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A body Made Of Prose : The anatomy of mercy by Zapthepterodactyl
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
16 Dec 2025
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Summary
There are words you should never write.
Not because they're forbidden, or sacred, or ugly — but because the page might listen. And if it listens, it might obey. And if it obeys, it might take.
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There is a boy with ink on his fingers and blood in his pen. He is not a soldier. He does not raise a sword. But when flesh fails and breath falters, he writes—and the world listens.
They call him medic, poet, chronicler. They do not know what he truly is.
An expedition sets out into a land stitched together with old magic and older teeth. Among the brave and the broken stands Theodore Aimé de Beaurivage, a quiet novelist with journals too heavy and hands too fine. His gift is beautiful. And cruel.
Because every word he writes takes something in return. And as the cost begins to mount—memory by memory, feeling by feeling—those around him must ask:
How much can one man give before he forgets who he is?