Sarakka
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They beat Vox. They stopped his weapon. They saved Heaven and Hell.
But there are still consequences to his actions. His, and Charlie's. Her father was hurt badly by the weapon, and no matter what she does, he won't wake up. She may have to face the fact that he could die, and the very last thing she'll ever have told him is to go away because he fucked things up for her enough.
No. She refuses to accept that. She's going to make things better. No matter what it takes.
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21 Jan 2026
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Gustave sits at the cliffside with Maelle tucked to his side. He’s writing, because of course he is. Writing was the gift he had been born with. Stories came to him as easily as breath to his lungs. Use of words had been forged into his very soul even when he was denied so. Even now, while he does not remember.
Verso never understood it, though perhaps his kind were never meant to—creating worlds with lavish vocabulary over the graceful stroke of a brush—and yet he never found them any less beautiful when written by him.
In another life, Verso—the true Verso—had risked everything for those pretty words, in another world where the blending of art and literature was forced apart, made forbidden and long thought impossible.
In this life—or unlife, perhaps—he can only stare at both parts of his heart with a hollowed soul and memories of fire upon his skin.
(In which Gustave lives, and Verso’s Canvas harbors one more grief-stricken soul.)
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14 Dec 2025
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Eight months after the fire, Verso wakes up. As he struggles to gain control of his life back, he has to come to terms with the changes : his mother's obsession with his recovery to the point of neglecting everything else, his father's ever present guilt, Clea's anger used as a shield.
But what Verso notices the most is the absence of his little sister.
Where is Alicia ?
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- Part 2 of (Im)Perfect Recovery
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12 Oct 2025
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Clea is the child they plan. Verso is the one they
nearlylose. And Alicia is the third—unplanned, unexpected, but not unwelcome.Or: a history of the Dessendre family in the years before the fire, starting with Renoir and Aline's marriage, through their rise to power within the Painter's Council, the birth of their children, and their eventual downfall.
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24 Sep 2025
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"This feeling that all my thoughts and memories… that they’re not mine, that they’ve been put into my head by somebody else… does it ever go away?”
It comes out almost pleadingly, the desperation Gustave tried to suppress for months now bleeding into his voice.
Something softens in Verso’s expression.
Or: the Maelle ending. Coming to terms with being brought back and repainted. Gustave is looking for some answers, so he goes to the one person who can provide them. Verso is absolutely done with this life, but feels obligated to at least talk to him.
They find that being a copy of a dead man is less unbearable when you're not alone.
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- Part 1 of Mirrors and Memories
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19 Sep 2025