Orchid

Any pronouns!! MDNI/ I will post/repost nswf || Don’t be mean X: orchid00000 || tiktok: orchid7178 I’d love to make friends who want to talk about TFC for hours.

[orchidinthegarden]

Yapping about TFC theories, headcanons and character analyses:

TFC videoessay: analysis of the shadows theater and characters + theories on youtube //. On Tiktok

The black tent: headcanons

Pierrot and Colombina: A brief character analysis and theories + MC

Harlequin: a great actor plays the paradox of the sad clown

Doctor is also inspired on Commedia dell’arte

Colombina discussion: the tragic side of her character

Pierrot headcanon- water puppy

The freak circus monsters are chimeras: headcanons

/// Art!!! ///

Greenapple: harlequin’s bday

Columbina wip

Smoker masc MC + Jester comic

Video version

Fem mc x harlequin

My sona thristing over TT doodle

Harlequin’s birthday

Boss = Hugh Jackman in Van Hellsing 2004

MC betraying pierrot

[risingtide-0]

meeting her (tfc oc)

when the delusions get too strong and you have to insert your oc into the game

all of this was made from screenshots of the actual game! (and my custom sprites + video editing) so if you are delusional enough, you too can make unofficial game footage

[orchidinthegarden]

I love when people do this w their ocs

[orchidinthegarden]

I’d love to see more jesterxpierrot stuff, they remind me of homura and madoka or hell even pearl and rose.

My headcanon (since b4 I joined the fandom) is that another reason jester is passive agreesive towards mc is because he is greedy af when it comes to pierrot

[thefreakcircusconfessions]

Everyday I mourn that Harlequin and Pierrot are not women. They'd be so beautiful as women and they would not have to fight for me to submit I would let them do ANYTHING to me I do NOT give a fuck. SQUISH ME between both of their tits. I am so desperate to see fem fan fictions and fan arts of them scissoring each other or eating the MC out or sucking their dick. PLEASEEEEE GIVE ME MORE FEM HARLEQUIN AND PIERROT OR EVEN ANY OTHER OF TFC CAST </33333

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[orchidinthegarden]

Oc wip. I’m kinda bad at naming things, so I’ll keep hers as “showgirl” for now (｡Ó﹏Ò｡)

[orchidinthegarden]

I find it adorable that so many of our OCs have orange as a signature color, since there is little to no other options to distinguish them from the other clowns haha

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[vitanauu]

the trap plan to confuse the harlequin was more successful than expected! 😉

план-капкан, чтобы сбить с толку арлекина, прошёл успешнее, чем ожидалось! 😉

[darthsuki]

NSFW Audio (The Freak Circus) - PIerrot (Solo)

In which Pierrot has you on his mind late into the evening ~ ⭐️

This one was just from a few short lines I recorded for funsies from some peeps on discord and wanted to throw together for a quick audio that sounded fun :3c

Hmmm, wonder if Pierrot sounds like this every night after he goes to visit you for a monologue~

Listen on twitter

Credits:

SFX: OpenNSFW Sound Pack

The Freak Circus ( @nekoboydreams / @freakcircusofhorrors )

Want to commission me for custom audio, voiceover or ASMR? Go check out my VGen page!

[darthsuki]

Since it was so short I didn’t really think to include a script of sorts, but I’m already seeing some folks would like it!

My dear, you feel so good and warm around my knot— throbbing inside of you, filling you with my seed…

Please… pl- please use me as a toy my love. Please… please let me cum inside! I’ll be a good boy, I promise— I promise! Just… let me cum, let me cum— please! Please….

[tekamuna2026]

You know, this reference and you know that

[orchidinthegarden]

TFC x adventure time art style! :3

[orchidinthegarden]

Oh yes, everybody’s favorites: Colombia and Peru

[fundashnee-rott]

So sometimes I struggle with saying shit and I called pierrot for some reason Peru...

