Post by Cordelia Clark on Mar 10, 2024 21:51:48 GMT
June 23, 2022
Cordelia Clark is feeling a bit sore considering she went through a hellacious hardcore match with Hayley Halsey the night before. But, at a breakfast joint in Minneapolis, where the match took place, she’s feeling quite happy. Cordelia, during this time, is starting to come into her own.
She just wrapped 5BW’s 3rd season, in which she finally silenced her older sister Morganna who had more or less tortured her for the latter half of that season including an instance where she interrupted a photoshoot she was doing for Sin City Underground, ripped her dress off and dumped a bunch of rotten milk over her..
As mentioned previously, she just hospitalized Hayley Halsey. For those that don’t know her reputation, Hayley was an obsessive stalker of hers who was talking about how they “belonged together” among other sexually disgusting things she had to deal with as a result of the above mentioned photoshoot incident.
She’s thinking about things a bit when her then-boyfriend (now husband) Brian Everett walks in and sits across the table from her. Cordelia can only help but smile at the love of her life.
Brian: How are you even able to smile after that match you went through last night?
Cordelia: That wretched woman is no longer going to mess with me. I showed her that I wasn’t some pushover that she was going to sexually stalk on Twitter anymore. It feels so liberating to not have to put up with that woman again.
Brian: I bet. But, I noticed something different about you.
Cordelia: Yeah?
Brian: Where did this badass side of you come from?
Cordelia can only help but chuckle at this. This was during a time of her career where she wasn’t known for being ill-tempered and direct. “Pure and white as snow” is how she could be described during this time.
Cordelia: I simply took out months of anger Hayley put me through out on that match.
Brian: I know, but the way you beat up your own sister at Vendetta last month…
Cordelia has a look of concern on her face.
Cordelia: Is there something wrong? Am I upsetting you?
Brian: On the contrary, I like it.
Cordelia’s eyes widen with surprise.
Cordelia: You DO?
Brian: Cordy, you’re a sweetheart. You like to see the best in everyone. But I think last night, you started to see that some people just are lost causes that aren’t worth trying to see the best in. You stood up for yourself. I don’t want to be mean or anything but over the years that we’ve dated, I have noticed you had this tendency to be meek and timid around others that dare to be confrontational toward you at all. I love you either way, but I like to see this more assertive side of you.
Cordelia: Your parents are going to like me even less then, because I’ve had to swallow so much bull from them, especially your mother and… I shouldn’t do that anymore.
Brian: As long as you’re not threatening their lives, cursing at them or calling them names, I don’t care how you stand up to them.
Cordelia: I just don’t want to upset you…
Brian holds her hands and they look at each other eye to eye.
Brian: You’ve got the entire world ahead of you right now. Don’t lose sight of that. If this new assertive side of you is going to help you grow, then let it grow. When 5BW opens back up for business for Season 4, if you can channel this growing side of you, I think you can do great things.
Cordelia: I think so too!
Cordelia has a laugh to herself.
Cordelia: Do you want to watch last night’s match again?
Brian: HA! You know watching you get angry and giving that harlot that beating she deserved for her months of torment of you is never going to get old…
Brian switches to the other side of the table as Cordelia pulls out her phone. She finds the full video of the match she had with Hayley Halsey the night before and she’s definitely taking pride in what she felt was a new dimension to her that she feels can come through and create big waves for the 5BW season to come.
“The Tweets” - July 2022
When Cordelia first read these tweets at the time, she was taken aback. Getting that type of endorsement and feedback from one of the GM’s of 5BW was absolutely taken as a compliment. She knew she had a bright future ahead of her, but this simply validated it. This, in connection with the new ‘assertive side’ that had started to come out of her, fueled her.
At the time, these tweets were a blessing to her.
But as time has gone on, she had no idea how much of a curse they would become to her career.
Cordy’s Diary - June 2023
“What a season four of 5BW, right?
