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   Blood in the Water, Lights in the Deep by theashenmoon

   Fandoms: The Freak Circus (Visual Novel)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Multi
   • Complete Work

   27 Apr 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Pierrot (The Freak Circus)/Reader
   • Harlequin (The Freak Circus)/Reader
   • Ticket Taker (The Freak Circus)/Reader
   • Jester (The Freak Circus)/Reader
   • Doctor (The Freak Circus)/Reader
   • Pierrot (The Freak Circus)
   • Harlequin (The Freak Circus)
   • Ticket Taker (The Freak Circus)
   • Jester (The Freak Circus)
   • Doctor (The Freak Circus)
   • Reader
   • Columbina (The Freak Circus)
   • Polyamory
   • Mating Cycles
   • Soulmates
   • Leviathan AU
   • Non-Human Genitalia
   • Eventual Smut
   • Blood and Violence
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Gender-Neutral Reader-Insert
   • No Use of Y/N for Reader-Insert
   • Cannibalism
   • Non-Consensual Drug Use
   • Threesome
   • Penetrative Sex
   • Eldritch Horror
   • Group Sex

   Summary

   You, one of the merfolk, live in a society where your success in life depends heavily on song. Unfortunately for you, you cannot sing. In a year of poor hunting, your pod finally finds a use for you: a sacrifice to the leviathans who live in the deep trenches. You believe death is all that awaits you in the depths, but a past act of kindness means you may not be as doomed as you think.

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   English

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