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The girl’s shoulders hunch again. An expression is battling on her face. Guilt again, and fear, and shame. And then faintly, in the soft turn of her cheek, commiseration. She watches Gustave for a long, sad moment, and then turns to a new page in the notepad. She starts writing something, and then stops, glancing furtively at Gustave before scribbling it out. On a new line she instead writes in big bold letters:
Maelle.
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Gustave is the local mechanic of Lumiere, an idyllic coastal village far away from the chaos and conflict of Paris. Struggling with his recent injury and the loss of a good friend, he's not quite prepared when a family moves into the abandoned Manor on the edge of town.
He's definitely not prepared for their children.
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04 Nov 2025
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mon bonhuer (my happiness) by imgoingtocrash
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
01 Nov 2025
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She looks like a proper lady. Fit to the extravagance of the strange manor. She could host whimsical parties, music and dancing congesting the opulent halls. She could turn away leagues of suitors from these very steps. She could age past her predicted years before Gommage.
The thought halts his breath.
Maelle tries on the Skirt outfit before the end of Act 1. Gustave reflects on how much Maelle has grown.
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02 Nov 2025
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For the prompt:
look i'm a simple man that wants zag to be fucked so good and overstimulated to the point of crying bc he dick hurts from cumming so much
he'd look so pretty begging someone for mercy
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31 Oct 2025
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Pièces froides by monocostrap (hanarinhightown)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
29 Oct 2025
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Monolith Year 78 (in which Verso is incredibly touch-starved and increasingly unable to stop staring at the way Monoco grips his staff):
"You're insufferable."
"Yet here you are, staring at me with the desperate eyes of a man who hasn't been touched in decades. Which, coincidentally, you are."
Verso swallowed, unable to tear his gaze away from Monoco's hands. He should feel humiliated by the bluntness, recoil at the implication he was so transparent. But all he felt was a burning, aching need overriding everything else.
"You didn't answer my question," he croaked.
“I’ve not been dragging it across the Continent for him, Verso. Does it matter?”
It should. It should matter that this thing between them wasn't real, wasn't special, wasn't his. But as Verso stared at Monoco, at the soft halo of fur around his face, at the wooden hands that had pulled him back from death countless times, he found he couldn't summon the will to care. He shook his head.
Monoco patted his thigh, a gesture so casually commanding that it sent another wave of heat through Verso's body. "Then come here. You’re hogging all the warmth.”
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29 Oct 2025
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A sept ans, il faisait des romans, sur la vie by brazenhead
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
13 Sep 2025
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“I ask you this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.”
(Sophokles, from Elektra; trans. Anne Carson)A Life To Paint ending: Nearly a year after the events of the game, Verso performs at the newly-restored Opera House. Monoco refuses to let him go home alone.
But it’s hard to refuse everything.
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26 Oct 2025
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“Wait! Verso, damn it, wait, what-”
Fingers close around his wrist. He freezes, paralyzed; his arms are held down again, stripping him of the ability to defend himself, and a familiar-unfamiliar voice is ringing in his ears, and he is tugged and turned around, and soon the bruises on his wrists are going to be the least of his problems, because… because…
“Verso. Verso, look at me. Hey, look at me.”
Or: Maelle brings back a certain someone from Verso's past. Things do not go well, and Verso ends up on the doorstep of the only person in Lumière who makes him feel safe.
(It's a shame things between them are not that simple.)Bookmarked by quixoticquark
25 Oct 2025
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He plays all the sharp, loud notes, he plays and plays until it bleeds, until it reverberates in his skull in a relentless cacophony. Until it echoes in the hall, up to the glass ceiling.
A sharp movement in the audience catches his eye, beyond the halo of the stage light.
At first he thinks it’s Maelle, that she’s spotted him doing something that she doesn’t like, doesn’t fit the perfect image of it in her head, but…
It’s not Maelle.
No, it’s Gustave.
Gustave knows something's wrong with Lumiére. With himself. With Maelle. And he knows he'll find answers with the mysterious pianist. And Verso sees.
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25 Oct 2025
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Perks of Being the Little Spoon by MythicWolf
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
26 May 2025
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When Verso returns to his and Monoco's home in Frozen Hearts, Monoco helps him grapple with his bad mood through snuggles. While the attention and comfort are always soothing, Verso finds himself wanting more from his strange bond with Monoco.
