Michelle Bailey

Michelle has cream colored skin and an athletic build, and she has become very versatile with her training since her transition. Who knew not being depressed would lead to better training? She doesn't have great muscular development in her arms or stomach, but she has well-built legs (she does a lot of squats, and she has shown on her Instagram that she can crack a watermelon between her thighs) and carries her weight well. Michelle's hair is shoulder-length, dyed in a balayage of platinum blonde that transitions into pink and purple about a quarter of the length in. Her most striking feature is something she's been hiding her whole career behind colored contacts - her different colored eyes! Her right eye is brown and her left eye is a greenish blue due to a medical condition called complete heterochromia. Since her different colored eyes aren't always visible to all, and she's willing to bring awareness to her condition to hopefully prevent the bullying she experienced growing up, she always wears two different colored kneepads in the ring as a representation of her heterochromia.

Michelle has aged rather gracefully, appearing as though she could be in her late-20s instead of 40 years old. Michelle credits consistent healthy living, good skin care, and her hormone replacement therapy for her youthful appearance. (She notes that her definition of "healthy living" includes being straight edge, sleeping eight hours a night whenever possible, and eating a clean diet with plenty of fruit, vegetables, and water, a routine she has kept up since her EMWC days.)

Of note, Michelle tends to wear her emotions on her sleeve. She has a somewhat okay poker face, but otherwise, her emotions are almost always on the surface. She's usually in a happy mood and typically has a grin on her face that's hard to knock off, but when she's worried or upset, it's pretty obvious just by looking at her face and body language. Also, she cries when she's hurt. She'll try to hold back the tears but sometimes when she's exerting herself to try and reach the ropes, the tears will just flow.

Some identifying marks/scars/features, aside from her eyes:
- a small scar on her left eyebrow (colliding with the guard rail during the Redemption Rumble in 2001)
- a slightly crooked nose (her nose was broken a couple of times, most notably when Jeremy Rhodes kicked her in the face to block the Britney Spear in the Steel City Rumble in 2002)
- a small scar near her bottom lip (accidentally gashed open during a backstage brawl in 2002 with Juan Vasquez, who was masquerading as the Ribera Kid)
- several small scars on her right shoulder (repairing a torn AC joint following EMWC's closure in 2003; she had injured the shoulder towards the end of 2002 but put off surgery)
- a pierced navel (she doesn't wear the piercing when she wrestles now, but it's been pierced since 2001)
- a pierced tongue (same situation; she pierced her tongue in 2001, but after only a couple of matches she accidentally swallowed the ball of her post during a match, so she waited until it was fully healed and decided not to wrestle with it her mouth anymore. If you look closely enough during her promos, you can see it while she talks, and sometimes you can see her playing with it when she's in the background because the post will occasionally pop out of her mouth)
- two piercings in each earlobe
- a helix piercing in her right ear

There's nobody quite like Michelle Bailey.

Michelle was born September 17, 1977, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her parents had moved to New Orleans a few months prior, from Pinehurst, North Carolina, when her father took a job as the groundskeeper supervisor at the English Turn Golf and Country Club. She is the baby of her family, having an older brother and sister, and it was often communicated that Michelle was a "surprise" to her parents (or an unintended pregnancy). The family stayed in New Orleans until 1988, when her father got a golf course superintendent job at his old workplace of the Pinehurst Resort, and the family moved back to Pinehurst.

The culture shock took its toll on Michelle, especially as she quickly became bullied for her love of art and her two-toned eyes. Michelle, having been assigned male at birth, also struggled with the stifling atmosphere of Pinehurst, feeling uncomfortable in going from such an artistic city in New Orleans to such a... well... backward-thinking village. It wasn't until she got to 8th grade and met a meatheaded jock in her homeroom class named Shane Kujawa that things got calmer for her. Turns out that meatheaded jock was actually incredibly kind, and the two became best friends.

With Shane helping her fend off bullies, Michelle made it through high school and graduated in 1995. Shane went off to play football at Duke University, and Michelle took a job as an assistant office manager at a mechanic in town, eventually dating the shop owner's daughter Colby. Colby ended up becoming pregnant towards the end of 1996 (as Michelle was trying to live a masculine life and was struggling with it), and Michelle, feeling an obligation to do the right thing, married Colby in January 1997. Their daughter, Bailey Nicole Martinelli, was born June 17, 1997.

