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He plunges his sword into the ground — a familiar, practiced motion. The world pauses for a moment, and he sees the purple threads of blighted chroma ensnaring Gustave; pulls, yanking them towards himself. The pulsing chroma freezes for a second, tightening around the engineer. Then, like a pouncing predator, jumps at Verso.
The world starts moving again. A wave of nausea and fatigue almost knocks Verso to the ground, and it’s a miracle that he manages to dodge the next attack.
Gustave is staring at him, trying to process what just happened.
“Run,” Verso croaks.
Or: 5 times Verso carried Gustave’s burden and the 1 time Gustave carried his.
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After Clea drops baby Maelle into Verso's arms, he's left trying to raise a child on the Continent with the help of a much-younger Expeditioner. From upgrading Verso's hut to looking after Maelle while Verso fetches Monoco, Gustave makes himself indispensable - and, before he knows it, Verso can't imagine life without his help.
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- Part 2 of The Continent AU
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When Maelle enters the canvas and is transformed by its chroma, Clea decides that it's only right to have a Dessendre raise her. Unfortunately for Verso, he's currently Clea's best option for a reluctant adoptive parent.
In Lumière, Gustave has had his plan to travel to the Continent years before his gommage approved: he'll set up a base camp, explore the Continent, and help those who come after. Nothing could go wrong.
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- Part 1 of The Continent AU
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An Evening with the Dessendre's by didhero for Irisen
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
06 Jan 2026
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Verso is taking Gustave to meet his family for the first time, which includes dinner and board games.
Verso did not expect Gustave to bring the
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After crawling out of a too-long stay in the Abyss as a hellion, Verso found his home in shambles, with nothing to return to. His baby sister was missing, his older sister was gone, his mother was institutionalized, and his father was struggling to keep it together.
His first instinct was to find his sister, but when he found her happily in the care of Gustave Aubert and his family, he realized that there was nothing in Lumiere for him anymore.
So, why can't he keep himself from coming back?
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These Chains Around Your Neck by VerenaKauer
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
22 Jan 2026
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“I want to die.”
That gets his attention — Gustave’s eyes fly wide open, and he takes a step back. Like Verso is a lunatic who is better to be avoided. “I beg your pardon?”
“I want to die,” Verso repeats. “And I can’t do it on my own. You’re one of the smartest men in Lumière, you’re good with chroma. I need your help.”
Or: Verso is trying to find a way out. Gustave helps.
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The burdened-hearted burn of melancholia by alacruxe, flowerfxcker
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
18 Jan 2026
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Maelle brings Verso back to Lumière in a catatonic state, unresponsive and unwilling to let himself live. While she has no greater wish than for him to happily live out the rest of his years as a mortal man, she can't trust him with mortality until she's sure he's found his will to live—and he can't exactly do that if he sleeps every day away until his inevitable death by starvation.
Gustave, wary of the man who was prepared to enact their world's erasure, is less than enthused about the idea of attempting to wake him; but with no one else seeing any success, and with Maelle's emotional well-being on the line, he has no choice but to try.
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Dagger vs Gun by Anivy (Yamimidna) for Winter_of_tomorrow
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
05 Jan 2026
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Gustave and Verso fight over who gets to keep their newest weapon. Monoco proposes a solution: A battle of gun vs dagger.
It turns into much more than that.
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“Wait! Verso, damn it, wait, what-”
Fingers close around his wrist. He freezes, paralyzed; his arms are held down again, stripping him of the ability to defend himself, and a familiar-unfamiliar voice is ringing in his ears, and he is tugged and turned around, and soon the bruises on his wrists are going to be the least of his problems, because… because…
“Verso. Verso, look at me. Hey, look at me.”
Or: Maelle brings back a certain someone from Verso's past. Things do not go well, and Verso ends up on the doorstep of the only person in Lumière who makes him feel safe.
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The first words your soulmate says to you appear on your skin. And they only appear once—everybody knows that.
So when Verso Dessendre walks into Gustave's garage with a vintage car that needs restoring and eyes that hold eight years of secrets, and Gustave's wrist burns with new words - eight years after his soulmate abandoned him - he knows something is wrong.
Apparently, the universe isn't done with them yet.
This is a story about sacrifice and second chances, about the lies we tell to protect the ones we love, and about fighting for happiness even when the world says you don't deserve it.
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In Another Life, in Another World by SinfulLuca
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
03 Dec 2025
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He dreams of a different outcome, of a world where Gustave was there to ask questions.
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Masquerade (Compatible Fractures) by MsCoffeebear
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
20 Jan 2026
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In Lumière, soul bonds are not gifts - they are obligations.
Verso Dessendre has spent years perfecting the art of staying untouched. Once a prodigy, now a soldier, he's learned that wanting anything is dangerous. His hands are scarred. His reputation is carefully constructed. And he has no intention of letting anyone close enough to see what lies beneath.
