#strattum

[sebcastellanos]

I see it in your eyes: you believe that lie that you need to hide your face. Afraid to step outside, so you lock the door, but don’t you stay that way!

[charlestratton]

No comment. Just some smiling Charles.

Please excuse me

[charlestratton]

What are you lookin’ at, flopdoodle?

[charlestratton]

Some Charles in Come Alive because I love.

[sebcastellanos]

Oh yeah.... when Phin’s all teary and looks up at Charles in From Now On...? Oh yeah. WHA– bye, I’m gone I’m

he’s looking up at where his circus began. he’s looking at the whole reason he thought to start a circus in the first place. and that first beginning is here to guide him into a new beginning

like it makes such a big point that the first person who phin saved out of the shadows is the first one to find him when he’s sunken into the shadows himself in the wake of his failure

“i see a general,” phin told charles stratton

well. charles sees a ringmaster