AU where Ranboo and Michael are kids living in a small city, that gets visited by a Circus that has finally decided to visit the town after 30 years.
Ranboo, desperate for money in a poor area, decides to start asking people for jobs in order to afford tickets. All the while, Michael is attending school. No one takes his requests, except for a boy.
He introduced himself as Tommy and asks for help with picking up a few items for a thing he has to do. So, Ranboo helps with that. He doesn't pay too much attention to the details of what is being gathered, as he finds it rude.
Once it's all said and done, Tommy asks Ranboo what he's working so hard for, and Ranboo admits he's trying to buy tickets for the Circus. Which prompts Tommy to reach inside his bag, and pull out two tickets, and handing it to Ranboo as payment.
So, with excitement, he runs back to his crappy little complex with his tickets and shows them to his neighbor, Niki, who is more then delighted with Ranboo's success. Michael is just as excited.
And when Ranboo gets permission to get time off at his Job, the Chuckle Sandwich, from his boss J. Schlatt, Ranboo and his son finally get to go to the circus.
Ranboo quickly finds out that their friend Tommy, is actually the son of the Ring Leader who owns the circus.
And there, during the performance, Ranboo sees him. A boy with light brown hair doing tricks and spins in the air. And at one point, the boy reaches Ranboo's eyes. A green and auburn meeting two blue eyes.
Tommy offers to take Ranboo and Michael backstage after the shows, and introducing Ranboo to the acrobat, the Wingless Bee, Tubbo.
And Ranboo's world begins to change.