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Happy new year to my fellow freak circus fans and a happy new year to the creator of this incredible game!

I need to know what’s going on in the black tent. I can’t take a good guess but I want to know for sure 😭

just found a route where Pierrot asks to bite you. Did not see that coming lol

I don’t think Pierrot would allow the humans to do anything bad to Columbina. Remember that’s exactly how they ended up in that situation in the first place. Some humans showed an interest in her and Pierrot stepped in to protect her. But then they injured him so badly that he was left unable to move, likely near death and for what was likely the first time in their captivity, he couldn’t protect her from anything. Columbina, then turns to Harlequin for help who takes advantage of the situation to provide the others and himself with food for strength to turn on their captors. It could be that Harlequin thought he was protecting her in a twisted sense but my interpretation was that Harlequin might have been insulted by the request. Perhaps he found it audacious for her to expect his protection when she had chosen Pierrot over him. And only once Pierrot can’t protect her does she turn to him for help. He may have thought “You aren’t mine to protect so why should I protect you when the rest of us are starving and you’re the weakest one. Instead..why don’t YOU save US by giving us the strength to fight back?” Obviously this is a very negative interpretation of the events and may not be correct. Even if it is, it might only be partially correct as I’ve realised that Harlequin is extremely complicated and difficult to read. There’s probably multiple reasons why he does things and not a straight forward answer. The creator has said that when it comes to harlequin, even when out right says how he’s feeling/thinking you don’t know if you should believe him or not. 

I think the creator is taking a break for the holidays. Probably won’t get anything till after New Year’s Day but I keep checking back each day just in case lol

Are you stuck at the part where you enter the cafe your boss talks to you before leaving? If so then you need to click the drinks on the counter to pick them up and then click on a table to deliver them. Each customer will talk to you before letting you click on the next table. Hope this helps 

jester’s secret scene is unlocked after viewing his show while the other one is unlocked in the mirror maze. At the far end there will be a mirror with a figure in it who asks you to come closer. Pick the option to move closer and you will unlock the scene. 

well there’s going to be multiple endings and quite likely a route where we die (there’s already one lol) but I doubt the creator will give us only bad endings, I’m sure there be some outcomes we’ll be happy with. After all that’s kind of the point of being able to influence the outcome with our choices. I just want at least one end we get to stay with Pierrot.

The pink one who we know to be Columbina actually has three accounts of her death atm.  Harlequin’s puppet show, jester’s play and Ticket taker’s mirror. We are told that each one made their own account of the event to protect themselves from the trauma of what happened. This means that each account leaves out the parts that the story teller can’t/won’t accept. For example, Harlequin doesn’t mention the romance and tries to play off her death as a willing sacrifice which we know to be a lie. While Jester focuses solely on the love triangle and completely leaves out the part of her being eaten and the situation that influenced that tragic outcome other than the love triangle. 

The mirror version is portrayed as being Columbina’s own retelling of the event but interestingly it’s the Ticket taker who encouraged us to look into that particular mirror. The mirror is the one I believe to be the most accurate version. I think only by repeatedly viewing these stories and comparing them can we get an idea of what really was going on. 

I love discussing theories on this game though. There’s just so much to unpack