The Cirque Des Cartes (French for Circus of Cards) is a famous, playing card themed circus group in the Canopy Kingdom. In reality it is backed by the Medici Mafia and serves as their talent pool for hitmen. However, while most of the performers serves the mafia, some do not or are unaware of its more nefarious deeds.
Members[]
Stilts Le Grand[]
Stilts is a tall, towering figure amongst the other performers. His horns and fangs may indicate a Gigan background. Represents the Joker card.
Regent Bertolotto Balzary[]
Bert is a short man with an impressive moustache and wears a top hat that makes him appear taller. Despite holding the position of ringmaster, Regina is regarded as the circus' true leader. Represents the King playing card.
Graber[]
His design seems to directly contrast Hubrecht's. Hubrecht’s description implies he was meant to be his assist character. Represents the spades suit.
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Trivia[]
- Four members of the circus are incorporated with one of the four symbols on a deck of trading cards. Cerebella's symbol is the Diamond, Beatrix's symbol is the Club, Hubrecht's symbol is the Heart and Graber's symbol is the Spade.
- The other five members represent the 4 non-number types of cards. Feng is the ace, Regina is the Queen, Bert is the King, Taliesin is the Jack and Stilts is the Joker.
- Both Hubrecht and Regina's appearances in Cerebella's story mode portray them with blonde hair. However, every other depiction shows them with pink and purple hair respectively.
- In early lore, there was no Medici Mafia and the circus just had a circus gang of thieves that Cerebella was a part of that rivaled the Fishbone Gang. It is unknown who were the members of it other than Cerebella.
- The three non dlc characters names were eventually revealed in a twitter post celebrating World Circus Day.