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"It's a big thing," Sciel says, conversationally. "Having one. It changes the shape of everything. Pierre, Lune, and I—we talked about it for a long time before. It still managed to surprise us, how much." She glances at him. "Do you ever think about it?"
The question lands lightly. That is the thing about Sciel—she puts things down rather than pressing them in. Verso is aware, not for the first time, that this is probably what makes her so effective at interrogations like these.
"I think Gustave has found his way to something that works," he says, which is not an answer to the question she asked, and they both know it. "He's not—wanting for anything. He's got more than enough people in his life who need him."
Sciel makes a small sound. Not disagreement, exactly.
"What," Verso says.
"Nothing." A pause. "I'm just—thinking about what 'enough' means,” she looks at him sideways, "and I think you're avoiding the question."In which two people who had stopped expecting things discover, somewhat belatedly, that they want the same one.
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11 Jul 2026
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Painted Ideals by LiterallyThePresident
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
03 Sep 2025
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Renoir had only Repainted Monsieur Gustave as a last-ditch effort to pull Alicia away from the abyss she teetered on, to reluctantly return to her the man she so mourned. But one look at that kind face and doe-eyed gaze, one taste of the fierce protectiveness with which he attacked the moment he’d spoken Alicia’s false name, and something inside him stirred like a forgotten muse. His jealousy, bitterness, grief, and anger had all coalesced into something ugly and hot, and he was barely aware of forcing the man down onto the bed until he was already shoving between his legs, tearing his clothes and hearing his scream pierce the silent night like the snap of a violin string as he impaled the man on his cock.
Ah, well.
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26 Jun 2026
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Monoco’s station was just as it had always been, Gommage or no. The painted curves of it flowed and trailed, one long brush stroke after another. The snow stayed, and so did the grandis, the gentle petals of iron, the curve of playful trains.
Only Monoco had left. Only they had changed. And then they’d returned, and for what? To scavenge the chroma of corpses long gone to rest? To scrape the paint from a hundred abandoned creations?
Verso was tired.
“Yes,” he said, “I could have saved him.”
Or: Maelle brings Gustave back, and accidentally ties his soul to Verso. This changes things.
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- Part 8 of author's favorites
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14 Jun 2026
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"God, Maelle can’t believe it, she’s so close now. She can’t believe it’s finally happening.
It’s taken weeks and weeks of work and raw, ugly communication to bridge over the hurt, guilt, rage and grief, to slowly rebuild the wreck of their lives.
And now, she's here, at the edge of her world."
In which Maelle returns to the Canvas after reconciling with her parents, but sometimes reunions are messy, and things rarely remain the same. Also she notices the very unexpected friendship between Verso and Gustave.
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26 May 2026
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And Your Hand Paints Sorrow by Arumattie
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
08 Jun 2025
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Spoilers for all of Act One!
The citizens of Lumière are no strangers to loss, and Gustave is no different.
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20 May 2026
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Verso stands on the cliffside far longer than he intends, staring intently out towards the distant shores of the Monolith. Beside him, the body of the man he allowed to die lies sprawled, broken and vacant-eyed on the cliff’s edge.
or; Gustave's first funeral is one attended by strangers.
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19 May 2026
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The Uselessness of Today by QuilliamWordsmith
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
27 Jul 2025
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Alicia thinks she can let Verso go. Maybe.
But Maelle can’t let go of Gustave.
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- Part 3 of Crying In Colour
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19 May 2026
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They've done it. After years of painful failure and disappointment, Gustave and Lune have used Lumina to imbue a pictos via the experimental Lumina converter. This is it. This could be the future. This could save them. Caught up in the giddy whirlwind of success at long, long last, Gustave kisses Lune.
And she kisses him back.
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18 May 2026
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Liminal (Smudged in the Margins) by walrusface
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
02 Aug 2025
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As a lonely teenager, Verso paints himself a friend on a small, hidden canvas: Gustave, a confidant who quietly grows into something more. After the fracture, the other Verso finds Gustave again in Lumière. It should be impossible - and keeping his distance might be.
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27 Apr 2026
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Painted Sunsets and Sunken Sunrises by walrusface
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
15 Jun 2025
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Verso wants to take Gustave out of Lumiere and give him a chance to see the broader continent without the threat of death breathing down their necks - but life on the canvas is more complicated than that.
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26 Apr 2026
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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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25 Apr 2026
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In a world plunged into a war conflict between artists, some prominent families from opposing factions seek to encourage a genetic race to avoid further bloodshed.
Unexpectedly, Verso Dessendre is in a mess between his sister and her charming fiancé.
At first, Gustave was merely his kind future brother-in-law; in the end, he becomes much more than that.
Love should be a blessing, not a tragedy.
Alpha! Verso x Omega! Gustave
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- Part 1 of Love in the Time of War
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03 Apr 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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23 Mar 2026
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No. No, no. This hadn’t been– this was not his intention– Cad has gone still, too, beneath his hands, and Caleb wants to yank away from him at the mere suggestion of doing this to his friend, but he can’t move, still locked in place from horror. He lifts his gaze to finally, stupidly, look at Caduceus now. At the discomfort in his eyes and the faint flush of embarrassment on his cheeks, almost mottled pink beneath bruised pale skin. Caleb just– stares. Because whatever had been bad, has just gotten worse.
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prodigal at your door by bigdamnher0
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
22 Oct 2022
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After the end, time splits down the middle—Before and After. This is Before. The Kraang are not yet here. The world is still beautiful, and Leo's brothers are alive.
Leo keeps a daily log in the apocalypse. If only the past stopped trying to be relived.
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- Part 2 of bad future timeline
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the lost years by bigdamnher0
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
08 Apr 2023
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Leo cares for him as much as he can. Tracks him down when the bad feeling in Casey's chest feathers into a restless bird that keeps taking off for bar brawls and gang skirmishes and alleys that glint with secret knives.
Another black eye. Another frantic police call.
Leo never once faults him. Leo tries to teach him everything he knows. But Master Leonardo?
Leonardo taught him to hunt.
—Chapter 4: Double Lives (post-rottmnt movie).
A collection of flash stories in the bad future timeline, with the Hamato family at its center.
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- Part 4 of bad future timeline
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Some Rest For The Weary. As A Treat. by Nekotsuki
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
01 Jan 2024
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Tumblr Prompts and other assorted missing scenes and what-ifs. Probably. Assume this is a heavily sporadic update.
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- Part 2 of No Rest For The Weary
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the first and last of your kind by bigdamnher0
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), TMNT (2007)
29 Mar 2023
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There's nothing out here but purgatory and dead comets and the Kraang's ancient rage, and still Leo holds on. For as long as he can. And the universe stills.
Pulses twice—
And spits out a brand new star of a world, whorling with the violence of its predecessor. You already know how this one goes:
And so Leonardo inherits the war. And he takes up the task. And he faces the tyrant. And he cuts off the fucker's head.
It's always here that he sees it most clearly: the shape of the thing circling the dark drain of all he is.
You know, it tells him, all this could be different.
Or: Leonardo keeps retreading the same narrative ends. Now he finally exits stage left.
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tintinnabulum by sital
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
01 Feb 2020
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A small bell chimes, the sound soft and pleasant like the water crashing against a pier, like low whistles in an empty cave, like a guqin playing a lullaby.
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12 Nov 2022
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storge by sital for chaisexuality
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
05 Nov 2019
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Lan Sizhui is a lake.