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-} Therius is aquaphobic. He despises water in quantities for more than a
cup due to almost having drowned in the elephant's trough when he was
sixteen. He'd been pushed down beneath the water as punishment for
tripping and spilling the horse's hay. Naturally, he cannot swim.
(Sorry to those who read this previously. My chronology got ******** up. ^^ wink

-} Therius is not entirely mute. During his second job with the second circus,
he was beaten for speaking as the Ringmaster quite believed that 'children
are to be seen, not heard'. He refrains from speaking, laughing, or making
any other sound unless emotions get the best of him or he completely
trusts the one he is speaking to. If he ever speaks it will be in a whisper, in
the other's ear or a loud, high-pitched scream in terribly broken English.

-} If Therius could comprehend fetishes, he'd have two: Feet, and
exhibitionism. He's always had this strange obsession with gnawing on his
own toes. And exhibitionism, well... he loves attention and crowds. This
should be a natural.

-} Therius is Sandwich-sexual. He has no sexual drive what-so-ever
and prefers food to any form of physical love. Is it possible to get him 'in
the mood'? Possibly, but no one has ever managed. It's debatable whether
or not puberty has even kicked in yet.

-} Despite a love of fire, Therius has set himself alight through his
own clumsiness a total of fifty-eight times since he began working with poi
and staves. He continues to bare this 'pyromania' despite this.

-} The boy is completely irrational. Trying to explain a simple point
of logic is like trying to toilet-train a duck: it's just not going to happen.

-} He has no concept of ownership or personal space unless it is his
own. His turf is his turf, as well, and he does not take kindly to others
encroaching upon his duties. Naturally, he wouldn't work well with a team.

-} He has been known to be very forceful if it suits him. He's also
got a history of catfights with other contortionists. Competition must be
crushed, apparently.

RSVP

Okay. I'm going to be harsh, but you're a big boy, so I figure you can take it.

You've spent your entire first post talking about how much you LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVE this character, but I don't see enough to him to love. Sure, you have a personality and some cool art, but other that that it's nothing, and it's certainly nothing that really sets him apart. The cirque already has a cute, short, immature character and at least three more of them in the concept threads. Come up with something that makes him special. Maybe he has a deep dark past. Maybe he escaped from a mad scientist's lab. The point is, stop talking about how imaginative and creative he is and make him that way. You can't just take his existing history and stick him into the cirque. You're going to have to tweak him some. The more interesting a character's history, the more interesting the character.

The talents you've picked are overdone. Pick something that plays off his unique species. If he's covered in feathers, fire dancing isn't practical. With bird bones I could see him doing contortion, but there are so many contortion concepts around that I'd really like to see someone pull something completely new and original out. I know that since there's technically not a cirqueling doing contortion, you can still quest it, but they've been here longer, so it's a little rude to start questing it now without OK-ing it with them.

He strikes me as a male Wing-Ting right now. Read through the other concepts and journals and make Therius stand out.

I have a very strong feeling that you can make it work. Just put some more effort into making him as unique and original as you keep saying he is.

Good luck!

Half of the history up!

I'm only half done. His personality and feralistic-while-still-being-semi-civil-ways come in in the second half! O:

Let's hope it manages to get approved? If I'm lucky. XD

That's not 'one' thing! That's, like, fi'tty!

That all comes in the second half of his history. he's completely flightless due to his size in relation to the size of his wings, for example, and he almost drowned due to something of a punishment.
You try not drowning with your head held under the water. <3
I don't think that Therius does have too much in the form of limits due to being partially snake however there is, of course, the fact that bendy or not, you can't tie straight bones into knots. However, he is still limited at current to what he has trained himself to do. He'd need (a lot) more training (and being convinced!) to go much further. (Such a stubborn thing. Thinks he's the bee's knees! Training? He don't need no stinkin' training! He's the best there ever was for Chrissake! XD) He is still bound to the basics of anatomy of course. His ribcage can only bend so far, his pelvis and tibia/fibula/femur/etc all cannot be bent save a slight amount of give and elasticity that is apparent in all bones.

His bones, also, are quite fragile being hollow and with Therius being malnourished. This could probably also be easily added two with the fact that he is a hybrid. He is easily broken if he falls from a height of more than about four or five feet. Not that this has ever stopped him.

Therius would be sterile, certainly, and I like to think of his complete lack of sex-drive as something of a dysfunction. All beings are seen to have a need to mate and produce offspring and that just don't work with Therius. Not in the least.
(In full honesty someone offered him the choice of sex and a piece of lettuce between two slices of bread once...
...he took the sandwich.)

You've really forced a bit more thinking into the physiology of Therius than I ever really thought into though., Thank you! And I'll try and figure some more dysfunctions out that couldn't be attributed to other parts of him as well. Promise! <3