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It happens too fast.
A moment ago everything was well, and the expedition — brave, good people, believing in their duty and their oath — was moving through the half-frozen caves, lighting the way with their chroma lamps. Monoco and Noco followed, arguing about who is the best Searcher between them two, and Verso — being in surprisingly good mood, Verso was walking beside them, teasing them both and purposefully adding fuel to the fire. Noco, the wise old man that he was, only laughed at his little jabs; Monoco, to their utter delight, was getting more and more agitated.
Everything was well.
He should have known that “well” never lasts.
Or: Old Noco does something reckless. Neither Monoco nor Verso take it too well.
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- Part 6 of His human
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22 Feb 2026
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sallow lies the break of dawn. quiet as the snow. by Okaia for FranticCashew
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
20 Feb 2026
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Several years after Verso and Monoco went their separate ways, Verso falls in with a new expedition, enjoying his time as their free use camp toy. As more and more expeditioners die, however, they direct their anger at him, no longer taking "no" for an answer. Esquie, who hears Verso cry more and more these days, recruits the reluctant help of Monoco to ensure Verso is alright. Only for Monoco to find out that Verso could not be further from alright.
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20 Feb 2026
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A Cœur Cedé (Yielding Hearts) by IneffableMossy
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
17 Jan 2026
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They both had more brittle moments now than they had in their beginning. Days when their nerves ran thin, and the nights never quite seemed long enough to refresh them. But they were together, for as long as this day was a day and the sky was the sky. And if this canvas, of pigment black and white and chromatic, was the only world Monoco could ever know, well then he wanted no other world.
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Chapter 1 summary:Humans had so many words for emotions, and although his grasp of Lumieran was equal to that of his native tongue, he still got the words backwards sometimes.
Monoco's heart is heavy as he goes to meet Verso, a usually joyous pilgrimage. What will he find on his arrival?
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16 Feb 2026
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Then Verso felt it, a strange pulling sensation, not quite in his foot but through it. Like something was being drawn out of him, gentle and careful.
The sensation intensified, and Verso watched in fascination as faint tendrils of color—his color, the gold of his chroma—began to drift from his skin toward Monoco. It moved like ink in water, curling and flowing in patterns that shouldn't exist in the air but did anyway.
When the light faded, there was a man sitting in front of him.
A naked man holding Verso's foot with hands that were now flesh instead of wood, skin tanned and weathered and very, very warm.
"Holy shit," Verso breathed.
In which a lazy afternoon leads to new discoveries.
Or; Monoco transforms into a human using Verso's chroma for the first time, and then they fuck about it.Bookmarked by Vivke
16 Feb 2026
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With a startled yelp, Gustave half-throws, half-drops his phone onto the floor. It clatters onto the rug, facing upward. The women both turn toward him, their expressions mirrored in confusion. Sciel is the first to avert her gaze, looking down at the phone…
Gustave smacks his socked foot on top of the phone screen, blocking Verso from view. He will not fumble this man’s dignity. What little he has left of it, anyway—what is Verso doing?
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Or: It's been almost a year since Verso dropped off the face of the earth. Gustave has all but given up on trying to reach out to him, until Verso finally texts him for... advice. No problem, right?
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15 Feb 2026
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Verso gulps. Monoco can see his throat working — his thin, ridiculously fragile human throat, too easy to squish and too easy to damage.
“I need you to tie me up,” he repeats — voice firmer, more desperate. “And hurt me. Make me feel pain. Make me feel… helpless.”
Monoco can't not notice the shiver that runs through him when he says it. Not an excited one, not something brought by the adrenaline before the fight — pure terror.
Monoco sees it in his eyes, dimmed with exhaustion.
Or: "I used to have horrible dreams. But somehow, it was worse when they stopped. Now it’s just this… oppressive void."
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- Part 5 of His human
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Bookmarked by Vivke
15 Feb 2026
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Verso fully intended for Gustave to die at Renoir’s hand. He'd been hoping and planning for this while stalking them across the Continent, crafting ideas on how to insert himself into the empty space left behind, using the man's death as kindling to instill a burning drive in Alicia to force their mother out of the Canvas at long last. This had been his single-minded goal from the beginning of Expedition 33's doomed journey. Everything hinged upon on this one moment, this small sacrifice in a long line of expedition martyrs.
But somehow, despite all of his meticulous planning, he didn't take into account the possibility that the man could be his Alpha.
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15 Feb 2026
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He looks too tense and too tired. Like a man trying to mentally prepare himself for a battle he has no energy left to fight.
