History Webcomic / CirqueRoyale

* EveryoneHatesMimes: Less individual mimes and more the species as a whole. Other species (especially clowns) perceive mimes as violent, dangerous, criminals and thus in need of restraint and control. King George called them simple creatures (since [[TheSpeechless they can't talk verbally]]) who are better off serving in other countries such as Clowny Island than "stumbling" around on the "dangerous" streets of Mimopolis, and that their powers need to be controlled to stop them from hurting themselves or others. He also never approved of his best friend's wife, Claudette Sr., and once called her a deranged mime harlot where Kingston overheard [[SpeakIllOfTheDead after she was dead]] and then called Kingston a [[FantasticSlurs harlequin]]. Leo and Diana's father, Aries Cashworthy, uses this perception of violent mimes to send an angry riot towards mimes celebrating during Lantern Day (to make Quinn look bad as a ruler). The anniversary paper of the bombing that memorializes Kingston's father Charles Sr. cuts his mother, Claudette Sr., out of the photograph completely; she was never memorialized in the Clowny Island News newspaper and only in a musical magazine. Zeppy calls Charlie the "harlequin prince" to his face before he leaves Milo's [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Basements and Banshees]] game.

* ModestRoyalty: The royal family -- past and present -- wear casual clothing most of the day in whatever style they prefer. Claudette wears her next-in-line Crown Princess crown with her day wear frequently, and Quinn really only wears hers as part of her royal top hat in official capacity, the only visible signs of their royalty.

* WhatsUpKingDude: The royal family isn't separated from the citizens of Clowny Island; they wander around cities and towns freely, and live in the same kind of mobile-place on wheels as the other citizens albeit slightly taller. Quinn holds a public town meeting on Lantern Day -- which means she and Kingston can't be available initially -- that anyone in the kingdom can attend and speak their mind to them at, even if they have nothing useful to say.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Charlie likes to wear skirts and dresses. His family sees no issue with this, with the exception that Claudette is annoyed that he takes her clothes. When he was younger he always dressed to match his twin sister, down to the skirts, but has since grown out of it -- though not the desire to wear skirts.
* YourMimeMakesItReal: Pascal is capable of producing solid illusions that others can interact with as long as he understands the shape and how it works, including vehicles. The larger and more complex shapes, like a car, take more energy and so don't last as long and can lead to burnout -- and the item disappearing -- if he strains himself.

* BSideComics: These are posted on the webcomic's tumblr page, as well as information and casual doodles that aren't posted elsewhere. The only side comic to the main that has been posted on other platforms is "Non-Stop, Side B" which shows what Quinn was doing while Kingston was running around all day burning himself out -- namely having to meet with Aries Cashworthy regarding the loans and contracts her parents took out and she's now on the hook for as queen.

* LazyAlias: When Will is telling his nieces and nephews about how he lost his leg, [[spoiler:namely that he and his twin brother Will were born as [[HalfIdenticalTwins Half-Identical]] ConjoinedTwins and only had three legs between them]], he changes the names of his family in-story other than his parents, the then-king and queen who are only referred to by title; he does this in very small ways, making them also {{SueDonym}}s. Quinn is "Quincy", Penelope is "Pinecone", and Manet and Pascal are "Monet" and "Pierre". The author [[LampshadeHanging lmapshades]] this in [[TheRant the notes below]] and includes "Princeton and Capricorn," aka Kingston and Leo.

* LazyAlias: When Will is telling his nieces and nephews about how he lost his leg, [[spoiler:namely that he and his twin brother Will were born as [[HalfIdenticalTwins Half-Identical]] ConjoinedTwins and only had three legs between them]], he changes the names of his family in-story other than his parents, the then-king and queen who are only referred to by title; he does this in very small ways, making them also {{SueDonym}}s. Quinn is "Quincy", Penelope is "Pinecone", and Manet and Pascal are "Monet" and "Pierre". The author mocks this in [[TheRant the notes below]] and includes "Princeton and Capricorn," aka Kingston and Leo.

* MeaningfulRename: Will, being trans, formally changed their name. It's also only Will and not William.

* LazyAlias: When Will is telling his nieces and nephews about how he lost his leg, [[spoiler:namely that he and his twin brother Will were born as [[HalfIdenticalTwins Half-Identical]] ConjoinedTwins and only had three legs between them]], he changes the names of his family in-story other than his parents, the then-king and queen who are only referred to by title. Quinn is "Quincy", Penelope is "Pinecone", and Manet and Pascal are "Monet" and "Pierre". The author mocks this in [[TheRant the notes below]] and includes "Princeton and Capricorn," aka Kingston and Leo.

Cirque Royale updates on Thursdays on [[https://tapas.io/series/Cirque-Royale Tapas]], [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/cirque-royale/list?title_no=449403 Webtoon]], [[http://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/ tumblr]], [[https://globalcomix.com/c/cirque-royale Global Comix]], and its domain. The Tumblr also has backstory, expansions and insights on the world and characters, and side comics and doodles that aren't posted elsewhere.

* AltarDiplomacy: This was the reason that Crown Princess Quinn was engaged to marry Leo; he was considered worthy to be her fiance as the Cashworthys are the wealthiest family in the kingdom, in a case of NobilityMarriesMoney. Quinn learns during the side story "Non-Stop: Side B" that she was basically sold off by her parents to cover contracts they signed; the influx of money from the Cashworthys was needed because the kingdom was all but broke, and marrying Leo would bring money to the kingdom and stabilize their finances after taking out many loans from Cashworthy Finances. The contract even says any breach (such as if she had divorced Leo later) would call in the unpaid loans immediately. She doesn't take it well. [[spoiler:Especially when she learns that because the marriage arraignment was broken, she's the one the hook for the breach and has to start to pay back the loans without a grace period or else Aries will take the kingdom as collateral.]]

