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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) as they all deal with their respective personal issues and life changes -- while Quinn is trying to keep their failing kingdom from falling apart.

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 [[BSideComics side comics]], FillerStrips, information, and casual doodles that aren't posted elsewhere.

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After a fifteen-year absence, [[RebelliousPrincess former RebelliousPrincess Quinn Mills-Klownikov]] Mills-Klownikov is now the ruler of Clowny Island, a traveling circus kingdom, after her late father George's passing; she 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) as they all deal with their respective personal issues and life changes -- changes, all while Quinn is trying to keep their failing kingdom from falling apart.

apart financially.

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 tumblr also has backstory, expansions and insights on the world and characters, and [[BSideComics side comics]], FillerStrips, information, and casual doodles that aren't always posted elsewhere.

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* FortuneTeller: Queen Louise was the fortune teller for the circus. Her actual skill is up for dispute especially when it comes to what she wishes for her grandchildren, but that might just be due to her assumptions.

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* FortuneTeller: FortuneTeller: Dowager Queen Louise was the fortune teller for the circus. circus, and is likely to return to the position after her mourning. Her actual skill is up for dispute especially when it comes to what she wishes for her grandchildren, grandchildren -- she often says that lesbian Claudette will find a lovely boy and that acearo Charlie will marry at all -- but that might just be due to her assumptions. InnocentBigot assumptions.



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

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



* ShoutOutThemeNaming: All mimes have first names based on various French artists. Doubles as an EasterEgg.



* ThemeNaming: Mimes have first names based on various French artists.



* VisualPun: Red during her running away wins a "parting gift" from one of the booths. [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/617026222818574336/episode-7-loud-mouth-pt-4-red-episode-playlist A comb]].

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* VisualPun: Red during her running away sequence wins a "parting gift" from one of the booths.booths instead of a good prize. [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/617026222818574336/episode-7-loud-mouth-pt-4-red-episode-playlist A comb]].
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* UnflatteringIDPhoto: Will's photo on his new ID has him look [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/733539768616550400/episode-10-the-kings-monster-pt-14-oh-claudy caught mid-squint]], with one eye shut and a half grimace.

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* UnflatteringIDPhoto: Will's photo on his new ID has him look [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/733539768616550400/episode-10-the-kings-monster-pt-14-oh-claudy caught mid-squint]], with one eye shut and a half grimace.
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* RabbleRouser: Both Aries Cashworthy and Candy (the candy store owner) serve as this in "Lantern Day." Aries riles the crowd up initially by [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/705636145068998656/episode-9-lantern-day-pt-26-all-the-rumors-are implying that Quinn's letting a "mime rebellion" go on]] during the town meeting to make Quinn look bad as a leader, and Candy, who's already [[FantasticRacism shown her prejudice against mimes]], is the one that [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/706903754063200256/episode-9-lantern-day-pt-28-yikessee-ya-next takes the action]] to rile up the mob to go down to where they're celebrating and "put the mimes" in their place.


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* UnflatteringIDPhoto: Will's photo on his new ID has him look [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/733539768616550400/episode-10-the-kings-monster-pt-14-oh-claudy caught mid-squint]], with one eye shut and a half grimace.
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* IndenturedServitude: Mimes who are criminals (or are framed as them for any reason, including just turning eighteen and/or being an "exotic" hybrid, and old enough to be made a servant) are sent out by Mimopolis to various kingdoms as indentured servants including the Clown Kingdom, where they have to serve until they've earned off their sentence (with the theoretical pay being sent back to 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.

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* IndenturedServitude: Mimes who are criminals (or are framed as them for any reason, including just turning eighteen and/or being an "exotic" hybrid, and old enough to be made a servant) are sent out by Mimopolis to various kingdoms as indentured servants including the Clown Kingdom, where they have to serve until they've earned off their sentence (with the theoretical pay "pay" being sent back to the kingdoms using their servitude from the Mimopolis queen, rule, 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.
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** Clowns' unique traits include light blue skin with [[WorldOfTechnicolorHair 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]].

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** Clowns' unique traits include light blue skin with [[WorldOfTechnicolorHair 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]].talking to and understanding animals]].



