THE RING BROTHERS CURSE (ORIGINAL MASCOT HORROR AUDIO DRAMA MOVIE) (light visuals)

SAMANTHA ADAMS 

Role in Story: Main protagonist Survivor, investigator, and eventual enemy of the Ring Brothers Traveling Circus

The haunted hunter
She’s not the chosen one.
She’s not a superhero.
She’s the one person who refused to let the nightmare stay buried.

Samantha Adams is the only known surviving child of one of the families slaughtered during the fall of the original Ring Brothers Traveling Circus. At 8 years old, she survived the purge of the ring brothers circus with no answers and undealt with trauma that follows her into her 20s where she finally decides to seek out the circus after hearing constant rumours of the place being haunted and the robots still being alive…. She hopes to prove what she saw that night and find answers and most of all, put an end to the machines if they still roam 

"STANLEY ADAMS" CASTING DESCRIPTION

Age: 40s (Human) / Timeless (Animatronic)
Role Type: Major Supporting Antagonist / Tragic Horror Role
Voice Type: Warm fatherly baritone capable of shifting into manic, unsettling laughter
Accent: Neutral American

Before the massacre, Stanley Adams was one of the Ring Brothers Circus' most beloved performers. Charismatic, gentle, and endlessly patient, Stanley had a gift for making children laugh. Whether he was performing comedy routines, helping backstage, or spending time with his wife Clara and daughter Samantha, Stanley was known as the heart of the circus.

Then came the massacre.

Now, Stanley exists as Stanley the Giggling Bear—a towering animatronic predator trapped between man and machine. Unlike the more openly monstrous robots, fragments of Stanley's humanity still surface beneath the madness. He remembers pieces of who he was.

Most horrifying of all... he remembers Samantha. His daughter. Stanley's scenes require an actor capable of portraying A loving father buried beneath layers of trauma

“I was made to make them laugh. I stayed because someone had to be kind.”Basic Role in the Story

Buttons is the only animatronic Samantha can trust—or at least, the only one who seems to remember what trust is. Unlike the others, Buttons does not hunt, stalk, or deceive for sport. He protects Samantha in small, strange ways:

• warning her when something is near

• distracting hostile animatronics

• hiding her in maintenance passages

• leaving little “safe” gifts behind (keys, batteries, maps, ribbons, old tokens)

But Buttons is not harmless. He is a fractured being: half children’s entertainer AI, half trapped human consciousness, stitched together by years of abandonment, damage, and memory rot. He is kind—but unstable. Loving—but terrifying when threatened. He isn’t “good” because he’s pure. He’s good because he chooses to be.

At first glance, Buttons comes off as:

• playful

• awkward

• eager to help

• childlike

• soft-spoken in a glitchy, sing-song way

But underneath that is:

• survivor’s guilt

• loneliness

• obsessive protectiveness

• identity confusion

• fear of being abandoned again

• buried violence

Elliot Crowley was a child—probably around 8 to 11 years old—who used to visit or be brought to the entertainment center.He loved Buttons when he was alive Elliot got separated during a party or shutdown and was trapped in the building during an incident.He wasn’t just lost. He was forgotten..

ARTHUR BELL

"The Voice That Never Stops Talking"

Arthur Bell was one of the Ring Brothers Traveling Circus's most beloved entertainers. A fast-talking comedian, improv performer, and crowd favorite, Arthur had a gift for making people laugh no matter how bad the day had been. His quick wit, endless energy, and ability to work a crowd made him one of the circus's most recognizable personalities.

Behind the jokes, however, Arthur carried a growing bitterness. Despite years of dedication and popularity with guests, he often felt overlooked, underappreciated, and trapped in a circus that seemed more interested in profits than people.

During the massacre, Arthur died attempting to protect several children backstage. His final moments were filled with fear, anger, and betrayal. Those emotions fused with Buddy the Parrot, an animatronic already programmed to mimic Arthur's voice and personality. The result was a twisted reflection of the man he once was—an endlessly talking, mocking predator whose jokes now hide decades of rage and pain.

Core Theme:

A performer who spent his life making others laugh, only to become consumed by the bitterness he hid behind the punchlines.

HEYDEN VANE

"The Bunny Man"

Heyden Vane was one of the kindest souls in the Ring Brothers Traveling Circus. While he was never a star performer, he was beloved by everyone who worked there. Known to children as "The Bunny Man," Heyden spent his days helping lost kids find their parents, calming frightened guests, and running quiet performances for children who felt overwhelmed by the circus's louder attractions.

Gentle, patient, and endlessly compassionate, Heyden believed every child deserved to feel safe. He became a trusted friend to many circus families, including Samantha Adams, who remembered him as a comforting presence throughout her childhood.

