Olav Sørensen

Olav is a character I created in 2005 for the videogame WWE Day of Reckoning, taking inspiration from the professional wresler Undertaker. Olav shares many things with the Undertaker. They have almost the same physical appearance, almost the same tallness and the same colours.
Unlike the Undertaker, Olav has only two tattoos, but red lines called ‘Dry Soil’cover completely both his arms. He hides another small tattoo on his chest, a drawing of Norway and the title of the norwegian anthem, ‘Ja, vi elsker dette Landet.'
Olav is Norwegian, and when he doesn’t fight, he lives with his mum in his birth city, Tromsø.
To be honest, originally i had no intention to create a background for Olav. Originally he hadn’t even a name, just a nickname. I wanted to keep his past in the shadow, because i liked the idea of a mysterious character. And a character looks mysterious only if even the author doesn't know him.
I still have some original drawing concept of Olav, with notes about his fighting style but i have to find them. I drew them before doing the first Olav in a WWE game, using a picture of the Undertaker as reference to keep track of differences.
For some years, i stopped to watch wrestling (really i’m very picky about wrestling, the only wrestlers i appreciate are the Undertaker and Rey), so i even stopped to care about Olav. Last year my brother bought the videogame ‘Smackdown VS Raw 2010' and asked for having Olav in it. I was happy for this request. I almost forget about Olav. Like Alice and Elena, Olav has a special place in my heart. But since at that time he was a neglected character, i forget about many things about him.
In Smackdown VS Raw, many signature movies i chose for Olav (Axe Guillottine Driver, Spear, Big Boot, Chlothesline from Hell and many other) are missed. But Olav started to appear more clearly in my mind. Finally i knew his past.
Unlike most of my characters, Olav hadn’t an happy life, but i don’t want to talk about his tragic past, (later i will explain why). Outside the ring he doesn’t act like an asshole. He is known as a solitary and dreamy man. Olav is currently part of a recent projects i started, a comic i will do after ‘Remembering the Yellow Sky’. He is not the main character (is for this i didn’t wrote detailed info about his past here), but he will have an inner growth, just like Brian Brushes, the protagonist of the story.