So, at the start of the season, the Carter Corporation, the ‘big bads’ of 5BW at the time, were impressed about what I did to Hayley Halsey in Minneapolis that they wanted me to become part of their group. I said ‘no’. I was never going to sell out to people that were never going to care about me. Minka and Candice Carter sent their minions after me to try to beat me into line and to try and force me to join their group and yes, wins and losses were exchanged at the time, but I held my resolve and I never joined them. To be in that WarGames match last December and be a part of the puzzle that caused the dissolution of that group is a badge of honor for me.
I’m growing confident with time. I dabbled in the main event scene a little bit. I even got to main event a Pay-Per-View three months ago. I ultimately didn’t win the 5BW World Championship this season, but I’m only 24 and I still have plenty of time. BUT, defeating Gabe Khane for the Freedom Championship to close out the season? I’ll take that. It really felt like the final piece of the puzzle for a great season for me. I have few negative things to say about it. I know the likes of Gabe and Carter Corp. were pains in my butt. Yet, I overcame them all.
But I have noticed an increase of people in 5BW, largely people like Gabe, that are throwing around ‘management favorite’ at me as if it was a slur and I’ve tried to shrug it off but it really does bother me. I didn’t win the Freedom Championship because 5BW management wanted me to. I won it because I earned it. That ‘slur’ toward me tells me that people in 5BW think that I’m not capable of being successful on my own and that hurts. I want to be successful because of me! I don’t want to be successful because of Meagan’s tweets from last July or because she endorsed me.
Maybe it was best she never tweeted that?
Or am I overthinking?”
July 2023
“I won the Rising Star award right?”
Cordelia is beaming and her eyes are definitely bright as she’s thinking that with her body of work, she was going to run away with that aforementioned award. Her sister Morganna (who she had long since made up with by this point after their Season 3 wars) is wearing a glum expression on her face.
“Right?”
“...Diana Tremblay did…”
“WHAT?”
“The vote wasn’t that close…”
It was in this moment that Cordelia experiences denial before she plops down on her couch and feels absolutely defeated.
“How could the fans vote HER over me? I’d understand it a little bit if it was a wrestler that they liked, but that girl kept getting booed. I was part of the dissolution of the ‘big bad stable’ of 5BW. I won the Freedom Championship. I main evented a Pay-Per-View Hell in a Cell match with Minka Carter, one of the longest reigning world champions 5BW has ever had, and I WON!. Diana won a lower title and sure, got to main event a Pay-Per-View herself…”
“Only because the 5BW World title was up for grabs around the same timeframe at the Denzel thing…” Morganna reminds her.
“Exactly! Sure, she got to beat a former world champion like I did, in the form of Tyler Truex at Vendetta, but… Minka was a stronger world champion than Tyler was…”
“I don’t know what to tell you, baby sis.”
“The fans rejected me… for what?”
Cordelia is on the verge of tears at this point.
“I grinded, I busted my butt for them, I did everything that I could for them and it wasn’t good enough? How can they vote some basic, dime a dozen supermodel BITCH…”
“LANGUAGE!”
“Like YOU of all people can say that, Morgan…”
“I feel you. I really do. You’ve got what Diana doesn’t. You’re right, she’s a dime a dozen. She’s just a basic model type wrestler who really isn’t that special. A good wrestler? Sure. But your body of work over the season is so much stronger than hers. The fans probably punished you over those endorsement tweets from a year ago…”
“The one where Meagan said I was the one to watch for?”
“Yeah. Fans don’t like that. Wrestling fans like to get behind who THEY want to get behind, not who someone in management tells them to get behind. The fans must’ve seen those tweets as the company trying to shove you down their throats.”
“But that’s not fair! I didn’t ask for that endorsement!”
