Beyond the Infinite: Volume 4- Andre Jenson
May 15, 2017 8:56:36 GMT -6
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Post by Beyond The Infinite on May 15, 2017 8:56:36 GMT -6
Beyond The Infinite: We all partake in fantasy world that has been created for us by some all greater being. This world is wrestling based because lets face it wrestling is the fucking bomb. It’s this odd spectacle of fighting and storytelling that’s done way worse than an action flick, but slightly better than a B-Movie.
Then there’s those that enter different worlds of fantasy. Worlds of dragons and dungeons. Worlds where you can exhibit your wildest imagination and not be judged, but be worshiped for how fucking stupid and ludicrous you sound. These slack jawed bi-focalled nerds generally sit around in one of their mother’s basements hopped up on energy drinks and Jelly Belly pretending that they’re knights and goblins and orcs whereas in real life the only interaction with violence they’ve ever experienced is their weekly marathons of the Lord of the Rings trilogy while taking brief pauses to masturbate to My Little Pony Rule Rule 34 pornography.
God, they wish that they could put their Twilight Sparkle into that Pinkie Pie (I have 2 daughters the age of 4 and 5 so I’m allowed to know who they are)
Then there’s the few, in fact… the ONE that mixes these two worlds together. There’s the person who created a world in another universe and brought him over to this one. The man known as Andre Jenson was thought of as a silly character at first, but once he wrote down his thoughts and began to expand on his story now people can’t stop reading his role plays. He is one of the few able to make a world of fantasy seem like a world of reality and make you empathize with perhaps the least feasible type of scenario. When you can make someone actually relate as the leader of the brave galleon taking charge into a sea of tropes and it gives them the feels then you know you’re doing something right.
So in this next installment of Beyond the Infinite we delve into the world known by few, and admitted to be known by even fewer. Andre Jenson joins us next!
BTI: As always, first let me know a little bit about yourself. Who are you, what do you do, likes, dislikes. Pretend that you’re trying to win a date with me, but you also are looking for a serious relationship so tell me as much as you would tell someone on a first date. For the record, I look awfully sexy tonight in my burlap sack and sandals with socks on.
Andre Jenson: Well, I haven't had a first date in an awfully long time so I don't know what happens now. Dating is weird nowadays. You just swipe and date like 12 people at once or something? Either way I'd suck at it now.
My name is Andrew. I'm 35 and is one of the ones in the fed who has a cool accent and misses most of the fun ooc convos because he's 7 hours ahead of most of you.
BTI: The point of the interview has come where I pretend to be able to relate to what you have said. I grew up is Liverpool in the late 60s. My friends Paul and John went on to form a bug exploration group. Good times. What about your family, anything interesting going on?
AJ: I'm married, life is good. I live in the middle of England in a county called Staffordshire. My days consist of working for a software company, chilling out with wife and our dogs and trying to write on the train when gobby kids are distracting. Not ours, no. They're evil shits so we're not bothering.
BTI: OK. I know you’re writing this on your phone so it may be a typo, but more realistically you caught me… I’m not really British. What the hell does Gobby mean?
AJ: Loud and annoying. I think the American equivalent is something like running their mouths. I'm only on the phone until the renovations are done and I get the PC back.
I'm pretty boring in life really. I don't smoke, ever. (Losing about 6 family members to lung cancer before they hit 70 will do that to you.) I am definitely not into drugs and cannot fathom why it's socially acceptable nowadays to just smoke pot. Out in the open. With no recriminations. What's that about? I drink the odd glass or two of wine when chilling at home with my lady Samantha. When my rp gets really stupid, it's usually because of that.
Finally, I don't know if you can tell but I totally love Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.
BTI: Who the hell are they?
AJ: Heathen! Adams wrote hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy and Pratchett wrote the disc world books! You should read them.
Oh and I play MMOS, and am completely fascinated with Lonely Island right now.
BTI: I'm sorry, I fell asleep. This seems as good as any time to bring it up. What games to you find yourself drawn to?
AJ: Currently I'm playing Final Fantasy xiv a lot. I like mmos and rp games. As well as management sims like Football Manager and TEW. Not a big fan of shooters and twitch based games.
