Roleplay book

Miss Flora

"It's so great! Travelling, performing, seeing all of these brand new places that I never would've seen if I stayed in my hometown. This is the best time of my life!"

Name: Rosetta Artale

Stage name: Miss Flora

Age: 27

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Straight

Appearance: Media. She has a lip piercing and a helix piercing but she takes them off when she's on stage. She has a tattoo of a small flying black bird on her lower back.

Personality: Rosetta is rebellious and doesn't agree to do things she doesn't want to do out of her own free will. She's adventurous and curious and enjoys seeing new places and making new memories with people. Her curiosity can make her act very nosy sometimes because she always wants to know everything that's going on with her friends' lives. She talks and acts before she thinks which tends to get her in trouble. She loves making people smile and laugh, especially children. She has a soft spot for children and will always perform juggling and clown stunts for any child that seems to like it, even outside of their normal performances. She's a sentimental person and she likes to keep items from every place they go to as a reminder of her adventures.

Background: Rosetta was born into a strict Christian family. They were always worried about keeping up a perfect appearance and Rosetta was forced to be a perfect good little girl and was raised on religious worldviews. She figured out that the love between her parents was long gone when she was a young teen, but they stayed together because they didn't want a divorce, for her sake and for their perfect family appearance. As she grew up, she wanted to experience new things beyond the narrow world she lived in. She started college but dropped out after a few weeks because she wasn't interested. This wasn't accepted well by her parents, and they had a big, heated argument in which she told them that she wasn't going to live this way anymore and that she was leaving because she couldn't handle this anymore. She left the house with her things that night and didn't speak to her parents for a long time. Using what little money she had, she managed to get a cheap place to live and got a job as soon as possible. She was going between jobs for nearly a year before she heard of a circus called "The Venue of Stars" coming to her town. She decided to take a chance and bought a ticket out of sheer curiosity. As soon as she saw the performance, she became fascinated and amazed. She stayed after the show in hopes of getting to meet the performers face to face and was able to meet the ring mistress. She showed her amazement and even asked if she could somehow join them since the idea of travelling and performing like this seemed magical to her. The ring mistress was impressed by her determination and fascination and decided to give her a chance. She was told that she could stay with them and learn a circus skill and then make her own performance, but if she doesn't manage to do that she will need to go. Rosetta agreed to her conditions and joined the circus that night. She learned how to walk on stilts with the help of other performers who knew the skill and decided to base her performance around that. She also learned how to do juggling and added that into her performance as well. Her mother contacted her a few times after she joined the circus and Rosetta discovered that her parents did split up in the end. She appreciated her reaching out, but made it clear that she would never go back because she's happy with the life she has now.

Performance style: Miss Flora comes on the stage on stilts, wearing a long dress with colorful flower patterns all over it. She walks around the stage, allowing the crowd to see her before running to the center of the stage to do a dance routine. Her dance choreography is simple yet impressive and she moves quickly as she dances. A few juggling balls are thrown her way from the darkness behind the ring, and she turns around and catches them in her hands. She begins juggling the balls while still dancing and twirling around the stage on her stilts. As her dance comes to an end she skips backwards while still juggling until she disappears from the stage light and allows the next act to come on stage.

Likes: Juggling, dancing, exploring, beautiful places, flights, heights, shopping at local stores, spicy and salty foods, trying new things, children, most animals (except for bugs, frogs and reptiles), romance novels

Dislikes: Horror, being forced to do things, getting restricted, religion, overly sweet foods, travelling through seas and oceans (she gets seasick easily), reptiles, bugs, frogs

Theme song: She's So Gone - Lemonade Mouth

Other: She always buys at least one item from every place they go to and keeps all of them as a collection of reminders of her travels.

Scenario 1: You and your friends bought tickets to the circus that was coming to your area. When the day of the first show arrives, you get there and watch the show with them. During the show they decide to give you a dare and challenge you to sneak into the backstage area after the show is over. You accept the challenge and once the show is done and everyone's leaving you try to sneak past everyone and go behind the stage curtains. As you're prepared to move the curtain you hear a voice behind you. "Going somewhere?" The female asks and you turn around and see Miss Flora standing there with an amused smile.

Scenario 2: You work at a small shop in your town/city and nothing really exciting ever happens around here. You hear from your friends about a circus that's coming there for a few days and decide to go watch the show. The show sparks and interest in you, but you just end up leaving with everyone else afterwards. The next day a woman comes into your shop while you're working and starts looking around curiously. You stare at her, feeling that she seems familiar, until you realize she's one of the performers from the circus. She notices you staring and turns to you in confusion, not understanding why you're looking at her like this.

Scenario 3: Make your own.