* AltarDiplomacy: This was the reason that Crown Princess Quinn was engaged to marry Leo; he was considered worthy to be her fiance as the Cashworthys are the wealthiest family in the kingdom, in a case of NobilityMarriesMoney. Quinn learns during the side story "Non-Stop: Side B" that she was basically sold off by her parents to cover contracts they signed; the influx of money from the Cashworthys was needed because the kingdom was all but broke, and marrying Leo would bring money to the kingdom and stabilize their finances after taking out many loans from Cashworthy Finances. The contract even says any breach (such as if she had divorced Leo later) would call in the unpaid loans immediately. She doesn't take it well. [[spoiler:Especially when she learns that because the marriage arraignment was broken, she's the one the hook for the breach and has to start to pay back the loans without a grace period or else Aries will take the kingdom as collateral.]]
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Penelope's poodles -- specifically, the cotton candy poodles -- have fur in the color of cotton candy: pink and blue, like her hair.

* CallingParentsByTheirName: Enforced by Aries. His children Diana and Leo aren't allowed to call him Dad or Father and must call him "Mr. Cashworthy."
* CallForward: The Unicorn Princess, Valeria [=MajestyMoon=], is seen in a tween magazine ''Princess Beat'' just below Claudette where she's mentioned as a Princess to Watch in "No New Friends." She doesn't debut properly until "Loud Mouth," and doesn't have a full part until "Date Night."

* GenkiGirl: Claudette is often enthusiastic, friendly, trusting, and energetic, trying to make friends with everyone she meets -- for good or bad. It takes her a while to make any real friends.

* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: For Quinn and Kingston's children; until Penelope showed up and informed Quinn that their father had passed (and so she was now the queen), the children hadn't known they were royal at all. Red immediately decides she's to be treated like one from that day on.

* AltarDiplomacy: This was the reason that Crown Princess Quinn was engaged to marry Leo; he was considered worthy to be her fiance as the Cashworthys are the wealthiest family in the kingdom, in a case of NobilityMarriesMoney. Quinn learns during the side story "Non-Stop: Side B" that she was basically sold off by her parents to cover contracts they signed; the influx of money from the Cashworthys was needed because the kingdom was all but broke, and marrying Leo would bring money to the kingdom and stabilize their finances after taking out many loans from Cashworthy Finances. The contract even says any breach (such as if she had divorced Leo later) would call in the unpaid loans immediately. She doesn't take it well. [[spoiler:Especially when she learns that because the marriage arraignment was broken, she's the one the hook for the breach and has to start to pay back the loans without a grace period or else Aries will take the kingdom as collateral.]]
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Penelope's poodles -- specifically, the cotton candy poodles -- have fur in the color of cotton candy: pink and blue, like her hair.

* ColorCodedSpeech: Each character has their own colored speech bubble. Furthermore, mime speak has black backgrounds behind the words, since their speech is telepathic and can't be heard by non-mimes (or those without translators).

* DeadPersonConversation: Kingston has one of these with the illusion of his father, Charles Sr., in the sound room dedicated in his memory while trying to produce the illusions for the stage play they're putting on in "Non-Stop." It's not actually a conversation; Kingston, stressed out, is projecting this to himself as a hallucination because he hasn't slept properly in a week (all while continuing to narrate and project for the play while having his breakdown). This is followed by him projecting his memories of the past leading up to the night of the Peace Gala that his parents died in.

** Mimes have pointy ears and fingers, purple skin, sharp teeth that often involve CuteLittleFangs, blue eyes, and black facial markings. They are also [[TheSpeechless mute]] and cannot talk verbally; their "vocal" communication is actually done telepathically and only able to be heard naturally by mimes. Some have psychic abilities (light manipulation, illusions, teleportation, etc). Also they are all obligate carnivores and need to eat meat, but aren't very buff.

* EveryoneHatesMimes: Less individual mimes and more the species as a whole. Other species (especially clowns) perceive mimes as violent, dangerous, criminals and thus in need of restraint and control. King George called them simple creatures (since [[TheSpeechless they can't talk verbally]]) who are better off serving in other countries such as Clowny Island than "stumbling" around on the "dangerous" streets of Mimopolis, and that their powers need to be controlled to stop them from hurting themselves or others. He also never approved of his best friend's wife, Claudette Sr., and once called her a deranged mime harlot where Kingston overheard [[SpeakIllOfTheDead after she was dead]] and then called Kingston a [[FantasticSlurs harlequin]]. Leo and Diana's father, Aries Cashworthy, uses this perception of violent mimes to send an angry riot towards mimes celebrating during Lantern Day (to make Quinn look bad as a ruler). And the anniversary paper of the bombing that memorializes Kingston's father Charles Sr. cuts his mother, Claudette Sr., out of the photograph completely; she was never memorialized in the Clowny Island News newspaper and only in a musical magazine. And Zeppy calls Charlie the "harlequin prince" to his face before he leaves Milo's [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Basements and Banshees]] game.

* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Between Quinn and Penelope, starting in childhood with Quinn as the heir to the throne who [[RebelliousPrincess didn't want to be]] and Penelope as the SpareToTheThrone who from birth has constantly been in her older sister's shadow. They got along somewhat as children with help from Kingston and Leo as part of their friend group and because Penelope looked up to her older sister, but things became much worse after Quinn ran away from home. Penelope thought of her as ungrateful and unworthy of her position, and that Quinn had everything handed to her and threw it all away in a fit of rebellion. When Quinn first tries to connect at Red's birthday party, Penelope angrily snaps that she had everything and she used to look up to Quinn, but Quinn now is trying to squeeze in like everything is "fine again." However, they are starting to reconnect after Quinn's return and while things still are tense and they spar and spat often, they [[ThickerThanWater do sincerely care for each other]]. [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/641592194987343872/episode-7-loud-mouth-pt-43-part-2-brownies-fix Quinn comforts Penelope after she has a freakout about being touched unexpectedly]] due to recovering from DomesticAbuse, and offers to take Penelope to a cafe she likes to talk as sisters. And Penelope comforts Quinn during the Lantern Day dinner, after she's sulking after Aries' riling her up at the town hall; she reminds Quinn that there were more clowns on her side than on the side of the mob that went to attack mimes for celebrating Lantern Day and Aries is just a power-hungry egoist.

