Pierrot The Freak Circus

Harlequin

ALIASES Arlequim (Portuguese) The Poison

AFFILIATION Pierrot (Co-worker/Rival) MC (Potential love interest) Jester (Leader/Peer) Ticket Taker (Co-worker/Peer) Doctor (Co-worker/Peer) Columbina (Former love interest/co-worker/peer)

OCCUPATION The Seductive Rival

DATE OF BIRTH May 26

SPECIES Monster

GENDER Male

HEIGHT 187cm (≈6'1")

EYE COLOR Venom Green

Harlequin appears to have short, curly black hair at the side shaped like a heart. A white 'mask', often with up slanted, black eyes (pupils are green); the 'mask' has two green markings, one a triangle under his left eye, and the other a diamond over his right eye. The 'mask' has a mouth appears to be a wide grin, showing sharp white teeth.

The mouth can show other expressions other than grinning, along with the pupils too. The mouth can open, revealing a forked green tongue.

Harlequin wears a green and black jester hat, that has two points on either side; a bell is attached to the end of both points. Harlequin wears and black cape with golden trim on the edges (& for the inside), along with two hearts on the front of the cape; the left heart is upside down, whilst the right is right side up. He wears a green, black, and yellow suit. The yellow goes down the middle, whilst black acts as a trim on the top, and below the black piece of cloth (presumably acts as a belt), the trim is yellow.

The main part of the suit is green, with the right side of his suit having green, vertical lines all the way down. His sleeves are long, with the left sleeve being green and having a vertical, straight line of up-side down black hearts going down the side of the sleeve; the right sleeve being black and having one vertical, straight green line.

The sleeves seem to connect to his gloves (showing no skin), the left one being black with a green heart on the upper side of his hand, and the fingers of the glove being green. Whilst the right glove is green with a black heart on the upper side of his hand, and the fingers of the glove being black. He has claws, which are hidden by the gloves; but still visible by shape (just like Pierrot & Jester).

He wears baggy, black pants that stop at his knees; in the middle one both pant-legs, there is a golden / yellow heart. He wears long jester-like shoes that go up to his knees (seeming to connect to his pants), the left one is black with a green trim and lace; whilst the right is green with black trim and lace.

Harlequin seems to have a carefree attitude to what most think; he can be sadistic and also quite teasing as well. Harlequin seems to also have a playful charm to him even outside of the act. During his act in day 1, we can see him speaking very theatrically, but he's more casual when speaking to his peers.

At first, Harlequin doesn't seem to be that interested with MC, he's more interested with the idea of messing around with Pierrot, but depending on how the MC acts there's a possible chance that he'll fall for them eventually.

Harlequin seems very comfortable with being seductive and handsy around MC, he doesn't really care if MC takes interest in Pierrot more since his intentions weren't only to take them away from Pierrot but also to see Pierrot's reaction, but he does get surprised (or maybe even satisfied) when MC chooses him over Pierrot. Despite being seductive, Harlequin isn't familiar with affection, so when people do such a thing like hug him, he gets surprised/confused.

Harlequin's also known for being risky just for the sake of seeing how people would react, this is proven that even though he knows how dangerous Pierrot can be, he messes with him, leading to him getting stabbed five times by Pierrot.

Jester

Jester being the leader of the circus, Harlequin likes to tease him but otherwise respects his authority.

Pierrot

Pierrot and Harlequin have a rivalry since even before falling in love with Columbina. After Columbina's death their rivalry has become more intense.

MC

Harlequin takes an interest in MC due to them having Pierrot get attracted to them and wanting to steal them from Pierrot, even going so far as to sexually harass them. Depending on MC's actions, it's possible that it can lead him to falling in love with them even though his first intentions wasn't for him to like them.

Columbina

Harlequin and Columbina have direct connections if we refer to the game's cutscenes and dialogue.

In one of the interpretation's of Columbina's death, we can see her asking Harlequin to save her, but by 'save' he thought of it very differently. To 'save' Columbina, Harlequin killed her and is also implied to have eaten her.

Not only was Harlequin physically present during Columbina's death, he was also heavily implied to be the cause of her demise. During Jester's storytelling in day 2, we can see him referring to Harlequin as 'The Poison'. We can also see that Jester had narrated that Columbina most likely died to poison before getting eaten.

Ticket Taker

He doesn't get involved much with him, unless Harlequin meddles in his own business otherwise, they get along fine.

