I Awakened Harlequin Class in The Apocalypse
Domino is a broke, circus-trained knife-thrower stuck doing kids' birthday parties when the world ends.
A Cataclysm rips reality open, monsters flood in, and a mysterious system starts handing survivors combat classes. He gets stuck with Harlequin, a class that looks like a joke next to warriors and mages, built on misdirection, crowd-reading, and theatrical tricks instead of raw power.
Forced into a survivor enclave, he bonds with a strange mutating snake companion and slowly proves that his "worthless" class is actually devastating because the new world runs on attention and belief, and nobody manipulates a crowd like a performer who spent years reading one. As he clashes with rivals, earns respect from harder fighters, and takes down increasingly dangerous threats, he uncovers a darker truth: his class wasn't random. It was designed, deliberately, as part of the system itself and he may be the key to something much bigger than survival.
It's a progression-fantasy survival story with a showman's heart: found family, monster fights, and a lead who turns being underestimated into his sharpest weapon.