I LOVE PERU

[intermediatefanficenjoyer]

Half the time, I write Columbia in my doc instead of Columbina

Columbia and Peru, my favourite blorbos

[5poonbowl]

if they weren't canonically Brazilian we could joke that they are Columbian and Peruvian... but alas

[orchidinthegarden]

Now I wanna see them wearing Colombia and Peru shirts

[orchidinthegarden]

[unknowsnsenpai]

A little animation I made yesterday while I was waiting for my internet to come back on

Man, I love these three orz

[orchidinthegarden]

This is so freaking hot

[fundashnee-rott]

So sometimes I struggle with saying shit and I called pierrot for some reason Peru...

I LOVE PERU

[intermediatefanficenjoyer]

Half the time, I write Columbia in my doc instead of Columbina

Columbia and Peru, my favourite blorbos

[5poonbowl]

if they weren't canonically Brazilian we could joke that they are Columbian and Peruvian... but alas

[orchidinthegarden]

Now I wanna see them wearing Colombia and Peru shirts

[orchidinthegarden]

Little is talked about how Doctor is also inspired on Commedia dell’arte

Doctor is another character in italian theater, just like Pierrot, Harlequin and Columbina are.

In the Opera of Pagliacci (one of Commedia dell’arte most famous interpretations) the Doctor is the one Canio (pagliacci, the clown) goes to, seaking for advice after he finds out his wife is cheating on him.

-Canio says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.

- Doctors says “Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.”

-The man bursts into tears. And says

“But Doctor…. I am Pagliacci”

This opera is another example of the great switches the author does in The Freak Circus.

Maybe Columbina wasn’t romantically involved with Harlequin at all in TFC. But I’m sure he shares similarities with pagliacci. (See my other post for more details)

So my headcanon is that at some point before the events Harlequin went to his dear friend- the Doctor asking for advice (or maybe just someone to vent to) because he was this lovesick fool with unrequited love. Who still he has to play his role, in TFC’s case the role of the antagonist, the rival, the villain, the monster for the noble hero that is Pierrot.

And I think this tiny fun fact from Pagliacci/Commedia dell’arte adds more depth to how close Doctor and Harlequin are in TFC.

*I love Doctor in burantinno’s 1959 movie btw*

[orchidinthegarden]

Harlequin is such a good actor playing the role of the villain, that all of us are eating from the palm of his hand.

Many of us have been pondering about how Harlequin is sacrificing himself to become the villain of the story, so all of them could had a chance to survive and someone to lash out on.

And to rub salt in the wound, what if Neko is referring the Opera of Pagliacci to solidify this?

At first, similar to Pagliacci, Jester tells us that “the other” murders the delicate flower because he was not chosen as her lover. Jealousy and envy seemed to dictate all of his actions. But what if Harlequin embodies the “role” of the villain so the show must go on? So their lives can go on? Just like pagliacci, his feelings don’t matter, he must play his role, not only in front of the public (mc and humans) but also for his family.

Pagliacci’s Opera final act: “Vesti La Giubba”

- To act! While out of my mind,

I no longer know what I say,

or what I do!

And yet it's necessary... make an effort!

Bah! Are you not a man?

You are Pagliaccio!

Put on your costume,

powder your face.

The people pay to be here, and they want to laugh.

And if Harlequin shall steal your Columbine,

laugh, Pagliaccio, so the crowd will cheer!

Turn your distress and tears into jest,

your pain and sobbing into a funny face - Ah!

Laugh, Pagliaccio,

at your broken love!

Laugh at the grief that poisons your heart!

Harlequin (along with Jester) portrays a tale, a story, a representation of reality or rather a distorted version of reality to keep humans who watch the show (mc) at arms length by scaring them. See my video essay for more details hehe He is saying see? This is what happened last time and it will happen again to the next fool who gets too close.

That song also helps to enrich the interpretations of his green heart. His symbol is the heart but it is poisoned by envy, jealousy, malice and mischief, things the signature bright green color often is associated with.

Haha I love that clown

[intermediatefanficenjoyer]

The Moon Monster, the circus and an internalised fairytale

Analysis of The Moon Monster story and its significance to the plot of TFC (co-written by @readersofthevoid)

The special AMA revealed a very interesting piece of information, that being Pierrot’s favourite fairytale.

