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• Limerence by JustAnotherReader (ReadersOfTheVoid)

  Fandoms: The Freak Circus (Visual Novel)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  27 Jun 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Pierrot (The Freak Circus)/Reader
  • Main Character/Pierrot (The Freak Circus)
  • Pierrot (The Freak Circus)
  • Doctor (The Freak Circus)
  • Carol (The Freak Circus)
  • Boss (The Freak Circus)
  • Ticket Taker (The Freak Circus)
  • Jester (The Freak Circus)
  • Harlequin (The Freak Circus)
  • Aromantic Reader-Insert
  • Male Reader-Insert
  • No Use of Y/N for Reader-Insert
  • Tags May Change
  • Stalking
  • Yandere
  • Breaking and Entering
  • extremely self-indulgent content
  • Reader-Insert Has a Set Appearance
  • Size Difference
  • Pierrot Has a Size Kink
  • Excessive use of petnames
  • Neurodivergent Reader-Insert
  • Codependency
  • Slow Burn
  • Angst
  • Pierrot is Unstable
  • no beta we die like men
  • whole lotta dubcon
  • Paranoia
  • reader-insert is mentally ill
  • Gaslighting
  • Non-Consensual Drug Use
  • MC is stressed tf out
  • Self-Esteem Issues
  • Kidnapping
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Attempted Murder
  • MC throws hands with some clowns
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • MC Theorises A Lot
  • MC swears like a sailor
  • Starvation
  • OCD
  • Suggestive Themes
  • Pierrot being Excessively Controlling
  • Monster Xenophobia
  • Implied/Referenced Suicidal Thoughts
  • Dehumanization
  • Emotional Manipulation
  • lots of uncomfortable themes
  • The Author's attempt at inserting some realism to this whole yandere thing
  • Psychological Horror
  • Drug Abuse
  • Pierrot is actively traumatising MC
  • MC just wants to go home.
  • Non-Consensual Touching
  • Forced Cohabitation
  • Moral Ambiguity
  • Pierrot treating red flags like a to-do list
  • Trauma Bonding
  • and also Bonding Over Trauma
  • Emphasis on dehumanisation btw
  • Mating Bites

  Summary

  You've never really understood what it means to love or even be loved.
  You never had crushes growing up and relationships of all kinds have always been low on the list of priorities.
  You've been busy just trying to survive.
  You knew it was a real phenomenon, just not for you. Whenever anybody tried to provide it, you always ended up pushing them away.
  But what if you one day could no longer avoid it? What if somebody persisted, forcing you to be loved anyways?
  The thought terrifies you.

  Or,

  In which Pierrot just so happens to fall in love with an Aromantic MC. Things can only go so well.
  [Updates weekly]

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  110,002

  Chapters:

  22/?

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