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  1. Public Bookmark 45

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    'So as you can see, we have much to discuss', Clea said somewhere behind him. 'Let's - Verso!'

    Her sharp admonishment had barely taken form before his fingers had already reached right into the shimmering chroma and the atelier blurred before his eyes. His being lurched forward, pulled into the canvas with that familiar feeling of weightlessness, gravity shifting around him until it no longer connected him to the floor but to the painting in front of him. When his vision cleared, he found himself floating in the Between.

    In the back of his head, he heard Clea's exasperated sigh.

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    Verso Dessendre survives the writer's trap. When he returns home to find most of his family lost in his old canvas, he goes to save them. Meeting his doppelganger was unexpected.

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    22 Sep 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 15

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    “Ah, I see,” Verso said, intrigued, “and your name?”
    “Lune.”
    “Just Lune?” he raised an eyebrow.
    “That’s all your getting,” Lune smirked. “For now.”
    “Not really a fan of personal questions, huh?” the pianist noted.
    “No, not really,” she replied, picking her guitar back up again. “And three is my limit.”

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    Lune is a studious and headstrong researcher, who strives to continue her late parents' work. Verso is a musical prodigy, who tries to carve his own path away from the Dessendre family name. The two meet in a sweet twist of fate, finding connection through music, and an understanding in each other that blossoms into an unlikely romance.

    OR A Modern AU, in which Lune and Verso meet under unusual circumstances, bond over their shared passion for music, and fall in love

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    22 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 5

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    PARIS, 1898: Since he could hold a brush to canvas, Verso has always been told who he was meant to be. At seventeen, a valet draws the line at who Verso is allowed to love. Just after his nineteenth birthday, Verso meets a man inside his canvas who rewrites every rule he's ever known by asking, daring, and loving. The problem? That man wasn't ever meant to exist at all. If Verso never Painted Gustave into being... how did he get into his canvas—and why can't he leave?

    A lit-fic adjacent fanfic exploring and expanding some pre-canon headcanon. I invite you to join for some self-indulgent, character-driven fun times.

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    “Introduction via first blood?”
    Verso shakes his head. Shakes his whole body—he’s trembling. Adrenaline and agony both staking their claim in his rattling bones.
    “Good,” Gustave says. “I figure I’m due a name and an explanation, petit tueur.
    “Verso,” he mutters.
    Enchanté, Verso.” Gustave hums, half amused. “Next time, ask before resorting to knives—it might spare you an unflattering sobriquet.”

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    21 Sep 2025

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    Verso hates people pretending to care. Julie pretended to care, and look how that turned out. Verso knows full well that humans can’t really care about an immortal who can just walk off being cut in half. Verso knows full well that he is too different from them to actually evoke empathy. Verso-

    Verso desperately, painfully, hopelessly wants it.

    Or: a Gustave Lives AU where Gustave is being nice and Verso is having a mental breakdown about it. Act II and the beginning of Act III.

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    10 Sep 2025

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    After the events of TGAA/DGS2, Barok van Zieks invites Albert Harebrayne back to London to catch up with his old friend, now that the danger of the Reaper has passed. Albert's visit in turn leads to him gradually learning to extend his trust to others once more while coming to terms with the events of a decade ago.

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    01 Apr 2025