The Traveling Flea Circus
The Traveling Flea Circus is a circus that has traveled around the country of Bituin for years.
Function
The Traveling Circus moves around a lot, and makes a lap around Bituin every year, visiting every village they can except Hidden Isle and Precursor Village (because they are islands). The circus usually packs everything up and hops a human train to reach their next destination, often using their larger animals like the mice and birds to carry the heavier cargo. As soon as they are at their next stop, they quickly set up the tents and all their equipment and set up in a area for a month or so before moving on. The circus hosts a number of shows including acrobatics, clown shows, and animal tricks where they've tamed large and dangerous animals (for miinu) to the delight of thousands of bugs who use it as an escape from their busy and often dull lives.History
The traveling circus was started up by Ma Flea and Pa Flea, a couple with many talented children. They performed as a family, traveling around the mainland showing off their skills. Their 25 children were all skilled in the field of performance, whether it be acrobatics, entertainers, animal riders, dancers, dare devils, and more. The other kids would be assigned to maintenance or working the concessions. Singh was the youngest born into this family, and grew up during the height of the circus's popularity. Miinu from all around would attend their shows and they're grand performances made a lot of money.
However, Singh was too young to be aware of how hard his older siblings were pushed to make the show what it was. Many missed out on education or friends, or a romantic partner in order to give everything to the circus. Even Singh felt the sting of his parent's perfectionism as he got older and started helping around the circus, but it didn't cause his love for it to die. In fact, he may have been the only child who was as passionate about the circus as his parents were. After many years of the circus going strong, one performance would end in disaster as the tent caught fire. Many people would get hurt in the fire and Ma Flea would pass away in the blaze. Soon after, the loss would cause Pa Flea to pass on as well. This left the remains of the circus in the hands of the many children.
Most of the older kids had had enough of the circus and wanted to retire, while the younger ones wanted to seek out a life outside of the circus. This left Singh with no one, and the circus was at risk of closing forever. Singh would work as a performer as a side for many smaller gigs until he'd meet Peaberry, a wealthy and prospective Miinu who was very excited about Signh's business and wanted to assist in finding new performers. She'd successfully find a good amount of help in exchange for being the ring master of the operation, a deal Singh was fine with as he preferred to work with the animals.
Soon Peaberry found more performers including Picasso and the Click Twins, which allowed the circus to skyrocket in popularity once again.
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