@jesters-doll: To Jester, what if we wanted to be one of your fools to be closer to you? Would you accept us as a personal pet?
I do wonder which part of that idea appeals to you most. The loss of dignity, the loss of freedom, or... simply the attention?
@thenerdasourus: YIPPEEEEE HAPPY 1 YEARR
Question for Jester: do you have any habits or hobbies that you consider a bit childish, but can't seem to let go of? I honestly doubt it as you seem very mature and sophisticated, but I have to ask anyway
While some people seem to think reading can be childish in some respect, I certainly don't see it the same. Otherwise, there is nothing I can think of I would label as such.
@sephy-sephy: To Jester: uh well.. sir? I always wondered since I heard you have some sadistic tendencies, what do you think about masochism? Or BDSM in general? >///<
I'm curious to know where you've heard such... rumors. What exactly gave you that impression?~ Was it something I said… or something you enjoyed hearing?
@ilydylm: To Jester: if you could go back in time in your life, what would you change/do differently, if anything?
At one time, I might have answered differently, but no— it is foolish. The past is beyond my reach, and I see little value in obsessing over things that cannot be changed.
@nikoricircus: to Jester: Are there any requirements MC needs to meet in order for you to accept them in the family?
Yes. Leaving.
@richuarts: For Jester: what is one of your favorite things/gift you've been given by someone in your family or whole family in general? (And no, the gift of having a nice family doesn't count, or pierrot and harlequin not fighting for one day lol).
I don't concern myself with material gifts. However, I do own a blue hair clip that's proven unexpectedly useful. An irritatingly practical object, considering how insignificant it looks.
@sillyweirdguyhehe: For the circus diva😋, Jester: What are the future plans for the circus? I mean, do you have any goals or something also u want to achieve apart from the circus? Or you are gonna stay doing the same thing the rest of your lives?
I admire your confidence. Not everyone can use the wrong word so decisively. The circus is ours now. What comes next will be far more impressive. Magnificent, even. Whether you'll find it pleasant is another matter entirely.
@pinky27freak: To our mommy dearest, Jester~ I know the nomadic life style limits what one can buy and collect, however if you could what things (besides books) would you like to collect? Example, I like to collect black amethyst carnival glass.
Sigh.... Keeping things has never interested me much. They have a habit of disappearing before long. Monsters appear. Places burn. Circumstances change. You learn not to grow attached.
@andermancer: For Jester: Which circus acts/tricks/abilities does each circus member perform best and, if you may bless me with the alternative, worst? Such as aerial, acrobatic, juggling, acts of strength, etc etc.
We offer a variety of performances. Pierrot handles aerial acrobatics. Harlequin excels at acting and fire-eating. Ticket Taker is a magician of considerable skill. Doctor is particularly effective when it comes to atmosphere and performance. That's all you need to know visitor.
@ronixx360: Jester, how did you come up with the rules and the acts for each member of the circus?
Rules tend to appear whenever something has the potential to go wrong. They exist to ensure nobody gets hurt. As for the attractions... those developed more naturally. We simply discovered what suited each of us best.
Have you considered: the freak circus MC becomes tiny. As in, "can fit in just their palm" tiny. Any headcanons on how circus cast would react and treat MC?
hi cupcake! i love love love this prompt! I’m not sure whether you meant platonic or general/romantic HCs, so i kept it vague in order for you all to choose your own dynamics <3
Pierrot
“Baby?” he calls out, looking around all over his tent with a worried frown.
You had suddenly vanished even though he had been holding you all night!
He's so sure that you ran away, but when he sees the blankets rustling, he's quick to tug at them, revealing your tiny form.
He instantly melts into a puddle by the bed.
“You're so tiny,” he almost sobs, holding out his hand for you to come to.
When he figures out that you're barely even as tall as one of his fingers he lets a waterfall of tears flow freely.
He can't help it, you're adorable!
He would be very worried about you and how you got that way, but he'd always eventually want you to stay that way for a while.
He loves to carry you around and keep you in his cupped palms, showing you around in your new perspective.
He adores tiny you, and he won't let anyone take advantage of you in this state, still treating you with the upmost respect and kindness.
Harlequin
Boy oh boy. When he sees you he immediately bursts out laughing.
It delights him even further when he realizes it isn't a magic trick or an illusion.
He totally takes advantage of you.
He riles you up, talks about how easily you'd fit in his mouth now, and keeps you trapped in a little jar for a little bit.
“I could just swallow you whole~”
Give him like 2 days and he's tired of it.
He misses your big self. You can't mess around with him anymore or even fight back. It's no fun if he has such a big advantage.
