Introduction and How to Join

= Introduction =
First established in February of 2023, the Waifu Wrestling Alliance (WWA) is an online- and Discord-based professional wrestling e-fed which uses ai-generated anime characters (“Waifus”) to role play as professional wrestlers. Generally speaking, characters are noble and heroic ("babyfaces") or conniving and despicable ("heels"). It is entirely up to the player on how they portray their character, but how they are perceived can sometimes be surprising. A knowledge of professional wrestling (such as that in WWE, AEW or NJPW) is helpful, but not required.
== Our World ==
The WWA primarily takes place in a fictional location called 'Spaghetti Town'. On the surface this is just a regular, non-descript city with houses, apartments and shopping centres, but the abstract nature of the setting allows for various other locations to all be present as required. For example, there is an onsen (a Japanese inspired hot springs), as well as a great forest, numerous sports stadiums which are suspiciously always full of cheering fans, several night clubs, and a beach which leads directly to the ocean. Wealthy families in Spaghetti Town have their own landmark locations, such as Villas or Mansions, and numerous semi-competing gyms exist including Burger Bear Gym and the official WWA Dojo. Adjacent to Spaghetti Town is another area known as The Kingdom, more medieval in tone and appearance.
Real world locations do exist in vague terms, such as some wrestlers having previously worked in 'Japan' or 'Mexico', but these primarily serve as story inspiration or roleplay locations. Notably, many of our characters have real world hometowns and will reference their time there. It is up players alone how much real world influence they want to take.
A common phrase used amongst our roleplayers is 'Time is convoluted'. This is because as our players are from all over the world, there can be long breaks between interactions that canonically take place in the same moment.
== Matches ==
These roleplays come to a head when one of a few designated people (“Simmers”) run the game through WWE 2K23, Fire Pro Wrestling World or MDickie's Wrestling MPire (“simming” or “simmed”). These matches are ALWAYS simmed as AI vs AI (aka COM vs COM) with no human input. These characters are NEVER controlled at any point to influence match results.
The wins and losses in these matches are NOT the main catalyst of storylines. Champions are crowned based on match results, but being unlucky and losing many matches does not effect the status or "ranking" of your character unless you choose for it to do so. The ability to write promos, engage with other players and invest yourself in our very welcoming community is what will determine what matches are made. Basically, the more effort you put in, the more effort others will be willing to give to you.
== WWA Events ==
The WWA holds several Premium Waifu Events (“PWEs”) throughout the year. These PWEs are generally intended to showcase big matches or feuds that have the need for a big stipulations. There are one or two ‘weekly shows’ or ‘TV shows’ each week in the time leading up to these PWEs, where matches are simulated according to ongoing storylines. There are no restrictions on who can take part in these weekly shows, but sometimes matches are rescheduled to take place on the ‘next show’. This is simply so that whoever is acting as "showrunner" can handle the number of matches they are given.
== Our Wiki ==
You are currently reading our Wiki. Here, you will find pages on all of our wrestlers, present and past, as well as lists of our Major Events and current Champions. You will also find various Guides such as how to set up the local image generator on your home computer and how to go about getting a Create-a-Wrestler made to join in. Our players like to keep their character pages as up to date as possible, allowing newcomers and veterans alike to keep track of what characters have done in the past, and how they may react in the future. Most wrestler pages also have a Match History, which is a helpful summary of a character's journey.
== Our YouTube ==
Visit our YouTube page here!
We also have a YouTube page, where all matches are uploaded (by our "Uploaders") and released on schedule as the weekly shows or PWEs take place. All matches on these shows have a set release time, so you can join us on the YouTube or in the Discord to live chat along with other players and fans as the matches are released for the very first time.
== Our Discord ==
Join our Discord here!
Please feel free to drop by and join our Discord Server. Our very friendly and welcoming community are passionate about all aspects of this, such as professional wrestling, e-feds in general, role play, creative writing, the new wave of artificial intelligence, video games, anime and more!