Post by Bindy Trent on Feb 17, 2017 1:52:10 GMT -5
Post Valentine’s Day Bindy had wrecked herself on a candy binge. She’d stuffed herself full of too much sugar and artificial flavors and for several hours after thought she was gonna hurl. The day following that she atoned for her sweet, sweet sins with early morning cardio and afternoon yoga. So when she appeared on screens everywhere she was in a good mood and as much was on display through the big grin on her face. The young woman was standing in what appeared to be some sort of conference room. Plain white walls, big oblong table with dozens of chairs, and an old TV strapped to the top of one of those big metal stands you always got real excited when the substitute teacher rolled into the classroom.
»BINDY«
Guys, there’s something I need to get off my chest, and unfortunately if you think that means I’m about to do the rest of this video naked you’re going to be pretty disappointed. No, this is actually about a huge change I noticed from one day to the next in my opponent. Benny, if I can have a moment of your time I just wanna jump back real quick to your last video to some choice words of yours.
And normally I hate doing this schtick of, “Oh yeah, well you said this so nyah-nyah!” But I just felt as though I couldn’t let this big ol’ iceberg of what-the-heckery float by without being pointed out. You, the VCO himself with your own mouth, your very lips, said I’m always the one inspired by my opponents, and it’s NEVER the otherwise ...
I mean, all right if that’s the case you want to argue that’s fine. It’s a free country, at least for now. But um … for curiosity’s sake and my own interests I need to know, why then were you so eager to show us your Mister Bunny performance you do for the sick children the video before this last one? In fact, I went back and looked and your exact words were …
The TV on the stand was turned on, and she pressed the ‘play’ button on the VCR (haha, old technology). The paused tape took a second to start rolling, but it was a clip from Benny’s first video on the match. He was sitting in the hospital locker room, half dressed in his bunny costume.
●BENNY●
… I’m only doing this because my opponent, Bindy Trent, inspired me.
After he spoke, she immediately pressed paused, freezing the tape on a shaky image of Benny, mid-sentence, mouth open.
»BINDY«
Benny! Bro! Bro-enny, did you just hear that? And mind you that was before I had even said a word to the world in regards to you or this match. That’s how inspiring I am apparently. Maybe you can try and spin this with some story about, “Well I just said that to get you to fall into my masterful plan, muwahaha!” but I’m not buying it and I don’t think very many others will either. Because I do listen to myself and my opponents as well. It’s easy after getting caught in a glaring contradiction to claim you meant it all along. So easy in fact that it’s what almost everyone who slips up says is what happened. But we know that wasn’t.
I’m a people watcher by nature. I love to observe and just take in everything I can. So it is to some people’s surprise I do catch on to things they think I’d be a bit too ditsy or absent minded to notice, but I think even Ray Charles would have caught that hypocrisy, man. That wasn’t setting up some clever pitfall, that was just you goofin’ up. Admit it.
Your whole thing about having so masterfully played me, it reminds me of what Dare said at the tail end of our first battle. He made similar remarks that he could say I walked right into his trap, that I was too quick, too eager to become a copycat, but he didn’t. Because Dare is an all right fellow, and also because he probably realized a thing or two about me and that is that me finding inspiration in my opponents has never been a weakness.
There’s no shame in finding something in your opponent to learn from. The attitude that you already have everything figured out, that you know all there is, that you’ve absorbed every lesson out there … THAT’S weakness. You said you’ve learned and changed a great deal since you first joined AWE? That’s great, but your path isn’t mine. And who’s to say in another show or two you won’t have another revelation and grow into another version of yourself? Am I supposed to aspire then to be that Benny too?
I’m not here to play ‘Catch Up To Benny Stevens.’ I’m here playing ‘Be The Best Bindy You Can Be,’ and personally, though I am biased, I think I’m freakin’ killin’ it in that game. And just because I appreciated your approval doesn’t mean I need it. Truth is the only person I need to make happy at the end of the day is me.
The door of the hotel’s conference room opened, and several well dressed businessmen and women came walking in, all talking among themselves. When they spotted Bindy, and vice versa there was an long awkward pause. The young wrestler made the decision to just wing it and invent an excuse, rather than admit she had decided to use this room without permission from the hotel.