“It’s how it is, Cordy. I hope I am wrong, but I think they see you as a ‘management pick’ rather than someone that they can get behind. People in the locker room tapping into their feelings calling you ‘management favorite’ on camera doesn’t help either. Try not to take it personal, okay? It’s not your fault. It’s nothing you did wrong. It was just the fans going ‘rage against the machine’.
Morganna embraces her before she makes her exit. When she has a moment to herself, Cordelia willingly lets herself burst into tears. The ‘rejection’ by the fans certainly stung her and now she’s going into the 5th and current 5BW season wondering if she should approach things differently…
February 25, 2024 - 5BW Shattered
Cordelia has just shocked the world and decided to turn on Meagan, turn on the 5BW fans and turn on whatever morals and values she thought were going to be good enough. She has grabbed her bags and is walking out of the building making sure to avoid everyone that she can. She’s got a cold, angry look in her eyes as she heads into the parking lot and sees her newlywed husband Brian standing there, looking quite stunned.
Cordelia: If what I did repulses you, we can get our marriage annulled.
Brian: Cordy… really?
Cordelia: Yes. I’m sorry that you don’t approve, but she had it coming for a long time. All it took was those two tweets to fuck me over and anchor my career.
Brian: Who said I didn’t approve?
Cordelia: Sorry?
Brian: You’ve been through way too much hell over the last few months, more than anyone should ever endure. It’s about time you broke away.
Cordelia has a smile on her face.
Cordelia: Really?
Brian: Yes. You deserve better than to be treated like ‘teacher’s pet’ and being disrespected the way the fans have been disrespecting you. You sure as hell deserved better than what WE had to go through because I was in a coma for weeks because of one of THEIR wrestlers. Let’s go! We’ve got a honeymoon awaiting us.
Cordelia: I’m never losing you again, no matter what. It’s just US now! Hell with everyone else!
Cordelia and Brian exchange a passionate kiss before they head to his car and they start to drive away toward their honeymoon.
But how someone slowly became one of the biggest sweetheart/girl next door type of people in 5BW only to become bitter, jaded and disrespected?
There are plenty of chapters in one hell of a story to tell…
(TBC)
Cordelia Clark is feeling a bit sore considering she went through a hellacious hardcore match with Hayley Halsey the night before. But, at a breakfast joint in Minneapolis, where the match took place, she’s feeling quite happy. Cordelia, during this time, is starting to come into her own.
She just wrapped 5BW’s 3rd season, in which she finally silenced her older sister Morganna who had more or less tortured her for the latter half of that season including an instance where she interrupted a photoshoot she was doing for Sin City Underground, ripped her dress off and dumped a bunch of rotten milk over her..
As mentioned previously, she just hospitalized Hayley Halsey. For those that don’t know her reputation, Hayley was an obsessive stalker of hers who was talking about how they “belonged together” among other sexually disgusting things she had to deal with as a result of the above mentioned photoshoot incident.
She’s thinking about things a bit when her then-boyfriend (now husband) Brian Everett walks in and sits across the table from her. Cordelia can only help but smile at the love of her life.
Brian: How are you even able to smile after that match you went through last night?
Cordelia: That wretched woman is no longer going to mess with me. I showed her that I wasn’t some pushover that she was going to sexually stalk on Twitter anymore. It feels so liberating to not have to put up with that woman again.
Brian: I bet. But, I noticed something different about you.
Cordelia: Yeah?
Brian: Where did this badass side of you come from?
Cordelia can only help but chuckle at this. This was during a time of her career where she wasn’t known for being ill-tempered and direct. “Pure and white as snow” is how she could be described during this time.
Cordelia: I simply took out months of anger Hayley put me through out on that match.
Brian: I know, but the way you beat up your own sister at Vendetta last month…
Cordelia has a look of concern on her face.
Cordelia: Is there something wrong? Am I upsetting you?
Brian: On the contrary, I like it.
Cordelia’s eyes widen with surprise.
Cordelia: You DO?