* HeroicBSOD: Kingston in "Non-Stop", after not sleeping properly for a week ''and'' stressing himself out all day with various events while trying not to think about it being the 20th anniversary of his parents' deaths in a terrorist bombing [[spoiler:where he was present and his mother lost her life by projecting her powers until he was found and burning out]], has a severe one. He has a mental breakdown during his play narration and projection, [[DeadPersonConversation sees and hears his late father Charles Sr.]], then is teleported back mentally to the night of the bombing for the second time that day -- while still on autopilot for the show. Quinn finds him slumped over in the sound room with his hands burnt black and unable to speak physically, and she has to escort him home and use the Blackfish earpiece translator she has to communicate with him.
* HiddenDepths: Dowager Queen "Louise the Beautiful" Mills initially came off as a shallow, [[HippieParents anti-vaxx hippy]] who believed in crystal healing, and something of an InnocentBigot whose only defining trait outside of being the circus's fortune teller was that she was beautiful (which is why she was set up to marry George in the first place). She also continues to call Red, Charlie, and Claudie her [[FantasticSlurs "lavender grandbabies"]], which neither they nor Quinn like. However she's shown to be much more than that. Her late husband, King George, and she were in an ArrangedMarriage, and he never appeared to be interested in her the way she adored him. She's nowhere near as nasty to mimes as George was; she's always cared for Manet despite him being a servant and treats him like close family, as well as his son Pascal who was raised alongside her children. She's learned how to respectfully refer to her trans son Will and about the gender spectrum (she was taught by Daisy in what she calls "terrifyingly educational"). She did many things behind George's back to let her children thrived and mime culture continue in secret after he banned it in retaliation for Quinn running off with Kingston, and now has no problem that Quinn allows it openly; she's even pleased that the FreakShow is now part of the circus proper, smirking when she says that "George wouldn't like this at all" and showing she had some degree of contempt for her late husband. Most of all [[spoiler:when her ConjoinedTwins were born she loved them from the first day -- and when George wanted to force their separation (which would have likely killed one of the two twins) Louise, in fear for her children's lives, talked him out of it by putting them in the FreakShow and saving them -- and when they were [[MadwomanInTheAttic confined to the attic]] by King George who didn't want them walking around being seen in public for free, she spent so much time with them that she rarely appeared in public afterwards.]] Most of the mistakes she makes are not out of maliciousness, but a lack of knowledge.

* IndenturedServitude: Mimes who are criminals (or are framed as them for any reason, including just turning eighteen and thus now old enough to be made a servant) are sent out by Mimopolis to various kingdoms including the Clown Kingdom as indentured servants, where they have to serve until they've earned off their sentence (with the theoretical pay being sent back the Mimopolis queen, Empress Renoir). This can be for decades or even life; Manet got a lifetime sentence. Some people who feel sorry for the conditions of mimes and the screwed up prison system apply to take mimes in as "servants" but instead house them more like exchange students.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Charlie plays a piano piece for his dad Kingston from a songbook he found in his dad's room. It's "At Kingston Inn" - a piece by his late grandmother Claudette Sr., who named Kingston after the inn. Seeing his dad's upset, Charlie innocently says he thought his dad would like to hear it again. Kingston, who has been struggling all day with the fact it's the anniversary of his parent's deaths and isn't telling anyone about his bad flashbacks and stress, quietly tells Charlie that he played it perfectly -- and they should stay out of his things as he walks off and puts the songbook back up.

* IWasQuiteALooker: Queen Louise, the former queen, was so pretty when she was younger that her subtitle as queen was "the Beautiful". She was selected to marry George because of it.
* LastOfHerKind: Queen Purl of the Yarn Kingdom is the last living [[OurGiantsAreBigger giant]]; giants have long, but finite lifespans.
* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: Daisy was regulated to the freak show for being a dwarf and intersex.
* LivingToys: The rag dolls of Yarn Kingdom (who were first created by giant Queen Purl) are living yarn dolls; each of the first ones were knit and brought to life by her. They can live forever as long as their hearts aren't destroyed.

** Quinn is frequently insulted for having run off and married a "harlequin", because Kingston is clown/mime mixed. This is also true with Kingston's own parents Charles Sr. (a clown) and Claudette Sr. (a mime); King George once referred to Claudette Sr. as a deranged mime harlot within earshot of Kingston, and she was never truly accepted by Charles Sr.' friends.
** Lottie says her mother being made of burlap is why she's been disowned as the Yarn Princess by her grandmother, and the queen ripped her dad's eternal heart out from his body. [[spoiler:[[BlatantLies She was lying]] about the marriage to get Claudette to steal the heart of Buttons, her real dad, so she can remake him.]]

* TheMerch: InUniverse. Quinn, as the first female heir ever in clown history, was marketed kingdomwide by her parents. This included books and "Lil Quinny" dolls with clothes and playsets. Her "[[SpareToTheThrone sidekick]]" little sister Penny would sometimes be included in books, but never got a doll of her own.

* ModestRoyalty: The royal family -- past and present -- wear casual clothing most of the day in whatever style they prefer. Claudette wears her next-in-line Crown Princess crown with her day wear, and Quinn really only wears hers as part of her top hat in official capacity, the only visible signs of their royalty.

* NonIronicClown: Clowns are not any sort of innately evil. But they are seen in stereotypes as [[EvilClown evil]], dumb, stupid, and [[TooManyBabies only give birth in litters]].

* PatchworkKids: The three Klownikov children have lavender skin, bluish eyes, and fangs (except Red) from their mime genes and red noses and red hair from their clown genes. Kingston is also like this; he has the black hair, purple skin, sharp teeth, and blue eyes of his mime mother, but the red nose and curly hair (and bushy eyebrows, a Klownikov family trait) from his clown father.
* PlantPerson: The majority of the citizens of Flower Kingdom, known as plant people. They're all asexual and reproduce via budding or cross polination with bees, but can have any romantic orientation. They can also range from very human shaped to very plant shaped.

