There's no doubt in my mind that if you had kept with Haven, Young Justice would be heading to Kingdom Come with the belts intact. Who would you have liked to have fought as tag team champion there?
I don't know much about the passed history of Chris K.O. As a refresher (mostly due to me being lazy), can you sum up his stint in WZCW so far to me?
I don't know, partner. You guys pulled out the big guns at LL. I think the problem for YJ is that we tried to take on a much larger story outside of the fed and it was going to belittle our feud in the fed. I am a constant critic of keeping a character grounded in the actual wrestling, so I am willing to admit that I felt my character start grasp. I also feel bad because I feel the majority of responsibility in pushing our characters that well. I strongly believe that the concept would have been fun and payed off well, but it was hurting on current RP qualities in terms of addressing our actual opponents. T
Time constraints completely made working two characters impossible (which was my original plan). I would have put out very poor work with both my characters had I stayed in the team with Darkside and RPed as Chris K.O. simultaneously.
However, had I stayed in the team, and somehow we retained, I am not quite sure who we would have faced. Had you guys been championed, I think there is no doubt that it should have been an epic rematch with a thrilling stipulation to end our feud. But as champions, I don't think you guys would have got another crack at the belts. It would have made three straight PPVs that we had beat Cerberus in some fashion. My dream would have been to dig up JGlass and Doc for a one-off match (kind of like The Rock returning to fight Cena thing).
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I will gladly recount Chris K.O.'s history to you. I'll just cover the kayfabe aspect as it could get a bit wordy injecting what I went through on the RP side of things. It will already be wordy as is.
First and foremost, the character entered the WZCW under his real name, Sam Masters, as face. He quickly turned heel and found himself under the tutelage of Ty Burna alongside James King. Those three were the original members of Apostles of Chaos.
Ty was world champion in the early days of the stable, but lost the belt at Unscripted '11 to Big Dave. From there, he went back into hunt mode for the belt while also positioning himself into a surprising big transaction. Meanwhile, James and Chris were tearing up veterans like Everest and Steamboat Ricky. After a brief partnership, Chris slowly found himself pushed out of the tag division with the re-emergence of Dr. Alhazred, who along with James reformed the Forgotten Powers under the Apostles of Chaos banner. The three Apostle members engaged in a brief feud with Steven Kurtesy, Saboteur, and Action Saxton in a losing effort at All or Nothing '11. However, Ty had other plans for Chris soon after.
Ty began grooming Chris to take the first step into becoming just like him. That step involved a title chase and a series of bouts against Black Dragon, the EurAsian Champion (and arguably one of the best RPer to ever grace the fed). Chris failed on three separate occasions. The last of which came at LL IV, where on that same night Ty Burna won the LL. Not only was Ty now main-eventing KC for the world title, but he had also positioned himself into buying one-half of WZCW from Chuck Myles, who blindly sold his half in hopes of early retirement.
Enter the slow-burn towards a face turn. Ty's complete manipulation and control of Chris' free time and Ty's utter vileness led Chris to miss a very personal event during the LL Cycle, the death of his father. Bitter and upset, Chris joined alongside Ty's business partner (the man who helped orchestrate Ty's purchase of half of WZCW) to take down Ty Burna from the inside. All the while, Ty put Chris in charge of the Apostles of Chaos (James, Alhazred, Alex Bowen, and S.H.I.T.) to face Team WZCW (Celeste Crimson, Titus, Everest, Steamboat Ricky, and Gordito) at Kingdom Come IV for full ownership of WZCW.
Along the road to Kingdom Come IV, Chris would have a series of strange interactions with Team WZCW's captain, Celeste Crimson (which led many people to believe that Chris was in love). However, Celeste's motherly nature simply reminded him of his own late mother. In addition, Chris began an affair with Serafina, Ty's lady of the dark. Ty was not amused.
At Kingdom Come, Ty Burna lost the main event, but Chris reluctantly led the Apostles to victory, which gave Ty Burna full ownership of WZCW. Ty quickly unveiled his knowledge of Chris' betrayal in the Redemption cycle and hung him, bloodied and bruised, on a chaos symbol for all to see. Soon after, the Apostles of Chaos would disband and the focus was put solely on Ty vs. Chris. The weight of WZCW was put on Chris' shoulders as he was set to take on Ty Burna at Redemption in a Casket Match to gain back control of WZCW.
In a rare scenario, the Casket Match went on as the main-event (which I am still extremely humbled by to this day [even though I know it was mainly due to Ty's star power and not mine]) over the world title six pack. Chris, with some help from Serafina, was able to successfully defeat Ty and close the casket. However, the casket burst into flames immediately after the match. Ty Burna was nowhere to be seen.
After the PPV, order was re-established in WZCW. Serafina left Chris to search for Ty and the "hero" of WZCW had a name to live up to. The pressure of the fans and those in the back caused him to undergo what his manager called "Project White-Wash". It was the complete denial that Chris could do anything wrong, and it built him up to be an almighty perfect "savior" of WZCW.
The fans and those around him quickly turned sour on the moniker. Chris tried to portray himself as a White Knight, even going as far as to wear a white knight helmet out to the ring for matches. Chris seemed arrogant in his attempts to live up to the hype. The fan's boos, a loss to Steven Holmes on PPV, a heart-breaking loss to Titus for a world title shot in a battle royal, and ultimate low of losing to Justin Cooper in an open invitational pushed Chris into a dark area.
Aftershock 18, after a cycle of boos, Chris K.O. finally turns heel and attacks Titus, who had been questioning Chris' "heroic" antics. The two would go on to fight at All or Nothing where Chris would pull off a pretty big win. The two were not finished there, but the continuation of their feud would have to wait for an interesting detour made its way into WZCW.
El Califa Dragon arrived on the scene and garnered the attention of conspiracy theorist Drake Callahan. Chris joined Drake's theory that El Califa was actually Ty Burna after some similarities in in-ring style and action. The story culminated at LL V when two El Califa Dragon's entered the LL match. They executed two consecrated banishment, and one revealed himself as Ty Burna. Drake would ultimately win the LL match, which would leave Chris alone to go after his long desired resolution to the Apostles aftermath saga. But sadly, it was not to be.
El Califa and Ty suddenly vanished after LL. This led to a reprisal in the Titus feud. Titus returned to reclaim his honor against the man with a messiah complex. Along the way, Chris took advantage of a down-on-his-luck Triple X and became EurAsian Champion. The stage was then set at KC V for Titus to take on Chris for the EurAsian Title in an "I Quit" match. Miraculously, Chris retained and defeated Titus.
From there, Chris would go on to briefly mentor Dustin Hunter. The combo was paired when Chris won Dustin's soul back from a voodoo master. The combo was short lived, and at Redemption, Dustin betrayed Chris and caused him to lose the EurAsian Title in a triple threat against Mikey Stormrage and James Howard (the latter winning it).
After Redemption, Chris hopped on a plane to head overseas to promote the upcoming All Stars event. His plane went down, and the wrestler was presumed dead. However, after more than 210 days, news broke that Chris K.O. was found alive. He has now returned as the bearded crazy man you see on screen. He is managed by a volleyball named Steve. His only clear motive is the desire to get his hands on Ty Burna in hopes to finally resolve a multi-year long personal qualm.
I know that really wasn't the short version, but that basically sums it up kayfabe wise.
If we were getting paid 5-6 figures to do this all the time, sure?
