I had to really sit down and think on the answers to these questions, so I apologize for how long it took me to get to it.
- Darkane wrote:
- Do you anticipate anything maybe career wise with your video editing or is just a side hobby?
If I ever got a job offer to pursue it, I would take it. Of course, I would feel the need to study more into video making because -- in my opinion -- I am an amateur in the field. I have met people who got professional jobs editing movies and network television graphics so, I knew there were jobs for it, but I live in the smallest towns in Australia where such jobs are few and far between. At the moment, it's just a side hobby. I know I COULD make money off it by taking commissions, but I feel if it's free the quality doesn't have to be high and only has to bend to my personal preferences.
- Darkane wrote:
- Are there any promoers that have legitimately pushed you and/or gave you a lot of trouble?
This is the hard one. I think the original ones to push me back in the day was High Rollerz because it made me thing, okay, if I go about my promos in such a light-handed way I will look like too much like those early territory jobbers that just approach shit with "go-get-em" attitudes, and I think at the time I was more a nervous wreck who was afraid to push buttons. They were guys that just would push buttons so I think that was my wake-up call to start pushing back. Jon McAdams was easily another one that made me really explore a mean-streak to Wakefield and actually influenced me to start approaching him as a cerebral promo. Same can be said when I got my first crack at the main eventers with A Certain Australian currently elsewhere. He really inspired me with some of his promo philosophy.
As much as I shit on the feud with Goose for how many times we faced each other in a short time, that grind to think of new promos at the time definitely made me think of different ways to say the same things that needed to be said, but really burned me out several times to the point I started pushing out whatever I could just so that I did.
OWA set a completely different standard when I came in, I was really at my wits-end and did what I could with some internal reluctance which only continued when I came back in Season 2. Season 3 until now has definitely been some of my best work and that's because I started seeing the standard set and thought yeah, I need to keep up and overtake people.
- Darkane wrote:
- Which event(s) in your efed tenure did you have the most fun promoing for?
Immediately what comes to mind is last years Clash because that was the most fun cycle I recall having. Second would be Finn vs Eon vs Noah for the Television Championship, the event name is escaping me at the moment, but that was a lot of fun to see two guys really stepping their games up to run that page with me. I guess if I had to pick a third, it would be against that certain Australian I like. Not Keelan. Fuck Keelan.
- Darkane wrote:
- Do you have any pet peeves in regards to promos or things that you're not a fan of people saying/doing?
God. As far as pet peeves go I probably have a few. I really dislike the promos where it's clear the writer isn't trying, scraping by on short word counts, but at the same time I hate these long as fuck promo styles that try and rack up a high word count but don't really say anything. Be it through an unnecessary amount of cinematics or conversation between character and NPC that really fits more a CD piece than a promo battle. I am fine with a little, but when it gets excessive I just CTRL + F to find my name and read from there. I also really don't like the echo chamber promos where characters (face or heel) ignore hard fact of a story or past encounters just so they look bulletproof their entire career. It's rarer nowadays, but when it happened and I had to promo against it, I was promoing against brick walls.
There are probably some more minor things like egregious grammar and spelling mistakes, but I misspell shit and probably don't have college grade grammar myself, so I'd be a hypocrite to tell people to correct theirs.
- Darkane wrote:
- Any dream matches that you'd like to see in which you're not a part of?
These are just some I want to see, even if they have happened before.
Jacob Senn versus Darkane.
Noah Reigner versus Graham Baker. (Seems VERY possible now.)
Alyssa Grace versus Stephanie Matsuda.
Dulce Torres versus Aria Jaxon.
Hana Nakajima versus Tyler Wolf.
Arata Asukura versus Jason Long.
Rebecca Filth versus A Shower. - Darkane wrote:
- Is there anything that you've learned from when you started as Finnegan to the present Finnegan? I.E: The difference between Finnegan 2015 to Finnegan 2021?
I have been a career-long babyface in efedding and I have grown to appreciate how hard it is to try and be a babyface when it comes to promoing. It's fucking difficult. Only now with the right story I can justify myself being the face while still talking shit about people and calling them cunt, but before? Fuuuuck, writing promos where I wasn't trying to come across as a total dick was hard. I am also a major control freak with some major harsh criticisms revolving around things I make, do or are done with me in this hobby, I'm still trying to ease off that a bit, but before if even the slightest thing was done wrong in my eyes, like Finn throwing a Superkick, I would immediately be there saying "yeah, Finn wouldn't do that." I haven't completely mellowed out because I am still a tryhard to my own detriment, but that's another thing that has changed in the last six years, I try a lot harder to tell a good story as that is what I love most in wrestling.
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