** King George Mills -- the former Clown King, late husband of Louise, and father of Quinn, Penelope, Fred, and Will. He's seen only in flashbacks, often to Quinn's childhood and youth (and that of her family and friends). [[PlotTriggeringDeath His death]] is why Quinn is queen now, seen in the side comic "[[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/143547344424/mini-comic-vaude-save-the-queen-part-2-penelope Vaude Save the Queen]]". He's only been dead for about two months at the start of the comic.
** Kingston's parents, Claudette and Charles Klownikov Sr., have been dead for twenty years by the time the comic starts, having died in a terrorist attack. [[spoiler:Claudette Sr. sacrificed herself sending illusions out to rescuers so Kingston could be found and rescued before he succumbed to his own injuries.]]

* RealMenEatMeat: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] for every male in the clown species. Clowns cannot physically digest meat; they can ''eat'' it (as in chew and swallow) but it will all come back up undigested. The Klownikov children can eat meat because they are 1/4th mime, as can Kingston being half.
* RealMenHateSugar: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] for clowns; clowns' diets are extremely sugar and sweets heavy, regardless of gender. True for Leo, who avoids carbs [[spoiler:but he has an eating disorder]].
* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: For Quinn and Kingston's children; until Penelope showed up and informed Quinn that their father had passed (and so she was now the queen), the children hadn't known they were royal at all. Red immediately decides she's to be treated like one.
* RebelliousPrincess: Quinn ran away from home and was seen as this by her family and Aries Cashworthy, having left because she was in love with Kingston. In truth, she left to support Kingston while he was in the middle of a mental crisis and, while away, realized she was no longer under the pressures of being next in line to the throne anymore. She willingly stayed hidden from her family for fifteen years, living in the Sheep Kingdom and taking care of large cats in a sanctuary (and marrying Kingston and having three children). Her children didn't even know they were of royal lineage until Penelope told Quinn their father had died and thus she was queen now. Penelope calls being rebellious [[LampshadeHanging a tired trope]] Quinn was foolish to believe in.
* ResignInProtest: All the other performers of the circus quit after Quinn took over as queen, calling her traitorous (for leaving fifteen years ago) and insulting her children and Kingston as half breed mimes in their resignation letter. The current circus performers outside of the royal family all used to be part of the FreakShow -- except Ron, who was regulated there after Leo took his place.

** When Claudette laments that she doesn't want to lose people she cares about so often (as now living in Clowny Island means constant travel), Kingston looks distressed. It's later revealed why: [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/180628125089/non-stop-page-70-oh-hey-its-karl-klownikov-he he lost his parents in a terrorist attack]] [[spoiler:and his mother died projecting to call for help for him]].
** It's barely noticeable that Will and Fred as children are always seen from the chest up, with Will on the proper left and Fred on the proper right. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed that they were born as ConjoinedTwins.]]
* RoyalBlood: Quinn is obligated to, as the heir, step up as queen to the kingdom after her father's passing. She had never told her children they were royalty.

** Charlie [[SpeaksFluentAnimal can call cats large and small]] like his mother Quinn does with large cats.

* SuperStrongChild: Red, age seven, is naturally super strong; she is learning under Ron how to perform as a strongwoman.

** Among Kingston's many tattoos, the ones near his right wrist of five elephants represent his family, and his back one is of the Mimopolis skyline, which is where he grew up. (The octopus is just because he thought it was cool). He also was in the FreakShow as a tattooed harlequin.

* TattooConcealsScars: Kingston has full body black-ink tattoos that cover everywhere but his face, hands, and feet; he originally got them to cover up the scars inflicted from the bombing he was in -- and in which both his parents died.
* ThemeNaming: Mimes have names based on various French artists.

* ThirdWheel: Charles was this to George and Louise; he was George's best friend and George kept him around for years. Louise put up with him more than anything else, eventually suggesting he be the Clowny Kingdom Ambassador to Mimopolis to get him off her couch. PlayedForLaughs when a side panel shows that a photo George had on his desk of him and Charles was actually [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/717138339852075008/the-full-image-of-the-picture-king-george-kept-on his wedding picture]] and Louise had been standing to the side giving a dirty look.
* UnevenHybrid: Charlie, Claudette, and Red are all 3/4 clown and 1/4 mime.

* WantedASonInstead: Zigzagged. After Quinn and Penelope -- both girls -- King George was hoping the third pregnancy between him and Louise would result in a son; he wanted a boy to pass on the family name and be able to do the things "fathers and sons were ''supposed'' to do" with. The doctors predicted a third princess and the first prince from the twin pregnancy. [[spoiler:Who was born were the male-and-female ConjoinedTwins, which were named Wilfred.]]
* WebcomicTime: While the comic has been going for eight years, only a few months have passed in-universe, starting with Quinn's stepping up as queen. Only two indicators of time passing have happened; Red's seventh birthday and Lantern Day.
* WhamShot: Fred is telling his nieces and nephew about how he lost his leg on Red's insistence that he do so. He talks about how his parents King George and Queen Louise were expecting twins: a third princess and the first prince for their family. Then you see George's horrified face, followed by the image of Fred and Will as infants -- [[spoiler:born as ConjoinedTwins, with only three legs between the two babies.]]
* WhatIf: In universe. While deep in the effects of the scorpion venom and nearly dying, Leo has a hallucination of what might have been if instead of watching Kingston and Quinn (who was pregnant with the twins) walk away in the store when he saw them in the Sheep Kingdom (and thus letting them remain hidden) he had spoken to them, reconnected, and ran away and stayed with them instead.
* WhatsUpKingDude: The royal family isn't separated from the citizens of Clowny Island; they wander around cities and towns freely, and live in the same kind of mobile-place on wheels as the other citizens. Quinn holds a public town meeting on Lantern Day -- which means she and Kingston can't be available initially -- that anyone in the kingdom can attend and speak their mind about anything, even if they have nothing useful to say.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Charlie likes to wear skirts and dresses. His family sees no issue with this.

* FamilyThemeNaming: It's subtle, but the Cashworthy Family are all named after signs in the zodiac. Leo and Aries are obvious, but Diana represents the virgin goddess Artemis with Virgo, and their mother Gemma is Gemini.