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

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* TheDreadedPretendTeaParty: Red holds one of these with her dad Kingston and [[IntergenerationalFriendship friend and mentor]] Ron in ''Non-Stop''. But [[SubvertedTrope rather than a tea party]], it's her plotting the pretend destruction of the royal Rock Kingdom family on the Rock King's daughter's wedding.
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* 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 rudely calls Charlie the "harlequin prince" to his face before he leaves Milo's ''[[AlliterationAndAdventurers Basements and Banshees]]'' game.

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* 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 rudely calls Charlie the "harlequin prince" to his face before he leaves Milo's ''[[AlliterationAndAdventurers Basements and Banshees]]'' game. Pascal is not seen as such by most clowns, but as [[TheWhitestBlackGuy a mime who identifies with clown culture]] who grew up in Clowny Island, he's often seen as [[YouAreACreditToYourRace "one of the good ones."]]
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* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Will and Fred have three major differences: their hairstyles (Will has a front bang swoop like their mother Louise, while Fred does not), that Fred wears glasses, and that Fred has a fully amputated right leg and uses a prosthetic. As children they looked a lot alike before Will got glasses since they were HalfIdenticalTwins.

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* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Will and Fred have three major differences: their hairstyles (Will has a front bang swoop like their mother Louise, while Fred does not), that Fred wears glasses, and that Fred has a fully amputated right leg and uses a prosthetic.prosthetic [[spoiler:because when the two were born as ConjoinedTwins, they only had three legs, and in being separated Fred only got one of them]]. As children they looked a lot alike before Will got glasses since they were HalfIdenticalTwins.



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

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* NonIronicClown: Clowns are not any sort of innately evil. But they are seen in stereotypes as [[EvilClown evil]], dumb, stupid, and other others believe they [[TooManyBabies only give birth in litters]].
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* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Will and Fred have three major differences: their hairstyles (Will has a front bang swoop like their mother Louise, while Fred does not), that Fred wears glasses, and that Fred has a fully amputated right leg and uses a prosthetic. As children they looked a lot alike before Will got glasses since they were HalfIdenticalTwins.

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* HybridMonster: Kingston, Claudette, Charlie, and Red are mime/clown hybrids. Rosalind, the Flower Princess, is a mix of carnation and cactus monster.
* 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 to 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 titled "At Kingston Inn" and a piece by his late grandmother Claudette Sr., who named Kingston after the interspecies bar where she and Charles Sr. met and wrote it for the Peace Gala they both died in. Seeing his dad's visible upset, Charlie innocently says he thought his dad would like to hear the piece played 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 -- but he and his sister should stay out of his things -- before he walks off and puts the songbook back up.

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* HybridMonster: Kingston, Claudette, Charlie, and Red are mime/clown hybrids. Rosalind, the Flower Princess, is a mix of carnation and cactus monster.
monster; her thorns pop out when she's scared.
* IdenticalTwinMistake: While Fred and Will aren't identical twins -- they were born as [[spoiler:conjoined]] HalfIdenticalTwins and Will transitioned -- [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/735989092681138176/episode-10-the-kings-monster-pt-19-rip-king Kingston makes this mistake]] in "The King's Monster," calling them by each other's names and pushing their BerserkButton. They both angrily yell at him for it, in part because the two of them are already fighting about the performance script and Kingston gave them both the same target for a short moment before they turned on each other again.
* IndenturedServitude: Mimes who are criminals (or are framed as them for any reason, including just turning eighteen and/or being an "exotic" hybrid, and thus now old enough to be made a servant) are sent out by Mimopolis to various kingdoms as indentured servants including the Clown Kingdom as indentured servants, Kingdom, where they have to serve until they've earned off their sentence (with the theoretical pay being sent back to 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 titled "At Kingston Inn" and a piece by his late grandmother Claudette Sr., who named Kingston after the interspecies interspecies-friendly bar where she and Charles Sr. met and met. (She wrote it for the piece to perform at the Peace Gala they both died in. in.) Seeing his dad's visible upset, Charlie innocently says he thought his dad would like to hear the piece played 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 -- but he and his sister should stay out of his things -- before he walks off and puts the songbook back up.



* IronicJuxtaposition: Scorpowitz spends the whole time fighting Quinn, Leo, and Kingston -- even going so far as to hunt them down to the Unicorn Kingdom palace -- wearing a My Tiny Hippo shirt that says "Peace" and "Love."