BTI: I've got an affinity for management functions in games. American Football is my sport. Now let’s talk wrestling. You obviously wouldn’t be writing in a creative wrestling writing environment unless you had at least some passion for wrestling. What is your experience with the sport of kings? How did you get into it, who is your favorite of all time etc…
AJ: My grandad started it. I was young, 6 or 7 I think and he used to take me to All Star wrestling shows here in the UK. We had the likes of Giant Haystacks, Big Daddy, Kendo Nagasaki, Robbie Brookside, Dave Finlay and a rather skinny pre roided Davey Boy Smith. The shows were the kind where they always had 2 out of three falls, some old dear would always take it too far and hit a heel with a handbag and we always got to play in the ring as kids and meet the wrestlers. Somewhere I have a picture of me in a headlock by Davey Boy Smith as the British Bulldog, took when he was over here promoting the WWF one time at this All Star Wrestling event.
Then Sky launched and along with it came the WWF. I remember watching it for the first time, I think it was Summerslam 88. I was hooked. It was so much bigger and better than All Star.
BTI: I’ve heard so much about Sky and wrestling from various podcasts I listen to. Summerslam 88 was the first event of it’s kind. Starting off with your boys, the British Bulldogs wrestling a Broadway against the Rougeau Brothers and ending with the The Mega Powers performing in what would end up being the beginning of the end of that fabled duo. Definitely a good show to get hooked on. That one is right in my wheelhouse.
But I want to talk about Summerslam 1992 was the biggest event in wrestling history up until that time, if you include the fact that they blatantly lied about Wrestlemania 3’s attendance… and is noted to be the 4th largest attendance for a wrestling event in WWE ever. It was at Wembley Stadium with an attendance of over 80 thousand. Bret Hart vs Davey Boy Smith… this must have been a big moment for you considering your unhealthy obsession with the British Bulldog. I know you were only in about 4th or 5th grade, but tell me about this event and how it affected you and the wrestling community in the area.
AJ: I remember Lord Alfred Hayes announcing it on Superstars one day and tried to get my dad super involved in taking me. Alas he couldn't afford it at the time as he was saving to take us to Florida. Luckily, my best friend at the time had a spare ticket because his brother didn't wanna do it. So I went to Wembley stadium for the first and only time on that Saturday in 1992. I've not been there since it was rebuilt.The seats were not that bad, for a wrestling event in a stadium. There's something special about 80 thousand people in the National stadium cheering on a home country guy in the main event. It should really have signalled a push for a Bulldog toward the world title. Still annoyed that he never won it. It's actually outrageous a British person still hasn't won the big one yet in all honesty.
I still go to Raw as much as I can. Missing the London show this time because all our money has gone into being an adult this year, such is life. It did make me a lifelong fan though. Vince just needs to push the button on Wrestlemania at Wembley now, or at least Summerslam returning. April at Wembley will be as cold as all shit and raining, probably. Plus Wembley is usually used in early April for football matches. However, the boxing match with Anthony Joshua and Vladimir Klitschko showed it can still work at Wembley in April. We just need a main event star to get behind before it happens.
BTI: Who is that guy right now that you can see going to WWE and you would be able to get behind from England?
AJ: Quite honestly it should have been and still should be Barrett. He had it all, he was over as all hell when he did his bad news stuff but for some reason they never pulled the trigger. Ruling him out though, I mean we got Zack Sabre Jr out there, Will Ospraey and someone I'm quite honestly surprised they haven't brought in yet, Nick Aldis. I mean he's Married to Mickie James still, right? Hell he can even bring in his Gladiators character Oblivion and keep challenging everyone to hang tough matches or races up the travelator.
BTI: Finally to efedding. Without talking about Jenson specifically yet, tell me about your experience in efedding. How did you start, why did you start, where did you start, where have you gone? Anything and everything you want to tell me without going into specifics about your current character.
AJ: Started in a fed called Primetime Championship Wrestling, back when I was at university in 2000. It was intense, people threw up 20k rps twice a week just to beat a guy in a standard match. The fed head was some sort of Vince McMahon type and I was fired/ demoted to their version of OVW more than once. In there we were graded like an essay and told where we can improve. I was constantly told to be better at shoot, to write more, to cut out the comedy crap.
To be honest though, I wasn't taking it seriously. My guy was a Matt Hardy clone called AJ Storm. I was in a stable with a friend from home and frankly we were bad. Very bad. We just sat there and took the piss out of people mostly. I think that's why we were thrown off a building.
After that a friend from efedding set us up in another fed (one which was still a part of the PCW network. This guy was like Vince before Vince was Vince) called SCCW. I started to learn a bit more then. Basically got some more ideas and momentum and realized that I'm better at telling stories in this game than shooting on people and going from one opponent to the next without any real purpose other than win. I was taught that's not what role playing is about. It's about the story. This is about the same time I started playing D&D as well.
