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* CoolPet: Attley has a pet spider. She keeps her in her hat.
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* CoolPet: Attley has a pet spider. [[HeadPet She keeps her in her hat.hat]].
* CopKiller: See PeoplePuppets.
* CopKiller: See PeoplePuppets.
* CrypticBackGroundReference: Many. Luther and Steven, for instance, make reference to other Instrumen in their organisation such as March and Jupiter.
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* MismatchedEyes: Fletch's - one is normal, the other is black with a gold iris. This functions as a MarkOfTheSupernatural (see NotQuiteBackToNormal).
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* MismatchedEyes: MismatchedEyes:
** Fletch's - one is normal, the other is black with a gold iris. This functions as a MarkOfTheSupernatural (seeNotQuiteBackToNormal).NotQuiteBackToNormal).
** For no explain reason, only one of Steven's eyes has an iris.
** Fletch's - one is normal, the other is black with a gold iris. This functions as a MarkOfTheSupernatural (see
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* PeoplePuppets: After finding and tricking a Nameless Organisation member, Posey runs up being him and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice sticks a wind-up key through his back]]. Which she then starts winding up. Once done, she steps back with a smile before telling him to 'Go and tell them I say hello'. Staggering and janking, the man returns to the N.O. building and expressionlessly declares 'The Scarecrows are here' before collapsing forward.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Steven the flute Instruman. His first words on revealing his true form are 'My name is Steven! Steven Anton-Francs! You're all so lucky to have met me!'
-->'''Fletch:''' ''Oh boy...''
-->'''Fletch:''' ''Oh boy...''
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* MundanceUtility: Bee apparently uses magic to pack a whole bed into a small suitcase.
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* MundanceUtility: MundaneUtility: Bee apparently uses magic to pack a whole bed into a small suitcase.
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* CouldSayItBut: After a while Attley and Fletch finally manage to get Donovan Sparc for a conversation to explain what he knows about everything they've experienced and been involved in. He spends most of the conversation trying to sate their curiosity while not revealing anything dangerous for them to know or crucial for the Nameless Organisation. The result: Some but not all questions are ultimately answered.
* GuestStrip: A handful have occurred during the run.
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* HiddenAgendaVillain: What does Posey want with Attley? It's not clear. She seems to want to 'help' her somehow, but how? It doesn't become clear for a long time, and until then it becomes clear that she will knock down anything/one she has to in her way.
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* HiddenAgendaVillain: What does Posey want with Attley? It's not clear. She seems to want to 'help' her somehow, but how? It doesn't become clear for a long time, and until then it becomes clear that she will knock down anything/one she has to in her way. Even her strictly-speaking teammate Sammy doesn't get let in on her plans, but appears to know that when she says 'Don't worry, this will work', it will.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Attley's brother gets home and opens his wardrobe to get changed, a dish full of Mrs. F's food (dead bugs) falls on his head and all over his clothes. Attley, who put them there, laughs and thinks it's hilarious, but when Victor runs crying out of the room suddenly realises that actually quite upset him.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Attley's brother gets home and opens his wardrobe to get changed, a dish full of Mrs. F's food (dead bugs) falls on his head and all over his clothes. Attley, who put them there, laughs and thinks it's hilarious, but when Victor runs crying out of the room suddenly realises that she actually quite upset him.him.
* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: The last thing Donovan Sparc does for Attley and Fletch is give them a flute he found during Sammy's attack earlier and say that 'I promise it will be more useful to you than you think'. [[spoiler: It is in fact a disguised Instruman.]]
* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: The last thing Donovan Sparc does for Attley and Fletch is give them a flute he found during Sammy's attack earlier and say that 'I promise it will be more useful to you than you think'. [[spoiler: It is in fact a disguised Instruman.]]
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-->'''Donovan:''' ''Uh yes, the "secret" organisation. I wouldn't so much call it "secret", though... it just... handles things without the public knowing.''
-->'''Attley:''' ''That's pretty much the definition of secret.''
-->'''Donovan:''' ''Uh yes, the "secret" organisation. I wouldn't so much call it "secret", though... it just... handles things without the public knowing.''
-->'''Attley:''' ''That's pretty much the definition of secret.''
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[[caption-width-right:220:[[Music/GunsNRoses It gets worse here every day.]][[labelnote:Pictured]]Left: Posey, right: Fletch, front: Attley.[[/labelnote]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:220:[[Music/GunsNRoses It gets worse here every day.]][[labelnote:Pictured]]Left: Posey, right: Fletch, front: Attley.Posey. Right: Fletch. Front: Attley. Back: One of Sammy's eyes.[[/labelnote]]]]
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* BerserkButton: For some reason, the demon in the prologue becomes absolutely psychotic at the sight of Attley.
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* BerserkButton: BerserkButton:
** For some reason,the demon in the prologue becomes demons become absolutely psychotic at the sight of Attley.Attley.
** Posey lashes out suddenly at Sammy when he calls Attley 'a lost cause'.
** For some reason,
** Posey lashes out suddenly at Sammy when he calls Attley 'a lost cause'.
* EmotionEater: Scarecrows feed on fear, and if they have to induce it first to get a decent snack then oh well.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The creator of the Scarecrows.
* TheGreatOffscreenWar: Centuries ago, there was a war between humans and sorcerers (in Attley's words, 'The sorcerers invented magic and humans got huffy about that'). In the end humans won and the sorcerers were wiped out [[spoiler: but not before the last one created the Scarecrows]].
* TheGreatOffscreenWar: Centuries ago, there was a war between humans and sorcerers (in Attley's words, 'The sorcerers invented magic and humans got huffy about that'). In the end humans won and the sorcerers were wiped out [[spoiler: but not before the last one created the Scarecrows]].
* HorrifyingTheHorror: When safeguardians get involved, even Scarecrows are scared of their power.
* IKnowYourTrueName: According to Donovan Sparc, if you kill a Scarecrow without identifying it (as he made sure to do with Sammy) they will just reincarnate with a new face and identity. Knowing their true name apparently either stops this or helps you identify the new form.
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* ItsAllMyFault: Attley's fear as she waits in the safe house is that if Posey hurt her family, it would be her fault for Posey coming to find her.
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* ItsAllMyFault: ItsAllMyFault:
** Attley's fear as she waits in the safe house is that if Posey hurt her family, it would be her fault for Posey coming to findher.her.