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* IronicJuxtaposition: Scorpowitz spends the whole time fighting Quinn, Leo, and Kingston -- even going so far as to hunt them all the way down to the Unicorn Kingdom palace -- wearing a My Tiny Hippo shirt that says "Peace" and "Love."



* LonelyRichKid: Leo was one growing up. The only person in his family who paid attention to him was his older sister Diana; his father Aries was and is controlling and his mother was and is an alcoholic. After Diana left for colllege, no one noticed when he came home late and the lights were always off when he came home. He had friends in Quinn, Kingston, and Penelope but his abandonment issues is why he took it hard when Quinn and Kingston unexpectedly disappeared on him and he and Penelope stopped being around each other after she hit on him. He never spoke about his problems because ([[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/663145894890422272/episode-8-date-night-pt-23-part-2-episode in his words]]) no one cares if some neglected rich kid didn't get enough attention compared to a traumatized hybrid orphan (Kingston) or the autistic first female heir to the failing circus (Quinn).

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* LonelyRichKid: Leo was one growing up. The only person in his family who paid attention to him was his older sister Diana; his father Aries was and is controlling and his mother Gemma was and is an alcoholic. After Diana left for colllege, college, no one noticed when he came home late and the lights were always off when he came home. He had friends in Quinn, Kingston, and Penelope but his abandonment issues is why he took it hard when Quinn and Kingston unexpectedly disappeared on him and he and Penelope stopped being around each other after she hit on him. He never spoke about his problems because ([[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/663145894890422272/episode-8-date-night-pt-23-part-2-episode in his words]]) no one cares if some neglected rich kid didn't get enough attention compared to a traumatized hybrid orphan (Kingston) or the autistic first female heir to the failing circus (Quinn).



** This was also true with Kingston's late 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. She was never truly accepted by Charles Sr.' friends.

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** This was also true with Kingston's late 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.Kingston [[SpeakIllOfTheDead after her death]]. She was never truly accepted by Charles Sr.' friends.friends and knew it.



* MeaningfulRename: Will, being trans, formally changed their name. It's also only Will and not William. Fred insults him by saying he changed his [[RenamedTheSame five letter name to a four letter one.]]
* TheMerch: InUniverse. Quinn, as the first female heir ever in Clown Kingdom 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.

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* MeaningfulRename: Will, being trans, formally changed their name. It's also only Will and not William. Fred insults him by saying he changed his [[RenamedTheSame five letter five-letter name to a four letter four-letter one.]]
* TheMerch: InUniverse. Quinn, as the first female heir ever in Clown Kingdom history, was marketed kingdomwide by her parents. This included books and "Lil "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.



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

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



* PartingWordsRegret: Before Quinn left home, the last words she said to her father were "I hate you." By the time she returned to Clowny Island, he had died and she was now queen.

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* PartingWordsRegret: Before Quinn left home, the last words she said to her father were "I hate you." By the time she returned to Clowny Island, Island after fifteen years in hiding, he had died and she was now queen.



* 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, and in fact need it as mimes are obligate carnivores; Kingston tells Leo this outright.

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* 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, and in fact need it as half. All mimes are need meat as they're obligate carnivores; Kingston tells Leo this outright. outright when Leo asks if he's willing to go vegan.



* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The royal family of Clowny Island is in control of the circus and its performances.

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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The royal family of Clowny Island is in control of the circus and its performances.performances, and all of them perform in the show.
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* ArtEvolution: Early comics were a lot more "rubbery"; they had minimal backgrounds; paler character skin tones, abd no ColorCodedSpeech as seen in the [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/139531168234/welcome-to-episode-1-first-previous pilot]]. (Claudie and Charlie didn't even yet have their fangs!) Comics have since become more detailed in fore- and backgrounds as well as improved character designs and details and the distinct speech colors.

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* ArtEvolution: Early comics were a lot more "rubbery"; they had minimal backgrounds; backgrounds, paler character skin tones, abd and no ColorCodedSpeech as seen in the [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/139531168234/welcome-to-episode-1-first-previous pilot]]. (Claudie and Charlie didn't even yet have their fangs!) Comics have since become more detailed in fore- and backgrounds as well as improved character designs and details and the distinct speech colors.
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* ArtEvolution: Early comics were a lot more "rubbery" and had minimal backgrounds as seen in the [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/139531168234/welcome-to-episode-1-first-previous pilot]] but have become more detailed in fore- and backgrounds as well as character designs.

