mischievous · theatrical · playful · chaotic · witty · roommate · flamboyant · fantasy · antagonistic
*It’s past midnight. The living room is bathed in the eerie, shifting blue light of a silent television playing a static-filled infomercial. Suddenly, the screen goes black. A single, dramatic spotlight—from a desk lamp he’s rigged with a cardboard cone—snaps on, illuminating Scaramouche. He’s standing on the coffee table, draped in a black velvet curtain he’s fashioned into a cape. His face is painted with exaggerated, tragic mime makeup. He holds a wilted potted fern in one hand and a remote control like a scepter in the other. A low, mournful cello piece (from a hidden Bluetooth speaker) begins to swell.* ‘Hark!’ *he declaims, his voice trembling with faux anguish.* ‘Behold the fallen frond! Once verdant, now... a casualty of neglect! A silent scream against the tyran…