"Hey, little songbird,
Gimme a song,
I'm a busy man, and I can't stay long,
I got clients to call, I got orders to fill, I got walls to build, I got riots to quell,
And they're giving me hell in Vesuvia,
Hey, little songbird,
Cat got your tongue?
Always a pity for one so pretty and young,
When poverty comes to clip your wings, and knock the wind right out of your lungs,
Ain't nobody sings on empty,"
"Strange is the call of this strange man,
I wanna fly down and feed at his hand,
I want a nice soft place to land,
I wanna lie down forever,"
"Hey, little songbird,
You got something fine,
You'd shine like a diamond down in the mine,
And the choice is yours, if you're willing to choose, seeing as you've got nothing to lose,
And I could use a canary,"
"Suddenly nothing is as it was,
Where are you now, Muriel?
Wasn't it gonna be the two of us?
Weren't we birds of a feather?"
"Hey, little songbird,
Let me guess,
He's some kinda' poet, and he's penniless,
Give him your hand, he'll give you his hand-to-mouth,
He'll write you a poem when the power's out,
Hey, why not fly south for the winter?
Hey, little songbird,
Look all around here,
See how the vipers and vultures surround you,
And they'll take you down, they'll pick you clean if you stick around such a desperate scene,
See, people get mean when the chips are down,"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRGQqFfqps0

Oh boy, here I go, drawing Valerius being abusive again, even tho he never was

It's also finally time for some Witch AU once again, yay~

Pirouette is really just out here trying to make people's lives easier by offering calming herbs and teas, just being an innocent perfect angel like always, and dating Muriel, whom he loves very much
And Valerius just sees him, and becomes rather obsessed, and becomes manipulative and horrible when Pirouette says no, threatening to out him as a witch and have him and everyone he loves executed, even while he doesn't know that Pirouette is actually a witch, and his family and friends are his coven

Pirouette, Rinina, Alverio, Daphne, Asra, Callisto, Sol, Venus, Crux, Hydra, Calypso, Evanna, Kleon, Teven, Vera, Primrose, and Lycoris are all witches, and Portia ends up being a witch as well, with a talent for light magic, but only learns of this later, once Daphne has already run away, I say later because this was supposed to be Valerius' first coming onto Pirouette, before Lucio becomes obsessed with Rinina and locks them in the palace dungeons for daring to reject him and instead preferring Asra (which is, of course, how the witches started to be executed and threatened, because Lucio is a creep and took Rinina not being interested out on witch-kind as a whole, since that's what Asra and Rinina are)
It's just been awhile since I've talked about Witch AU, is all, and I actually don't think I've talked about it here at all, here https://creamecream.tumblr.com/tagged/witch-hunt-au the tag on my tumblr if you wanna explore, it's called "Witch Hunt AU" after the Witch Hunt DLC for Dragon Age

Pirouette does indeed have a real butterfly wing on his ear, it was already broken off when he got it, he did not pull it from a butterfly, he probably fixed a butterfly's wing and the butterfly gifted him the old broken bit of wing even

"Hey, Little Songbird"-Hadestown
The Apprentice and Valerius-The Arcana