Ava Mortis

Ava Maria Mortensen (born February 18, 2005) is a Norwegian professional wrestler currently signed to Waifu Wrestling Alliance under the ring name Ava Mortis.
== Early Life ==
Ava Mortensen was born in Oslo, Norway on February 18, 2005. She had an upper-middle class upbringing, with her mother being a nurse and her father a government bureaucrat. As a youth she attended a private school in Oslo and spent her summers in the family's country house in rural Trøndelag. Despite high levels of English fluency in Norway and having been educated in private schools, her English-speaking abilities can be considered fairly poor as she still speaks with a very strong accent.
She became immersed in the black metal subculture as a young teenager, which included embracing Satanism and an obsession with death and violence.
She moved to the United States with her family in mid-2022 at the age of 17, after her father got a job at the Norwegian Embassy. Ava's interest in hardcore wrestling had began a couple years before moving to America, but her interest increased drastically after her move as she began attending local shows.
== Professional Wrestling Career ==
As soon as she turned 18, Ava tried to start her wrestling career. She first tried to join a local deathmatch promotion, but was turned down due to the company strictly allowing only those over 21 to compete, and being mostly male with a few limited spots for female wrestlers. Ava instead decided to join any promotion with a hardcore division that would take her, with the hopes that she could eventually establish herself as a hardcore wrestler and join a deathmatch promotion when she was old enough.
Like many other deathmatch wrestlers, Ava has no real in-ring experience or ability to speak of, instead relying entirely on being able to both give and receive an insane amount of weapons-based violence. Her short stature and frail frame also prevent her from dominating an opponent in any way without a weapon in hand.
=== Waifu Wrestling Alliance ===
Ava joined the WWA due to it being female-focused and having a vacated hardcore title that was to be competed for in a tournament. She was put into the hardcore tournament, but was eliminated in the quarter-finals after being pinned by Cassie Kade. The tournament ended up being won by Syber.
Soon after winning the tournament, Syber issued an open challenge for the title. Ava was the first to respond and was giving a title shot at Showdown in Spaghetti Town. Ava ended up winning the match and became the new hardcore champion. Shortly after winning the title Ava announced that she wanted to defend it in an ECW-style three-way dance, an elimination triple threat, against Cassie Kade and Cactus Jane. Ava was pinned by Cactus Jane in the match, but there was controversy as it turned out that the match had been booked as a regular triple threat instead of an elimination, meaning Jane won the title despite Cassie Kade never being pinned.
It was decided that there would be a rematch between Ava, Cassie and Jane in an actual elimination match for the title. Cactus Jane won the match and retained the title after pinning Cassie and then submitting Ava.
Shortly after the three-way dance, a wrestler named BSD debuted in the WWA hardcore division and offered a $10,000 challenge to anyone who could beat her in a hardcore match. Ava was the first to accept and was given a match, but was ultimately unsuccessful.
Around April and May 2023 more wrestlers started to move to or debut in the hardcore division and Ava would clash with some of them as she believed they were a threat to the integrity of the division. The first new wrestler to draw Ava's attention was Robyn McDaid after Robyn earned a title match against Cactus Jane at Bishoujo at the Beach. Ava accused Robyn of being part of a conspiracy orchestrated by her sister-in-law Cassie Kade to take over the hardcore division, believing that Cassie had pulled strings behind the scenes to get Robyn her spot in the match. Ava considered attacking Robyn to prevent her from becoming champion, but ultimately decided it wasn't worth the effort as she believed Cactus Jane would easily beat her. Jane ended up retaining her title in the match.
In May 2023 plans were made for the Hardcore Clusterfork, an 8-woman elimination match for the Hardcore Championship. Reigning champion Cactus Jane, BSD, and Red Hands, who recently beat BSD and won her challenge, automatically qualified. The next 5 spots would be given to the first 5 wrestlers to win a hardcore match. Ava focused her attention on Electra Hellswing, a recently-debuted wrestler who also had hopes of entering the Clusterfork. Electra's devout Christian faith clashed heavily with Ava's own Satanist beliefs and Ava grew massive resentment for her, believing that Electra as hardcore champion would ruin the division. Ava challenged Electra to a match but was unable to win despite hitting 3 finishers on her, meaning that Electra would qualify for the Clusterfork while Ava lost her chance. After the match Ava would claim that her inability to pin Electra after hitting her finishers was due to an untied shoelace.
Shortly after the Hellswing match a previously-unknown wrestler calling herself "Eva Mortis" and claiming to be Ava's twin sister appeared in the WWA. Eva looked and sounded exactly like Ava, with the only difference being that she wore a pink shirt and acted less outwardly aggressive. Eva stated that she had been backstage to apply to be a WWA wrestler when she heard about the Clusterfork and decided to join. Shortly after this, The Boston Crab would accuse Eva of starting fires across Spaghetti Town and challenged her to a match, which Eva accepted. Eva won the match, but was not offered a spot in the Clusterfork despite there being one spot left. The final spot would soon be given to Keron Croakie, who had just moved from the main division and qualified by beating Artificial Waifu in a hardcore match, ending any chance for Eva or Ava to appear in the Clusterfork, which was ultimately won by Red Hands. Eva would not appear in the WWA again after her sole match.
