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Welcome to the grand Cirque du Nuit! Now, you may be wondering, what is it about this circus that makes it so special? I'm here to tell you that, my friends, and perhaps...you might want to join the circus too.

A travelling circus, whimsical and awe-inspiring...yet somehow... shady. The acts are spectacular, ranging from death-defying tricks, to impossible feats of magic. The circus travels from town to town, giving shows to the people they stop by. The tents are large, and bright, but somehow ominous. There's more to this circus than just simple parlor tricks. Strange happenings occur often behind the curtains of such a troupe, but they always seem to disappear before anyone can notice. What dark secrets lie behind the fun and enjoyment of the Cirque du Nuit?

Now, I know what you're asking. "How do I join such a wondrous experience?" Simple! Just give us all of the information we require, and if you're accepted, you'll fit right in. You have friends as well? I'm afraid the limit to join is 3 per person, so choose your friends wisely. (you can have up to 4 characters)

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Appearance:
Reason for joining:
Act:
Personality:
Backstory:

And now... let the show... BEGIN!

Name: Corsic Denault
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Appearance: Short brown hair that falls messily around his head. Bright blue eyes. He wears a black top-hat with a teal ribbon, and a grey jacket with a matching teal shirt underneath. Fitted black dress pants with silver stripes. Often carries a long cane with a red jewel on the top.
Reason for joining: He created the circus. His reasons? Unknown.
Act: Ringmaster
Personality: Cold and calculating, but easy to understand. He commands respect, and has a way with words. His intelligence is astounding, but can lead to trickery. There's something not quite right about this man. He can get riled up when he's lost his patience.
Backstory: A mystery

Name: Lea
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Appearance: Short pink hair that ends at her jawline. Sparkling brown eyes. Tall and thin. She wears a short purple skirt with black lace along the edges, and a black and purple corset along her waist. She often wears a magenta scarf.
Reason for joining: She had no other choice.
Act: Illusionist
Personality: Kind and caring. She puts others needs above her own. She can take care of herself, and be very independent. However, she's a pushover when it comes to Corsic's requests.
Backstory: A mystery. She seems to have been with the circus all of her life.

Name: Kade
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Appearance: Short, deep blue hair that frames his face. Emotionless expression with empty green eyes. Tall and well built. He wears a pair of tight-fitting black pants with matching black shoes. A gray shirt is for the top, and has a flame design on the cuffs of the sleeves, and on the bottom of it. The sleeves go beyond his hands, and the collar is high enough to hide his mouth. When he's doing his act, he wears a silk blindfold over his eyes.
Reason for joining: He does whatever Corsic tells him to.
Act: Tightrope walker
Personality: Calm, emotionless, loyal. He doesn't do anything unless Corsic tells him to. He doesn't talk much, if at all.
Backstory: Been in the circus all of his life.

Name: Sedric
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Appearance: http://roxychick2003.deviantart.com/art/Sedric-s-Joy-172387709 and http://roxychick2003.deviantart.com/art/HAPPY-BIRTHDAY-SEDRIC-AKUJI-177985627
Reason for joining: Forced to
Act: Not a preformer
Personality: Cocky, blunt, headstrong, stubborn. Enjoys killing, and only killing. He's quick to insult people, and doesn't like anyone, though he has a little bit of a sense of honour. He despises Kade, and especially hates Corsic.
Backstory: He is kept chained up in a four-wall cage, hidden away in Corsic's tent. He's always been there... minus the times he's broken out, of course.

Name: Aleksander Vasiliev
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Appearance: Tall from his Russian blood (6'1) with long, gray/green hair and a haunted look in his mismatched silver and dark blue eyes. Wears a suit fit for nothing but a funeral.
Reason for joining: Has no drive to do anything else and nowhere else to go
Act: A dazzling short dance with life sized puppets. A young boy and girl and an older man. The older man dies in each one, though COD changes.
Personality: Blank and mostly uncaring and gets depressed and angry when he hears the laughter of children.
Backstory: Utterly broken after the death of his beloved younger twin cousins and their parents at the hand of his great uncle, he has lost most of his drive, his only concern is caring for the puppets of the young boy and girl.