During the massacre, Heyden died trying to help others escape. His soul later merged with Mister Hush, transforming one of the circus's warmest protectors into one of its most terrifying stalkers. Though the machine now hunts in silence, fragments of Heyden's kindness still linger deep within, buried beneath decades of pain, corruption, and grief.

Core Theme:
A good man forced to become the very thing children should fear.

BENNEY THE GIANT "The King of a Dead Circus"

Full Designation: Benney the Giant
Type: Elephant Animatronic
Height: Approximately 12–15 feet tall
Status: Fully controlled by the spirit of Scotty Ring
Role: Main Antagonist / Alpha Animatronic

Benney the Giant was Scotty Ring's dream project. A massive elephant animatronic designed to become the new face of the Ring Brothers Traveling Circus.

He was intended to:

• Lead parades

• Speak to audiences

• Perform impossible tricks

• Replace traditional animal attractions

Scotty viewed Benney as the future. Felix viewed him as a dangerous vanity project. Unfortunately, Felix was right. Benney's size created countless problems:

• Structural failures

• Hydraulic malfunctions

• Power surges

• Safety concerns

Several workers were nearly injured during testing. Before Benney could debut, he was permanently shelved and locked away beneath the circus. Scotty never got to see his masterpiece perform.

After the massacre, Scotty found himself surrounded by the animatronics he had created. The machines waited for praise. Instead, they received rage. Scotty screamed at them. Blamed them. Rejected them. Then the souls merged with the machines. The circus turned on its creator. Scotty was torn apart. But his hatred refused to die. While the others became trapped inside their machines… Scotty took control. His spirit latched onto Benney. The largest machine. The strongest machine. The machine that had never gotten its chance.

Scotty Ring is the co-founder of the Ring Brothers Traveling Circus and the brilliant but deeply unstable mind behind its final downfall. Once a visionary performer and engineer, Scotty believed the future of entertainment lay in replacing human performers with advanced animatronics—perfect, tireless, and controllable.

Beneath his showman charm and technical genius, Scotty is driven by obsession, control, and a growing inability to separate performance from reality. His ambition fractures the circus from within, sparking a chain of events that leads to tragedy, betrayal, and mass death during the infamous Ring Circus Massacre.

After the disaster he helped set in motion, Scotty becomes something far worse than a victim or villain—his hatred and guilt fuse with the very machines he created. This lingering presence manipulates the surviving animatronics into believing he is one of them, masking himself as a guiding figure while secretly continuing his control from within the system he built.

Scotty is not simply evil—he is consumed. A man who tried to perfect art through machinery and instead became part of the nightmare he designed.

Tone for performance: charismatic, intelligent, gradually unraveling into paranoid obsession, with undertones of grief, denial, and cold authority.

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ELLIOT CROWLEY"I wasn't lost. I was left behind."

Full Name: Elliot Crowley
Age at Death: 9–10 years old
Current Form: Soul merged with Buttons the Strange Clown
Role: Samantha's ally, emotional heart of the story, tragic survivor

Elliot Crowley is the soul trapped inside Buttons the Strange Clown, making him one of the few animatronics in the Ring Brothers Traveling Circus who actively fights against the darkness consuming the others.

Unlike the performers and workers whose souls merged with the machines during the massacre, Elliot was only a child. A lonely, abandoned boy who spent his final days wandering the circus grounds after being left behind by the very people meant to love him.

Years before the massacre, Elliot's abusive family abandoned him at the circus and never returned. While most people never noticed he was there, circus performer Elias Mercer immediately recognized that something was wrong. Refusing to ignore the boy's suffering, Elias brought him to Felix Ring, who secretly allowed Elliot to stay with the circus until a proper home could be found.

That home never came.

Instead, the circus became his family.

Elliot is kind-hearted, empathetic, and deeply emotional.

He desperately wants people to feel safe because he knows what it feels like to be forgotten.

Even after death, much of that innocence remains.

CLARA BELL ADAMS"The Heart of the Circus"

Full Name: Clara Bell Adams

Age at Death: 32

Role Before Death: Head Performer, Ballerina Clown, Children's Entertainer

Current Form: Soul merged with Julie the Twirling Clown

Relationship to Samantha: Mother

Relationship to Stanley Adams: Wife

Before the Ring Brothers Traveling Circus became a graveyard of rust and ghosts, Clara Bell Adams was its heart. Where Stanley Adams represented strength, Felix Ring represented tradition, and Elias Mercer represented laughter, Clara represented kindness. She wasn't the loudest performer.

