an old curse

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• heaven never ever heard a word i said by versoburns

  Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  14 May 2026

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  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Painted Renoir Dessendre & Painted Verso Dessendre
  • Painted Verso Dessendre & Monoco
  • Painted Verso Dessendre & Esquie
  • Painted Verso Dessendre & Maelle | Alicia Dessendre
  • Painted Verso Dessendre & Lune
  • Painted Verso Dessendre & Sciel
  • Painted Verso Dessendre/Julie
  • Painted Verso Dessendre & Gustave
  • Painted Alicia Dessendre & Painted Verso Dessendre
  • Aline Dessendre | The Paintress & Painted Verso Dessendre
  • Painted Verso Dessendre/Gustave
  • Painted Verso Dessendre
  • Painted Renoir Dessendre
  • Painted Alicia Dessendre
  • Monoco (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
  • Esquie (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
  • Maelle | Alicia Dessendre
  • Lune (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
  • Sciel (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
  • Gustave (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
  • Various Past Expeditioners
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • im gonna try to make it happy at least.
  • Character Study
  • Complicated Relationships
  • Dubious Morality
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Mental Health Issues
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • verso typical Everything u know how it is
  • Painted Verso Dessendre Needs a Hug
  • Depressed Painted Verso Dessendre
  • Touch-Starved Painted Verso Dessendre
  • 5+1 Things
  • of a sort. kind of. 6+1 sorta thing technically but like ull see
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Healing
  • and all the ups and downs and wrongs and rights that come with both those things
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Gustave Lives (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
  • gustave dont show up for a Long While but im adding that just to forewarn anyone that dont fw it
  • this may also tip into verstave well see. but thats not the focus of the fic at all
  • oh and the verso/julie is all strictly past tense. actually-
  • Implied/Referenced Torture
  • no character bashing tho i promise. everyones just human and i love this game for embracing the messiness of existing
  • Maelle Ending | A Life to Paint (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
  • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
  • ended up adding the verstave tag hm. its light tho i prommy this is still very much a verso character study first and foremost

  Summary

  i've cried enough to raise the dead

  or, five times verso didn’t feel real and one time he knew he wasn’t. (and one time he was proven wrong)

  Series

  • Part 1 of an old curse

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  English

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