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The Five WWE MVPs of 2020

5

Asuka

It feels like WWE views Asuka as a skilled utility player instead of one of the elite talents in their company. There’s a level where that’s disrespectful and indicative of their problems, but also with a company this size it’s not the worst idea to have an elite talent bounce around different positions. No matter what was going on, Asuka approached her role with the same quirky intensity and she was a joy to watch throughout the year. She gave Becky Lynch two great matches to further legitimize her year long title reign, then had one of the best moments of the year when Becky announced her pregnancy and relinquished the title to her. She became the main opposition to the Golden Role Models in the summertime and had great matches with both Bayley and Sasha. She even gave a lot to a motivated Zelina Vega in their Clash of Champions match. Very few people are ready for Asuka.

4 

Drew McIntyre

Talk about bad timing. Imagine the biggest moment of your professional career happening at the biggest show of the year without any fans there. McIntyre had probably the biggest starmaking moment of the year when he eliminated Brock at the Royal Rumble. But instead of the epic showdown they should’ve had at Raymond James Stadium, they had a 4 minute finisher fest in front of no fans. Ay it is what it is. But even with the up and down quality of Raw throughout the year, not an iota of blame can be placed on Drew. His charisma and strong talking was on display nearly every week and he never really had a misstep the entire year. He had a great match against Seth Rollins at Money in the Bank and an underappreciated brawl against Bobby Lashley at Backlash. His Orton feud suffered from Orton problems and a stupid title switch, but their Ambulance match was great. His epic clash against Roman Reigns was one of the best matches of the year and he ended the year with a great TLC match against AJ Styles. Great job, Drew!

3

Bayley

DING DONG!! WHAT A YEAR!! Bayley really didn’t have a lot of quality opposition for her Smackdown title all year. Lacey Evans just isn’t at that level and booking didn’t put enough effort behind her feuds with Naomi and Nikki Cross. But it didn’t matter because Bayley (with Sasha) was a one woman army of entertainment this year. She was brash, enthusiastic, and almost maniacal in her heeldom. Honestly, she didn’t even need a murderers row of talent and great matches to get her over, just put a microphone in front of her and let her go. Once her and Sasha won the tag titles, they were given free reign to go to all three shows and they were the clear highlight of the company in the Summer. Her match against Asuka on the July 5 Raw is one of the best TV matches of the year and shows how refined her heel game has become in contrast to her being one of the best pure babyfaces in history. Her attack on Sasha added a brutal edge to her character and it resulted in two of the best matches of the year. Her booking post Sasha has been a little so-so, but she’s begun a fun feud with Bianca Belair to carry over into the new year. Great job, Bayley!

2

Roman Reigns

Forget everything that happened before Summerslam. He was in a terrible feud with Corbin and then he was set to face fucking Goldberg at Wrestlemania before he went on his COVID vacation. He returned at Summerslam looking super jacked and super mean. On the Smackdown between Summerslam and Payback, Roman revealed his partnership with Paul Heyman and I knew we would be getting something special from there. Roman’s cousin, Jey Uso, becoming #1 Contender for the Universal Title unleashed the Tribal Chief and he’s been a blast to watch ever since that moment. He’s a brutal dictator driven by the survival of his family which is completely dependent on his success and his reign as Universal Champion. He and Jey had two of the best matches of the year that were driven by Roman’s determination in Jey acknowledging him as the Tribal Chief of the family.

Roman really deserved this character. For the years and years that he was treated with inexplicable scorn from “fans”, he deserved to have a character arc that is treated with tremendous care and precision. Every segment involving him shows perfect characterization in how he reacts to whats going on in his world like members of Jey Uso’s survivor series team not respecting him or Kevin Owens having the unmitigated gall to have no fear in challenging him. In the ring, Roman is a brilliant blend of the vicious Shield Roman and the more dynamic Big Dog Roman. He’s brutal and mawling, but he’s still a tremendous seller and never looks unstoppable. His interpromotional match against Drew McIntyre was one of the best matches of the year and just a great display of two great modern talents locking horns and his TLC match against Kevin Owens is one of the best one on one TLC matches we’ve seen. He’s on the run of his career and we should be grateful. I acknowledge you, Roman, I acknowledge you.

1

Sasha Banks

The year started very weird for Ms. Banks. She didn’t participate in the Women’s Royal Rumble and she was absent from the Elimination Chamber card. She was just kinda floating along being Bayley’s primary support until it felt like creative actually flipped the switch and decided to A) give them more time to be the hilarious obnoxious tag team of the year and B) subtly show Sasha constantly saving and sacrificing for the team to build to an inevitable break up and feud. This rub really breathed life back into Sasha’s career which wasn’t dead at all, but was too stagnant for a talent of her caliber. They captured the tag team titles and spread their ridiculous heel joy all over the company, even returning to NXT where Sasha showed some instant electric chemistry with a future star in Shotzi Blackheart.