She wasn't the most famous. But she was the one children remembered.

Clara specialized in elegant clown performances that blended ballet, ribbon dancing, storytelling, and audience interaction. Rather than relying on slapstick comedy, she created an atmosphere of wonder and comfort. Many children who were frightened by the louder acts would seek out Clara. She always knew how to make them smile. She remembered names. She gave away handmade ribbons. She sat with crying children until they felt safe. To many families, Clara wasn't just another performer. She was the face of the circus.

Clara was warm, patient, and endlessly compassionate.

She believed every person deserved kindness, especially those who felt forgotten.

She had an almost maternal instinct toward everyone around her.

Whether it was a nervous performer before a show, a homesick worker, or a frightened child in the audience, Clara always made time for them.

She was known for:

• Her gentle nature

• Her calming presence

• Her creativity

• Her optimism

• Her fierce loyalty to her family

However, Clara was not weak.

When she believed something was wrong, she stood her ground.

She openly challenged Scotty Ring's growing obsession with replacing performers with machines and was one of the first people to support Felix during their conflict.

BUDDY THE PARROT

BACKSTORY

Before the massacre, Buddy was one of the more lighthearted attractions.

Bright green feathers

Sat on a rotating perch near the entrance

Greeted kids, repeated jokes, mimicked voices

Often paired with Stanley Adams during animal shows

But Buddy wasn’t just random—  he was voice-trained using recordings of real performers, including:

A stage comedian named Arthur Bell

A loud, fast-talking entertainer

Known for improv jokes and crowd interaction

Beloved by kids… but secretly bitter about being underpaid 

 The Night of the Massacre

When the animatronics attacked:

Arthur Bell tried to hide children backstage

He was found by the clown animatronics

As he was dying, he was screaming—panicked, angry, betrayed

That rage… that fear…

 It didn’t fade.

It latched onto the nearest AI system—Buddy The Parrot.

“The Last Thing You Hear… Is Nothing.”ROLE IN THE STORY

Mister Hush is the stalker. Where Stanley destroys, Patches humiliates, Julie manipulates, and Splinterjack plays with prey… Mister Hush ends the panic. He doesn’t chase loudly.  He doesn’t perform.  He doesn’t scream. He appears when:

• someone is hiding

• someone is alone

• someone thinks the worst has already passed

• or when a victim is too exhausted to keep running

He is what comes after the circus has broken you. If the others are the show… Mister Hush is the curtain call.

Before the massacre, Mister Hush was known as: “Mister Hush the Moon Rabbit” He was a soft-spoken nighttime character used for:

• calming overstimulated children

• escorting lost kids back to their parents

• reading bedtime-style stories during late shows

• quiet tent performances with dim lights and music-box melodies

• “Hush Hour,” a small section of the circus for anxious children who were scared of loud acts

Felix loved the concept. Scotty thought it was “boring but marketable.”

Heyden Vane was one of the kindest people in the entire Ring Brothers Traveling Circus. He wasn’t famous. He wasn’t flashy. He wasn’t one of the stars. But everybody knew him. People trusted him instantly. He wasn’t loud enough to be remembered by audiences— but he was loved by the people who actually worked there.

Especially:

• Felix Ring

• Clara Adams

• Stanley Adams

• and Samantha as a child

Samantha would’ve known him as: “The bunny man.”

Marcus “Patch” Delaney is a loud, emotionally explosive former circus performer whose desperate need for attention masks years of bitterness, exhaustion, and rejection. Once the beloved lead clown of the Ring Brothers Traveling Circus, Marcus lived for the crowd’s laughter and energy — but behind the makeup was a man terrified of becoming invisible. After being replaced by AI animatronics and later murdered during the circus massacre, his soul fused with the clown animatronic “Patches,” transforming him into a chaotic, theatrical monster who treats fear like applause.

“The Little Bastard With Cymbals for Hands” (VOICE REFRENCE AT THE BOTTOM)

ROLE IN THE STORY

Splinterjack is the circus’s sadist, scavenger, and crowd-control freak. He’s not the one sent in to destroy a room like Stanley. He’s not the one who theatrically stalks people like Patches. He’s not the one who lures children with false sweetness like Julie. Splinterjack is what the circus sends into tight spaces. Vent shafts. Trailers. Bathroom stalls. Ticket booths. Animal cages. Under bleachers. Inside walls.

THE HUMAN SOUL MERGED WITH HIM

Elias Mercer — known on stage as Jack Mercer — was one of the circus’s oldest human comedy performers. He was never the star. He was the guy: He was wiry, loud, and impossible to keep still. He was the kind of performer who could turn garbage props into a great act. Kids loved him. Adults barely remembered his name. And that ate at him.

