#i’m kinda picturing this as a dark parody of nextgen stories so i might just run with the bs explanation that

[eldritch-muppetshow]

finally designing the kids for my tadc nextgen au, and i was more than a little hesitant to start with this one bc uh. i don’t ship jax/gangle and don’t like the idea of them together with what’s been presented in canon, but the mental image of this character was so vivid to me and i don’t imagine trik came from an actual union between them.

anyway. yeah he’s got some heavily repressed issues, and he’s just kind of wanders around the circus pulling pranks (usually unattended the entire time).

his masks can be broken by outside forces (ie. getting hit in the face), but usually they’ll just break on their own as soon as his mood shifts! this leads to a lot of moments where his mask will break mid-conversation.

their comedy mask can only feel positive emotions, and their tragedy mask can only feel negative emotions. he usually tries to keep his comedy mask on, getting super embarrassed if anyone sees him with his tragedy mask.

they’re deceptively sneaky and excellent at escaping any measures the performers take to keep him from pulling pranks— unless their ribbons are tied to something, then they’re basically helpless until someone unties them.

despite trying to keep his comedy mask, his tragedy mask is probably closer to his default mental state tbh.