Name: Vulance Taylor
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Appearance: Waist length sunshine blond hair and violet eyes with strange markings in them hidden behind a pair of sunglasses at all times. He's almost as tall as Alek at 5'11 and always dresses in formal attire in varying shades of purple.
Reason for joining: To keep an eye on his best friend Alek
Act: With sleight of hand he tricks audiences into thinking the disk he swings back and forth in front of his face hypnotizes people, when in reality it is his eyes
Personality: Cordial and compassionate he's not one to sit and take what's coming to him, except when it will harm his friends' already damaged psyche
Backstory: Followed his best friend Alek to the circus, concerned for his friends' mental state and joined to be allowed to stay

Name: Taoran Dai
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Appearance: Messy snowy white hair and lightly tanned skin that contrast with his pure black eyes. Topping off at 5'9 in black silks with different animal and flower designs on them.
Reason for joining: Had nowhere else to go, on the run
Act: preforms various acts of contortionism and runs the fortuneteller booth between shows, also the target for Deon's act
Personality: A cold customer on the outside but a raging, bloodlusting beast on the inside he hates the world and everyone in it for causing the death of his older brother. Easily coaxed into a raging state hard to calm him down from, this state fills him with a bloodlust aided by his knowledge of martial arts and his excellent swordsmanship
Backstory: The second child of the moon from China he had a breakdown when he found his older brothers body on an alter in their home. Ran away from home and hates the world and everyone in it for what the universe has done to him

Name: Deon Blackwood
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Appearance: Shoulderblade length black hair with royal purple streaks and tips, the shortest of the four at 5'8 he always wears loose pants and shirts to conceal the many knives he wears.
Reason for joining: Running from a stagnant life in a small town
Act: The knifethrower who never misses, even when he's blindfolded. For the last throw of his act both he and Taoran (the human target) are blindfolded, Deon throws a knife at random and Taoran uses his psychic abilites to dodge it
Personality: A rebel on the outside and a pushover on the inside he's constantly being pushed around by Taoran, though he has his moments of courage
Backstory: He saw the Cirque du Nuit when it came to his tiny, backwater and asked to be taken on to get away from the life his parents had planned.

Name: He had a name once, but he forgot it. So call him Doctor Stitches.
Age: Mid-forties. Even he is not sure.
Gender: M
Appearance: Tall, pale and bald with a scar-ridden face. He wears the same clothes - a faded white collared shirt, dress pants, and a lab coat - all the time, as they are stitched into his flesh. His eyes are all white, except for the pupils, which are a shade darker gray than the rest.
Reason for joining: He needs a new job. His last employer relieved him for being "too creepy".
Act: He can fix anything with needle and thread. Even living flesh that is torn beyond recognition can be mended by him. So, he can be a backstage hand, or repair things as as act.
Personality: He is always smiling. A jolly fellow with a dark past, and even darker hobby.
Backstory: Was once an experiment by a cruel doctor. When he escaped, he became that doctor's successor. But is slightly less cruel. He created Patches as a companion, and guide, as he can not see very well at all.

Name: Patches
Age: 17
Gender: F
Appearance: About five feet tall, she is a mess of pieces scrounged up from all sorts of people and creatures, even some that shouldn't exist. Almost every inch of her skin is different from the next, and there are tiny mouths patterned systematically on key body parts. She also has "freckles" of green flesh all over her body.
Reason for joining: She stays with Doctor Stitches.
Act: She can disassemble herself to about twenty different pieces, each of them able to move and survive independently. She can do that as an act.
Personality: Not very excitable. Not very happy, either. She leaves all the talking to Doctor Stitches, and does whatever he tells her to. Maybe if she is given room to leave his side every once in a while she could grow a bit more of a personality. But Doctor Stitches prefers to keep her nearby.
Backstory: Was created by Doctor Stitches as an experiment and gift to himself.

It was a beautiful day as the Cirque du Nuit started to set up. They had picked a quaint little town, a fair cry from where they usually set up, but with a big enough crowd to be expected. Tents went up quickly, since everyone had mastered putting them up by then, and the circus was well on its way to being ready for the shows they would have every night for the next three days.

