Don’t we all want something sweet in our lives, my little Sunbeams?

Sometimes you just need that taste of something sugary-sweet. What’s better in those moments than a gummy bear, friends? But how do you know exactly what you’re biting into?

It’s true what they say… One person’s sweet is another’s sour. We all have different tastes.

To some, it’s honey; to others, vinegar.

And what seems like it might be perfect for your tastes on first impressions, the more you chew it… sometimes we find that the flavours simply aren’t what we thought they were.

What starts out as sweet as honey may well have a sour vinegar-laden centre. You don’t know until you start chewing.

Our friend Klaus is like that gummy bear.

Soft on the outside, charismatic and sugar-coated with charm. He can stretch himself into a kind and loving figure when it suits him, bend into shapes needed to turn a group of outcasts into a Family of sorts.

So each and every member of his Circus saw that gummy bear and wanted a piece. They took their licks and found their place. But this sweetness was a trap. Up close, he stuck to everything — their thoughts, their sleep, their sense of safety. His voice could chew through their confidence without breaking the surface. He labelled them freaks and made them believe that’s what they were, leaving residue long after he left the room.

But Klaus is the kind of gummy bear that one can’t stop chewing once started. So stuck to your teeth that you can’t spit him out. A Family forced to band together, protect each other from that vinegar-filled centre.

That’s the kind of family you created for Ajax, for Damien… for Michaela. A world where love is conditional, something that you have to earn by being a good little freak and making daddy happy. Like being fed candy every day and told it was love, till you hate the taste of anything sweet.

While Klaus carried on, night after night, shining his sweet exterior to a world that lapped it up.

Well, Mister Way… Me and my Sunshine Club aren’t gummy bear fans. I embrace those around me for themselves, and they never have to earn a smile from Mister Sunshine.

Because smiles are free.

In the Sunshine Club, friends are treated as friends, not commodities to be expended. Sure, your Circus will follow your orders. They may even lay their life on the line for you, but at what cost?

Because they were desperate for acceptance, so you gave it to them in the form of a gummy bear they could never get rid of.

I am no gummy bear, Klaus. I am the Sunshine.

The joy that fills our heart without the need of a sweet-sugar coated exterior. I am the light that shines from within, and all your freaks would need to do to join the Sunshine Club is simply smile… and believe that freaks are the last thing they are.

I will show them the way, not your way… Mister Way.