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A bit of context: this comic takes place quite a long time ago. They were younger and still figuring out how to make things work in the circus. The first version of their outfits wasn’t comfortable, since their bodies are different, which led to the redesign and custom-made clothes for all of them after this incident.

Besides the outfit changes, you’ll also get a small spoiler about Pierrot’s rule! Also! Thank you @destinysquared for helping me correct some poses and adjust a few things in the comic!

I was on Twitter/X scrolling through Ticket Taker posts when I came across a post from another TFC fan wanting Neko to be notified about his game being put into the apple store after it was stolen & modded. Please repost this so that Neko & his team can be informed about this!

Source of the link & screenshot from another TFC Fan: https://x.com/i/status/2060525881664176639

Para contemplar a chegada da primavera, do dia 28 de abril, até 4 de maio, estamos convidando todos os moradores de Gumyoji a comparecerem no festival Hanami Matsuri, que acontecerá em Hakusan, no distrito de Ni. Será possível encontrar barraquinhas dos mais diversos tipos, desde pratos típicos da estação, até trabalhos artísticos, como a pintura e o artesanato. Também é notável a presença de alguns artistas amadores, que desfrutam da oportunidade para celebrar a estação com boa música. O clima confortável e familiar torna o festival agradável e apropriado para todas as idades, tudo isso em um parque local, cercado de árvores e muito próximo ao famoso canal de Ni. Todos podem participar montando sua barraquinha, apresentando uma peça, música ou apenas aproveitando um prazeroso piquenique sob o cenário das flores de cerejeira. Esperamos a sua presença conosco!

Neko, do I need to read the comics and follow the asks? No, that’s just extra content for those who want to understand more about the lore behind this world. All important and relevant information will be in the game. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Why is MC being human important? Let me show you the meaning behind it. You’re in the middle of the jungle, and suddenly you’re surrounded by wolves. What would surprise you more being saved by another human, your own kind, or one of the wolves turning against the pack to protect you? That’s the context I want you to understand. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Did Harlequin and Pierrot propose marriage when they bit MC? No. Right now, they’re competing for you in a game of flirtation. Those bites are not proposals. I mentioned there’s context, and that the mark would leave a scar and MC has no scar!

It’s like when a friend gives you a ring that doesn’t mean you’re married, right?

Marriage and courtship among monsters are different, and MC should definitely be aware of what’s being proposed. So relax! For now, they’re just teasing each other and lightly trying to mark you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Black tent and pink tent I can’t answer anything about those topics! That’s something you need to explore in the game and interpret for yourselves. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

What happens when the circus leaves? And Carol? And the fools? All of that will also be explored in the game, so there’s nothing I can answer about it right now. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Why does the game only have English voice acting? I don’t know any Brazilian or Chinese voice actors, and adding voice acting is new to me. I never planned for the game to have it, but @darthsuki’s performance really convinced me it would add more emotion! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

How many endings will the game have? I’m planning multiple endings, but I can’t give a number right now. I might change my mind, so I prefer not to set expectations yet. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

What does the “poly route” mean? It means MC will fall in love with Pierrot and Harlequin at the same time. The rest is up to your interpretation. Just like Jester’s tent, I won’t say too much about certain parts of the game so you can form your own interpretations that’s all!

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Will Pierrot abandon MC?

Where did that come from? A lot of people asked me this, so I’ll be very direct: NO. There is nothing that would make Pierrot abandon MC. Never. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Are MC and Columbina the same person/reincarnation/descendants?

No. MC has no connection to Columbina. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Does Pierrot still love Columbina?

No, Pierrot has grown up and matured a lot since then, he no longer thinks of Columbina that way. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

What do the circus members/monsters find attractive in humans?

You know when you come across a group of cats on the street, and you recognize that they’re all cats, but you’re unable to distinguish their gender or other traits that define them individually? That’s how they see humans. They learn to recognize patterns to tell them apart, like “most females have long hair, but not all,” or “most males have beards and more body hair, but not all.”

Appearance isn’t exactly what attracts them, but other factors… maybe I’ll talk about that soon. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

What if I don't want anything romantic with the characters?

The protagonist's route won't involve romance, but you can still choose whether or not to form friendships with them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Why are some answers no longer canon? I’ve mentioned before that while I was still writing the full script, I might change my mind over time.

Apenas compartilhando alguns sketchs que fiz no fim de semana para relaxar haha! Um deles é um spoiler do AMA sem contexto. Estou curioso, por que ainda tem pessoas que não acreditam que sou brasileiro pessoal? o.o Tem muito conteudo incrível que vem daqui pessoal! A maior parte da fandom fala outros idiomas, então uso o inglês como ponte para todos, é bem legal ver que a fandom brasileira esta crescendo, assim como pessoas de outros países ainda mais distantes estão aparecendo! Bem-vindos pessoal! English I just wanted to share a few sketches I did over the weekend to relax haha! I'm curious why are there still people who don't believe I'm Brazilian, guys? o.o

There's so much amazing content coming from here, guys! Most of the fandom speaks other languages, so I use English as a bridge for everyone. It's really cool to see that the Brazilian fandom is growing, and that people from even more distant countries are joining in! Welcome, everyone!

