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THE FREAK CIRCUS AU – FICTION LORE

Beyond God's sight, monsters with only hunger met Eladio. He offered a deal. They took it. They'd learn to regret.

Fan fiction: @samanthosnovelist

Game author:@Nekoboydreams

Based on original characters from the game "The Freak Circus": Pierrot, Harlequin, Jester, Doctor, Ticket Taker, Colombina. All other characters (Eladio, the green‑eyed creature, the Abyss monsters) are original creations by the author.

Content warning: This story contains themes of exploitation, violence, and psychological horror. Reader discretion is advised.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Category: Multiple Love Interests, Possessive Behavior, Obsession

Relationships: Pierrot/Reader, Harlequin/reader, Jester/reader, Ticket Taker/Reader, Doctor/Reader

Chapter 13: FINGERS IN THE DARK

In the dark of deep sleep, a hand came. Large. Solid. It traced my face like an explorer discovering new land. A voice whispered: *"You are even more beautiful when you sleep."* It knew everything about me—every step, every habit, every fear. *"You will be mine."*

I woke to an empty room. But the scent of old wood and smoke lingered on my skin. The red ticket still glowed in my pocket like a second heartbeat.

Outside, the night stirred. Something was changing. The circus was raising its tents. And somewhere in the shadows, those eyes—warm and cold, familiar and strange—were waiting for me.

Based on original characters from the game "The Freak Circus": Pierrot, Harlequin, Jester, Doctor, Ticket Taker, Colombina. All other characters (Eladio, the green‑eyed creature, the Abyss monsters) are original creations by the author.

Content warning: This story contains themes of exploitation, violence, and psychological horror. Reader discretion is advised.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Category: Multiple Love Interests, Possessive Behavior, Obsession

Relationships: Pierrot/Reader, Harlequin/reader, Jester/reader, Ticket Taker/Reader, Doctor/Reader

Chapter 16: JOURNEY INTO THE ABYSS

Holding Pierrot’s red ticket, I walked through the night to the circus. Inside a small tent, a plush rabbit sat waiting—clothed in red, black, and gold, its burnt orange eyes alive. “A part of me,” Pierrot whispered. “The part that could not become human.”

The rabbit offered me an apple-shaped candy. “An invitation to the past,” Pierrot said. “You will see what we saw. You will feel what we felt. And you will never be the same.”

I ate it.

The sweetness dissolved into a warmth both familiar and foreign. When I opened my eyes, I stood in a forest of dead trees, a crowd streaming toward a tent. The Freak Circus—but wrong. Old, filthy, cruel.

Inside, five creatures lay in iron cages. Pierrot, Halequin, Jester, Ticket Taker, Doctor—starving, bleeding, silent. Eladio commanded the stage. The audience howled for blood. Whips cracked. Hot irons burned. And I could only watch, frozen, helpless, weeping.

Then a hand reached through the bars—clawed, scarred, reaching for me.

Based on original characters from the game "The Freak Circus": Pierrot, Harlequin, Jester, Doctor, Ticket Taker, Colombina. All other characters (Eladio, the green‑eyed creature, the Abyss monsters) are original creations by the author.

Content warning: This story contains themes of exploitation, violence, and psychological horror. Reader discretion is advised.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Category: Multiple Love Interests, Possessive Behavior, Obsession

Relationships: Pierrot/Reader, Harlequin/reader, Jester/reader, Ticket Taker/Reader, Doctor/Reader

Chapter 15: INVISIBLE THREADS

The green pin stayed on my lapel—light as a butterfly, heavy as a curse. *"I'm going to take you from him."*

The owner’s arm had a long scratch, deep as a claw's warning. He blamed a cat. I thought of Pierrot's cold eyes—how he silenced the grumpy woman without a word.

That night, the streetlamps flickered, struggling to stay alive. Darkness thickened between them, syrupy, watching. I felt invisible threads around my wrists, my heart. One red ticket. One green pin. Two promises.

Someone was waiting in the shadows.

Based on original characters from the game "The Freak Circus": Pierrot, Harlequin, Jester, Doctor, Ticket Taker, Colombina. All other characters (Eladio, the green‑eyed creature, the Abyss monsters) are original creations by the author.

