For some, the most passionate of Earth's creative minds, art isn't just a hobby. It's a way of life. An artist's works can be an extension of who they are, a window into their souls, and the way they think. Some artists can, at times, take their art a bit too seriously. Some even go crazy obsessing over every last detail. And on the surface, Maxxine Dupri was every bit that starved artist. Merely the surface though.
Maxxine wasn't crazy! No, no, she, unlike her contemporaries, was a genius! A visionary! Picasso, but without paints or pastels. Maxxine's brush, an ultra high-definition camera, her backdrops the calm, somber hotel rooms between shows. Maxxine wasn't just a professional wrestling manager (and wrestler in training), she was also a photographer, and leader of the fastest-rising modeling agency in history!
Oh, MMM? Nope, sorry, not that one! Maxxine hadn't been so fond of that agency recently. Sooo....last year, way out of season. Since leaving Maximum Male Models, Maxxine Du-PRI had started a brand new, far more suiting organization for a woman of her class and stature. MTM: Maximum Top Models.
Growing MTM had become Maxxine's sole focus, her sole purpose, even. The bigger the organization becomes, the larger her portfolio grows, satiating her incredible desire to showcase her fellow WWE Superstars in compromising positions, specifically the bigger, stronger "wrestlers" who severely lacked the brains to match all of that brawn.
Names like Charlotte Flair and Bianca Belair stuck out, big, strong alpha women on the surface, but big, strong submissive bitches with a little privacy. Her latest muse though? A fearsome wrestler who fit those qualifications to a T. A wrestler, a world champion who, despite that fact, found herself knocking on Dupri's hotel room door at the exact time she'd been ordered to. Just like she had been once a week ever since the WWE draft little over a month ago.
Looking as smug as ever, even daring to bring her glowing, newly-minted Women's World Championship along with her, was Rhea Ripley. The Nightmare. Mami, the terrorizer of the Raw brand but lately, in secret, Rhea had been nothing more than Maxxine's latest Maximum Top Model, a fact she somehow glossed over as L'artiste opened the door.
"Fantastic! You're right on time, Rhea. I'd like to compliment you on fulfilling your duty as my latest client but uh...I think we both know the payment more than justifies things," Maxxine smiled seductively as she greeted, only half of her red satin-robed body peeking out of the room.
Rhea, keeping her game face up, rolled her eyes.
"Damn, this isn't my room? My mistake," Rhea joked, doing her best to play coy. Unfortunately, her "best" fell under that all-brawn, no brains category. Classic toughie.
"Oh, Rhe-Rhe, you're so funny," Maxxine giggled. "Yeah, as if you aren't thrilled to pose for me again! Haha....get the FUCK in here, now." The slight raise in Dupri's voice was enough to get Rhea to lower her head and enter the room; deep down, she knew it was against her best interest. After all, becoming the alpha of WWE was her dream. But...something about Maxxine, about posing as a "Maximum Top Model" just... just titillated the juices of her guilty pleasures.
Maxxine lead Rhea into her make-shift studio, or, in other words, the smallest, most well-lit individual room inside of the hotel room; beggars can't be choosers, and being on tour with WWE meant her proper studio was almost inaccessible, a small trade for the dozens of "Models" available. It wasn't long before they arrived, and even less time for Rhea to notice that Maxxine already had everything in place.
"You're uh, you're all set, huh?" Rhea said readjusting the World title around her shoulder as Maxxine closed the door behind them.
"Well of course! I'm a fucking professional after all, in more ways than one. Which, clearly, you are not! Dressed like that? Those clothes are soooo YUCK! I swear, I nearly vomited," Maxxine declared, of course referring to Rhea's rather simple ensemble of a tank top, tattered skin-tight jeans, and sneakers. Sooo YUCK, Sooo not 'IN'. Maybe for the dregs. But not for a Maximum Top Model. "Did I not tell you last time to come dressed in something more appropriate?"
"Yeah, and I told ya last time I'm not goin' out in public dressed in my fucken knickas!" Rhea barked, her temper getting the better of her which, occasionally, was expected of someone called The Nightmare. But luckily, Maxxine had just the thing for toughies like Rhea Ripley, what she liked to call "intimidating pretenders". So, she did what most women and even men on planet Earth wouldn't do if you paid them, and slapped Rhea square across the face.
"Mouthy bitch!" Maxxine scolded. "Have you forgotten who owns your ass? I have the decency to let you titillate the juices of your guilty pleasures in secret! I fuck your disgustingly fat ass ass and don't tell the whole world? And this is how you speak to me? What do you have to say for yourself?"
Rhea, seething with rage, rubbed her cheek. Then, she responded exactly how Maxxine wanted, how Maxxine knew she would. "I'm...I'm sorry, Maxxine."
"No, I'm sorry. Who?"
Rhea rolled her eyes. "Maxxine, my...my Model Mistress."
"Good, good, so you do know my official title. Nice to hear. Maybe try using it once in a while?"
Rhea ignored her, but Maxxine wasn't bothered. Instead, she continued setting the stage for their night.
"Alright, now that I've read you the riot act.... compliment time! I'm so glad you brought your belt with you, Rhe-Rhe. Classic WWE Superstar, taking those things to hell and back! But I like it! The pics are gonna be especially spicy now."
"Spicy?" Rhea questioned, and immediately backtracked once she realized, "Oh no, no way!"
"Oh, yes way!" Maxxine argued with a slick smile plastered across her gorgeous face.
"Sorry, mate. I'm not wearen' my belt during the shoot. That's disrespectful. I earned this, I worked my arse off to become the very first holder of this belt! And now, ya expect me to devalue the bloody thing by posin' with it?"
"Yes," Maxxine admitted sternly. The tone of her voice and the fire in her eyes told Ripley that she was dead serious. Surely a badass like Rhea would stand her ground, right? Right?!
"Okay, okay, I'll wear it! But I'm taken' it off before I show my bum or whatevah." Once again, Rhea was powerless against Maxxine's will.
"No. You're wearing it until I say otherwise, just like the rest of what you'll be modeling tonight." Maxxine motioned to the small collection of lingerie, among other things, set up on a table adjacent to them. A black lace set: a top and bottom to cover the goods, a pair of sheer black stockings, matching garter belt to hold them up, and an expensive-looking pair of stiletto heels. La pièce de résistance? A collar, black of course, to match the rest of her outfit, except for the big silver letters in the middle: MTM.
Rhea groaned. "Can't I just pose in my own underwear again?" Obviously, Rhea's undergarments were a lot less revealing and, subsequently, a lot less humiliating to be photographed in.
"No, because your clothes are ugly! I thought we established that already?" Maxxine reminded.
"I just thought-" Rhea began, but was quickly interrupted.
"I don't pay you to think, I pay you to be a fat-assed bitch who can pose for pictures! Right or wrong?"
"You don't pay me at all!" Rhea snapped.