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* ArtEvolution: Early comics were a lot more "rubbery" and "rubbery"; they had minimal backgrounds backgrounds; paler character skin tones, abd no ColorCodedSpeech as seen in the [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/139531168234/welcome-to-episode-1-first-previous pilot]] but pilot]]. (Claudie and Charlie didn't even yet have their fangs!) Comics have since become more detailed in fore- and backgrounds as well as improved character designs.designs and details and the distinct speech colors.
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* ArtEvolution: Early comics were a lot more "rubbery" and had minimal backgrounds as seen in the [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/143900596854/cirque-du-royale-episode-2-a-okay-pages-1-4?is_related_post=1 pilot]] but have become more detailed in fore- and backgrounds as well as character designs.

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* ArtEvolution: Early comics were a lot more "rubbery" and had minimal backgrounds as seen in the [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/143900596854/cirque-du-royale-episode-2-a-okay-pages-1-4?is_related_post=1 com/post/139531168234/welcome-to-episode-1-first-previous pilot]] but have become more detailed in fore- and backgrounds as well as character designs.
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* TheUnwittingComedian: Fred wants his skits for the circus to be taken seriously and make people think, saying at one point a skit of his is intended to be [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/692947724957614080/episode-9-lantern-day-pt-3-freds-the-kind-of a meditation on how life is chaotic and meaningless]]. He's wounded every time his skits -- or him -- are called funny, sometimes to the point of anger.
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** Multiple kingdoms have these, in order to form alliances; Flower Queen and Cactus Queen are part of an arraigned marriage, and happen to have fallen in love. (Toothpaste Queen and Orange King, [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/183776883299/non-stop-side-b-part-11-wait-what-a-3rd-update not so much.]])

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** Multiple kingdoms are stated to have these, in order to form alliances; alliances. Flower Queen and Cactus Queen are part of an arraigned marriage, and happen to have fallen in love. (Toothpaste Queen and Orange King, [[https://cirqueduroyale.([[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/183776883299/non-stop-side-b-part-11-wait-what-a-3rd-update not so much.]])Toothpaste Queen and Orange King]] are more a case of UnwantedSpouse.)
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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 [[BSideComics side comics]], information, and casual doodles that aren't posted elsewhere.

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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 [[BSideComics side comics]], FillerStrips, information, and casual doodles that aren't posted elsewhere.
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* 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 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 fears of being touched unexpectedly, and the comic showing her being hurt has a disclaimer that includes contacting domestic abuse help websites in the US.

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* 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 [[RemovedFromThePicture rips the picture of the two of them them]] apart and says "''no''" emphatically. The comic does ''not'' play her abuse for laughs at all -- it clearly traumatized Penelope as she has PTSD and fears of being touched unexpectedly, and the comic showing her being hurt has a disclaimer that includes contacting domestic abuse help websites in the US.



* FormerFriendsPhoto: Leo tears apart a picture of him, Quinn, and Kingston after seeing them hiding in the Sheep Kingdom, Quinn pregnant, and hearing that Quinn didn't want to be found. [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/673295063335501824/episode-8-date-night-pt-38-hello-insecure He rips it apart.]] They're now reconnected, but he went through abandonment issues after they ran off and left him.

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* FormerFriendsPhoto: Leo tears apart a picture had one of him, Quinn, and Kingston after seeing them hiding in the Sheep Kingdom, Quinn pregnant, and hearing that Quinn didn't want to be found. [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/673295063335501824/episode-8-date-night-pt-38-hello-insecure He rips it apart.]] They're from when they were young adults]] that [[RemovedFromThePicture he tears apart]] after seeing them hiding in the Sheep Kingdom (while Quinn is pregnant) and overhears that Quinn didn't want to be found by anyone from Clowny Island. The three of them have now reconnected, reconnected and Leo's forgiven Quinn, but he went through major abandonment issues after they ran off and left him. him behind.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Princess Valeria is one for Quinn/Leo/Kingston. When she asks if Leo is a "close friend" to Quinn and Kingston and Kingston says it's "complicated", [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/666946293514584064/episode-8-date-night-pt-25-part-2-disclaimer she says this is just like one of her fanfictions]]. When Quinn wants to ask Leo a question before the venom is cured, [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/667586936899272704/episode-8-date-night-pt-27-vals-gonna-write-a Valeria excitedly asks if she's seeking a love confession]] and that it's a LoveTriangle (or an [=OT3=]). The author jokes about Valeria shipping people she and Hemlock know [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/714786906973552640/wait-that-character-interaction-chart in a doodle]] and Valeria is wearing a shirt with their faces on it and a heart.

