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1. These Clowns Aren't Normal by kappas_cucumber

   Fandoms: The Freak Circus (Visual Novel)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M, Multi, Other
   • Work in Progress

   26 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Pierrot (The Freak Circus)/Reader
   • Pierrot (The Freak Circus)/You
   • Harlequin/Pierrot (The Freak Circus)
   • Harlequin (The Freak Circus)/Reader
   • Harlequin (The Freak Circus)/You
   • Pierrot (The Freak Circus)
   • Harlequin (The Freak Circus)
   • Doctor (The Freak Circus)
   • Ticket Taker (The Freak Circus)
   • Jester (The Freak Circus)
   • Attempt at Humor
   • Tags Are Hard
   • No Use of Y/N for Reader-Insert
   • Yandere
   • Stalking
   • Jealousy
   • Pierrot Needs a Hug (The Freak Circus)
   • Harlequin is Bad at Feelings (The Freak Circus)
   • Harlequin Being an Asshole (The Freak Circus)
   • Friends to Enemies to Lovers
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Protective Pierrot (The Freak Circus)
   • Headcanon
   • No Self-Preservation Skills
   • Found Family
   • Poly End Game
   • Polyamory
   • Possessive Behavior
   • Invasion of Privacy
   • Boundaries are a Foreign Concept to Circus Performers
   • It's Face Paint
   • Not Canon Compliant
   • canon adjacent
   • Light Angst
   • Everyone Needs Therapy
   • All Warnings from the Original Work Apply
   • Dubious Consent
   • Mildly Dubious Consent
   • Pierrot's Special Cake
   • Romance
   • Eventual Romance
   • Lets Ignore all the Red Flags
   • non-con elements
   • Out of Character Pierrot (The Freak Circus)
   • Out of Character Harlequin (The Freak Circus)
   • Fear of Abandonment
   • Abandonment Issues
   • Pierrot has Abandonment Issues
   • Harlequin Has Trust Issues
   • Trust Issues
   • Harlequin Needs Therapy
   • Pierrot needs therapy
   • Reader-Insert Needs Therapy

   Summary

   Working doubles at an understaffed cafe, you're barely surviving. Then Pierrot appears with red tickets and invitations, and suddenly the circus seems like a great place to lose yourself. So you go. You keep going.

   Now you're caught between Pierrot's suffocating devotion and Harlequin's sharp-edged chaos, and you're starting to suspect that neither of them, nor any of the five performers running this circus, are quite what they seem.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   13,604

   Chapters:

   6/?

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