Timothy the Clown, every citizen of Welsterven especially, those who lived in the Plaza area knew who he was, he is a street comedian who entertains people at day time in the Plaza because he wore a funny mask everyone calls him Timothy the clown.
Welsterven got split into three areas, the royal area, the inner area and the outer area. Jerrim’s farm and many villages is in the outer area, while the Plaza is the name of the inner-city area of Welsterven, with many shop buildings, two story victorian style buildings, the water fountain is at the center of Plaza area and there is a tower which served as a big clock. The Church is on the north and the Stella Ethereal academy is on the west. People crowded in the Plaza, the water fountain for many things, to do shopping, to unwind, to work. Today people seem to be unwinding by watching Timothy’s performance.
“My lady, I think there is something on your ear, hold on a sec.”
Timothy’s hand swiftly grabs something on the lady's right ear, and to everyone's surprise a red rose comes out of nowhere from his hand, there is no trick nor string on his hands as he shows it to everyone, the crowd clap their hands and get amazed.
“Woah, how did he do that?!”
“Amazing!”
Timothy silenced everyone with his finger, and then he said something with enthusiasm.
“Everyone, I’ll perform something special that I’ve never done before!, the theme is what you wish to see? you just need to think what you wish to see, then…voila, you will see it, I’ll make it happen.”
Silence greets Timothy, but it seems the crowd were thinking of what they wish to see for Timothy's performance. A couple of minutes later someone shouted,
“I know, how about rain of gold!” a man suggests his idea, his wish to Timothy, the crowd burst into laughter hearing the man's wish.
But Timothy just nodded his head and said. “Anything else?”
The crowd fell into silence once again, they keep murmuring what they wish to see for Timothy’s performance, everyone didn’t notice a young lady sitting and watching from the distance on the bench near water fountain, the young lady wore a black and red academy uniform, it contrast to her appearance, she is a white young lady from head to toe, she is an albino, her name is Silvie, currently sitting with sad and lonely expression even though there are a lot of people here. When all of the sudden, the people look at her, everyone is looking at her because Timothy pointed his finger at her.
“Because everyone took a long time, then, how about the lovely young lady over there!”
Silvie gets surprised, she waves her hand and smiles, saying that she didn’t wish for anything.
“E-eh n-no I am fine with what you will show to me Mr. Clown.”
Everyone got confused, no one ever said that, people from Welsterven will be overjoyed when Timothy said that, it’s like a celebrity asking for your signature.
“I think she is new here, hehehe, well Mr. Clown how about me?” said a fat man with beard, sitting in front of the restaurant outdoor table, then a drool slowly cascaded down from his mouth while his eyes seemed to roll upward, he said. “A naked woman!! I wish to see that, can you do it Mr. Clown? hehehe.”
All the ladies glare at the fat man for his own perverted wish, and silently curse him. While the man, well, they all suddenly turned on their neuron activation after they heard the fat man's honest wish, strangely all the man immediately shared the same wish as the fat man’s wish judging by their weird smile and glancing at each other.
Timothy nods his head once more, and he gathers everyone's attention by raising his pointy finger.
“Alright, I think everyone now knows the rules, now everyone, please close your eyes and tightly clench your fist. When I count to three, immediately open your eyes, you will see what you wish to see.”
Everyone gets excited, they closed their eyes the moment Timothy stopped speaking, Silvie also closed her eyes, she went along with the flow of the crowd.
“3…2…1… open your eyes!.”
Silvie opens her eyes slowly, she widens her eyes because she sees a vast green meadow, with clear blue sky, the gentle wind brushes her hair, Silvie became speechless while looking around at her surroundings, and then she heard a voice, a familiar voice, a voice of someone who always there for her.
“Silvie, why are you standing there like a scarecrow? come here, mom and dad have just finished unpacking the lunch box, we are here to picnic aren’t we?”
Silvie flinches when she hears that, there is no mistaking it, she knows exactly whose voice is this. She turned her body and she saw it, her lips trembling as her eyes started to get watery,
“B-brother Conny??” Silvie held her tears, her under eyes reddened up. She saw her family sitting on picnic cloth and waving at her while preparing the food, her brother looked at her and approached her, it was almost like… that tragedy didn’t happen at all, that worst night.
