#random brain dump

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The freak circus reacts to MC as Simon (iron lung), where the public finds out about all the missing a dead people that came as a result of the circus, but somehow Simon ends up being blamed for it all - labeled the butcher for how the bodies of the dead were found, he is sent to a very high security prison

Note that Simon grew up in a cult in this au. He's technically still in the cult, but he is allowed to live on his own because he's older now and the cult isn't worried that he'll leave them or expose them.

I honestly imagine that this au would have basically the same story beats as the "MC as Sebastian Solace" with the MC being blamed for the crimes of the circus stuff.

The government has several secret bases in space where they have scientists n such but they also send a lot of their incredibly dangerous criminals up there to be used for whatever the government wants because those who are sent up there are usually basically on death row for their crimes.

Some of the people who are a part of the cult he is also a part of are up there as either criminals or actual government officials and scientists

The government gets busy with other stuff, leaving the space stations to their own devices - the stations get into a space war, and Simon actually lives up to the name "the butcher" by accident during part of this war.

Maybe the space stations lose contact with earth and lose sight of the stars in the sky and assume that the rapture happened - and because they can't go and check to see if earth is still there and everyone is still alive they can't fact check this

Originally Simon was just going to be dammed to live in space for the rest of his life, but because of his war crimes he's now officially placed on death row

The events of the movie happen, Simon loses an arm, mutates, turns into a tree or something, and becomes one with the blood ocean.

The freak circus should react to edits of Markiplier as if it were Simon from before he was taken to jail, then explain what happened to him after they left town (him getting blamed for their crimes), explain the being sent to space thing, explain the iron lung (minus the execution death row stuff) and then just show edits of the iron lung movie up until he finds out its an execution and how much radiation he's been exposed to and him losing his arm and so on and so forth

Also include the iron lung song by The Stupendium

Could also include the bloodymary ship as an alternate, happier au !

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Just got reminded about the "MC as jax" tfc reaction videos I've seen. Now I wanna see an updated version where they get to witness the Canon ending for jax

(like, in the circus - maybe it's a Canon divergent au where the irl versions of the amazing digital circus cast doesn't exist - they put on the headset, and now they only exist digitally - maybe they have a fricken heart attack and die minecraft style irl when putting on the headset so now their consciousness only exists in the digital circus)

Aka, they get to see what happens to jax in their au (he abstracts/ sort of dies permanently), and they learn about the closeted thing and his mother

And then they get to see an alternate au where jax accepted herself - the happier au (aka, transfem jax (lilly (i think gooseworx said thats whaf her name wouldve been??)), lilly x pomni x ribbit (au where jax / lilly didn't fumble) - an au where MC is happy without the circus fellas, without Pierrot).

Maybe jax was his usual deflecting toxic self outside of the digital circus, and he was like this when he met the freak circus.

Maybe Pierrot believes that jax can do no wrong and feeds into his toxic personality - aka, Pierrot isn't good for him, Pierrot makes him a worse person.

Maybe he meets the freak circus before the argument with his mum, and suddenly, he just goes missing. No trace other than his mom being taken to the hospital and the police trying to find him as both a missing persons case and because the mom wants to press charges (???).

Now, jax is just like every other missing person case, just like all of the people that the freak circus caused to go missing, now Pierrot feels how the families of those that the circus has taken feels. Pierrot feels guilty, despair, and desperate to find his MC

And then he and the rest of his fellow circus troup get teleported into a room that is both comfy and uncomfortable and he is forced to watch his MC go through the motions and he is forced to be confronted with the fact that his MC is gone, completely. And then he gets shown a happier au, an au where his MC is happier without him, without Pierrot.

Idk 🤷‍♂️

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Idk how to participate in the freak circus QNAs, but someone should ask Pierrot and Harlequin how they would feel if MC was aromantic asexual (the side of the spectrum where they aren't interested in romance or sex and wouldn't want to "try it") but was still interested in being their friend and spending their life with them in a platonic, non intimate way.

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The freak circus but with two female MCs that are both simultaneously aroace and very into each other in a "I want to marry you but I don't want to kiss you on the mouth (or anything more)" kind of way.

In addition to this, if one of them was a male MC, neither of them would feel this way, but if they were both male, then the feelings would be the same as the female MCs. (Aka, they only feel this close connection and want to be married when both MCs are the same gender (something something, vaguely homosexual, something something))

Also, neither versions (male² and female²) are interested in anyone in the circus. Maybe they get along with Ticket Taker and the Doctor, but no one else.

However, there is a possibility that Pierrot could be accepted into the fem MCs marriage if he agreed to be their wife (not their husband) (they wouldn't be as close or devoted to him as they are each other tho, so Pierrot wouldn't really get what he desires)

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My respect for ao3 writers is growing

How do you fellas get the motivation to write so much???

Widbmefekegeke

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The freak circus reacts to MC as the Doctor (doctor who) - the tfc game is just one of their adventures, Carol was / is their current companion and now they're on a mission to get their companion back from the circus without endangering the town that they landed in.

Would either be the 9th, 10th, or 11th Doctor with Carol as their respective companions (eg, 10th = Carol as Rose (Carol's design wouldn't change))

They'd watch edits of whatever doctor you pick - the edits should be as normal as you can get with the doctor - eventually getting weirder until you're able to reveal what MC/ the Doctor really is plus how they've stayed the same mentally but they've visually lived as many different people over the years. + how Carol isn't their first companion, but they still care for Carol greatly because they're emotionally invested in her.

- also involve David tenant referring to the doctor as a "fairly asexual character" - because u think that would make Harlequin slightly salty because his whole thing is trying to get intimate with the MC to like, 'beat' Pierrot - and now he can't do that because the most MC is interested in is romance, and they're rarely actually interested in that (like, they can get emotionally invested, but they rarely feel romantic attraction).

Could also explain how the circus is basically just an adventure, a singular blip in the doctor and Carol's lives (because the circus would at most take up two episodes worth of runtime) before they move on to their next mystery to solve and explore.

- the circus finds out the MC / the doctor is an alien - Pierrot feels upset because the whole reason he was into the MC was because he thought they were different - a human that was kind but you're not even human. - could then show how much MC values the human race and how much they fight to defend it. Could also show Carol (as companion) being human and being kind - basically the human that they kidnapped is the one that's kind when the rest of her species isn't (in the circus' eyes).

- include all of his speeches and rambles about how brilliant the human race is (as a part of the "MC/ the doctor values human life")

Edit: done some watching of doctor who and now I think that either the 10th or 11th doctor would be ideal - I want a doctor that is silly Billy, I like the 11th but I think that the 10th would sort of get along ish with the circus members more than the 11th would

[black-mold-muncher]

Thinking of making a doctor who companion oc 🤔

[black-mold-muncher]

Random the freak circus ship idea that has probably been done before: MC x Columbina

Either its like, ghost monster x human or its an au where Columbina survived the moonless night and low-key Steals Pierrot and Harlequin's human from them 👀👀👀

And I mean this in an only MC x Columbina way, Pierrot and Harlequin aren't included in this relationship 😈

Sort of even better if the MC is asexual or just doesn't see non romantic/ non platonic intimacy to be necessary/ important for a relationship, so Columbina is constantly reassured that MC is actually into her as a person and not just as an object (like how the pre moonless night circus employees saw her (if I remember correctly))