WanderingAlice
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Verso knows his soul is not original to him. A stitched-up, fractured, and glued-together thing, stained with memories not his own and heavy with the grief of unimaginable loss. His very existence is a farce, a tragedy played out in canvas and ink. He wants nothing so much as to end it. To give the ragged remains of a soul back to the one who created him, let her find someone else to carry the burden and the memory of the man to whom it once belonged. And yet. And yet, still, buried deep inside him is the desire to make this second-hand soul his own. To take the old discarded thing and make it into something new. To live, as they all deserve to live. All he needs is someone to show him the way.
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Gustave finds Verso struggling to dye his hair. He helps him take care of it. Then he takes care of him in other ways.
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Dealing With Dragons by WanderingAlice for IngaPotejto
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
21 Apr 2026
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In the kingdom of Lumière there is a Prophecy. (There is always a Prophecy.) One of the queen's children will grow to be a wise and just ruler. The other will belong to a dragon. When the twins come out a boy and a girl, everyone assumes the daughter will be abducted by dragons. After all, everyone knows that dragons only take princesses. They don't expect Gustave to decide that's complete bullshit.
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Through the Darkness & the Shadows by WanderingAlice
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
14 Apr 2026
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Long ago, the city now known as Old Lumière prospered, watched over by a benevolent sorceress known as The Paintress. Then came the drought. And the famine. And the people began to blame their sorceress for their misfortune. They set fire to her mansion, killing her only son. Unable to heal him, the sorceress did the only thing she could to save him - she cast a curse. From that moment on, he became a terrible creature, the outward manifestation of the worst parts of himself. The city fell, overrun with cursed monsters. And a clock began ticking down. If, within a century, the creature that had once been Verso could find his soulmate, he would be returned to life. But if a hundred years pass without a soulmate being found the curse would take every last descendent of Old Lumière.
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“Surely you know about soulmates,” Monoco says, disapproval clear in his voice.
And Gustave does know about soulmates. The thing about soulmates is that they are incredibly rare. Because not only did both souls have to be compatible, both had to be willing, too. They had to choose each other. No coercion, no ulterior motives, just… choice. And who would ever choose to love a monster? -
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Death watches over Verso, unable to grant him the peace he so desperately desires. Over the decades in this dance of death and ressurection, he can't help but fall at least a little bit in love.
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- Part 1 of Mist and Twilight
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Fighting the Current by WanderingAlice
Fandom Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
18 Dec 2021
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Fairy-Tales Retold by WanderingAlice
Fandom The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Mar 2015
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Anagnorisis by WanderingAlice
Fandom Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
31 Jul 2014
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Dérive by Aria_Lerendeair for Anxious_Mask
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
07 May 2026
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Gustave Écrivain is a Head Mechanic of the Jaeger program, creator of the Painted series of Jaegers, and a former Jaeger pilot cadet.
Verso Dessendre is one of the pilots of Painted Cypher, one of the fastest and most lethal Jaegers in the world, and currently without a co-pilot.
Both of them have their past, their baggage, and a hundred reasons that they should not work together as Jaeger pilots. Yet the second they step in a sparring ring together, it is obvious from that very first exchange - they are meant to be.
Can they overcome their respective pasts, and all of the obstacles in the present - to end up together in the one place that matters.
The Drift.
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06 Mar 2026
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There is a god that lives at the heart of the canvas, his paint keeping them alive. Once a year, Lumière sends its best and brightest to ask for his blessing: this year, they've chosen Gustave to make their case.
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19 Dec 2025
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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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15 Dec 2025
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For those we can yet save by farbsturz
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
06 Oct 2025
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A primal was summoned with an immense amount of chroma and could temper anyone close by. It was like a magical parasite, worming its way into one’s mind until anyone would turn into its thrall, serving it unapologetically. He had read recovered letters of how friends had turned against friends, parents had killed their children, and throats had been cut by their own bodies.
The worst part was that they couldn’t even leave the primal alone.
Lumière was running out of supplies and they had to make the continent livable.
And that just so included slaying an immortal primal that could temper them if they dared to get too close.
God, Gustave needed a drink.
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Bookmarked by WanderingAlice
17 Nov 2025
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protège-moi (protect me from what I want) by hoodedmiho (missMHO) for Amiko
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
10 Nov 2025
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Back when Verso still believed himself to be just another face in Lumière’s crowd, he was becoming quite impatient with waiting for his soulmate to appear so they could bring colours into each other’s lives. Then, Verso learnt the truth and knew that, in a world where no one was supposed to go through life alone, he was a fake made to exist without anyone to complete his soul.
It’s more than half a century later when fate mocks him again.
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Bookmarked by WanderingAlice
12 Nov 2025