Corsic was in front of his tent, polishing the red jewel that sat on the top of his long, slender cane. His wintry light blue eyes shifted when he noticed one of his performers approaching. "Good day Lea. How are the preparations going?" he asked.
"Everything's on schedule." Lea replied. "Um...do you really think we should be leaving Deon to fend for himself so soon? He's hardly been here a few days." she asked nervously. It was hard for anyone to question Corsic, and she could just feel her chest seizing up as she did it herself.
"You can help him all you want. I won't stop you. Just know that he's going to have to show me what he can do before the show starts tonight. That, or he'll be meeting up with your younger brother." he grinned.
Lea's heart seemed to freeze at the mention of her younger brother. She nodded solemnly, then went over to where she believed Deon would be, the newest to their troupe, though the same age as herself.

Lea saw Deon rushing frantically to do the jobs Taoran barked at him, and she let out a sigh. "Be a little easier on him, if you can help it." she said to Taoran before walking after Deon into the tent. She didn't worry so much about Taoran's sharp tongue, since in the Cirque du Nuit, her seniority meant that she had more power than he did, even though she was younger than him. Upon seeing the new member, she smiled. "Deon, how is everything for you so far?" she asked with a friendly wave.

"I hope he's not being too rough with you." Lea smiled apologetically, clasping her hands together. "Well, it's good to know that you're getting the hang of this..though...about your act." she fidgeted, rocking on the balls of her feet. "The Ringmaster wants to see your act before the show starts tonight. It would be best if you practiced it for the rest of the day until then." her uneasiness was clear on her face. "If it's not flawless...then. Well, just make sure that you do your best, and I'm sure everything will be fine." her smile returned.

"I'll go get Kade. We can be your first audience." Lea said excitedly. She walked to the entrance of the tent. "There's a practice area in the big top you can use. Taoran can show you where it is. I'll meet you there." with a nod, she left through the tent. It took her a bit of looking, but she found her brother Kade.
Kade was putting up one of the tents, always helping with everything to make it go faster, though he only ever did it because Corsic had told him to. He finished up with the entrance-stand, and was about to move on to setting up the front ticket counter.
"Kade! Come and watch the new act with me. Deon's going to do a practice run for us." Lea beamed, hopping to stand next to her brother. She knew that what she said had probably fallen on deaf ears, but she wouldn't stop trying.
"I am to finish set up before my allotted free time." Kade responded, his monotone voice the same as ever.
"Please, just come with me for a second. You can set up again right after." Lea pleaded.

Kade didn't so much as look her way, giving her nothing as a reply to her request.
Lea grunted, then crossed her arms. "Fine. Have it your way." she stomped over to the other side of the ticket counter, and lifted it up. "If you have to finish with the set-up, then I'll help you do it. You'll have no excuse!" she grinned triumphantly.
Kade kept doing what he was doing, not even flinching, or caring that his job had suddenly become a lot easier. He walked with her over to where the counter-booth was, and they set it down in its proper place. Kade's empty eyes scanned the area, and saw another tent that was still in the process of being put up. He walked over quickly.
Lea sighed. "This might take longer than I thought." she followed after Kade.

Lea tugged quickly on a loose rope, dashing to the next and tying it down soon after. She zipped to each loose rope and tied them securely, getting the tent to stand tall like it was made to. Taking a moment to admire her half, she looked over at Kade. "How about now?" she asked. She let out a loud grumble when she saw that her elder brother had already gone over to the next job without her. Storming after him, she got to work on helping out.

"You need to take it easy more often. We're ahead of schedule now. Try to live a little." Lea suggested when she nudged close to her brother, helping him put a sign up near the exit. She wasn't surprised that he didn't answer, but smiled when she saw him scanning the area for more work. "There's nothing else to set up." she boasted.
"Then I must speak with the ringmaster to see if there are any other tasks I must complete." Kade started to walk off, but stopped when Lea butted in front of him. His unfeeling eyes focused on her.
"You're new duty is to help me judge the new act. The ringmaster has asked to see him preform before the show, so it's our job to watch and make sure that he'll be able to stay at the circus. Okay?" Lea said, telling the truth even though she fudged it a little.
Kade nodded, then walked with her to the big top.