Halixia



Recent bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark 36

    Tags
    Summary

    After the events at Stone Wave Cliffs, Gustave awakens in a liminal space suspended between canvas and reality where a faceless child paints without end. What begins as an intellectual puzzle Gustave cannot abandon gradually transforms into something else entirely: the stubborn effort to save his sister’s life and the fragile canvas she sustains, while also proving—patiently, against every layer of refusal—to a man who has long ceased to believe in his own worth that he is permitted, perhaps even deserving, to have a real, finite life.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    59,155
    Chapters:
    8/?
    Comments:
    64
    Kudos:
    140
    Bookmarks:
    36
    Hits:
    2,677

    17 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Monoco’s station was just as it had always been, Gommage or no. The painted curves of it flowed and trailed, one long brush stroke after another. The snow stayed, and so did the grandis, the gentle petals of iron, the curve of playful trains.

    Only Monoco had left. Only they had changed. And then they’d returned, and for what? To scavenge the chroma of corpses long gone to rest? To scrape the paint from a hundred abandoned creations?

    Verso was tired.

    “Yes,” he said, “I could have saved him.”

    Or: Maelle brings Gustave back, and accidentally ties his soul to Verso. This changes things.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    46,625
    Chapters:
    11/?
    Comments:
    677
    Kudos:
    1,500
    Bookmarks:
    380
    Hits:
    26,029

    27 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    "This feeling that all my thoughts and memories… that they’re not mine, that they’ve been put into my head by somebody else… does it ever go away?”

    It comes out almost pleadingly, the desperation Gustave tried to suppress for months now bleeding into his voice.

    Something softens in Verso’s expression.

    Or: the Maelle ending. Coming to terms with being brought back and repainted. Gustave is looking for some answers, so he goes to the one person who can provide them. Verso is absolutely done with this life, but feels obligated to at least talk to him.

    They find that being a copy of a dead man is less unbearable when you're not alone.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    50,397
    Chapters:
    13/13
    Comments:
    340
    Kudos:
    764
    Bookmarks:
    191
    Hits:
    13,118

    15 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 27

    Words:
    8,455
    Works:
    3
    Bookmarks:
    27

    14 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 98

    Words:
    29,967
    Works:
    5
    Bookmarks:
    98

    12 Nov 2025