An identity factory with bad fluorescent lighting
The school gathers aspiring workers before their ring identities have stabilized. Kabal, Claude / Mr. Entertainment and the future Vacío Arpista coexist there as half-made professional selves. Training, gimmick talk, bodily evaluation and promoter access blur together.
In the larger cycle
Later territory stories make the dojo retrospectively important: the circuit continually reveals which lessons were theater, which were craft and which were damage.