InTheNight
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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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20 Apr 2026
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"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.
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- Part 1 of Mirrors and Memories
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19 Apr 2026
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Five times Gustave confesses his love to Verso and one time Verso believes him (and says it back).
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Chapters:
1. Gratitude
2. Adrenaline
3. Lust
4. Desperation
5. Provocation
+1 Love
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Update: Now with absolutely stunning artwork by NelTheWarlock - check it out at the end of the last chapter ❤️Bookmarked by InTheNight
16 Apr 2026
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A Difficult Child by ProcrastinatingPalindrome
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
14 Jun 2025
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Nine year old Maelle has to grapple with some painful memories when she runs into her previous foster mother while out on an errand with Gustave. But she doesn't have to face it alone, this time.
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14 Apr 2026
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Le Clair-Obscur de Nos Âmes by Kai (Roxel)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
27 Apr 2026
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In a city bright with the progress of the Belle Époque, Verso lives in the shadows, grief-stricken by the 'written' fire that claimed his sister. He pours his anguish into his piano, hiding from a secret war between those who paint substance and those who write destiny.
As a brilliant structural engineer, Gustave believes a beam fails because of stress, not sorcery. But when he begins to notice a pattern of architectural disasters plaguing Montmartre, his need to fix the flaws inadvertently threatens a powerful faction manipulating Paris from the shadows.
Marked for death because he refuses to accept their narrative, Gustave is pulled into Verso’s dangerous world. The pragmatist and the artist forge a partnership: Gustave provides the logic to expose the lie, while Verso finds the courage to pick up his brush and shield the man who has become his tether to the world. Together, they must dismantle a conspiracy written in stone before the ink dries on Gustave’s final chapter.
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12 Apr 2026