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• More Valuable Alive Than Dead by AspenTheCryptid

  Fandoms: The Freak Circus (Visual Novel)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • F/M, M/M, Other
  • Work in Progress

  17 Jun 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Jester (The Freak Circus)/Reader
  • Doctor & Harlequin & Jester & Pierrot & Ticket Taker (The Freak Circus)
  • Pierrot (The Freak Circus) & Reader
  • Harlequin (The Freak Circus) & Reader
  • Jester (The Freak Circus)/You
  • Doctor (The Freak Circus) & Reader
  • Ticket Taker (The Freak Circus) & Reader
  • Jester (The Freak Circus)
  • Harlequin (The Freak Circus)
  • Pierrot (The Freak Circus)
  • Doctor (The Freak Circus)
  • Ticket Taker (The Freak Circus)
  • Reader
  • You
  • Slow Burn
  • Eventual Romance
  • Jester has trust issues
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • slight Jester character study
  • Pierrot and Harlequin like the MC
  • but it's not mutual
  • Angst
  • Miscommunication
  • Mistrust
  • Gender-Neutral Reader-Insert
  • Human Reader-Insert
  • No Use of Y/N for Reader-Insert
  • reader is mc
  • Eventual Smut
  • no beta we die like Columbina
  • Degradation
  • Author is a Univeristy student and has a job
  • as a barista (ironically enough)
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • (Hopefully) Weekly Updates

  Summary

  While there is no true "leader" of the circus anymore, someone needed to step up and organise this mess so that it can be considered a functioning family.

  Jester is a creature of composure, determination, and incredible strategy. These traits however become inreasingly harder to upkeep when Pierrot's and Harlequin's pesky little toy decides their curiosity is stronger than their fear.

  It truely is such a shame that this infuriating little creature insists on being more valuable alive than dead.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  7,014

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Kudos:

  23

  Bookmarks:

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