AMA Keiko Hirabayashi

[Bobby Barrows]

稽古 平林
Keiko Hirabayashi
"The Mistress in Blue"
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Nickname:

Mistress in Blue
青の愛人
Ao no Aijin

Height: 5'4"

Weight: 119 lbs. (54 kg) [8.5 Stone]

Date of Birth: 04/09/1999 [Age: 23]

Billed From: Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Face/Heel/Tweener: Heel

Gimmick/Background:

They call her "The Mistress in Blue", her grace, elegance, and beauty unmatched by many in this business. Keiko Hirabayashi's whole ideal was simply a pursuit of perfection by any means necessary. When Keiko shot onto the Joshi scene in 2017 at the tender age of 18, she was inexperienced but full of fire. For a year she would come to grow and steady her style further... Miss Hirabayashi would not become the "Mistress in Blue" until after she became teamed with a slightly older, but infinitesimally more experienced veteran: "The Crimson Ghost" Aka Yurei. Inspired by Yurei's red aesthetic, Hirabayashi adopted an opposite sea blue aesthetic.

Hirabayashi's personality in the ring would be much the opposite of her former tag partner. Instead of intimidating her opponents with visceral looks and battling with bone-crunching moves, the Mistress would use different tactics, by any means necessary, and with her speed and technical prowess. Squaring up and brawling is foolish in her eyes, and tying up her opponents in knots is more her bread and butter. With a more tempered, if equally intense style, The Mistress in Blue is a threat to anyone who steps into the ring with her. Outside of the ring, what she considers "grace" others would call "arrogance". She does not doubt her abilities and anyone who calls her on it is dismissed with great haughtiness. Those "unelegant" few do not deserve to share the same light as the Mistress herself, after all.

During her time in Japan, the team of Aka Yurei & Keiko Hirabayashi, known at the time as "Aka Manto" (after the Japanese urban legend), were a dominant force on the Joshi scene in 2018-2020; the team ended on hostile terms later in their last year together after Keiko turned on Yurei, citing irreconcilable differences between the two. Indeed, it was in truth Keiko Hirabayashi that ran Aka Yurei out of the Japanese Joshi scene and pushed her onto the American stage; this was something that "The Mistress" took great pride in herself... but now she has followed Aka Yurei to America; who knows just what the hell could happen between the two this time...

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Non-AMA Accomplishments:

N/A

AMA Accomplishments:

N/A

AMA win-loss record, if you wish to keep one:

0/0/0/0

Style of wrestling (brawler, high flyer, technical, etc.):

Keiko Hirabayashi's style of wrestling is more akin to a Japanese Technical wrestler, instead of bone-crunching, devastating maneuvers, "The Mistress in Blue" prefers to wear down her opponents with stretches, submissions, arm drags, and targeting certain areas of the body for full effect. She will always come into a match with a strategy to take out a body part and render her opponents crippled. If an opponent attempts to square up and throw fists, Hirabayashi will try her hardest to not fall into that trap; using such punches and kicks, according to her is "inelegant". That being said, there will always be underlying moments of hypocrisy when she is especially frustrated, she will claw at an opponent's eyes, rake their back, and even throw clubbing elbows at their jaw just to teach them a lesson. Deathmatches are also a thing that Keiko deplores, likely stemming from her matches with Aka Yurei in the past. Think of a mix between Bret Hart's technical prowess, and younger brother Owen Hart's speed and agility.

Moveset:

Standing Attacks:

Snap Suplex
German Suplex
Russian Legsweep
Neckbreaker
Backbreaker
Abdominal Stretch
Octopus Stretch
Headlock
Arm Drag
Arm Wrench
Scoop Slam
Sleeperhold
DDT
Fireman's Carry
Small Package

Ground Attacks:

Headscissors
Fujiwara Armbar
STF
Boston Crab
Elbow Drop
Arm Stomp
Legbreaker

Running/Irish Whip Attacks:

Kitchen Sink
Bulldog
Running Neckbreaker
Running Crucifix Pin
Drop Toe Hold

Diving Attacks:

Diving Legdrop
Diving Hurricanrana
Bret's Rope (Second Rope) Elbow Drop

Signature Moves:

