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tangeriner) wrote2013-01-03 05:47 pm
tangeriner) wrote2013-01-03 05:47 pm
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circus brainstorming
So, I think I went to a circus once, in the mid-80s, but I could just be making that up. So I am brainstorming publicly! In case there is something very not-circusy about Cirque de X-Factor!
Layla is both the Ringmaster and the Fortune Teller, which makes people intensely uncomfortable, because she calls out the audience in the middle of the show, sometimes. Married to ...
The Multiple Men (one of them anyway), a set of identical quandruplets. Three of them are legally named Jamie, and the fourth calls himself John, who is only part-time (because he is also a priest). Layla is married to the oldest Jamie, who has an M-shaped scar on his face from where he fell on a unicycle pedal, once. Their act is a weird mismash of clownery, unicycles and the tight-rope. They own the circus (Jamie #3 won the lottery once, 7 years ago).
Terry and Monet are the trapeze artists, romantically involved, spend a lot of time reading separate copies of the same book so they can discuss it meaningfully. Monet designs all of their costumes.
Rahne has tamed three wolves, and they do an amazing wolf show together! Hrimhari, Tier, and Jack Russell (mangier and bigger than the first two, who are related).
Strong Guy is the ... strongman. Obviously.
Longshot and Shatterstar, brothers. Longshot very very friendly, Shatterstar very very not. A lot of knives (L) and swords (S), and an excessive amount of hair. Longshot throws knives, never misses (luckily), and also juggles them. Shatterstar also jugggles swords, and swallows swords as well. For legal reasons, they cannot use members of the audience in their act.
Rictor ... not actually a member of the circus! Instead, he is testifying in a trial against his gun running family, so Val Cooper has called in a favour with Jamie Madrox #2 to place him with the circus temporarily! Because who would ever look for him in a circus! At first, he's convinced he's going to die anyway and doesn't think he fits in with this circus and is sullen and moody. But then things! And plot! And maybe he can help with the circus for reals!
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In other news, uploaded a few more older stories to AO3 today, both in the Young Heroes in Love fandom. I don't blame anyone who might never have heard of it. It's a DC Comics series from mid-nineties, that was cancelled after 18 issues. It had one of the first same-sex couples in comics that I knew of (though, iirc, they literally got together in the last issue). It's never been released as a trade (which is a crying shame).
I was very dramatic in my younger years. While I appreciate my enthusiasm, I need to edit a few of these stories before I'm willing to add them to AO3.
Layla is both the Ringmaster and the Fortune Teller, which makes people intensely uncomfortable, because she calls out the audience in the middle of the show, sometimes. Married to ...
The Multiple Men (one of them anyway), a set of identical quandruplets. Three of them are legally named Jamie, and the fourth calls himself John, who is only part-time (because he is also a priest). Layla is married to the oldest Jamie, who has an M-shaped scar on his face from where he fell on a unicycle pedal, once. Their act is a weird mismash of clownery, unicycles and the tight-rope. They own the circus (Jamie #3 won the lottery once, 7 years ago).
Terry and Monet are the trapeze artists, romantically involved, spend a lot of time reading separate copies of the same book so they can discuss it meaningfully. Monet designs all of their costumes.
Rahne has tamed three wolves, and they do an amazing wolf show together! Hrimhari, Tier, and Jack Russell (mangier and bigger than the first two, who are related).
Strong Guy is the ... strongman. Obviously.
Longshot and Shatterstar, brothers. Longshot very very friendly, Shatterstar very very not. A lot of knives (L) and swords (S), and an excessive amount of hair. Longshot throws knives, never misses (luckily), and also juggles them. Shatterstar also jugggles swords, and swallows swords as well. For legal reasons, they cannot use members of the audience in their act.
Rictor ... not actually a member of the circus! Instead, he is testifying in a trial against his gun running family, so Val Cooper has called in a favour with Jamie Madrox #2 to place him with the circus temporarily! Because who would ever look for him in a circus! At first, he's convinced he's going to die anyway and doesn't think he fits in with this circus and is sullen and moody. But then things! And plot! And maybe he can help with the circus for reals!
~~~
In other news, uploaded a few more older stories to AO3 today, both in the Young Heroes in Love fandom. I don't blame anyone who might never have heard of it. It's a DC Comics series from mid-nineties, that was cancelled after 18 issues. It had one of the first same-sex couples in comics that I knew of (though, iirc, they literally got together in the last issue). It's never been released as a trade (which is a crying shame).
I was very dramatic in my younger years. While I appreciate my enthusiasm, I need to edit a few of these stories before I'm willing to add them to AO3.
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