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CRAWLS!! BACK TO DA

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Name:  Halifax
Alias: The Banded Boy Wonder (tentative, but he wants it to stick)
Gender:  Male
Age:  23
Species:  hybrid / raccoon
Job:  traveling performer / juggler
Birthday:  April 4th

Personality:
" You ' ll never believe what I saw today - three pennies !! Right on the ground !! The world is a wonderful place , isn ' t it !! "

outgoing | cheery | talkative | enthusiastic | childish | naive | inconsiderate | stubborn | nosy

Despite never quite reaching the level of skill he's dreamed of, it doesn't take much to make Halifax happy. Something as small as a heart shaped rock on the ground is enough to have him chittering - which is fine until he starts talking and never stops. To anyone's chagrin, Halifax, a bright soul who is always eager to make friends in anyone available, is particularly active during the evenings and early mornings, straight until he crashes in the early afternoon.

If you want everyone in town to know a secret, tell Halifax first. The fine art of keeping things to himself is completely lost on him - if he's told something he's not supposed to share, he'll hold it in until it bursts out of his mouth five minutes later. Hardly anything stops him from wanting to be involved in everyone's business, however. Like any nosy raccoon, the more he can get into, the better.

Unfortunately, because his mind is always moving from one thing to the next and his mouth can't always keep up, he'll forget people are listening when he speaks and simply jump from one topic to the next. Whether others can follow along or not doesn't ever occur to him - an ailment his performances frequently suffer from.


History:
" Hiya kiddo ! I ' m a mime ! Mimes are performers who stay silent and act like there are invisible objects there and pull ropes and push boxes but the boxes aren ' t really there and neither is the rope but they make you believe they are and they're totally silent the whole time and if that ain ' t the bees knees ... oh . "

From the time he was born, Halifax knew he was meant to be a performer. As a tot, he would put on skits and musical numbers for his family; wagging his tail, making his own spotlights, finding eight different ways to fit himself inside a tin can, or discovering new ways to yodel that no one had ever dreamed of or wished to hear.

The chance of leaving home to find a larger audience had always been a possibility, and when the chance to join a traveling troupe arrived, Halifax hardly thought twice before packing his bags and leaving. He promised to return to his family a shining star, and set off with broad ambitions.

The troupe (in an attempt to place him in a good starter job), tragically gave him miming as a role. It went well for the first fifteen minutes. But as soon as a passing child called out to him, Halifax broke into yelling about how excited he was to be a mime, how he could really feel the role was for him, and just how much fun he was having. Despite reprimanding and being given a second try, similar situations occurred over the course of the following week.

Finally, the troupe trained him in other areas - namely juggling, acrobatics, and pulling coins from behind a child's ears. Recognizing he had a knack for throwing things into the air and catching them again, the troupe re-placed him as a juggler and broke it to him that maybe being a mime wasn't quite right.

Despite the heartbreak, Halifax stayed with the troupe for a solid two years before they finally parted ways. Halifax had a new vision to start his own performing group, and chose Prima as his headquarters. He still attempts miming on "good days," but has yet to go a full thirty minutes without breaking silence.


Additional Info:
- wears his mime make-up whenever he performs
- wants to own a pet tiger or lion!! like a real circus performer (but will probably start small with like. a moth)
- uses juggling knives as weapons, has relative skill in acrobatics
- who needs chairs when you have a tail like this
- has a large family made up almost entirely of younger siblings
- when he crashes, he crashes [sfx: halifax faceplanting in2 dirt]
- does not taste like cotton candy
- doesn't make that much money - is always excited to earn more!!


Roleplay Methods/Availability:
chatroom / skype / docs
headcanons > script > lit !

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might..keep adding more info o)-<

GHH TRIES MY DARNDEST TO BE ACTIVE BEFORE DEPARTING FOR KATSU
i think i'm gonna start uploading headshots, commissions, etc. onto dA instead of just waiting to finish full pictures..!
:iconseagullfaceplz:

thank you!! :heart:
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kiibara's avatar
is HALI WEARING UGGS
//stares