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Micah's hair ties are usually from Firesleight. She taught him how to do self-braiding (she wears one sometimes when she performs, prevents her magic from burning stray ends) He ties his own sometimes too.

Half the people at the circus are wondering why Micah doesn't just help the Lightbender untangle his hair. Lol. Geoffrey teased him about it once, and the Lightbender just shrugged. The truth is Micah does think of his hair knots. The presence of knots around him feels like an itch sometimes, and his guardian's hair mess is one of the things that pulls Micah subconsciously closer to him. A bit like a magnet. (But he does wonder, sometimes, how the Lightbender would look like with straight sandy hair for once)

Similar to how Fish came from the sea, Mr Head came from the sky. Like a strike from the heavens. I think it would be poetic.

Chintzy met some bird friends in the Menagerie after the merger with Victoria's remaining flock (she'll never share her perch though)

When they visit tropical countries, the Lightbender has to put zinc sunscreen on his nose. Micah giggled once and told him he looked like the lifeguards at his old home's community pool. (He'd make a poor lifeguard. He'd be sunburned all the time.)

In a dark room, with no visual cues or sounds, the Lightbender would be able to tell Micah apart from everyone else just by finding him in his magic's domain. He's discussed this with Geoffrey, Rosebud and the older magicians during a Staff Meeting, but Micah's mind had subtly shifted ever since his burst of magic when he saved Bowler. It had concerned him before. Rosebud assured him it may just be a natural part of Micah's magic growing with him, and it was best to sit back and let it happen without interference.

The Lightbender isn't a touchy person. He wasn't ever physically affectionate with Victoria. No hugging at all. Victoria wasn't the sort of person to use physical touch as a love language either, so she didn't notice. It was only after months that he saw other magicians giving Micah hugs and casual pats and rubs then he realised the gap in their expressions. Subconsciously, Micah leans in when someone puts an arm around him, because Ephraim used to do it to him when they watched TV. The Lightbender worried if Micah assumed he was being distant as his guardian, so he tries to make an effort to be physically closer to Micah whenever they sit close enough side by side.

(+ Related to no.7 above) When the Lightbender and Micah talk after meals like dinner, they move their chairs closer together and sip something while chatting about the day. The former usually rests his arm around Micah's chair, almost as if he was putting it on his shoulder. (Deep down the Lightbender is still trying to show affection to Micah in a way he understands)

(++ also related) Micah had noticed that the Lightbender was more physically distant than others, such as Firesleight or Geoffrey or Dulcie. He didn't dwell on it for too long because he assumed his guardian just didn't really care that way. But deep down, he had thought that he would need to "earn" that affection in some way, which also contributed to his anxiety and worry that he would need to make up for Victoria's betrayal...

Joan of Arc had been to Circus Mirandus at some point. So has Alexander the Great and Hephaestion, and many more significant historical figures

There's a team of magicians dedicated to hunting wild game. Other than manning the stores and games, they help to hunt for meat in vast lands when no nearby supply for supermarkets or butchers are available. Rosebud helps teach them how to gather wild mushrooms for cooking too (the greenhouse has lots of vegetables and suitable climate for fungi, but some foods are better off found in small amounts in the wild)

(+ Related to no.11) The Lightbender has never strictly forbade Micah from doing anything before, but if he asked if he could join in the hunting he would gently say no. He does not want to welcome Micah back with an arrow through his calf.... (He knows he's being a bit protective considering that kids his age were taught to hunt millennia ago.)

Geoffrey is religious and worships the Roman gods of Jupiter, Minerva, etc.

Micah reads Ephraim's bible at night sometimes when he can't sleep. He likes to twirl his fingers around the red ribbon bookmark that came with the book itself and imagine his grandfather reading it just as he does.

It's actually been centuries since the Lightbender's been in close contact with a baby, so if someone passed him an infant in the modern age he'd be flustered about worrying how to support the baby's head properly. Mr Head's the opposite -- he has some sort of built-in paternal instinct on how to hold a baby right.

Yuri was in the military briefly before joining the circus. His short-lived experience led to the discovery of his magic.

Symphony and Mistsinger are dating. No I have no proof of this.

Micah's worst subject in school was math, followed by P.E. He's embarrassed to admit he can't do his multiplication tables further than 10. He can't run a mile without huffing.

Victoria's had champagne gold hair and blue-grey eyes, while the Lightbender has sandy hair with wisps of white strands and dark grey eyes.

Rosebud's most spoken languages include Latin, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Hindi, French and Chinese. Sometimes the older magicians will switch to speaking to her in their native languages because they miss having a conversation partner. She speaks the most languages out of everyone, so whenever the circus comes across someone who can't seem to understand the common languages most of the magicians know, they bring Rosebud in for help to recognize the language.

The books on the Lightbender's shelves span from geography (helps to keep up with new towns and countries changing names over the centuries while they hop all over the world), language (helpful to learn new ones at the start, but with rapid modernisation it's hard to keep up with new revisions on conversational language structures beyond the circus, so he admits... But it's still interesting to learn a new language), science and math (he may be a magician, but education is important to him, no matter how much he may disapprove of rigid beliefs in life without the context of magical explanations for the unexplained.)

Dulcie tries to help Micah learn Spanish by conversing with him. She speaks faster than he can keep up most of the time, but after a while he could catch most of it.

Micah's father had Victoria's hair and eye shape, but Ephraim's face and eye colour. Victoria contemplated keeping him to raise, but she couldn't shake off his eye colour so she left him for Ephraim to raise

The Lightbender has eyebags, whilst Micah has dark eye circles. It's genetic (he says) but the Lightbender has had to fetch him to bed when it gets too late.

Yuri, Dulcie, Firesleight, Rosebud, Geoffrey, Bowler and the Lightbender are some of the people Micah talks most with daily. He got closer with Firesleight after returning her the dragon journals Victoria never gave back....

Micah has a fear of heights. Ironic, because even if he could fly like Victoria he would be too scared to go too high up in the sky like she could. The Gorilla incident scarred him lol.

The Lightbender has a fear of the deep sea, the kind where you're floating in the water and it's so dark beneath you that you can't see the depth of where you are. It came from his time as a Viking before joining the circus, when he fell overboard and could see what was below him. Transportation technology wasn't advanced back then, so if your boat got damaged miles from land, you could drown without endurance/stamina to swim.

Sometimes Chintzy gets under the Lightbender's magical influences when he tries to discourage her from foraging dropped sweets by making them disappear to her mind. She caught on after a while and bit him on the finger.

The Strongwomen see Firesleight as a little sister and she sees them as a big family of older sisters. She used to wrestle with Pennyroyal when she was younger (the latter of course going easy on her)

Victoria gave birth to Micah's father in a motel room. She kept him for a week, just enough for her to make up her mind and heal a little to fly by Ephraim's house and drop the baby off. She didn't look back as she flew away.