14 Bookmarks by redcactusify
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Alicia could not save Gustave from her father's ambush, but she managed to keep him from dying. Having learned the truth about their world and the Paintress, he wants nothing more than to catch up to the rest of his expedition and warn them before they can inadvertently wipe out their own people, and the fact that he has just suffered a couple of technically-fatal injuies is not going to stop him.
On their journey to the monolith, Alicia and Gustave are joined by two unexpected and unlikely companions, but even Alicia cannot tell what exaclty her brother is planning, and between the injuries slowing them down and the lack of Esquie for transport, they may simply not make it before everything is lost.- Language:
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12 Apr 2026
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I shouldn't love you (but I do) by PH03N1X_360
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
14 May 2026
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There is a man on the street, staring up at Gustave’s apartment.
He’s dressed well — a sharp suit cracked with gold, wavy dark hair combed back and shot through with white. His cold blue eyes are rimmed red as if he’s been crying for a while. He feels… important somehow, like a missing piece to a puzzle Gustave has yet to uncover.
Or: Gustave navigates resurrection in the wake of Maelle taking over the canvas, and meets a not-so-stranger he cannot place in his memory.
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- Part 2 of far too beautiful to leave me
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04 Apr 2026
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Étranger Incolore by ObsessiveConsumptiveReader for vailkagami, Sleeping_Quill, deepestfathoms, Lordictator, Eliizabethx
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
25 Apr 2026
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In the Spring Meadows. Lune takes a few crucial minutes longer to find Gustave. To save his life, a stranger steps in; a girl with one eye, white hair, and a nearly nonexistent voice.
Lune doesn't think this "Alicia" has any nefarious intentions, but could she please stop doing impossible things without explaining first?? Gustave just wants to find his adopted family and will take any help he can get. Catherine wants to- wait...what?
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04 Apr 2026
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Verso knows his soul is not original to him. A stitched-up, fractured, and glued-together thing, stained with memories not his own and heavy with the grief of unimaginable loss. His very existence is a farce, a tragedy played out in canvas and ink. He wants nothing so much as to end it. To give the ragged remains of a soul back to the one who created him, let her find someone else to carry the burden and the memory of the man to whom it once belonged. And yet. And yet, still, buried deep inside him is the desire to make this second-hand soul his own. To take the old discarded thing and make it into something new. To live, as they all deserve to live. All he needs is someone to show him the way.
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13 Mar 2026
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Touch Me, Please by erenjoson5 for idontwannabeinvisible
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
15 Apr 2026
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She was going to Gommage. She had failed, and she was going to pay for it with her life.
She couldn’t save Lumière. She couldn’t save her friends…
She couldn’t save—
“Gustave?!”
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When Gustave wakes to find Lumière decimated and his friends beaten and bruised, his first instinct is to run to the sound of Maelle’s voice calling his name; her cries like a battering ram to his fragile heart, smashing it to pieces. He doesn’t know how he’s alive, or why. But when he tries to hug her — to hold his darling girl in his arms — she collapses.
And that’s when he realizes something is very wrong.
TLDR; Gustave was revived in Act III but something went horribly wrong.
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21 Feb 2026
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The Chroma That Kills Us by DrakesFortune67
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
09 Dec 2025
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"Alicia please..I don't want this life.."
But Maelle NEEDED it to continue..Blinded by grief and desperate to live a full life with her brother still alive and her family close. Over the years she's kept Lumiere running and refused to leave, she's grown weaker, and her hold on the Canvas and everyone in it is deteriorating pretty heavily... When Gustave starts noticing the cracks in the illusion, in particular the scars on her hands and his memories of the Stone Wave Cliffs, it's a sign to Verso that she doesn't have long before staying in the Canvas kills her..and they need to act soon if they're going to save her life.
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Or, the Maelle ending, but its been a few years, and Maelle is slowly dying both inside the Canvas and in the real world outside. She's no longer able to hide the little mistakes from Gustave, and her hold on his memories that's kept him happy and complacent is fading. He seeks out Verso for help, and they both realize that they don't have long to save her before she deteriorates beyond the point of no return.Bookmarked by redcactusify
20 Feb 2026
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Gustave died on that cliff, he knows he did. And yet he wakes up in Lumiere to find the number on the monolith gone, the Expeditioners of 33 and the last Gommage alive, and Maelle's hair is white.
Secret third ending to the game where Maelle and Verso found a compromise that will eventually lead to a happy ending for both of them. Gustave has to process what he's been through and Verso has to learn to live again, maybe with the help of Gustave ;)
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15 Jan 2026
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For Those Who Live by ProcrastinatingPalindrome
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
29 Jul 2025
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Contrary to how it felt at the time, the world does not end when Gustave loses his arm.
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15 Jan 2026
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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 Jan 2026
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Gustave kept smiling as the chatter started up again. It wasn’t really a big deal, but…why had he named it Noahram?
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07 Jan 2026
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For those we can yet save by farbsturz
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
06 Oct 2025
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A primal was summoned with an immense amount of chroma and could temper anyone close by. It was like a magical parasite, worming its way into one’s mind until anyone would turn into its thrall, serving it unapologetically. He had read recovered letters of how friends had turned against friends, parents had killed their children, and throats had been cut by their own bodies.
The worst part was that they couldn’t even leave the primal alone.
Lumière was running out of supplies and they had to make the continent livable.
And that just so included slaying an immortal primal that could temper them if they dared to get too close.
God, Gustave needed a drink.
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06 Jan 2026
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It was not the Lumière of her childhood to which she had returned, and it never would be again. How could it? After everything they had gone through? Too much had changed.
The city. The world.
Her.
Some scars simply could not—should not—be painted over. Not even with all the power to shape creation’s design at your beck and call.
They would remain, but so would you.
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or: With Gustave's help, Verso learns to let go.
// a canon divergent exploration of what it means to be alive and the reasons we find to continue. tomorrow comes.
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06 Jan 2026
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It had been five years since their gods had been forced out of the Canvas. Five years, for them, in which Gustave had had to wrap his head around not only the events after his death — of Canvas Worlds and a grieving family, of a dead brother and the remains of a soul pushed past its breaking point — but also of their future. A future they now, apparently, had for years and years to come, if his friends were to be believed.
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06 Jan 2026
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"I’m sure whatever training you’ve already had is fine, but I need to make sure that it’s great before you’ll be allowed to wrestle under our name. Until that time, you are my bitch."
Scott is a young, driven worker trying to make it in professional wrestling.
To make it, he has to get by Mitch first.Bookmarked by redcactusify
06 Jan 2026