19 Bookmarks by Malvari
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Bookmarked by Malvari
07 Feb 2026
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In Theory, We're Not in Love by EmberPuppy
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
13 Feb 2026
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Verso could use a fake boyfriend to get his mother off his back.
Sciel introduces Gustave.
They agree on a mutually beneficial arrangement.It's supposed to be simple—hold hands, attend events together, survive his family, and be convincing enough.
They're pretending.
They're somehow excellent at pretending—and also terrible at it.
They promise to keep things simple.
Then immediately do the emotional equivalent of lighting the rulebook on fire.Somewhere between "practice," an ungodly late night phone call, and the catastrophic one‑bed situation, the line between fake and real quietly packs its bags and leaves.
Bookmarked by Malvari
07 Feb 2026
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Modern AU - by Gustave’s definition, he is most certainly not a virgin, (frottage to the point of mutual completion back in his high school days) but that definition just isn’t doing it anymore at 32, so he goes to a bar for a hookup just to get rid of all of his fucking nerves about the whole thing, not even expecting it to be a good time.
Cue in Verso, who just goes home with Gustave expecting a quick one night stand - only to once he finds out about how Gustave’s never had real sex before, to show him just how good it can be, over multiple hookups, slowly but surely falling completely for him and stopping his fuck-boi tendencies
Bookmarked by Malvari
05 Feb 2026
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After the events at Stone Wave Cliffs, Gustave awakens in a liminal space suspended between canvas and reality where a faceless child paints without end. What begins as an intellectual puzzle Gustave cannot abandon gradually transforms into something else entirely: the stubborn effort to save his sister’s life and the fragile canvas she sustains, while also proving—patiently, against every layer of refusal—to a man who has long ceased to believe in his own worth that he is permitted, perhaps even deserving, to have a real, finite life.
Bookmarked by Malvari
29 Jan 2026
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The Pride & Prejudice AU you didn't know you needed.
When he returned to Verso, he did not hesitate.
"She could not go through with it," he said in a rush, keeping his voice low enough that only Verso could hear. "The engagement. I offered to take her place. I know this is irregular, I know you have every right to refuse, but I am asking you—"
Verso's hand tightened on his waist, and Gustave's words died in his throat.
"Why?" Verso asked, his pale eyes fixed on Gustave's face with unsettling intensity.
"Why you?" he clarified, his voice quiet but intent. "Why sacrifice yourself for her?"
The question caught Gustave off guard. He opened his mouth, closed it again, searching for the right words.
"Because she is my sister," he said simply. "And I would do anything for her."In Belle Époque France, an old promise binds two families. When the promised bride refuses, her brother steps forward instead—binding himself to a man shaped by pride and expectation. What begins as duty unfolds into a slow reckoning with choice, restraint, and the dangerous intimacy of wanting what you were never supposed to have.
Bookmarked by Malvari
27 Jan 2026
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Effective Advertisement by Aria_Lerendeair for sabaix
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
29 Jan 2026
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Verso and Gustave meet on a train, but never exchange names when Verso misunderstands their conversation and leaves abruptly.
He regrets it almost immediately, and does everything in his power to find the man that he started falling for after one conversation.
Finding him again might seem impossible, but Verso is willing to do whatever it takes, because he's not willing to let the man go.
Bookmarked by Malvari
27 Jan 2026
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These Chains Around Your Neck by VerenaKauer
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
31 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.
Bookmarked by Malvari
22 Jan 2026
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The burdened-hearted burn of melancholia by alacruxe, flowerfxcker
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
01 Feb 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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- Part 1 of Of Bastards and Bridges
Bookmarked by Malvari
18 Jan 2026
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Gustave woke to gentle pressure on his wrist.
He blinked groggily, finding Verso crouched beside his work chair, the android's fingers wrapped carefully around his pulse point. "What are you doing?"
"Your heart rate was elevated during sleep," Verso said, matter-of-fact. "Irregular breathing patterns. I wanted to ensure you were not experiencing a medical emergency."
Gustave stared at him. "I was... dreaming. People do that."
"Oh." Verso's expression shifted slightly—confusion, maybe, or embarrassment. The micro-expressions were uncanny. "My apologies. I have logged this for future reference." He didn't let go of Gustave's wrist.
"You can let go now."
"Your pulse is still elevated."
"Because you startled me awake."