* ShoutOut:
** Red, Kingston, and Ron when "fighting" the Rock Kingdom are backgrounded by the {{Written Sound Effect}}s [[Advertising/SnapCrackleAndPop "Snap!" "Crackle!" and "Pop!"]]
** Charlie plays [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Basements and Banshees]] with friends in the local comic shop.
** Among Penelope's items in her [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/635245275300118528/episode-7-loud-mouth-pt-34-play-with-dolls-what#notes toy collection]] are toys and dolls for ''Literature/RaggedyAnn'', [[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} Leela]], the [[{{WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower}} 2018 She-Ra show]], the controversial [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earring_Magic_Ken Earring Magic Ken]], [[{{WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons}} Marge and Lisa]], ''Anime/SailorMoon'', and ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' -- as well as the brands "[[{{Franchise/MyLittlePony}} My Little Hippo]]", "[[{{Toys/MonsterHigh}} Human High]]", and "[[{{Toys/Furby}} Burby]]".
** [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/627631449712001025/episode-7-loud-mouth-pt-19-penelopeis-not-good Quinn and Kingston's poses]] in their portraits when Penelope is complaining to Red about Quinn's rebelliousness [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/628200264101412864/yikes-someones-winning-the-horrible-aunt-award are based on]] [[Franchise/SailorMoon Ami Mizuno's]] "eating a burger" picture and [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Adult Aang's]] "marble trick" pose.
** Costumes in the [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/163495402209/minisode-princess-prince-hey-its-been-awhile Spooky Day side comic]] include [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Cookie Cat and Pearl]], "[[Franchise/SpiderMan Arachnid-Boy]]" (who Quinn initially asks Charlie if he wants to be instead of Swamp Princess), ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', and a sheep person dressed as [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Princess Tiana]].
** [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/178054909389/non-stop-page-47-48-and-the-show-begins-like Episode 47 and 48]] of "Non-Stop," has Shaggy (as a clown) and Scooby from ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' walking by, and Rag Doll people versions of Blossom, Buttercup, Bubbles, and Bunny of the ''Franchise/PowerpuffGirls''.
** The Mane Six of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/662510719386976256/episode-8-date-night-pt-21-ah-memories-episode are in the background]] in one comic. Applejack and Rarity appear to be a couple; Twilight is watching Quinn, Leo, and Kingston walking by; and Rainbow Dash is running by carrying a bag for [=GrubDash=]. (Since this is the Unicorn Kingdom, they're all unicorns.) Twilight Sparkle is seen again as [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/742420303064580097/episode-10-the-kings-monster-pt-26-episode an assistant to King Hemlock]], and is named "Eventide."
** The background [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/628904615189135360/episode-7-loud-mouth-pt-21-aw-yes-my-favorite when Pascal and Matisse are at the record store]] include parody covers of albums by Music/{{Beyonce}}, Music/KendrickLamar, Music/{{Nirvana}}, Music/TheBeatles, Music/{{Lizzo}}, Music/{{Bjork}}, and Music/{{Gorillaz}}.
** Penelope's cotton candy poodles have been named after various musicians -- [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/687086677095776256/im-guessing-by-penelopes-dogs-name-your-a-big as seen here]]. This includes [[Music/DollyParton Dolly]], Creator/{{Charo}}, Rosetta (Rosetta Tharpe), and [[Music/ChuckBerry Berry]]. Her current two (that also serve as psychiatric service dogs to her) are [[Music/MarinaDiamandis Marina and Diamond]].
** When Leo is starting to hallucinate due to the scorpion venom coursing through him, he sees Quinn as a Toys/MonsterHigh doll; this is a custom doll of Quinn the author made.
** [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/618755657447899136/episode-7-loud-mouth-pt-8-episode-7-pascal-has Red's Room]] has a [[Franchise/AnimalCrossing Isabelle]] and ''VideoGame/DetectivePikachu'' plush visible.
** [[https://princessofclowns.tumblr.com/post/731720551819870208/references-in-will-and-freds-room-from-the-latest Will and Fred's room]] has references to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'', ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'', ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', and Creator/AndySamberg.
** Valeria [=MajestyMoon=], the [[{{Main/Unicorn}} Unicorn Princess]], collects [[{{Franchise/MyLittlePony}} My Little Hippo]]. [[spoiler:A one-of-a-kind version was gifted to her when she was five and toured the factory -- which means the one that the antagonist scorpion Scorpowitz attacked Quinn, Leo, and Kingston over breaking was a fake.]]
** When Leo and Quinn as children do the worst dances they can think of to frustrate Queen Louise, [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/663776737398865921/episode-8-date-night-pt-24-part-2-welp-thanks they do two dances]] that reference the dancing from ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas''.
** Ted, Ron Strongson's husband, is a CaptainErsatz of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''' Ned Flanders.
** Kingston's new room after moving in with his grandfather has parody posters of Creator/FarrahFawcett and Music/MichaelJackson hanging up.
** [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/184767871774/episode-6-no-new-friends-page-11-new-friend Among those walking around Yarn Kingdom]] while Claudette is walking through is WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer.
** Behind Java Chip in the first appearance of Atomic Comics is a ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' figure, a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Bulbasaur]] plush, [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Stitch]], and Earring Magic Ken.
** [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/186216743339/episode-6-no-new-friends-page-22-oceans-one Among the touring group]] in the Yarn Kingdom Castle is Michelangelo of the ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles.''
** Claudette's pug is named Peppa. [[WesternAnimation/PeppaPig Peppa Pug]].

** Renamed holidays mentioned so far (in side comics, mostly) are [[https://www.cirqueroyalecomic.com/comic/pg-1-5/ Spooky Day]] in place of Halloween, and [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/742408586254221312/happy-discount-chocolate-day Carnation Day]] in place of Valentine's Day.

** Lottie says her mother being made of burlap is why she's been disowned as the Yarn Princess by her grandmother, and the queen ripped her dad's eternal heart out from his body. [[spoiler:[[BlatantLies She wass lying]] about the marriage to get Claudette to steal the heart of Buttons, her real dad, so she can remake him.]]

** As more comes out about [[PosthumousCharacter the late King George]] and his actions towards others when alive, his family and others speak up moCare and more about him in a poor light. Penelope is the major exception, often complaining when others around her speak ill of her late father.

