Joey Crash: The story so far

This is a brief, high-level account of the off-cam story told through my RP's which I will do my best to keep updated.

After eight years away from the ring, Joey Crash returned to the States to inform his old manager, Mick, who was in hospital. There's a lot of bad blood from Joey's side as he felt like Mick stifled his career and forced him into an early retirement. Crash tells Mick he's going to achieve everything he ever wanted in spite of him.

Sophie enters the story and interrupts Crash mid-workout. Crash had her twigged as a fan but she introduced herself as Mick's daughter and let him know that Mick has died. Crash agrees to chat with Sophie later.

Crash agreed to meet Sophie at a bar to talk about Mick. She says she didn't know Mick very well as he was absent most of her childhood, busy being Joey's manager. Sophie storms off after Crash had some unsavoury things to say about her father. She told Crash a funeral was happening but wouldn't say where. She left her small blue diary behind which detailed the funeral was in Michigan and that she had been planning to invite Joey along.

Crash wakes up hungover after a night of drinking to celebrate his biggest win in the company so far, having triumphed over the TriForce Champion, Bert McAlroy. However as he sobers up, it becomes clear last night wasn't the one-man-party he thought it was. He's not heard from Sophie since she told him about the funeral. He reaches out one last time.

Crash faces the prospect of a lonely Christmas in a cheap motel as he prepares for the biggest match of his return so far at Final Fantasy. He tries to spend the holidays the way his late manager would have obliged.

With the longer break between shows for the new year, Crash takes an opportunity to visit London for the first time since his debut. He reunites with an old friend and wrestling partner, Jimmy The Pin, and when questioned, cannot bring himself to confirm Mick's death.

Joey finally spends a whole evening with Sophie  as they reminisce and celebrate the life of her father. Things turn sour quickly when Crash reveals that he's been reading her diary.

We see Crash on the tail end of his attempted journey to Plymouth, Michigan so he can visit Mick's grave but is delayed by a massive storm. He makes multiple attempts to contact Sophie  from a payphone which don't go as well as he'd hoped.

As Crash prepares for his first ever Final Boss championship shot, he meets a mystic, who tells him how he can contact his deceased manager, Mick... by playing a card game on his grave.

Joey celebrates his World Championship victory by buying an apartment, and sees a recap of TLOU2 from none other than Denzel Porter.

Joey goes to the last known address of Mick when he was alive to retrieve a bunch of postcards. He'd learned of the correspondence between Mick and Jimmy when he was last in London. But now, he's going to deliver all the cards to Sophie to try and recoup any chance of friendship they might have.

Since receiving the postcards, Sophie agrees to meet Joey for the first time since before he won the Final Boss Championship. He shares the story of how Mick saved his life when he was a teenager.

As Joey prepares for his first title defense against Duncan Shepard, Sophie tells him that she's not sure if she can trust him if he loses the championship, given how unhinged he was while chasing Bert for the title. Joey tries to reassure Sophie that nothing will change... But she doesn't believe him.