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𝒹𝑜𝓁𝓁 ([personal profile] steadydollypegs) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival2017-05-23 10:56 pm

You've got your mother in a whirl ++ OPEN

Who: A MYSTERIOUS BEAUTY it Doll and you!
What: There's a new acrobat on the high wire-- where did she come from? Has anybody seen this chick around...??
When: Night 100
Where: Carnival grounds & Performance tent
Warnings: N/A

[BACKSTAGE]

This is nothing she hasn't done before, but there is a certain hum Doll is feeling while waiting to go on. It's a new crowd, a new place, but most of all it's a new show that she's trying to find her place in. If anything, she's going further into the headspace she's created for herself, the place she goes to when she becomes The Princess of the Noah's Ark Circus. She's not sure what she's supposed to be here, not yet, but she'll figure it out.

She sits off to the side with her parasol in hand, just watching the acts go on and off, taking glimpses of the crowd when the curtains part. She doesn't say a thing, just sitting and waiting, absolutely placid.

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Doll's acts have never been about flash or how many flips she can do in one run, she is poise and control. That's the act: she's her namesake, a living, breathing doll.

Her movements are fluid and precise, graceful and elegant, she isn't springing about or coming to any sudden stops. She does a sweet, cheery floor routine before riding one of the trapezes up to the high wire-- and predictably the entire crowd goes silent as she steps out onto the rope. This is really where she shines, where she's the most comfortable. She walks across the rope like she's taking an afternoon walk, she jumps and lands, moving her center of gravity to keep her balance as the rope sways under the movement. She slides into the splits, her parasol raised straight up. Grace, control, and elegance-- Doll doesn't falter once.

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[AFTER THE SHOW]

Even after a stellar performance, the success doesn't seem to go to her head at all. Doll leaves the backstage area with her parasol over her shoulder, walking towards the make up and wardrobe tents. She has to get out of costume and get ready to help everyone else, but she's not in any hurry. She's going at a controlled stroll.
amusicaladventure: (Cheer)

After

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-05-25 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey!"

Ash crashed into the scene to catch up with her like a meteor of energy, still riding the adrenaline of putting magic into her music to weld the performance together into brilliance. Not that she had an ego, of course!

"You looked sharp as hell out there!"
amusicaladventure: (Smirk)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-05-31 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
That was an excellent description of Ash, who generally tended to take more after the "tear around the house at all hours of the night" half of feline activity, rather than the "lie around and do nothing ever" part.

She waved a hand to dismiss the compliment. "It can't not be nice, that's no big." Which wasn't modesty, but simple fact. Nothing she'd done took practice or even effort, so compliments to it were about as pointless as compliments to her height. "Now your balance, that's what's amazing."
amusicaladventure: (Pointing it out)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-06-02 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"The point isn't how many times you fall, it's that you learn to stay up, right?" Ash respected people who gained their ability from hard work and practice, precisely because she hadn't. It was easy to be a music mage -- once she learned to not screw it up. "Besides, I probably couldn't ever do it as nicely as you can, so it's awesome in my book."

Ash might have feline balance, but she was also six feet tall with a much higher center of gravity than Doll.
amusicaladventure: (Ash!)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-06-03 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm just a perfomer. Kind of a jack-of-all-trades, really, since I can pick up pretty much anything I need to." Like rescues in Hell, for example, but let's forget that ever happened. She never wanted to go back there. "But officially, my role is to perform!"
amusicaladventure: (Disgust)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-06-05 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Ash made a mild face, having never been fond of makeup. "Well, no wonder I haven't run into you there. Hope you don't mind if I keep not doing so, too!"
amusicaladventure: (Pointing it out)

[personal profile] amusicaladventure 2017-06-09 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"They come with the taily, eary territory," Ash said, flicking one of her ears as she mentioned it. "At least for me they do. Some catgirls don't have markings at all."