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CLARABELLE SERRURIER (she/her) the mirror-eyed actress || ambition: heart's desire
OBEDIENCE HATCH (he/she) the smiling diarist || ambition: light fingers
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I am 26 years old🎉🎉
FAVORITE MUSICALS BY DECADE
Favorite musical of the 2000s
Seussical (2000)
Mamma Mia! (2001)
Hairspray (2002)
The Last Five Years (2002)
Wicked (2003)
The Light in the Piazza (2005)
The Drowsy Chaperone (2006)
Spring Awakening (2006)
Shrek the Musical (2008)
Next to Normal (2009)
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FAVORITE MUSICALS BY DECADE
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Merrily We Roll Along (1981)
Cats (1982)
Sunday in the Park with George (1984)
Big River (1985)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1985)
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Masquerade, grinning yellows, spinning reds
Masquerade, take your fill, let the spectacle astound you
Masquerade, burning glances, turning heads
Masquerade, stop and stare at the sea of smiles around you
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Come one, come all! To a masquerade of mystery, tragedy, and comedy!
When the teams for this year's art fight got revealed, I got the inspiration to draw a masquerade ball piece using the teams for costume ideas. So I once again scoured art fight (and my following list) for some guests who were free to attend this party.
So, from left to right:
Zagel, The Inescapable Voluptuary, @coffeethathurtsyou
M. Atropos Saturni, The Typical Composer, @frost-mothit
Clarabelle Serrurier, The Mirror-Eyed Actress, @arsenicviric
H. Reisz, The Twilight Phantom, @szilverer
Peter Bell-Sunstram, The Ferocious Journalist, @little-red-notebook
Jack Bell-Sunstram, The Benevolent Rogue, @reliably-derogaffectionate
Fae Ghuleh, The Devilish Clay Woman, yours truly
Myth Bancroft, The Hurried Professor, @valravenn
Dasha Inkswell, The Dashing Dream-Thief, indubitablykia
Anfroy J. Skelley, The Starlit Sojourner, @ingramposting
Sincere apologies to anyone who might not be satisfied with their character's depiction in this. As you can imagine I had a lot of limitations to work around, and frankly a lot of sunk cost fallacy. Regardless, I hope everyone has a marvelous time at the party!
Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go collapse and take a break before I pump out a couple more attacks for my best friends.
actually now that I’ve finished Light Fingers, is this a safe space to say I thought there was gonna be a big reveal where we found out that Clara’s “sister” was actually her Parabolan reflection
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The Music Hall Singer was also pregnant, but ended up giving birth in a church after seeking sanctuary there, and the baby didn’t survive. I assumed that Fires had tried its plan with her first, because her Parabolan impossibility would aid the creation of an impossible child, but she managed to escape just before giving birth. The child didn’t survive not because there wasn’t the necessary Parabolan influence, but because for Clara we have to do all sorts of other things as well, like making the Moon-Mother potion, and the Singer had none of that.
If I remember correctly, it’s also implied that the father of her child was a representative of Fires, just like Poor Edward; I assumed this was going to be a bait-and-switch, and that we’d find out the Representative wasn’t actually the father, but the man who had organized her kidnapping in the first place, and he had later fallen in love with her and helped her escape. Hence him visiting the baby’s grave, and raving to us about Fires’ plans after we track him down and, uh, find him at Nightmares 8+, if you will. And then he disappears! We go back to find his townhouse shuttered and empty and no one can say where he is! If he had been the one to help the Singer escape, he was always on borrowed time until Fires found him.
Jasper and Frank, after tracking down the Singer, nearly killed her solely as a warning/retribution from Fires. They had no need for her anymore. Fires says itself in-game that it doesn’t care what happens to the ‘incubator’ after the child is born successfully, and as dubious as its science is, I bet even it would assume the Singer’s body wouldn’t be able to tolerate doing that pregnancy again. And what use would killing her be? They could disappear her like the Representative, but why go through the effort? No one would believe her, and societal pressure would keep an unmarried woman from talking about a bastard child anyway. And after all, they had her “sister”, the original her, to try again with.
Was not permanently killing or disappearing the Singer an opportunity for the Singer to take on Clara’s life? To become the ‘real’ her, here in the Is? I can imagine Fires extending that offer. It’s certainly fucked up enough.
But the thing that had me most convinced was their personalities. Clara is presented from the start as unassertive and in need of protection, while the Music Hall Singer is presented from the start as assertive and deeply protective of her twin. Where Clara is helpless and prone to panic, the Singer is goal-oriented and angry. I can easily see the Singer being who Clara wishes she was.
(I can also see the Singer being who Clara wishes she had. Her ideal self, but also her ideal protector. In a perfect world, someday, she could be that for herself. But right now, it’s what she wants and what she wishes she could be. Would that much wanting be a way to bring that version of her out of the mirror?)
Not to mention, the text implies that you know the Singer well enough that not knowing she had a sister is surprising enough to comment on (“you didn’t even know she had a sister”). How could Clara have never come up in conversation when protecting her is such a huge part of the Singer’s life?
And of course, there’s the fact that they’re identical twins.
meanwhile my horse, with her glistening mandibles and rock-hard forward carapace, flies high above the haters and losers
a clarabelle for @arsenicviric !
OHH MY GOD MY BABYY GIRLLLL
oh i forgot that Didi got a tattoo of his own name during FotR. gotta figure out where the hell he put all those fuckin letters
does clarabelle know what she's going to choose as her heart's desire?
she doesn’t! and neither do I. I’m not 100% sure what the options are, actually 😆 she’s doing it to find out more about the masters; she hasn’t actually considered that she might get far enough to make it into an actual game, let alone win. but she will have to reckon with that possibility at some point…
Clara and Didi are on ArtFight! This is my first year doing it so we'll see how it goes <3 I'm @ wintrybird
Clara's page
Obedience's page
clara is officially half of the way to getting her room at the royal beth 🍯 haven’t been playing as much since I’m stuck at (what seems to be the first?????) dreamgate vis a vis her ambition, but she’s still been taking in paychecks lmao
clara is now a POSI and has her room at the beth!! ✅✅ and now I can get a ship and (finally) continue with her ambition. I think we're just gonna go with the stone tentacle key instead of the dreams
from “Legend” (1985)
My take on the bug child! :3 She's older than baby since in my version of Light Fingers, my PC Jaedith kept the hybrid safe in Parabola for a lot longer while other stuff was happening, and so she's also a lot more directly aware of things going on and can make her own choices. Also her name is Maia! Left as a rough sketch cause this already took a lot of steam to figure out a design and it still looks cool this way.
Solomiya Krushelnytska as Brünnhilde in R. Wagner’s opera “Die Walküre”
clarabelle speaks with the bazaar
