The Colors Mean More Than You Think! (Theory)
I have called this since the beginning of me discovering The Freak Circus. The second I saw Harlequin and saw his behavior, my first thought was color theory. Specifically with how certain colors mean certain emotions. And I think Ticket Taker became a bit more of a confirmation of this. So here I’m gonna say my theory’s on guys based on their color. And how I think their color shows how they cope with Columbina. (Sorry if I butchered the spelling of her name)
Now I’m pretty sure we all know the meaning of red. Love, danger, romance, and all that good stuff. But the gist of red is love, harm, and anger. Sound familiar? There isn’t much to really says for this since we would have to learn more about the past and Pierrot himself to really understand him. But the red does make sense for his love for MC, the harm he causes to others/to MC for the MC, and about his hatred to Harlequin. Though as we’ve seen, Pierrot is probably in love with us as a replacement. (Which in my opinion I don’t think so.) But we just have to leave that up to the next updates of the game.
Now this felt so obvious to me since the beginning. And that green is almost ALWAYS used to represent envy/jealousy. Which on the not of green, it’s seen as meaning good but also disgusting and gross. Which would make sense as well if we look at Harlequin’s past behavior and current behavior. From what I can guess about his past behavior, I believe he was a good and romantic guy who just wanted to be loved by Columbina. And maybe could have been an act knowing him, but he did all her could to appeal the her. But as we know, he ended up killing her sick of the her not loving him and felt envy for Pierrot. The disgusting part isn’t about his act of murder. But his look in general. Now we have no idea what he looks like under everything, but from Day 2 we did get a hint with the whole tentacle things. Which to most people would be considered gross and disgusting. Not the most attractive thing to most people, which probably led him to be insecure about himself. That’s a whole other theory though. My theory on how he copes, not with her death. But by his possible insecurity about his appearance and how he couldn’t get Columbina to fall in love with no matter how hard he tried. With being charming and romantic to her but she already was in love with someone else. So my theory is from based on what me know, that he seems to like to take people away form Pierrot. Probably people he thinks Pierrot would like because of his envy, seeing him as someone to always compete with. Likely put of revenge. I strongly believe his green color I’d pointing to his envy. And in my option I would consider green to be a meaning of insecurity.
Another common color I’m pretty sure we all know the meaning of. Sadness, intelligence, cold, loyalty, calm, and all that jazz. Which I think most of it fits with TT. The sadness, loyalty, and intelligence. I will barrow the theory that @hexserath made on TT for this because I think it’s a very good theory from what I saw on their post on Twitter. The sadness makes sense and he seems to kiss Columbina’s forehead and crying the most in the scene of it showing them eat her. The intelligence is pretty self explanatory if you’ve learned enough about him and how he takes care of the finances and learning the language and culture of the places they go to. The loyalty is also self explanatory when you remember that TT is very loyal to Jester. Now back to the sadness thing on how he copes. I do think that hexserath does explains it better than I can. So if you wanna see that I can link it. But I’ll try to explain as much as I can. He has a favorite mirror that shows the story of the time Columbina was killed. From what I understand and think, I think he was copes by sharing what happened. Even if people won’t understand it or think it’s part of the act, he shares what happened as a way to release the trauma. If that makes sense. Like talking to a friend or a therapist about what happened that lead to your trauma. Hope this makes sense.
So this is probably gonna be a bit more complicated… Since there is nothing much we really know about him at all. So the only thing we can go off of here is prediction and guessing and possible theory. So let’s get to the meanings we have for purple. And if they fit in the end it would be pretty cool! So the meanings of purple (from what I think fit Jester) mysterious, restrictive, creativity, emotional. There is more, but I don’t think it fits with the perspective we have of Jester right now. The rest of the definitions of purple were seen to be somewhat childish but I don’t think that’s what he is at all so far. So I’ll go off on my ideas of the words I provided. Mysterious, it’s pretty self explanatory. But I think I mostly picked this word because our perspective, but I do think it can change. Restrictive I think would be more fitting with how protective he is of the others. He makes the rules very clear to all of them to keep them all safe. That thing you’d want if for people to suddenly realize what you are and what you’re doing. I do think Jester would be pretty restrictive to everyone for that very reason. Creativity, I think would be with the way he acts. An example of it would be with his whole performance we saw. You can’t tell me he didn’t choreograph the whole performance. I also think the drama he put in himself when he was going around the stage telling the story adds to the creativity. Now emotional, I know some of you would disagree with me on but hear me out! As I did with Harlequin, I will be referring emotional to his past self. Now we can’t say for sure if he was very emotional or not in his past. But the only thing I can give that helps with small theory of him being emotional is from all the lines he says during the time of Columbinas death. He was very much against her being killed and cried about it to like the others. Just remember this is all a guess.
Soooo this is just as hard as Jester. So for this since it’s kinda hard to find definitions for his color which is meant to be teal or cyan and red. Which I already explained what red means but I think that Doctor is more on all the aggressive definitions of red. So for the teal and cyan definitions I’m just gonna pull what I can find. Private, heals, and clinical is as much as I can find that I think fits with Doctor. All of those words are self explanatory. I do with we can learn more about Doctor and probably more research into color theory to understand meanings in colors more.
Hope all of what I said makes sense. I’m not the best at explaining things and I hope it was clear. If you all have a different opinion or thoughts about it I would be open to listen! And not gonna lie Jester and Doctors ones were on the fly because there isn’t much about them to say as a person. But I hope with was a fun theory for you all! :]