Gustave Virlogeux is the Academy's most reliable engineer - the one who fixes what the system breaks, who never asks for anything for himself. His prosthetic arm glows with borrowed Chroma. He's useful. Essential. Alone.
When destiny pairs them together, neither is prepared for what their connection will cost—or what it might save. As Lumière's bond ceremony approaches, they—along with Verso's sister Alicia and Gustave's ward Maelle - will discover that the system they trusted might be more fragile than anyone realized.
A story about two people learning that sometimes the most broken things fit together in ways nothing whole ever could.
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It’s her own chroma reaching out to her, sweet and cool, scented with smoke and sweat. Aline lifts her head. Verso stares back—her beautiful boy, caked in blood, white petals fluttering around his mangled form. He smiles. All the clumsy stitching across her heart—her desperate attempts to self-soothe, to heal, to pull herself back together—tear at the seams.
“Do you recognize me?” Verso whispers. The weight of more than a century hangs off his shoulders. It does nothing to touch the childish longing in his pale eyes, or the feverish, desperate way he clutches at her.
“Always." Aline cups his cheek. She strokes her thumb over the scar marring his face, a lone imperfection worn so proudly. “Verso.”
(Verso leaps free of the painting. After decades apart, he and Aline share a final conversation).
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the wallpaper glistens by GreyscaleCourtier
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
13 Oct 2025
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In the aftermath of the performance at the opera house, Verso seeks oblivion from the only person who hates him enough to grant it. the dynamic quickly gets weird.
It's Whumptober once again! coe33 has grabbed me by the throat. speaking of getting grabbed by the throat -- the yaois are toxic. you've been warned. this is not a cozy enemies to lovers work.
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A dead man suddenly wakes from smokes and ashes to suddenly find himself in a place he hasn't visited ages ago. Confused of how he landed here, he spots a stranger unconscious on the grass with an odd uniform and a armband with the number 33 on it. Unable to leave the painted world, he's on a journey to find out what happened to his beloved Canvas and what lead to it's current state.
(January will be a bit slower for updates it's a busy month for me, thank you for your patience! 😘)
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Verso Dessendre needs a fake boyfriend for his family's annual Christmas trip to the Alps.
Gustave Rénier—his childhood crush and the man he hasn't seen in ten years—needs a reason to say yes to something reckless for once in his carefully organized life.
What starts as a week of pretense in a snow-covered chalet becomes something neither of them expected: late-night conversations, stolen touches, and the slow realization that some things were never fake to begin with.
Seven days. One bed. Two people who've been wanting each other for far too long.
Sometimes the best love stories start with a lie.
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Our drafts collide, in this endless light by MelissaSz89
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
28 Jun 2025
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Gustave kept his distance to Verso for weeks after Maelle brought them all back. One night changes everything and a tentative friendship soon turns into more. When Gustave wakes up alone after their first night together, he starts to worry about all the possible reasons why Verso could’ve left him. They both end up working through their insecurities, guilt and unresolved trauma, to make their relationship survive amidst that lurking darkness of their past.
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- Part 1 of Our drafts collide
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Four years after the end of his last long term relationship, university professor Gustave Auclair's life has turned into a monotonous cycle on repeat. His dating life is non existent, his sex life is six feet under, and his younger days as a dominant are long behind him--that is, until he finds himself in a dominant/submissive arrangement with Verso Dessendre, one of the most highly sought after men in all of Lumieré.
It works just fine for them. They're extremely compatible, the sex is great, and the paycheck Gustave gets is even better.
It works just fine for them--until Gustave just *had* to go and catch feelings for him.
Because of course he did.
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- Part 2 of et je veux tout ça avec toi
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Verso Dessendre doesn't do romance.
He's fine by himself, really. He rarely needs anyone else other than his best friend, Sciel, to keep him company. Navigating the dating pool is a minefield on the best of days, especially for a man of his wealth and status, and wounds from the past keep his heart on a lock and key. He finds his pleasure by himself, and pours his frustrations with the world into the music he composes for a living. It's enough for him, most of the time. But somehow, some way, Sciel manages to convince him to start the search for a dominant, if only just to blow off some extra steam.
It doesn't go well.
Months later, Verso's just about to give up--before Sciel presses him to meet with one of her friends who's looking to get back into the scene. He relents, if only out of curiosity, and allows her to tell him more.
He's finds out quickly that he's not even remotely prepared for what comes with Gustave Auclair. Not one bit.
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- Part 1 of et je veux tout ça avec toi
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There is a god that lives at the heart of the canvas, his paint keeping them alive. Once a year, Lumière sends its best and brightest to ask for his blessing: this year, they've chosen Gustave to make their case.