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CHARACTER INFO— Visha & Corvan

Visha (Madame Noire)

· Real Name: Visha Navarre

· Role: Ballerina Ringmaster, Blade Dancer, Executioner

· Appearance: Pale, lithe frame, eyes like obsidian mirrors, always in black leotard with blood-red tulle. Her pointe shoes are sewn from flayed satin and always stained.

· Signature: Dances with knives embedded in her limbs, bleeding for every encore.

· Origins: Rumored to have danced herself to death in a cursed theater and woke up here. The Carnival offered her a role she couldn’t pirouette away from.

· Motivation: Control. She lost everything once — she’ll never be powerless again. Keeps the performers in line with grace and violence.

· Weakness: Music. When the music box hidden in her carriage plays… she’s no longer in control.

· Relationships:

· Corvan: Fascination, irritation, temptation. She can’t tell if he’s a threat or a mirror.

· The Carnival: Lover. Cage. Religion.

Corvan (The Escapist)

· Real Name: Corvan Rue

· Role: Master Illusionist, Escape Artist, Architect of Doors

· Appearance: Tall, gaunt, ink-stained fingers. Eyes too knowing. Wears a black duster with silver keys sewn into the lining. Always smells like smoke and old books.

· Signature: Never performs the same escape twice. No one knows where he goes in-between vanishing and returning.

· Origins: Claimed he once escaped death itself. His shackles hang in his tent like trophies or warnings.

· Motivation: Freedom. He’s still trying to escape… but from what, he won’t say.

· Weakness: Mirrors. Something inside them knows him too well.

· Relationships:

· Visha: Envy, desire, fear. She’s what happens when you stop running.

· The Carnival: A riddle he hasn’t solved. Yet

Carnies (Supporting Cast):

· The Laughing Twins — conjoined knife-throwers with a taste for blood.

· The Mirror Maiden — trapped in a mirror, shows people their deaths.

· The Marionettist — controls corpses like puppets on strings.

· The Fire breather — can only feel warmth when he’s burning something alive.