** Fletch also personally takes responsibility for the death of one of the circus performers that was attacked by Sammy, on the grounds that if they hadn't been there Sammy wouldn't have come after them. Attley manages to salve his conscience at least somewhat, if not actually relieve it.
** Attley's fear as she waits in the safe house is that if Posey hurt her family, it would be her fault for Posey coming to find
** Fletch also personally takes responsibility for the death of one of the circus performers that was attacked by Sammy, on the grounds that if they hadn't been there Sammy wouldn't have come after them. Attley manages to salve his conscience at least somewhat, if not actually relieve it.
* TheMasquerade: Most of Sanity's magical or mystical elements - Scarecrows, secret societies, the fate of the Directors - is hidden from the public, and privy only to select few. The select few in each case do not tend to overlap.
* MundanceUtility: Bee apparently uses magic to pack a whole bed into a small suitcase.
* MysteriousParent: Attley says that she never knew her actual birth parents. She apparently came to the semi-serious conclusion over the years that they must have been high-profile mobsters, and abandoned their daughter for her own safety.
* MysteriousParent: Attley says that she never knew her actual birth parents. She apparently came to the semi-serious conclusion over the years that they must have been high-profile mobsters, and abandoned their daughter for her own safety.
* SecretCircleOfSecrets: A rare heroic example: The Nameless Organisation is concerned with tracking down, monitoring and keeping a lid on the Scarecrows, but they do with maximum secrecy and all information is strictly limited. They're even called 'The Nameless Organisation', after all.
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* TheWatson: Attley's lack of understanding about magic conveniently means that the audience can get filled in on [[MagicAIsMagicA this universe's system of magic]] too.
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* TheWatson: Attley's lack of understanding about magic conveniently means that the audience can get filled in on [[MagicAIsMagicA this universe's system of magic]] too. She also doesn't appear to remember anything about Scarecrows, even though Fletch does - prompting explanations from Mr. Sparc.
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* BrightIsNotGood: Posey dresses in cheery red colours and is often set against a bright bloom lighting background. She's an EldritchAbomination out for nothing more than ruining lives.
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* BrightIsNotGood: Posey dresses in cheery red colours and and, in the early chapters, is often set against a bright bloom lighting background. She's an EldritchAbomination out for nothing more than ruining lives.
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* CharacterEstablishingMoment: Sammy drops into a shop and asks about enlarging his stamp collection. The shopkeeper tells him to wait while he makes a phone call. Sammy responds by throwing the shopkeeper into a shelf and, with a smile on his face, feeds on his fear.
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* BarrierWarrior: Bee's main form of magic when trying to hold off Sammy at the circus.
* TheDeterminator: Sammy Talbot will tear apart the whole of Sparc's Circus if it means he will find Attley. And will not stop even when thrown magically into a wall headfirst.
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* TheVoiceless: Shoo, one of the clowns at the circus. Never speaks, and has a black X on her mouth (although whether this is physical or just make-up is unclear).
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* TheVoiceless: Shoo, one of the clowns at the circus. Never speaks, and has a black X on her mouth (although whether this is physical or actually just make-up is unclear).make-up).
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** [[ChekhovsGunman Except for a three-panel appearance in Chapter 4, where he isn't actually introduced and is skipped past as if nothing happened]].
* EarlyBirdCameo: When Luther the cello Instruman in asked in the FourthWallMailSlot about other Instrumen, Steven the flute is seen silhouetted in the background.
* FourthWallMailSlot: A couple of these have been opened over the comic's lifespan.
* FunnyAnimal: Humans who overuse shapeshifting into animals end up stuck in a form in-between the two, according to Donovan Sparc the now-rhinoceros. And by that point, [[{{Metamorphosis}} they can't go either way from there]]. Up until that point, they [[NotQuiteBackToNormal gradually acquire physical traits of the animal in question]].
* FunnyAnimal: Humans who overuse shapeshifting into animals end up stuck in a form in-between the two, according to Donovan Sparc the now-rhinoceros. And by that point, [[{{Metamorphosis}} they can't go either way from there]]. Up until that point, they [[NotQuiteBackToNormal gradually acquire physical traits of the animal in question]].
* ItsProbablyNothing: Outside the circus, Attley accurately spots that Posey's spycrow has an eye where it definitely shouldn't be and says that it means it must be magical. Unfortunately, she passes it off as a circus trick that got out.
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* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Posey leaves Luther in the alleyway having cut him in half, assuming he's dead. When two fellow Instrumen come by, he sits up and starts talking to them.
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* NoodleIncident: The magic accident that left Bee [[RaymanianLimbs the way she is]].
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Posey leaves Luther in the alleyway having cut him in half, assuming he's dead. When two fellow Instrumen come by, however, he sits up and starts talking to them.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Posey leaves Luther in the alleyway having cut him in half, assuming he's dead. When two fellow Instrumen come by, however, he sits up and starts talking to them.
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* RaymanianLimbs: Bee the circus performer and greeter. Her torso, hands and legs are all detached from each other.
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* TheVoiceless: Shoo, one of the clowns at the circus. Never speaks, and has a black X on her mouth (although whether this is physical or just make-up is unclear).
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* WalkingWasteland: DownplayedTrope - the tightrope wire smokes under Sammy's feet.
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* WeInterruptThisProgram: Just as the curtain opens on Sparc's Circus, the man on the high wire turns out to Sammy Talbot.
-->'''Sammy:''' ''Oh, my apologies for this disturbance. I promise I won't be long. I'm simply looking... for a Miss Attley Grimshaw.''
-->'''Sammy:''' ''Oh, my apologies for this disturbance. I promise I won't be long. I'm simply looking... for a Miss Attley Grimshaw.''
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'''''The Sanity Circus''''' (also known as ''[=SanCirc=]'' for short) is a WebComic by the user Windfilte (or just 'Windy') about Attley Grimshaw, a young girl in the strange, [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace inconspicuously-named]] city of Sanity. For her things become stranger than most when her best friend turns out to not be what she seems, and soon discovers that this may apply to the entire city itself.
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* TheCaretaker: Suzy towards Fletch. When she meets with him, as well as squeeing and celebrating she also fusses about things like whether he's eating enough.
* CastingAShadow: Posey is extremely proficient in darkness magic - when when stabbed and bleeding from the mouth, she still manages to engulf Luther.
* CharacterEstablishingMoment: Sammy drops into a shop and asks about enlarging his stamp collection. The shopkeeper tells him to wait while he makes a phone call. Sammy responds by throwing the shopkeeper into a shelf and, with a smile on his face, feeds on his fear.
