying something really dumb. Likewise I keep looking back at times that *were* going great, until I overreached myself and did or said something really dumb, and now I just look back and wince. So don’t let that old “motivational” quote lead you astray! Stay safe, protect your future memories 😐