 The moment everything changed was the Monday Night Raw where Sasha issued a challenge….to Raw Women’s Champion Asuka. It instantly became one of the most highly anticipated matches of the year and it was Sasha’s first solo PPV match of the year. On the way to that, she returned to NXT and had a banger with the NXT’s top dog Io Shirai. They main evented that night and to date is one of only nine nights where NXT defeated AEW in total viewers. Despite the terribly booked finish, her Extreme Rules match against Asuka was one of the E’s best straight up wrestling matches of the year and ended with her as Two Belt Bankz. Her world came crashing down as she was once again unable to successfully defend the title and lost it right back to Asuka. The Golden Role Models also lost the women’s tag titles and after an unsuccessful rematch, it finally happened; Bayley snapped and assaulted her best friend, attempting to break her neck and end her career.

 Their split instantly made Sasha the biggest babyface in the company and everything from that point seemed like good old fashioned catharsis from being held back and misused through the years. She ended Bayley’s year plus reign as Smackdown Women’s Champion in one of the best Hell in a Cell matches in history. For the first time in her main roster career, she successfully defended her title and defeated Bayley in one of the best TV matches of the year. At Survivor Series, she finally cleanly defeated Asuka in a great champion vs champion match and she ended the year by having Carmella’s best match ever at TLC. This final quarter of the year was just all around tremendous for her as she had classic matches, exorcised some of her booking demons, displayed her aptitude for making anybody look great in the ring and even outside of the subjective realm of wrestling, becoming one of the primary reasons for Smackdown’s ratings surge and arguably the face of the company. This was the year of the boss, where the E finally realized the star that they had and put the power of the machine behind her. The sky is truly the limit.

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Name: Real Fandom: Fairy Tail Pairing: Gajevy but mostly Levy centric Words: 1,790 Summary: Levy finding out she is pregnant. takes place sometime after the last chapter but before the sequel.  This is for the #mamalevy event at @gajevyevents​

Levy had been sick. It was something she had been trying to ignore for weeks now, it was such a strange feeling since she would feel fine for most the day but in the mornings or late at night she would throw up to the point Gajeel would have to sit in the bathroom with  and her hold her hair out of the way and rub her back in a soothing motion (it was something Levy appreciated and made her love him even more since she knew it had to be hell on his sense of smell but he never complained once.)  and making her drink water and then helping her back to the bed. All to do it over the next day.  

Later she would wonder why she was so stupid.  

Then came her missed periods. Which was fine and seemingly normal for her to skip a month or so but after two months a lump of fear formed in her chest but she would push it out of her mind because there was no way it could be that. It was just some strange sickness and it will pass and Levy would laugh at how she thought it could be that.

But those forced reassurances didn't stop her from going to the grocery late at night and stopping in the intimate aisle and grabbing several boxes and rushing back to her and Gajeel and Lily's apartment like she had done something wrong. But it would be the only time she would be alone since both of them were on a weeklong mission, it would give her time to process whatever the results were.  

But she already knew the results, she totally was not  pregnant.   ___________ She was totally pregnant.  

Levy sat on the toilet in shock staring down at the floor were four pregnancy tests were laying side by side each showing either a plus sign or saying the word positive in bright red. She had only taken four, each a different brand and it was the same result.  

Pregnant.  

Levy was going to have a baby.  

Gajeel's baby.  

Her baby.

But the script mage's mind felt cloudy as she tried to process this, neither sadness or joy, but there was fear. Her chest felt tight and it was like a stone now occupied her stomach. Of course, her and Gajeel discussed the future, especially after that confession, and they were serious about each other. That in the future they would start a family, when they were stable enough and not just barely in their twenties.  

Levy hesitated for a moment and then finally picked up one of the tests her brown eyes staring at it intensely.  

Pregnant. 

Slowly Levy smiled but she still trembled and her thoughts were jumbled and out of sorts that it felt like she was more in a dream than in real life. But after pinching herself multiple times the young mage defiantly concluded that this was not a dream.  

It wasn't that Levy didn't want this. If anything, underneath it all she was overjoyed, becoming a mother was something she's wanted in forever but always seemed so far off to the point that she couldn't really believe it would happen. But when she would watch Bisca and Asuka a coil of jealousy would always settle in her chest but even so the script mage knew it wasn't the time, especially since her and Gajeel had something so good happening at that moment. But it seemed that the universe (and a broken condom) had other plans instead.  

Finally, in a rush she picked up the tests placing them and the boxes into the grocery bag and then stuffing it in her corner of the closet. There would be time to deal with these later, there was much more to do. Books to buy and appointments to make and to tell....Gajeel. Levy froze in that moment realizing that she would have to tell Gajeel, and it wasn't like she doubted the man she knew more than anything he wanted to have a family with her, but she wouldn't blame him if he also was scared.  