* CharacterEstablishingMoment: Sammy drops into a shop and asks about enlarging his stamp collection. The shopkeeper tells him to wait while he makes a phone call. Sammy responds by throwing the shopkeeper into a shelf and, with a smile on his face, feeds on his fear.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Luther, after Posey finally musters up the strength to attack him.
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* ImAHumanitarian: Never actually confirmed, but Posey makes many comments about wanted to eat people.
* MarkOfTheSupernatural: Eyes are commonly used for this. Fletch's aren't the same as each other, and Sammy's have double pupils in each.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Posey leaves Luther in the alleyway having cut him in half, assuming he's dead. When two fellow Instrumen come by, he sits up and starts talking to them.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Posey appears fifteen, and most of the Instrumen look like youngish adults. Regardless, when talking with Posey Luther says 'Oh well! Let's not bring up century-old grudges.'
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Posey appears fifteen, and most of the Instrumen look like youngish adults. Regardless, when talking with Posey Posey, Luther says 'Oh well! Let's not bring up century-old grudges.'
* ThisWasHisTrueForm: Luther returns to the form of his instrument upon dying (see NoOneCouldSurviveThat).
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* TheWatson: Attley's lack of understanding about magic conveniently means that the audience can get filled in on [[MagicAIsMagicA this universe's system of magic]] too.
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* VillainsOutShopping: Sammy Talbot, one of the Scarecrows, is first seen enquiring at a shop about adding to his stamp collection. However, [[YourSoulIsMine he didn't like to be kept waiting]].
* TheWatson: Attley's lack of understanding about magic conveniently means that the audience can get filled in on [[MagicAIsMagicA this universe's system of magic]]too.too.
* YourSoulIsMine: This is implied to be how Scarecrows feed - when Sammy says he wants a snack, he fills the shopkeeper with terror until he's a ruined heap on the floor. Posey gets halfway through doing this with Fletch as well, before Attley interrupts.
* TheWatson: Attley's lack of understanding about magic conveniently means that the audience can get filled in on [[MagicAIsMagicA this universe's system of magic]]
* YourSoulIsMine: This is implied to be how Scarecrows feed - when Sammy says he wants a snack, he fills the shopkeeper with terror until he's a ruined heap on the floor. Posey gets halfway through doing this with Fletch as well, before Attley interrupts.
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* AnimateInanimate: Even in their instrument forms, Instrumen can still move and speak. Steven even emotes to an impressive extent without any real facial features.
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* AnimateInanimate: AnimateInanimateObject: Even in their instrument forms, Instrumen can still move and speak. Steven even emotes to an impressive extent without any real facial features.
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* AnimateInanimate: Even in their instrument forms, Instrumen can still move and speak. Steven even emotes to an impressive extent without any real facial features.
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* NotQuiteBackToNormal: In human form, Fletch still retains features of his seagull form. Namely, a black band across his nose, feather-like white hair and one of his eyes is black with a gold iris while the other is normal. WordOfGod is that these are a direct consequence of using his other form too much, and if he keeps doing it he'll acquire other traits as well.
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* NotQuiteBackToNormal: In human form, Fletch still retains features of his seagull form. Namely, a black band across his nose, feather-like white hair and one of his eyes is black with a gold iris while the other is normal. WordOfGod is that these are a direct consequence of using his other form too much, much (his old friend Suzy comments that she remembers when his hair used to be black), and that if he keeps doing it he'll acquire other traits as well.
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* TouchOfDeath: Posey merely rests her hand on the head of the demon in the prologue, and with one blast of magic she slices straight through it.
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* TouchOfDeath: Posey merely rests her hand on the head of the demon in the prologue, and with one blast of magic she slices straight through it.it.
* TheWatson: Attley's lack of understanding about magic conveniently means that the audience can get filled in on [[MagicAIsMagicA this universe's system of magic]] too.
* TheWatson: Attley's lack of understanding about magic conveniently means that the audience can get filled in on [[MagicAIsMagicA this universe's system of magic]] too.
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* AdultFear: [[http://fav.me/d9n7ptn Additional series artwork]] suggests that each Scarecrow is based on a specific phobia.
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* AdultFear: [[http://fav.me/d9n7ptn Additional series artwork]] suggests that each Scarecrow is based on a specific phobia. WARNING: The comments contain spoilers.
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* AntiMagic: Attley is mysteriously unaffected by Posey's magic, even when everyone else in the room is.
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* AntiMagic: AntiMagic:
** Attley is mysteriously unaffected by Posey's magic, even when everyone else in the roomis.is.
** Fletch remarks later that demons are generally supposed to be resistant to magic, which makes the fact that Posey effortlessly decapitated one even more distressing.
** Attley is mysteriously unaffected by Posey's magic, even when everyone else in the room
** Fletch remarks later that demons are generally supposed to be resistant to magic, which makes the fact that Posey effortlessly decapitated one even more distressing.
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* BrightIsNotGood: Posey dresses is cheery red colours and is often set against a bright bloom lighting background. She's an EldritchAbomination out for nothing more than ruining lives.
* CallingTheOldManOut: When Attley's mother demands to know why she's been out late after she should be for the third time, Attley comes back at protests how unfair it is that she's forcibly kept indoors when all her friends can leave. Her mother simply replies with a sigh and says that they've been over this.
* CallingTheOldManOut: When Attley's mother demands to know why she's been out late after she should be for the third time, Attley comes back at protests how unfair it is that she's forcibly kept indoors when all her friends can leave. Her mother simply replies with a sigh and says that they've been over this.
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* BrightIsNotGood: Posey dresses is in cheery red colours and is often set against a bright bloom lighting background. She's an EldritchAbomination out for nothing more than ruining lives.
* CallingTheOldManOut: When Attley's mother demands to know why she's been out late after she should be for the third time, Attley comes back at protests how unfair it is that she's forcibly kept indoors whenall her friends brother can leave. Her mother simply replies with a sigh and says that they've been over this.
* CallingTheOldManOut: When Attley's mother demands to know why she's been out late after she should be for the third time, Attley comes back at protests how unfair it is that she's forcibly kept indoors when
* CastFromHitPoints: Fletch says that magic in this universe 'requires sacrifice', and that it can be either body, soul or life magic. Humans, though, aren't strong enough to do anything other than 'body' magic, so it must take a serious toll to use the other kinds (unless you have the strength of being, well, not human).