I love that, many people already did that scene from a old AMA!

Don't worry, guys, Doctor's mask doesn't actually open like that! I was just trying to be funny, haha!

A summary of all the recent updates until I start working on the game code!

Store

First, about the store let me explain it better. I am working on it and getting some help with it, but to operate it I need a certificate that hasn’t been finalized yet. (I didn’t know running an online store would be this complicated >.>"") In the meantime, I’m testing different suppliers for keychains, tickets, and other small items.

I’ll post more about this when the time comes, so don’t worry!

Script

The script is finally finished! It ended up at 76 pages (the previous chapter had 47 pages). But keep in mind this is because of the multiple routes you can take, so I’m not entirely sure how long each route is individually.

Now I’ll start reviewing it completely! That means I need to read and revise every page (I might have some help with that as well). During this process, all dialogue is adjusted to better fit each character, I check if all routes are properly connected, and I’ll also update that map I showed before. This is also where I might remove or add parts to the script.

At the moment, this update includes 1 new bad ending and 2 new hidden scenes (there might be more after the full script revision). You’ll be able to interact with almost all (living) characters (although the boss has a small scene that I’m not sure if it will be expanded in this update or added in the next one).

Pierrot Plush

Good news, everyone! Gimme Swag has managed to get a more accurate version of Pierrot! Just the hair and a star in his hat needs to be adjusted this time, and then it will be the final version ready for production!

Keep an eye on your emails for updates on when the next phase will begin, and for the total cost of the plush to be charged! Those who couldn't participate will also be able to buy it, as it will be available for a while at the Gimme Swag store, and I'll let you know as soon as it's there!

Português

Loja

Primeiro, sobre a loja, deixe-me explicar melhor. Estou trabalhando nela e recebendo alguma ajuda, mas para operá-la eu preciso de um certificado que ainda não foi finalizado. (Eu não sabia que administrar uma loja online seria tão complicado >.>"" )

Enquanto isso, estou testando diferentes fornecedores para chaveiros, ingressos e outros itens pequenos.

Vou postar mais sobre isso quando chegar a hora, então não se preocupem!

Roteiro

O roteiro finalmente está pronto! Ele acabou ficando com 76 páginas (o capítulo anterior tinha 47 páginas). Mas tenha em mente que isso acontece por causa das múltiplas rotas que você pode seguir, então não tenho certeza de quanto cada rota dura individualmente.

Agora vou começar a revisá-lo completamente! Isso significa que preciso ler e revisar cada página (talvez eu tenha alguma ajuda nisso também). Durante esse processo, todos os diálogos são ajustados para se encaixar melhor em cada personagem, eu verifico se todas as rotas estão conectadas corretamente e também vou atualizar aquele mapa que mostrei antes. Esse também é o momento em que posso remover ou adicionar partes ao roteiro.

No momento, esta atualização inclui 1 novo final ruim e 2 novas cenas secretas (pode haver mais depois da revisão completa do roteiro). Você poderá interagir com quase todos os personagens (vivos) (embora o chefe tenha uma cena pequena que ainda não tenho certeza se será expandida nesta atualização ou adicionada na próxima).

Pelúcia do Pierrot

Boas notícias, pessoal! A Gimme Swag conseguiu fazer uma versão mais fiel do Pierrot! Só o cabelo e uma estrela no chapéu precisam ser ajustados desta vez, e então será a versão final pronta para produção! Fiquem de olho nos seus e-mails para atualizações sobre quando a próxima fase vai começar e sobre o custo total da pelúcia a ser cobrado!

Hey guys! We are aware that The Freak Circus has been uploaded to the Google Play Store without authorization.

Please do not download the game from there and avoid accessing the page. We are currently contacting Google to take the necessary legal measures and have it removed as soon as possible.

Thank you to everyone who came to warn us about it! We will do our best to resolve this situation as quickly as possible. ----

Pessoal! Já estamos cientes de que o jogo foi carregado de forma não autorizada na Google Play Store.

Por favor, não baixem o jogo por lá e evitem acessar a página. Já estamos entrando em contato com o Google para tomar as medidas legais necessárias e removê-lo o quanto antes.

Hello! That’s a really good question!

Yes, they have their own funeral rites, which can vary slightly from species to species, but the basic idea is that they NEVER leave their relatives’ bones behind— especially skulls.