* CallForward: The Unicorn Princess, Valeria [=MajestyMoon=], is seen in a tween magazine ''Princess Beat'' just below Claudette where she's mentioned as a Princess to Watch in "No New Friends." She doesn't debut properly until "Date Night."

** As more comes out about [[PosthumousCharacter the late King George]] and his actions towards others when alive, his family and others speak up more and more about him in a poor light. Penelope is the major exception, often complaining when others around her speak ill of her late father.

* EveryoneHatesMimes: Less individual mimes and more the species as a whole. Other species (especially clowns) perceive mimes as violent, dangerous, criminals and thus in need of restraint and control. King George called them simple creatures (since [[TheSpeechless they can't talk verbally]]) who are better off serving in other countries such as Clowny Island than "stumbling" around on the "dangerous" streets of Mimopolis, and that their powers need to be controlled to stop them from hurting themselves or others. He also never approved of his best friend's wife, Claudette Sr., and once called her a deranged mime harlot where Kingston overheard [[SpeakIllOfTheDead after she was dead]] and then called Kingston a [[FantasticSlurs harlequin]]. Leo and Diana's father, Aries Cashworthy, uses this perception of violent mimes to send an angry riot towards mimes celebrating during Lantern Day (to make Quinn look bad as a ruler). And the anniversary paper of the bombing that memorializes Kingston's father Charles Sr. cuts his mother, Claudette Sr., out of the photograph completely; she was never memorialized in the Clowny Island News newspaper and only in a musical magazine.

* MalignedMixedMarriage: Quinn is frequently insulted for having run off and married a "harlequin", because Kingston is clown/mime mixed. This is also true with Kingston's own parents Charles Sr. (a clown) and Claudette Sr. (a mime); King George once referred to Claudette Sr. as a deranged mime harlot within earshot of Kingston, and she was never truly accepted by Charles Sr.' friends.

** Charlie [[SpeaksFluentAnimal can call cats]] like his mother Quinn does with large cats.

** Charlie plays [[{{Franchise/DungeonsAndDragons}} Basements and Banshees]] with friends in the local comic shop.

* EveryoneHatesMimes: Less individual mimes and more the species as a whole. Other species (especially clowns) perceive mimes as violent, dangerous, criminals and thus in need of restraint and control. King George called them simple creatures (since [[TheSpeechless they can't talk verbally]]) who are better off serving in other countries such as Clowny Island than "stumbling" around on the "dangerous" streets of Mimopolis, and that their powers need to be controlled to stop them from hurting themselves or others. He also never approved of his best friend's wife, Claudette Sr., and once called her a deranged mime harlot where Kingston overheard [[SpeakIllOfTheDead after she was dead]] and then called Kingston a [[FantasticSlurs harlequin]]. Leo and Diana's father, Aries Cashworthy, uses this perception of violent mimes to send an angry riot towards mimes celebrating during Lantern Day (to make Quinn look bad as a ruler).

* HeroicBSOD: Kingston in "Non-Stop", after not sleeping properly for a week ''and'' stressing himself out all day with various events while trying not to think about it being the 20th anniversary of his parents' deaths in a terrorist bombing [[spoiler:where he was present and his mother lost her life by projecting her powers until he was found and burning out]], has a severe one. He has a mental breakdown during his play narration and projection, [[DeadPersonConversation sees and hears his late father Charles Sr.]], then is teleported back mentally to the night of the bombing for the second time that night -- while still on autopilot for the show. Quinn finds him slumped over in the sound room with his hands burnt black and unable to speak physically, and she has to escort him home and use the Blackfish earpiece translator she has to communicate with him.

* NonIronicClown: Clowns are not any sort of innately evil. But they are seen in stereotypes as [[EvilClown evil]], dumb, stupid, or [[TooManyBabies only give birth in litters]].

** Kingston's new room after moving in with his grandfather has parody posters of Creator/FarrahFawcett and Creator/MichaelJackson hanging up.

* TheDreadedPretendTeaParty: Red holds one of these with her dad Kingston and [[IntergenerationalFriendship friend and mentor]] Ron in ''Non-Stop''. But rather than a tea party, it's her plotting her pretend destruction of the royal Rock Kingdom family on the Rock King's wedding.

** Clowns' unique traits include light blue skin with colorful, often curly hair (any color but black), prominent red noses, solid black eyes, star-shaped nipples, and a fried and sugary-based diet; they can't digest meat. They have superhuman and physical abilities (super strength, voice manipulation) and an affinity towards [[SpeaksFluentAnimal Speaking Fluent Animal]].
** Mimes have pointy ears and fingers, purple skin, sharp teeth that often involve CuteLittleFangs, blue eyes, and black facial markings. They are also [[TheSpeechless mute]] and cannot talk verbally; their "vocal" communication is actually done telepathically and only able to be heard naturally by mimes. Some have psychic abilities (light manipulation, illusions, etc). Also they are all obligate carnivores and need to eat meat, but aren't very buff.

* EveryoneHatesMimes: Less individual mimes and more the species as a whole. Other species (especially clowns) perceive mimes as violent, dangerous, criminals and thus in need of restraint and control. King George called them simple creatures (since [[TheSpeechless they can't talk verbally]]) who are better off serving in other countries such as Clowny Island than "stumbling" around on the "dangerous" streets of Mimopolis, and that their powers need to be controlled to stop them from hurting themselves or others. He also never approved of his best friend's wife, Claudette Sr, and once called her a deranged mime harlot where Kingston overheard [[SpeakIllOfTheDead after she was dead]] and then called Kingston a [[FantasticSlurs harlequin]]. Leo and Diana's father, Aries Cashworthy, uses this perception of violent mimes to send an angry riot towards mimes celebrating during Lantern Day (to make Quinn look bad as a ruler).

* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Red. She is a small stronggirl, but she loves pretty dresses, princess stuff, dolls, the color pink, and [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals stuffed animals]].

* TheSpeechless: Mimes as a species. They cannot talk verbally; their "vocal" communication is actually done telepathically and only able to be heard naturally by mimes. Communication with other species is done with sign language. Kingston can (as can his children) as they're biracial, but they also "speak" in mime. When Kingston suffers flashbacks remembering his parents' deaths on the twenty-year anniversary, he wears himself out so badly he can't speak, and has to initially sign to his wife Quinn until she can put in her Blackfish earpiece translator (which she has because of him and the children and used to belong to Kingston's father since he had a mime wife and half mime child.)

