Catastrophe written in the Stars
Cirqué/Tower
Star of Arcana
BASICS
Name: Cirqué/Tower
Species: Hybrid: Faerie/Unseelie Court Nain’fae; Chaos Elemental
Gender: Female
Name: Cirqué/Tower
Species: Hybrid: Faerie/Unseelie Court Nain’fae; Chaos Elemental
Gender: Female
APPEARANCE
A flurry of prismatic reiatsu sparks gather and coalesce into the form of little clown-like Faerie. Her face is decorated like a clown - one red eye having a teardrop going down the cheek, with the opposite red eye being surrounded by an upside down five pointed star. In reality, this is an enchanted porcelain mask which assists in keeping her form together - while it moves like a normal face, it is shattered once she loses control. Her hair - constantly changing shape and substance, is often worn as pigtails.
Oftentimes, Cirqué prefers her clothing to have an excessive amount of extravagance and flamboyance without limiting her movement, much like that of a jester and unlike that of most Unseelie Nain’fae. The toes of her boots curl upward with little bells on them. Gloves adorned with similar ornateness go up to her elbows, and a small flared out collar consisting of a seemingly growing number of stripes surrounds her neck - near the base of this flashy collar is a set of four, differently colored gemstones.
A flurry of prismatic reiatsu sparks gather and coalesce into the form of little clown-like Faerie. Her face is decorated like a clown - one red eye having a teardrop going down the cheek, with the opposite red eye being surrounded by an upside down five pointed star. In reality, this is an enchanted porcelain mask which assists in keeping her form together - while it moves like a normal face, it is shattered once she loses control. Her hair - constantly changing shape and substance, is often worn as pigtails.
Oftentimes, Cirqué prefers her clothing to have an excessive amount of extravagance and flamboyance without limiting her movement, much like that of a jester and unlike that of most Unseelie Nain’fae. The toes of her boots curl upward with little bells on them. Gloves adorned with similar ornateness go up to her elbows, and a small flared out collar consisting of a seemingly growing number of stripes surrounds her neck - near the base of this flashy collar is a set of four, differently colored gemstones.
ABILITIES
- Sorceress-level Magic: Cirqué’s spell list is immense and powerful. However, she often utilizes gimmicks to determine what sort of spell she will cast, adding an element of randomness to her spell selection. While her spells are extremely potent, she cannot select what spell she casts.
- Deal: These spells are divided into 4 suits and 4 faces - various suits and faces determine the effect and element of the spell. The suits consist of her four elements. Faces consist of King, Queen, Knave, Ace. King denotes a spell that hits an area, Queen is generally a tactical spell involving curses, shields, or field-changing effects, Knave is a trickster spell such as traps, split-shots, ricochets, and the like, and Ace is a straightforward powerful elemental shot. She can also lay them as traps to be activated upon approach or after a set time. The suit tends to reflect whatever elemental state her chaotic form has shifted to. This counts as both a weakness and a strength.
- Acrobat: Fitting her clown motif, Cirque is nimble and agile - even without her array of magic tricks, she is a difficult opponent to hit. Her usual size adds to this ability.
- Chaotic Clown Makeup: Cirque can change her size to suit her needs - growing up to 5’ in height or down to her petite height of 8.” In addition, as a Chaos elemental, her body makeup is unstable. Thus, while she has no finite control (aka, she cannot determine things like specific colors or facets of face, thereby making it impossible to disguise herself), she can extend her limbs as Fire/Water/Air/Earth reiatsu. This ability can also be used to avoid attacks.
- Star of Arcana - Tower: Catastrophe: As the Tower Arcana represents sudden upheaval and change as well as one’s ability to adapt, Cirqué combines the Tower Arcana with her innate brokenness to scramble the entire landscape. Weather effects change drastically, and the land around her becomes elevated and sunken on a whim. Wildfires blaze as hailstones as big as one’s head rain from the sky. However, this drains almost all of Cirqué reserves - forcing her to lose her physical form, activating the weakness “Chaotic Entropy” (see below). In addition, the disaster does not differentiate between friend or foe, and is very likely to strike both.
WEAKNESSES
- “Aw, is playtime over already?”: To Cirqué, everything is a game due to her nihilistic outlook - the only thing that matters is the thrill she gets from the conflict, the eventual payoff she looks forward to. It is difficult for her to keep motivated and focused given that even her mission ultimately is in the service of ‘fun’ - if she sees a way to make the mission more entertaining, she will do it, even if it means needlessly endangering herself.
- Flimsy Faerie: As a Faerie, Cirqué cannot take hits very well - taking a solid physical hit can be quite dangerous for her, especially if she’s in her shrunken form, which is why her style focuses on evading attacks. A solid hit can easily disrupt her maintenance of her form
- Chaotic Entropy: As part Chaos elemental, Cirqué actually must maintain enough reiatsu to utilize this form. Normally, this is not a problem, but overtaxing her abilities can cause her to appear to start ‘melting’ as the elements start blending into one another. This form becomes more like a vaguely humanoid primordial ooze made of the four elements - at this point, Cirqué‘s mind similarly degenerates, and she violently lashes out at anything attempting to bar her escape.
