deadnotsleeping

Picture of Clea from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. She is smiling slightly and holding red flowers



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  1. Public Bookmark 5

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    He seems comfortable enough sitting with his thoughts that he's not using the wine to get out of his own head, at the very least. Maybe he's just lonely. Verso does like talking, and entertains himself by climbing into her head when she's free enough to make merry. Julie is… strangely unbothered by that part of their routine.

    The part that does bother her is the meta aspect: the routine itself.

    Verso is there every night.

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    AKA Julie eases Verso off the slippery slope of drinking to forget his past.

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    06 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    Verso believes immortality gives him licence to be careless. His friends have some thoughts about that.

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    28 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 23

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    “We old men must adapt to the times.” Verso thumbs across her cheek, fond and careful. “You’re way ahead, of course. So cutting edge you make them bleed.”

    “Gustave gets eye strain from arcane journals. As I have told you,” she teases. “Such things tend to happen with age. You’ll have to grow used to it, now that you’re mortal like the rest of us.”

    Age is always a strange topic for them. For everyone in the city. Verso no longer dyes his hair, and silver spills forth with every wash. His beard is salt-and-pepper. Lune longs to join him in that. Visible signs of age fills her with triumph. A satisfying sense of spite, even.

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    My take on the Maelle ending, and what it might mean to live in such a world.

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    07 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 15

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    In the beginning, an artist made all the chroma that ever was and ever will be.

    Or, the Young Boy bears witness to the canvas, the fracture, and the final expedition.

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    07 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 4

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    He hid the sudden tension he felt in a sip of stew, attempting to swallow down these memories that came bursting forth unbidden: a titian-haired girl who never fussed with pulling its thickness back or up, who spent long and silent hours within inches of her brother's arms, content to be silent right beside him.

    Maelle, however, was impatient. Chatty. The kind of teenager a younger Verso once imagined Alicia would grow up to become, like himself and Clea. As Sciel and Lune darted off to do whatever it was they did alone, Maelle took a long and noisy gulp of her stew and turned to Verso. Though her eyes were tired and full of grief, she was beaming.

    "The snow's beautiful tonight," she said.

    "It is."

    Maelle tries to share a peaceful moment with Verso. Verso tries to define the lines between Maelle and Alicia.

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    23 Feb 2026