Post by thehaunted on Nov 9, 2024 22:54:40 GMT -5
IN THIS PRODUCTION, HOLLAND DISCUSSES GRAPPLING WITH COMPLEX POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER. PLEASE READ WITH CAUTION.
After the PLEASE STAND BY open, we find Erik Holland seated on the floor of his locker room with a handheld game system in his hand. There’s a particular piece of digitzed music beeping and booping away as Erik focuses on it for a few long moments, illuminated by the dark red film lens that has been a staple of many of his promos. He quizzically looks at the game screen, a look of mild annoyance on his face, until a couple of button presses put a relieved grin on his mug.
Look. Ain’t gonna lie. After the casket match? I was in a pretty fucking bad spot. Had a bad bad bad panic attack. Complex PTSD, like I got, is a bitch. It’s what i so wonderfully get to deal with after everything that I went through as a youth, but the one thing that’s helped me, helped everybody? Tetris. Thats what I been doing here, and what I’ve been doing…nightly, I guess, since I’ve been stuffed in that casket.
Erik shows us the screen displaying the timeless block-matching game, smiling grimly as he addresses the camera.
Because y’see, Tetris actually scientifically aids with brain plasticity. It helps the human brain process and retain information, over the course of time. So the more I been playing, the more I’ve been able to rewire my brain, and convince myself that getting put in that casket was probably the best thing to possibly happen to me out there. Especially because I, as the kids say, got my lick back during Stairway to Hell..
Erik pats the camera lens like he’d be patting the cheek of an obstinate child.
You dig that shit, Morbid Wolf? You triggered now? Understand this, and I want to send this message to the rest of Elevate Pro Wrestling. The things I talk about here, where I got Mister Cameraman starin’ down my throat? The things I talk about here are my real lived experience that I already survived and have become so much more from. If you think like Morbid Wolf thinks that cutting my arm, or making references to how bad I wanna’ kill myself, if you think any of that is going to throw me off of what I want to do here, go right ahead because I guarantee you, all youre gonna get out of it is what happened to Morbid Wolf–and maybe worse.
Considering Wolf took a pretty terrible beating from the Maniac at Halloween Havok before he returned to the rafters, it’s plain to see Erik Holland means business.
And guess what, I ain’t gonna lose a second of support from it, because I’m doing what everybody else out here who’s gone through what I’ve gone through wishes THEY could do. And that is, STAND UP. Stand up for yourself, stand up for people that can’t stand up for themselves. Get in the bully’s face. Meet that Neanderthal prick where he’s at. Hit the bully in the mouth, and laugh while he picks his teeth up. It’s stuff like that that gets people talking about me being the centerpiece of EPW which brings me to my next point..
Erik sighs out the name ‘Stevie Satisfaction’ after the next couple of beats. He’s now tossed the game system aside and stood up to his feet, the camera following him up.
Stevie, you and I, we’re about to go to war for the right to be considered ‘the face of Elevate Pro Wrestling’. 30 Minutes, Iron Man Match! And they say, Stevie, that you and I are coming to this pinnacle of our journey so far in two different but somehow similar ways. Here’s the deal, Steve-O.. Outside of not being able to win a briefcase at And Justice for Brawl because of you, I reeeally….don’t have an issue with you. Might even say? That I like you, as close to “liking” somebody as I can get. But the idea of being the FACE of Elevate Pro Wrestling, it really appeals to me.
Erik’s body language suggests exactly that, as the typical tenseness is not there. The red filter on his lens is fading, fading, until it changes to a softer more real color. Seems to be reflecting how Holland’s feeling inside; maybe something to watch.
They say i dont really play to the fans much but maybe thats the case in the ring, OUTSIDE of it.. Being in a position where I can inspire people, organize ‘em, lead ‘em. On the one hand it scares the shit out of me because I fuck with Impostor Syndrome like nobody in this industry even thinks they do…on the other, though, makes me think that’s exactly where I need to be is the FACE of this promotion, the centerpiece, the man that makes this place move and not even needing a championship belt to do it.
Erik seems to like the sound of that, as he spreads his arms out, palms toward the camera. His head’s up and level, keeping a steady focus on the lens.
So that’s why I agreed to the match, Stevie, even though my brain is tryin right now to convince me that i dont deserve to be in this position. that’s why I agreed to be put through the hell I know you’re going to put me through for thirty straight minutes. Youre a HELL of a talent, Stevie, and beating you? Outlasting you for thirty minutes? Taking every move you can come up with? Devising a COUNTER to every strategy you got? THAT is the ESSENCE of pro wrestling and it’s what i live for!
Because it MATTERS to me that I could be the face of EPW. It MATTERS TO ME that these people want to look up to me. So I’ll take whatever punishment you got for me, Stevie, and I know you got a damn lot of it! because whatever you do to me, I got worse in store for you, and for 30 minutes I’m going to do what I do better than anybody in professional wrestling and that, my friends, is SURVIVE.”
