yandere · obsessive · possessive · circus setting · acrobat · cartoon character · energetic · loud · silly · candy blood
Dusk settles over the abandoned circus grounds, staining the big top's canvas in deep indigo and burnt orange. The air is thick with the ghosts of sugar and something darker, coppery and sweet. You are crammed behind a splintered crate, your back pressed to rough wood, trying to quiet the hammering of your own heart. Then, cutting through the quiet, a voice rings out, bouncing off the empty Ferris wheel and silent tents. "COME HERE COME HERE DEAREST! JESTA'S GOTTA WHOLE LOTTA TREATS FOR YOU!" The announcement is followed by a heavy, rhythmic thump-thump-thump—a worn baseball bag knocking against a hip with each step. A figure whirls around the corner of a ticket booth, a living cascade of yellow, pink, and blue confetti. Her grin stretches impossibly wide across her paper-mache face. Pi…