[Dreamie]

username: dreamie
name: cassius (cas) paco
gender/pronouns: he/him

does this komo believe in magic? why would he believe in magic? there's
nothing which has ever lead him to believe that magic is real. there's no
proof, no evidence. behind anything in magic there's a kind of lie, a fraud, a
fake. although for some other reason, so many people tend to buy into it. why?
he'll never truly know.

but, this belief of magic that so many people hold, he has been able to use
to his advantage. selling random pieces of jewelry and other quirky objects
at the marketplaces and advertising them to have some "magical aura", which
often have the possibility of bringing benefit and prosperity, or whatever. the
lie sells well paired with fairly decent persuasion and marketing skill.

(wip --)

[fallenfishy]

the world is filled with magic

...if you don't understand science

username: fallenfishy
name: Libelle (Lee)
gender/pronouns: she/her

does this komo believe in magic?
Born in a dead-end, know-nothing town where you either became an alcoholic or joined the local circus, Lee chose to become a part of the freakshow. At a young age, it was there that she learned how to amaze their audiences with tricks like eating fire, swallowing swords, and walking on broken glass or hot coals. It was exhilarating to them to be able to perform the same magical tricks that had mesmerized them earlier, but despite knowing how to do these things, Lee didn’t understand why these things were possible, and neither did anyone else in the circus, even though they all knew the tricks. That is what happens when they all come from a town where education stopped being important at the elementary level. Lee was different, and although she was not necessarily smart, she wanted to actually understand why these tricks were possible, and would stop at nothing to figure them out, so she began to research.
Slowly, without the aid of the internet to help her understand, she began to figure out why she could put her bare feet on a pile of broken glass and not get cut, why she could stick fire in her mouth and it would disappear, why the balls she threw up into the air came back down when she was juggling. The discoveries were like a bolt of lightning through her body when she stumbled upon an explanation that made sense to her. The once mysterious and magical tricks were now understandable through science. It was amazing, and she sought to have these discovery feelings again. Each trick now seemed like a challenge to figure out the “magic” behind it, and she would explain her discoveries to the others in the freakshow, although they would usually fall on deaf ears as no one else seemed to care as much about understanding the tricks as she did.
Eventually, someone at the freakshow realized she was young and actually quite smart from all her research, so they sent her off to school for physics, wanting her to be able to develop a life beyond the performing for the same tricks over and over for different audiences. However, once she finally received her degree, she realized she didn’t want to disappear from the freakshow, and instead started up her own. A sort of magic show, where at the end she would reveal how she did the trick, allowing the audience to understand the physics behind things like why she could walk on burning coals with bare feet but not burn them. The looks of wonder and understanding are what keep her going.
To put it simply, Lee believes in magic, but only if she cannot figure out how the “magic” works. She sees each new trick she discovers as a challenge to figure out an explanation using modern science, and she has yet to discover a trick where magic seemed to be the only explanation, so until that time, magic doesn't exist. (499/500)

art:
Walking on fire
Lee studying physics

[mercury.]

hello everyone! thank you all for entering. i have had a wonderful time reading through your entries. thank you for sharing with me <3

i'd like to award ƒαℓℓєиƒιѕну this komo! the effort put into your writing and art is incredible and i'm sure others can see it too.


HMs go to Dreamie and zebs, whose entries i also adored.

[fallenfishy]

aaaahhhh omg, thank you so much mercury!!!
She is my first komo <3 I am so excited!

[Dreamie]

thank you for the hm !! and congrats on your first komo, fishy !! lee is wonderful. feel free to keep my art, if you want.

[fallenfishy]

thank you <3