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It’s her own chroma reaching out to her, sweet and cool, scented with smoke and sweat. Aline lifts her head. Verso stares back—her beautiful boy, caked in blood, white petals fluttering around his mangled form. He smiles. All the clumsy stitching across her heart—her desperate attempts to self-soothe, to heal, to pull herself back together—tear at the seams.
“Do you recognize me?” Verso whispers. The weight of more than a century hangs off his shoulders. It does nothing to touch the childish longing in his pale eyes, or the feverish, desperate way he clutches at her.
“Always." Aline cups his cheek. She strokes her thumb over the scar marring his face, a lone imperfection worn so proudly. “Verso.”
(Verso leaps free of the painting. After decades apart, he and Aline share a final conversation).
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22 Nov 2025
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The Fountain of Youth by azureshowmemore
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors, Horus Heresy - Various Authors
20 Nov 2025
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“It hardly matters,” Euten had said lightly. “I don’t have much time left anyway.” But Guilliman had not taken the news so calmly.
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20 Nov 2025
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Just A Little Longer by cursedtobeshortforever
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
16 Nov 2025
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Two weeks after Alicia decided to stay in the canvas, Clea wakes up to an ominous letter asking for her help written by her supposedly frozen in place sister.
This feels like as a good excuse as any to visit Verso's canvas again.
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16 Nov 2025
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Sixteen years before the final Expedition, Monoco finds a newborn child dying in the snow.
And as usual, it becomes Verso's problem, too.
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16 Nov 2025
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Verso makes a different decision at Stone Wave Cliffs. And when a butterfly flaps its wings, it can cause a tornado.
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spoilers for the game! but also, kind of a rewrite of it! Picks up during THAT cutscene at the end of Act 1.
13 year old me 🤝 26 year old me writing fanfic to undo one (1) character death
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13 Nov 2025
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Together, the two of them fill the world with churning seas and colourful forests.
Or, 5 times Clea entered the canvas with Verso + 1 time Clea entered alone.
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12 Nov 2025
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La Mémoire du Fil by QueenieWithABeenie
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
23 Sep 2025
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Manon has spent nineteen of her twenty-nine years tucked her corner of the shop, dutifully outfitting expedition after expedition.
The 33rd is a uniquely difficult pattern to follow.Series
- Part 1 of Les Derniers Fils du Destin
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10 Nov 2025
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08 Nov 2025
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One was not enough. Perhaps Maelle needs two brothers to convince her to choose life, and to heal.
Surrounded by her brothers, Maelle wants to remain strong. She wants to convince them both that staying here is the right choice, and that they only hurt her with their arguments. She is the Paintress. She should not feel powerless. She will not let them dictate her choices.
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05 Nov 2025
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Maelle fought for a Life to Paint. Verso fought for a Life to Love. Verso won.
Or so he thought.The last vestige of the real Verso's soul had other plans.
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29 Oct 2025
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Clea decidedly hates this silence.
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26 Oct 2025
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“More poems?”
For the ungodly number of books they have in the house, Maman is not terribly interested in literature. Alicia finds it strange. Almost defensively, she says, “Sketches, too. It’s not all writing.”
Maman sets her pencil down, arching a brow. Her eyes widen, taking in Alicia’s appearance. “What have you been—” she sputters, reaching out to pluck stray leaves from her hair. At least one twig, too. She holds the latter in front of her face. “Do we need more interesting groundcover to keep you out of the trees?”
Or: brief scenes from Alicia and Aline's shifting relationship to one another over the years.
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25 Oct 2025
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On a December night in Paris, Verso gives his sister a gift.
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23 Oct 2025
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Come Out from Underneath Who You Were by Sky_kiss
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
13 Oct 2025
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She tipped her head towards the canvas. "Who was he?”
Gustave—my friend.
Aline reached out, not quite touching the piece, tracing the line of Gustave’s jaw. “He’s handsome.”
Alicia pulled a face. Gustave? Handsome? No. Gustave was ridiculous. Maman arched her brow. Alicia scribbled another note, underlining it for emphasis. He was family. He was not handsome.
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23 Oct 2025
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Clea Dessandre writes letters to her dead brother to cope with his passing. Alicia on the other hand, collects bones.
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22 Oct 2025
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Look around, Look around, At how lucky we are to be alive right now by YuiUltima
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
15 Oct 2025
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Verso wins the duel, and Alicia is expelled from the canvas.
Except something goes wrong, and when she returns to reality--she doesn't wake up.
Stuck in an eternal slumberThe remaining members of the Dessendre Family are left facing another tragedy, another lose.
Will this finally get them out of their heads?
Will they finally open up?
...will they finally be a family again?And will Alicia ever realise how lucky she is to be alive?
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22 Oct 2025
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Concerns for a Certain "Stingy Asshole" by Ria_liz
Fandoms: Fables: The Wolf Among Us (Video Game)
05 Jul 2025
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As difficult it is to admit, it isn't easy being Bigby's friend. Harder still, to be Colin and also be Bigby's friend.
His prickly demeanor and snark comes naturally to him. It also happens to be his go-to thing with the Sheriff.
Why? Because it's easy. Because it's familiar. Because on good days Bigby would snark back and they'd have a good chuckle about it later.
But clearly this wasn't one of those days. Hell, nor were any other of his days recently.
Or, Colin worries about Bigby and Bigby just want to get at least two hours worth of sleep.
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11 Sep 2025
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Set mostly post Rapture, exploring Delta and Eleanor's relationship as Father and Daughter. Delta Lives AU. Arranged in Chronological order.
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03 Sep 2025
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After killing Subject Omega, Subject Delta urgently needs to tell Eleanor something
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- Part 1 of Teeth Are All I Can Give To You
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03 Sep 2025
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I am not a vessel for your good intent by VoguishThrone58
Fandoms: BioShock 1 & 2 (Video Games)
29 Apr 2025
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Subject Delta may be alive, but he's just a hollow shell of a man now.
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- Part 2 of Teeth Are All I Can Give To You
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03 Sep 2025