Another one of my DnD characters 😁 He's a Harengon Jester Bard named Barlabek. 🐰🃏
Backstory:
Originally given the name Troznit; his mother died during childbirth leaving him with his abusive father who would frequently yell at him and beat him; eventually at still a very young age the Troznit ran away from home to escape his abusive father, sneaking aboard a passing cart belonging to a traveling circus in order to escape. after traveling for many many miles the owners of the cart discovered the young bun fast asleep in the back, malnourished and dehydrated from his fathers continuous neglect of him.
The members of the traveling circus took him in, looked after him, taught him and over time became like the family he never had; his new family gave him the name "Barlabek" as a way to help him cut ties with his abusive father and make this a fresh start for him, the young bun was thrilled with this idea and has never looked back. During his childhood Barlabek would mostly just help out with menial chores and minor tasks to help keep the circus running, eventually being trusted with more bigger tasks as he got older.
His adoptive family noticed he had a a love of tumbling, often trying to emulate the stunts of the more skilled circus performers (and sustaining many hilarious injuries in the process); when he was older the other performers began to train him properly, teaching him valuable skills like how to fall properly, how to read your audience and adapt your performance on the fly if things aren't going too well, and other useful skills; eventually Barlabek was included in the shows performances, starting out as comic relief to warm up the crowd and eventually as he became more skilled with his acrobatics being featured in more daring stunts.
Barlabek loved performing, the applause, cheers and laughter from the audience filled him with ecstasy. Though while his troupe meant everything to him and were in essence his family, over the years that would gradually fall apart, as members of the circus would leave for various reasons, some too old to continue performing, some passed away, some went on to pursue other adventures, some went to settle down and start families of their own, and some of them were arrested for various crimes; one by one the members of the circus peeled away until eventually the whole circus had disbanded, leaving Barlabek alone.
Now Barlabek lives as a lone performer, traveling from town to town looking for a new audience to entertain. He's never returned to his home town and doesn't know if his father is even still alive, but he has no desire to be weighed down by those troubled times, instead choosing to adopt a happy go lucky attitude and live life to its fullest, making as many people as he can smile along the way. Barlabek still holds the members of his former troupe in his heart, all of them may have left for their own reasons but they'd all left on good terms with the bunny, he hopes maybe he'll stumble across a few of them again one day.
One day mysterious circumstances saw Barlabek awake in an unfamiliar town with no memory of how he got there, and sat at a tavern table with 3 women he had never met before; their story was the same as his, they all had no memory of how they'd gotten there and all woke up at the same table. Even more strange was that all 4 of them awoke to find a strange symbol tattooed on the back of their hands. Now the 4 find themselves plunged into a world of werewolves, talking swords, deadly dreams, and....Gregg the horse! Will they unravel these mysteries? Or will these mysteries unravel them?
