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Dominique Michel Clopin-Dom • 34 • Entertainment • Neutral • Eric Balfourwhat is your full name?Dominique Michel Clopindo you have any nicknames?Dom is a common one. People around the park call me by my last name quite a bit as well. where is birth place?Paris, France. that makes your nationality...Francais. when is your birth dateFebruary 25th, 1978.how old does that make you?Thirty-four. what is your religion?I was raised Catholic but I’m very bad at it. I haven’t been to confession or attended church in a very long time. I still believe in God but that is really the extent of it. I don’t think a priest would want to sit and listen to all that I have to confess. The list is rather long and...sordid. what is your sexuality?Pansexual. There is beauty to be found in everyone, oui? what is your job here at disney?Entertainment. I am a performer in Cirque du Soleil in Downtown Disney. what is/was your major?Ah, I never attended college. I’ve received an education of a different sort, one that comes from travel and life experience.who do you best resemble?I’ve been told I resemble a man by the name of Eric Balfour. what disney character is most like you?Clopin, of course! I am a story teller and an acrobat Perhaps a little manic and hyper to some extent too. ---what do you enjoy?Capturing an audience with a story and providing good entertainment. There are times when all I live for is the attention of a crowd. I love to travel, to meet new people, to learn and experience things I have never done before. I love the atmosphere of a festival or a carnival, a circus or a show. Dancing and singing and letting myself go. Enjoying life, weaving tales, and new adventures. There is so much to enjoy, after all. Chaos is freedom and freedom is one of the most important things. what do you not enjoy?Dwelling on the past is a fruitless task but sometimes unavoidable. Your history has a way of haunting you, after all. I cannot stand being tied down, feeling like I can’t just pick up and move. I don’t like silence. I need movement and life, colour and sound. what do you fear most?Such an interesting question. I am afraid of becoming stagnant, of no longer learning, of blending into the background. I am afraid to stop for too long because then the past will catch up with me. In all honesty, I am afraid of being pulled backwards and never moving forward. I cannot let it happen. what are your goals in life?To live and to enjoy it. To entertain and be remembered, if only by a handful of people. what are your flaws?What is your definition of flaws? If the clever weaving together of truth and lies is considered a flaw then I suppose I am guilty. Story tellers can never completely be trusted to tell the truth but every good story has a grain of truth in it. I prefer telling stories to talking about myself, or talking about myself in the form of stories that may or may not be true. I can judge rather harshly and some may say unfairly but I would say my judgements are for the most part correct. I don’t like being too serious, unless a story calls for it, and apparently this can be seen as a flaw as well. what are your turn ons?Vibrancy. Lust for life, a quick mind, a full heart. Someone unafraid to take risks, to be adventurous, to live in the moment. Someone who...reminds me of another but not so much that it’s painful. Only enough to make me smile. what are your turn offs?Seriousness, melancholy, no sense of fun. I cannot be with anyone who won’t be spontaneous, who won’t follow me in some wild fancy. Rigidity and attempts to tie me down, keep me in one place, cut off my freedom. what is your best memory?Once there was a boy by the name of Dominique. This boy loved to travel and as soon as he finished secondary school he left home to wander and explore, to learn anything and everything he could. Having some talent when it came to acrobatics, the boy soon joined a circus. The first time he was in front of an audience, the first time he felt a crowd’s adoration and basked in the applause they gave him, he fell in love with it. That feeling, the intensity of performing, the way he could please and amaze a crowd with a simple twist of his body or a well executed jump made him feel truly alive. He never forgot that first time, that first feeling, and he never forgot what came of it either. Another young man called Jacques approached him after the show and congratulated him on his successful performance. They spent the next several hours together, getting to know each other and, quite unbeknownst to the both of them, sparking a romance that would last a decade. It was, by far, the best day of Dominique’s life. what is your worst memory?People often say, and many of them believe, that monsters no longer exist. They say that science has disproven the existence of misshapen beasts that haunt the nightmares of children. They forget that not all monsters have a physical, tangible form. They forget that a monster can attack from within, can eat away at a person from the inside out. They forget about the monster called cancer. Dominique and Jacques were victims of this silent, invisible monster. Their lives changed from colorful nights and the cheers of the crowd, to sterile whiteness and the jeers of machines. They had been together ten years by the time the monster struck and while the circus eventually moved on without them, they remained entrapped in rooms that smelled of disinfectant with few echoes of laughter. Dominique did the best he could, to bring colour and laughter into the room, to put a smile on Jacques’ wasting features and most times, it worked. But even that tentative laughter could not last forever as the monster sharpened its claws to a deadly point. The day came, as they knew it would, when the monster struck the fatal blow. It finally finished tearing out the life that had been so strong within Jacques and left Dominique alone for the first time since they’d met. where do you see yourself in 10 years?Any number of places. Hopefully somewhere I’ve never been before with people I am only just beginning to know.---who is your mother? how old is she? what does she do?Maman was Angelique Clopin and she would have been sixty-five years old this year. Sadly, she was killed in an accident when I was in my twenties.who is your father? how old is he? what does he do?Papa’s name is Henri Clopin and he is sixty-eight years old. He is a happily retired lawyer and lives comfortably in the French countryside. do you have any brothers?Oui, I have two. Richard, thirty-nine years old, happily married and working as a travel agent. Also Antoine, thirty-six years of age, confirmed bachelor and wine taster. do you have any sisters?One. Marie, thirty years old, CEO of a company, also married with children. any other relatives i should know about?I have a variety of nieces and nephews but there is no point listing them all. where else have you worked?I have worked many jobs. I was an acrobat in the circus for ten years. I have been a tour guide, an actor, a bartender, a dancer, a musician, a singer. I am a jack of all trades but I prefer telling stories in various forms. where do you live?I have a suite in the Boardwalk resort. The bright colours suit me. --- Sam• Central Standard Time • 9ish bree @ caution 2.0
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