Kasane Teto — HARLEQUIN CONTRAPTION

Name: Kasane Teto (preferably Teto) Age: N/A (appearance is late twenties or early thirties) Species: human Occupation: jester/cult leader/killer (openly/mainly a jester)

Physical description: Body: Tall and slim with pale, slightly purple skin. Beneath gloves, bloodstained hands. Hair: short pink hair, spiky bangs. Eyes: Often large and manic, bright red pupils. Neon green makeup on eyes, a long diamond shape covering each eye. Mouth: Razor sharp teeth, often grinning or laughing. Silence is a sign of danger. Clothes: Purple hat with two ‘spikes’ on the side mimicking tiny cat ears or devil horns, with two pink (matching her hair) twindrills (drill shaped poinytails, often around the size of a person’s head, unlike actual drills, they don’t spin, they’re made of fabric) on the sides of her head (connected to the hat) with a small golden bell on each tip. Light purple neck ruff (a circular, scarf like fabric that goes around the neck with ruffles. Otherwise called a jester collar ). White crop top with green buttons and short purple sleeves. Purple corset (croptop is layered above). Short, white spiked skirt. Baggy purple pants. White socks going up to her shins, pants tucking underneath. Purple leprechaun shoes. Light purple gloves with a black ‘T’ on the back of her palm. Pink cape at hips, with two bells on the tips, ending at her shins. Special item: Tall, candy cane themed cane.

Personality: Teto is the definition of chaos and mischief, but also secretly hunger for attention and affection. To everyone, she’s this chaotic little gremlin that didn’t eat enough veggies to grow tall. Truly a talented jester, Teto has a knack for making fun of others to entertain and for keeping up a cheerful mask to hide her often malicious intent. She often seems very trusting and a very good friend (though telling her secrets is not recommended, she will peep), but she herself finds it hard to truly rely on and trust someone. Not because she’s scared (well, maybe just a little. But shh, don’t tell anyone!), more of because she can’t have just one ‘friend’. She needs loads! Teto lives off of attention or praise, whether it’s meant or not. Her addiction to it has even gone off to get her to threaten people with death to praise her. She doesn’t care if they’re sobbing and stuttering while telling her she’s amazing, they totally meant it! Right? RIGHT?! Teto has made a sort of cult with her jester-ness. She’s offered them to her tent with treats (like cake or crepes. Teto is a sucker for sweet things) and some entertainment, only to sort of hypnotise them to come back every show. She’s threatened multiple times (in secret to individual people) that they had to ‘play their part’ (as in praising her or supporting her), she’d kill them. And she never lies about that, Teto is often covered in blood by the end of her performances from how many people she’d stabbed with her cane. Teto doesn’t often show vulnerability or sadness. She usually does it in private in her room. And when she does, oh boy it’s a breakdown. Her cries are never soft or gentle, they’re loud and screamed out until her voice is hoarse. She often breaks things during her breakdowns, and then passes out from the exhaustion.

Backstory: Ever since she was a little kid, Teto was always lonely. Maybe it was because she acted different, or because she looked different. She never had that many friends, and most got bored of her when she started fixating on circuses. For fifteen years, since she was five, she watched shows and practised making her own tricks . In high school, she was bullied a lot for being ‘weird’. It left her feeling hated and lonely, to the point where she started manipulating classmates to be her friends just so she could feel normal. Now, she used what she learned in her younger days to garter an audience of loyal followers who watch her every show.

Likes: Sunlight. Sweets. Baguettes. Performing. Her followers. Praise. Support. Manipulating people. Cats.

Dislikes: Hate. Being forgotten. People leaving her behind. The cold. Rats. Overly sticky cheese. Spicy things.

Nicknames (both by people who like her and hate her): “Harle’”, “Harlequin”, “Jester”, “The one and only”, “loudmouth”, “Fake”, “Attention seeker”.

Teto’s circus, a large, purple and pink tent, is located on a hill in a grassy plain area. It is near a small village where Teto lives, which is an hour drive from a larger city where most of her audience comes from. She mostly opens on afternoons on weekends for the much larger performances, which is mostly when she does her ‘hypnotising’ work. Though, she does do small performances on weekdays, usually on times where children come home from school. This is where her more passionate, less malicious side comes out, since she focuses more on entertaining the children with tiny tricks and snacks then getting their praise.