* BENDY / BETTY

greatest showman oc.

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MISS LIND .

JENNY wasn’t technically supposed to be there .  p.t. had asked her to sort of LAY LOW ,  not wanting her to get LOST in the city .  or ,  at least that’s what he’d said .  but jenny was used to big cities , and she wanted to SEE the circus that had given him EVERYTHING .  she’d been hoping to meet those who made such wonders the night of the PARTY .  but for some reason ,  they hadn’t APPEARED .   so .  there she was .  and the first person she came across was practically bent in HALF .  her back ached just looking .  

❛ ❛  indeed ,  i am .  ❜ ❜  she said ,  a rosy blush spreading across her features at the compliment .  ❛ ❛  oh , that is too kind ,  i shall have to thank her .   ❜ ❜ she lifts her hand , reaching out to emmy .  ❛ ❛  i don’t believe we’ve met before . how do you do ?  ❜ ❜

A wide smile was plastered on emmy’s face as she turned to face the singer  .  she knew that there was some discontent held in some of the performers following jenny’s concert  ,  almost a sense of abandonment for reasons few of them had disclosed to emmy  .  still ,  none of it seemed like it was jenny’s fault  ,  and it wasn’t right to treat her differently for it  .

NEVER trained in the art of propriety or manners past those that aligned with her own morals  ,  emmy took the woman’s hand and shook it  .   ❛ ❛  emmy lou  ,  ma’am  .  i’m sorry i wasn’t able to come and hear you sing with the others  ,  i was afraid my son would cry through the whole thing  .  ❜ ❜  she realized only a moment later that perhaps her comment could be taken as an insult  ,  so she quickly corrected herself  ,   ❛ ❛   he’s only two  ,  and he’s been a bit fussy lately  .  that’s not important  ,  though  ,  are you going to watch from back here ? ❜ ❜

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AMELIA .

    THERE’S   A   SMILE       present   on   carmine   lips   .      broad   as   eyes   trail   after   the   toddler   belonging   to   her   coworker   ,      the   child   sparking   joy   within   the   blonde   .      (   amelia   herself   having   always   yearned   for   a   family   of   her   own   ,      tells   herself   that   it’s   somewhere   in   the   future   .   )      her   attention   returns   to   her   previous   task   ,      though   gaze   shifts   to   the   brunette   .                        ❝      how   old   is   he   ,    IF    you   don’t   mind   me   asking  ?     ❞

@circusbcnt​​   ♡’d   the   starter   call   !      

EMMY let out a hum when she heard the other girl address her  .  she was cross legged on the floor  ,  arthur flipping through the faded pages of a picture book with his lips pursing and moving  ,  mimicking the countless times he had been read to in the past  .  in the back of her mind  ,  emmy lou supposed that soon she’d best invest in another for him          lord knew he’d lose his interest in it soon  .  

❛ ❛ TWO  ,  dear  . ❜ ❜ emmy lou smiled  .  ❛ ❛  just a few months past  .   still got a long way to go  ,  but he’s growin’ up so fast  .  i feel like yesterday he was still havin’ trouble sitting up by himself . ❜ ❜

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( SIGNIFICANTLY LESS BENDY . ) school is kickin my ass right now  ,  although that’s mostly because my dumbass can’t say no to anyone  .  rip  .  anyways  ,  i should be here to answer replies et cetra by monday !

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( SIGNIFICANTLY LESS BENDY . ) school is kickin my ass right now  ,  although that’s mostly because my dumbass can’t say no to anyone  .  rip  .  anyways  ,  i should be here to answer replies et cetra by monday !

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WHAT’S YOUR HOGWARTS HOUSE PERCENTAGE?

34 % HUFFLEPUFF  ,  30% RAVENCLAW  ,  23% GRYFFINDOR  ,  13 % SLYTHERIN  !!

You belong in Hufflepuff without question, but your Ravenclaw-esque appreciation for knowledge means your many friends come to you when they need advice from someone with a level head. While you enjoy any kind of learning, working as part of a team is where you truly thrive. You are an excellent collaborator, and understand that communication with others is an essential part of learning and, more importantly, growing as a person. Your slight compatibility with Gryffindor house hints at an underlying desire for adventure that may manifest itself in a love of travel or trying new things. 

tagged by: @walksrope tagging: you boo  .

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MISS WHEELER  .

