🗽Continuing a set of Who is Renee Jonae videos, Jonae is found back at a J-Dynasty Brand studio. Seated in the interview hot seat, she's all smiles and prepared to represent the brand and speak on her big match against Zolton in the international-themed Shogun tournament. It begins light-hearted, she's been a star for the talent agency for a reasonable amount of time now, and they're just off a fun interview where they got to get a shot of goofy childhood photos and speaking to her parents for the first time. A female staffer in the set of seats of staffers facing their talent introduces Jonae and speaks.🗽
Staffer 1: Thank you for being here again, Ren. You know, you'll have to show us that Ne-Yo tilted hat look as an adult one day! But really, it was nice of you to open up and let us dig into more of your past last week, not many of the wrestlers under our sponsor are comfortable with kicking back and letting people get to know them like that.
Jonae: Well I figured it was a good time, it was the start of the Shogun Tournament, and Ms Hixx is the type of woman that can frustrate you if you focus too much on her rather than yourself. I didn't want to do the typical tirade on her, I wanted to tell the people where I come from as a child of the Haitian diaspora in France and how things were in the whirlwind of life that got us into America. Between all that, if there were any fun sights you found through my childhood photos and my parents...being themselves, I'm all for it—anything for the brand. I have to contain myself from laughing, but there are for sure some aesthetics that are staying in the 2000s, thank you. It was all worth the
risk of any embarrassment if any of the fans or you guys got a kick out of it, I love you with all the support you've given me! I hope you all send some good vibes my way, because I'm against the favourite to win this tournament when I face the big bad Zolton,
but I refuse to let any of you down.🗽A male staffer stands up to speak.🗽Staffer 2: Well, no one would doubt you as a team player, least of all us. Madame L’Éclair, if I were to be more formal, you're a breadwinner kind of talent that makes sure everything and everyone is taken care of when you can. In fact, when it comes to the Revolutionaries, you were quite aggressive last week, you were all over the show for Dystopia.
Jonae: Oh my, yes! Well, It was great to work on getting new friends in the war against Ashes of the Wake and showing the world that Ashes aren't the only ones who can wreak
havoc around here. We weren't going to let them ruin the main event. As for my "aggression", I have to say I felt pretty protective and excited for Victoria's debut, and Josh is just a type of guy my intuition guides me not to like. So I went with a bold nuclear first strike, and while that can give people the wrong idea, I can assure you that my gut is never wrong about who incurs my wrath and I won't let anyone mess with my people. Did you see Vic out there? I really think she showed signs of brilliance, and she's going to be a force in WWH! My decisions are imbued with the Loa's guidance, I pick the right partners and I attack the right people, my bets are as strong as betting with the house.
Staffer 2: I see. Please remember that the history of our brand worldwide might be a bit seedier than some might think. We were hoping you to be a fresh rebranding of our image.
Jonae: Of course, I am aware that some of the other members of this talent agency have done some sketchy activities in the past, but this is a new age. Be frank with me, what are you getting at?
Staffer 1: We're a business, but also your friends, we worry you could be falling for temptations. When people start working in large teams, sometimes they lose themselves in the cause, and that scares a lot of people, Ren. You were skirting the rules to get at those you fight in your movement.
Jonae: There has never been a revolution where all the masses have no worries about what happens in the unrest to bring about change. Most of the heroes we speak of fondly today were locked up in jail for the movements they championed, and people allowed that to happen because some people were afraid. Other revolutionaries had to fight bloody wars. It's been said before, you can't name a revolution that didn't make people uncomfortable. Yet the great leaders threw caution to the wind, and allowed themselves to become faces of something that could make people afraid, and eventually, they cast those fears away by proving their cause was just. We as the Revolutionaries seek to do the same, even if we risk being misunderstood sometimes. Still, I want everyone, you, the fans, and the WWH locker room, to know we only seek to rid the world of the tyranny of the Ashes of the Wake and other forces of bad faith in this company. For those who do right and have good intentions in their hearts, from us only expect fair and competitive battles like wrestling is supposed to have! Like this Shogun tournament will continue to have! Trust me, the Revolutionaries will never lose sight of what's important.
