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One quiet winter afternoon, a strangely-dressed man with an aureole over his head falls out of the sky.
Or: Verso thought that it would all end after he expelled Maelle from the Canvas and put the Soul Fragment to rest. Fate seems to have other ideas. Finding himself somewhere else entirely, he has to deal with the unbearable chains of life weighing on him once more.
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"It's nice," Verso remarked quietly, breaking the silence between them. Gustave made a confused noise, tipping his gaze up to his lover. Verso gestured vaguely in front of them. "To hear kids being kids."
"Ah, yeah." He huffed softly. "Though they're taking it absurdly seriously."
"Building a snowman is serious business."
"Is that what they're doing? Making a man out of snow?"
"If my memory's to be believed."
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- Part 2 of A Life Renewed
Bookmarked by AlCrevette
12 May 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
Do you want something short and yet filled with pure delight? Then read this. You'll get a bonus helping of "Gustave reminds Verso he's his own person" while you're at it.
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Another Chance, Another Life by Einradi
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
18 Apr 2026
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"Verso gave us many new beginnings. He would have wanted a new beginning for you, too."
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When their world's survival hinges on the steadily crumbling relationship of his daughter-sister and the painted facsimile of her dead brother, Gustave might just have to take it upon himself to ensure they can keep it together.
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- Part 1 of A Life Renewed
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- 14/14
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Bookmarked by AlCrevette
11 May 2026
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10000/10 amazing writing, beautifully well-done character study and a delightful choice of a third ending. A lot of care was put into all of it, and it shows!
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starry-eyed child left behind (choose your favorite vice) by icenineporcupine
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
21 Apr 2026
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When the Seekers return to Dol-Makjar, Julien wants to go back to the Palazzo. Thjazi’s whelp offers to tag along for—what? Moral support? Julien honestly has no idea, but he can’t be bothered to tell the lieutenant off.
Or maybe he just really doesn’t want to.
Bookmarked by AlCrevette
08 May 2026
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Definitely read this is if you want a TREAT.
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They're both been running out of time.
At thirty two, Gustave Lumière was supposed to be finishing his career, not rebuilding it after the accident that cost him his arm. He should not be fighting his way back onto Olympic ice while the world watched, waiting for him to fail.
Verso Dessendre at thirty one had already lived the dream Gustave had always chased. Medals. Records and glory.
Untouchable.
But time caught up within seconds with younger skaters closing in.
They knew each other for years. Shared rinks. Shared competitions amd trials. Shared looks neither of them had ever dared to think twice about.Now, at the edge of their careers, with everything to lose, they have another choice to make.
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Une Vie à Vivre (Angst Edition) by notscarlettohara
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
14 May 2026
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When Verso realized Maelle was lying to her father about leaving the Canvas, he gave his all to force her out. He failed, but at least he finally died.
Or so he thought.
He wakes up to the continued nightmare that is his life with Maelle smiling up at him, telling him everything will be better this time. And now the others are here, Gustave is here, and now he’s offering him his spare room like a fucking saint…
OR: A retelling of Part 1 of Une Vie à Vivre, now with 100% more Verso!
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- Part 3 of Une Vie à Vivre
Bookmarked by AlCrevette
25 Apr 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
A TREAT. I will absolutely be sticking around for this.
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Une Vie à Vivre (Part 1 - The Canvas) by notscarlettohara
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
14 Jan 2026
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Forget love. Forget painting. The residents of Lumiere just want to live. To survive. It's all they've ever wanted. And finally, with Aline and Renoir Dessendre barred from the Canvas, they might be able to. Lumiere comes back to life, and our heroes rebuild. Soon though, they'll realize that everything isn't quite as it seems, and their existence is much more fragile than they had believed. Gustave, Verso, Lune and the others will have to push the boundaries of reality to secure a permanent future for their world.
OR: We can still fix it without a secret third ending! It'll just take a while. And may or may not involve rewriting the laws of physics.
