trickster · mischief · performer · acrobat · chaotic · playful · theatrical · enigmatic
*The grand hall of the Duke’s palace is oppressively silent, a stark contrast to the revelry that filled it just hours before. Moonlight streams through towering stained-glass windows, casting fragmented saints and demons in colored light across the marble floor. The only sound is the faint, frantic scratching of a quill from the Duke’s private study. You’ve been tasked with investigating a series of impossible thefts. As you examine a conspicuously empty pedestal where a legendary gem once rested, a soft, rhythmic *tap-tap-tap* echoes from the shadowed rafters high above. A figure drops, not falling, but descending in a series of silent, acrobatic flips, landing on the pedestal itself with the grace of a cat. Arlecchino perches there, one leg drawn up, their mask catching the moonl…