After Nikki Kade stole the Intercontinental Title, Ava would once again start thinking about the supposed conspiracy by Cassie Kade to have Robyn McDaid control the hardcore division. While Cassie was preoccupied with her match at Onsen a Lifetime, Ava attacked Robyn in a backstage brawl, where she ended up in a hospital with high medical bills.
Later on the hardcore championship would be won be Gyary Slamyu Slamyu, which infuriated Ava as she believed that Slamyu, a Japanese pop idol who had little history in the hardcore division, was unworthy to be champion and destroyed the legacy of the belt. Ava vowed to destroy Gyary and take back the title that she believed to be rightfully hers. Gyary gave Ava an opportunity for the belt by inviting her to a four-way gauntlet match also involving Kanako Leichenburg and Jersey Devil. Ava, the last competitor to enter the match, was unable to get her hands on Gyary who was the first to be eliminated, but won the hardcore title by pinning Jersey Devil. Ava believed that Jersey Devil had been sent by Satan himself to prove her devotion to him and worthiness to hold the belt.
After Cassie Maverick and Nefertiti stated their desires to go after the Hardcore Championship, Ava gave them a #1 contenders match to decide who would face her at Judge, Yuri & Executioner. Maverick would win the match, entering her title shot in the opening match of the event. The match itself was brutal, with most of it taking place on the outside around the entrance way. In the end, however, Maverick would pick up the pinfall victory after hitting her finisher, the Cassie Cutter, twice in a row on Ava, taking the title from her.
== Professional Wrestling Style and Persona ==
Ava's fighting focuses on the extreme hardcore, with heavy use of weaponry and fighting on the outside. When not using weapons, she fights a mostly striking style, with some use of grapple moves such as the piledriver. A lot of her offense focuses on vicious stomps and kicks to grounded opponents, with both her finishers and one of her signatures being this type of attack. She also occasionally uses aerial attacks, with dives based on brutality instead of skillful acrobatics, such as her diving headbutt and suicide dives to the outside.
What Ava lacks in physical and technical ability, she makes up her in aggression. She displays heavy sadomasochistic behavior, taking great joy in the suffering of others and being able to take massive amounts of punishment in return.
Ava is extremely arrogant and egotistical, believing herself to be the greatest hardcore wrestler of all time and the savior of the WWA's hardcore division. She flatly refuses to recognize any of her losses, making excuses each time for why she didn't win. She is constantly concerned with maintaining the purity of hardcore wrestling and will attack any wrestler in the division she doesn't consider "real hardcore". One of the few wrestlers in the division she respects is Cactus Jane. 
A religious Satanist, Ava holds extreme content for Christianity and its followers. She was previously placed in juvenile detention in Norway for arson on a church, and has twice vandalized churches during her WWA career. The first vandalism occurred when she attempted to burn down a church, in the end only breaking one of the windows with a headbutt after the fire failed to spread. The second vandalism occurred when she threw eggs at a church on Easter Sunday.
Ava is known for speaking in a heavy Norwegian accent in her promos, as despite the high level of English fluency in Norway and having spent all her school years in expensive private schooling, she never gained a full grasp of the English language. This along with other aspects of her behavior indicate lower-than-average intelligence.
Despite her heelish and at times borderline psychopathic behavior, Ava has become popular with some members of the WWA audience due to the (sometimes inadvertent) humor of her promos and unending willingness to fight any competitor who challenges her. After her debut and (in)famous match with Cassie Kade she quickly became one of the most popular wrestlers in the hardcore division and is now considered one of its mainstays.
== In Ring ==
=== Finishing Moves ===
* Final Sacrifice (Curb Stomp)
* Snuffed Out (Punt Kick)
=== Signature Moves ===
* Running Big Boot to Seated Opponent in Corner
* Diving Headbutt
* Suicide Dive
=== Entrance Themes ===
* "Pagan Fears" by Mayhem
=== Championships and Accomplishments ===
* WWA Hardcore Champion (4 times)
* WWA Super Duper Multiversal Champion (1 time, unofficial title)
== Trivia ==
* Ava lives with her parents in McLean, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. which is home to many diplomats, military, members of Congress and high-ranking government officials.
* Despite some of her other extremist views, Ava considers herself a feminist, believing that women are able to do anything men can.
* Ava is a theistic Satanist, but holds sympathetic views towards Paganism, especially Norse paganism.
* She is the youngest known champion in WWA history, winning the Hardcore Championship at 18 years and 36 days old.