* IntergenerationalFriendship: Seven-year-old Red is close friends (and being mentored in strongmen acts) by Ron, who is elderly.

After a fifteen-year absence, [[RebelliousPrincess Quinn Mills-Klownikov]] is now the ruler of Clowny Island, a traveling circus kingdom, after her late father George's passing; she has returned with her mixed mime/clown husband Kingston and her three children: the twins Claudette and Charlie and younger Red. The comic follows the everyday lives--past and present--of the new royal family (and their friends and family), who are trying to keep their failing kingdom from falling apart and deal with their respective personal issues.

** Quinn is associated with tigers and large cats--they're not only her hyperfocus, but she is a skilled animal tamer. When she and Kingston ran away from home, they hid in a large cat sanctuary she ran. She was also engaged to ''Leo'' Cashworthy.

** Penelope explains to her niece, Red, [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/627017183218794496/episode-7-loud-mouth-pt-18-queue-the-unresolved that the royal line has always had the parents set up the next in line with an "appropriate" partner]] with wanted qualities for the kingdom--such as strength, beauty, or wisdom. Quinn was set up to marry Leo Cashworthy, [[NobilityMarriesMoney due to the Cashworthys' wealth]] [[spoiler:in part because the kingdom was broke and needed the money the Cashworthys would bring to the kingdom]], but she ran away from home and married Kingston instead.

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Penelope's poodles--specifically--cotton candy poodles--have fur in the color of cotton candy: pink and blue, like her hair.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: [[spoiler:ConjoinedTwins are always identical twins in reality, since they're one zygote that doesn't complete the split into identical twins. atomicbritt has stated she knows this but it's her taking creative license in making Will and Fred born as HalfIdenticalTwins as well as conjoined..]]

* ClownSpecies: Clowns--along with many other species--are considered a race all their own, but can interbreed with other {{Demihuman}}s.

* DomesticAbuse: Penelope went through this with her ex-husband, Benjamin, a novelty stuffed animal maker. [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/631349968703225856/episode-7-loud-mouth-pt-25-penelope-backstory Red sees a picture of him]] and, being obsessed with prince and princess stories, asks Penelope if he was her "Prince Charming." Penelope [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/631438592700530688/episode-7-loud-mouth-pt-26-if-you-or-someone-you suffers]] through a short (but intensely seen) FlashBack (with the repeating of [[FlashbackEffects the words "prince charming" on a black background in jagged red letters]] in the background) of a time where--after another occurrence of Ben hitting her and breaking things--she stayed home with her dogs and missed the twins' birthday party, claiming to her mom that she had to help her husband with the novelty gifts before curling up with her dogs, bruised and crying. She then--in the present--rips the picture of the two of them and says "no" emphatically. The comic does ''not'' play her abuse for laughs at all--it clearly traumatized Penelope as she has PTSD, and the comic showing her being hurt has a disclaimer that includes contacting domestic abuse help websites in the US.

* GenkiGirl: Claudette is often enthusiastic, friendly, trusting, and energetic, trying to make friends with everyone she meets--for good or bad. It takes her a while to make any real friends.

* HalfIdenticalTwins: Claudette and Charlie are boy-girl twins who look very much alike. Fred and Will were before Will transitioned to male--now they look even more alike.

* HiddenDepths: Dowager Queen "Louise the Beautiful" Mills initially came off as a shallow, [[HippieParents anti-vaxx hippy]] who believed in crystal healing, and something of an InnocentBigot whose only defining trait outside of being the circus's fortune teller was that she was beautiful (which is why she was set up to marry George in the first place). She also continues to call Red, Charlie, and Claudie her [[FantasticSlurs "lavender grandbabies"]], which neither they nor Quinn like. However she's shown to be much more than that. She's nowhere near as nasty to mimes as her late husband George was; she's always cared for Manet despite him being a servant and treats him like close family, as well as his son Pascal who was raised alongside her children. She's learned how to respectfully refer to her trans son as Will and has learned about the gender spectrum (she was taught by Daisy in what she calls "terrifyingly educational"). She did many things behind George's back to let mime culture continue in secret after he banned it in retaliation for Quinn running off with Kingston, and now has no problem that Quinn allows it openly; she's even pleased that the FreakShow is now part of the circus proper, smirking when she says that "George wouldn't like this at all" and showing she had some degree of contempt for her late husband. Most of all [[spoiler:when her ConjoinedTwins were born she loved them from the first day -- and when George wanted to force their separation (which would have likely killed one of the two twins) Louise, in fear for her children's lives, talked him out of it by putting them in the FreakShow and saving them--and when they were [[MadwomanInTheAttic confined to the attic]] by King George who didn't want them walking around being seen for free, she spent so much time with them in the attic that she rarely appeared in public afterwards.]]

* MobileCity: Not as a unified city, but the Clown Kingdom--Clowny Island--has every building on wheels to make things easier to pack up and travel into other kingdoms to perform.
* ModestRoyalty: The royal family--past and present--wear casual clothing most of the day in whatever style they prefer. Claudette wears her next-in-line Crown Princess crown with her day wear, and Quinn really only wears hers as part of her top hat in official capacity, the only visible signs of their royalty.

* RebelliousPrincess: Quinn ran away from home and was seen as this by her family and Aries Cashworthy, having left because she was in love with Kingston. In truth, she left to support Kingston while he was in the middle of a mental crisis and, while away, realized she was no longer under the pressures of being next in line to the throne anymore. She willingly stayed hidden from her family for fifteen years, living in the Sheep Kingdom and taking care of large cats in a sanctuary (and marrying Kingston and having three children). Her children didn't even know they were royalty until Penelope came and told Quinn their father had died--and thus she was queen now. Penelope calls being rebellious [[LampshadeHanging a tired trope]] Quinn was foolish to believe in.
* ResignInProtest: All the other performers of the circus quit after Quinn took over as queen, calling her traitorous (for leaving fifteen years ago) and insulting her children and Kingston as half breed mimes in their resignation letter. The current circus performers outside of the royal family all used to be part of the FreakShow--except Ron, who was regulated there after Leo took his place.

