#bizzy mikelle

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The Contortionist’s Tale

As told by Elizabeth ‘Bizzy’ Mikelle to Edward Mordrake on Halloween Night

CW: sexual abuse, emotional abuse, mentions of sex work, childhood trauma, underage drinking and smoking

“Mama always told me I was the curse that would lead to her downfall. That every bad thing that ever happened to her was my fault, that somehow, I was at the root of every bit of misfortune she was forced to endure.

“Daddy died before I was born, at least that’s what I had been told. That he was an honorable man gone before his time, but my Aunt Ruth, who never lied ‘I put the Ruth in truth’ was her favorite thing to say, she told me that my daddy was the local preacher man. He was married to another woman and my Mama was his mistress. She would stay late to help out at the church and when she got pregnant, she thought he’d leave his wife, that he’d do the right thing. Obviously, that didn’t happen.

“I was ten or eleven when Mama met Randy. She thought he was a good man, he didn’t seem to mind that she had me, he’d come around two or three times a week at first, with flowers for Mama, sometimes a toy for me. Then he started staying over more often, next thing I knew, Mama and Randy ran off and got married. She thought he was a good, God fearing man willing to take in a fake widow and her daughter.

“He was the first person to comment on my flexibility. He said ‘Damn Mary, why can’t you move like that in the bedroom?’ Mary is my Mama, she said something about him being a scoundrel. Randy laughed, and I laughed too, I didn’t know what he meant but I wanted to be in on the grown up joke. I should have known, the look in his eyes, that wasn’t a joke.

“Mama got pregnant a few months after that, she would eventually have my little brother, but she was still very pregnant when Randy snuck into my bed. I can still smell the liquor on his breath, hot against the back of my neck. He didn’t do anything that night, just laid there for a few minutes, his front pressed against my back. The minutes felt like hours as I waited, my eyes shut, refusing to move, refusing to acknowledge that I was awake and knew what was going on. His body rocked against mine a couple of times and then, as suddenly as he’d come in, he got up and walked out, leaving nothing behind but a stain on the sheets that Mama yelled at me for when she did laundry the next day.

“After that, it happened again and again. Not every night, but every couple of weeks he would sneak into my room, lay there with me and leave. I don’t think he knew that I knew it was happening. He never spoke to me, never tried to wake me, he’d just rock against me and leave. I didn’t know what was going on then, but I know now what he was doing, what those stains really were.

“Little Randy was born and it stopped for a long time. I think he knew that with Mama waking up to feed the baby so often, he couldn’t get away with it. That she’d find out what he was doing. I tried to tell Mama about it, about him coming into my room, but she didn’t believe me, she called me a liar and told me if I ever told another lie on Randy like that again, she’d slap me silly. So I didn’t.

“I wish I had never told Mama about Randy, because after that, she started treating me differently. I was a threat to her now. She got pregnant again, I guess to remind Randy that they were married, that she was his wife. She wouldn’t let me stretch anymore, especially not out where he could see it. She’d make comments about my clothes and my body. She loved to say things about me in front of Randy, I wasn’t mad about it. I wanted him to hate my body. I wanted him to agree with her and leave me alone because now that Little Randy was sleeping through the night, Randy was back in my room, even more than before.

“Mama had taken me out of school to help with the babies, I didn’t do good in school, but I liked getting out of the house, I had friends. I even had a boyfriend, Mama didn’t know about him, she wouldn’t have approved, said girls my age runnin’ around with boys were nothin but harlots. Loose women who didn’t know God.

“We knew God, Mama packed us up every Sunday to go to the local church, I tried to tell the preacher about Randy, he was the same preacher Aunt Ruth insisted was my daddy, if he was, he didn’t acknowledge it, he wouldn’t even look me in the eye, told me I shouldn’t tell stories on my daddy and when I told him Randy wasn’t my daddy, he said I needed to leave.

