Apathis
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Verso and the Curator share a sweet, private moment after 33 makes camp, one the both of them dearly need. Letting go is a beautiful thing indeed.
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For the Day 4 Kinktober prompt "Subspace."
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Verso wakes up in a cage after going for a late night walk in the countryside. He has a very odd time at first, and then a very, very good one after.
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Kitty brothers Verso and Gustave are taught a new way to play by their Papa, and they enjoy it more than they should. Probably.
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Maelle wins. Everything is perfect. And then she is taken away from them and everything is not. Gustave is grieving, and so, so angry.
(But there's always someone to blame, isn't there?)
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- Part 1 of Penance
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After defeating the Mask Keeper, Verso falls victim to a stress heat. Luckily, Gustave is more than willing to lend a helping hand (and something else).
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Post Maelle-ending, Gustave finds out a few things about Verso very quickly that he simply must do something about. What's so bad about keeping your enemy as a very unwilling pet, anyway? One must pay for their lies and actions, after all.
(On temporary hiatus.)
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“Hey,” Verso tilts his head chidingly. “I may not be the creator of this world, but I’m more or less sure that you’re not supposed to be sad here. We even found a list of rules, look,” he waves a crumpled piece of paper. Reads, “‘Feeling whooo allowed only in designated areas. Inside the house whooo is prohibited’! See?”
“I’m not inside the house,” Gustave objects, just to be an ass — he can feel a smile forming on his lips. “And I’m not ‘whooo’. More like, ‘hmmm’.”
“‘Hmmm’. Is that the official term?”
“Yup,” Gustave lowers his head, examining the wrist connections of the prosthesis.
Or: Gustave finds out that “Barbapapa” is not really compatible with intricate mechanisms. Luckily, Verso is there to help.
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19 Dec 2025
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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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29 Nov 2025
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Maelle looks at the mirror shards scattered across the floor, a disarray of sharp and jagged pieces that can never be put back together again. "I know you’re not him..." she admits in a shaky whisper. Her tear-filled eyes find Verso, the blues and greys of paint starting to unravel the edges of them, mocking him. "But you deserve to be happy,” she says. We deserve to be happy, she means.
“I deserve to be myself,” Verso says, and it sounds like a plea more than anything else. The skin around his left eye aches, as if it’s waiting for his scar’s return.
Maelle sighs before she sweeps her hand through the air, calling for her rapier. It appears in a flutter of gold petals, glimmering in the dim light of the bathroom. Her eyes are cast in shadow and her disappointed smile is somewhat crooked. "Alright. Let's try again."
or: Maelle wants a happy end for everyone she cares about, and she will keep trying until even Verso gets it right.
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- Part 1 of Encore
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29 Oct 2025
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the wallpaper glistens by GreyscaleCourtier
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
13 Oct 2025
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In the aftermath of the performance at the opera house, Verso seeks oblivion from the only person who hates him enough to grant it. the dynamic quickly gets weird.
It's Whumptober once again! coe33 has grabbed me by the throat. speaking of getting grabbed by the throat -- the yaois are toxic. you've been warned. this is not a cozy enemies to lovers work.
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13 Oct 2025
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Clea pulls out a map one day and tells Alicia to point to a spot on it.
She does, and they circle it with a felt-tip pen, looking the name up online on Clea’s beat up old laptop (which is the only computer they own that wasn’t destroyed in the fire).
It’s some backwater village named Lumière.
or: After Verso dies and they lose everything in the fire, the Dessendre sisters leave Paris behind.
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24 Sep 2025