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Enter Reinita, the Little Queen

Ring Name: Reinita
Weight Class: Heavy Cruiserweight (at the end of the Cruiserweight spectrum for women. Mid for men.)
Wrestling Technique: Luchador
Wrestling Style: Dirty
Alignment: Once a Heel (bad guy), now a ‘Face (baby face)
Belts Won: Women’s Championship, Tag-team Championship

Tag-Team Partner: El Colibri Negro (The Black Hummingbird)

Ring Persona: Sharp as a tack, clever, with a deliberate penchant for being tactless, Reinita proves the meaning of her name whenever she enters the ring. Barbs of sarcasm are not uncommon to her, and she’ll use every mode of intimidation to break down her opponent’s defenses.

Regardless of her ‘reign of supremacy’ over her enemies, she is utterly loyal to those she deems worthy. However, unwanted tag-team partners watch out: this queen won’t hesitate to purposely lose a match if she favors her opponents.

Extended IWS Wrestling Tab: Click here!

In-game Pictures: I made Reinita on the video game Smackdown! VS. Raw, so the next set are of her. Small discrepancies, but nothing I can't fix...so without further ado~ Look at my ghetto photography skills in awe!

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- Torso: [x]
- Legs: [x]
- Profile: [x]
- Back (head): [x]
- Back (torso): [x]

Luchador spread, as drawn by moi: [x]


The Woman Behind The Mask

Name: Gloria Santiago-Velez
- Most Hispanic names adopt both last names from each parent, the father's foremost, then the mother's. In this case, Santiago is Gloria's father's last name, and Velez belongs to her mother. Though she signs with 'Santiago', Gloria associates herself more with 'Velez'. It's either 'Gloria Santiago-Velez' or 'Gloria Velez'.
Gender: Female
Age: 26
Birth date: February 9, 1980
Birthplace: Santurce, Puerto Rico
Nationality: Puerto Rican
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 139
Build: Neither skinny nor fat, Gloria appears to be caught in the middle – though manages to remain surprisingly toned given her job. Because the fact that she grew up in a Puerto Rican household and her mother always fussed that she was too skinny as a child, she grew up and filled out into a shapely and robust young lady. Also because of her background, she has wide hips, a round waist, and breasts that she has always - since the day she heard she d need a bra at nine - hated. She was given the nickname Guitarra at home, which means guitar.
Skin tone: Tan, a sort of dark honey color.
Eyes: Gloria s eyes are round, dark, and fringed with long lashes, giving her the complete camel look. It really doesn’t help the authoritative part of her, but gives her a rather naive appearance (even though when she s not smiling, she looks severe like an angry child). Her brows are somewhat thick and arched, dark against her skin.
Hair: Her hair lingers just past her shoulders, black coffee brown, thick, and VERY wavy. Without attention will easily become frazzled. She parts her bangs so that they fall on either side of her face rather than in her eyes and because the ends are particularly wavy, they tend to tickle against her cheeks. It has a course and wiry feel to it, not unlike a horse’s mane. (Usually kept up in a ponytail or a bun).

Mother: Carmen Santiago-Velez
Father: Angelo Santiago-Velez
Siblings: Raphael (eldest, half-brother from father s first marriage - 32), Emanuel or Manny (older, full brother - 28 )
Martial Status: Very much engaged to one Ramon Ramirez

Education: Finished college
Sports: Wrestling, Kenpo, Streetball with her brothers (basically all-out basketball)
Ring Heroes: Hulk Hogan, Undertaker, Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero

Personality: There’s a strong, out-spoken woman hiding behind that half smile she always wears, a character behind that unreadable face. Gloria’s a passionate woman, justifiably speaking her mind when the need and time arises. However, her words only come out firmly when she has something to fight for, otherwise she has tendency to tip-toe around subjects that she’s not too keen about.

She really doesn’t understand that part of herself, and tries to correct it. Being blunt doesn’t work if you can’t feel it, right?

Gloria will always be a kind young girl at heart, though, compassionate if not naïve at times. No matter how much fame she gains, it never seems to inflate her ego – humble, she tries to give back to her fans what they give to her.

She also has this habit of giving people nick-names based on appearance.

Despite her kindness, she has a downfall:

Her explosive anger.

Luckily, this is very rare – but when it happens, beware. She’s prone to becoming physically violent before exiting the problem completely. She manages to give warning signals in the form of sharp answers and a rising voice before the inevitable hits. Toe her red zone too much and you’ll get a punch in the jaw.

