Dark Heresy: Malice: DH2E Character Cast: "Big Smile" Siggy and The Joy Troupe Cloudboy Gang

The Joy Troupe is a band of acrobats and performancers that perform throughout Desoleum Primus. The Joy Troupe is a breakaway cloudboy gang from the style killers that perform murders, thefts, and smuggling. The Joy Troupe is a Cegorach worshipping cult whose namesake refers to the harlequin patron that guides them. They are all the above at once. Their leader is Siggivere du Bornae, a native of Elysia. His street name is "Big Smile" Siggy for the intimidating bionic replacement jaw he wears that has an engraved image of a monstrous jagged grin. Siggy is a perceptive, rational, cool, but intense person. Underneath the visage of a feared gangster is a thoughtful but dangerous man. Siggy and the Joy Troupe are extensively trained to be speedy and mobile fighters. They are as acrobatic in combat as they are performing in the street and back up the speed with devastating upscale weapons for the underworld including bolt weaponry, grenade launchers, and chain weaponry. They all keep a healthy supply of frag, stun, and photon flash grenades on them to overwhelm enemies. The Troupe is a minuscule band compared to others only comprising of around three hundred members. The Troupe are not exactly an evangelizing cult or gang and their members usually find them or impress them rather than being recruited off the street. Their disadvantage in numbers is made up for by their skills and equipment. Siggy is a relatively new face to Desoleum Primus's underworld only beginning operation for around a decade. He has made a gigantic splash in the underworld and people know him and the troupe as the people you go to when you want a special piece of equipment or someone dead. Siggy does not work for the hive nobility and actively spurns any offers for gang bonding that the elite like to engage in. His main mission is decided by his patron, the Joy, and her main prerogative is to have the troupe engage in actions on Imperial land that the Eldar could not easily. One particular thing of note is the Troupe's trade with the Tarot associated Brothers of Var'Nahesh, a Khorne cult. They exchanged bolt weaponry that the Tarot would later use for soul stones gathered by one of the Tarot's leaders named the Living Masquerade. This was an ill-informed trade and the Brotherhood's nature was hidden from the Troupe. The Brotherhood presented themselves as a simple warrior's fraternity of the Cadre PDF. The stones were priceless but from that point on the Troupe was set upon the Tarot to spy on them and fight their proxies. The Joy sets the troupe against the followers of the ruinous powers along with their other works.

All of the Joy Troupe wear expensive, loud, and fine quality clothing that mixes harlequin and Imperial designs together to where those in the know would be suspicious but would otherwise be innocuous. They use Imperial weapons to keep below suspicion of inquisitors and arbitrators.

Siggivere, as mentioned, was a native of Elysia. He grew up in a small village and was training to be a doctor when his village was raided by Dark Eldar. The Drukhari are a known menace to Elysia and the Elysian PDF have constant clashes with them and other pirates. Many in his village were taken as slaves. Praying to the Emperor for rescue, his prayers went unheeded. He attempted to resist and had his jaw torn off for his trouble by his captors. In his agony, he saw a shape in the darkness execute his tormentors. The shape was the Joy, a child of the laughing god, and for his salvation, he became her disciple. He was trained in the ways harlequins were but modified for humans. He would follow her to the ends of the galaxy and took her every word as gospel. The Joy sent him to Desoleum in order to do what she could not. He built the Joy Troupe with help from his matron. He built his image as a mask much like the bionic he installed to hide his true nature. His jaw is clunky, Imperial, and menacing. It is what he wants the world to see as his true soul is kept behind a shroud of appearance and performance.

(They play parts in the Dirge of Gore and Tenorlied of Traitors adventures)