»BINDY«
Oooh, how embarrassing! This isn’t the right room for the Historical Reenactment Guild of Mork and Mindy is it? Silly me! I must have gotten the numbers mixed up!
To her left was a second door, the EXIT sign above it now a strong suggestion more than an option, which she quickly took to heart and did just that, dashing out before anyone could argue or question her story.
»BINDY«
Guys, there’s something I need to get off my chest, and unfortunately if you think that means I’m about to do the rest of this video naked you’re going to be pretty disappointed. No, this is actually about a huge change I noticed from one day to the next in my opponent. Benny, if I can have a moment of your time I just wanna jump back real quick to your last video to some choice words of yours.
And normally I hate doing this schtick of, “Oh yeah, well you said this so nyah-nyah!” But I just felt as though I couldn’t let this big ol’ iceberg of what-the-heckery float by without being pointed out. You, the VCO himself with your own mouth, your very lips, said I’m always the one inspired by my opponents, and it’s NEVER the otherwise ...
I mean, all right if that’s the case you want to argue that’s fine. It’s a free country, at least for now. But um … for curiosity’s sake and my own interests I need to know, why then were you so eager to show us your Mister Bunny performance you do for the sick children the video before this last one? In fact, I went back and looked and your exact words were …
The TV on the stand was turned on, and she pressed the ‘play’ button on the VCR (haha, old technology). The paused tape took a second to start rolling, but it was a clip from Benny’s first video on the match. He was sitting in the hospital locker room, half dressed in his bunny costume.
●BENNY●
… I’m only doing this because my opponent, Bindy Trent, inspired me.
After he spoke, she immediately pressed paused, freezing the tape on a shaky image of Benny, mid-sentence, mouth open.
»BINDY«
Benny! Bro! Bro-enny, did you just hear that? And mind you that was before I had even said a word to the world in regards to you or this match. That’s how inspiring I am apparently. Maybe you can try and spin this with some story about, “Well I just said that to get you to fall into my masterful plan, muwahaha!” but I’m not buying it and I don’t think very many others will either. Because I do listen to myself and my opponents as well. It’s easy after getting caught in a glaring contradiction to claim you meant it all along. So easy in fact that it’s what almost everyone who slips up says is what happened. But we know that wasn’t.
I’m a people watcher by nature. I love to observe and just take in everything I can. So it is to some people’s surprise I do catch on to things they think I’d be a bit too ditsy or absent minded to notice, but I think even Ray Charles would have caught that hypocrisy, man. That wasn’t setting up some clever pitfall, that was just you goofin’ up. Admit it.
Your whole thing about having so masterfully played me, it reminds me of what Dare said at the tail end of our first battle. He made similar remarks that he could say I walked right into his trap, that I was too quick, too eager to become a copycat, but he didn’t. Because Dare is an all right fellow, and also because he probably realized a thing or two about me and that is that me finding inspiration in my opponents has never been a weakness.
There’s no shame in finding something in your opponent to learn from. The attitude that you already have everything figured out, that you know all there is, that you’ve absorbed every lesson out there … THAT’S weakness. You said you’ve learned and changed a great deal since you first joined AWE? That’s great, but your path isn’t mine. And who’s to say in another show or two you won’t have another revelation and grow into another version of yourself? Am I supposed to aspire then to be that Benny too?
I’m not here to play ‘Catch Up To Benny Stevens.’ I’m here playing ‘Be The Best Bindy You Can Be,’ and personally, though I am biased, I think I’m freakin’ killin’ it in that game. And just because I appreciated your approval doesn’t mean I need it. Truth is the only person I need to make happy at the end of the day is me.
The door of the hotel’s conference room opened, and several well dressed businessmen and women came walking in, all talking among themselves. When they spotted Bindy, and vice versa there was an long awkward pause. The young wrestler made the decision to just wing it and invent an excuse, rather than admit she had decided to use this room without permission from the hotel.
»BINDY«
Oooh, how embarrassing! This isn’t the right room for the Historical Reenactment Guild of Mork and Mindy is it? Silly me! I must have gotten the numbers mixed up!
To her left was a second door, the EXIT sign above it now a strong suggestion more than an option, which she quickly took to heart and did just that, dashing out before anyone could argue or question her story.