Likes: Her job, her fans, running, cooking (especially large meals over a spit, mmm.), singing in Spanish, dancing (salsa, merengue ), loud music, being with her family, being near the ocean, hanging out, playing various sports with no rules, guns, reading, big groups of people, rash decisions, scary movies, history, theology

Dislikes: Rude and inconsiderate people, being talked down to, being underestimated, being called things like ‘Diva’, ‘chick’, ‘babe’ (she’ll castrate you. (: ), being alone, disorganization, being cooped up inside, not having some sense of control, crying

On Looks... Of the zebras, the Grevy's is the largest of the species, standing 50 to 60 inches at the shoulder and weighing in between 770 to 990 pounds. As well as being the largest, it is also the most primitive behaviour and appearance wise, but despite this, it is also said to be the most aesthetically pleasing. This equid is long legged, with a longer, narrower head and large, conical ears: mule-like in appearance. Its mane stands erect and on juveniles, extends the length of its back. The tail, of course, ends in a tuft of hair.
- On stripes... The stripes on the Grevy's are much narrower and much more abundant that on others; they are perpendicular to the spine and curve around the tail in a triangular form. However, the stripes do not touch the belly of the beast, which is left completely white. The ears are given broad stripes and on the legs, the stripes appear to gather into tighter bundles. The nose, of course, is colored black, however it isn't as dark as the Plain's zebra.



On Behaviour... The Grevy's zebra is very much a social animal, a basic unit consisting of a mare and one or two foals. Units often combine though herds, but are unstable and do not establish rank hierarchies. However, mixed groups of 100 to 200, sometimes up to 450 zebras, are not uncommon during migration and around water points in the dry season.

Grooming plays a large role in social bonding. Grevy's use facial expressions and sounds (not unlike a braying noise) and groom through biting and nibbling at one another.

Males hold large territorial grounds, and most any female that wander onto it are free game for breeding. Strangely, most male Grevy's are tolerant of other males that come onto their territory, some even forming small bachelor groups; they allow them in but refuse to allow them to breed with the females on their ground.



On Diet... Grevy's spend most of their time feeding (a whopping 60% - 80%) day and night (they have very good eyesight with a possibility of seeing color). Their teeth are built for chewing and cropping and they most often feed on grass, though oftentimes feed on bushes, stems, and fruits. They don't require as much water as others, but will walk up to twenty miles to reach a waterhole.


Why? You know, that's a good question! Of all the animals I love, why did I pick the zebra? I really have no idea other than the shallow fact that they're beautiful, or I think they are. Gloria seems to possess many of the same tendencies too - the social structure is not unlike the one in her household; she needs others, particularly a small group, to keep herself sane. She's independant up to a certain point, and if you take away her family, you take away everything she lives for.

Which is why I want her on the island. I think it'd be mighty interesting to get a girl who relies on her family for mental survival to be stripped from everything she knows and loves.




Ideal 100%: Gloria's face has elongated to resemble a Grevy's, though humanesque in the way her emotions animate it; three sender stripes go down the length of her nose, with two 'caligraphy' type lines on either side. Three stripes run down beneath either eye, connected over the top and the area around her mouth (or muzzle) has become black. Her eyes are the same (though now outlined with dark grey coloring), but again, spread upon her face to have the peripheral vision an equid has. Her ears are long and fluted, pointing either up through her hair or lying flat with two broad bands of black on them both. Her hair is a lot rougher in texture and has pushed back, though two locks of hair still fall on either side of her face. It (her hair or 'mane') follows the line of her spine as a short ridge. All of her hair is now white, though heavily striped with black, especially near her face. Also, her curls have been tamed to loose waves.

Her entire body is now covered with narrow black stripes which gather into penstrokes of black when they reach the bend of her elbows and knees. However, the area of her stomach and beneath and between her breasts has remained white.

Her fingers can either fuse into three or remain five save for the endings have become hard and nail-like, brackish in color. Her calf and shin area has been pushed back at an awkward angle to offer more balance, and her feet have become hard black hooves. Short black 'socks' are just above each one.

Her tail is thin and midlength, striped with black arrowing downward towards the brushtail sprouting from the tip.

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Yes! It is! <3

Lmao, I was wondering where all my hispanic people were at. ;O! The island needs some loud salsa music to unangst-ify it. xD

Haha! xD Don't worry, she's good for what it's worth. cool ANDHOLYCRAP. Thank you for pointing that out! I'm so blind I would have NEVER realized it! <33 *snuggles~*

Thank youuu~ heart

You also get the Pengy Approval! YAY!

Marshall: *pushes older brother towards*

*Vibrates excitedly.* I'm so glad she's approved! There's nothing like having one of your characters liked by others. :'D

Gallen, that means we share the same birthday. xDD

Gloria: We should throw something together sometime, then! Just, er...not spaghetti or anything...

Gloria: Huh? Wait -- what, no! Ahhh... *embarrassed facepalm.* e.x