𝔄 𝔣𝔲𝔩𝔩 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔦𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔪𝔶 𝔍𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯 / ℭ𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔫-𝔯𝔢𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔰, 𝔞𝔩𝔬𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔞𝔫𝔶 𝔞𝔳𝔞𝔦𝔩𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢 𝔟𝔞𝔠𝔨𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔶, 𝔞𝔯𝔱, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔠𝔞𝔫𝔬𝔫𝔰 ℑ 𝔪𝔞𝔶 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔞𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔪.

1.) Franc the Jester

     Franc is where my obsession with Jesters began. A few years ago my family visited a Flea market. While looking through a stand that was mostly random junk, we encountered three identical Mardi Gras Jester heads. They each had different flaws, but Franc was the easiest to repair and had most of his paint still on him. If you look at his nose closely some of his paint is chipped, additionally, his orangish liliripe (I call them prongs.) used to be a gorgeous green but it seems the light in my room has slowly changed the color of it for some reason. 

     To repair him we had to sew a new red ball onto the top of his head, stitch up a rip in his prongs (Thus why the orange one is higher than the other.), and create a wooden stand to mount him with.

     I headcanon that Franc used to be the jester to a powerful French king of some sort. He was the best jester in all of France, performing thrillingly elaborate stunts and performances to entertain his king. All was dandy until said king eventually found out that Franc was gay (I mean just look at him, that's a gay-looking jester, man.) and had him publicly executed via Guillotine. Of course, Franc wouldn't go down without a fight, prancing throughout town with an entire parade of confetti and music behind him. Overall he's a very eccentric guy who is friends with everyone.

2.) Mademoiselle

     Mademoiselle (Madam) is the first jester doll I ever got, finding her about a month or two after Franc. I found Madam in my local Goodwill in the porcelain doll section (always remember to check the toy aisle for misplaced jester dolls.) and was originally opposed to the idea of purchasing her. I know now that she is undeniably my highest-quality doll so far. I actually didn't get her the first time I saw her, and was shocked to find that a week after I left her in Goodwill, she remained in the same spot the next time I visited.

     Madam was soon placed right next to me on my bedside table. She watches me sleep. For some strange reason, my mom refuses to believe that any of my jesters could be women, insisting on calling Madam a "He" whenever applicable. Another fun fact: I like this doll so much that I literally was her for Halloween one year. My mom made a costume loosely based on her and I hand-stitched and sewn a hat almost identical to Mademoiselles.

Mademoiselle is a silent performer in a really classy circus, sometimes she has solo gigs across the globe. She isn't "shy" but instead very stoic in a weird way? Madam just stares at you, listening, all the time. I feel like despite being born in Europe like Franc, she has the odd ability to speak Chinese REALLY well. Nobody else in the circus knows that fact about her though. Mademoiselle is highly skilled and has literally never had an error during a performance, making other performers intimidated to fail around her. (She doesn't care at all.)

3.) Old Deuteronomy

(W.I.P) It takes a while to write all this down and draw accompanying art for it. :P