Cirque Nocturne: In-Character

Does anyone have a guitar lying around that I can use for a bit? I didn't bring mine with me when I left home because it was too big and difficult, but I kinda miss playing it. And I guess if anyone is interested in just sitting around and doing music stuff sometime, that would be cool too.

(I would say the same for a piano but that's not really a thing that I can take back to my room, and I'm not good enough at piano that anyone wants to hear my trying to play things in a public area.)

Do you remember how I had that new finger? The greatest finger? You should remember, I put a video!

Wait, I'll show you

( non-gory drawing under the cut )

Like that? Remember? It could wiggle and wave but now it's gone, got broken right off and now I've got a dull number of fingers again. Yes, it's one less than most have and that's somewhat exciting but everyone's lost a finger before, it's not new. Having a special one in a special place was new.

I miss my special finger. We'd become very close. It was like a part of me.

Who: Khalida & Rex
What: Setting things straight
When: May 4, after this
Where: The Kitchens
Warnings: Talk of domestic violence
Status: Complete


( Everything out in the open )

[Filtered to Rex]
We need to sit down together and talk when you have time.

[Filtered to Nadine]
I've managed to get into contact with one of the witches from outside the cirque to talk about telepathy spells and charms. I'll let you know if anything comes of it.

I speak French well enough to hold a conversation (although I understand it/read it better than I speak it and my accent is terrible) so it's really interesting all the French influences around in New Orleans. I've been noticing a lot of differences between the French I learned and the French they speak here. There are some grammatical constructions that would be considered 'wrong' in standard French that are apparently normal for Louisiana French. Some of the sentence structure is all mixed up as well, like it's been more influenced by English, and they sometimes skip out the subjunctive all together. When they're speaking it, they roll their Rs more, which is maybe a Spanish influence?

I've been going to a lot of French poetry and book readings in the city on my nights off, is what I'm saying.

This probably isn't very interesting to anyone here, or it's probably just things you already knew about but I just thought it was kinda cool, languages evolving and stuff. I haven't heard much creole yet so I don't really know about that. It would be even more different, I might not be able to understand most of it, but I'd be interested in learning.

I don't know, it's kinda dumb. It's just some stuff I thought was interesting.

Ugh I'll probably delete this later, it's dumb

( ... )

WHO Nevenka & Jianfan
WHEN 1st May, 11am
WHERE Nevenka’s suite
WHAT A husband returns from the dead
WARNINGS Truly disgusting romance novel fodder, and then sex, then more fodder.
STATUS Complete

( Nevenka forgot to breathe as she looked at him. )

WHO Mona & Prim
WHEN 7am, 21st April
WHERE The Camellia Tea Room
WHAT Apparently it's a new best friend?
WARNINGS Probably not much

( Mona had no idea who she was, but she was nice and wanted to be her friend )

( ... )

It works!

[Attached is a video of Lamb's hand in focus with her face out of focus behind it. There is a finger that now grows straight up from the back of her hand instead of from the clearly visible slowly healing stump where it should be. The finger is bending and wiggling of its own accord. Lamb is obviously delighted.]

I have more thread but I don't know what to sew. I might sew the bunny I found to the small me-doll. Neither are alive, but maybe with enough thread they could be.

WHO Nevenka & Kit
WHAT Good for at least one thing
WHEN April 26th, afternoon
WHERE Kit's room
WARNINGS Flirting and references to sex.

( Interested in killing some time before work? )

WHO Khalida & Issac
WHEN April 16, after this
WHERE Khal's rooms
WHAT Taking care of the poor crazy boy
WARNINGS tba

( When Issac arrived he was a mess )

Who: Mona Kemp + Kit Turner
What: Chance conversations about pie and pocket watches turns deep and soul-baring.
Where: Main staircase, plantation house.
When: April 26th, dawn.
Warnings: Unintentional (possibly triggering?) flirtation leading to discomfort, talk of murder and gore, Kit's ego.

( Sleep health, be damned! )

I know this comment is rather off brand for me, but I hate these roses. I'm giving them a wide berth and trying to otherwise completely ignore them. They shouldn't be here and they know it. Before I decided to try ignoring them, I thought I'd try magic on them. Did not work, did nothing but give me a very gross feeling inside. (So I went shopping to make myself feel better and bought another new dress. I need more places to wear nice things.)

The flower of the week is not roses, despite their presence. My flower of the week is a variation on Camellia japonica (The Eighteen Scholars) which you'll soon see blooming in my act if you come watch. They usually only bloom in the humidity of Taiwan, but everyone knows growing conditions are not a problem for my flowers.

There's supposed to be a storm coming on Thursday and I am very much looking forward to getting out in that. It's been so dry recently.

Just ran across a group of teenagers playing a game of Dungeons and Dragons by LED candelight around the corner of one of the games tents. I'm sure the cirque must lend a sense of drama to it all, but it seems like it would be a lot cheaper to play it at home.

WHO Mona & Nadine
WHEN 6am, 12th April
WHERE Somewhere in the city with pancakes
WHAT A very human meeting.
WARNINGS talk of death and other circus activities

( Through dirt and shadow I grow )

Who: Kit Turner + Mona Kemp
What: A Follow Up Interview With A (Separate) Vampire
Where: The tea shop
When: Wednesday night (10th), just before show time.
Warnings: Just Mona flailing about death.

( She had been starting to feel so settled and now she couldn't stop the churning sickness in her stomach. )

WHO Aniko & Grayson
WHEN Wednesday night
WHERE The Menagerie
WHAT Criminals on the run = old loves meeting up
WARNINGS Talk of murder

( New Orleans felt far enough away that no one would be looking for her there. )

[Filtered to her sisters]

I

ok

I think maybe this place is starting to hit me, starting to think about it all, with the vampires and the witches and the ringmaster talking about bodies and they kill people and I was sort of not really but now I'm really

and I think I'm kinda forgettin how to breathe, how does breathing go again?

I don't think i feel so okay right now

Breathe deep and feel the cirque enter the lungs, cold like frost and hot like blood. Yes, a good feeling, a good thing to be back home.

But where is everyone I know? I feel like I hardly recognize a face. The Old Gang's taken off without me here? And where's that girl who could unhinge her jaw to swallow a whole baby? She promised me a private showing when I returned.

A home for so many old monsters yet such an unhealthy turnover rate. Do you scare them off into the woods, Ringmaster? Where have all our oldest friends gone away to?