Elsa (RLS CAS)

Taylor Schwartz (born 12th October 1995 in Asbury Park, New Jersey) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to UNION Wrestling under the name Elsa, where she was one of the final WOTU Tag Team Champions alongside Gaia Cassidy as Better Than You. 
== Career ==
=== Early Career in PWU/UNION Wrestling (2015-2016) ===
Wrestling under the name Taylor Stone1, Schwartz would debut on the live tours of the UK and then continue working the Canada tour while still training under Jackie Compton.2 Despite criticisms over her apparent green status and lack of a rounded persona3, she'd have solid matches in this period with her trainer and also fellow trainee Brittany Guile.
She'd be offered a full-time contract in mid-2016, with Mikey Ace4 in particular keen on the bratty heel gimmick she'd begun working on in the latter part of the tours. 
=== UNION Wrestling programming (2016-2018) ===
Debuting as 'The It Girl' Elsa on Live from the UNION in January 2017, she'd make a huge impact as a heel defeating Taki, a Newcastle resident for several years by that point, becoming the first person to kick out of the Nodowa Otoshi, Taki's finisher, in the process. 
She wouldn't appear again until April, due in part to a short working hiatus by the company5, but returned to action in a losing effort to Blush. She'd make her UNION Unleashed debut around this time, too, in a losing effort to Amy J.
A face turn soon beckoned for Elsa, one that Eddie Hamer would later reveal to be accidental6, when agreeing to assist UNION Women's Champion Birdy in her feud with Lara Grey. Although initially doing so for a favour from the champion, her performances over the next few weeks saw the fans cheering for the superstar for the first time.
She'd battle Grey at the Wrestling Classic 2017, in the Women's Tourney 2nd Round, where she'd be defeated with a Greyhug. Critics around this time praised the massive improvement in skillset shown by Elsa around this time, with her even getting a few entries on the Moment of the Week videos put out by UNION Wrestling. 
Elsa won a Four Woman Dance on the first episode of UNION Wrestling Charged, defeating Taki by pin-fall in a match also featuring Carita and Miss Deeds. She then scored a big victory over Birdy on the first UNION Wrestling Unleashed, before being put out of action by the debuting Koldskador. This was later confirmed to be for a genuine facial injury, with Koldskador later turning her attention solely to Birdy. She wouldn't be kept out for long, however, and was soon re-inserted to the Birdy/Koldskador feud when the former was confirmed to be carrying an injury. She'd later lose to Koldskador, despite having both Birdy and Brittany Guile in her corner, at Deadly Weapons 2017.
She'd wrestle her last match of her first spell with the promotion in January 2018, besting both Tara Hunter and Nancy Warren and being described by UNION Wrestling as "a bright star in the Women's Division", making her February 2018 release by the promotion all the more shocking.
=== Wrestling upLOUD! (2018) ===
Reverting to the Taylor Stone name, Schwartz would join up with Dutch-based promotion Wrestling upLOUD! in mid-2018, wrestling several times on their exSTREAM weekly web show before leaving the company upon discovering she was pregnant. She confirmed soon after that she'd be taking "a year or two" off to settle into family life.
=== Return to UNION Wrestling (2019) ===
Elsa would return in late 2019 to UNION Wrestling, now exclusively doing live shows, as her original heel 'It Girl' gimmick. She'd feud mainly on these shows with old friend Brittany Guile, and at times with old enemy Taki, before leaving around Christmas due to a "change in the atmosphere". She later stated that the COVID-19 pandemic probably stopped her going back to the promotion, and said she was happy for "that door to remain open".7
=== Indy Circuit (2020) ===
Performing as Taylor Stone, but with the mannerisms and attire of Elsa, Schwartz would make several appearances at 'Indy Wrestling Lives' events in 2020, before lockdown curtailed them.
===Second UNION Wrestling return (2022-present)===
Having been linked with another return to UNION Wrestling in the weeks prior, Elsa returned to UNION once again, as a face, to take on Kelly Gazidis at the Touchdown '22 show in January 2022, although she'd lose the bout. After mainly being used as a capable face in the mid-card, she would be paired with Gaia Cassidy and turned heel in 2023, forming the snobby and entitled Better Than You team. 
The duo would use the lack of rules in the Hardcore Brawl match at UNION Hardcore Brawl 2023 to defeat WOTU Tag Team Champions Kenzie Starr & Terri Law, before using more sneaky tactics to retain the belts in the rematch at UNION London Calling 2024. The championships would be retired in March 2022, with Better Than You fending off VeteRUNNERS (Jackie Compton & Taki) in the last match at Open Challenge 2024. As one of the final champions, she automatically qualified alongside Cassidy for the Three Woman Ladder Match for the newly minted WOTU Counties Championship at Uneasy Alliance 2024. After double-teaming third participant Taki, Cassidy would shockingly turn on Elsa, costing her the match and taking the championship for herself. 
==In-Wrestling:==
===Signatures===
Bulldog (Bulldog 12 & 13)
=== Finishers===
New Jersey Knee (Double Knee Facebreaker)
It Lock (Hammer & Chin Lock)
===Nicknames ===
The It Girl (in UNION Wrestling)
IT (at indy shows)
===Themes ===
TBA
==Accomplishments==
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==Trivia==
*Eddie Hamer had little faith in an Elsa face turn, but was persuaded by the loud positive reaction of even the crowds that should be more inclined to boo her, most notably a New York crowd during a live show during the hiatus shortly before her turn.
*She took the name Elsa as her ring name, after being billed on the live circuit shows as Taylor Stone, due to her love of the stories of the lioness of the same name who lived in the 50s and 60s.8
==Behind-the-Scenes/Notes==
#The CAW was originally down in the notes as Taylor Stone, but never named as such in game, merely having a placeholder name before being changed to Elsa.
# Compton, as the oldest female CAW I have, has that trainer/leadership role in any promotion I bring her to, now.
#I actually wasn't sold on the character at all in 2K16, prior to fleshing her out for my 2K17 Universe Diary, found here.
#I similarly came around after redesigning her for said diary, where she soon became one of my personal favourites.
#The "working hiatus" was, in actuality, real life getting in the way of my wrestling stuff. Stupid real life stuff.
# The face turn was accidental. What started in my notes as her helping the champion for material gain just felt more and more like a genuine face turn given the scenes Universe kept showing. I don't regret rolling with it.
#The door is left wide open, in fact, because should UNION Wresting come back... she's going to be one of it's faces.
# This is actually not true, Elsa was the name of a friend of mine from school.
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