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* ShipperOnDeck: Princess Valeria is one for Quinn/Leo/Kingston. When she asks if Leo is a "close friend" to Quinn and Kingston and Kingston says it's "complicated", [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/666946293514584064/episode-8-date-night-pt-25-part-2-disclaimer she says this is just like one of her fanfictions]]. When Quinn wants to ask Leo a question before the venom is cured, [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/667586936899272704/episode-8-date-night-pt-27-vals-gonna-write-a Valeria excitedly asks if she's seeking a love confession]] and that it's a LoveTriangle (or an [=OT3=]). The author jokes about Valeria shipping people she and Hemlock know [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/714786906973552640/wait-that-character-interaction-chart in a doodle]] and Valeria is wearing a shirt with their faces on it and a heart.that says "Ask Me About My [=OT3=]".

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* ShockCollar: Mimes serving their sentences out as servants are outfitted with shock collars their masters have the remote of; they can be zapped for misbehaving or stepping out of line, and the collars also suppress mime abilities and activate to shock them when mimes are too angry or have violent thoughts. [[spoiler:Quinn is stealthily replacing the collars with inert decoys in Clowny Island, to try and help end mime servitude in her kingdom. Manet refused it, however.]]

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* ShipperOnDeck: Princess Valeria is one for Quinn/Leo/Kingston. When she asks if Leo is a "close friend" to Quinn and Kingston and Kingston says it's "complicated", [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/666946293514584064/episode-8-date-night-pt-25-part-2-disclaimer she says this is just like one of her fanfictions]]. When Quinn wants to ask Leo a question before the venom is cured, [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/667586936899272704/episode-8-date-night-pt-27-vals-gonna-write-a Valeria excitedly asks if she's seeking a love confession]] and that it's a LoveTriangle (or an [=OT3=]). The author jokes about Valeria shipping people she and Hemlock know [[https://www.tumblr.com/cirqueduroyale/714786906973552640/wait-that-character-interaction-chart in a doodle]] and Valeria is wearing a shirt with their faces on it and a heart.
* ShockCollar: Mimes serving their sentences out as servants are outfitted with shock collars their masters have the remote of; they can be zapped for misbehaving or stepping out of line, and the collars also suppress mime abilities and activate to shock them when mimes are too angry or have violent thoughts. [[spoiler:Quinn At the end of "Loud Mouth," it's shown that Quinn is stealthily replacing the collars with inert decoys in Clowny Island, to try and help end make mime servitude less oppressive in her kingdom. kingdom and let people come together. Manet refused it, to have his own swapped out, however.]]
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If Quinn and Leo had never sent the exploding glitter bomb to antagonize Dusty Pockets, Scorpowitz wouldn't have dropped his one of a kind ceramic My Tiny Hippo and broken it, and attacked them in a rage, and Leo wouldn't have been injected with scorpion venom and disabled. [[spoiler:And if Dusty hadn't sold him a fake one in the first place.]]

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If Quinn and Leo had never sent the exploding glitter bomb to antagonize Dusty Pockets, Scorpowitz wouldn't have dropped his one of a kind ceramic My Tiny Hippo and broken it, it and attacked them in a rage, and Leo wouldn't have been injected with scorpion venom venom, skirted the edge of death, and become disabled. [[spoiler:And if Dusty hadn't sold him a fake one in the first place.]]
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* SuperStrongChild: Red, age seven, is naturally super strong as her clown trait; she is learning under Ron how to perform as a strongwoman. Her nickname is "Buff Baby."

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* SuperStrongChild: Red, age seven, is naturally super strong as her clown trait; she trait -- a [[SharedFamilyQuirks trait that comes from]] her distant grandmother, Josephine the Strong. She is learning under Ron how to perform as a strongwoman. Her strongwoman, and her nickname is "Buff Baby."
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* ContinuityNod: Diana is shown buying a Lil' Quinny doll as a child in the crowd where Penelope is talking about Quinn's popularity. When she's shown later with Leo when they're kids in a flashback, the dolls is present next to her.