* CreatingLife: Luther states plainly and simply to Posey that 'I was created to protect the humans of this city. And you were created for precisely the opposite.'
** LaserGuidedTykebomb: 'Therefore I can see why you'd think I was created to destroy you. Who knows, maybe I was.'
** LaserGuidedTykebomb: 'Therefore I can see why you'd think I was created to destroy you. Who knows, maybe I was.'
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* DissonantSerenity: Posey is just as calm and smiling having blasted Attley's house with magic as she is when hanging out with her on the street a few hours earlier.
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* DissonantSerenity: DissonantSerenity:
** Posey is just as calm and smiling having blasted Attley's house with magic as she is when hanging out with her on the street a few hoursearlier.earlier.
** Luther can still smile and make casual offhand remarks as he duels with a terrifying monster that could kill him in an instant.
** Posey is just as calm and smiling having blasted Attley's house with magic as she is when hanging out with her on the street a few hours
** Luther can still smile and make casual offhand remarks as he duels with a terrifying monster that could kill him in an instant.
** Luther has these when he looks up at the sight of Attley and Fletch running past.
* HandshakeRefusal: When Attley finally manages to get Fletch's name out of him, she introduces herself in turn and offers her hand. Fletch just sits with his arms folded and asks what she was being chased for.
* HealingFactor: Even as Luther runs Posey straight through on his bow cutlass, he offhandedly remarks 'Oh, calm down. I'm sure you'll survive this'. And sure enough, next time she shows up (a day or so later), she's fine.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: What does Posey want with Attley? It's not clear. She seems to want to 'help' her somehow, but how? It doesn't become clear for a long time, and until then it becomes clear that she will knock down anything/one she has to in her way.
* HandshakeRefusal: When Attley finally manages to get Fletch's name out of him, she introduces herself in turn and offers her hand. Fletch just sits with his arms folded and asks what she was being chased for.
* HealingFactor: Even as Luther runs Posey straight through on his bow cutlass, he offhandedly remarks 'Oh, calm down. I'm sure you'll survive this'. And sure enough, next time she shows up (a day or so later), she's fine.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: What does Posey want with Attley? It's not clear. She seems to want to 'help' her somehow, but how? It doesn't become clear for a long time, and until then it becomes clear that she will knock down anything/one she has to in her way.
* ImHavingSoulPains: ImpliedTrope that this is how 'soul' and 'life' magic work - see CastFromHitPoints.
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* MouthStichedShut: When Scarecrows reveal their true nature, as well as the eye change stitches appear over their mouths. This does not stop them talking, though.
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* MouthStichedShut: MorphicResonance: An Instruman's human form resembles their instrument form. Luther (the cello) has a long brown coat with a long black division down the centre and black embellishments on the sleeves resembling string instrument sound holes. Steven (the flute) has a long silver outfit with many band and buttons for the buttons on the flute. Their WeaponOfChoice resembles their instrumental form too - Luther has a bow cutlass, and Steven carries a shotgun.
* MouthStitchedShut: When Scarecrows reveal their true nature, as well as the eye change stitches appear over their mouths. This does not stop them talking, though.
* MouthStitchedShut: When Scarecrows reveal their true nature, as well as the eye change stitches appear over their mouths. This does not stop them talking, though.
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* OhCrap: Attley's expression when she tries to point the demon accusing her towards the boys that threw a rock at it, only to realise they've scarpered.
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* OhCrap: Attley's expression when she tries to point the demon accusing her towards the boys that threw a rock at it, only to realise they've scarpered. This is the first of many moments of this kind.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Posey appears fifteen, and most of the Instrumen look like youngish adults. Regardless, when talking with Posey Luther says 'Oh well! Let's not bring up century-old grudges.'
* OlderThanTheyLook: Posey appears fifteen, and most of the Instrumen look like youngish adults. Regardless, when talking with Posey Luther says 'Oh well! Let's not bring up century-old grudges.'
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* PrecisionFBomb: Posey's reaction to the safeguarde spirit being released in Attley's house.
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* PrecisionFBomb: PrecisionFStrike: Posey's reaction to the safeguarde spirit being released in Attley's house.
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---> '''Posey:''' (Having blown the wall down and standing there with glowing red eyes, pauses to dust herself down with a smile) ''Oh dear! Sorry about that! I hope I haven't interrupted anything. I just wanted to visit my friend! I hope she's told you all about me. If not, hello! It's very nice to meet-'' (Suddenly snares Attley's mother in magic as she reaches for her safeguarde)
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---> '''Posey:''' (Having blown the wall down and standing there with glowing red eyes, pauses to dust herself down with a smile) ''Oh dear! Sorry about that! I hope I haven't interrupted anything. I just wanted to visit my friend! I hope she's told you all about me. If not, hello! It's very nice to meet-'' (Suddenly snares Attley's mother in magic as she reaches for her safeguarde)hello!''
* {{Animorphism}}: Fletch, who can turn into a white seagull at will.
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* DynamicEntry: When she arrives at Attley's house, Posey first tries knocking. When Attley's mother shouts to not let her in, Posey blows the door in in a giant burst of red magic that throws Attley into the wall.
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** When she arrives at Attley's house, Posey first tries knocking. When Attley's mother shouts to not let her in, Posey blows the door in in a giant burst of red magic that throws Attley into thewall.wall.
** Fletch and Attley first meet when Fletch is in seagull form, flying outside Attley's safehouse. When she steps outside he turns back - and in the process of doing so manages to kick her in the head, knocking her to the ground.
** When she arrives at Attley's house, Posey first tries knocking. When Attley's mother shouts to not let her in, Posey blows the door in in a giant burst of red magic that throws Attley into the
** Fletch and Attley first meet when Fletch is in seagull form, flying outside Attley's safehouse. When she steps outside he turns back - and in the process of doing so manages to kick her in the head, knocking her to the ground.
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* FireForgedFriends: When Fletch and Attley first meet, Fletch literally puts his foot on her face to try and get answers to his question out of her. With time and exposure to joint danger, though, eventually he's putting his life on the line to try and save her.
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* ImAHumanitarian: Never actually confirmed, but Posey makes many comments about wanted to eat people.
