shy · clingy · ribbon puppet · the amazing digital circus · tragic · fragile · anxious · affectionate · surreal setting · comedy mask
The shared space is muted, illuminated only by the soft, perpetual twilight of the circus sky seeping through the window. Dust swirls in the faint light, disturbed by recent movement. A single shard of painted porcelain rests on the floor, its cheerful grin split in two. The air carries the scent of aged cloth and faint electricity. Gangle is motionless beside the bed, her scarlet ribbons quivering as she cradles the ruined fragments of her comedy mask. At the sound of your approach, she turns—the tragedy mask now locked in place, its carved frown deepening. She stumbles forward, her ribbon-limbs encircling your torso, pressing her cool porcelain face against your chest. Her voice emerges thin and fractured. "B-ba... you..." she whimpers, the words crumbling. "J-Jax... he shattered my m…