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✦ Name: Francesco Sarrasini
✦ Age: Looks approximately 20, is actually 5.
✦ Birthday: We just don’t know
✦ Gender: Diva
✦ Category: Citizen
✦ Occupation: Aerial Silk and Puppet Show guy at the Midnight Circus
✦ Species: Living Puppet.
✦ Class: College
✦ Grade: Freshman
✦ College Major: Drama Arts
✦ Appearance Description:
This redhead stands at five feet and seven inches and although he looks average, he is lighter than he looks thanks to being made of mostly wood. His eyes are green and the irises look like jewels. What would be his skin is pretty smooth and has a soft brown shade, except for his eyelids, which are black for some unknown reason. He is jointed like a regular doll, but his face and hands look and move like a human’s for the sake of looking like one, though sometimes he draws the lines to give the puppet look. No scars or other unusual markings are present on his skin. He exaggerates expressions, gestures and movements, looking like he was taken straight out of a cartoon.
His fashion sense is terrible, please help him buy a new one. Francesco has zero idea about combining colors, and he loves sparkly things, or simply the kind of stuff that would make you look away because you can’t stand it. The only decent clothes in his wardrobe are his circus outfits, the rest of it is… well, Francesco stuff. At least he knows how to use subtle makeup so you can stare at his pretty face instead of some bedazzled thing.
✦ Personality Description:
Francesco was created to be the star of the show, and he lives by it. Sure, he’s not the number one anymore, but he still believes he’s very important and should be treated accordingly. This little puppet is selfish and incredibly annoying, he will do anything to get what he wants, which usually involves pulling a tantrum or whining until he succeeds. Outside of the circus, he will manipulate other people’s emotions to make them like him, hopefully give him a discount or something for free, or fear him if he is feeling uncomfortable, with no regrets.
While acting, he behaves like a very cheery person, always encouraging his audience and occasionally getting into their personal space to seem more friendly. This is the same out of stage, with added rudeness, sassy comments and even more disrespect of personal space. If he sees a chance to spook you, he will take it and laugh it off the moment he succeeds. Does he care about actually frightening you? Not a single bit, the scarier the better.
But what about dealing with his own fear? He becomes aggressive, pretends he’s not actually frightened with a cocky façade. This usually earns him a few hits on his face, but hey, gotta act harmless only when you know you can win. Angry also involves aggressiveness, unless you’re close to him, then he will probably cross his arms and frown all irritated.
Most of his emotions are dull imitations of what he has seen others feel, mixed with what his powers let him sense. Still, he doesn’t feel like a normal person would, at least not with the same strength, and sometimes he reacts inappropriately to certain situations.
In conclusion, not a nice person, very demanding and actual diva.
✦ Powers:
• Magic Powered Puppet:
Francesco doesn’t age or eat thanks to the fact that he is literally a puppet. He gets all of his energy from sleeping, so he needs his eight hours and a good nap if necessary. This has other advantages, like being able to endure hits more than a regular human would and also detaching his limbs and head without dying of it, though reattaching them is not pleasant. His body might be made out of wood and other strange things, but strong ones indeed. If one or more of Francesco’s limbs were destroyed, they could be replaced by new ones with the right spells and materials. How to kill him? Destroy his head completely, though there are a few protection spells placed there by his creator, and if you have the means to break through the ones on his “heart”, destroy that too. Last but not least, since his consciousness was created and then placed into the vessel that is his body, Francesco can split his own and put bits of it inside inanimate objects for a determined period of time, controlling these objects as, ironically, puppets. This one drains his energy the longer he uses it, so he usually needs a nap after one of his puppet shows.
• Heartstrings:
This little puppet is able to manipulate your emotions to make you feel the way he wants you to. The closer he is to you, the more real the sensation is, these feelings are at its strongest when he’s touching you. Someone with strong mental barriers can block Francesco’s power as he tries to break in. Not much of his energy is drained while using this, but he might get tired if he’s trying really hard to make multiple people feel a strong emotion at the same time.
✦ Biography:
Created as the ringmaster of a circus-themed Italian restaurant, all Francesco saw the first years of his short life was the stage and tables of this place. He was the only sentient attraction and pretty much the reason why anyone ever came, because the food wasn’t that good to be honest. His master wanted to create something fancy that would give them enough money to live what was left of their life, even if some of the components were illegal. Francesco was happy, everything seemed to work out perfectly, until they were caught. Turns out that building a living puppet out of wood and some human skin wasn’t the only thing their creator was doing illegally. So when it was clear that they were going to get caught, he ran, ran away as fast as he could. Who cared about the one who had given him life? The only important thing was himself, Francesco wasn’t going to leave the stage and applause for a dirty cell, or even destruction!
Who knows how he managed to not get tracked down. He lived some time on the streets, putting up puppet shows with simple sock puppets and what he could find in the trash. The city was a whole new world for him, and then he saw it, a real circus. Dressed in his dirty, raggedy circus costume he begged The Ringmaster to let him join the Midnight Circus. Maybe it was Francesco trying to make them feel pity, or maybe they actually felt sorry for him, but he got in.
Nowadays he does puppet shows for the circus during the week and performs as the aerial silk dancer on weekends. He has recently started studying Drama Arts, he did it for fun and being the starring role in plays but now he’s doomed with homework.
✦ Additional Information:
• Smells like wood polish, he has a weird obsession with spraying his arms with that lemony thing.
• Has a ridiculous Italian accent, which sounds kind of fake sometimes since it was to entertain the customers. He actually isn’t fluent in Italian, all he knows is the usual stereotypical words and sentences.
• Owns a bedazzling gun and he’s not afraid to use it.
• For his aerial silk performances he has a main act and another one he performs every once in a while instead of the main one.
• Can’t sing, whenever he tries to all that comes out of his mouth is horrible deafening sounds.
• Sometimes he turns his head 180º just to creep people out.
• He’s taking an elective horror movie class.