Verso stared at him, and for just a moment, something like annoyance flickered across his expression.In which Gustave comes across a destroyed android in the scrapyard. When VRS-0 wakes with no memory, neither of them are prepared for what comes next.
Bookmarked by Malvari
15 Jan 2026
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Either it works or it doesn't by EmberPuppy
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
01 Feb 2026
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Verso Dessendre - The new COO - is dangerously competent, infuriatingly attractive, and absolutely pretending not to flirt- or incredibly blind and unaware. Debatable.
Gustave has a crush anyway.
Sciel and Lune are chaos gremlins : Not helping, placing bets, and unabashedly shipping it.
A slow descent into mutual ruin ensues.Bookmarked by Malvari
07 Jan 2026
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“You should model for me.”
Gustave jerked his head around, incredulous. “What?”
“You should model for me,” Verso repeated.
Here he was, standing drunk in the street at three in the morning, with a man he met yesterday.
"Why not?"
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in turn of the century lumière, gustave agrees to pose for a mysterious stranger. while he becomes entangled in verso's life and lies, sparks fly
a belle époque au with no paintress, no canvas world, and a living verso dessendre
Bookmarked by Malvari
06 Jan 2026
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Making new memories [COMIC] by Amiko for hoodedmiho (missMHO)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
03 Jan 2026
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Before Maelle leaves the canvas for good, she fulfills Verso's wish to be mortal but also makes him promise to look after Gustave. Even though he's reclutant at first, Verso quickly discovers that maybe it won't be that difficult to keep that promise. Gustave's company is not so bad and maybe he does have it in him to try to enjoy life again.
A Verstave comic.
Bookmarked by Malvari
05 Jan 2026
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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?
Bookmarked by Malvari
19 Dec 2025
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Masquerade (Compatible Fractures) by MsCoffeebear
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
23 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.
Bookmarked by Malvari
18 Dec 2025
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Blood on the Cliffs by Winter_of_tomorrow
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
18 Jan 2026
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Reincarnation and meeting again in the next life sounds romantic until the memories of your past life's brutal death crash down on you.
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- Part 1 of Expedition 33: Reincarnation AU
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14 Dec 2025
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At first glance, it looked like the perfect place.
To heal from grief and loss, Gustave dedicated himself to help his sister pursue her ambitious dream. Together, they shall open a school, a place where gifted youth can flourish through art. And they discovered the ideal location for that, an abandoned manor, nestled in the heart of Paris but plagued with a gruesome reputation.
As the siblings bring new light into the desolated estate, Gustave begins to sense that he is not alone. A restless presence lingers in the empty hallways, burdened by loneliness and craving for kinship. And maybe love too.
Meanwhile, in the hidden depths of the manor, something far darker than ghosts awakens…
Bookmarked by Malvari
13 Dec 2025
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Le Clair-Obscur de Nos Âmes by Kai (Roxel)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
12 Feb 2026
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In a city bright with the progress of the Belle Époque, Verso lives in the shadows, grief-stricken by the 'written' fire that claimed his sister. He pours his anguish into his piano, hiding from a secret war between those who paint substance and those who write destiny.
As a brilliant structural engineer, Gustave believes a beam fails because of stress, not sorcery. But when he begins to notice a pattern of architectural disasters plaguing Montmartre, his need to fix the flaws inadvertently threatens a powerful faction manipulating Paris from the shadows.
Marked for death because he refuses to accept their narrative, Gustave is pulled into Verso’s dangerous world. The pragmatist and the artist forge a partnership: Gustave provides the logic to expose the lie, while Verso finds the courage to pick up his brush and shield the man who has become his tether to the world. Together, they must dismantle a conspiracy written in stone before the ink dries on Gustave’s final chapter.
Bookmarked by Malvari
13 Dec 2025
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"I'm leaving Paris," Verso says brusquely, by way of a greeting. He has never been very good with words; that has always been Papa's strength, not his.Gustave inhales sharply, watching him in silence, his hands clutching his notebook so hard the spine begins to twist.
"You want me to come with you," he says finally, looking at Verso as though he has entirely lost his mind.
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Time is running out. With war looming over Belle Epoque Paris, Verso must make a choice between his duty to his family and the young Writer who has unknowingly stolen his heart.
He chooses Gustave.
Bookmarked by Malvari
11 Dec 2025
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AU where there's no Painting but there's still a fire.
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Bookmarked by Malvari
06 Dec 2025