“I was thirteen when Randy took it a step further, when he touched me, his hot, calloused hands on my body. I ran away the next day. I knew Mama wouldn’t help me, I didn’t like living at home anymore anyway. Mama would leave me to take care of the babies all day while she went next door to be with Miss Susan. I didn’t know what they were doin, but when Mama came home, she was always flushed, and smilin’ until Randy came home. I know now, but at the time, I had no idea. So when I left, I knew I wouldn’t miss home, I wouldn’t miss anything about it.

“I packed up what little I had, a couple outfits, my bible, and about two dollars that some boys at church paid me in exchange for getting to look up my skirt. I had no idea where I was going to go or what I was going to do, I just needed to get out. I hopped on a train like I knew tramps did. It was easier than I thought, I just… hopped on, and rode it out west. I stayed on until I was too hungry to ignore it.

“I did that for a few days, getting up on trains whenever I could, the tramps were nice, they’d share food with me, they’re where I got a taste for moonshine. They also told stories. Stories of the places they’d been and one tramp, his name was Johnny, told me about a circus he’d seen, no, not a circus, a freak show. He told me about the lights and the glamour, about the bearded lady and the tiny girl. The way he talked about it, his eyes lit up, it was incredible. I was enamoured with it. I had to find it.

“I don’t think Elsa is magic, but somehow, after I heard this story, the train stopped, right next to the freak show. It was as if it were meant to be. I had to do some things I’m not… exactly proud of to get the money to  see the show. I couldn’t let it pass me by. The show was as spectacular as he made it sound with the music and the performances, I knew I needed to be here, I needed to be a part of this. This was my destiny. I stayed behind after the show, the train left without me and I new that I had to do this because I had no money, no ride and no idea when the next train would be coming through. I was fourteen by now and I didn’t look it. I was tall, I’ve always been tall, my body slender, legs for days, I’d been told. I snuck around the tents, trying to find her, trying to find Elsa, when she found me. Telling me that the tents were off limits to normal people.

“‘But I’m not normal’ I cried. She looked me up and down, taking in my all american apple pie looks but she didn’t scoff, didn’t toss me out, she took me to her tent, it was amazing, huge and impressive with silks and a sitting room. She offered me a cigarette, I took it, she offered me a drink, I asked if she had moonshine, she laughed and poured me something else. She asked me what I could do, what my freakish skill was. I couldn’t do it wearing what I was wearing, I would get tangled in my dress, so I took it off. Elsa didn’t say anything to this, simply watched as I placed my hands on the ground, lifting my feet up into a handstand, my entire body folding in half, backwards, my toes coming together under my chin, then continuing down to rest on the ground. I gave her the performance of my life, using every ounce of flexibility I had in my body. It was as if my bones were made of rubber, my body contorting into shapes that no human body should ever make, but mine always could. That flexibility that Randy had so admired.

“When I was done, Elsa stood up, handed me my dress and remained silent as I put it back on. ‘You’ll need a costume, it won’t do having a naked child on my stage’

‘So I’m in?’ I asked, my heart jumping up into my throat

‘For now’ she agreed, informing me that I could sleep on the couch in her tent for the night, tomorrow we would figure out the logistics. As I went to the couch, knowing I wasn’t going to sleep, she warned me not to come into the part of her tent that she slept in, I promised I wouldn’t. Then she asked about my parents, I assured her that it wouldn’t be a problem. She seemed to understand without me having to say another word.

“And now, here I’ve been, for the past five years, doing a show every night that Elsa’s asked. This show, this is my family. These are my people. The people who were suppose to love and protect me abandoned me for their own selfish desires, but in this show- the first time a man put his unwanted hands on me, Jimmy beat him into oblivion. Every year on my birthday, Ma- Ethel bakes me a cake and everyone sings to me. Elsa gave me my name, told me Elizabeth was the old me, that I needed a name fit for the banner. 

‘Bizzy’ she said ‘Bizzy is the new you’.

The show is my family and if you have to take me to save one of them, then so be it. I’m ready to go.”

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Warning! These are AHS characters thus some of the subject matter is sensitive. 