Brian: Cordy, you’re a sweetheart. You like to see the best in everyone. But I think last night, you started to see that some people just are lost causes that aren’t worth trying to see the best in. You stood up for yourself. I don’t want to be mean or anything but over the years that we’ve dated, I have noticed you had this tendency to be meek and timid around others that dare to be confrontational toward you at all. I love you either way, but I like to see this more assertive side of you.
Cordelia: Your parents are going to like me even less then, because I’ve had to swallow so much bull from them, especially your mother and… I shouldn’t do that anymore.
Brian: As long as you’re not threatening their lives, cursing at them or calling them names, I don’t care how you stand up to them.
Cordelia: I just don’t want to upset you…
Brian holds her hands and they look at each other eye to eye.
Brian: You’ve got the entire world ahead of you right now. Don’t lose sight of that. If this new assertive side of you is going to help you grow, then let it grow. When 5BW opens back up for business for Season 4, if you can channel this growing side of you, I think you can do great things.
Cordelia: I think so too!
Cordelia has a laugh to herself.
Cordelia: Do you want to watch last night’s match again?
Brian: HA! You know watching you get angry and giving that harlot that beating she deserved for her months of torment of you is never going to get old…
Brian switches to the other side of the table as Cordelia pulls out her phone. She finds the full video of the match she had with Hayley Halsey the night before and she’s definitely taking pride in what she felt was a new dimension to her that she feels can come through and create big waves for the 5BW season to come.
“The Tweets” - July 2022
When Cordelia first read these tweets at the time, she was taken aback. Getting that type of endorsement and feedback from one of the GM’s of 5BW was absolutely taken as a compliment. She knew she had a bright future ahead of her, but this simply validated it. This, in connection with the new ‘assertive side’ that had started to come out of her, fueled her.
At the time, these tweets were a blessing to her.
But as time has gone on, she had no idea how much of a curse they would become to her career.
Cordy’s Diary - June 2023
“What a season four of 5BW, right?
So, at the start of the season, the Carter Corporation, the ‘big bads’ of 5BW at the time, were impressed about what I did to Hayley Halsey in Minneapolis that they wanted me to become part of their group. I said ‘no’. I was never going to sell out to people that were never going to care about me. Minka and Candice Carter sent their minions after me to try to beat me into line and to try and force me to join their group and yes, wins and losses were exchanged at the time, but I held my resolve and I never joined them. To be in that WarGames match last December and be a part of the puzzle that caused the dissolution of that group is a badge of honor for me.
I’m growing confident with time. I dabbled in the main event scene a little bit. I even got to main event a Pay-Per-View three months ago. I ultimately didn’t win the 5BW World Championship this season, but I’m only 24 and I still have plenty of time. BUT, defeating Gabe Khane for the Freedom Championship to close out the season? I’ll take that. It really felt like the final piece of the puzzle for a great season for me. I have few negative things to say about it. I know the likes of Gabe and Carter Corp. were pains in my butt. Yet, I overcame them all.
But I have noticed an increase of people in 5BW, largely people like Gabe, that are throwing around ‘management favorite’ at me as if it was a slur and I’ve tried to shrug it off but it really does bother me. I didn’t win the Freedom Championship because 5BW management wanted me to. I won it because I earned it. That ‘slur’ toward me tells me that people in 5BW think that I’m not capable of being successful on my own and that hurts. I want to be successful because of me! I don’t want to be successful because of Meagan’s tweets from last July or because she endorsed me.
Maybe it was best she never tweeted that?
Or am I overthinking?”
July 2023
“I won the Rising Star award right?”
Cordelia is beaming and her eyes are definitely bright as she’s thinking that with her body of work, she was going to run away with that aforementioned award. Her sister Morganna (who she had long since made up with by this point after their Season 3 wars) is wearing a glum expression on her face.
“Right?”
“...Diana Tremblay did…”
“WHAT?”
“The vote wasn’t that close…”
It was in this moment that Cordelia experiences denial before she plops down on her couch and feels absolutely defeated.