He tries his best to turn you back once he's had his fill of fun.
“You’re not cuddle sized anymore” :(
Doctor
He's absolutely fascinated.
“How did this happen, hm?”
You are NOT allowed off his makeshift mini examination table the entire time. You’re going to be kept under a magnifying glass for sure.
Measures out the amount of medicine to give you in your new tiny size (literally just a few drops).
Honestly, wouldn’t mind if you stayed tiny, but would probably miss you helping him out around his tent.
If he can examine you successfully, he might find you a cure, but he won’t give it to you until he finds out how to turn you tiny again too.
Ticket Taker
“Oh dear. What happened here?” Ticket Taker says as soon as he spots you, gently picking you up to rest in his palms.
He’s very protective of you when you’re so small because he’s scared you’ll get squished.
He keeps you in his front breast pocket of his suit, not trusting anyone else to babysit you in this state.
He will read up insistently to figure out what’s going on.
If you’re tiny for more than a few days, he adjusts his suit pocket so it’s a lot more spacious and makes it into a comfy place for you.
He even makes you sleep in there now, so you’ll never not be at his side.
It’s kind of sweet, actually. You’re always right by his heartbeat.
Jester
“Oh isn’t that cute. You’re in your true form. A bug.”
He monumentally likes your tiny form much more than your big form.
He builds you a little cage, kind of like a hamster’s cage with a running wheel and everything.
Occasionally takes you out to pet you but likes staring at you through the glass most the time.
“Too bad acomodations like this are too hard to make when you’re human sized. I much prefer you like this.”
Will pretend like he doesn’t hear you complaining by closing your cage lid.
Ignores TT’s suggestions about this being human cruelty.
“I’m taking care of them well enough. In fact, I pay more attention to them now than before.”
Helloooo ๑•͈ᴗ•͈๑ How are you doing this lovely day?
I would just like to ask for a romantic hc abt The Freak Circus and how they would react to an artist MC who likes painting portraits of them in different settings, outfits, and styles!
Reading this, i started picturing the MC having a Xavier art shed from Wednesday of their circus partner and it made me giggle.
TFC: The Cast with an Artist Reader
WARNINGS: The Freak Circus is for 18+ only, Neko has expressed this multiple times please respect Neko's wishes and go away if you are under the age of 18.
❤️Pierrot❤️
Pierrot already has enough reasons to love and obsess over you. Just breathing in this man's general direction makes him love drunk. So finding out you are an artist? And you draw him none the less? He is gone, Pierrot.exe has stopped working, On the floor in just a puddle of mushy happiness.
He would have so many questions. Do you have an art room? What's your favourite style of art? Do you like water colours? Can he see some of your art works? Can you draw him?
If you offer to draw him, or finally give in to his puppy dog eyes after the millionth time of him pleading - Pierrot turns into a damn statue, pose him however you want no matter how uncomfortable that pose is to hold; he will hold it with perfect precision every time.
Show him your art, just do it because if you don’t he’ll find it anyway. Going through your art with him is one of his favourite things to do with you, he loves listening to you talk about each piece - hearing the passion and devotion you put behind every work. Even the ones you think negatively of or believe you could have done better. Pierrot wants to hear every detail.
He tried to paint you once, it wasn’t actually that bad - he made an absolute mess of your studio but it was actually a really nice gift.
💚Harlequin💚
To begin with Harlequin doesn’t actually take notice of your art. Does he register that you are doing it? Yes, does he give ur work a look over a few times? He does. Will he actually register any of it? Nope. This man's brain is smooth half the time - he can't process more than one thought at a time if he hasn’t thought of it in advance. So if you draw him and don’t tell him, he won’t even register its him on the paper. Just a green speckled cucumber blob to him.
Now if you TELL HIM you are an artist and out right show him to his face that you are drawing him. It's like you gave him glasses and he's seeing the world for the first time. Because now he is invested. In his own way at least. Harles may not be too keen if you ask to draw him outright, he’ll get all fidgety and can't hold a pose to save his life. So you’d need to catch him when he’s focused or working.
Suddenly he's conveniently looking over your shoulder when you are the most focused. Your paint water mysteriously got cleaned during a particularly detailed focused section. When did your chalks get cleaned? And didn’t you have another finished canvas on your wall earlier?
In his own way, Harlequin shows how much he appreciates your work and admires your skills by making things easier without actually telling you he's doing it. But you know. He thinks you don’t but you do. And yes you have caught him stealing ur art straight from your studio. He was like a deer in headlights, just frozen in place holding the evidence before just yeeting himself out the window before u could say anything.