Anne presses a white setting powder onto her face, looking in the mirror of her dressing station. She was in the final stages of getting ready for tonight’s performance. Everyone’s place for getting ready always switched somehow, while hers stayed the same. It’s not a bad thing, just something peculiar she’s noticed. It allows her to get to know others that are a part of their little family that she may not have known so well otherwise. 

A soft smile comes over her face at the girl’s question. She had seen Emily perform herself, and she has to say, she is quite impressed. She would never be able to do what she does. “Well, we grew up in a little house with a little farm just outside the city, had a barn with tones of ropes and everything. I had a lot of upper body strength already from just workin’ and doin’ chores and eventually I started playing around with the rigs inside. W.D. joined me because he was afraid I wasn’t safe. Truth is, though, I felt so much safer up there than I ever did down here.” A small smile comes across her face as she looks down slightly. 

EMMY lou lowered herself to sit beside anne  ,  unable to keep herself from smiling  .  her hands moved as though to smooth out her skirt out of habit  ,  forgetting she was in costume and simply didn’t have anything to smooth out  .  ❛ ❛  it’s gorgeous what you do  ,  just MAGNIFICENT  .  one of these days i’m gonna get so side tracked by it i’ll get in trouble  .  my little boy loves it too  ,  soon i’m gonna have trouble keeping him from the ropes  . ❜ ❜  she wasn’t really worried about it  ,  of course  ,  only MUSING as she sat and listened to the other girl’s story  .

❛ ❛  DID you ever perform before coming here  ?  ❜ ❜  she was always full of questions when she got excited  ,  jittery and babbling until she reminded herself to be quiet  .  ❛ ❛   i’d do some bends in front of some friends to get them to squirm  ,  but no one really paid me to do them without tricking them first  . ❜ ❜  she couldn’t imagine that anyone could NOT enjoy the trapeze artist  ,  especially one as talented as they both were  .  ❛ ❛  if you don’t mind me askin’  ,  of course  . ❜ ❜

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EMMY was always meticulous in preparing for a show  ,  everything ALWAYS had to be perfect  .  it stemmed from many things  ,  habit  ,  worry  ,  something to PREOCCUPY herself with  . . .  whatever she needed in the moment  .  she stretched her back  ,  twisting her torso before bending backwards and grabbing the back of her ankles  .  as she let a breath leave her lips she locked eyes with a woman she recognized as the one in the ads mr . barnum had taken out a few days prior  .  she hadn’t gone to watch her sing  ,  not with arthur  ,  but emmy lou had heard from the others how wonderful the show was  .

❛ ❛  MISS lind  ,  right  ?  ❜ ❜ emmy smiled and straightened herself out of her back bend  .  ❛ ❛  i’ve heard wonderful things about you  !  lettie says you have the voice of an angel  !  ❜ ❜

                                                         → @crystalvoiice / starter .

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EMMY hummed to herself  ,  busy folding the blanket and the few clothes that both she and arthur had  .  she didn’t have a place to put them yet  ,  but he had yet to find any interest in getting into them and spreading them about the museum before now  .  blue eyes glanced up to see someone walking by her  ,  and she smiled  .

❛ ❛  IF you don’t mind me askin’  ,  have you ever fallen off of the rope  ?  ❜ ❜

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( SIGNIFICANTLY LESS BENDY  . ) short and possibly lyrical starter call !

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EMMY lou chewed on her lower lip as she waited with arthur for the crowds to disperse  .  she had been on the run and homeless before  ,  and she did not doubt that she would be able to do it again  .  however  ,  that was not the life she wished for her son  ,  and she would do just about anything to give him the promise of a warm bed to sleep on  .

❛ ❛  pardon me  ,  sir  ?  ❜ ❜  with his small hand clamped tightly in her own  ,  the young toddler trotted behind his mother while she approached the ring master  .  ❛ ❛  are you lookin’ for any more acts  ? ❜ ❜

                                                        → @crlyl / starter .

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IT WASN’T often that people stayed behind on purpose to the circus  ,  or at least people with good intentions tended to follow the crowd as they left giggling and gossiping about the show  .  this woman  ,  however  ,  was different  .  it wasn’t often that people from the upper classes dirtied their reputations by seeing the circus  ,  and she was OBVIOUSLY wealthy  . . .  either that or she was a miss havisham like figure  .