“Ah, here we go again, didn’t you promise your brother to become a hero? listen Silvie, a hero didn’t shed a tear, a hero-AHH! Dad!!, that’s my sandwich.” Conny saw his dad eating the sandwich unintentionally when he was trying to come up with some bullshit to stop Silvie from crying, his dad's action makes Conny sad like a little puppy, while his dad keeps apologizing to him.
Silvie giggles when she saw that, all of this feels peaceful and happy, she really wants to spend time in here with them, she really missed them, she hoped that the time would stop at this moment, when suddenly her vision starts distorting, and the world around her turn into pitch- black darkness.
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“Did you see what you wish to see? Young lady?”
A voice greets Silvie, and she is back to the Plaza, an inner-city area with many shop buildings, two story Victorian style buildings, the water fountain as the center of the Plaza and the tower which served as a big clock, again.
It was Timothy who sits beside Silvie on the bench, Silvie looks at everyone in front of her with their eyes still closed, they look like they are having a dream, all 20 people including the fat man with beard, who is busy groping a watermelon on the watermelon stall. Silvie turns her head to look at Timothy’s clown mask, her face darkens as her eyes suddenly look lost and soulless.
“You are not Timothy the clown, mister.” said Silvie with a cold voice, threatening Timothy, or the man beside Silvie who assumed to be Timothy, he widens his eyes when he heard Silvie’s remarks, with a short chuckle he slowly opens his mask and Silvie saw his face, long white hair, face full of wrinkles, clear blue-sky eyes, and a gentle smile appear on his lips.
“Hohoho, I personally came here to see and humor you a bit, yet it wasn't effective huh? Very well, it seems… I need to go, but before that, here, I have a gift for you, we will meet again, Silvie, the goddess incarnation of this era.” The man handed over a bucket of flowers, it was full of Vanilla flowers, he mysteriously disappeared when Silvie focused on the flowers, after that everyone started to awoke.
“Huh?... aww man I finally have unlimited gold and witness the legendary rains of gold…and now it’s over?”
“No!!!…. I still wish to see your curves, my dream lady.”
Everyone seemed to be displeased that it was too fast, then they saw Timothy the clown arrives with his usual funny mask and bubbly energy.
“Hello everyone! Wow I didn’t expect you all waiting for me, hehe wait-wait and… *tada!” Timothy conjured his top hat from his right hand, and then a flock of pigeons came out from that top hat, but everyone didn’t show their enthusiasm, they didn’t even clap.
“Hey Mr. Clown, I still wish to see rain of gold!!”
“Yeah!! And my dream lady needs to show her curves to me more.”
Strangely, everyone didn’t bother with the fat man word this time, they all band together to demand Timothy for that performance again.
“H-huh? Wish to see? Guys I’m a street comedian not a jinni, what are you all talking about all of the sudden?” Timothy tilt his head and scratch his hair, he just arrived here yet the people already demanded something he never did before.
“Cut the crap, if you’re not performing that, we will throw stuff at you. Boo.” The crowd boos the poor Timothy, they start throwing him with fruits and trash.
“*Uwahh*, I’m leaving, I’m leaving.” Timothy dodge all the throwable objects people threw, not having many options, Timothy fled from the crowd. Silvie watches all of that and she can’t help but pity the real Timothy the clown.
“Silvie! Brat, where the hell is she going?” an old man with casual clothes shouting Silvie’s name, it was none other than Herlan Reawed. He is back from the church after doing an important task, or something like that.
“Sir Herlan!” Silvie raises her right hand then waving at the old man with casual clothes, a smile appears on her lips.
After that terrible night, Herlan became Silvie's guardian, he gave Silvie a room to sleep, clothes to wear, food to eat. The first week was unbearable for Silvie, she kept having a dream of her mom, dad, brother dying in a single night leaving her alone, traumas and nightmare haunts her every day. If it’s not because of Herlan’s persistence of encouragement towards Silvie, she probably lost her will to live. Herlan gave Silvie a rapier sword and told her to practice with it and Herlan said to her.