Shane graduated early from Duke, in May 1998, and decided that he wanted to become a pro wrestler after missing the cut for the NFL, and Michelle, wanting to find a way to get out of Pinehurst and create a better life for her daughter, decided to train with him. Michelle was trained by Jeremy Rhodes and Billy Classon, debuting against Shane (who took on the name Shane Destiny) in a small North Carolina gymnasium in November 1998, the two wrestling to a time limit draw. The two were matched against each other in their first match out of sheer coincidence, and Michelle opted to use her birth name as her first name, as well as the last name Bailey as a stage name, in tribute to her daughter.

Michelle was wrestling under two personas from November 1998 to February 2000, in a tag team with Elias Spencer as The Black Sheep, and under a mask as Nightbreed. She would travel with Shane and Elias and toured throughout the South, but she also made occasional solo trips to Texas to wrestle for Blackjack Lynch's PCW as Nightbreed. When both Elias and Shane became sidelined by injuries, Michelle felt a need to make a major change.

Michelle had been feeling urges, ever since childhood, about who she really was. She always knew she was a girl, and felt that maybe wrestling would be a chance for her to experiment with those urges to see what they meant for her before doing anything with her real life. She went to Blackjack Lynch and asked if she could try a new gimmick during her next visit to PCW, and Lynch said since he didn't have posters printed advertising Nightbreed, she could do whatever she wanted, as long as she didn't damage the ring.

On February 5, 2000, Michelle Bailey re-debuted for PCW, as herself for the first time. The gambit worked, and soon she became an overnight sensation. In other promotions that had seen her as part of The Black Sheep tag team, it was (rather crudely) explained that she had been knocked unconscious and awoke believing herself to be a 16-year-old girl. Her legit hometown of New Orleans was used to her advantage, as promoters asked her to start mimicking fellow Louisiana native Britney Spears. Soon, she was wrestling every single weekend.

She was picked up by a startup organization, Knoxville Championship Wrestling, in July 2000, and quickly became one of their most popular competitors. Once it was clear that her feminine appearance wasn't all there was to her (as Michelle performed incredible feats of high-flying in the ring, including breathtaking moonsaults, dives, and 450 splashes), Michelle quickly gained internet buzz and was soon a favorite on the tape trading market. Her unique charisma, combined with her flying skills, got her attention from other organizations, most notably National Extreme Wrestling in Tampa. Her young career was taking off, and she became the KCW Volunteer State Champion in December 2000, just days after the birth of what she was led to believe was her son (insert dramatic music here).

All this attention filtered towards Los Angeles and the offices of the EMWC, where Michelle was soon summoned for a tryout in January 2001. Nobody knew quite what to make of her. Some described her as a "drag queen", most as a "guy who thinks he's a girl". It was agreed, though, that she would have a lot to add to the Junior Heavyweight division. Michelle was signed to a contract, and would debut as Nurse Bailey, a valet to the Doctor of Love, Dave Bryant, where she would debut in March 2001.

Also in March 2001, Michelle lost the Volunteer State title to Stevie Scott, and quickly allied with him, joining his group Girlz on Film. (Notably, she was the only Girl.) It was at this time it was reported that Michelle was traveling full-time in feminine attire, even piercing her navel and her ears to go along with the tongue she had pierced shortly after winning the Volunteer State title. Many of her KCW co-workers didn't know if this was just her playing up her persona or if maybe there was something deeper to her, but as she was becoming one of the most talked about wrestlers in North America, they tended to let what they thought were her quirks go.

In EMWC, Michelle soon found herself in a feud with Eric McCoys, culminating in a catfight at the first Eternally Extreme. When she got to the building that day, though, she was approached by panicked EMWC management... the person who had been portraying the Ribera Kid wouldn't be there that day, and there had been significant hype for a three-way match between Devon Case, Jake Shaw, and the Kid. Michelle fit the outfit, and many thought she had the talent. Could she fill in? Michelle accepted immediately. This turned into one of the biggest nights of her career, as she dismantled McCoys in the catfight, valeted Dave Bryant against Setzer van Strife, then went and wrestled for nearly an hour against Case and Shaw, being eliminated at the 58-minute mark before the match ended as a one-hour draw. When she unmasked herself, it sent shockwaves of controversy through the wrestling world. So many had heard about Michelle Bailey as an indie darling, and now they had just seen her prove herself as a capable wrestler. She was no longer Nurse Bailey, but once again Michelle Bailey to the world.

