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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
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After Alucard's betrayal by Taka and Sumi, he's determined to isolate himself in the castle, driving away any who might seek him out. When Sypha and Trevor reappear on his doorstop, however, haunted by their own troubles, he agrees to let them stay. Together, the three of them might be able to heal one another's emotional wounds--if they can convince Alucard he deserves it.
(In which Sypha and Trevor return to the castle right after the events of s3.)
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02 Dec 2025
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Trevor and Sypha return to the castle to find Alucard in tatters. They learn how to heal together.
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01 Dec 2025
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”Gustave lights a lamp in the kitchen, rolls up his sleeves and starts making dinner.
He does it, step by step, follows the old family recipe even though he’s exhausted to the very bone-marrow, even though his muscles are sore and the lethargy drags him towards the floor boards like a lead weight.”
In which Gustave makes food, Verso keeps showing up and they slowly start healing together.
Or; five times Gustave cooks something and one time it's Verso's turn.
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28 Nov 2025
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It is 1915 – nine years since Verso’s death, nine years since the destruction of his Canvas, and the beginning of a war that threatens to shatter life as Alicia has known it.
With Clea missing in the north of France and abominable experiments being run on the Artists of Europe, Alicia must find a way to protect what is left of her family.
Even if that means calling on some old friends.
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17 Nov 2025
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I used to see the future and now I see nothing by clintnatalias
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
11 Nov 2025
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Though logic dictated Verso and Maelle had only disappeared from their view for minutes at most, the absence felt as long as millennia to Lune; the fear of the unknown, which she’d spent her entire life trying to conquer, ate her up from the inside, as if the chroma in her cells was a breath’s away from dissipating. Were they dead already, just waiting for a breeze to carry them away into nothingness, to wherever all their loved ones had gone? She held her breath as if that would delay the inevitable, but refused to close her eyes – she would greet death with her head held high.
But death did not greet her.
Maelle stumbled back through the portal, bloodied and spent, and the sight had an avalanche of emotions rush through her. We continue.
The following realization sank in at the same time a pit opened where her stomach had once been.
Verso had not followed back through the portal.
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Post Maelle-ending, Lune tries to find her place in Lumiere's future while untangling her feelings for Verso. Alternating POVs, no posting schedule.
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02 Nov 2025
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Was it possible that this man was still alive? It shouldn’t be, not after the blows Renoir had dealt and yet, impossibly, the man still clung to a thread of life. Stubbornly as he had fought Renoir, he stubbornly fought death. Pity, mixed with that same discordant respect as earlier, Renoir lifted his cane to deliver a final blow. This too would be a mercy.
Or: Sophie called Gustave the most stubborn person she knew and I decided to take that personally.
A Gustave lives au, where trapped in the manor he must unravel the mystery of the man from the beach and his daughter and find his way back to his friends before it's too late.
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18 Oct 2025
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Tethered to Your Hand (OLD) by Bichen23412
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
16 Oct 2025
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It has already been two months since the downfall of Lumiere. Construction and chaos cover the streets, expressing a chance for a better future. A chance to live in peace, without the heavy burden of the paintress lying on the backs of many.
The last expedition has now moved on, continuing to pursue a life they thought they may never have.
Yet disaster strikes as Lumiere is suddenly attacked and Verso and Lune find themselves in a strange situation. One where they cannot leave each other without consequence.
The team must regroup, discover a way to rid of such a curse as Lune and Verso attempt to mend what was once broken.
(https://archiveofourown.org/works/76194491/chapters/199406881 - the new version)
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16 Oct 2025
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The Expedition is over, and while the city celebrates, Gustave can’t shake the chilling feeling that he didn’t come back whole.
Plagued by inexplicable gaps in his memory, a crushing, bone-deep exhaustion, and nightmares that leave him utterly lost, Gustave finds the familiar routines of Lumière unbearable.
He begins to drift away from his old life, seeking solace in the one place where pretense isn't required: the quiet company of a man he is slowly getting to know better.
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Just a heads up: this story is heavy on the angst at first, but I promise the slow burn kicks in later. Also, please bear with me through the first chapter, I swear the writing gets better 🫣
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16 Oct 2025
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A dead man suddenly wakes from smokes and ashes to suddenly find himself in a place he hasn't visited ages ago. Confused of how he landed here, he spots a stranger unconscious on the grass with an odd uniform and a armband with the number 33 on it. Unable to leave the painted world, he's on a journey to find out what happened to his beloved Canvas and what lead to it's current state.
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14 Oct 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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10 Oct 2025
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Julie was supposed to be dead, but she'd always been stubborn.
Brought back to life by the strange little girl with no face and no patience for sore losers, she sets out with one goal in mind: pay back Verso Dessendre for killing her in the first-fucking-place.
But on the Continent, things are never quite that straightforward. And even the best laid plans can go awry.
Or: Julie joins Expedition 33. This complicates things.
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10 Oct 2025
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Eight months after the fire, Verso wakes up. As he struggles to gain control of his life back, he has to come to terms with the changes : his mother's obsession with his recovery to the point of neglecting everything else, his father's ever present guilt, Clea's anger used as a shield.
But what Verso notices the most is the absence of his little sister.
Where is Alicia ?
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- Part 2 of (Im)Perfect Recovery
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07 Oct 2025
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The Painted Princess by heyday (liimbo)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
27 Sep 2025
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Renoir tries to make peace with his daughter after Verso wins, while Alicia secretly creates a new Canvas.
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06 Oct 2025
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PARIS, 1898: Since he could hold a brush to canvas, Verso has always been told who he was meant to be. At seventeen, a valet draws the line at who Verso is allowed to love. Just after his nineteenth birthday, Verso meets a man inside his canvas who rewrites every rule he's ever known by asking, daring, and loving. The problem? That man wasn't ever meant to exist at all. If Verso never Painted Gustave into being... how did he get into his canvas—and why can't he leave?
A lit-fic adjacent fanfic exploring and expanding some pre-canon headcanon. I invite you to join for some self-indulgent, character-driven fun times.
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“Introduction via first blood?”
Verso shakes his head. Shakes his whole body—he’s trembling. Adrenaline and agony both staking their claim in his rattling bones.
“Good,” Gustave says. “I figure I’m due a name and an explanation, petit tueur.”
“Verso,” he mutters.
“Enchanté, Verso.” Gustave hums, half amused. “Next time, ask before resorting to knives—it might spare you an unflattering sobriquet.”Bookmarked by Styrian
06 Oct 2025
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After his father had helped him kill Gustave, Verso realizes the man is still alive. His father demands a price for his further help.
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02 Oct 2025