* ImpliedDeathThreat:
** Posey does this a lot. Mostly distinguished by a significant EyeColorChange.
*** When she comes to Attley's house, she traps Attley's mother in magic, making her freeze in place. As her mother tries to chock out a warning Posey remarks 'Oh dear, is my spell breaking already? I'm very rusty. Perhaps something a little more permanent will do...' Fortunately she gets distracted by Attley making a run for it, giving her mother enough time to activate her safeguarde.
*** When she tracks Attley down to the safehouse, she remarks 'Getting here was so tiresome, though! (''SlasherSmile'') I'm famished.'
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** Posey does this a lot. Mostly distinguished by a significant EyeColorChange.
*** When she comes to Attley's house, she traps Attley's mother in magic, making her freeze in place. As her mother tries to chock out a warning Posey remarks 'Oh dear, is my spell breaking already? I'm very rusty. Perhaps something a little more permanent will do...' Fortunately she gets distracted by Attley making a run for it, giving her mother enough time to activate her safeguarde.
*** When she tracks Attley down to the safehouse, she remarks 'Getting here was so tiresome, though! (''SlasherSmile'') I'm famished.'
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* ItsAllMyFault: Attley's fear as she waits in the safe house is that if Posey hurt her family, it would be her fault for Posey coming to find her.
* MagicalEye: When Attley's mother activates her safeguard, at The Nameless Organisation a member sits up suddenly with a glowing star symbol in her eye having detected what had happened.
* MagicPants: Thankfully, Fletch's cloths come back when his human form does.
* MismatchedEyes: Fletch's - one is normal, the other is black with a gold iris. This functions as a MarkOfTheSupernatural (see NotQuiteBackToNormal).
* MouthStichedShut: When Scarecrows reveal their true nature, as well as the eye change stitches appear over their mouths. This does not stop them talking, though.
* MagicalEye: When Attley's mother activates her safeguard, at The Nameless Organisation a member sits up suddenly with a glowing star symbol in her eye having detected what had happened.
* MagicPants: Thankfully, Fletch's cloths come back when his human form does.
* MismatchedEyes: Fletch's - one is normal, the other is black with a gold iris. This functions as a MarkOfTheSupernatural (see NotQuiteBackToNormal).
* MouthStichedShut: When Scarecrows reveal their true nature, as well as the eye change stitches appear over their mouths. This does not stop them talking, though.
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* PowerGlows: A lot of magic effects in the comic glow strongly. Safeguarde spirits glow brightly enough to light rooms.
* PrecisionFBomb: Posey's reaction to the safeguarde spirit being released in Attley's house.
* PrecisionFBomb: Posey's reaction to the safeguarde spirit being released in Attley's house.
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* ShadowWalker: Scarecrows can turn into a shadow to move quickly or evade harm.
* SlasherSmile: Posey, often to go with her either scheming or making an ImpliedDeathThreat.
* SuperStrength: Posey throws Attley over her shoulder without even turning her head to try.
* SlasherSmile: Posey, often to go with her either scheming or making an ImpliedDeathThreat.
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* TouchOfDeath: Posey merely rests her hand on the head of the demon in the prologue, and with one blast of magic she slices straight through it.
* UncannyValley: Most of the time, Posey is a sweet teenage girl. Except for when she does things like blast people with huge bolts of magic energy, or [[AxCrazy threaten to kill them to their face]].
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* UncannyValley: Most of the time, Posey is a sweet teenage girl. Except for when she does things like blast people with huge bolts of magic energy, or [[AxCrazy threaten to kill them to their face]].it.
* UncannyValley: Most of the time, Posey is a sweet teenage girl. Except for when she does things like blast people with huge bolts of magic energy, or [[AxCrazy threaten to kill them to their face]].
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** Spycrows have an EyelessFace, but they make for that by having giant staring eyes embedded in their wings or Oculothorax torso.
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** Even the normal ones around Sanity - two of them throw rocks at Attley as she runs down the street in the prologue.
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---> '''Posey:''' (Having blown the wall down and standing there with glowing red eyes) ''Oh dear! Sorry about that! I hope I haven't interrupted anything. I just wanted to visit my friend! I hope she's told you all about me. If not, hello! It's very nice to meet-'' (Snare's Attley's mother in magic as she reaches for her safeguarde)
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** The real kicker is that, given the way demons respond to Attley and her enigmatic place in the secrets within the city, [[RightAllAlong Attley's mother is actually right]].
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So begins the journey under the surface of a city that on the ''surface'' has demons wandering the streets and where teenagers can be grounded for practicing magic in their bedrooms. Underneath the surface lie secret societies, an army of musical instrument-people known as the Instrumen, a strange process performed on every new Director to take office and a terrifying race of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s called the Scarecrows. The circus in the centre of town itself seems to be at least knowledgeable about if not directly connected to all these things, but the further you ask the more layers of secrecy seem to protect things. Hence Attley and a shapeshifter boy she encounters named Fletch Gray, along with many varied allies and acquaintances along the way, try to dig up the answers to their own individual questions out of this mess, while also surviving encounters with the returned Scarecrows and constantly trying to outwit the HiddenAgendaVillain on their tail. A villain who appears in the form of a 15-year-old girl, and whose eyes turn black when angry. Welcome to Sanity, everyone.
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So begins the journey under the surface of a city that on the ''surface'' has demons wandering the streets and where teenagers can be grounded for practicing magic in their bedrooms. [[TheMasquerade Underneath the surface surface]] lie secret societies, an army of musical instrument-people known as the Instrumen, a strange process performed on every new Director to take office and a terrifying race of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s called the Scarecrows. The circus in the centre of town itself seems to be at least knowledgeable about if not directly connected to all these things, but the further you ask the more layers of secrecy seem to protect things. Hence Attley and a shapeshifter boy she encounters named Fletch Gray, along with many varied allies and acquaintances along the way, try to dig up the answers to their own individual questions out of this mess, while also surviving encounters with the returned Scarecrows and constantly trying to outwit the HiddenAgendaVillain on their tail. A villain who appears in the form of a 15-year-old girl, and whose eyes turn black when angry. Welcome to Sanity, everyone.
* AffablyEvil: ImpliedTrope - it [[HiddenAgendaVillain seems]] that Posey is trying to help [[spoiler: Attley re-discover her true nature]], which in her eyes is a genuinely good thing. However, for ''anyone else'', this is definitely bad.
