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• Une Vie à Créer - A Life to Create by HelleyDogar

  Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)  

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  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  17 Mar 2026

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  • Painted Verso Dessendre/Original Female Character(s)
  • Painted Verso Dessendre
  • Aline Dessendre | The Paintress
  • Painted Renoir Dessendre
  • Painted Alicia Dessendre
  • Painted Clea Dessendre
  • Original Characters
  • Simon (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
  • Julie (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
  • POV Painted Verso Dessendre
  • POV Original Female Character
  • Painted Alicia Dessendre Needs a Hug
  • Painted Verso Dessendre Needs a Hug
  • Painted Verso Dessendre-centric
  • The Dessendre Family Needs Therapy (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
  • Bad Parent Aline Dessendre | The Paintress
  • Painted Verso Dessendre Has a Bad Time
  • Prologue: Lumière (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Spoilers
  • before the fracture
  • Mentioned Clea Dessendre
  • Depressed Painted Verso Dessendre
  • Romance
  • Pianist Painted Verso Dessendre

  Summary

  Have you ever wondered what life in Lumière was really like before, during, and after the Fracture?
  Honestly… same.

  So I took a chance, let my imagination run free, and followed it wherever it wanted to go. Until Sandfall gives us an official version (if they ever do), this is mine.

  Une Vie à Créer is a slow burn story following an original character living within the painted world Aline created — a world where no one knows they are made of pigment. Long before the Fracture, she crosses paths with Verso. What begins as quiet curiosity slowly, patiently grows into something deeper. Their connection unfolds through small moments, shared silences, everyday life, and the unseen corners of Lumière we never get to explore in the game.

  Then the Fracture happens.
  Everything changes.

  In the aftermath, as the world lies in pieces, the first foundations of Expedition 0 begin to take shape — a group driven by one question: what happened?

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