Yay!! Thank youuuuu!!! 💜💜💜
And no, they're absolutely not!
But that's the problem with joining a cult by osmosis, and you join by:
Coming late to AEW so you show up after the BCC was founded and did everything right around when Mox shows up to murder Bryan Danielson
You're feeling very guilty about that whole Tiger Driver thing anyways and you're just getting out of your own messy cult with Don Callis
So you become an easy #1 hater with everyone else against the Death Riders and your boy Swerve, everyone else says they suck so clearly!
Also they did that thing to you with the cage and your neck and you didn't care to hear why and just honestly they've been the worst everyone agreed right?
So you're just training with them. Just training.
Because Mox made a good point about putting aside the past and all the bullshit and focusing on the work and being the best wrestler you are and figuring out what you want and that's Wembley and so you're doing it to get your Mat Game up and your focus improved and your neck better-
But that One Point he made about putting aside all the stupid bullshit to focus on the wrestling and the important things over all the stupid vainglorious self-aggrandizing and playing to the crowd or else you're going to die is definitely not the same point he's been making for two years about AEW. Or Bryan Danielson. Or-
It's just training. And a single tag match.
And like... Maybe they're okay? Like, they're kinda intense. But everyone says that about you too AuHD Ospreay. It's kinda nice to have a group that obsesses about wrestling and doing it right nonstop while Callum bitches about how you ruined his life for training him and Aussie Open have belts and the DCF now and-
Look it's nice not to be alone. They've got the weird little rituals they're bringing you in on. You don't know what they mean exactly but it's... Nice. Accepting.
They gave you a patch. (What's the patch from? Where did it come from? What does it mean?)
You're still the only one coming in from the stage, why are you doing that? (Why do they come in from the crowd anyways? You've never thought about it. Doesn't matter.)
Why did we found the Death Riders again? What's a BCC? Why do I do the things Mox tells me?
The problem is, the Death Riders were a foundational philosophy that Mox created as a tribute to hold himself and AEW together, (and I have thoughts about how it's based on his sobriety mentality and Marina is his accountability companion) as well as a tribute to Bryan Danielson from the ashes of the Blackpool Combat Club and all the love and baggage therein.
But Marina ha been gone for two weeks, Pac and Claudio are off doing tag belt stuff, Mox is half-relapsing to BCC mode and Yuta is in charge of Danny at most. And poor Ospreay, with no knowledge of any of this history and no guidebook, who told himself and everyone else he was not joining until he did, assumes this is normal with all kinds of crossed wires.
God, I love fighting on a Saturday night.
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