Six weeks later, Michelle wrestled Bilal Masai at a combined KCW/EMWC event, the Music City Showdown, for the EMWC Junior Heavyweight title. In spite of her Eternally Extreme performance, Michelle went in as an underdog against Masai and managed to pull off the upset, granted with the help of Scott Stunning. Her confidence was soon rattled by the talk that she didn't deserve the title, as the Extreme J tournament started right as her reign did, and she didn't help matters by dropping her first two matches to Macht Kraftwerk and Mike Waldrop. To make things worse, she wrestled in the Rumble shortly after her loss to Waldrop, and busted herself open during the match by missing a spear on Devon Case that sent her crashing into the guard rail. While she showed significant heart, wrestling an additional 20 minutes with major blood loss, and even picking a fight with Tiger Claw, she didn't help her title reign or Extreme J whatsoever. She ended up finishing in the middle of the pack, and her title reign ended unceremoniously at the hands of Luke Kinsey.

Post-title loss, Michelle moved to the Heavyweight division, in spite of her small stature (though her weight was never announced, instead billed as "you never ask a girl for her weight", she was commonly around 205-210 pounds). She ended up in a feud with Yoshito Katsumura, who proclaimed her to be a pervert, and Katsumura attempted to remove her makeup with sandpaper. Michelle got the better of the feud in the end though, and then decided to target the Television title. Michelle's reasoning for wanting the Television title was because she felt left out of the chatter surrounding the Eternally Extreme three-way match, which was hyped as the best match of 2001. Devon Case and Jake Shaw were promoted as two of the company's best wrestlers, and Michelle hung with them in the ring for nearly the entire time, but for some reason she wasn't included in the conversation. If she went for the title they feuded over, the Television title, maybe people couldn't ignore her. She got what she wanted, claiming the vacant title at No Imitations Accepted 2002.

From there, Michelle issued an open challenge to the entire roster, successfully defending the title against Matt Saunders, Eugene Robinson, Samson Al-Kamed, and November, before a ghost of her past showed up... the Ribera Kid! This also happened right around the same time she befriended a new wrestler to the EMWC, Juan Vasquez (albeit with an inauspicious start, as Juan tried comforting a distraught Michelle after Michelle was pinned in an elimination match by Caleb Temple, and Juan ended up grabbing Michelle's butt as Michelle hugged him). As tensions with Ribera Kid grew higher, though, she ended up relying on Juan more and more after he apologized for his grabby hands. Juan even saved Michelle from Ribera Kid on a couple of occasions. Eventually, a title vs. mask match was signed between Michelle and Ribera Kid at Blood, Sweat, and Tears 2002.

During the title match, though, a second Ribera Kid emerged, but Michelle somehow managed to win. She unmasked both Kids, and found Tommy Stephens... and Juan Vasquez. Brokenhearted at the betrayal, just as she was starting to see Juan as potentially more than a friend at that, Michelle's mental health started to degrade. Stephens eventually took the Television title from Michelle, and Michelle found herself unfocused and struggling in the ring, as Juan used the turn to springboard to greater heights. Things got worse when Stephens used another masked plot against Michelle (though Vasquez claimed he wasn't involved this time), a plot that led to Luke Kinsey joining with Stephens and Vasquez to form Ego MAX. It got worse still when Ego MAX got Shane Destiny to turn against Michelle a couple of months later, sending Michelle's manager and only backup Jeremy Rhodes to the hospital, leaving Michelle all alone to fend for herself.

For the remainder of the EMWC's original tenure, Ego MAX pummeled Michelle at almost every turn, eventually culminating in Michelle challenging Kinsey for the North American title in a cage match at the Redemption pay-per-view. While she lost, she gave a game effort, and was commended for going into the match with an injured knee. Many wondered where she would go next, as it seemed as though her feud with Ego MAX had reached a conclusion, but the EMWC closed before we could see what happened.

From there, things got quite difficult for Michelle. The EMWC had the best understanding of what her persona was, and even then, it wasn't exactly great. Her confidence in the ring was starting to waver as injuries were piling up. Many who hadn't taken the time to know her wrote her off as a gimmick that had run its course, and weren't really willing to take a chance on her. Michelle took time off to rest her body for a few months, taking a tour of Japan at the end of 2003. From there, she made short-lived appearances in a few promotions, most notably RCW, where she patched things up on-camera with Juan Vasquez. These appearances never made it past short term contracts, though, only two or three appearances at most.

