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The Expedition is over, and while the city celebrates, Gustave can’t shake the chilling feeling that he didn’t come back whole.
Plagued by inexplicable gaps in his memory, a crushing, bone-deep exhaustion, and nightmares that leave him utterly lost, Gustave finds the familiar routines of Lumière unbearable.
He begins to drift away from his old life, seeking solace in the one place where pretense isn't required: the quiet company of a man he is slowly getting to know better.
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Just a heads up: this story is heavy on the angst at first, but I promise the slow burn kicks in later. Also, please bear with me through the first chapter, I swear the writing gets better 🫣
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08 Dec 2025
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they say she was seen on occasion by larklaurent
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
21 Aug 2025
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when verso demands they get rid of the piano, gustave doesn’t say a word.
it’s not his place, even though it pains him. even though he can’t imagine what verso is going through, as he watches with dead eyes as the piano is taken apart and taken away. gustave hovers nearby, which is all he can do. he wants to do more. there’s so much more he wants to do. he wants to — to embrace verso, to hold him close, to wrap him up in his arms and promise him it’s going to be okay.
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or: gustave takes verso to the sea to heal
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07 Dec 2025
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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.
(It's a shame things between them are not that simple.)Bookmarked by Skewed_Syntax
07 Dec 2025
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call it dreaming by lysdunkel (enheduane)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
15 Oct 2025
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“We old men must adapt to the times.” Verso thumbs across her cheek, fond and careful. “You’re way ahead, of course. So cutting edge you make them bleed.”
“Gustave gets eye strain from arcane journals. As I have told you,” she teases. “Such things tend to happen with age. You’ll have to grow used to it, now that you’re mortal like the rest of us.”
Age is always a strange topic for them. For everyone in the city. Verso no longer dyes his hair, and silver spills forth with every wash. His beard is salt-and-pepper. Lune longs to join him in that. Visible signs of age fills her with triumph. A satisfying sense of spite, even.
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My take on the Maelle ending, and what it might mean to live in such a world.
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07 Dec 2025
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That one Ramasseur encounter by VerenaKauer
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
08 Oct 2025
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“Just- don’t say anything,” Verso asks resignedly, avoiding his gaze. “It hurts like hell and I really need your help. I can’t comb through the whole battlefield with only one working arm and I’d really like to stop feeling the damn Nevron fighting the other Nevrons with my limb.”
He looks like he is on the brink of tears.
Or: a Ramasseur has stolen something important. Monoco helps his human friend and makes sure it won't happen again.
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07 Dec 2025