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Maelle is out of her brother’s Canvas and so is Aline, and at the end of it all she feels as alone as she had before all of this started. She drifts through the days, and each one appears to go by like sap dripping off tree bark. Minutes tick by at a glacial pace, and yet they tick by all the same.
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Post Verso's ending. Maelle steals the Canvas and runs away in order to try to give her painted family a proper chance at life. Mostly focused on Maelle and Painted Verso and their respective struggles with what it means to be alive. Will feature some OCs as I take the concept of Painters and Writers and run with it based on the rather limited worldbuilding that the game sprinkles in on all that
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15 Dec 2025
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well-fed devils and famished saints by rhibbet
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
10 Jan 2026
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Julie changes her mind during the final few days of their doomed Search and Rescue mission. Things end up playing out a little differently.
(NOTE: REPOSTED TO AO3 ON REQUEST, BUT CURRENTLY ON LONG HIATUS)
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15 Dec 2025
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The burdened-hearted burn of melancholia by alacruxe, flowerfxcker
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
22 Feb 2026
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Maelle brings Verso back to Lumière in a catatonic state, unresponsive and unwilling to let himself live. While she has no greater wish than for him to happily live out the rest of his years as a mortal man, she can't trust him with mortality until she's sure he's found his will to live—and he can't exactly do that if he sleeps every day away until his inevitable death by starvation.
Gustave, wary of the man who was prepared to enact their world's erasure, is less than enthused about the idea of attempting to wake him; but with no one else seeing any success, and with Maelle's emotional well-being on the line, he has no choice but to try.
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- Part 1 of Of Bastards and Bridges
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13 Dec 2025
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“And shouldn’t Maelle have her brother back? After bringing back the rest of the world?”
“How would that make her different from…” Lune pinches her lips shut. Looks up at the ceiling, breathes. “It’s what Verso wanted. And he didn’t, he wasn’t–”
Sciel pushes herself up. “There were good moments. He was happy with us, a part of the expedition. If he could make his choice again–”
“No.” Something sneaks into Lune’s voice there, past the righteous anger. A choke, almost. “He wasn’t.”
“Okay,” Maelle says, tonelessly. She hasn’t moved from her stance, picture perfect. Back to an audience, angled away. Like a pianist. “Not today then.”
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Lumière lives. Verso dies. And every day, Maelle must decide to make it so.
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13 Dec 2025
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Sophie is the first one to come to him.
He opens the door after more than ten minutes of occasional gentle knocking. Not violent by any means, a quiet rasp against the door, incessant only in its repetition and unwillingness to take silence as an answer. He stares down at her when it opens, her hair neatly styled under a bright red hat, fashionable blouse and a skirt that matches her beret, her face twinged with just the slightest bit of annoyance at having to wait so long for him to answer.
“Can I help you?” Verso asks, put out at having to answer the door, at having to use his voice at all, when he’d much rather be curled up in the darkness of his own room, his own mind, while he waits for the next concert to begin.
She pushes past him before he can think to block her path, and immediately heads for the kitchen of his apartment, “You Monsieur, look even worse up close. I knew you hadn't been taking care of yourself the moment I saw you last week on stage. When was the last time you even ate?”
“And what business is it of yours whether I take care of myself?” He asks, his tone sharp, hoping that the bristles of his attitude are enough to annoy her into leaving.
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04 Dec 2025