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|Birth Name |
» Manami Hayashi

|Hails From |
» Tokyo, Japan
» April 11, 1997 (20)

|Fighting Style |
» Shay Lee is a tricky fighter. She'll often pretend to be hurt in order to lure in her opponent and strike. She is as quick as a fox and will use her tactical mind to outsmart you. She may not be the strongest or most technical, but she will find a way to outsmart you. Kicks are her main way of attack and she does some high flying moves. Using her gymnast background she will twist around her opponent to dodge, deflect, or lock in a submission. Whatever it takes to win she'll do it.

|Signature Moves |
» Gamengiri
» Rolling Yoshi Tonic
» Flying Kitsune
» Roundhouse Kick

|Finisher |
» Spinning Dragon
» Handspring Headscissors Takedown with which right after she kicks them in the head

|Theme |
» Megitsune by BABYMETAL

|Gimmick |
» Shay Lee is not here to make friends. That doesn't mean she aims to make enemies out of everyone. She is here to show everyone what she can do. She is here to represent Japanese women wrestling. She is HERE because wrestling has been her life. In fact it is her life. She will show that she is the best in the whole industry. Shay Lee will become a name that will not be forgotten for years to come. The Kitsune will make that happen.

Her attire is the left one in the image. The skirt goes past the halfway point of her thighs just above the knee. On the back of her armsleeves is a logo that if she puts her arms together is the kanji for Kitsune inside a star. Her boots have the word Kitsune written across them. During her entrance she wears a Kitsune mask and a Kitsune hoodie.

|Face or Heel |
» Tweener. She isn't a face nor a heel. She just loves to fight and will take on anyone that is thrown at her. She will resort to dirty tactics IF and only if whoever she is facing does the same. In her eyes, turnabout is fair play. You wanna fight unfair. Then she'll say, "I guess I'll fight unfair to."

|Backstage Rep |
» She only recently joined AWE, but she is very friendly and energetic. No matter who you are she will probably greet you. If she knows about you and is a fan she'll ask for an autograph and might even beg for one even as silly as that is. She still acts like a child sometimes often saying she feels like a kid in a candy store. She never thought she'd make it to American wrestling, but now that she's here she just doesn't know what to do with herself.

Manami may not be that great on the mic, but she is very skilled in the ring. She is a ring general in the making. She is also very good at selling her opponents moves and has yet to perform the dreaded 'no-sell'. Seen she is so young she still occasionally botches a move, but those are limited to the high-flying moves. Her mic work is good when speaking Japanese, but she still has some trouble with her English so she avoids promos as much as she can until she gets better at it.

|Other |
» At a young age Manami was already practically thrown into the world of wrestling. When she was born her mother named her after one of the best, if not the best, woman wrestler ever and a personal friend of the family. Instead of watching children shows Manami begged to watch to watch wrestling. When she was four her dad and mother convinced her to take gymnastics. Her father had been a professional gymnast and he wanted his children to at least give it a try. At first Manami was against it, but when they told her that a lot of female wrestlers had been gymnast at one point she threw herself into it because she wasn't going to be allowed to train at wrestling until she was at least 15.

She fell in love with being a gymnast and if not for her family being so involved with the Japanese wrestling scene she might have forgot about wanting to be a wrestler entirely. Yet, when her oldest brother won the major title of the promotion ran by her uncle it reinvigorated her desire to be a wrestler. When she finally turned 15 her birthday present was a special training session with Manami Toyota. After this day, the woman took the younger Manami under her wings and taught her what she knew.

At the age of 17 she debuted in a small promotion that her uncle wasn't a part of. She refused to get special treatment because of her familial relations. She wrestled there until she got a championship and held it longer than any other champion for any title that that promotion had seen. When she lost the title she finally made the move up to her uncles promotion. That is where she made a lot of her connections to America wrestling. She was highly skilled from her training and her uncle felt she would be a better fit in America. He asked an old friend, Caiden Everett, if he would give a recommendation to AWE for Manami. Then the unbelievable happened. At the age of 20 Manami was offered a contract at AWE. The first thing she said was, "The Kitsune is gonna take America by storm." She said it in Japanese though.
» Miyako Matsumoto

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|Birth Name |
» Gary Palmer

|Hails From |
» Los Angeles, California
» January 3rd, 1992 (25)

|Job at AWE |
» Writer

|Skills |
» Gary is exceptionally gifted at crafting narratives that would not be out of place in a bestselling novel. He has a talent for making drama that is the right mix between believable and entertaining. Though he also has a talent for dialogue, he never writes alone. Wherever possible, he brings the wrestler or wrestlers in question in and, with their input, creates promos that feel unique to every performer. After all, nobody knows a wrestler's character better than the wrestler in question.

|Reason for being here |
» After graduation from college with a degree in creative writing, he looked for work. For several years he drifted between jobs he did not enjoy. He was a newspaper columnist, then a journalist, then he tried to break into the world of screenwriting but had no success. All the while he engaged in his real raison d'être, writing novels, and of the few that got published, none of them were successful enough to change his life, or do much more than pay a couple of bills for another few months.

