// History //

Early Years

Born in Guadalajara, Tina is the eldest of 5 siblings, the others being much younger than her. For most of her early life her family was poor, but through backbreaking brutal labour and at times having to go without anything but the barest necessities for living, they eventually reached a more comfortable (even though still nothing close to even middle class) lifestyle, Tina herself doing small chores and errands for neighbors she knew to help out with expenses. 

From a young age, she was exposed to the world of Lucha Libre by her father, enamoured by the high-flying action and showmanship of the profession, glued to the small t.v. her family had when she found a spare moment when a match was on. Drawn in by the fame and potential to pay back her family with a more lavish lifestyle than they had ever known, she aspired to join the profession when she was older, her innate athleticism and energetic disposition leading her to start training her body in any sort of way imaginable to push herself towards her dreams. 

Around the age of 10, with a less stressful and more optimistic view of the future finally in sight, the first of her siblings was born, her baby brother Vincente. He was followed shortly, one by one, by her two sisters and youngest brother Sofia, Julia, and Andrés. Giving her parents exasperated and weary looks with the news of each new sibling that came, she still took up her role as the eldest sibling with her sunny dispostion and energetic attitude able to caroule the newcomers as they grew up together. Viewed almost as a second mother, she was looked up to by them with awe and great expectations, the thoughts of living up to being a good role model for them always in the back of her mind.

Even with the added familial responsibilities, she was able to chase her dream, growing into a highly athletic young woman, researching and eventually joining a lucha libre training program in her later teens, learning the various moves, techniques, showmanship, and in-ring storytelling needed to succeed. On one particular evening on her way home from training, she heard a loud rattle and clang of knocked over trash cans and boxes in a side alleyway, very few people in sight down the darkening streetway, she decided to cautiously venture in to see if someone was either injured or in distress, not feeling comfortable to leave anybody alone when she could possibly help. As she reached the end of the dark alleyway, she saw a small bit of red poking out behind a crate, hard to tell what it was but she swore it looked like a furred leg of an animal sprawled on the ground. With a soft spot for animals, especially those in need, she cautiously walked over, the full view of the animal finally coming into sight. What she saw wasn’t what she was expecting though, too strange looking to be a regular dog, and slowly noticing that it had multiple tails made her curiosity and bewilderment peak. As she kneeled down to get a better look at the strange animal, it slowly lifted it’s head up to get a look at her itself, a small whimpering sound coming from it, urging her to slowly reach a hand out to show she meant it no harm. She had never seen a dog or any other animal give her the look that it gave her then, but she could almost swear that it gave her a wide mischievous grin as it looked fully at her. With a quick movement that she couldn’t react to in her stunned state, it touched her hand with a few of its multiple tails, time seeming to slow down to a crawl as the world around her started to distort and break away. She felt herself falling, not unused to the feeling, but it felt like it was without end, her senses slowly dulling as she eventually passed out as the view of the alleyway of her home city grew more and more distant.

…She woke up in a strange wooded clearing, a snicker in her ear she felt like she was being prodded at, her eyes slowly fluttering open. The familiar red face of the creature hovering over her, the snickering she heard turning to full blown laughter as it greeted her in it’s overly playful way. As it lowered itself towards, she grabbed at it and put it in a headlock, flipping it on to the ground as her fighting instincts started to kick in, the creature yelling at her by name to calm down. Her grip loosened as it never once tried to put up a fight. After it caught it’s breath and wearily turned to properly face her, it introduced itself as Elecmon, explaining to her that she was somewhere called the Digital World, and she was needed to help save it and all that lived there. Everything it was saying flew over her head, but it’s earnest pleading for help made her eventually give in to listening to it, thoughts of her family left behind stuck in the back of her head, but the challenge and need to protect those in need starting to entice her, her normal wide smile coming back to her as she introduced herself to her new friend in kind.