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* ContinuityNod: Diana is shown buying a Lil' Quinny doll as a child in the crowd where Penelope is talking about Quinn's popularity. When she's shown later with Leo when they're kids in a flashback, the dolls doll is present next to her.



* FormerFriendsPhoto: Leo [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/673295063335501824/episode-8-date-night-pt-38-hello-insecure tears apart a picture of him, Quinn, and Kingston]] after seeing them hiding in the Sheep Kingdom, Quinn pregnant, and hearing that Quinn didn't want to be found. They're now reconnected, but he went through severe abandonment issues after they ran off and left him.

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* FormerFriendsPhoto: Leo tears apart a picture of him, Quinn, and Kingston after seeing them hiding in the Sheep Kingdom, Quinn pregnant, and hearing that Quinn didn't want to be found. [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/673295063335501824/episode-8-date-night-pt-38-hello-insecure tears apart a picture of him, Quinn, and Kingston]] after seeing them hiding in the Sheep Kingdom, Quinn pregnant, and hearing that Quinn didn't want to be found. He rips it apart.]] They're now reconnected, but he went through severe abandonment issues after they ran off and left him.



* {{Irony}}: Scorpowitz spends the whole time fighting Quinn, Leo, and Kingston wearing a My Tiny Hippo shirt that says "Peace" and "Love."

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* {{Irony}}: IronicJuxtaposition: Scorpowitz spends the whole time fighting Quinn, Leo, and Kingston -- even going so far as to hunt them down to the Unicorn Kingdom palace -- wearing a My Tiny Hippo shirt that says "Peace" and "Love."
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* FormerFriendsPhoto: Leo tears apart a picture of him, Quinn, and Kingston after seeing them hiding in the Sheep Kingdom, Quinn pregnant, and hearing that Quinn didn't want to be found. [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/673295063335501824/episode-8-date-night-pt-38-hello-insecure He rips it apart.]] They're now reconnected, but he went through abandonment issues after they ran off and left him.

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* FormerFriendsPhoto: Leo tears apart a picture of him, Quinn, and Kingston after seeing them hiding in the Sheep Kingdom, Quinn pregnant, and hearing that Quinn didn't want to be found. [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/673295063335501824/episode-8-date-night-pt-38-hello-insecure He rips it apart.]] tears apart a picture of him, Quinn, and Kingston]] after seeing them hiding in the Sheep Kingdom, Quinn pregnant, and hearing that Quinn didn't want to be found. They're now reconnected, but he went through severe abandonment issues after they ran off and left him.
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* PartingWordsRegret: Before Quinn left home, the last words she said to her father were "I hate you." By the time she returned to Clowny Island, he had died

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* PartingWordsRegret: Before Quinn left home, the last words she said to her father were "I hate you." By the time she returned to Clowny Island, he had dieddied and she was now queen.

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* BilingualBonus: The native language Unicorns speak, Unicornish, is Swedish, and is sprinkled throughout.



* ContinuityNod: Diana is shown buying a Lil' Quinny doll as a child in the crowd where Penelope is talking about Quinn's popularity. When she's shown later with Leo when they're kids in a flashback, the dolls is present next to her.



* FormerFriendsPhoto: Leo tears apart a picture of him, Quinn, and Kingston after seeing them hiding in the Sheep Kingdom, Quinn pregnant, and hearing that Quinn didn't want to be found. [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/673295063335501824/episode-8-date-night-pt-38-hello-insecure He rips it apart.]] They're now reconnected, but he went through abandonment issues after they ran off and left him.



* GrievousBottleyHarm: It's a wine glass, but Quinn breaks one when she sees Kingston's ex Dusty Pockets when thinking she should give him a piece of her mind.



* {{Irony}}: Scorpowitz spends the whole time fighting Quinn, Leo, and Kingston wearing a My Tiny Hippo shirt that says "Peace" and "Love."



* LonelyRichKid: Leo was one growing up. The only person in his family who paid attention to him was his older sister Diana; his father Aries was and is controlling and his mother was and is an alcoholic. After Diana left for colllege, no one noticed when he came home late and the lights were always off when he came home. He had friends in Quinn, Kingston, and Penelope but his abandonment issues is why he took it hard when Quinn and Kingston unexpectedly disappeared on him and he and Penelope stopped being around each other after she hit on him. He never spoke about his problems because ([[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/663145894890422272/episode-8-date-night-pt-23-part-2-episode in his words]]) no one cares if some neglected rich kid didn't get enough attention compared to a traumatized hybrid orphan (Kingston) or the autistic first female heir to the failing circus (Quinn).