Six months ago he got a call from Kevin Harrison, one of his college friends from the creative writing course, who had a high paying and creatively fulfilling job for him; being on the writing team for the biggest wrestling company in the country! Gary had been a fan of wrestling as a child. Most children he grew up with had. He lost touch with it during his teens but to be one of the people in charge of creating the kind of stories that used to hook him as a child, the kind of stories that may have been one of the things to insire him to write, was a dream come true! He naturally immediately accepted.

|Looks & Style |
» Gary practically never gets involved with anything on-screen. That being said he always wears a shirt and suit trousers to work, and always seems to have a plastic coffee cup or porcelain mug glued to his left hand. He's a big coffee drinker.

|Personality Traits |
» Gary, though talented and creative, is not used to a job this intense, and so is never seen without coffee in his hand. He is practically fueled by it. Another side effect of this lack of experience in such an industry is that he will take his holiday hours the moment he accumulates them, though this has not earned him heat as even when he's on holiday, he maintains an online correspondence with the rest of the writing team and still gives input, feedback and ideas. Really, he never stops working. Even when he's at home, he's thinking about the booking. He dreams about wrestling. It's his life now.

|Favorite wrestler |
» Gary does not play favourites. Ever.

|Rep at AWE |
» Gary is not the universally loved saviour of the writing team that Kevin is, but he still has a good rep with many of the wrestlers. The process of letting the performers have a hand in writing their promos is a very nice touch. Though they don't have complete control and very rarely get permission to improvise, Gary's method is greatly preferred to the old days when everybody had to repeat the given script word for word, and thus, every face sounded the same, and every heel sounded the same, barring catchphrases and some performers just being naturally talented enough to make it work and others not.

|Other |
» Face Claim - Miles Teller

|Birth Name |
» Dimitrios Piazanlakis. Changed to Roger when he entered the States.

|Hails From |
» Athens, Greece
» April 1st, 1972 (45)

|Job at AWE |
» Head sound guy. Makes sure everything sound-based is running smoothly.

|Skills |
» Good at things sound guys are good at? There isn't much to say here.

|Reason for being here |
» When Roger arrived in the USA at the ripe age of 21, he needed a job, lest he become homeless. Turns out he was savvy with early soundboards and computers, and the job naturally lead him to the AWE, where he's been for 12 years.

|Looks & Style |
» Roger usually wears casual clothes, but doesn't mind wearing a suit or anything else if he has to. His pot belly often sticks out of the bottom of whatever clothes he's wearing, except on the rare occasions where Roger decides a belt is necessary.

|Personality Traits |
» Curious, likes to talk, enthusiastic, relaxed, flirtatious creepy.

|Favorite wrestler |
» Shay "Kitsune" Lee. _Kawaii

|Rep at AWE |
» Roger cares about the goings on of the business, and seems to get along with others just fine whenever they're face to face, even willing to be an extra in backstage segments when necessary. Unfortunately for the guy, once his back is turned, he is known as the resident creep of the AWE. He does try to get along with everyone, but is unnecessarily flirtatious and downright creepy at times with much of the women's roster. Whenever someone mentions "Roger from sound" the one they're talking to instantly knows who it is, and all participants in the conversation take a moment to remember one time or another where Roger has made them uncomfortable.

|Other |
» Rod McLean (I think. Not entirely sure though. Google is dodgy like that)

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|Birth Name |
»Andrew Gosforth

|Hails From |
»Paisley, Scotland
»April 7th, 1986 (31)

|Fighting Style |
» Hector is a large man, and as such has a large arsenal of power moves, but what sets him apart from other powerhouses is his in-ring psychology, mindgames and theatrics. In his gimmick’s newest incarnation, will sometimes hurt himself just to unnerve his opponent, as well as relish in the pain of his opponent instead of fighting to win quickly. A Hector match can be an uncomfortable watch, and sometimes won’t even feel PG even though it breaks no rules.

|Signature Moves |
» Daddy’s Awake (Spear/Double Leg Takedown hybrid with theatrics)
» Nightmare Drop youtube.com/watch?v=DPgtDtMm62Y
» Chokeslam Backbreaker youtube.com/watch?v=_EmuK7abD64
» Lifting Spinebuster youtube.com/watch?v=FVaikLSOw0k
|Finisher |
» Straightjacket Neckbreaker youtube.com/watch?v=IH4MauQz1ac
» Dreamcatcher youtube.com/watch?v=IHR1aG4UDw0

|Theme |
» Old Theme: youtube.com/watch?v=JCtgTpxgwjc
» New Theme: youtube.com/watch?v=rd2FE4Qmdw0

|Backstage Rep |
»’Hector’ had enjoyed success as a big guy with the gimmick of an insane slasher villain, though this translated to cheesy effects, mind games and blackout attacks every other week. He was never a world champion though he did briefly hold the IC belt, and had an upper-card feud with Drayden during one of the rare instances when he wasn’t champion or challenging for the championship. This all came to an end over a year ago when Andrew had to go through a messy divorce, and took time off to return to Scotland and deal with that. He was written off TV by being set of fire from one of the chemicals of Dr. Sinister off the back of a feud with The creation, and then he was gone.
Several months ago, he came back for training, and to people’s surprise, it’s as if he was never gone. She’s the same old chatty, friendly big scot who enjoys a drink, and he had very little ring rust. He fell back into place in the AWE machine and is now ready to return to the ring, though his debut is still being held off until after the tournament. Personally, Andrew isn’t sure his character still fits in with an industry that’s gearing towards a more realistic, MMA style populated by small, fast guys with realistic names and characters, or maybe that just means he’s needed more than ever.

|Gimmick |
» Hector’s new gimmick is far more genuinely scary and intense than his old one. He is now a deranged psychopath, and even though there are still blackout attacks and lighting effects, Hector is framed less of a supernatural monster than he was in his previous run and far more of an ordinary albeit twisted and deranged human, and therefore all the more unsettling for it, as he seems real now. He will wear creepy masks, give nonsensical promos that make the interviewer uncomfortable, stalk his feuding opponents backstage in skits and during their promos, ect. His mindgames are a thing of beauty now. Rather than before, where every opponent would get the same thing (dolls, abandoned asylums, little girls), now each feud’s mindgames are tailored towards the fears and insecurities of his opponents and a big deal will be made of him getting inside their heads.

|Face or Heel |
» Indiscriminate Heel

|Other |
» Face Claim – Rory McCann