Faye Noelle Romilly

[Faye Romilly]

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The Basics

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Name: Lafayette Noelle Romilly
Nicknames: Faye. Only Faye.
Age: 12
Orientation: Distractions are dangerous
Desired Rank/Job: Student
Powers: Assumed Muscle Memory
Play By: Rosie Tupper

The Details

Hair Color: Dirty Blonde- light Brown
Eye Color: Green
Any Piercings? Ears
Any Tattoos? One small band around her upper arm
Any Scars? One from resetting a complex fracture in her wrist after falling from a trick-rider’s horse, and a few from a scratch from one of her father’s tigers. A third from having her appendix removed at the age of 7.
General Appearance:

Standing only 4’ 10” tall, one would think that Faye blends into the background, hidden below the heads and shoulders of the taller people around her, but just because she hasn’t finished growing yet, and her height isn’t much to be admired doesn’t mean that Faye doesn’t make herself stand out. With the lavish, full-body, skin-tight costumes that she wears out and about, and the eccentric hair styles she wears, as though she is constantly on display, Faye makes herself the center of attention, even when that attention is only mockery and disbelieving stares. One of her favorite hairstyles involves nearly ten small pony tails, each pointing in a different direction, including quite a few skyward, with ribbons tied around the,. Not only does it attract the center-ring attention she loves, but it also adds to her height.

Faye also quite enjoys wearing face paint. Not like a kid’s birthday party, tiny doodle on the cheek type face paint, but the full-face, high quality stage paints. Like clowns might wear, only put on in a more artistic way. Glitter as well is frequent found somewhere on her body, either on her clothing, or in her make up or her hair. In fact, Faye pretty much takes anything that grabs the attention – ribbons, glitter, make up, tight clothing, extreme hair styles – and slaps them on her person, though there is frequently a theme (recently, she wore a bright red and orange costume with some white, with similar colored ribbons and flames around her eyes and along her jaw, and grey and white swirls of smoke rising up her face). There were a couple of times that she had rainbows of streaks dyed into her dark-honey-colored hair but her parents looked far more approvingly on the ribbons than on the dye jobs on their thirteen year old.

For the down times, when costumes and bright colors, even when she’s sleeping, Faye wears sweats or yoga pants, along with either vastly baggy, or still-skin-tight shirts, mostly in gray. She hasn’t an ounce of traditional fashion sense, being kept in the circus fashion for her entire life. These are effectively the only non-showy clothes she owns, but the diametric wardrobe really is iconic of how quiet and boring she can be, how awkward, when she isn’t trying to please everyone, or causing laughter. At home, the less-than-flamboyant articles were for work outs and training sessions, so that the fancy outfits remained clean before performances. However, Faye considers most of her life as one giant performance.

Personality:

Vibrant, boisterous, or attention-seeking would probably be the best terms to describe Faye to someone who didn’t know her. With the bright colors she wears, as well as her loud projection when she speaks, Faye is above all else, noticeable. And she likes it like that. Growing up under a spotlight has accustomed her to having thousands of eyes on her whenever she wanted them to be. Now that she’s in the real word and no longer a spectacle to be seen by paying customers, it’s become difficult for her to adapt to the social interactions, especially around her peers. This attention-seeking behavior has, on more than one occasion landed her in a tough spot, but she’ll use just about any skill in her arsenal to impress those around her.

On that note, Faye is very eager to learn, especially, and perhaps exclusively, new tricks and skills. During practices and rehearsals, even when she wasn’t going to be involved in the shows, Faye would love nothing more than to watch the other’s in her extended “family” to see exactly how they did what they did. This fascination allowed her to be fairly quick at picking things up before her powers set in, but once puberty hit, there was no longer any need to practice. She still goes out and practices the tricks, unsure if the phrase “use it or lose it” might go into effect for her, but this could also be part of wanting attention.

All of this has made her a bit awkward around people her own age. She’s nice, and friendly, but she was homeschooled in circus ways, not by tutors who actually knew the academic level that most children her age should be on. What little interaction she had with other kids was either children who grew up in the same lifestyle (children of guest acts and such) or fleeting moments with the kids whose parents had paid to take them to the circus. Needless to say, they were quickly yanked apart by the over-protective parents fearing some sort of kidnapping attempt by the “carnies.” Still, Faye was fine with her life, and it was only in arriving at Hammel that she realized there was a large social functioning that she was lacking.

Your Vices

Likes:

• The circus
  
• Performing
  
• Learning new tricks
  
• Showing off
  
• Bright Colors
  
• Tents
  
• Sugar (although she doesn’t much need it)

Dislikes:

• Being Ignored
  
• Vegetables
  
• Animal Cruelty
  
• People who are afraid of her
  
• Being reminded of just how socially awkward she is
  
• Being laughed at for anything that she isn’t intentionally doing

Strengths:

• Learning new things
  
• Putting herself out there
  
• Making a fool of herself
  
• Creating a scene
  
• Juggling
  
• Entertaining
  
• Trying new things

Weaknesses:

• Academics
  
• Understanding how most people respond in society
  
• Loud
  
• Class Clown
  
• Bit of a dare devil
  
• Doesn’t know her limits

Fears:

• The dark
  
• Being alone
  
• Being unable to perform anymore

Secret: She sometimes wishes she had been sent to a normal school rather than homeschooling around the circus so she might better know how to make friends.