Fandom: AHS Face: Lily Rose Depp

Lola Barrett

Season: Asylum Ship: Lana Winters

Summery:

Lola was left taking care of her sickly mother after her dad ran away, unable to handle the pressure of taking care of the family alone. Lola didn’t miss him when he was gone, she simply stepped into the role of mother to her two younger siblings and care taker for her mother who wasn’t getting better, in fact, she was getting worse, much worse. She realized after a few months that the problem was the doctor, he was hurting her more than helping her. When Lola confronted him about it, he reacted violently and to save himself, he had her committed and of course, no one will listen to her. Not until Kit Walker and Lana Winters show up. 

Bizzy Mikelle

Season: Freak Show Ship: None

Summery:

Abused by her step-father, Elizabeth, or  ran away from home and joined the circus when she was a teenager. Working as a contortionist, she was happy with the Freaks, even though some argued she wasn’t ‘freak enough’, she always stood up for her friends. She is best friends with Jimmy, but he’s basically like her brother, and Ethel her mother. When everything goes down, she remains at the show with her friends until the end. 

Willow Laurent

Season: Hotel  Ship: The Countess and grown up Scarlett

Summery:

Willow’s life had been nothing but disappointment, the kind of disappointment that led to a 20 year old woman doing sex work. She meets a john at the Hotel Cortez who ends the night by strangling and stabbing her in a fit of rage. Left for dead, Willow manages to crawl out into the hall where she meets The Countess, who saves her life. Now bound to The Countess for eternity, she’s there for everything that happens with the Lowe family, and she’s there as Scarlett comes back to have dinner with her family every year. 

Katy Hanson/ Delaney Richards 

Season: Roanoke  Ship: Sidney & Dylan

Summery:

Katy Hanson, Shelby’s younger sister, moved into the home with her sister and Matt to try and help them heal from the traumatic event that led up to the move, also knowing that Matt would be out of town a lot, they felt better knowing Shelby wouldn’t be alone.  But not even the power of sisterhood is enough to battle the ghosts left behind. 

Katy Hanson in the show is played by none other than Delaney Richards. Once known for playing the youngest daughter in a much beloved sitcom, she’s struggled to be seen as an adult, a serious actress since then. Even a leaked sex tape wasn’t enough to prove that Little Laney was a grown ass woman. The role in the documentary helped reinvigorate her career, a role she got by sleeping with Sidney, and she’s hoping the reality show will keep that going. If she knew what was going to happen, she would have learned to happily live in everyone’s nostalgic memories. 

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Ooh do you have more AHS oc’s besides Bizzy? (It’s also another fandom I wanna create for butcan never think of anything)

I created an OC for each season that I’ve watched, just keeping them in my head as I watched the seasons play out. From the season I’ve watched I have

Asylum - Lola Barrett, sent to Briarcliff by her doctor to shut her up about his malpractice against her mother. Shipped with Lana

Freak Show - Bizzy Mikelle, a 19 year old contortionist who ran away from home to get away from her abusive stepfather. Never did settle on a ship for her but her style is all pin up and cute af

Hotel - Willow Laurent, a sex worker who came to the hotel to meet a john, only for him to try and kill her when they were done, was rescued by the Duchess, who killed the man and turned Willow into a vampire. Shipped with the Countess, and eventually adult Scarlett

Roanoke - Katy Hanson/ Delaney Richards, Katy is the younger sister of Shelby who moves in with Shelby and Matt after the trauma of their loss. Katy survives the nightmare and is played in the show by Delaney Richards, a former child star trying to  jump into a more adult career. She slept with Sidney to get the role and has a secret relationship with Dylan and ends up dying at the hands of Thomasin

Didn’t do one for Cult because I haven’t finished it and I didn’t like what I did see, but maybe that will change. And I haven’t seen the other seasons yet, but as I do I’ll probably add too it. I also don’t have a face for any of the characters, but I’ll probably pick one to have over all the seasons since they recast the same actors on the show too. ((and I bet when I watch Coven I’ll go nuts over it, obviously I’m a fan of witches))

AHS is definitely where I make my most trigger-y characters