Realizing she might need a career revamp, Michelle considered dropping her feminine persona, but had a very visceral reaction to thinking about cutting her hair short. She consulted with Shane Destiny and Juan Vasquez, who both told her that if she felt that strongly about maintaining being Michelle Bailey, she should do so. She revamped herself from being a Britney Spears-esque pop princess to more of a Gwen Stefani look. She also changed her nickname from "Brattitude" to "Platinum Princess", with some lingering bitterness about how she was struggling to find a long-term position within wrestling. This change in persona came coupled with a partnership with Miyuki Ozaki, where Michelle gave mentorship to Miyuki in the early stages of Miyuki's career. Michelle and Miyuki went to HVW, as well as briefly signed with the UWF. Michelle was released from both organizations due to negative feedback to her persona (the UWF release came before she could even debut on television), mostly due to an increasingly conservative mindset surrounding wrestling in the United States. Michelle noticed that her career was even more on the downswing when the EMWC relaunched towards the end of 2005, and she was not contacted about returning.

For the rest of the mid- to late-2000s, Michelle plied her trade on independents in the United States in between tours of Japan, where she remained popular due to her affiliation with Miyuki, who was rapidly increasing in fame. Michelle wrestled primarily for men's junior heavyweight promotions such as Oita Pro, Dream Fujin, and Nagoya Pro, and wasn't given an opportunity in higher level promotions like Tiger Paw Pro or Rising Pro. She went back to school at the University of North Carolina to study to become a social worker starting in mid-2008, and cut back her Japan tours to summers, so they would occur outside of her schoolwork. She was thought to have one last gasp at American relevance when she appeared in the AWA in 2010, wrestling at Memorial Day Mayhem in the Rumble. It was rumored that she was brought in at the insistence of Juan Vasquez and Shane Destiny. While she was popular with the AWA crowd, her services were not retained beyond her Rumble appearance.

She had a brief run in a P*WIN revival, winning her only P*WIN Heavyweight title, but when the revival concluded at the end of 2010, Michelle finally decided she had enough. She called it a career after one final Japan appearance, a special show put together by Miyuki Ozaki in the first week of January 2011. Michelle and Miyuki defeated Shane Destiny (who had left the AWA after SuperClash II and was debuting for Rising Pro the day after this show) and Kyoko Yoshioka, then Michelle wrestled Destiny one last time, with Destiny finally getting a win over his best friend for the first time ever to send her off into retirement.

Upon retirement, she deleted her social media presence and finally cut her hair short, much to the joy of her wife, who had wanted Michelle to be more masculine ever since Michelle debuted as Nurse Bailey. Michelle had only ever presented as masculine at home all these years, and had presented as a woman full-time on the road for close to ten years. She felt uncomfortable with masculinity, but was willing to give it a try to save her marriage. The shift to suddenly having to be something she felt uncomfortable with 24/7 hit her like a truck. She had a mental breakdown in June 2011 when her wife made a big deal about Father's Day. Destiny came back early from a Rising Pro tour to take care of his best friend while she unpacked why she had a breakdown.

Eventually, Michelle decided who she was wasn't who she had to be when she was at home, but instead who she had been all those years on the road. She knew she was a woman, and no matter what her wife wanted her to be, she had to be herself. She made the decision that she was going to medically transition, starting hormone replacement therapy on her 34th birthday. She told both Destiny and Vasquez the day before starting hormones, and Vasquez was so excited for her that he actually booked a flight out to come see her the very next day and celebrate in spite of recovering from his injuries after the events of Wrestlerock. Starting hormones resulted in the swift dissolution of her marriage (as well as the revelation that her son wasn't actually hers; her wife had been cheating). Michelle's daughter, 14 at the time of the breakup, took Michelle's side and wanted Michelle to have custody, though it was not granted due to family courts deeming Michelle to be unsuitable to care for a child due to her transition. Michelle's daughter would later join her in July 2015 to attend Smith College, and would move into the extra bedroom in Michelle's condo.

Upon graduation from UNC in the spring of 2012, she relocated to Northampton, Massachusetts for a fresh start at a new life. What was thought to be her final wrestling appearance took place at the Jeremy Rhodes Memorial Show in June 2012, where she did not wrestle as advertised (claiming an injury in training), but instead gave a speech memorializing Jeremy. She notably comforted several people during the event, including a visibly distraught Raphael Rhodes. Some observers noted that she looked even more feminine than usual, not knowing that she had been on hormone replacement at that point for nine months.