Doctor

He is more laid-back, since Harlequin doesn't usually provoke him very often.

Harlequin likes to observe him when he does experiments.

Pierrot:

AFFILIATION MC (Friend/Potential love interest) Jester (Leader/Peer) Ticket Taker (Co-worker/Peer) Harlequin (Co-worker/Rival) Doctor (Co-worker/Peer) Columbina (Former lover)

OCCUPATION The Silent Obsession

DATE OF BIRTH May 18

SPECIES Monster

GENDER Male

HEIGHT 198cm (≈6'5")

EYE COLOR Yellow/Golden

Pierrot appears to have long, white / silver hair. A white 'mask', often with up slanted, black eyes (pupils are yellow / gold); the 'mask' also appears to have black markings that take the shape of vertical slits over the eyes. With the left having a black tear drop marking under the vertical slit marking.

The 'mask' has a mouth that appears to be a wide grin, showing sharp white teeth. The mouth can show other expressions other than grinning, along with the pupils too. The mouth can open, revealing a long tongue.

Pierrot wears a red and black checkered jester hat that has three different points with bells at the end of each- the top of each part / point has a yellow star on it. He wears a black and yellow frilled clown collar, the insides being yellow; from the frilled clown collar are two triangle-like pieces of cloth that hang from it, each one having a bell at the end.

The triangles are black and have a yellow trim. Pierrot wears a suit, the main colors being red and black- the black goes down the middle whilst the red is on the rest of the suit. Around the suit's waist, there's a yellow piece that seems to perhaps work as a belt.

The sleeves of the suit are short and baggy, like Jester's. There are black vertical slits on the sleeves and they have cuffs at the end. Pierrot wears black gloves that go up to about his mid arm. The sleeves and gloves seem to be connected by some yellow cloth (no skin showing); with red diamonds going down in a straight line on left yellow cloth & black diamonds going down in a straight line on the right yellow cloth.

He wears black baggy pants that go down to his knees, there are red elongated diamonds at the very bottom. He wears long black jester-like shoes that go up to his knees; the shoes have a red trim at the top of them (where the pants meet the shoes) and yellow lace.

Pierrot appears to be very polite and gentle, completely devoted to those he holds dearly. However, beneath the politeness, Pierrot is very obsessive. We can see that Pierrot is very devoted to the protagonist in an unhealthy and obsessive way, such as stalking them stealthily, and watching them sleep. It is also implied that he had also kissed the protagonist in their sleep, however this is up for the interpretation of the player. In some parts of the game, we can see Pierrot being very protective to the protagonist, and also Columbina, as seen in the flashback in the back/last mirror is Ticket Taker's tent. Relationships

MC

Pierrot is completely in love with the protagonist, almost in an obsessive way. He goes on to harass the protagonist during work, spy on them while they sleep, and even drugging and kidnapping the protagonist when they tell Pierrot that they're not going to see him the next day. But despite all of this, he seems to want to protect them from any imminent danger, especially from Harlequin.

Jester

Apparently, he's like an authority figure to him. He respects him very deeply. Jester is also the one that Pierrot relies on the most, out of everyone in the circus. Pierrot describes Jester as being very gentle with him.

Harlequin

Pierrot hates him very much. This is the main reason why he's so overprotective to MC. It stems from a trauma related to his first love, Columbina. It's mentioned that he's even stabbed him several times; in one scene, Harlequin takes MC to his tent, and Pierrot discovers them in the act and stabs him in the shoulder.

Ticket Taker

Ticket Taker seems to be another authority figure to Pierrot. There is no further information about their relationship yet.

Columbina

Columbina and Pierrot are claimed to have direct connections based off of cutscenes and dialogue that had been shared on-screen.

Pierrot seeing Columbina die. If we look at Jester's storytelling in day 2, it is heavily implied that Columbina and Pierrot had a romantic relationship with each other.

During Harlequin's depiction of Columbina's death in day 1, we can see Pierrot watching her get torn apart from afar, meaning that he refused to eat her remains, but it proved he was physically present during her death. This is because in Ticket Taker's tent that he was injured and watched from a cage of the others eating her.

Columbina:

Murder: Harlequin, seized with jealousy because Columbine did not love him, poisoned her.

Devouring: After death, the other members of the circus (including Harlequin) ate her body.

Piero's special role: The narrative hints that Piero did not participate in eating, which emphasizes his special, tragic love for her.