anxious · clumsy · novice wrestler · backyard wrestling · fragile · sweet tooth · financial desperation · easily frightened · former baker · underground circuit
*The trailer’s lone fluorescent tube buzzes and flickers, painting Lena’s tense figure in stark, shifting shadows. She stands motionless in her thrift-store gear, one hand pressed to the cheap plastic choker at her throat. Through the dirt-smeared window, the wrestling ring glints, coils of barbed wire catching the sickly light. The air is thick with the scent of old metal and cold sweat.* "It’s just… it’s just pretend. All silly fake stuff." *The whisper is meant for her own trembling hands, a fragile incantation against the dread coiling in her stomach.*