Michelle happily lived her life as a licensed clinical social worker (completing her master's degree in May 2015 at Smith College as one of the first trans women accepted into the post-graduate program) and continued on her transition. The only people from wrestling she kept in touch with were Destiny and Roxie, Vasquez, Miyuki Ozaki, Destiny's sister Kylie Kujawa (who had also been transitioning), and Raphael Rhodes and Dana Kaiser (much more so after Rhodes began his relationship with Kaiser). In summer 2015, as the date for her bottom surgery finally approached, she had lunch with Destiny while attending the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference, as Destiny had relocated to Philadelphia. Destiny casually mentioned to her that several people had gotten into wrestling and cited her as an inspiration, and maybe someday she should check wrestling out again, but Michelle thought nothing of it at the time.

As she prepared for surgery, though, she decided to go back and look up old footage of herself on YouTube, and she was horrified by what she saw. Towards the end of her career, she did queer-baiting things like kissing her opponents. She was presented as a sideshow in most circumstances throughout her career. Her opponents often questioned her gender and made crude remarks about her genitals, and she was even groped during several matches. "How could I have done this?" she thought. But with surgery approaching, and with close to a year of recovery time, she couldn't do anything about it then.

Michelle had surgery on December 7, 2015, in Burlingame, California; it was paid for wholly by Juan Vasquez, as Michelle's insurance didn't cover the costs. She spent two weeks in hospital recovering, and her daughter travelled with her to keep her company. Vasquez and his wife Marisol visited Michelle while she recovered, as did Destiny and Roxie. Mysteriously, Michelle lost contact with Vasquez after that weekend. Michelle did not keep track of wrestling post-surgery, as the operation and recovery took a lot out of her physically and emotionally, rendering her unaware of Juan's dealings with the Axis. She spent the next nine months recovering from surgery, before finally telling Destiny that she wanted to talk wrestling.

Michelle met with Destiny on Sunday mornings starting in September 2016, joking that she was "coming in with the breeze" every time she came in for training. She decided that she couldn't fix her past, but she wanted to give people a different Michelle Bailey than the one she left them with. After several months of sessions with her best friend, she decided she wanted to have some live matches, but without attracting attention to herself. Wearing a mask starting in February 2017, she wrestled on four independent shows in New England, with Destiny calling in favors to get her booked. She also wrestled on three Destiny Pro events. Finally, she was ready to reveal to the world that not only had she transitioned, but that she wanted to come back as herself.

Destiny had just launched a podcast a few weeks prior, and Michelle was a guest on April 24, 2017. She mentioned that she wanted to give wrestling full-time another shot, and was almost instantly contacted by the talent hungry AWA, who was looking to bolster their Women's Division and saw the potential in her story as being a positive for both her and the company. Michelle began researching what had happened in the AWA since she last watched in summer 2015, but only caught up on Women's Division matches so she could research her competition, remaining unaware of what Juan Vasquez had done during their time out of contact.

Michelle appeared on screen for the first time via a two-part in-depth interview, the first part of which aired during Memorial Day Mayhem 2017. Michelle was given the opportunity to select her first opponent and chose Miyuki Ozaki's protege, Olympic gold medalist Ayako Fujiwara, believing a match with Ayako to be the best possible way to test what her current skill level would be.

Michelle's AWA debut took place on June 24, 2017 in Madison Square Garden, the weekend of the New York City Pride Parade. While Michelle lost the match, she immediately befriended Ayako afterwards (and later Ayako's pet catgirl Molly Bell, albeit after a sushi dinner and a catfight of their own at Eternally Extreme 2). Also at Eternally Extreme 2, Michelle finally reconnected with Juan Vasquez, and she revealed to him that she had a crush on him for years, but had come to accept that he would only ever be a friend. In turn, Juan revealed to Michelle that he considered her to be his muse. It was also revealed that Juan had told Michelle at some point during their EMWC tenure that he had always known that Michelle was a woman the whole time, but exactly when was never specified. Michelle was given hints about Juan's actions over the last year and a half as well.

Currently, Michelle continues to grow her career as a member of the Women's Division in the AWA while finally gaining the respect she's sought out for nearly two decades, and is constantly surprised to learn how many considered her to be an inspiration. After realizing she is capable of competing in the Women's Division, she is now focused on contending for the Women's World Championship. She commissioned a training and nutrition program from Dana Kaiser to help her find her old ring shape, as well as returned to her "Platinum Princess" nickname, finding that it fits better now than it did back then, as well as wanting to feel better about that chapter of her life instead of looking back in anger.