Do you know who else broke the rules? Forget revolutionaries,
large parts of the average diaspora have done that! Poor simple people fleeing persecution and poverty, with next to nothing to their name as they stay in countries they're not supposed to be in by the law. My parents included. Yes, they broke one or two rules that they had to in order to make it outside of Haiti, but they paid taxes, would harm no one, and not even jaywalk across an empty street! They're my heroes. My parents were under the stress of being found out on any given night they went outside to work and many times that work was under the table for scraps to make ends meet, just to give their children a better future. Looking at me, don't you think it was worth it considering I'm part of this agency and was a champion in WWH? I didn't come from much, but look at me now! I will not dishonour them by doing anything truly wrong, but at the same time, from what they had to do, I know that sometimes you have to take chances to do what's right for you!
Staffer 2: Madame, you have referenced terms of chance often tonight, that might escape some, but for those obsessed with branding, like us, it is not something one can consider an accident. Is there something you have on your mind to say? The floor is yours, as always with us.
Jonae (after a short laugh) : Of course, nothing I do is ever an accident. I wanted to broach the subject as I think chances are a big theme of my upcoming match, who I am, and what I can't stand.
Look at me; I'm not that physically imposing, I'm a woman, like many of the boys like to remind me. I know that there are figures like Zolton that are much larger and stronger than me in this business. That's why I HAVE to wrestle differently, I have to be technical, I have to be fast, and I have to take CALCULATED risks. I'm not an adrenaline junky, but one of my best moves is to go to that top rope and drive my elbow into the hearts of my enemies! Don't let the splendour of the way I hit it confuse you, I have to put ALL of my force into it to keep men down. I can't be timid, I have to combine many roles in life that are near and dear to me and apply those taught tendencies from them to the wrestling craft. I have to take lessons from the immigrants who risk it all by going to places they do not know to make a better life, and I have to be smart about it like business people putting their money in the right stock, because for someone like me it's a necessity to be precise and courageous! Because of that, I say I am a woman that takes the unbeaten path of great ventures!
While Zolton is a man that needlessly tempts fate, I say that because I doubt the legitimacy of him backing himself against a wall, when he doesn't have to! He's privileged, yet trying to be a cornered rat! Please, I'm endangering my body in the ring against a guy that size, while he can bounce back anew from Shogun, like he has from all the girls he's had since the end of his softcore porn videos with my old rival Maki.
Zolton has an upcoming World Championship opportunity!
Zolton is a Hall of Hero!
Zolton is over 6 foot 6!
But he wants to stick a gun to his own head and say that if he doesn't win this Shogun tournament, he's never going to enter another one again? How melodramatic! Is that meant to make us feel bad for him if he loses? Is that some kind of strategy to pump himself up? I find that to be insulting to those who have to take risks because they have no other choice in life.
Well, you know who else had a similar idea as Zolton does now?
Paige Matthews. She, all on her own, said if she couldn't beat me for the Women's World Championship she would give up on professional wrestling. And I had no problem pulling the trigger on her career! Now she gets to help those in need at the Sanatorium, and that's good for her. But if I'm willing to end the entire career of a competitor who foolishly risks it all for no reason, you can't expect me to have mercy for Zolton possibly never winning a Shogun tournament now. No, this is my opportunity to surpass him, no matter the cost he put on himself! Zolton and I are the biggest stars on the Dystopia side of this tournament, no mistake about it! I may not be sizable in the same ways as Zolton and Godzilla, or even Wideline, but just like the other gift from France to America meant to guide the tired and poor huddled masses, I am the New Colossus in what I represent as a staple in the land I've made my home! In the hallowed grounds of WWH! Zolton has defeated me before in the last Shogun tournament and he's the big bad wolf in the Fay Noire Forest that dares make me look like number two right now in this tournament when it comes to odds, but with everything I've got
I'll take on this gamble to make my ancestors, and everyone who has ever had to go for broke, proud! 🗽Renee Jonae nods to pump herself up with a conviction for the battle this Sunday, and the view goes to black.🗽