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The Things We Cannot Bury by FakerThanFaker
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
11 Oct 2026
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If a world born from sorrow can still bring joy, does it deserve to die with the one keeping it alive?
This story follows the uneasy aftermath of Renoir’s crusade against the Canvas. Renoir has relented, and the fate of the world he once sought to destroy now rests in Maelle’s hands. The fighting is over, but, as Clea might put it, the world does not stop simply because the family is mourning.
Caught in their orbit is someone who walks the fragile line between Writers and Painters. What begins as a temporary alliance with the Dessendre family slowly deepens into something far more intimate: an excavation of the grief buried beneath their name, a dying world where the family have quietly resigned itself to losing, and names no one dares to speak aloud.
But the longer he remains within Lumière, the harder it becomes to answer the question none of them can escape: if a false world can still give people something real, does its existence still count as a lie?
Alicia had a life to paint. But is a life to paint all she will ever be allowed to have?