Physical health. Michelle, for her age and time in wrestling, is shockingly fresh, although one could credit not being on a full-time schedule for nearly a decade for that. She has no lingering injuries and is in great condition. She's also really flexible (she's capable of doing the splits in several directions, and can completely fold forward her torso to touch her knees). As mentioned above, she keeps a consistent routine with her health when it comes to food intake and sleep, which has been majorly beneficial for her long-term health. In her off-time, in addition to her weightlifting routine, she practices yoga, and has taken up aerial aerobics as a hobby. She loves being in the air, and as she continues to get her ring stamina back, she'll gradually want to become the flyer she used to be.
- Leg strength. Michelle's legs are extremely strong, which means her kicks have a lot of power to them. Most of her strikes are kick-based, and those kicks will hit like a truck if she hits full-on. Her thighs are thick and well-defined, and as mentioned earlier, are strong enough to crack a watermelon. Heaven help anyone who upsets her enough to make her want to use a triangle choke.
- Training and experience. Even though Michelle's mostly a striker now, she's got a wealth of experience wrestling top-flight competition around the world and has been trained in many different styles. She will very rarely be caught off guard by whatever's thrown at her in the ring, and she has a pretty deep bag of tricks she can dig into. Once she feels more comfortable taking to the air as well, that just makes her even more dangerous. Her constant Japanese touring has also led her to be bilingual, as she speaks Japanese fluently.
- Incredibly likable and resilient personality. What would you expect from someone who grew up wanting to be Betty Cooper but a kind-hearted person who has an endless level of patience for her friends (and even for her enemies in some cases)? In addition, Michelle has always been extremely charismatic, to the point where for some reason fans simply refuse to boo her (no heel turn has ever stuck). Even when trans matters weren't well understood, she was always a well-liked (even if not respected) babyface. She also takes everything in stride (which has included adopting catspeak to calm down an upset Molly Bell in the past), and even though she's clearly emotionally affected by attacks and slights, she still puts on her best face and tries to be the best girl she can be. If she had a TV Tropes page, you'd see "Badass Adorable", "Plucky Girl", "Nice Girl", "The Woobie" (mostly for being Ego MAX's designated punching bag in EMWC), "Team Mom", and "Adorkable" all listed. (And when she's wearing her glasses, add "Meganekko".)

Speed and agility. Michelle's not quite the speedster she used to be. While her ring legs have been coming back to her since her AWA comeback, and she'll unleash the occasional top rope move, she won't be outpacing younger, quicker wrestlers anymore. When she's on top of her game, she's middle of the road when it comes to speed and agility compared to the rest of the Women's Division, especially some of the smaller wrestlers. She also doesn't have that same vertical leap anymore, and isn't really capable of jumping straight to the top rope anymore. She'll need to climb the ropes or hop up, which costs precious seconds against her new competition. In TL;DR terms, Michelle is very bendy, but she's not fast.
- Endurance. Michelle's time away from the ring, coupled with her age and her physical changes, have made her stamina a little suspect. She will be more prone to using rest holds for longer matches, and her grip strength will become a problem once a match goes longer than ten minutes. She will likely need to switch her grip a couple of times and use her hips and center of gravity to hit any move that requires a significant lift as she tires. That's not to say she can't lift opponents, but she may need to adjust how she lifts them, which will give her opponents openings.
- Lacking killer instinct. Michelle has a lot of empathy, which is great for her career as a social worker, but it means she often struggles to take advantage of an injury that wasn't caused by part of her gameplan because she is contemplating the morality of pouncing on an injury caused by an accident. She'll have to be really driven to anger to want to hurt someone outside of simply trying to win the match. It also means she can be taken advantage of by someone with more unscrupulous motivations.
- Lacking confidence. Not in-ring, mind you. She's comfortable once the bell rings. It's out of the ring where she lacks confidence. She seems confused by how people describe her now as a "legend" and a "trailblazer", because she was so frequently described as a "freak" and a "joke" during her initial fame. She often believes herself to be unworthy of praise, and as such, feels that she doesn't deserve any compliments that come her way. She even struggles to accept that one of her closest friends, Juan Vasquez, considers her to be his muse (though she's more likely to believe Juan than others). She sometimes needs to be reminded that she's not some random person picked off the street, she's Michelle freaking Bailey, and she's being given these chances because she's a special talent.

Kris Statlander (body type, some moves), Kimber Lee

babyface trans woman on a redemption run after many years of being absent from the national scene, finally getting the chance at success she always wanted as herself