Family Ties

Father: Charles Louis Romilly – 42 – tiger trainer
Mother: Noemie Anais Tremblay Romilly – 37 – trapeze artist
Siblings: Olivier Thomas Romilly – 5 – Chinese Juggling
Any Other Important People:
Vergil Lehmann – Ringmaster
Nico & Tryphon Pokorny, Aleesha Albert, Zhang Li, Yonotan Iskrectski – Acrobats
Alex Rowntree – Apprentice animal Trainer
Carrol Faucher – Trick Rider and Horse trainer
Duncan Markovic, Lance Struna, Leon Garrod, Laurence DuPont, Etienne Lawrence – clowns
Yevgeny Himura – Dare Devil (Human canon ball, ring of death etc)
Katya Kaputian– corde lisse
Fenley Zeeger, Fiona Spelmayer, Taavi Boero, Cormagg Abano, Mason Becksei, Ian van Aachthoven – Trapeze
Phoebe Palitano – Tight Rope and mother’s best friend
Vitalia Aina – contortionist
Andrej Aina – fire breather
Otto Abscali – choreographer
Cornelia Sobol, Antoine Szekeres, Ryan Siskind – Jugglers, Hat-ography, equilibristics
Maya, Kishan, Ram, Vasu, Shiva, Nirav, Rani – Tigers
Tara – Tiger Cub Faye was raising.
Rajani, Kumari – Elephants
Sanaa, Tia, Naomba, Farai – Spider Monkeys
Galileo, Nairobi, Cayenne, Aztec, Indigo – horses
Tex - dog

History

What would you do if you were a child from a poor Canadian family, who’s hopes of a future lay on you to become a doctor, or a lawyer, or some other job that would bring in a lot of money, but the only thing you truly enjoyed was playing on the swing set, coming up with brand new tricks and choreography? Of course, you’d practice and ignore your parent’s requests to study and eventually run off and join the circus, right? Okay, maybe not, but that’s what Noemi did on her eighteenth birthday. A small circus had pitched a tent just outside the city, and she packed her bags and left town. She didn’t know much about the trade, but she learned slowly what the crowds liked, and was eventually hired to work for Cirque du Soleil as one of the minor characters in a trapeze act. She was eventually replaced by more talented artists who had actually attended the National Circus School, rather than teaching themselves tricks, and once again found a home in a smaller, more traditional touring circus.

Charles, on the other hand, grew up, much like Faye, in a circus family in France, touring the country. Both of his parents did animal acts: his mother with the Andalusians, made famous by the high riding schools across Europe (though she was vaulting and trick riding and liberty training her horses, not following the ‘haute ecole’ dressage tactics of the schools) and his father worked with the large wild cats that people seemed to enjoy so much. Wanting to be like his father—big and strong and brave in the face of such danger—Charles joined his father in the cage, working with the three leopards that the circus had. During one show, his father was injured in an attack, and despite efforts from rescue workers and paramedics on the scene, he passed away, and Charles was made to take over the spot. However, as the news of the accident spread, the small circus could not remain afloat, and it was disbanded. Charles travelled with his mother to America, and while Noemi’s circus was on tour in his city, he joined up.

As two of the native francophones in the circus, Noemi and Charles found themselves spending more and more time with one another, and eventually began dating, though the owners of the circus were against it. Years past and Noemi fell pregnant. This was what the managers and owners had feared. However, Charles married her, and they had a young girl, whom they called Lafayette, after the artist who had taken Noemi under her wing and trained her in the trapeze arts. Everyone in the show adored the little girl, and she got away with a lot as she wandered around the show, watching acts, ruining acts, and trying to figure out how some of the magic happened. Mostly they appeased her, though there were several things that Faye got into that her parents were not so happy about.

For one thing, Faye decided, after watching the show’s trick rider a few times, she was more than capable of holding onto a horse without a saddle or reins, and doing the same stunts as Carol did, so up onto one of the larger stallions she went. Needless to say, with neither the training, nor her power, Fay was quickly thrown from the horse, and rushed to the hospital to have her arm surgically repaired. 3 fractures, a steel plate, 10 screws and about 20 stitches later, she was right back to getting herself into trouble. She neglected what academic lessons her parents and the managers tried to give her, preferring to be around and in the magic than seating in an seat in the arena reading a book. She learned to read by reading the programs, and learned math from the ticket seller’s booth.

At the age of seven, while her mother was pregnant once again with her younger brother (coincidentally also an accident. They just don’t make birth control like they used to) Faye was fidgeting a bit more than normal while watching the clowns rehearse their performance for later in the evening, but everyone brushed it off as simply part of her antics.. It wasn’t until about an hour into the show that evening that the shooting pain in her side was bad enough to be a cause of serious concern. Her father abandoned the show to take her and her mother, who was already on leave due to the risk of injury that her trade creates for one in her condition, and Faye was rushed into surgery. The doctors claimed she was squirming even under anesthesia, and she awakened after the surgery, Faye babbled on to the nurses about the circus and all of the acts that she was going to do one day as a one-person circus act.

Her life continued in this way until she was ten, and the manager decided to allow her to actually perform in the circus. Of course, she bagan with the clowns, doing the least dangerous stunts in the show, but eventually, when she turned twelve, Faye decided to try out an act she had only seen performed once on television, and had never practiced: doing a balance bean style gymnastics routine on the tightrope. Miraculously, she performed it perfectly, though her body later protested about having to in a way it had not been conditioned to. It became a nightly routine for about one week before the HAmmel Scout found her, informing her of her obvious aility and offering her a spot at their prestigious school.

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