henrydavid
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They were close, but never friends. Just coworkers. So why does she still grieve?
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It's Spring Break and Skinner scored himself a date! With the help of a (un)willing Chalmers, he sets out to prepare for what could be his one true love.
But really, when has it ever been that simple?
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A Brush With The First by henrydavid
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game), Final Fantasy XIV
02 Sep 2025
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Gustave was sure he was dead. His memories began to disolve and he was ready for the end to come and embrace him. That is, until a certain Mothercrystal emphatized with his fate.
Elsewhere, across the reflection, Emet fumbled the spell meant to retrieve Y’shtola from the Lifestream. Instead, he summoned a desperate soul adrift in the aetherial sea.
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Night was their only respite from a world where death lurked at every corner. Around the fire, the expedition found brief comfort in their warm company, hot meals, and, regrettably, the shadows of darker thoughts.
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Chalmers reminisce about his life.
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This is a story about two terrible people who loved eachother terribly much, and who are terrible at keeping a marriage together.
This is also a story about a small town girl, a city boy, and their incompatible sex drives.Bookmarked by henrydavid
21 Sep 2025
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Gustave let go of a heavy sigh and nodded his head. Back in the Stone Wave Cliffs, he had come to peace that this was where his journey ended—For those who come after, right?—but it seemed like his story wasn't done just yet. Maelle had, somehow, given him another lease on life, and this time, he could live it. He could grow old. He could do things simply for the sake of doing them; every waking moment didn't have to be dedicated to trying to solve the issue with the Paintress, with preserving their civilization.
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Or: Maelle returns Lumière to its former glory, but... things just seem a bit off. Gustave investigates.Bookmarked by henrydavid
18 Aug 2025
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Life is slow in Lumiere, a small coastal city not far from the Continent. Gustave is content with his life here, working as a power plant lead technician despite his disability. He has his sister, who is making her career on the Continent. He has his foster sister Maelle, whom he dotes on. Life is good until someone moves into the empty room below his. Verso might be the answer to all his problems or the one that will destroy his life.
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18 Aug 2025
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Monoco’s station was just as it had always been, Gommage or no. The painted curves of it flowed and trailed, one long brush stroke after another. The snow stayed, and so did the grandis, the gentle petals of iron, the curve of playful trains.
Only Monoco had left. Only they had changed. And then they’d returned, and for what? To scavenge the chroma of corpses long gone to rest? To scrape the paint from a hundred abandoned creations?
Verso was tired.
“Yes,” he said, “I could have saved him.”
Or: Maelle brings Gustave back, and accidentally ties his soul to Verso. This changes things.
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18 Aug 2025
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pi·a·nis·si·mo
/ˌpēəˈnisəˌmō/
Music
adverb
(especially as a direction) very softly.
"she played pianissimo alongside the full orchestra"
adjective
performed very softly.
"the final verse was beautifully balanced and controlled in the pianissimo ending"
noun
a passage marked to be performed very softly.Or, Verso is stuck in a time loop. Maybe the canvas has one more story to tell.
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- Part 1 of A Life to Dream
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