🖤Doctor🖤
Doctor is an interesting case. He didn’t find out you were an artist over time oh no. He figured it out the day you met: The stubborn paint under your nails, the chalk dust on your clothes, the slight discolouration of your skin from cleaning charcoal off. Nothing got past him during that examination. He’ll tell you he saw the creative sparkle in your eye if you ask him how he knew.
Bird man has been waiting since day one to see your work, so the day you finally offer to show him your studio and work, he is more than eager to follow. Doctor will listen and examine every art work in the most calculated way possible. Arms folded behind his back, mask tiled to the side staring at one piece after another. Moving alone each one as you talk like a professional art inspector.
Don’t worry he isn’t actually judging, Doctor is just heavily invested in deciding which one is his favourite that it comes off as him judging the work. He never actually ends up deciding. If you have any work for him though? That's when he’ll finally say something and that something is the word “interesting” which translates to: “you love me ;-; you really love me”
Doctor is the most caring when it comes to handling your supplies and work, he treats them like his surgical instruments - with the utmost care. These are your life's work, he wouldn’t expect you to start throwing his work around so why would he disrespect yours? He’ll restock your supplies when you are low, he will help move canvas around, clean up any unwanted mess. He understands creative chaos so won’t touch any of that mess, only what you ask him to.
💙Ticket Taker💙
This is Ticket, you think he doesn’t already know you're an artist? Bil is the most interested when it comes to you being an artist, but not in the same way as the others. In fact he would much rather know about the reasoning behind each piece than ogling and admiring the details.
Ticket finds value in the finer things but he also has a soft spot for history and facts. He could listen to you talk about your work and how they came to be for hours. Whilst he isn’t the most intrigued watching you work - he’ll often work with you creative flowing in the corner as you talk to him about your pieces.
You have NEVER had to ask this man to get you supplies, it's like he can read your mind. Paintbrushes cleaned and organised, fresh charcoal, watercolours are filled, chalks decontaminated. Bil has fixed your tools before, a screw loose in the easel, fixing a bent leg on your stool. Whatever keeps you in that creative flow. Sometimes you wonder how he finds that time.
He HATES it if you paint him, especially without asking him. Is he flattered? Yes, he is! You put work into this. But he does not like the idea of his mask being immortalised. Bil won’t make you toss or destroy the work though - he’ll just ask no one but him, gets to see it.
Sometimes when he’s working with Jester, he’ll tell him about some of your works. It actually becomes a common topic between the two sometimes you’ll get Bil requesting something on Jesters behalf.
💜Jester💜
If Bil knows, Jester knows. The definition of art critique, Jester is judging you after every brush stroke. Looking over your shoulder, silently observing you from his various lounging spots. It can be uncomfortable but it's his way of not scaring you off. Jester is a lover of all things art, he is a performer darling a PERFORMER! And he doesn’t just love the stage, he loves all forms of art, music, acting, puppeteer, painting the works.
Sometimes he can be very judgemental when you ask him for criticism. He will give harsh unfiltered criticism and sometimes they hurt. Flick some paint at him or throw one of your charcoals at him. He won’t take it too personally.
On the opposite note, on the works you have finished, he is an admirer, he’ll criticise whilst you work because it's something you can use and get value out of. But once you finish, he becomes an observer again silently scanning your work over a few times.
Jester has one of two reactions to you drawing him. 1) You didn’t ask him and wanted to surprise him- now you are faced with his disapproving stare. 2) You ask to paint him and he enters fashion model mode. Jester is much like Bil in which hes would rather be asked than just have a painting of him thrusted in his face.
Whilst he isn’t the best at complimenting, his eyes and body language say enough for him when he's watching you work. Don’t expect him to restock your supplies though. He’ll instinctively make notes of what you need, but won’t get it himself, man's busy enough as it is.
🩷Columbina🩷
Oh boy, when she finds out you are an artist, She is OVER the moon! Columbina is working right alongside you. I can see her as someone who loves painting her feelings. She has so many bottled away so this is her way of letting them out. Through art darlings.
She loves doing those art challenges with you. The swapping every so many minutes, blindfolded the works if you find one she wants to do! Her favourite one to do is the unique style where you both draw the same thing in your own styles and compare, she loves the differences you both share whilst still having the same passion.
If you have your work displayed, she has stars and sparkles in her eyes as she gleefully looks over each piece asking a million questions or telling you how amazing your work and you are.
Stocking supplies, she wants to come! Columbina likes to come with you whenever you go for supply runs. She likes looking at all the cute pens art stores sell, she has so many but never uses them. But you don’t mind her using one of your pots to store them in. I mean they are pretty cute.