“How could the fans vote HER over me? I’d understand it a little bit if it was a wrestler that they liked, but that girl kept getting booed. I was part of the dissolution of the ‘big bad stable’ of 5BW. I won the Freedom Championship. I main evented a Pay-Per-View Hell in a Cell match with Minka Carter, one of the longest reigning world champions 5BW has ever had, and I WON!. Diana won a lower title and sure, got to main event a Pay-Per-View herself…”
“Only because the 5BW World title was up for grabs around the same timeframe at the Denzel thing…” Morganna reminds her.
“Exactly! Sure, she got to beat a former world champion like I did, in the form of Tyler Truex at Vendetta, but… Minka was a stronger world champion than Tyler was…”
“I don’t know what to tell you, baby sis.”
“The fans rejected me… for what?”
Cordelia is on the verge of tears at this point.
“I grinded, I busted my butt for them, I did everything that I could for them and it wasn’t good enough? How can they vote some basic, dime a dozen supermodel BITCH…”
“LANGUAGE!”
“Like YOU of all people can say that, Morgan…”
“I feel you. I really do. You’ve got what Diana doesn’t. You’re right, she’s a dime a dozen. She’s just a basic model type wrestler who really isn’t that special. A good wrestler? Sure. But your body of work over the season is so much stronger than hers. The fans probably punished you over those endorsement tweets from a year ago…”
“The one where Meagan said I was the one to watch for?”
“Yeah. Fans don’t like that. Wrestling fans like to get behind who THEY want to get behind, not who someone in management tells them to get behind. The fans must’ve seen those tweets as the company trying to shove you down their throats.”
“But that’s not fair! I didn’t ask for that endorsement!”
“It’s how it is, Cordy. I hope I am wrong, but I think they see you as a ‘management pick’ rather than someone that they can get behind. People in the locker room tapping into their feelings calling you ‘management favorite’ on camera doesn’t help either. Try not to take it personal, okay? It’s not your fault. It’s nothing you did wrong. It was just the fans going ‘rage against the machine’.
Morganna embraces her before she makes her exit. When she has a moment to herself, Cordelia willingly lets herself burst into tears. The ‘rejection’ by the fans certainly stung her and now she’s going into the 5th and current 5BW season wondering if she should approach things differently…
February 25, 2024 - 5BW Shattered
Cordelia has just shocked the world and decided to turn on Meagan, turn on the 5BW fans and turn on whatever morals and values she thought were going to be good enough. She has grabbed her bags and is walking out of the building making sure to avoid everyone that she can. She’s got a cold, angry look in her eyes as she heads into the parking lot and sees her newlywed husband Brian standing there, looking quite stunned.
Cordelia: If what I did repulses you, we can get our marriage annulled.
Brian: Cordy… really?
Cordelia: Yes. I’m sorry that you don’t approve, but she had it coming for a long time. All it took was those two tweets to fuck me over and anchor my career.
Brian: Who said I didn’t approve?
Cordelia: Sorry?
Brian: You’ve been through way too much hell over the last few months, more than anyone should ever endure. It’s about time you broke away.
Cordelia has a smile on her face.
Cordelia: Really?
Brian: Yes. You deserve better than to be treated like ‘teacher’s pet’ and being disrespected the way the fans have been disrespecting you. You sure as hell deserved better than what WE had to go through because I was in a coma for weeks because of one of THEIR wrestlers. Let’s go! We’ve got a honeymoon awaiting us.
Cordelia: I’m never losing you again, no matter what. It’s just US now! Hell with everyone else!
Cordelia and Brian exchange a passionate kiss before they head to his car and they start to drive away toward their honeymoon.
But how someone slowly became one of the biggest sweetheart/girl next door type of people in 5BW only to become bitter, jaded and disrespected?
There are plenty of chapters in one hell of a story to tell…
(TBC)