#oc:zoe

At a young age, A little rabbit was separated from her parents from and unknown reason She was asleep in a field of flowers and covered in butterflies when an interestingly dressed man found her. The man who found her was a magician, He figured quickly that the little rabbit was too young to talk or too scared to do so. Despite her visible anxiousness, she stayed put. perhaps she was waiting for something or someone.

The man wanted to find her parents, so he looked around the area with his other performers. No homes were found nearby, so the performers decided to set down their tents in the area. It didn't take long for the little one to become curious and check out one of the tents, she hadn't eaten in a while and the smell of food was impossible to resist.

The small tent she entered was empty, save for a crate with some plates and cups on it. There was still some food on these plates and she was very hungry so she decided to eat some of it, she was thirsty too and there were remains of water in the cups. After she had her fill she felt tired and quickly dozed off inside of the tent, a little bit warmer here than outside. She woke up as she heard the sound of someone approaching, the tent opened and in the entrance were some of the performers that worked here.

They were shocked to find her and because they didn't want to scare her, they kept their distance for now. After some time, the familiar magician showed up to see what was going on. He asked the other performers what to do with the small child and they all agreed to take care of her for now. One of the performers, an elvish acrobat, pointed out the interestingly shaped irises the child had. Because of this, it was unanimously decided to call her Clover for the time being.

In the beginning Clover was very shy and scared of the other performers, the only one she felt less scared of was the magician who she saw back in that flowery field. The magician gave her a gift, a small metallic butterfly with blue gems embedded in it. He told her that it would keep her safe. A few years pass during which Clover became more interested and less scared of the performers, some of them even decided to teach her their abilities.

It didn't take long for Clover to fall in love with performing, she was displaying acrobatic skill before she was able to formulate simple sentences. Not much later Clover ends up joining the group formally and starts performing with them, although she's still young and has much to learn, she want's to pay back the favour of taking her in by performing well. The magician doesn't mind this at all, but he still gives her a cut of the earnings like he does with any other performer. Eventually, Clover becomes popular enough to earn her own stage name. Some guests come just to see the young rising acrobatic star. She chooses the name Zoe: "because its short, simple and easy to remember!".

Skip forward until she's well into her adulthood, the man who once took her in has passed away and the ownership of his traveling performers group is inherited by his nephew. His nephew is ruthless with his demands and hardly does anything to contribute, he pays the performers less and treats them like money printing machines rather than persons.

The performers don't like this, so together they decide to make a plan, Zoe was the quietest and smallest of the bunch. so she'd sneak into the nephews tent dressed up as a burglar of sorts and make him sign away the rights of the group to one of the performers. They make an outfit for Zoe and give her a small blade in case of emergencies.