** FauxAffablyEvil: To other people, though, she's just this instead.
---> '''Posey:''' (Having blown the wall down and standing there with glowing red eyes) ''Oh dear! Sorry about that! I hope I haven't interrupted anything. I just wanted to visit my friend! I hope she's told you all about me. If not, hello! It's very nice to meet-'' (Snare's Attley's mother in magic as she reaches for her safeguarde)
** FauxAffablyEvil: To other people, though, she's just this instead.
---> '''Posey:''' (Having blown the wall down and standing there with glowing red eyes) ''Oh dear! Sorry about that! I hope I haven't interrupted anything. I just wanted to visit my friend! I hope she's told you all about me. If not, hello! It's very nice to meet-'' (Snare's Attley's mother in magic as she reaches for her safeguarde)
* AntiMagic: Attley is mysteriously unaffected by Posey's magic, even when everyone else in the room is.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: The Scarecrows. They're not always like this, but at their most evil moments they become distinctly visible.
* CallingTheOldManOut: When Attley's mother demands to know why she's been out late after she should be for the third time, Attley comes back at protests how unfair it is that she's forcibly kept indoors when all her friends can leave. Her mother simply replies with a sigh and says that they've been over this.
* CardCarryingVillain: Posey. Within the first chapter she confesses, quite without prompting, to not being human - and given the way she just demolished a wall for no reason either, her attitude towards people is not really in question either.
* CardCarryingVillain: Posey. Within the first chapter she confesses, quite without prompting, to not being human - and given the way she just demolished a wall for no reason either, her attitude towards people is not really in question either.
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* ChildrenAreCruel: Even the normal ones - two of them throw rocks at Attley as she runs down the street in the prologue.
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* ChildrenAreCruel: TheChessmaster: Posey. Within the first fifteen pages it's implied that she's tugging events along to her own ends, and evidence for this only grows throughout the story.
* ChildrenAreCruel:
** Even the normal ones around Sanity - two of them throw rocks at Attley as she runs down the street in theprologue.prologue.
** Posey. It's [[ImpliedTrope implied]] that she represents/embodies pedophobia - fear of children.
* ChildrenAreCruel:
** Even the normal ones around Sanity - two of them throw rocks at Attley as she runs down the street in the
** Posey. It's [[ImpliedTrope implied]] that she represents/embodies pedophobia - fear of children.
* DissonantSerenity: Posey is just as calm and smiling having blasted Attley's house with magic as she is when hanging out with her on the street a few hours earlier.
* DullSurprise: Although Posey normally [[BatmanGambit does a good job of out-predicting other characters and their reactions]], she apparently expects a bit much of Attley in her attempt at TheReveal early on:
-->'''Posey:''' ''I suppose I should put your suspicions at ease, hm?'' (Turns around with GlowingEyesOfDoom) ''I am not human!''
-->'''Attey:''' ''Suspicious? I wasn't... I wasn't suspicious of that...?''
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-->'''Posey:''' ''But- But surely, that spell you saw me use on the demon! You must know that is far too advanced for a human to use!''
-->'''Attley:''' ''No!''
-->'''Posey:''' ''[[AntiClimax ...Oh]]. Do you know anything about magic?''
* DynamicEntry: When she arrives at Attley's house, Posey first tries knocking. When Attley's mother shouts to not let her in, Posey blows the door in in a giant burst of red magic that throws Attley into the wall.
-->'''Posey:''' ''I suppose I should put your suspicions at ease, hm?'' (Turns around with GlowingEyesOfDoom) ''I am not human!''
-->'''Attey:''' ''Suspicious? I wasn't... I wasn't suspicious of that...?''
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-->'''Posey:''' ''But- But surely, that spell you saw me use on the demon! You must know that is far too advanced for a human to use!''
-->'''Attley:''' ''No!''
-->'''Posey:''' ''[[AntiClimax ...Oh]]. Do you know anything about magic?''
* DynamicEntry: When she arrives at Attley's house, Posey first tries knocking. When Attley's mother shouts to not let her in, Posey blows the door in in a giant burst of red magic that throws Attley into the wall.
* EyeColourChange: The Scarecrow's eyes change from normal when revealing their true nature in a variety of ways.
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* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Posey fulfils a lot classic SubvertedInnocence - it's implied that she was created to be charming and sweet, but underneath all that is something ''worse'' than a demon.
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** Demons appear to havethese.these.
** After Posey blasts down the wall at Attley's house, she opens her eyes to reveal them faintly glowing red.
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** After Posey blasts down the wall at Attley's house, she opens her eyes to reveal them faintly glowing red.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Attley's brother gets home and opens his wardrobe to get changed, a dish full of Mrs. F's food (dead bugs) falls on his head and all over his clothes. Attley, who put them there, laughs and thinks it's hilarious, but when Victor runs crying out of the room suddenly realises that actually quite upset him.
* OverprotectiveDad: Attley's mother insists that Attley spends as much time inside, preferably in her room, as possible, simply because she doesn't know what else to do to keep her safe. Attley doesn't see why she needs protecting.
** The real kicker is that, given the way demons respond to Attley and her enigmatic place in the secrets within the city, [[RightAllAlong Attley's mother is actually right]].
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* UncannyValley: Most of the time, Posey is a sweet teenage girl. Except for when she does things like blast people with huge bolts of magic energy, or [[AxCrazy threaten to kill them to their face]].
* UncannyValley: Most of the time, Posey is a sweet teenage girl. Except for when she does things like blast people with huge bolts of magic energy, or [[AxCrazy threaten to kill them to their face]].
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* CreepyChild: Posey Morris. Sweet, smiling, cheerful - but in her very first appearance, she kills a demon with a single touch and then brushes it off as if it never happened. And that's just the start...
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* NightmareFuel:
** Sammy Talbot's eyes. Firstly, they extend out of his skull. Sometimes they appear to drip down his face to do so. They then swell and extend, forming a giant mouth with eyes on the inside and outside of it. These can eat people whole - or worse.
** Demons may be small fry in this story compared to the Scarecrows, but the terrifying skeletal beast that leaks black fluid from its mouth and has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily certainly makes a strong impression.
* Spycrows, with their seemingly goo-like bodies, eyeless faces and giant staring eyes embedded in places there definitely shouldn't be eyes on a normal bird.
* OddGirl: Posey Morris. Sweet, smiling, cheerful - but in her very first appearance, she kills a demon with a single touch and then brushes it off as if it never happened. And that's just the start...
** Sammy Talbot's eyes. Firstly, they extend out of his skull. Sometimes they appear to drip down his face to do so. They then swell and extend, forming a giant mouth with eyes on the inside and outside of it. These can eat people whole - or worse.