Thankfully, getting what he wants from Monoco isn't too difficult.
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22 Oct 2025
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“Well. Put those things all together, and that’s… sort of what it’s like. Sort of. Excitement and pleasure from holding and touching each other.”
“Hmph. We do all of those things without taking off our clothes,” Monoco says. “We’re touching and holding each other right now.”
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22 Oct 2025
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A story about Verso coming to terms with his existence within the canvas. His friends try to help him in their own ways but it barely touches his ennui. There is care, there is love, why can't Verso feel it?
This takes place after the game so be wary of spoilers although nothing is addressed directly so much as indirectly.
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22 Oct 2025
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That one Ramasseur encounter by VerenaKauer
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
08 Oct 2025
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“Just- don’t say anything,” Verso asks resignedly, avoiding his gaze. “It hurts like hell and I really need your help. I can’t comb through the whole battlefield with only one working arm and I’d really like to stop feeling the damn Nevron fighting the other Nevrons with my limb.”
He looks like he is on the brink of tears.
Or: a Ramasseur has stolen something important. Monoco helps his human friend and makes sure it won't happen again.
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21 Oct 2025
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Verso Dessendre died in a fire that was deemed an accident.
Fifty years later Gustave moves into the apartment where Verso died and finds out the old tenant isn't as gone as you would think. Living with a ghost is a lot different than they make it seem in the movies.
A story about life, death, and finding love in the last place you'd ever think to look.
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21 Oct 2025
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Modern AU
Verso survives the fire, and everything should be right in the world for the Dessendre family. Unfortunately, trauma doesn't go away that easily.
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An exploration of the relationships between the different members of the family as they try to heal.- Words:
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19 Oct 2025
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Four years after the end of his last long term relationship, university professor Gustave Auclair's life has turned into a monotonous cycle on repeat. His dating life is non existent, his sex life is six feet under, and his younger days as a dominant are long behind him--that is, until he finds himself in a dominant/submissive arrangement with Verso Dessendre, one of the most highly sought after men in all of Lumieré.
It works just fine for them. They're extremely compatible, the sex is great, and the paycheck Gustave gets is even better.
It works just fine for them--until Gustave just *had* to go and catch feelings for him.
Because of course he did.
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15 Oct 2025
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your way to hide a broken heart by ceresilupin
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
11 Oct 2025
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Maman is sick again. Maman gets sick a lot.
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13 Oct 2025
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Verso didn't expect to meet his soulmate in a bakery. He also didn't expect said soulmate to be the only man in the capital unable to recognize the crown prince by name.
He isn't complaining, this is the first time in years he's been able to exist as himself and not as an extension of his family.
Surely, it won't hurt to keep up the pretense for a little while?
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05 Oct 2025
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They were painted creations, all of them. Nothing more, nothing less.
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30 Sep 2025
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All Verso could really focus on was the softness of his giant friend’s hands, the way they easily cradled his small human body against his plush body. Keeping him from falling too far into an abyss he most assuredly wouldn't be able to welcome even if he tried — and he has tried so, so many times. Handling him like one of his precious rocks, if he would be so bold to say.
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- Part 2 of In The Beginning
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30 Sep 2025
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Bittersweet Reunion by Einradi for originblue
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
29 Sep 2025
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Verso had stopped visiting the Canvas decades ago. Where once he was a child, carefree and full of wonder and whimsy, he had grown up practically in the blink of an eye. Visitations grew few and far between, and they had grown shorter still. There reached a point where visits came decades apart, and Verso would look different each time. Older, almost certainly. Growing from what was once a small, arguably frail little boy to an elegant man in a suit and tie, his frame filling out from lanky teenager to handsome bachelor. No longer did he spend near as much time in the Canvas, always worried about his appearance and always with far more worries in his gaze than he did the last time he visited.
Until he stopped visiting at all, leaving the Canvas to its own devices.
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- Part 1 of In The Beginning
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30 Sep 2025
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No Need To Feel Embarrassed by Kesyrotta
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
15 Jun 2025
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I feel like I’m having way too much fun with these ngl.
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23 Sep 2025