BACKGROUND
As Unseelie Nain’Fae and Chaos elemental hybrid, Cirqué had formed a jaded worldview of how the world worked from early on. In spite of his awe-inspiring skill with enchantments and illusions, her loving but pathetic father took on several odd jobs to make ends meet. Of note, one of them was being the court fool, for the lack of a better term. Another was to make toys for the children of the nobles.
Worse. Her mother had been a Chaos elemental. Her father never did explain how exactly that happened. “Loves makes you blind,” he’d say. In reality, the trinket he made for his mother helped stabilize her - a necklace of four different colored gemstones organized in a collar, which Cirque has fashioned into her outfit’s collar - though at this point, it has since lost its power.
Her mother was discovered for what she was in the first disaster marking Cirqué’s life - the power of the trinket faded as Cirqué was birthed. Miraculously, no one was hurt, but her mother was run out of the Faerie settlement immediately. It is unknown whatever happened to her.
Given that her father served the Unseelie Nain’fae’s tyrannical elite, the masses of dregs shunned her and harassed her constantly. The events surrounding her birth, her species composition and her father’s occupation intensified the whispers and jeers and assaults.
In spite of her natural talents with reiatsu and magic given both halves of her, it was hammered into her that it meant shit and nothing to anyone. Considered dirt by her superiors and a traitor by proxy by her peers, as well as a freak by all, Cirqué realized that even if one worked hard, she would not get anywhere, and thus became misanthropic, pessimistic, cynical.
Unlike most of her kind, Cirqué did not embrace death, nor did she decide to rise up and futilely fight for equality. Instead, the world could burn for all she cared. Combined with her lack of identity, having to constantly shift as a Chaos elemental, it was only a matter of time before the confused Nain’fae cracked.
Then, her father was executed - he had taken a joke in one of his acts a little too far and offended a noble, and his head rolled because of it - quite literally. Picking up her father’s dismembered head, she finally cracked.
It was then a card fell from the heavens - the Tower Arcana. The Void Dragon, Terezala, appeared from a portal and spoke to her.
“Join me, child of chaos - the star has chosen you. Become the upheaval of the world. Spread your misery - for it is only then do people claw their way to actualize their potential.”
No one survived the site of the execution. For all that anyone knew, the gods had a sick joke in mind for the finale of a fool.
And Cirqué? She now was an agent of the Stars of Arcana, working as a psychopathic sadist with a sweet fae smile.
Being part Chaos elemental, Cirqué suffers from a severe identity crisis. However, this also gives her an edge - it is easy to overcome one’s natural inclinations if one has no natural inclinations to begin with. Everything she does is an act. The sweet smile to the psychotic cackling, the Queen Harlequin is a one-woman circus, and the world is the stage.
As Unseelie Nain’Fae and Chaos elemental hybrid, Cirqué had formed a jaded worldview of how the world worked from early on. In spite of his awe-inspiring skill with enchantments and illusions, her loving but pathetic father took on several odd jobs to make ends meet. Of note, one of them was being the court fool, for the lack of a better term. Another was to make toys for the children of the nobles.
Worse. Her mother had been a Chaos elemental. Her father never did explain how exactly that happened. “Loves makes you blind,” he’d say. In reality, the trinket he made for his mother helped stabilize her - a necklace of four different colored gemstones organized in a collar, which Cirque has fashioned into her outfit’s collar - though at this point, it has since lost its power.
Her mother was discovered for what she was in the first disaster marking Cirqué’s life - the power of the trinket faded as Cirqué was birthed. Miraculously, no one was hurt, but her mother was run out of the Faerie settlement immediately. It is unknown whatever happened to her.
Given that her father served the Unseelie Nain’fae’s tyrannical elite, the masses of dregs shunned her and harassed her constantly. The events surrounding her birth, her species composition and her father’s occupation intensified the whispers and jeers and assaults.
In spite of her natural talents with reiatsu and magic given both halves of her, it was hammered into her that it meant shit and nothing to anyone. Considered dirt by her superiors and a traitor by proxy by her peers, as well as a freak by all, Cirqué realized that even if one worked hard, she would not get anywhere, and thus became misanthropic, pessimistic, cynical.
Unlike most of her kind, Cirqué did not embrace death, nor did she decide to rise up and futilely fight for equality. Instead, the world could burn for all she cared. Combined with her lack of identity, having to constantly shift as a Chaos elemental, it was only a matter of time before the confused Nain’fae cracked.
Then, her father was executed - he had taken a joke in one of his acts a little too far and offended a noble, and his head rolled because of it - quite literally. Picking up her father’s dismembered head, she finally cracked.
It was then a card fell from the heavens - the Tower Arcana. The Void Dragon, Terezala, appeared from a portal and spoke to her.
“Join me, child of chaos - the star has chosen you. Become the upheaval of the world. Spread your misery - for it is only then do people claw their way to actualize their potential.”
No one survived the site of the execution. For all that anyone knew, the gods had a sick joke in mind for the finale of a fool.
And Cirqué? She now was an agent of the Stars of Arcana, working as a psychopathic sadist with a sweet fae smile.
Being part Chaos elemental, Cirqué suffers from a severe identity crisis. However, this also gives her an edge - it is easy to overcome one’s natural inclinations if one has no natural inclinations to begin with. Everything she does is an act. The sweet smile to the psychotic cackling, the Queen Harlequin is a one-woman circus, and the world is the stage.
EXTRAS
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