When Kingston has a Heroic BSoD during "Non-Stop" and Quinn angrily yells at him that she can't be a widow because who would date a woman with "ten big cats and three kids", Kingston offhandedly says "Leo probably." It's later revealed that this wasn't as off-handed as assumed. Not only is Leo Cashworthy Quinn's former fiance (from an Arranged Marriage she didn't fulfill), he also has feelings for Kingston and would willingly be with them both if possible. The two of them going missing fifteen years ago without telling him upset him badly and made him feel unwanted, adding to the abandonment issues he'd started developing as a child.
Quinn freaks out when she finds Kingston slumped over the desk and unconscious with burnt hands after wearing himself out from doing projections on autopilot while having his mental breakdown. Yes, it's because he's burnt himself out and didn't ask for help and support while stressed. But it's also because Quinn, as his best friend growing up, knows his mother Claudette Sr. died from burnout when projecting illusions to call for help after the Peace Gala bombing, so that Kingston could be found before his stomach injury killed him. Kingston was only doing his projections for a play performance, but he was doing the exact same thing his mime mother was — projecting for his child (Claudette stars as the princess of the play) while ignoring his own needs to the point of crisis.
Pascal is considered The Whitest Black Guy, identifying more with clown culture than mime; the indentured servants sent there from Mimopolis treat him like an outsider and he often says his differences makes him feel like he's wearing a mime costume and every mime he interacts with knows it. While this is because he's the only mime in Clowny Kingdom ever born there and has never been a servant, it's also because he was only ten when King George banned all expressions and teaching of mime culture in the kingdom in retaliation for Kingston "kidnapping" his heir Quinn. Any culture Manet tried to impart to him before was likely lost — he's shown having the book about mime culture he's reading to Pascal snatched away by George — and he couldn't dare teach his son about his heritage after without getting in trouble with the king he served, who could easily harm him in retaliation. Also doubles as Fridge Sadness.
During "Loud Mouth" Candy, owner of the candy shop, calls Pascal one of the good ones, and his showing Matisse around is good because "we" have to show "the criminals" the ropes. This not only identifies Pascal as identifying more with clowns than mimes and seen as a token, but that Candy is prejudiced against all other mimes and thinks they're all conspiring criminals (except Pascal, who was born in Clowny Island). This foreshadows her being the leader of the mob that goes to attack the mimes — and the royal children — celebrating Lantern Day after they're riled up by Rabble Rouser Aries Cashworthy in "Lantern Day".
Leo has a checklist of what to do during his dinner with Quinn and Kingston. Items include "don't flirt," "don't look Quinn in the eyes," "don't touch Kingston's hair," don't mention his dad Aries, not to flex out of his clothes, and not to cry. But during the night — in part due to the fight with Scorpowitz — he proceeds to fail at almost every single one of them. Except "be honest", where he ends up being exceptionally so from the scorpion venom.
As of Episode 10 of "The King's Monster" with The Reveal that Will and Fred were born as Conjoined Twins, looking back at multiple images of Will and Fred from childhood and hints in the storyline show the build up to this reveal. Most images of the two as children only show them from the chest up and always side by side with Fred on the left and Will on the right. The family portrait shows them full body, but sitting down in what looks like the two embracing—but only one leg is visible, with Will wearing a skirt. The first storyline had them mention that they had been part of The Freak Show and were "used" by their dad, and one panel of "All the Queen's Men" shows a set of conjoined twins as one of the kinds of clowns regulated there; the only reason they weren't forcibly separated at birth (which would have led to Will dying) was because Queen Louise convinced their father King George to put them on display to bring in money. Halloween doodles show the two as a doppelgänger similar to Jekyll and Hyde, with Fred as an angry moody shadow attached to the happier Will. There's images of fused popsicles and the CatDog toy in episodes of "The King's Monster" leading up to the reveal, along with a shot of a visible scar on Will's side; an older ask-comic shows a scar on Fred's opposite side. Fred is massively upset at the story his boyfriend Hemlock tells him about two turtles who confine themselves to to the same shell and die together; turtles seem to have an unusually high rate of conjoined twins and are more likely to survive than most animals. And most tellingly, their middle names are after a famous pair of Italian conjoined twins: Giacomo and Giovanni Battista Tocci.
Will (who is a transgender man) and Fred were named "Wilfred" as Conjoined Twins regulated to The Freak Show. On the surface it's merely a mashup of their adult names (and possibly Will's unstated dead name, which was five letters long). However, Wilfred is a masculine name itself. His parents may not have known it, but they gave both twins a masculine name to start.
Red — who is a Super-Strong Child — gets angry at Penelope insulting her parents, and stomps her foot hard enough it rattles the entire room (and makes Penelope and her cotton candy poodle upset). She then angrily throws Penelope's trophy case to the floor, breaking it. It's later shown in the same episode that Penelope was physically abused by her ex-husband, who used to hit her and break her things. (When a calmer Red asks about him, Penelope has a flashback and rips her wedding picture apart.) Penelope's also on edge at the party, to the point Quinn touching her hand without warning made her have a breakdown. Red's only seven (as of that day) and didn't mean to do what she did, but it's very likely Red gave her aunt unseen flashbacks to Benjamin's abuse.
Quinn has been replacing the Shock Collars mimes are forced to wear as servants, in part because she thinks it's cruel to abuse them (helped by the fact she's married to Kingston, had Pascal raised near her, and sees the family servant Manet as a secondary father). But many people think that mimes are violent, dangerous criminals sent elsewhere to serve their sentences, and the shock collars are what keep them in control. Quinn's already been perceived as a traitor for "abandoning" the kingdom as next in line and coming back with a hybrid husband and children, to the point every other circus performer quit rather than work with her in charge and Aries could easily rile a part of the population up to attack the mimes celebrating Lantern Day, even knowing the royal children were down there and could have been hurt. If it came out she's removing the mime suppression collars, things could get really bad really quick for her and her family. And she knows it, hence the decoy collars.
Matisse reveals that all mimes sent out on contract for their criminal sentences from Mimopolis are forcibly sterilized. It's stated that this is to prevent unwanted pregnancies, but also is done to take more rights from their "bad citizens." However Manet — Pascal's father — has him. It's possibly a recent change in law, given that Empress Renoir stepped up only two years ago. And to add to that, many young citizens are charged for no reason at eighteen if they're exotic hybrids like Kingston. There's hundreds of people who have had their reproductive rights stripped away for the "crime" of being hybrids or for being seen as criminals.
with The Reveal that Will and Fred were born as Conjoined Twins, looking back at multiple images of Will and Fred from childhood and hints in the storyline show the build up to this reveal. Most images of the two as children only show them from the chest up and always side by side with Fred on the left and Will on the right. The family portrait