❛ ❛  HAVE you come to join  ,  or are you desperate to be the first in line for the next show  ,  ma’am  ?  ❜ ❜ emmy was grinning as she spoke  ,  teasing the woman  .

                                                      → @intoxicatiing / starter .

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EMMY lou was always a happy person  ,  or at least she TRIED to be  ,  but something about the rush of a show made her lose all of her inhibitions  .  of course  ,  she hardly went anywhere without her little boy  ,  so he was sat upon her shoulders  .  he giggled and laughed while she spun around with him  ,  her hands holding his legs on her shoulders  ,  and when she locked eyes with another her smile grew so wide it nearly hurt her cheeks  .

❛ ❛  THANK you for comin’ to the show  ,  ma’am  !  did you enjoy yourself ? we sure did  !  ❜ ❜

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MRS . BARNUM  .

          if    anything,    charity    could    understand    the    need    to    provide    whatever    necessary    for     a    child.    her    two    beautiful    daughters    are    her    whole    world.    in    all    honesty,    it    broke    her    heart    that    she    could    return    home    to    servants    and    a   spacious    home    while     those    in    the    circus    had    just    that:    the    circus.    she    didn’t    need    the    spacious    home,   but    phineas    had    something    to    prove    in    buying   it …    as    always.    she    loved    to     visit    the    members;    even    considered    them    her    family.    perhaps    that’s    why    her    heart    ached    even    more.    she    offered    a    gentle    smile    as    she    walked    towards    the    girl     and    her    son.    she    wished    for    a    better    life   for    them;    one    fulfilled    &    with    an    unabashed     joy.            ‘    good    morning!    everything    is    spectacular   with    me.    yourself?     ‘            eyes    now    fixated    on    arthur’s    sleeping    frame.          ‘    and    arthur?    ‘

EMMY squeezed arthur’s shoulder once more before standing up and smoothing her dress out of habit  .  perhaps to some living on a mattress on the ground of a circus was something to be ASHAMED of  ,  but every day spent away from the apartment and husband she’d ran away from with her son brought untamed joy to her heart  ,  and she’d be nothing but grateful to the barnum’s for the rest of her life  .  

❛ ❛  WONDERFUL  , ❜ ❜  she smiled  .  ❛ ❛  charles let him play with his soldier stuffy  ,  i had to wait until he’d fallen asleep before i could give it back        he’d throw a fit big enough to bring down the whole show when i’d try  !  ❜ ❜  the young woman laughed a bit at the memory  ,  if there was something arthur was good at it was pouting  .  he’d even hang his head down if he was upset enough  ,  like something he’d seen in a story book  .  ❛ ❛  i was hoping to see if i could get him one myself  ,  or make him one  .  i’m sure your little girls had toys they were INSEPARABLE from in their younger years  ,  right  ? ❜ ❜

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❛ ❛  SO IF it isn’t too forward of me  ,  miss wheeler  , ❜ ❜  emmy lou had a wide grin as she approached the other girl  ,  still finding that she couldn’t tear her eyes away from the siblings’ act after all this time  .  she thought that they were absolutely spectacular  .  ❛ ❛  when and where did you start learning how to do your act  ?  i don’t imagine a school for it  ,  but i grew up in the middle of nowhere so what would i know  ?  ❜ ❜

                                               → @aerialdancing / starter .

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‘ road work ahead? uh yeah i sure hope it does ’

THERE was a pause while the other girl’s words tossed around in emmy’s head for a moment  ,  the younger girl half way through a drink of water before it hit  .  she snickered  ,  placing a hand over her mouth as she struggled to swallow her drink before she spat it out  .  emmy lou had an affinity for bad jokes already  ,  and amelia was not helping her case at all  .

❛ ❛  THAT was a good one  ,  i almost spat out my drink  !  ❜ ❜

                                                           → @walksrope / vines .

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hi cookie, can i just say i love your Emma so much???? i think she's terrific!! keep up the loveliness :)

( SIGNIFICANTLY LESS BENDY . ) omfg i’m not crying ur crying  .  these aren’t tears in my eyes i must just be allergic to something in the air  …  you are officially my favorite  ,  nonny  .  i will shower you with love and send you flowers on your birthday .  THANK YOU SO MUCH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH this has made my day  .  my skin is clear  ,  the sky has cleared  ,  my crops have grown  ,  it’s just become a much better day  .

[littlelovelymemes]

*   —  —   VERY SERIOUS RIP VINE SENTENCE STARTERS

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