According to this post by @thekuronaqueen, The Moon Monster could be the story of St George and the Dragon. It writes out the whole story in more detail (as well some of its religious/cultural history, it’s a very interesting read), but the following fragment is what this analysis is based upon:

A young warrior decided to face the beast. When the full moon lit the night sky, he would mount his horse and wait, spear in hand, watching the heavens. One night, he saw the dragon in the sky and charged to meet it. The creature was about to devour a young woman when the warrior struck, piercing its neck and chest with his spear. Unable to defeat him, the dragon took flight, and the battle continued across the sky until it reached the moon. There, the struggle left craters on its surface, and the dragon was finally slain. George chose to remain on the moon, keeping eternal watch over humanity’s fears and dangers, from where he continues to protect the oppressed and the unjust.

Now, why we believe this is Pierrot’s favourite story: St George did what he could not - save the young woman from being devoured by the dragon. The parallel here to Columbina is clear (and tragic), but it also inspires two other interesting ones - Pierrot as St George and Harlequin as the Dragon.

First: St George. He watches from the moon at a distance, used a spear to slay the beast, to stop an innocent being eaten by it. Is that not what Pierrot does? He stalks the MC, watches us when we approach the black tent, even ‘spears the dragon’ during the tent scene with Harlequin. Despite his obsessive and violent tendencies, he puts in great effort to do so at a distance, without getting up close and personal (at least not when MC can see him).

His weapon of choice is also interesting: he prefers his daggers and throwing knives despite being stronger than the other circus members. Not only does that weaponry sound very similar to what St George used, but it also allows him to keep his ‘monstrous’ strength and claws hidden from the MC. It allows him to portray himself not as the beast but as the protector. He tries to be the one who guards MC at a distance, who prevents the dragon feasting once more. He is the one who, in his mind, is the one that will stop another tragedy. He internalised a fairytale and believes that, if he acts like the hero, then things must go like they do in the story. The young person targeted by the dragon cannot die if he plays his part.

The dragon. The parallels between it and Harlequin are pretty clear: reptilian tongue, green, sly. Hell, the special AMA even confirmed he is a fire-eater - another thing that ties him with the image of the beast. Obviously, Pierrot sees Harlequin as the dragon - the destroyer, the devourer - but does Harlequin see himself the same way? It’s a popular theory in the fandom that Harlequin makes himself a ‘villain’ so that Pierrot has someone to hate, to stop him falling into the catatonia he was likely in after Columbina’s death, but what if it goes a step further?

Harlequin is a storyteller and, given his previous friendship with Pierrot, he likely knows that this is a story the other cherishes. Is it possible, then, that he plays along with the ‘story’ because it keeps Pierrot sane? Given that they are all performers who shed their former identities and names only to embrace their new ones as the stock characters of the Commedia Dell'arte, they’re used to performing and playing their part, so what’s one more role?

Or is it perhaps because he too has internalised the role of the dragon. That way, he was a mighty, ruthless being, not a starved, weak monster that had to consume one of its kind to stay alive. Maybe the role gives him as much sanity as it does Pierrot.

The final piece of the puzzle: the moonless night. Moonless. St George is associated with the moon, from where he protects the oppressed. There was no moon the night Columbina died: there was no one to save her.

Pierrot is no moon, not quite. He cannot be if Columbina was killed. But perhaps he can be another celestial entity, one that watches and protects when you are in danger and there is no moon to save you. He is not quite the moon, but he can be the stars - the ones that adorn his costume and the one on your pin. He is not exactly like St George, but he makes every effort to be, so that things can stay as they are in the story. So that no one he loves is devoured again.

[orchidinthegarden]

I genuinely leaned more on the idea that Columbina is the moon or is somewhat inspired by the moon lady/ spirit leyends many people know, which are related to sacrifice, the mystery and hope, and how that connects to the parallels between the original Pierrot from italian theatre and the one we know in TFC; he idolizes Columbina (or even mc) therefore the symbolism of her in the moon, like I explained further in this post

But the brazilian tale of the moon is something had no idea about! It’s a complete different take! Another reason why researching the author’s life and background is so important when we analyze their art!!