#i love competitive chess and this is inspired by a bunch of my firneds trying to teach me chess

[faggotmox]

bcc chess headcanon

i have this headcanon that everyone in the bcc plays chess. both for fun & as a part of training. when wheeler joins he doesn't really know how to play chess. regal uses the time teaching wheeler to play to bond one on one with wheeler, even when the bcc is all together doing whatever (mox & eddie watching football, bryan reading, claudio halfway watching football & doing whatever he does, ect) regal will take some time to work on playing chess with wheeler.

& of fuckin course wheeler picks it up pretty well, especially the strategy aspect of the game. regal starts setting him up against claudio & bryan, coaching wheeler through the game. when wheeler can keep up on his own regal sets up boards so that wheeler is playing regal, claudio, & bryan at once over time (the boards are set up & left, each player coming in whenever they want to make their move as opposed to timed chess).

eventually wheeler can hold his own with bryan & claudio, beats them here & there. eventually getting the best of regal. it's a lot of fun & wheeler really finds himself enjoy it. he noticed eventually that no one plays with mox, that he's never invited to play. so he asks regal & regal says that he & mox play sometimes so invites him to watch.

mox, while half paying attention & messing with eddie like he plays video games, beats regal again & again in less than 15 moves each time. to wheeler's amazement regal is actually trying & struggling to last as long as possible with mox but can never, ever get the best of him. bryan says that he refuses to play with mox bc he think mox is cheating. claudio says he plays with mox sometimes but grows frustrated. mox offers to play wheeler, & wheeler agrees fully expecting to get got very quickly.

to everyone's shock wheeler just hangs with mox. he easily keeps up with mox's strategy & ideas, the random wild twists he puts in his game. their first match goes for over an hour, when none of the bcc has last 20 minutes. eventually mox wins but they end up setting up another game that last until the morning as a stalemate.

wheeler declines mox for awhile, which starts to get under mox's skin bc he wants to play someone who can keep up. eventually wheeler agrees again & they play a quick four or five games where mox crushes him in the first few moves. mox calls wheeler out on letting him win but wheeler promises he was just trying different things that didn't work. they break bc mox is abt to physically fight wheeler.

after dinner wheeler sets up the board & asks mox for another match. first time he's asked mox to play him instead of being offered. its touch & go for both of them for a long time, they work each other, take piece after piece, & when it's just so close to another stalemate...

wheeler pulls out a surprising, glorious win over mox.

mox has never been happier (or more annoyed) to lose & thus starts the epic battle for the bcc chess championship.

claudio makes a little trophy that mox & wheeler have to pass back & forth between each other (they keep track of their win/loses & the title reigns [much to the annoyance of the other bcc they involved their wins over them too]). regal snaked a win & held the title for 4 weeks before mox bullied him into a match & took it back.

bryan has never held the title once. though claudio managed to distract wheeler & win once (but lost it on the rematch a few days later).

it become a genuine competition between wheeler & mox, while everyone else gets to flex their creativity trying to cheat a win off the other two. there is an unspoken rule to keep the title off of bryan bc it pisses him off so much.

#ranger written #aew headcanon #jon moxley #wheeler yuta #bryan danielson #claudio castagnoli #william regal #blackpool combat club #bcc #bcc headcanon #aew fic #kinda tag it as a fic? #blackpool combat club fic #bcc fic #aew imagine #i love competitive chess and this is inspired by a bunch of my firneds trying to teach me chess #i understand it but im not good at it but its fun to try to play #most of my friends are pretty good so im like the bryan lmao #i should play again more bc its fun and i miss it #almost love chess movies??? so like a lot of this is based on chess movies lmao