Elegant Dream (FKA Blue Paper) - Million Dollar Dream

A minimum of one finishing move, and a maximum of three:


The Siren's Call - Jumping Piledriver
サイレンの呼び声
Sairen no Yobigoe

Graceful Charity - Diving Elbow Drop
優雅な慈善団体
Yūgana Jizen Dantai

Blue Scorpion - Sharpshooter
ブルースコーピオン
Burūsukōpion

Attire / Entrance:

When one sees the "Mistress in Blue" entering the ring, her attire is a wonderous sea blue aesthetic. What little face paint she has is a juxtaposed pink, symbolically a gesture to both recognize and mock her former tag team partner: Aka Yurei. While coming down to the ring, she wields a parasol that she uses to shade herself from the inelegant and disgraceful fans; after all, she is the center of attention, and the spotlight is always on her. Other entrance attire includes a gorgeous long blue coat lined with white fur and a golden belt. When walking to the ring, her face is stone-like, bearing little expression other than graceful disdain, carrying the parasol and carrying herself like a goddess or a queen.

It should be noted that in Japan, the "Mistress in Blue" would prop herself up as some sort of monarch befitting her royal stature in wrestling. This included an entire ceremonial entrance, from which she is carried to the ring via a Norimono by attendants in ceremonial Japanese garb. Another attendant will hand Keiko her signature parasol. The only time this kind of entrance wasn't necessary was when she had teamed with Aka Yurei, where the two would walk down to the ring instead. When Keiko Hirabayashi has a championship, there will usually be a small ceremony before the match where she is handed flowers by attendants and she will insist that her opponents bow to her before the match.

Her actual in-ring attire varies depending on her mood, but tends to stay in the blue/black spectrum, a studded brassiere piece, lined from the center of the chest down to her trunks, which is a mixture of gold and blue with the kanji "愛人", meaning "Mistress" on the back. Her blue boots with black laces also run up to the top of her knees, giving many a fan a good view of her thigh space.

Entrance Theme:

"Zの鼓動 (Z-GUNDAM)" by Shigeaki Saegusa

 

[Alexa]

Z-Gundam theme...a true Lambda

 

[WelshyBOI]

Jesus, there’s nearly more Japanese and Japanese descended women in AMA that American women great character and gimmick! also, unless you want Trixie to spam Keiko with annoyingly friendly Tweets in an attempt to make another friend, then I suggest that Keiko avoid Twitter

 

[Rosie]

Jesus, there’s nearly more Japanese and Japanese descended women in AMA that American women great character and gimmick! also, unless you want Trixie to spam Keiko with annoyingly friendly Tweets in an attempt to make another friend, then I suggest that Keiko avoid Twitter

1. Joshi wrestling rules.

2. Be lucky we aren't pulling a Japan and forming a unit.

Unless...

Spoiler

 

[Rosie]

Also second, the character gives me vibes of Saka Sama.

 

[Alexa]

Also second, the character gives me vibes of Saka Sama.

Sakisama

 

[Rosie]

Sakisama

Must have had it confused with Saki Akai. Weird since they are two different people...

 

[Alexa]

Must have had it confused with Saki Akai. Weird since they are two different people...

It happens

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Well shit, now you make me wanna make a character with her too lol

 

[Rosie]

Well shit, now you make me wanna make a character with her too lol

You already have her a bit in Keiko

 

[Bobby Barrows]

You already have her a bit in Keiko

Now Keiko's sister on the other hand...

 

[Bobby Barrows]

So, I ended up deciding to change this character's face claim at the request of a good friend of mine out of respect, so now Keiko Hirabayashi is very much portrayed by Saki-Sama.

 

[Alexa]

So, I ended up deciding to change this character's face claim at the request of a good friend of mine out of respect, so now Keiko Hirabayashi is very much portrayed by Saki-Sama.

Sakisama is one word, not two friend.

 

[Rosie]

So, I ended up deciding to change this character's face claim at the request of a good friend of mine out of respect, so now Keiko Hirabayashi is very much portrayed by Saki-Sama.

Actually, ironically, she is the inspiration for a character in Cali's Japanese promotion, though of course, not in the fed, so the Blue Maiden is all her's. May she not pull a Neo-Bikishii-Gun/The Residence.

Edit: If anything, she is a perfect base.