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  1. Public Bookmark 20

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    “So we got an anonymous report, about some family in the 16ème. You never know, with those, it’s either someone’s ex-spouse wasting our time or the worst shit you ever saw.”

    Emma pours herself a glass and immediately takes a swig. Her face looks hollow in the dimming light of March.

    “It was the second one,” she continues, pressing hard fingers onto the bridge of her nose. “I get to this huge fucking manor, and this lady opens the door, looking down on me like I’m dirt on the bottom of her shoe, right? Refusing to let me in, telling me nothing in there is my business, the works. You know it’s bad when they won’t let you in.”

    In which Emma is a social worker, Gustave is a teacher and Alicia learns to live.

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    11 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 13

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    At the moment of Gustave's death, the latent powers of an unknowing Paintress and the stubborn determination of an older brother desperate not to leave his sister behind combine and are just powerful enough to anchor Gustave's Chroma to the Canvas. With his body beyond saving, Gustave's disembodied Chroma reaches out for any anchor he can find—

    —and winds up trapped in the same body as Verso Dessendre.

    (Or: In which I put Gustave and Verso in a get along shirt in acts 2 and 3, and Verso is also the shirt.)

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    04 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 55

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    After Maelle's victory, Gustave is struggling to adjust. If it weren't so damn pathetic, it might even be funny: the broken engineer, unable to fix himself. But with Lumière in ruins, there is no time for self-pity. His people need him, and he won't let them down.

    Never again.

    Now if only Verso bloody Dessendre would stop accidentally falling asleep on his furniture…

    Or: Verso can't sleep unless Gustave is near. Somehow, it becomes Gustave's problem to solve — and the key to both their salvation. (Complete, updates twice a week)

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    04 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 32

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    Gustave dies.

    It is a sordid affair, full of sacrifice and pain. There is nothing beautiful about death, Gustave thinks in the fleeting instant before his nerve endings explode all at once in his chest like fireworks. He doesn’t think anymore after that. Screams echo on the granite of the cliff, drowning the furious crashing of the waves below. He doesn’t hear them. He is dead.

    (This is not how it ends.)

    After his death, Gustave becomes unstuck in time.

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    14 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 51

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    Gustave is a borrower. While searching for a new home with his kind, he is saved by a human, their greatest danger.
    It is there, within the walls of this immense manor they decided to move in, that an unlikely bond of trust is about to bloom.

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    21 Feb 2026