## It Started at the Circus…

While Floyd is clearly the star — at least in his own mind — he eventually gained friends, including Felix, Sheldon, Leo, Madame Mirage, and others, and what started as a collection of recurring characters has grown into the Ryanna Rogue Universe. They have adventures. They have inside jokes. They have lore. They hide in artwork. Sometimes they show up where you least expect them.

Long before there were unions, paranormal investigators, official seals, racing turtles, polar-bear protests or enough paperwork to bury a small municipality, there was a circus.

Not an ordinary circus.

This one existed somewhere between imagination, emotion, music and the wonderfully chaotic place inside Ryanna Rogue’s head.

That was the original idea behind *Welcome to the Circus!*

The characters weren’t merely performers.

They represented pieces of ourselves—the orderly parts and chaotic parts, confidence and anxiety, strength and fear, curiosity, instinct and resilience.

Nobody gets to keep only the pretty pieces.

You take the good, the bad, the strange and the ridiculous together.

They’re all part of one wonderful you.

And presiding over this particular collection of personalities was a ringmaster named Madame Mirage.

Nobody realized they were watching the beginning of an entire Universe.

Especially not the squirrel eating popcorn.