[OOC] Soul Circus

[Belle]

I'm going to make the first post tonight. I certainly hope more people join. I'm going to make a list of all the jobs currently taken in the first ooc post.
This will be my first time trying to play a guy so I'm nervous.

[Oliver]

Don't worry about playing a guy! As a bona fide dude, I can say for damn certain we're no different from the chicks. We're a little more reckless on average, but other than that you don't have much to worry about.

[Belle]

@Oliver Thanks! :)

Working on the first post right now while eating my Russian snacks! If you guys are curious check out my istagram for pics and reviews on the snacks I got in the universal yums box. Next month's is Indonesia. So excited!

[Oliver]

I hope they give you Polish and Israeli snacks. I can personally guarantee that those are the best.

I'm going out for a while tonight, but I should be back to post before bed!

[Belle]

Initial post is up!

It is a bit long because I wanted to give you a small glimpse into what I had in mind for the taking of a soul. Of course you can mix things up a bit if you wish, but that is the general idea of what I was going for.

So yeah... instead of being out and about on Halloween night I am in my room on my computer.
I have no life.

[LadyRunic]

@Belle Hey, who needs a life?

Edit: You terrify me, Belle. The Soul snatching is EPIC.

[RomanAria]

I finished my character.

Lyric

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_{^{Lydia “Lyric” Richards}}

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A tall girl, very slender and pale, who has waist-length platinum blonde hair and sightless milky eyes that she covers with a folded white handkerchief. A thin scar, snowy white against her already pale skin, trails from the notch of her collarbones to the base of her jaw. She appears to be somewhere in the vicinity of thirteen to fifteen, starting to become a woman but hardly grown into her body yet.

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_^Role

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A skilled pianist and violinist, Lyric can often be found among the musicians who provide the backing track for the circus, always there but never quite noticed. Besides this she has a few tricks of her own, being seemingly uncannily aware of where she is in space and what surrounds her, with amazing reflexes, and this can often make an interesting addition to many of the sideshow acts.

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_{^{Other Skills}}

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Lyric is fond of slipping around unseen, following people around the grounds of the carnival. She deeply enjoys standing close behind them, before raising her glass violin and beginning to play a haunting melody. At first people will not realize where the sound comes from, then after several moments they will notice her. If they attempt to walk away, as is the normal reaction (she has noticed that her music seems to… entrance people, make them slower and more distracted.) she will seemingly vanish, but her music will linger, seeming to follow them. Periodically they will notice the young violinist, never so close to them – periodically they will catch her standing in the middle of the grounds, moonlight glinting off of her violin, or peering around a tent watching them, but the music always follows them, always growing slowly louder. So long as they only walk, not run, she is content to follow them. But the moment their terror overpowers her music’s calming effect and they break into a run, that’s when she acts. She carries thin knives with her, somewhat reminiscent of throwing stars, and can whip them at a target with frightening accuracy, especially for a blind girl. She does not ever kill people, but she will graze them with the blades, and then she again pursues them with the violin’s melody.

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^_Biography

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Lydia Richards was, in her prior life, a child prodigy. By the age of eight the girl spoke seven languages fluently and was proficient at piano, violin, cello, and harp. By the time she was eleven she would be asked to solo with the world’s top orchestras, and was a competent orchestrator whose works were played all across the globe. She became famous, and with her fame also became an advocate. She donated much of her music’s royalties to such organizations as the WHO and Doctors Without Borders, and often spoke on the subjects of peace and kindness – perhaps naïve goals, but she spoke softly, and reasonably, and people listened. But her fame was short-lived as Lydia, then thirteen, was kidnapped while walking home from school.
For months, no one heard a whisper, nor found a trace of the girl’s body. Then a video surfaced on the internet, illustrating in gory detail what was believed to be the mutilated corpse of Lydia Richards. Her eyes were gouged out, her tongue excised, various other mutilations done to her body, her blood sprinkled across the snowy forest floor. The police were crawling all over the county, searching for the girl and her murderers, but not a trace has been found to this day.

[FallenTrinity]

@Belle Hey, who needs a life?

Edit: You terrify me, Belle. The Soul snatching is EPIC.

@LadyRunic

Chitter: *surprisingly joyfilled and excited voice.* Who wants to play hide and go seek? I haven't played for a long time. I'll start. I'll hide and you seek okay? *Turning away from victim her eyes seemingly disappear into the hollow abyss of her head as small fangs begin to grow. *He her laughter is heard fading into the distance.* Count to 20 and come find me! Hehehehe hehe!

[FallenTrinity]

I'll try to post tonight. In my post there will be gold text (obviously that means a link to a pic or something. Please be sure to look at them to get a grasp of how chitter works.) She will be my main focus first. I'll then wait until others post for Slinky and Johnny. Also I will add music to my posts so I hope you enjoy. I'll start working on the post after work tonight. Might not be up however until tomorrow.

[Belle]

@Belle Hey, who needs a life?

Edit: You terrify me, Belle. The Soul snatching is EPIC.

@LadyRunic

That's the best compliment anyone has ever given me!! *hugs*

@RomanAria
Oooooooh nice

[Oliver]

@Belle I finally posted! Sorry it's an hour late, I was out.

[Oliver]

<Snipped quote by LadyRunic>

Chitter: *surprisingly joyfilled and excited voice.* Who wants to play hide and go seek? I haven't played for a long time. I'll start. I'll hide and you seek okay? *Turning away from victim her eyes seemingly disappear into the hollow abyss of her head as small fangs begin to grow. *He her laughter is heard fading into the distance.* Count to 20 and come find me! Hehehehe hehe!

@FallenTrinity

Chitter is such a little creep. I just love her.

[Belle]

@Oliver aww I just wanna give Blink cuddles! But then again maybe not...

[LadyRunic]

@Belle Would Des need to be in snake form during this time? When she's not actually preforming but moving about?

Also performing... Under a big top, or in their own areas?

[Oliver]

@Belle

Also performing... Under a big top, or in their own areas?

@LadyRunic

I was wondering the same. It was briefly mentioned the first post that there were more than one tent, but those could just be personal tents for changing and animal keeping and the like...

[Belle]

@LadyRunic being in snake mode now would be fine if she wants since people would just see it as someone acting or in a costume. She would just have to be very careful about being discovered as real.

I was planning to have several performance tents based on how the performers liked to operate. For instance, Desdemona strikes me as a loner so she would likely have her own tent, whereas the evil children seem to be working together so they would likely share a tent for their performances

[Oliver]

@Belle Makes sense, though I thought Chitter was an errand girl and not a performer.

[FallenTrinity]

@Oliver

She is just an errand runner. It's John and slink who do other things

[Oliver]

I'm going to bed now. I'll be on in the morning and tomorrow should be an easy school day, so plenty of time to post.

[LadyRunic]

Hope my post is alright. Des is quite odd to write for, but no less amazing with that attitude of hers!