Lyra Valkyria has one of the crucial memorable entrances in WWE at present, together with her colourful feathered gear, chicken wings and the improved clouds of smoke that accompanies her to the ring setting her other than the remainder of the roster. Since arriving to the corporate, many have questioned whether or not Valkyria’s look was impressed by a fictional character from a film, or was an concept that she brainstormed on her personal, and through a current interview on “Perception,” the 28-year-old revealed the origin of her entrance.
“So on the Independents, I wrestled as Valkyrie. That is not Marvel character-based, not bird-based. It is really from my favourite e book, which is written by an Irish creator … The primary character was 12, residing in Dublin, begins this entire new secret life, she has to tackle a reputation to begin this new life, and he or she calls herself Valkyrie. So I began that, and till I went to WWE, I by no means used the sort of imagery that is related to the Valkyrie in any respect.”
The Girls’s Intercontinental Champion began utilizing gear influenced by the e book in “WWE NXT UK,” and regardless of having to vary her title from Aoife Valkyrie to Lyra Valkyria when she started wrestling in the USA, she tried to take care of the unique imagery of the persona. She additionally ended up contacting the creator of the e book, Derek Landy, who advised she focuses her look on a personality known as The Morrigan, who resembles the points of a raven.
“The Morrigan mainly transforms right into a raven or crow and hovers over the battlefield and decides who’s going to win a battle. So I used to be like, that is actually cool. I went down that rabbit gap, and it is only a very cool feminine warrior character who transforms right into a raven … So yeah, that is the place all of it comes from.”
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