** Demons may be small fry in this story compared to the Scarecrows, but the terrifying skeletal beast that leaks black fluid from its mouth and has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily certainly makes a strong impression.
* Spycrows, with their seemingly goo-like bodies, eyeless faces and giant staring eyes embedded in places there definitely shouldn't be eyes on a normal bird.
* OddGirl: Posey Morris. Sweet, smiling, cheerful - but in her very first appearance, she kills a demon with a single touch and then brushes it off as if it never happened. And that's just the start...
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* ChekhovsMIA: Nimbus Owens, the next in line to become Director. He is missing at the very start of the story - it takes nine chapters for him to appear in person.
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* BadBlackBarf: Either this or a combination of BlackBlood and continual BleedingFromTheMouth, but the demon that attacks Attley appears to leak some sort of black fluid in copious volumes once it flips into homicidal fury.
* BeserkButton: For some reason, the demon in the prologue becomes absolutely psychotic at the sight of Attley.
* BeserkButton: For some reason, the demon in the prologue becomes absolutely psychotic at the sight of Attley.
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* BadBlackBarf: Either this or a combination of BlackBlood and continual BleedingFromTheMouth, BloodFromTheMouth, but the demon that attacks Attley appears to leak some sort of black fluid in copious volumes once it flips into homicidal fury.
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'''''The Sanity Circus''''' (also known as ''[=SanCirc=]'' for short) is a WebComic by the user Windfilte (or just 'Windy') about Attley Grimshaw, a young girl in the strange, [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace inconspicuously-named]] city of Sanity. For her things become stranger than most when her best friend turns out to not be what she seems, and soon discovers that this may apply to the entire city itself.
So begins the journey under the surface of a city that on the ''surface'' has demons wandering the streets and where teenagers can be grounded for practicing magic in their bedrooms. Underneath the surface lie secret societies, an army of musical instrument-people known as the Instrumen, a strange process performed on every new Director to take office and a terrifying race of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s called the Scarecrows. The circus in the centre of town itself seems to be at least knowledgeable about if not directly connected to all these things, but the further you ask the more layers of secrecy seem to protect things. Hence Attley and a shapeshifter boy she encounters named Fletch Gray, along with many varied allies and acquaintances along the way, try to dig up the answers to their own individual questions out of this mess, while also surviving encounters with the returned Scarecrows and constantly trying to outwit the HiddenAgendaVillain on their tail. A villain who appears in the form of a 15-year-old girl, and whose eyes turn black when angry. Welcome to Sanity, everyone.
The comic is hosted on ''[[http://www.ssp-comics.com/series/sancirc SSP Comics]]'' and ''Tapastic'', although the SSP hub is always one update ahead. The first ten chapters have also been posted to the artist's DeviantArt account. The comic updates on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Note that the author's content recommendation is 'Teen+'.
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!!''The Sanity Circus'' contains examples of:
* AdultFear: [[http://fav.me/d9n7ptn Additional series artwork]] suggests that each Scarecrow is based on a specific phobia.
* AltText: The author supplies a comment at the bottom of each strip, usually something humourous responding something that happened or was said in one of panels.
* BadBlackBarf: Either this or a combination of BlackBlood and continual BleedingFromTheMouth, but the demon that attacks Attley appears to leak some sort of black fluid in copious volumes once it flips into homicidal fury.
* BeserkButton: For some reason, the demon in the prologue becomes absolutely psychotic at the sight of Attley.
* BlackCloak: The demons seen around Sanity appear to wear these. Underneath them is a disturbingly bony figure.
* BoomHeadshot: One of the very first panels of the comic shows the assassination of the previous Director.
* BrightIsNotGood: Posey dresses is cheery red colours and is often set against a bright bloom lighting background. She's an EldritchAbomination out for nothing more than ruining lives.
* ChekhovsMIA: Nimbus Owens, the next in line to become Director. He is missing at the very start of the story - it takes nine chapters for him to appear in person.
* ChildrenAreCruel: Even the normal ones - two of them throw rocks at Attley as she runs down the street in the prologue.
* CoolPet: Attley has a pet spider. She keeps her in her hat.
* DoubleMeaning: When Attley says that Posey could maybe teach her magic sometime, Posey smiles and says "I'd love to!". On one level, Posey is cheerfully agreeing to Attley's request and helping her out - on another, [[spoiler: Posey is TheCorruptor and wants Attley to tap into her powers as a Scarecrow.]]
* EnemyRisingBehind: The demon that comes out of the alleyway in the prologue that Attley doesn't notice until it has its hand on her shoulder.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Early in the prologue, a boy throws a rock at Attley as she runs down the street. She marches up to him and demands he apologise, but when he doesn't she appears to let him go, putting her hand on his head and saying that it's a bit sad he hasn't grown out of it yet. As she does so, her pet spider Mrs. F crawls out of her sleeve and onto his head. One freak out later, Attley whips Mrs. F back, puts her in her hat and coldly say 'Apology accepted'. She's not cruel, but she won't take being messed about.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere:
** Sammy's eyes, that ''extend out of his skull''.
** Spycrows have an EyelessFace, but they make for that by having giant staring eyes embedded in their wings or Oculothorax torso.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Posey fulfils a lot classic SubvertedInnocence - it's implied that she was created to be charming and sweet, but underneath all that is something ''worse'' than a demon.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Having just saved Attley's life and cheerfully saying that she'd love to teach Attley magic sometime, Posey walks away from Attley's house. As she does, a Spycrow merges into her hand and she mutters 'Well, that didn't exactly go to plan...'
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Demons appear to have these.
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Given the way it is, calling the city 'Sanity' is almost like a form of SuspiciouslySpecificDenial.
* MundaneFantastic: Established very early on, with a teenager on the street casually asking his friend if he's had any chance to do any spells lately. And then when Posey saves Attley from being attacked by a homicidal demon shortly after, her only comment is 'Oh Attley, you should know better than to upset demons!'
* NightmareFuel:
** Sammy Talbot's eyes. Firstly, they extend out of his skull. Sometimes they appear to drip down his face to do so. They then swell and extend, forming a giant mouth with eyes on the inside and outside of it. These can eat people whole - or worse.
** Demons may be small fry in this story compared to the Scarecrows, but the terrifying skeletal beast that leaks black fluid from its mouth and has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily certainly makes a strong impression.
