Verso
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Sotto Voce by MsCoffeebear for Shin_PM
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
07 Jun 2026
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Belle Époque Paris, 1913. Verso Dessendre is very good at being wanted. It is, in fact, the only thing the world has ever been willing to pay a ruined aristocrat for, and he has made his peace with that.
Then Gustave Virlogeux — celebrated conductor of the Opéra, one hand of flesh and one of steel, immovable as a closed door — catches him breaking into the rehearsal hall to play a piano in the dark. Instead of calling the gendarmes, he offers Verso a real chance and an honest wage, and commits the truly unforgivable sin of refusing to be charmed.
This is a story about a maestro who won't play along, a brat who won't behave, and a grand piano that did not consent to any of this. It is also, underneath all that, a story about being wanted for the whole of yourself — scars, ruin, and all — by someone who refuses to let you sell the one true thing you've got.
Or: a maestro who conducts in bed exactly as he does on the podium, a pianist whose every seduction technique fails spectacularly and repeatedly (until it doesn't), and one grand piano that did not survive the experience.
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The Gentleman in Gold by Spartapuss
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game), Bridgerton (TV)
18 May 2026
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Slowburn Verso/Gustave set in a Bridgerton-inspired regency era Lumiere, as Benedict Bridgerton/Sophie Baek.
The Dessendres are hosting the first Masquerade ball of the season, and eligible bachelor Verso despises everything and everyone involved with the blasted thing.
Gustave just wants to anonymously enjoy his first and only ball - is that too much to ask? -
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When Verso decided to rescue Gustave on the cliffs, nothing could have prepared him for the revelations that an adventure with the engineer would bring. While his goal remained the same—to end his torment by destroying the canvas—Gustave's presence at his side would bring its share of surprises. Some amusing, some existential, and others extending beyond the confines of the canvas, where he would learn more about the death of the man who served as his model.
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Clea decides to destroy Verso, believing him too unpredictable to be left alone. Unfortunately for her, his chroma is tied to the very heart of the Canvas. So she neutralizes him the only way she can, separating his chroma, his spirit, from his body.
Now, forced to exist as a ghost in the Canvas, Verso watches over Maelle and tries to find a way to set things right. It gets worse before it gets better. How can he save his mother or help his sister, when he’s nothing but a fading echo of a man he can never be?
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Shelter from the Storm by Aria_Lerendeair
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
19 Feb 2026
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It didn’t storm in the canvas.
Or at least, before the Fracture it never had. It snowed in the mountains. Rained softly in the forests. It didn’t storm.
Well, there was a first time for everything.
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- Part 2 of Verso Hell Week 2026