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oc social media posts (circa. 1927). a sprinkle of lore under the cut

1-2. divina and monsieur magnifique do not get along anymore. they've known each other for 10 years and used to live together back in paris, when they were both making ends meet as street performers long before they joined the carnaval du mystique. they're the only two performers who knew each other before joining the troupe. they had a falling out after divina was monsieur magnifique's magician's assistant for a show that one time. operative word: one time.

3. barta, the carnival's strongwoman, has a sort of on and off situationship with lady henriette, the beloved seer and medium. because henriette can see the future (specifically everyone's future but her own), she doesn't really love the idea of being committed to anyone, but also if you think that's going to stop barta you'd be wrong.

4. jeremiah gale just wants to get home to see his wife, but he's stuck performing at the traveling carnival on account of... being dead. he's a walking, talking corpse that the carnaval dug up back in the states so he owes them a debt. but also going back home in general isn't the wisest decision when he's supposed to be dead. he died in the late 1800s and he's the only american participant in the carnival, so of course they made him the western gunslinger; mirage and monsieur magnifique try to get him to say all sorts of stereotypical catchphrases like "yeehaw" and "yippee ki-yay" even though he's never heard anyone say any of that in his entire living life.

5. they're all queer, that's pretty self-explanatory.

6. wherever they travel, the police get on their case. it doesn't help that where ever they go, there's a string of murders, even though it has absolutely nothing to do with them.

7. the ringleader is in charge of the traveling carnaval, and it has a habit of collecting strange people with strange abilities and having them join its troupe. when monsieur magnifique was a street performer, even before he knew divina, the ringleader would not stop pestering him

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very belated art trade for @moridaze! this is their oc rose 🥀🧺

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Fishworks Princess

My new character Ishi

For some reason I want to call her Ishi.

She is an acquaintance and former colleague of Martina (a sea hunter who also used to work at a fish work, maybe you do remember her from my other paintings). She's an adult with angry baby face, and also a very productive worker.

She has a unique taste in clothes and spends her salary on strange lolita-like styles (there is no such thing in their world, but to get the idea right), which she mostly wears at home.

She hates the Fish Town with passion, but she can't leave it either, because whenever she goes to the Big City, he feels like a total stranger there, especially with her outfits, which are not part of the local fashion there either.

Despite her appearance, she is not detached from reality and does not seek to escape from it, an irritable person, but reasonable in communication

That's also her in The Museum of Water, the Fish Town is so proud of

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have i been on a super long hiatus? yes.

will it happen again? probably.

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Apologizes for my crude language but I know jack shit about theater and I'm just here for the cool art 😎

well thank you so much for sticking around 😌

luckily i do a lot of jumping around fanart wise lmao, so there will probably be a lot of non-theatre posting

also hello fellow habromania enjoyer

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she put on skincare from shein

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recently when im tempted to say 'i'm gonna kill myself' i try to correct it into saying "im gonna walk into the river and become a trout" or some other form of that. this is my new thing

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monsieur magnifique for @cursed-iris!!

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omg just asking because im curious and need new music to listen to but what are your favourite songs

omg! okay, so i have a few. i listen to a lot of random music, so i kind of just kept it to like, non-musical more contemporary songs but some of my favorites in that category right now areeee

dorothy - her's

swing lynn - harmless

artefact - phoenix

lost in the sound - tahiti 80

tongues & teeth - the crane wives

renee - sales

everything will be okay - orion 224

silver soul - beach house

if you care - post-modern connection

thank you for the ask!! :DDD

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i updated cardflower's mc... i named her polly rose

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omg im so glad you like the new oc!! she was inspired by your carnaval du mystique, i thought all the different performance outfits were so bright and creative... anyways im rambling whoops

OMG, YOU'RE KIDDING!! /pos 😭😭

no way, that's so cool! thank you! i'm honored. i absolutely love her design, she would fit right in with the rest of the carnival 😌

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a lovely freak of nature

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tell us about your oc lore!!!

you want to hear about my oc lore? 🥹 i've been waiting years to talk about my oc lore! i don't know how long this has been in my inbox but thank you for the ask, anon! i don't want to yap too much, so for now, i have the sparknotes version. TW for mention of death, mention of guns and brief descriptions of being dead (which i tried to keep very pg, but just in case)!!

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the carnaval du mystique is the name of a 1920s traveling carnival of performers, all of whom have a strange ability of some kind. it appears in random places across europe every fall and spring.

main cast: monsieur magnifique: the magician, divina alonto: the trapeze artist, lady henriette: the fortune teller, mirage: the tightrope walker, jeremiah gale: the gunslinger

monsieur magnifique, magician of the macabre

born: april 1st, 1885

monsieur magnifique is the eccentric resident magician of the carnival, known for dangerous tricks that involve audience participation and usually end... not great. he's practically mad, always looking for the next big, terrifying trick.

he has had several different names throughout the years to the point where he can't really remember his given one. the ability to perform magic acts was passed down by his mother. he grew up in a devoutly religious town that still hadn't evolved past their fears of witches, and his mother was executed at the stake. after her death, he had to run away from home. he ended up joining the royal flush circus, and he lived most of his childhood and early teen life under the new name "spade," assigned by the cruel circus ringmaster. long story short: he did not, in fact, have a great time there.