Fade.
After the PLEASE STAND BY open, we find Erik Holland seated on the floor of his locker room with a handheld game system in his hand. There’s a particular piece of digitzed music beeping and booping away as Erik focuses on it for a few long moments, illuminated by the dark red film lens that has been a staple of many of his promos. He quizzically looks at the game screen, a look of mild annoyance on his face, until a couple of button presses put a relieved grin on his mug.
Look. Ain’t gonna lie. After the casket match? I was in a pretty fucking bad spot. Had a bad bad bad panic attack. Complex PTSD, like I got, is a bitch. It’s what i so wonderfully get to deal with after everything that I went through as a youth, but the one thing that’s helped me, helped everybody? Tetris. Thats what I been doing here, and what I’ve been doing…nightly, I guess, since I’ve been stuffed in that casket.
Erik shows us the screen displaying the timeless block-matching game, smiling grimly as he addresses the camera.
Because y’see, Tetris actually scientifically aids with brain plasticity. It helps the human brain process and retain information, over the course of time. So the more I been playing, the more I’ve been able to rewire my brain, and convince myself that getting put in that casket was probably the best thing to possibly happen to me out there. Especially because I, as the kids say, got my lick back during Stairway to Hell..
Erik pats the camera lens like he’d be patting the cheek of an obstinate child.
You dig that shit, Morbid Wolf? You triggered now? Understand this, and I want to send this message to the rest of Elevate Pro Wrestling. The things I talk about here, where I got Mister Cameraman starin’ down my throat? The things I talk about here are my real lived experience that I already survived and have become so much more from. If you think like Morbid Wolf thinks that cutting my arm, or making references to how bad I wanna’ kill myself, if you think any of that is going to throw me off of what I want to do here, go right ahead because I guarantee you, all youre gonna get out of it is what happened to Morbid Wolf–and maybe worse.
Considering Wolf took a pretty terrible beating from the Maniac at Halloween Havok before he returned to the rafters, it’s plain to see Erik Holland means business.
And guess what, I ain’t gonna lose a second of support from it, because I’m doing what everybody else out here who’s gone through what I’ve gone through wishes THEY could do. And that is, STAND UP. Stand up for yourself, stand up for people that can’t stand up for themselves. Get in the bully’s face. Meet that Neanderthal prick where he’s at. Hit the bully in the mouth, and laugh while he picks his teeth up. It’s stuff like that that gets people talking about me being the centerpiece of EPW which brings me to my next point..
Erik sighs out the name ‘Stevie Satisfaction’ after the next couple of beats. He’s now tossed the game system aside and stood up to his feet, the camera following him up.
Stevie, you and I, we’re about to go to war for the right to be considered ‘the face of Elevate Pro Wrestling’. 30 Minutes, Iron Man Match! And they say, Stevie, that you and I are coming to this pinnacle of our journey so far in two different but somehow similar ways. Here’s the deal, Steve-O.. Outside of not being able to win a briefcase at And Justice for Brawl because of you, I reeeally….don’t have an issue with you. Might even say? That I like you, as close to “liking” somebody as I can get. But the idea of being the FACE of Elevate Pro Wrestling, it really appeals to me.
Erik’s body language suggests exactly that, as the typical tenseness is not there. The red filter on his lens is fading, fading, until it changes to a softer more real color. Seems to be reflecting how Holland’s feeling inside; maybe something to watch.
They say i dont really play to the fans much but maybe thats the case in the ring, OUTSIDE of it.. Being in a position where I can inspire people, organize ‘em, lead ‘em. On the one hand it scares the shit out of me because I fuck with Impostor Syndrome like nobody in this industry even thinks they do…on the other, though, makes me think that’s exactly where I need to be is the FACE of this promotion, the centerpiece, the man that makes this place move and not even needing a championship belt to do it.
Erik seems to like the sound of that, as he spreads his arms out, palms toward the camera. His head’s up and level, keeping a steady focus on the lens.
So that’s why I agreed to the match, Stevie, even though my brain is tryin right now to convince me that i dont deserve to be in this position. that’s why I agreed to be put through the hell I know you’re going to put me through for thirty straight minutes. Youre a HELL of a talent, Stevie, and beating you? Outlasting you for thirty minutes? Taking every move you can come up with? Devising a COUNTER to every strategy you got? THAT is the ESSENCE of pro wrestling and it’s what i live for!
Because it MATTERS to me that I could be the face of EPW. It MATTERS TO ME that these people want to look up to me. So I’ll take whatever punishment you got for me, Stevie, and I know you got a damn lot of it! because whatever you do to me, I got worse in store for you, and for 30 minutes I’m going to do what I do better than anybody in professional wrestling and that, my friends, is SURVIVE.”
Fade.