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Childhood/Life: Circe led a quiet childhood with generally common, normal parents, however his willingness to get away from that simple lifestyle is exactly what drove him from home. Growing up, he’d shown a talent for entertainment and generally hamming around, but he’s grown to be uncomfortable staying in one place, as his audience becomes too “samey” for him. His parents saw this in him at a young age, and noted he liked being the center of attention and that his favorite thing was to make them and his friends laugh, and as the years moved on, he willed to travel out away from home to see new people and things. His career would go nowhere if he were home all the time, which they understood, and let him go so long as he wrote them occasionally.

The world is full of different races, the war of which put everyone in strange positions toward each other - some were fine, some weren't, but Asphodel Gardens seemed to be the one place where there wasn't any conflict. Circe hadn't cared much to listen to the bad stories when he was younger, but he understood them all the same. His view was that they were all one and the same - creatures that lived, breathed, and spoke. A friend of one race meant the same as a friend from another, they were all friends of his anyway, so why worry?

Friends who have no parents at the school is a common thing, and therefore Circe chooses to rarely talk about his. Moreso to keep the moods up and high rather than down, and because he believes it rude. The fastest way to get Circe's mood down, is to be sad. He understands this pain, and while in school, uses his ability to make people laugh as a sort of buffer for that. However, his reluctance to speak about it isn't outright denied either; his friends at least are aware he has a family, but he doesn't disclose too much information elsewise. Nor does he feel the need to, given his homelife to him was uninteresting, and not worth an exciting story anyway.

Personality: Given this carefree, relaxed look on life and those around him, he doesn't seem to react really to anything negative. Circe has developed over time, a sort of defense mechanism where his mind immediately either deflects things with a joke, or with a quick word of wit to make them laugh it away. He's too rash, and childish sometimes, however, which influences his school work and how he views having to be in class. Given his itch to move, he dislikes being in class and needing to focus on school, therefore occasionally he likes to act the class clown - however he also knows this is necessary to succeed, and tries his best to keep his grades up. If only so when he's finally out, he can do what he went there for to begin with... and not go immediately back home to his simple, rather boring life.

Effect: This has had both good and bad effects on Circe’s personality, and his goals. Firstly that he showed talent in something he also enjoyed doing, and also that the talent had effects on his attitudes about home and settling down. He can rarely stay in one place, however for the sake of his dreams, has forced himself to become accustomed to school in order to achieve his lifelong dream. Aside from that, he has trouble making friends and keeping them with his itchy feet, but at the same time doesn’t view it that way. While his friends often see it as him leaving them, Circe believes no matter where he goes, he simply has more and more friends. Overall he has a very carefree, and brash way of living while on his own.

World Goals: Traveling from place to place and seeing different things, but his long-term dream is working as either a traveling performer, or simply a comfortable knighthood with a sharp tongue drowning in political intrigue – whichever shows hints of coming first.

Prompt 3: Your Nightmare has to write an essay on what they want to be when they grow up. Do they procrastinate or get to work immediately? What is their essay about?

Response: Circe taps his pencil and glowers at the paper in front of him, resting his head oddly on his other arm while he thinks. There’s too much to write. Worse, he has no idea how to properly organize his thoughts, since everything seemed to be one incoherent mess. He contemplated the few places he’d been, then back home to his family and how quiet things were. What had motivated him to do that? Why did he leave home? He pondered and chewed on that thought a little while before nodding his head.

He’d left to find adventure and a new life for himself, one that he could make his own, exactly how he wanted. No one to tell him what to do, no rules, no groundings, and friends everywhere. He stared at his paper though, loathe to actually start it right now while he sat in class, watching everyone else out of the corner of his eye. Bored.

The best life he could think of that he wanted was to make people laugh. Laughing and fun times were what felt good in life, it was something he was familiar with and knew how to do. The highest job he could think of to achieve just that would be a performer, and one that took their show on the road. It was literally perfect. Everything he was in one big happy package.

So he scribbled. He wrote everything he could down of his short travels from home to school, hoping to be done with it soon so he could start on his dream. He wrote, in his awful writing, of all the things he wanted to learn how to do for performances – voice mimickry, dancing, tricks... all but singing. He hated singing, and he’d leave that to those who dedicate their entire time to doing it instead. When he was done and he proofread what he wrote, it was a short three-paragraph blurb of all the things he looked forward to and hoped he’d achieve, then set it down on the desk with his pencil on top, folding his arms and resting on them with a sleepy groan.

Deleted the bit about claws, I assumed the pointed fingers were claws on the base. If they don't show on the base that's fine, I'll just mention his nails in RP occasionally. I also assumed because this states they do have claws from the race guide:
They have horns that protrude from their foreheads which can vary in size from short nubs to long and graceful. While their tails aren't suitable for much other than showing mood, their pointed claws and teeth are sturdy enough to cause damage.



Fixed all - no his family isn't noble blood, they're commonfolk. Edited to add that in somewhere, and noted knighthood in instead. And yes, he just wanted to get away from common life and try something more exciting.



Fixed and fleshed out, added his personality into the section where his Backstory is for organization.