Part of her also wanted him to be scared.  

But she had a week to plan that out and there was much more to do than sit around and think about how her whole life was now changing.  How their whole life would be changing. ____________________________________ It felt impossible but at the same time strangely easy not telling anyone. Having a secret like this to herself, it reminded her when she and Gajeel started their relationship sneaking around and keeping quiet in a way that wasn't on purpose but at the same time it was. Her heart would pound and it seemed like everyone was talking about pregnancy or babies even though she knew it was because she was just paying more attention now to those words, but still it gave the girl a heart attack each time.  

When she would go back to the apartment, she would lay on their bed her hands covering the area of her abdomen where she guessed the baby was. Her brown eyes staring holes into the ceiling. It honestly still did not feel real to the script mage; all of this happening and she hated that Erza and Lucy were gone on that mission. Of course, there were other women she could talk too and were close-ish too but it would feel strange. Part of her also wished Gajeel was there, Levy had been tempted to send him a message urging him to come back but, in the end, would stop herself, she knew it would give Gajeel a heart attack thinking something was wrong when it was only that she was pregnant. Something that could wait just a few more days.  

She sat up then swinging her legs over the side of the bed her eyes moving to the stack of books she had bought but have not opened yet. In all honesty it was just not real to her yet, some kind of denial and fear seemed to pervaded her mind. Maybe seeing the doctor at one of the new clinics that had opened up after Magnolia started to rebuild after the war, would help.   _______________________________________ The waiting room was cold and everything seemed shiny and new. It was strange thing to see Levy wasn't used to seeing something so stainless as the waiting room was, new things didn't last long in the guild. But it had a strange calming effect on Levy, the coolness and the nurses who smiled and were so nice. It was nice.  

Finally her name was called and she made her way back to the doctors room, small tests were performed and she finally had to wait on a strange bed with strange footholds, Levy's face burned realizing just what exactly it was for as her hands turned into fists and grabbing her paper gown until her knuckles were white.  

"Levy Mcgarden?" an older woman's voice filled the room causing her to jump slightly as she looked up to see a woman around Porlyusica’s age but with a much gentler expression and smile as she tilted her head.  

"T-thats me!" Levy laughed as she raised her hand. She felt like an idiot she should have asked Bisca to come with her since she was the only woman around Levy's age to even have a child, but she chickened out and she was alone.  

The woman laughed and Levy could feel her whole body burn, "It's okay don't worry just going to check you and the little one out." she smiled as she stepped closer to Levy taking out a stethoscope to listen to her heart. Minutes passed as she checked Levy out until finally telling her to lay back on the chair for her to look down there. Levy tried to not look at her and found the ceiling very interesting despite the strange pressure she had happening to her.  

"Well everything seems fine." the doctor finally said as she sat up. "I'm going to do an ultrasound now." Levy sat up on her elbows and looked at her with a confused expression.  

"Ultrasound?"  

The woman nodded with a smile, "It's something new for mothers and fathers," Levy could hear her hesitation on the word father it amused her slightly considering Gajeel was and would be anything but a very involved dad. "to see the baby, though you can't really see much but." she shrugged, "for many it makes it real." Levy nodded and laid back then watching as a machine was brought closer to her. "Now lift your gown a bit." in which Levy did making sure the paper blanket kept her covered still. "Now this will be a bit cold." she instructed as Levy let out a small yelp as the gel was applied to her lower abdomen and before she knew it the strange device was now on her belly and a strange swishy wooshy sound could be heard.  

Levy looked up then her brown eyes widening in wonder, it was grey and black and it was hard to really tell what was what but she knew it when she saw them. Small and round but obviously there.  

There were two strange, surprisingly large, balls.  

two babies. Levy was having two babies sound seemed to leave the room as she stared at the screen not hearing the doctor's words outside, she was around 10 weeks pregnant and congratulations. Levy could feel the tears build up behind her eyes, the burning sensation as she smiled her chest heavy but this time the heaviness was warm.  

Later at home she sat on their small couch and held the ultrasound picture before her touching it slightly. Everything now seemed to make sense, and she honestly knew she should be more scared at this moment with the fact there were two babies inside of her.  

Two! 

But strangely there was only warmth.  

Warmth over the fact she was going to be a mama. 

Levy sighed as she placed the picture against her chest leaning back into the couch and sighed. There was so much she needed to do. So much needed to be done but at that moment she just wanted to enjoy that moment, that feeling despite the tinge of fear that lingered there, despite the doubts and worries that entered her mind (two babies!) but in that moment Levy sat there in her apartment alone clutching an ultrasound of her babies to her chest with her brown eyes closed and a peaceful small smile covering her lips. 

In that moment it was all finally real. 

And it was going to be okay.