After that folded I retired for a while. Like for a decade. Then found myself back doing this in the dub till I realized that's for the people who prefer the pace and unforgiving relentlessness of PCW.
BTI: Leave Andre Holmes out of this. Now tell me about Jenson. What does he mean to you, why is he important to you?
AJ: His current form is something I cooked up because my wife told me that I should start writing shit again as she enjoyed reading it. She loves D&D and loves comedy. Jenson is mainly written for me and her to be honest. I used the name back in SCCW where he was a hapless heel who just couldn't do anything right. I retooled him as a hero and someone who loves D&D using the same sort of humour Sam and I enjoy all the time. Some of the things he says and does are also directly from our D&D sessions.
BTI: So how much does D&D and Roleplaying for a wrestler go hand in hand? I’ve never played D&D before because I’m not a loser with no friends! Actually as I understand it you actually need a pretty solid core group of friends to be able to truly get immersed in the world, but because I don’t have that and never got into it and don’t really understand it I use insults as a defense mechanism.
AJ: In many ways it's exactly the same, it all depends on how you see our hobby. I, for example see it as a chance to tell stories to others as a collaboration with your opponent and/or partner when you have a match or feud. Then you can also tie it in with stuff going on in the fed and your own personal story. Same as D&D where you and your party try to beat challenges set by the DM. In our case, the DM is Spence who sets the scene and lets us do our thing.
If you look at it competitively, like some others in this hobby. Then there isn't really a comparison, as you're just basically roasting the other guy all the time. I don't like that. Some people try that with the DM in D&D and just try to beat him. Those games usually end up in fights.
BTI: Where do you see Jenson going, IC in the fed and in his story (without spoiling anything for the reader)
AJ: He has to get his dice back, surely? Jenson without functional dice is like Gordon Ramsay with a blunt knife.
I'm looking to add a couple of new characters in my cast, a couple of New bad guys who are in his world and carry on doing my thing with Teo.
In terms of fed standing. I'm just happy writing stories and working with others. If Spence came and said “you’re now a jobber and you lose every week” then as long as it's a good story, I'm good. I doubt I'll be classed as one of the top guys with a world title at any point soon, but that's not my aim anyway, not without a good story to go with it first.
BTI: Let’s talk UCI: How does this place compare to other places you’ve efedded?
AJ: It's a lot more chill. Everyone is supportive and there are no real jackasses here that will just tear you down for no reason other than to assert themselves as a top dog or any of that bullshit. Other than Andre, but he doesn't mean it. He’s just relentless.
BTI: WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT BRINGING ANDRE HOLMES INTO THIS!? How would you improve on UCI?
AJ: More OOC interaction with everyone! And that goes for me too. I slack too much at that myself.
BTI: Who do you want to feud with?
AJ: Quite honestly, I would work with anyone. Right now, if I was a singles guy I'd say NegaSoniK would be funny, or anyone in the brotherhood really. As a tag team? Teo and I want to rival the guardians in terms of quality and iconic status. We've got a lot of work to do, but we can get there.
BTI: Besides yourself, obviously, who is the next person you think that will be the World Champ?
AJ: I never even thought of myself!
BTI: Me Neither, it’s just a generic question.
AJ: Bonnie, she's surely due with this whole thing with the brotherhood.
BTI: It’s been said before… Bonnie da Bomb. Final Thoughts?
AJ: The only thing I would ever say to anyone in this hobby is to just enjoy yourself. Be yourself, do what you fancy doing and find yourself as a writer. ‘Cause that is pretty much what this game’s about for me.
BTI: You may say that it’s hypocritical for someone who LARPS to be yourself, but the most important thing that he said there was to enjoy yourself. It truly resonates with the state of the world today. And what I would like to add is to allow others to be who they are as well. We have fun with each other. We crack wise and push each other to the edge, but the most important thing that we can do as a society to be yourselves and to let others be themselves.
Whether you identify as a male/female/trans etc… whether you are a gun toting ‘Murican who swills booze… whether you’re a LARPer… even if you’re dumb we as a society need to support the decision or the way that people are.
I bet you didn’t know that an interview with Andre Jenson was gonna get so deep, but as you know when BTI is involved we give only the deepest of penetration. And we go even deeper into our archive as next week we talk to someone that no one probably gives a damn about… but after I give them the BTW treatment he will be the next big thing. See you then bitches!
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