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It was christmas eve, the circus accepts gifts for the individual freaks of this place, Harlequin had always only really received mail.
"You're so handsome and blah blah blah!" would sum up most of them.
He loved attention, he won't deny it, but he wished atleast one of them was more creative, or atleast more intimate. He didn't expect sincerity, he didn't expect genuine feelings, he expected praise that felt real.
He would never get that, he thought.
Until a present box, Red wrapper and pink ribbons, landed in his lap.
There was some sort of feeling in his chest that made him feel hopeful, though he'd rather not believe it to mean anything.
He undoes the ribbon, his claws struggling on it at first, picking up the pace and finally, the ribbon is on the floor.
He lifts up the lid, humming as he wonders what he may have received.
It's a plushie of him and- Mc...? He almost wants to believe who he thinks it's from. But he cannot. There's no way Pierrot would be watching Mc and not see this being prepared and be alright with it.
He was simply too obsessed with that human.
Alongside it, there is a note, decorated with stickers. It's the circus' merch, Ticket Taker realized people nowadays find cute stickers most desirable.
The stickers were all of him, and some where tediously placed to invoke a crude sense of humor. (Back shots) He smirked internally. How... Unprofessional. To put it lightly.
"I noticed how little gifts you received, so i decided to make some plushies of us!! I got pierrot to help with wrapping. He's really good at it, despite his claws, somehow. -sincerely yours
, MC."
His favorite visitor truly deserved their title.