“If you dwell on the past their soul can’t rest properly, so keep living and prove to them that you are strong, strong enough so you can save someone like them and be a hero.”
After hearing that, it seems as if that word triggered something inside Silvie, the next day Silvie starts practicing and studying from morning to night, like she became possessed from something, then she enrolls in Stella Ethereal academy after sparring with Herlan, she became the number one student after passing her written test and combat practical test, it’s all thanks to Herlan guidance, Silvie thought that Herlan gradually feels like he is her long-lost grandpa or some sort.
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“Finally found you brat, huh? Did you watch Timothy the weirdo again? Herlan pat Silvie’s head multiple times which made Silvie pouting at him, Herlan looks at the flower bouquet at Silvie’s hand, Herlan also notices the crowd looks disappointed like they gather here for nothing.
“It’s Timothy the clown sir, he is a funny guy like my bro-…” Silvie became silent and lowered her head, Herlan sighed then he bought a skewer from the food stall near the water fountain.
“*Sigh*, here kid, food, it helps you clear your bad mood.” Herlan hand over a meat skewer to Silvie, she grabs it and bite the meat skewer slowly, tears gradually escape from her eyes, Silvie eats the skewer while crying because she remembers her brother who always play and joke around trying to make her laugh, that is also why she loves to watch timothy the clown, he reminds her of her deceased brother, Conny.
“If you're done eating your food, remember to come home okay?... I still have business in the royal area, so I'll be home before dinner.”
“…Yeah, I understand, sir and thank you for the skewer, it really made me feel better.”
Herlan wave his hand and leave Silvie alone sitting on the bench, as he gradually became distant and disappeared among the crowds, she looks at Herlan’s back until she can’t see it anymore, shifting her focus to the tower which served as big clock, she relaxed her head on the bench, she still wanted to watch the plaza lively scenery a little bit more.
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In the intersection of some alley in Plaza, inner-city area past the water fountain, Timothy the clown catches his breath and looks around nervously hoping that people didn’t chase him all the way here.
“*Huff*… I’m safe… *phew*, why is everyone behaving like that? I just arrived and they want to see me perform what I wish to see, am I jinni or something? *sigh*.”
-*grumble*.
Timothy's stomach makes a loud noise, then he sits down on the stair door of the people's house while touching his stomach.
“*Urgh*… I’m starving… Usually, I already eat my lunch at this time of the day, but the children from the orphanage didn’t have any pocket money on them, so I gave them my money, hehe, they are all talented children, one of them even got accepted to Stella Ethereal academy unlike me… I didn’t have any talents.”
Timothy makes a depressed laugh as he removed his funny mask, revealing his brown chestnut short wavy hair, a tan-skinned and a face so skinny that you can see the bone lines, his black eyes looks hollow, and his dried-up lips, he looks at the funny mask then he bitterly smiled, remembering his whole life.
Timothy is an orphan from an orphanage, his parents abandoned him in front of the orphanage, he didn’t even get to see their face nor know their names, the orphanage staff told him that he is an unwanted child. His parents committed some debauchery and he is the result, but it didn’t make him give up on life, because he had small family to return, he had many siblings he need to look after even though they are not blood related, slowly but surely he loved his life in the orphanage, it wasn’t perfect, but it was pleasant.
Now at 18 years old, Timothy is scrapping for some penny by doing gigs and part-times for his little family at the orphanage. He always had a knack to make people laugh, so he tried to do some tricks and funny acts in front of crowd, he crafted his own mask and before he knew it, people start calling him Timothy, Timothy the clown, they give him a name, even if that name only to ridicule him, its fine, because he felt that at least people will remember him, remember his existence, and that is enough.
-*Creak*.
The wooden door opens up and a middle-aged woman looks at Timothy who sits in her front-door stair, her face contorts into anger then she shouts at Timothy who looks like a beggar.
“LAZY CROOKS!!, HUH? I THOUGHT YOU'RE THE DELIVERY MAN, MY SUGAR BLOOD, *AGHHH* I’M CRAVING FOR SWEET CANDY RIGHT NOW!!, GET OUT OF MY SIGHTS, YOU BEGGAR BASTARD!”
