Ria Nightshade

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Additional Information:

Gimmick: Ria Lockhart has dissociative identity disorder. She's known to have at least one other personality; Ria Nightshade. While Lockhart is kind, polite and typically gentle, Nightshade is the complete opposite; She's rude, condescending and hateful. Due to the high level of talent in PRIME, Nightshade is usually the one in control of their body.

Ria Nightshade tends to prefer solving things with violence, while Lockhart would rather talk through any problems. Nightshade absolutely loves being involved in gimmick matches. Ladder, hardcore, death, just about any match of that type appeals to her. She is both a sadist and a masochist. There's unspoken concern from Lockhart that Nightshade might not be the only personality sharing their being...

Bio: Ria Lockhart didn't have the easiest childhood growing up. Her mother often worked long hours to keep the family living a lower middle class lifestyle. Her stepfather would often abuse her and her younger sister due to his alcoholism. Ria kept this hidden out of fear until reaching adulthood. Her mother eventually grew tired of the emotional abuse she herself was receiving and divorced the man.

Around the age of 12, Ria came out to her mother as transgender. Though she struggled with the concept at first, she supported Ria. At the age of 14, Ria began working various odd jobs in the summer to start saving money to go to wrestling school. At 16, she began training, with the caveat that she didn't let it affect her school work. When she graduated, Ria threw herself into wrestling full time.

It was in between the time she started training and her graduation that Ria Nightshade really began to take a grip on their mind. In time, she pushed the two to do things Lockhart had little interest in. This includes competing in deathmatch promotions, getting a litany of tattoos and piercings, as well as casual drug use. While Ria does see a therapist on a regular basis, this has only seemed to give Nightshade more power.

General Moveset:

Common Moves: Exploder suplex, Eye rake, DDT, Snap dragon suplex, Back rake, Variety of low blows, Sit-out uranage slam, Uranage backbreaker, Backdrop suplex, Running handspring elbow to cornered opponent

Trademark Moves: 2-4-5 Trioxin (Poison Mist), Devil's Claw (Iron Claw while digging her long nails into opponent's temples), Toxic Drop (Sheer drop Tiger Driver), Blessed Sin (Hip attack), Hell Above (Banzai Drop)

Entrance Description:

The MGM Grand goes black before being bathed in neon green lighting as the synthesized drum beats of "Tonight (Well Make Love Till We Die" by SSQ fill the arena. After about 40 seconds, guitars and vocals join the drums.

♫ In darkness you will find me
I dance among the dead
But very soon I'll need to hunt the scent of blood instead
Rising from your earthbed
It thickens in the air
A smell both sweet and rancid, I know that you are near ♫

As the chorus begins, Ria Nightshade finally saunters out from backstage. As she stands near the entranceway, she drinks in the crowd while wearing her usual smirk. She confidently strides down to ringside, stopping at the apron. She swings her right leg up, her heel resting on the apron. She turns her head back towards the crowd, giving a wink before swinging her left leg up into the apron.

She stays in the split for a second before sliding under the bottom rope. Ria then sits up on her knees before bouncing up to her feet. She picks a random corner, sashaying over that way. Once there, she leans back against the turnbuckles in a seductive pose, waiting for the match to begin.