WHAT HE HID

Jack was funny, but underneath it? He was angry as hell.

He spent years being treated like:

• disposable labor

• a backup act

• a body to throw into dangerous routine

During the massacre, Jack tried to help several trapped workers and children escape through the maintenance tunnels beneath the main tent. He knew the backstage crawlspaces better than almost anyone. He almost got them out. But Patches and Stanley cornered them. Jack fought back with whatever he could find: He managed to slow them down long enough for a few people to get farther into the tunnels…but he was eventually dragged out into one of the storage corridors. That’s where he died. Not cleanly.  Not quickly.He was beaten, pinned, and torn apart in pieces while the monkey animatronic nearby kept rhythmically clanging its cymbals in “celebration mode.”

That was the last thing he heard.

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“The Smile That Doesn’t Stop”

Patches is the ringmaster of fear. He toys with victims before they ever see Stanley He breaks their focus, their sense of direction, their confidence He sets the stage for their death If Stanley is the hammer… Patches is the one who lines you up for the hit.

PERSONALITY

Patches is aggressive-chaotic, not passive. Loud bursts of laughter Gets irritated FAST if ignored Mocking, taunting, insulting Treats fear like applause He doesn’t just enjoy fear— He gets angry when he doesn’t get enough of it. Patches is constantly doing something. Clapping loudly in empty spaces

Running in circles around victims Appearing, disappearing, reappearing closer

Slamming props, kicking doors, knocking things over He escalates situations fast: Starts playful Gets louder Gets meaner Then suddenly violent

THE HUMAN SOUL MERGED WITH HIM

Name: Marcus “Patch” Delaney

Role: Lead Clown / Hype Performer

 Title: “The Noise of the Circus”

Marcus was the loudest, most energetic performer in the entire circus. Always shouting, laughing, hyping crowds Thrived on attention Needed reactions from people Couldn’t stand silence He wasn’t just funny— He was overwhelmingly present.

“The Laugh That Breaks Bones”

ROLE IN THE STORY

Stanley is the enforcer of the circus. Where others hunt, stalk, or play games… Stanley ends things.

Sent in when prey resists too long Used to tear through barricades, buildings, and groups The one the others drive victims toward If you hear his laughter getting closer… That means the hunt is over.

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN

Stanley is pure violent chaos wrapped in joy. Loud, explosive, hysterical laughter Short temper—snaps instantly Doesn’t play games… doesn’t wait Takes pleasure in destruction He doesn’t pretend to be friendly. He’s what happens when something meant to entertain… stops caring. 

THE HUMAN SOUL MERGED WITH HIM

Name: Darius “Dare” Holt

Role: Strongman / Animal Restraint Specialist

Title: “The Man Who Could Control Anything”

Darius Holt was the muscle of the circus. Handled dangerous animals when they got out of control

Broke up fights, restrained threats Loud, confident, physically imposing Known for laughing during high-stress moments He wasn’t cruel… But he believed in force over finesse. If something got dangerous—he handled it. Connection to Stanley Adams Darius worked closely with Stanley Adams.

Helped transport and restrain animals Was one of the few who could handle the bear safely Respected Stanley’s knowledge—but relied on strength

“The Smiling Pirouette”

Type: Humanoid clown animatronicRole in the circus: Child performer / ballerina clown / crowd engagement actCurrent state: Soul-merged killer animatronicPrimary theme: False joy, stolen grace, and maternal grief

Julie was originally designed by Scotty as one of the “perfect replacements” for human performers:

• prettier than a real clown

• never tired

• always smiling

• graceful and elegant

• safe-looking enough for children

• unsettling enough to be memorable

She was marketed as “the sweetest clown in the world” — a dancing, spinning, ribbon-twirling ballerina clown who would perform for children, hand out candy, and invite them into the spotlight. But after the massacre, Julie became one of the most emotionally unstable and dangerous animatronics in the circus. Why? Because the soul inside Julie belonged to someone Samantha loved. Not her father — that’s too obvious and better saved for a different animatronic. Julie should contain the soul of someone who represented warmth, safety, and performance to Samantha as a child. That makes Julie tragic. And cruel. And unforgettable.

Clara Bell Adams was one of the most beloved human performers in The Ring Brothers Traveling Circus before Scotty’s AI takeover. She wasn’t a “haha pie-in-the-face” clown. She was something more elegant and eerie-beautiful:

• white face paint

• delicate painted tears

• soft pink and red accents

• ballet slippers

• spinning ribbon routines

• dreamy music-box entrances

• a motherly stage presence

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