he's arrogant, flamboyant and dramatic. also, he's always smiling, unless someone calls him a "circus freak," which has happened on more than one occasion. that sets him off.

the only stipulation with his powers is that every trick he does is based on some magician gimmick. can he fly? no. can he turn invisible? nope. can he pull literally anything out of his hat? you bet he can. do his gloves walk off on their own to get things for him when he's too lazy to do so himself? absolutely.

his best friend is divina, and they are the only two who have known each other before they joined the carnival.

he is dreadfully afraid of fire.

divina alonto, belladonna with wings

born: september 21st, 1886

divina has had the ability to fly ever since she was in boarding school, but she didn't learn to control that power until several years later so it was constantly a problem. there were times when she would just start floating randomly in front of teachers and it was such a constant issue that the literal headmaster had lead shoes commissioned for her to wear. they weren't the most comfortable thing in the world, but also desperate measures are called for when you're constantly three seconds away from randomly launching into the stratosphere, so you win some, you lose some i guess.

on a mandatory school fieldtrip to europe, they straight up left her there on accident, not realizing she wasn't on the boat until it was too late. home alone style. but worse.

anyway, she is able to control her abilities now, and though she always wanted to be a ballerina, she's become the closest carnival equivalent: a trapeze artist of the carnaval du mystique.

the only stipulation is that she can only take off from solid ground, kind of like a plane.

she is surprisingly short tempered and is under the impression that she's the smartest person there. she's not.

her best friend is monsieur magnifique, but partially because of an incident at a show back when he was just starting out at the carnival, she always bickers with him about something.

mirage, master of illusions

born: december 12th, 1884

mirage is the tightrope walker, though he has notably never walked a tight rope in his life. his whole talent is that he makes people see things that aren't there or aren't happening. when he 'walks on a tightrope,' he really is just walking on a solid platform.

why is he a tightrope walker and not in charge of something that relates more to his powers? well, he used to be in charge of the now abandoned house of horrors alongside another member of the carnival, but after frightening a person to death, he decided he better choose a different career path.

mirage is known for being aloof and reserved, but not unkind. he's just the calmer counterpart to his partner magnifique.

he is the only one that actually has a family that's alive, that he has a good relationship with (aside from maybe jeremiah with his wife, but he can't see her). he sends them postcards from every place he's visiting and writes to them often.

lady henriette, the den mother seer

born: june 12th, ????

lady henriette doesn't like to talk about her life with people. if anything, she is more concerned about other people's lives and futures. she has the ability to see the future and the ability to speak to the dead. the only future she cannot see is her own. she tells people's future through whatever medium they are most comfortable with, but most people gravitate towards tarot reading.

she also kind of has an obligation to make sure othe people's fortunes are set in stone, because she knows from experience that if they aren't, they could become much worse.

she's been at the carnival the longest and is business partners with the actual ringleader, so she's pretty much the second in charge when it comes to all the performers. she ensures everything runs smoothly in the ringleader's absence, while they're out finding new people with peculiar powers.

she's the most logical out of everyone.

jeremiah gale, deadshot

born: march 8th, 1834

died: may 17th, 1864

jermiah gale is literally dead. not figuratively, not metaphorically, like actually. rip, died 56 years ago. fly high.

that probably should've been where it ended, living a pretty standard mid-19th century life with his wife before joining the union, but no. a few weeks after he was buried and they had a funeral for him, he just woke up in his grave, unable to get out. any normal person would probably come to the conclusion that they had been buried alive, but jeremiah definitely remembered dying, and his skin was translucent. sure enough, the wound that killed him was still very much in the back of his head.

he is a zombie in the most basic sense; he's undead, but he has retained all his mental faculties and he's very much harmless. not gonna lie, brains do not sound appetizing to him.

he was still dead and the laws of nature did not stop for a body that might've been conscious but still needed to decompose. the only reason he looks the way he does is because mirage works to make him appear normal to guests. it would be kind of jarring to see a skeleton in a cowboy hat walking around. but there's only so much mirage can do for him; he's still very pale and his eyes almost white so he has to wear shades to protect them from the sun.

jeremiah is the best shot from the west in europe; he's never missed a single target.

he's probably the friendliest of the main carnival troupe. he's a people person, even if he's not the sharpest tool in the shed. honestly, he just wants to get back home to his wife, but he knows that's probably not the best idea. being dead also isn't so great; he tired but he can't sleep, he's hungry but he can't eat, it's pretty much torture. his unwavering, annoying optimism gets him all through it.

thank you for the ask, anon! you have given me an excuse to ramble.

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Hadestown West End Epic III change alert! (If you read Working on a Song you knew this was coming. XD)

For the first day of previews--note that this can always change later--the verse that used to go:

The more he has, the more he holds The greater the weight of the world on his shoulders See how he labors beneath that load Afraid to look up, and afraid to let go So he keeps his head low, he keeps his back bending He's grown so afraid that he'll lose what he owns But what he doesn't know is that what he's defending Is already gone

was replaced with the following:

I know how it is because he is like me I know how it is to be left all alone There’s a hole in his arms where the world used to be When Persephone’s gone His work never done, his war never won Will go on forever, whatever the cost Cause the thing that he’s building his wall around Is already lost

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