The Birth of the Fool

Act I - The Unsuspecting Ingénue

In a world where change is imminent, watch this unsuspecting Ingénue transform before your very eyes!

She sits at her vanity, her scrutinizing eyes pouring over her every feature. She plucks, she powders, she poses— it feels like hours pass and she is still not quite satisfied with the girl reflecting back to her. After further fawning, she can finally gaze at herself in silent approval before blowing out the candles that illuminated her area. She feels outside and above herself like she is within her body but also staring from another perspective. Even her hands don’t quite feel like her own. It’s frightening and exhilarating. She can feel and see them grazing something cool and metallic before everything turns black.

Her head is cradled by her cluttered vanity table, a star-shaped wound bleeding onto the shimmering satin cloth beneath her. Before, she shared the gloved hand of her killer— now, she looks just like her.

Act II - The Art of Alchemy

Our bleeding fool is undergoing a transformation whether she knows it or not, and she is well on her way toward a heightened sense of enlightenment. She is burning and bubbling, coming and going from what she had formerly known as herself. She is operating in a realm seldom traveled by strangers, swimming through the barriers of time and space and cutting through it like a needle. For the first time, she finds herself truly smiling— both for herself and for the world she’s ready to change.

Act III - The Birth of the Fool

Light emanates from her like a golden lantern or sunbeam on a cloudless day. What once was our bleeding fool has now blossomed; each new layer of herself unfurling like the velvety petals of a rose at peak bloom. She’s more beautiful than ever before and ethereal in ways only Venus has shown us previously. Normally this would be the end, but she has really only just begun.