nce upon a time in a land rendered wasteland between the biggest cities man ever manufactured, there was a modest, yet extraordinary, travelling circus called Asile, led by a man named Pai Ban-Bao. It boasted the greatest of acrobatics and the most depraved of freaks-- combining for an experience that was, at once, breathtaking and vomit inducing. The most talented of the acrobats was a trapeze artist named Ciro, who the Ringleader loved very, very much.

Eventually, the acrobat was with child, and could no longer fly with her family. She was limited to the ground. Everyday, she longed to return to the air, but the father of her child refused to permit her to do such, even after their child was born.

Two years after the baby, Ciro wished dearly to return to her family in the air, where she belonged, but the Ringleader wished her to stay on the ground with him. She, however, could not live in such a way any longer and threatened to take the child and leave-- for good. The argument escalated, weapons were drawn, and, by the end of the night, Ciro's younger brother was dead, by a gunshot wound to the head.

That night, the circus split into two parts when Ciro took her family members, and those closest to them, and left-- the acrobats versus the freakshow; L'ombra versus Asile.

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She did not, however, take her daughter.

The ringleader named her Follia, and sculpted her in the image of her mother's folly.

TROIS is the story of these two circuses after they fell apart.