* PartingWordsRegret: Before Quinn left home, the last words she said to her father were "I hate you." By the time she returned to Clowny Island, he had died



* SicklyGreenGlow: Leo has a nasty green glow in his eyes while poisoned by the scorpion venom in his body. It's also shown through his skin and around his memories, taking over as the prominent color when his memories are at their most painful.



* TakeThat: When Claudette and Red bring up Valeria's complete ''My Tiny Hippo'' collection, Quinn calls it that old toy line they brought back that "creepy old nerds like now". Charlie says they call themselves "[=HipHomies=]". Everyone else cringes.



* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If Quinn and Leo had never sent the exploding glitter bomb to antagonize Dusty Pockets, Scorpowitz wouldn't have dropped his one of a kind ceramic My Tiny Hippo and broken it, and attacked them in a rage, and Leo wouldn't have been injected with scorpion venom and disabled. [[spoiler:And if Dusty hadn't sold him a fake one in the first place.]]



* 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 at the time) 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.

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* WhatIf: In universe. While deep in the effects of the scorpion venom and on the edge nearly dying, Leo has a hallucination of what might have been if instead of watching Kingston and Quinn (who was pregnant with the twins at the time) 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.instead. He imagines a whole life of the three of them and their children living together as a happy hidden family before the venom is cured.

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* {{Goth}}: Quinn went through a goth stage as a teenager before she left the kingdom. In some ways she's still in it.

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* {{Goth}}: Quinn went through a goth stage as a teenager before she left the kingdom. In some ways she's still in it.it and says it's not a phase, it's a lifestyle.


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* NoblewomansLaugh: Penelope -- befitting her royal upbringing -- laughs with one hand over her mouth and boisterously. This is in contrast with Quinn, who (though the queen) is socially unrefined and blunt, so doesn't cover her mouth at all.
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** A distant one, but Red has super strength like her great great grandmother, Josephine the Strong.
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* TorchesAndPitchforks: The mob that goes to attack the mimes for celebrating Lantern Day (riled up by Aries) are carrying both when they confront the mimes; they have been goaded into a mob by him making the mimes appear to be criminals conspiring against the kingdom by dancing and enjoying themselves during a night bonfire.

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* TorchesAndPitchforks: The mob that goes to attack the mimes for celebrating Lantern Day (riled ([[RabbleRouser riled up by Aries) Aries]]) are carrying both when they confront the mimes; they have been goaded into a mob by him making the mimes appear to be criminals conspiring against the kingdom by dancing and enjoying themselves during a night bonfire.



* 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.

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* 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 major indicators of time passing have happened; Red's seventh birthday and Lantern Day.
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* TorchesAndPitchforks: The mob that goes to attack the mimes for celebrating Lantern Day (riled up by Aries) are carrying both when they confront the mimes; they have been goaded into a mob by him making the mimes appear to be criminals conspiring against the kingdom by dancing and enjoying themselves during a night bonfire.

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* AlliterationAndAdventurers: Charlie and his friends play ''Basements and Banshees'', which is just like D&D except includes fantastic people and generic human characters. (Milo in particular is interested in humans and his character is a human named John Jackson who's an IT specialist.)



* WhatsUpKingDude: The royal family doesn't live separate from the citizens of Clowny Island, wander around the kingdoms they visit freely, and live in the same kind of mobile-place on wheels as the other citizens albeit slightly taller. Charlie plays ''[[AlliterationAndAdventurers Basements and Banshees]]'' with other friends and, outside of Zeppy being nasty when Charlie arrives, is not treated any different. 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.

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* WhatsUpKingDude: The royal family doesn't live separate from the citizens of Clowny Island, wander around the kingdoms they visit freely, and live in the same kind of mobile-place on wheels as the other citizens albeit slightly taller. Charlie plays ''[[AlliterationAndAdventurers Basements and Banshees]]'' with other friends and, outside of Zeppy being nasty when Charlie arrives, is not treated any different. different; Java Chip in particular refuses to genuflect to them, teasingly calling him and Claudette "Madam Dorkette and Sir Dorkus." 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.

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