The middle-aged woman keeps hitting Timothy with a broom, while Timothy takes the beating because he is too tired and hungry to even dodge the woman's relentless attack.
“Aw-aw-aw aye madam I got it, I got it I’m leaving okay, sorry-sorry, *auch*… I said sorry.”
Timothy runs away from the mad middle-aged woman, she even throws a shoe to timothy, thank god she missed, or else Timothy would pass out if it hits his head.
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After running quite far from the mad middle-aged woman, Timothy sat down at the bench near the water fountain to catch his breath.
“Huh? somehow I ended up coming back to the Plaza again… *phew*, it looks like there are few people left now, *jeez*, what’s wrong with that lady, she’s fiercer than a lion, did she have her period or what?.”
“Hello.”
“Ah, Hello.”
Timothy got too preoccupied to his rambling that he failed to notice that a young lady in black and red academy uniform sitting beside him, holding a skewer, her white appearance from head to toe and an odd feeling she exclude made Timothy swiftly turns his head to look at her with widened eyes and he jumps up from his seat, it looks quite comical.
“AAAHH!!… a ghost!!…wait, it’s afternoon there is no way, a ghost would appear all of the sudden.”
“I’m a person, this is just my skin color, I’m sorry if I scare you.”
The white young lady lowers her head, she seems to be apologizing for scaring Timothy, this sudden act makes Timothy uncomfortable, throughout his life people always laugh at him, this is the first time someone apologizes to him.
“Y-you don’t need to do that, it’s my fault for not checking the bench first, hahaha… oh gosh, I’m so clumsy.”
The young lady smiled at Timothy and gestured to him that it’s fine, and even told Timothy she likes some company rather than being alone sitting on the bench.
“My name’s Silvie."
“Ah my name is- *grumble*."
Before Timothy introduced himself, his stomach made a loud noise. He felt embarrassed by that, so he lost a word to say to Silvie.
“*Um*… you can eat this, I'm already full.”
Silvie hands over the skewer, it had 3 meats and one vegetable, Silvie just ate one meat earlier. Timothy looks at the skewer, it looks appetizing, but he swallows his saliva, he proposes a better idea, he didn’t want his first impression of himself to be a beggar begging for food in Silvie’s mind, he has dignity to protect.
“Oh *umm*… wait I have a better idea, I will show you something, and you will give me that skewer deal?”
“Okay…sure, I guess.”
Timothy enthusiastically took something in his pocket, it was a pair of socks, black and white. Then he wears the socks on both his hands, he wants to perform a show for Silvie, a socks puppet show, Timothy clears his throat and he begins his socks puppet show.
“*Ahem*… once upon a time, there lived a hero, he is the mightiest and the strongest hero, monsters, devils, abomination beings all got cowered in fears, because one sweep of his sword, the sky will tear apart, the mountain will split, and the ocean will get sliced into two tides…his name is… Conny.”
“*Pffft*…I’m sorry that’s…*pffft*, indeed a cool name.” Silvie almost burst into laughter when she heard that spontaneous name Timothy came up with, that’s right, her brother’s name sounds funny to her, that’s also why she is always happy playing with him. But she tries so hard to put up a flat expression.
“I know right! Unfortunately, the hero, Conny, loses his touch, his power, it all because of one individual. The devil, the evilest being, his name is Jerrim.”
“Boo Jerrim is bad, Jerrim is evil.” That name sounds familiar to Silvie, she always hated that name, Jerrim, he put her and her family into slavery. Silvie boos and she even stuck her tongue out, her hands making a thumbs down gesture.
“But, rest assured, for Conny, he is the smartest and the bravest person ever lived, he foiled all Jerrim’s plan. He even helps others who need him the most, he becomes a symbol of hope and justice, he is also able to make others laugh because he is funny, isn’t that right Conny?.”
Timothy makes some gesture on his white shocks, like it saying that it’s Conny, Silvie smiled at that little gesture, she clapped her hands and cheerfully said. “Hehe, hooray for the hero Conny!”
“Unfortunately, there is always an up and down in life, Conny’s life was always full of it, he lost the people he loved the most, and he almost gave up on life, because it’s…it’s so hard to be a human. Meanwhile Jerrim, he is a devil, he didn’t have emotion, he didn’t have kindness, he is someone who got drunk with power and authority.”
Silvie became silent and she lowered her head for a moment, Timothy words hit deeps for Silvie, then Timothy continued. “Until… finally, that fated day came, Conny confronted Jerrim on their last battle in Jerrim’s palace, an intense and bloody battle occurred, with his tricks and intelligence Conny emerged as the victor, Jerrim was enraged and at his final moment he shouts at Conny, HOW DID YOU DO IT?, YOU’RE WEAKER THAN ME, IT SHOULDN’T BE HAPPENING, I REFUSED TO ACCEPT IT!!.”
“*Gulp*… and finally what happens next?” Silvie swallowed her saliva, she can’t wait for the finale, she waits eagerly.
Timothy looked at Silvie’s eyes then he said, while raising his hand that wore white socks. “You lose to me because you’re selfish. I won because I learned how to be kind and appreciate what I have. If you can do that, not even god can defeat you, humans become perfect the moment they try to do good deeds. Their whole soul and existence became pristine and pure… like a person in front of me.”
Timothy smiles brightly at Silvie, time seems to stop when Silvie witnesses that smile, especially the sun that intentionally shines at Timothy’s face. Silvie widens her eyes and then she finally notices that Timothy's sock puppet shows ends, she giggles, then smiles and she says.
“Hehehe… thank you… that was a fantastic show, here as promised, your skewer.”
“I’m glad you enjoyed the show, if you aren’t, I’m gonna be starving today, hehe.”
Timothy looks at the appetizing skewer on his hand then he eats it in an instant, he burps, then he looks at the sky, he feels alive again after he eats a delicious meal, that was the best meal he ever had.
“Ah, I almost forgot, I’m Timothy, Timothy the clown, nice to meet you.”
“Likewise.”
“I noticed you wore an academy uniform; can I assume, you’re from Stella Ethereal academy?”
“Yeah, yesterday I took an entrance exam and here I am, but the academy hasn't started yet so I just spend my time exploring the Plaza inner-city area until I need to go to live at the dorm, maybe tomorrow.”
“Heh, must be nice to get accepted, oh by the way if you somehow ended up becoming a roommate at the dorm with someone named Velvet, please be nice to her, she is my cute sister Afterall, here I have her photo, let me show you.”
Timothy showed a photo of a little girl with red velvet hair and a young boy with brown chestnut hair, the little girl is on the top of the young boy's head smiling happily holding a teddy bear, and the young boy smiling too holding a tiny wooden carving of himself.
“It’s a nice picture, thank you for showing me this.”
“Hahaha, it’s alright, I’m more than happy to show you this, here take this picture and show her this, I think you two will become best-friends.”
Silvie took the picture sheet from Timothy’s hand, she looked at the picture again and asked. “You two seem happy, what makes you two looks like that?.”
“Oh, it was Velvet’s 7-year birthday, I won a teddy bear at the toy store as a prize from the claw machine, I decided to give it to Velvet as birthday present, but to my surprise She also prepared a gift for me, that tiny wooden carving is her works, the orphanage headmaster took a picture of that moment and I get it, apparently Velvet got embarrassed by that picture, I still bring it to me as a good fortune and to lift my spirit if I ever feel down, here is the tiny wooden carving she made.”
Timothy showed Silvie a tiny wooden carving, it seems to look like a tiny version of Timothy, it’s so cute that’s what Silvie thought.
“*Whoops*, look at the sun, it’s evening already, well then, Silvie, I need to return to my home, I had a pleasant time converse with you, thank you and be careful on your way home, you can keep that picture as thank you gift, for the skewer that you gave me earlier.”
Silvie waves her hand to Timothy as he goes away into one of the alleys. Silvie looks at the picture again, she feels melancholic.
“It’s a shame, I didn’t have a picture of me, dad, mom and brother Conny… I’m afraid I’ll forget all of your face, this thing called picture is interesting, I should ask Sir Herlan about this at Dinner.”
Finally, Silvie gets up from the bench and heads into the direction of the Church, to Herlan Rewead’s house located not far from the Church.