Content warning: This story contains themes of exploitation, violence, and psychological horror. Reader discretion is advised.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Category: Multiple Love Interests, Possessive Behavior, Obsession

Relationships: Pierrot/Reader, Harlequin/reader, Jester/reader, Ticket Taker/Reader, Doctor/Reader

Chapter 14: PROMISES IN THEIR EYES

Pierrot came to the café—large, silent, wearing that white mask. He ordered a milkshake, held my arm, and whispered:

*"Will you come tonight?"*

I promised. He gave me chocolate, as if he knew my hidden sorrow. Then Harlequin appeared, green-eyed and cunning. He pinned a heart-shaped pin to my lapel, clicked his claw against it, and murmured:

Based on original characters from the game "The Freak Circus": Pierrot, Harlequin, Jester, Doctor, Ticket Taker, Colombina. All other characters (Eladio, the green‑eyed creature, the Abyss monsters) are original creations by the author.

Content warning: This story contains themes of exploitation, violence, and psychological horror. Reader discretion is advised.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Category: Multiple Love Interests, Possessive Behavior, Obsession

Relationships: Pierrot/Reader, Harlequin/reader, Jester/reader, Ticket Taker/Reader, Doctor/Reader

Chapter 12: LONELY STREETS

That night, the city felt like a stranger. Every street stretched into infinity. Every lamp flickered with doubt.

Pierrot came to the café. He gave me a red ticket—crimson as his coat, warm as his hidden smile. *"I will make you smile through the entire performance."*

I closed up. Walked home alone. The silence was louder than I remembered. Carol's absence echoed in every empty shopfront. The darkness seemed to watch, to breathe, to almost *touch*.

Under a dying streetlamp, I gripped the ticket like a lifeline. The light steadied. For a moment, I believed someone was walking ahead of me, lighting each lamp so I would never be swallowed whole.

Back home, the balcony door stood open. A cold hand brushed mine—then vanished.

In the shower, steam veiled my exhaustion. Through the haze, I felt eyes on me. *Studying. Remembering.*

Later, sleep dragged me under. But before I fell, I heard a whisper: *"You are more beautiful when you sleep."*

Based on original characters from the game "The Freak Circus": Pierrot, Harlequin, Jester, Doctor, Ticket Taker, Colombina. All other characters (Eladio, the green‑eyed creature, the Abyss monsters) are original creations by the author.

Content warning: This story contains themes of exploitation, violence, and psychological horror. Reader discretion is advised.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Category: Multiple Love Interests, Possessive Behavior, Obsession

Relationships: Pierrot/Reader, Harlequin/reader, Jester/reader, Ticket Taker/Reader, Doctor/Reader

Chapter 7: WANDERERS UNDER THE SUNLIGHT

For millennia, they knew only darkness. Then came the sun—golden, blinding, searing. Pierrot felt warmth for the first time. Halequin watched humans scurry beneath the light, no different than in shadow. Jester listened to the sound of life itself. Ticket Taker saw their true faces. Doctor touched his reflection and watched it shatter.

But hunger never left. It only changed form—no longer a scream in the belly, but a whisper in the mind: *You lack. Find what is missing. At any cost.*

So they built a circus. Their cage became their weapon. Jester weaves stories that devour souls. Pierrot throws knives and feeds on fear. Halequin’s shadow puppets feast on longing and shame. Ticket Taker traps the darkest hearts in mirrors. Doctor dissects the twisted souls hiding behind virtue.

And the Dolls—empty, obedient—follow like shadows. The circus moves from town to town. Rumors spread. No one dares to look too close.

Based on original characters from the game "The Freak Circus": Pierrot, Harlequin, Jester, Doctor, Ticket Taker, Colombina. All other characters (Eladio, the green‑eyed creature, the Abyss monsters) are original creations by the author.

Content warning: This story contains themes of exploitation, violence, and psychological horror. Reader discretion is advised.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Category: Multiple Love Interests, Possessive Behavior, Obsession

Relationships: Pierrot/Reader, Harlequin/reader, Jester/reader, Ticket Taker/Reader, Doctor/Reader

Chapter 9: THE SUDDEN BLACKOUT

The café closes early. The last customer leaves. Then the lights die—not a flicker, not a warning, but a sudden, absolute darkness that breathes. I am alone. Or so I think.

The walls grow eyes. Thousands of them. Blinking. Watching. Hungry. I press myself against the cold, and the cold grows fingers—a hand, enormous, lurking just beyond my reach. It lets me touch it. Then withdraws. Playing.

I run. Three steps through that suffocating void. I find the switch. Light crashes back like a scream.

The eyes vanish. The walls are innocent again.