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Name: Ambrose
Age: ??? (Looks to be in his early thirties.)
Gender: Male

Position: Clown
Powers: Ambrose has been given the blessing of true enlightenment, which is appearently madness. And his power is to ability to share his blessings of chaos and derangement with others. He can't drive people (permanently) as crazy as he is. But he can do things like double or triple the emotional intensity of whatever emotion someone is feeling, Inflict maddening visions, Make people keep seeing strange things out of the corner of their eye, Remove all inhibitions and social morals, Put someone's inner child in total control of their thoughts and actions for alittle while, Temporarily make someone a sociopath, or create the illusion "hobgoblins" in a person's mind. Things like that.
Personality: Ambrose is no longer who he once was. In fact, he usually isn't who he was five minutes ago. He's a chaotic sort who get's bored often and is always up for a bit of fun. He has a sharp wit and makes a fine clown. Sometimes it's utterly impossible to tell his jests from his insanity. Indeed, he's been known to get into arguments with Yorick, the Scepter, but no one else seems to hear a word that Yorick is saying. Most people tend to think it's all a part of the act, but he does it so convincingly.
Ambrose often appears to have a grim certainty about abstract things like the future, human nature, or the existence of God. But when pressed, he never seems able to find the right words to convey his meaning. In a few cases, his ramblings have been quite prophetic, but at other times they were just mad ramblings of no real value. He also seems to have a rather complex and substantially mutable method to his trademark madness. After all, as chaotic as he can be, he hasn't run naked through the center ring in the middle of someone elses performance yet.
Background info (more like a bio): Ever the inquisitive idealist as a child, Ambrose joined the military as soon as he was old enough. He wanted to travel and see the world and go to college for free. And he did. Although he also killed a lot of people in defense of his nation. But he left that life behind after there were no more battles left to fight and his country was at peace for the most part.
He became a writer and a scholar. And an alcoholic. Mostly an alcoholic really. He went further into his education and became an graduate student and eventually a proffesor of philosophy. But his mind was tortured. Even with the infinite beauty and complexity of the world, he found no peace from his constant questioning of all things. His alcoholism got worse and he found himself entangled in a series of sexual relationships with his students as well. In what he considered a politically motivated move to cast peoples eyes away from the true scumbags who worked for the college he was fired and lawsuits were brought against him by the school.
With no friends left who could get through to him and nothing much left to lose, the young proffesor wandered drunkenly into a passing carnival for reasons he himself could not be sure of. On a whim, he made a wish while he was there.
Wish: Ambrose wished for enlightenment, to understand all things in heaven and earth and where ever else may exist. The result was immediate. A sudden influx of knowledge, knowledge which the greatest of human sages aspire to attain, was suddenly revealed to him. This complete revelation of all universal truth utterly broke his mortal mind, driving him completely and irrevocably mad.
Bonds to other characters: Well, Hagger seems to understand him more than many others and being that the ringmaster isn't terrified of his madness, Ambrose tends to spend some regular time with Hagger.
He hasn't really seemed to penetrate Mortimer's shyness though. Perhaps he's much of an extrovert.
He has attempted to engage Minata and Nychta in conversation a few times. And has shown himself to be something of a flirt when not distracted by the things that other people can't see.
(More pending new characters)
Weapons:

Yorick, The Scepter [+]

Yorick, The Scepter is a jester's marotte which shoots tiny elemental blasts at a high velocity out of it's mouth by some application of science or magic which only Ambrose truly understands. But it's use is simple: there's a trigger hidden behing the chin which won't work unless the cap has been pushed in one of four directions. Forward for rocks, back shoots fire, left (Yorick's left) shoots air, and right (again, Yorick's right) shoots out water.

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