Verso doesn't want to fight him.
“Hey,” says softly.
His copy glances at him, almost startled. Then looks down again. Hesitates. Blinks a couple of times; nervously licks his lips. “I'm sorry,” croaks.
Verso tilts his head. “For what?”
His copy shrugs. “For existing.”
Or: at the end of the world, Verso meets a familiar face.
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Bookmarked by Vivke
14 Feb 2026
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Boule de Lumière by Aria_Lerendeair for writelesssad
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
16 Feb 2026
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In order to bring Gustave back as himself, whole, Maelle had to infuse him with Pure Chroma, something wielded only by Painters.
This Pure Chroma responds to intent, just like it does for Painters.
As life begins again - Gustave does not hesitate to support all of his friends and family - but now that support comes with a cost that he might no longer afford to be able to pay.
(Alternative Title: 5 Times Gustave Used His Pure Chroma to Help Others, and the One Time Someone Used It to Help Him)
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14 Feb 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 Vivke
08 Feb 2026
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A Little Help by dontlookitsfilthy, IneffableMossy, Snugwugs
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
10 Jan 2026
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Monoco: “Look. We have to pull out all the stops."
Verso: "You can't mean ..."
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Gustave stumbles this day at this time in this part of Lumiere upon Verso and Monoco in the sexiest of outfits localized entirely within his living room. Can the most anxious of boys be seduced? If Sophie has anything say about it, then yes.Bookmarked by Vivke
05 Feb 2026
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Dispelling Doubts by Einradi for FranticCashew
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
12 Jan 2026
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Monoco looked a wreck. He didn't tend to preen himself beyond the bare minimum that was required, preferring to wake up, shower, and throw his hair back into a tie tight enough to last the day and for his duties at the Grace. Here, now, it was all out of place, his tie gone or broken and his hair sticking to his jaw in places. With alarm, Gustave noticed the cut and the bruises to his neck. The pink hue that had dyed some parts of his hair, the blood on his shirt—
"It's not mine," came the gruff response, breaking the silence. Gustave couldn't stop his flinch either way, coming into the room proper to approach his gruff partner. "It belongs to some fucking bastards. Slipped something in his drink."
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- Part 4 of Hellfire
Bookmarked by Vivke
05 Feb 2026
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a series of (failed) escapes by A_Confused_Kitten
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
24 Feb 2026
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When you've been immortal for as long as Verso has, it's inevitiable that some of your deaths may have been more purposeful than others.
Picking fights that are impossible for you to win, making plans that are a little too risky, not following medical advice when you really should be following it to the letter; Verso has done those sorts of things thousands of times. Maybe even more than that.
Fuck, that's not even mentioning all of times that he—That's not the point, though.
The point, Verso thinks, is that he wasn't planning for this.
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Alternatively, five times Verso dies and handles the consequences on his own, and one time they were handled for him.Bookmarked by Vivke
05 Feb 2026
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The burdened-hearted burn of melancholia by alacruxe, flowerfxcker
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
22 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 Vivke
03 Feb 2026
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A Speck of Paint on the Recto by Sinvulkt for didhero
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
14 Nov 2025
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Post-Maelle ending. Verso gets expulsed from the canvas with Maelle, but not without consequences.
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- Part 11 of To Fly Under A Painted Sky
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03 Feb 2026
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A warmth spread through his chest and he couldn't stop the happy growl escaping his throat.
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- Part 2 of Flufftober 2025
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31 Jan 2026
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This is unfair. Everything is unfair, and it makes him angry, and Monoco fights his mentor every single time about it, and it makes him angry, and it’s just-
He knows that Noco spends time with the impostor. He knows that they even call each other friends.
He calls it betrayal.
Noco ignores it.
For a while. For a few years. Until his patience runs out.
Or: the "Noco tied us together for a month, and now we're best friends" incident.
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- Part 1 of His human
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31 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 Vivke
25 Jan 2026
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The Greedy Cat and the Man who Indulges Him by Anonymous
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
14 Jul 2025
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A collection of Simon/Verso one shots.
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- Part 12 of Shy Shy Shy
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- 4/?
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13 Jan 2026
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Beneath the Shadow of the Monolith by Anonymous
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
05 Jun 2025
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Simon's heart belongs to Clea, but a moment alone with Verso makes it hard not to give in to desire.
So he doesn't.
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- Part 6 of Shy Shy Shy
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- English
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- 1,859
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Bookmarked by Vivke
13 Jan 2026