* Spycrows, with their seemingly goo-like bodies, eyeless faces and giant staring eyes embedded in places there definitely shouldn't be eyes on a normal bird.
* OddGirl: Posey Morris. Sweet, smiling, cheerful - but in her very first appearance, she kills a demon with a single touch and then brushes it off as if it never happened. And that's just the start...
* OhCrap: Attley's expression when she tries to point the demon accusing her towards the boys that threw a rock at it, only to realise they've scarpered.
* OneLetterName: Mrs. F, Attley's pet spider.
* PaintingTheMedium: Dark creatures (demons, Scarecrows etc.) have black speech bubbles with white text.
* RedOniBlueOni: Attley and Fletch. Attley is more relaxed and active, while Fletch is quiet in speech and rushes into things far less readily.
* TouchOfDeath: Posey merely rests her hand on the head of the demon in the prologue, and with one blast of magic she slices straight through it.
So begins the journey under the surface of a city that on the ''surface'' has demons wandering the streets and where teenagers can be grounded for practicing magic in their bedrooms. Underneath the surface lie secret societies, an army of musical instrument-people known as the Instrumen, a strange process performed on every new Director to take office and a terrifying race of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s called the Scarecrows. The circus in the centre of town itself seems to be at least knowledgeable about if not directly connected to all these things, but the further you ask the more layers of secrecy seem to protect things. Hence Attley and a shapeshifter boy she encounters named Fletch Gray, along with many varied allies and acquaintances along the way, try to dig up the answers to their own individual questions out of this mess, while also surviving encounters with the returned Scarecrows and constantly trying to outwit the HiddenAgendaVillain on their tail. A villain who appears in the form of a 15-year-old girl, and whose eyes turn black when angry. Welcome to Sanity, everyone.
The comic is hosted on ''[[http://www.ssp-comics.com/series/sancirc SSP Comics]]'' and ''Tapastic'', although the SSP hub is always one update ahead. The first ten chapters have also been posted to the artist's DeviantArt account. The comic updates on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Note that the author's content recommendation is 'Teen+'.
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!!''The Sanity Circus'' contains examples of:
* AdultFear: [[http://fav.me/d9n7ptn Additional series artwork]] suggests that each Scarecrow is based on a specific phobia.
* AltText: The author supplies a comment at the bottom of each strip, usually something humourous responding something that happened or was said in one of panels.
* BadBlackBarf: Either this or a combination of BlackBlood and continual BleedingFromTheMouth, but the demon that attacks Attley appears to leak some sort of black fluid in copious volumes once it flips into homicidal fury.
* BeserkButton: For some reason, the demon in the prologue becomes absolutely psychotic at the sight of Attley.
* BlackCloak: The demons seen around Sanity appear to wear these. Underneath them is a disturbingly bony figure.
* BoomHeadshot: One of the very first panels of the comic shows the assassination of the previous Director.
* BrightIsNotGood: Posey dresses is cheery red colours and is often set against a bright bloom lighting background. She's an EldritchAbomination out for nothing more than ruining lives.
* ChekhovsMIA: Nimbus Owens, the next in line to become Director. He is missing at the very start of the story - it takes nine chapters for him to appear in person.
* ChildrenAreCruel: Even the normal ones - two of them throw rocks at Attley as she runs down the street in the prologue.
* CoolPet: Attley has a pet spider. She keeps her in her hat.
* DoubleMeaning: When Attley says that Posey could maybe teach her magic sometime, Posey smiles and says "I'd love to!". On one level, Posey is cheerfully agreeing to Attley's request and helping her out - on another, [[spoiler: Posey is TheCorruptor and wants Attley to tap into her powers as a Scarecrow.]]
* EnemyRisingBehind: The demon that comes out of the alleyway in the prologue that Attley doesn't notice until it has its hand on her shoulder.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Early in the prologue, a boy throws a rock at Attley as she runs down the street. She marches up to him and demands he apologise, but when he doesn't she appears to let him go, putting her hand on his head and saying that it's a bit sad he hasn't grown out of it yet. As she does so, her pet spider Mrs. F crawls out of her sleeve and onto his head. One freak out later, Attley whips Mrs. F back, puts her in her hat and coldly say 'Apology accepted'. She's not cruel, but she won't take being messed about.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere:
** Sammy's eyes, that ''extend out of his skull''.
** Spycrows have an EyelessFace, but they make for that by having giant staring eyes embedded in their wings or Oculothorax torso.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Posey fulfils a lot classic SubvertedInnocence - it's implied that she was created to be charming and sweet, but underneath all that is something ''worse'' than a demon.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Having just saved Attley's life and cheerfully saying that she'd love to teach Attley magic sometime, Posey walks away from Attley's house. As she does, a Spycrow merges into her hand and she mutters 'Well, that didn't exactly go to plan...'
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Demons appear to have these.
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Given the way it is, calling the city 'Sanity' is almost like a form of SuspiciouslySpecificDenial.
* MundaneFantastic: Established very early on, with a teenager on the street casually asking his friend if he's had any chance to do any spells lately. And then when Posey saves Attley from being attacked by a homicidal demon shortly after, her only comment is 'Oh Attley, you should know better than to upset demons!'
* NightmareFuel:
** Sammy Talbot's eyes. Firstly, they extend out of his skull. Sometimes they appear to drip down his face to do so. They then swell and extend, forming a giant mouth with eyes on the inside and outside of it. These can eat people whole - or worse.
** Demons may be small fry in this story compared to the Scarecrows, but the terrifying skeletal beast that leaks black fluid from its mouth and has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily certainly makes a strong impression.
* Spycrows, with their seemingly goo-like bodies, eyeless faces and giant staring eyes embedded in places there definitely shouldn't be eyes on a normal bird.
* OddGirl: Posey Morris. Sweet, smiling, cheerful - but in her very first appearance, she kills a demon with a single touch and then brushes it off as if it never happened. And that's just the start...
* OhCrap: Attley's expression when she tries to point the demon accusing her towards the boys that threw a rock at it, only to realise they've scarpered.
* OneLetterName: Mrs. F, Attley's pet spider.
* PaintingTheMedium: Dark creatures (demons, Scarecrows etc.) have black speech bubbles with white text.
* RedOniBlueOni: Attley and Fletch. Attley is more relaxed and active, while Fletch is quiet in speech and rushes into things far less readily.
* TouchOfDeath: Posey merely rests her hand on the head of the demon in the prologue, and with one blast of magic she slices straight through it.
