Carnival
*a circus is usually a choice, but for these kids it wasn’t. A man who owned a carnival years ago, the ringmaster, whose won’t give out his real name or identity started with a group of people around his age, all equally as talented and peculiar in their own ways, but after all of the carnival members started to get older and less attractive to the human eye he came up with a plan, to draw attention back to his carnival. He had a daughter of his own, one he had been training her whole life to be a perfect show girl, she is skilled Flying Trapeze performer. but he needed more He needed young, attractive, and peculiar children to be in his shows, so each town he stopped at he searched each orphaned for a peculiar child who stood out to him, the one who gave him the ‘feeling’ of talent. And one by one he adopted them and raised them in the circus family, four in total. first was vesper a boy who was adopted as early as 7 years old, for his odd personality and the way he stood out among the happy kids in the orphanage, the ringmaster trained him to find his talent, and now, vesper is a mime, Pierrot clown, one who’s not allowed to talk in shows but can juggle and ride ten foot tall bicycles. Then an other girl named Anastasia, adopted at 9 as well, she’s now an acrobatic who can bend and move like a human slinky, like her bones are made of jello . Then lastly a boy, adopted at 11, Anthony, now a skilled Stilt walker.they all soon found this carnival wasn’t what it seemed, it was all a con for money, and filled with dark pasts and strict laws. Failing at a task or not being perfect in a show will result in major consequences, and trying to leave the carnival results in death. Only one person has ever tried, elliot, years before the kids arrived. he was never heard or seen again, but the ringmaster now wears his old feather form Elliot’s top hat on his top hat, like a souvenir. Everything from these kids past now gone, like their last names, or hopes of finding their families, or making new ones. they belonged to the circus now*
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