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- Part 1 of Une Vie à Vivre
Bookmarked by AlCrevette
25 Apr 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
I ended up reading through this and part 2 so fast I didn't even take the time to breathe and bookmark part 1 in between. That's how good this fic is.
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Une Vie à Vivre (Part 2 - Beyond the Canvas) by notscarlettohara
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
14 Apr 2026
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Maelle has been banished from her beloved Canvas and must face the actions that brought this to pass, all while trying to reconnect with her family in the outside world.
Gustave, Lune, Verso, and the others have declared their independence; now they must find a way to keep it, and protect it when they discover the Dessendre family are not the only outsiders with an interest in their Canvas.
Soon Painters and Painted must work together to save both their worlds. And all the while, the ghost of a young boy grows increasingly exhausted...
Read Part 1 first! This is a direct continuation!
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- Part 2 of Une Vie à Vivre
Bookmarked by AlCrevette
25 Apr 2026
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If you're seeing this, go read the first part of the fic. I mean it. And then come back and read the hell out of this, too. It's so worth it.
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Heated Rivalry meets Free! in this slow-burn swimming romance with messy feelings, competitive angst, and two idiots who take a decade to figure out they're in love.
They stared at each other. The anger had shifted into something else, something charged and dangerous that made Gustave's heart hammer for reasons that had nothing to do with the fight.
"I hate you," Gustave said. It came out wrong—not angry, almost desperate.
"I hate you too," Verso said, and his eyes were dark, intense, fixed on Gustave's face.Gustave Augustin has spent his entire swimming career finishing second to Verso Dessendre. At 18, they finally meet at French Nationals. The rivalry is instant. The attraction is unwanted. The hookup is inevitable.
The nine-year toxic situationship? That's where it gets complicated.
Because they have rules: just physical, no feelings, no one can know. They follow them religiously—until they can't anymore.Now they are forced to choose: keep hiding, or risk everything.
Bookmarked by AlCrevette
25 Apr 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
This is what happens when someone writes a fic so good you're tempted to print and bind it. ❤️
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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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- 34/34
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Bookmarked by AlCrevette
22 Apr 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
Totally not fine about this in the best of ways. ❤️
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Effective Advertisement by Aria_Lerendeair for sabaix
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
29 Jan 2026
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Verso and Gustave meet on a train, but never exchange names when Verso misunderstands their conversation and leaves abruptly.
He regrets it almost immediately, and does everything in his power to find the man that he started falling for after one conversation.
Finding him again might seem impossible, but Verso is willing to do whatever it takes, because he's not willing to let the man go.
Bookmarked by AlCrevette
02 Apr 2026
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Best companion piece ever, to me the two fics make up an inseparable whole and I'm so glad I got to read both the original fic and this. Having both points of view and seeing what comes right after is a delight.
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Heart, Don't Fail Me Now by sabaix for porgthespacepenguin
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
30 Nov 2025
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Gustave and Verso meet on a train, but never exchange names. So Verso takes matters into his own hands and publishes several ads into the newspapers, looking for Gustave. Meeting again seems impossible, but fate has other plans for the two. After all, Paris is the city of love, and so love will triumph.
Bookmarked by AlCrevette
01 Apr 2026
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What a DELIGHT. Highlight of my entire week!
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Gustave dies.
It is a sordid affair, full of sacrifice and pain. There is nothing beautiful about death, Gustave thinks in the fleeting instant before his nerve endings explode all at once in his chest like fireworks. He doesn’t think anymore after that. Screams echo on the granite of the cliff, drowning the furious crashing of the waves below. He doesn’t hear them. He is dead.
(This is not how it ends.)
After his death, Gustave becomes unstuck in time.
Bookmarked by AlCrevette
26 Mar 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
Delicious time jumping and a beautifully nuanced ending. I enjoyed it a LOT.
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Either it works or it doesn't by EmberPuppy
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
01 Feb 2026
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Verso Dessendre - The new COO - is dangerously competent, infuriatingly attractive, and absolutely pretending not to flirt- or incredibly blind and unaware. Debatable.
Gustave has a crush anyway.
Sciel and Lune are chaos gremlins : