Editing Circus (section)

==Personality==
Circus is described as a genderfluid cross-dresser by Wildbow.<ref name="16.10c1">Circus is best described as a genderfluid cross-dresser and both of Tattletale’s suppositions are thus correct, which is why her power can’t give her a definitive answer. In being unsure and not knowing, Tattletale was probably closer in labeling Circus than anyone Circus has met. Circus is pleased on a level (being someone that defies/plays with their own gender identity to the point that it confounds someone like Tattletale), and thus takes it as something of a compliment.<br/><br/>Tattletale uses the word ‘poser’ because Circus -is- posing (or crossdressing). In a number of the snippets I wrote about Circus (and with Circus as a main character), Circus veers between being male and female and switching to the other gender (or being ambiguous) to confound attempts at figuring out the secret identity. This casual mention is something of a nod to the snippets (and not the first or last in the story). - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/12/25/monarch-16-10/#comment-71694 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Monarch 16.10]]</ref> This made it impossible for Tattletale to determine whether he was "a guy posing as a girl when in costume or a girl who poses as a guy when in plainclothes,"<ref name="16.10"/> because both suppositions were essentially correct.<ref name="16.10c1"/>

Circus' identity was further complicated by his trigger event, a multitrigger that involved facets linked to male and female personalities. As a result, Circus can reflect slightly different body language and skillsets between her civilian and cape identities. This might best be described as an 'alter ego,' and is not necessarily a secondary power but is instead a result of Circus' deeper connection to her passenger.<ref name="R2">Circus isn't trans. Circus is just a complicated identity, and gender is a notable factor in that. Things got complicated further because the multitrigger involved facets which linked to male personalities and female personalities and Circus could tap into that to legitimately confound questions of identity.<br/><br/>In weaverdice terms, Circus has the 'alter ego' power perk. Multiple personalities except not quite. She can reflect slightly different body language and skillsets between Civilian and Cape identities, and even one approach to cape identity and another. Mild comparisons can be drawn to Sy shifting mindsets in Twig. Not nearly so dramatic, not a secondary power, just a facet of Circus' particular breadth and depth.<br/><br/>Tattletale doesn't ask questions in the same sense Contessa does. She just picks up on the noise and sometimes does so with a particular focus in mind. So she looked at this individual through the lens of who it was and their relation to Coil, Über and Leet, and connected to Circus, and other details about the confounding identity and the interplay formed around that central tether. - [https://redd.it/5nvz0x Comment by Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>

She doesn't tend to speak in her cape identity.