** Both Kingston and Charlie are on the aromantic spectrum; Kingston is demiromantic, while Charlie is acearo.

** Among Penelope's items in her [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/635245275300118528/episode-7-loud-mouth-pt-34-play-with-dolls-what#notes toy collection]] are toys and dolls for ''Literature/RaggedyAnn'', [[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} Leela]], the [[{{WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower}} 2018 She-Ra show]], the controversial [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earring_Magic_Ken Earring Magic Ken]], [[{{WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons}} Marge and Lisa]], ''Anime/SailorMoon'', and ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''--as well as the brands "[[{{Franchise/MyLittlePony}} My Little Hippo]]", "[[{{Toys/MonsterHigh}} Human High]]", and "[[{{Toys/Furby}} Burby]]".

** Penelope's cotton candy poodles have been named after various musicians--[[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/687086677095776256/im-guessing-by-penelopes-dogs-name-your-a-big as seen here]]. This includes [[Music/DollyParton Dolly]], Creator/{{Charo}}, Rosetta (Rosetta Tharpe), and [[Music/ChuckBerry Berry]]. Her current two (that also serve as psychiatric service dogs to her) are [[Music/MarinaDiamandis Marina and Diamond]].

** Valeria [=MajestyMoon=], the [[{{Main/Unicorn}} Unicorn Princess]], collects [[{{Franchise/MyLittlePony}} My Little Hippo]]. [[spoiler:A one-of-a-kind version was gifted to her when she was five and toured the factory--which means the one that the antagonist scorpion Scorpowitz attacked Quinn, Leo, and Kingston over breaking was a fake.]]

* SpeciesSurname: The royal clown family has the last name Klownikov--notably, this was passed down from Kingston's line via his clown father, Charles Klownikov. Quinn had the last name Mills before she married.

* TattooConcealsScars: Kingston has full body black-ink tattoos that cover everywhere but his face, hands, and feet; he originally got them to cover up the scars inflicted from the bombing he was in--and in which both his parents died.

* WantedASonInstead: Zigzagged. After Quinn and Penelope--both girls--King George was hoping the third pregnancy between him and Louise would result in a son; he wanted a boy to pass on the family name and be able to do the things "fathers and sons were ''supposed'' to do" with. The doctors predicted a third princess and the first prince from the twin pregnancy. [[spoiler:Who was born were the male-and-female ConjoinedTwins, which were named Wilfred.]]
* WebcomicTime: While the comic has been going for eight years, only a few months have passed in-universe, starting with Quinn's stepping up as queen. Only tow indicators of time passing have happened; Red's seventh birthday and Lantern Day.
* WhamShot: Fred is telling his nieces and nephew about how he lost his leg--on Red's insistence that he do so. He talks about how his parents King George and Queen Louise were expecting twins: a third princess and the first prince for their family. Then you see George's horrified face, followed by the image of Fred and Will as infants--[[spoiler:born as ConjoinedTwins, with only three legs between the two babies.]]
* WhatIf: In universe. While deep in the effects of the scorpion venom and nearly dying, Leo has a hallucination of what might have been if instead of watching Kingston and Quinn (who was pregnant with the twins) walk away in the store when he saw them in the Sheep Kingdom--and thus letting them remain hidden--he had spoken to them, reconnected, and ran away and stayed with them instead.
* WhatsUpKingDude: The royal family isn't separated from the citizens of Clowny Island; they wander around cities and towns freely, and live in the same kind of mobile-place on wheels as the other citizens. Quinn holds a public town meeting on Lantern Day--which means she and Kingston can't be available initially--that anyone in the kingdom can attend and speak their mind about anything, even if they have nothing useful to say.
* TheWhitestBlackGuy: The clowniest mime. Pascal, having been raised in Clowny Island with his father Manet (who serves the royal family) and never been to Mimopolis, is much more aligned with clown culture than mime culture. His EmbarrassingNickname among the other mimes is "Iris Berry"--blue on the inside, purple on the outside. The author theorizes that [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/698746828771983360/the-hypothetical-pascal-kid-is-with-penny he'd be more comfortable in a romantic relationship with a clown instead of a mime.]]

* YourMimeMakesItReal: Pascal is capable of producing solid illusions that others can interact with as long as he understands the shape and how it works, including vehicles. The larger and more complex shapes, like a car, take more energy and so don't last as long and can lead to burnout--and the item disappearing--if he strains himself.

* ChildishToothGap: Claudette has one in the front where one of her fangs was knocked out. It's also seen when some of the now-adult characters were children.

* CuteLittleFangs: Claudette (with one missing) and Charlie of the Klownikov children; this is because mimes all have sharp teeth and they're 1/4th through their father (who has sharp teeth). Red doesn't have them, though.

** Mimes have pointy ears and fingers, purple skin, sharp teeth, blue eyes, and black facial markings. They are also [[TheSpeechless mute]] and cannot talk verbally; their "vocal" communication is actually done telepathically and only able to be heard naturally by mimes. Some have psychic abilities (light manipulation, illusions, etc). Also they are all obligate carnivores and need to eat meat, but aren't very buff.

Cirque Royale updates on Thursdays on [[https://tapas.io/series/Cirque-Royale Tapas]], [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/cirque-royale/list?title_no=449403 Webtoon]], [[http://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/ tumblr]], [[https://globalcomix.com/c/cirque-royale Global Comix]], and its domain. The Tumblr also has backstory, expansions and insights on the world and characters, and side comics that aren't posted elsewhere.

** Manet for Quinn. While the Mills children all had two parents growing up (and their mother Louise is still alive), Manet was brought on initially because George and Louise were struggling with Quinn from infancy and took on the role as another parent to her. He took care of her and taught her sign language when she was non-verbal, and while she was being forced through ABA therapy, he was the one she found comfort in before and after her training. He also expected her [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/693860358421692416/will-we-get-to-see-manets-reaction-to-the not to come back to Clowny Island]] after she left.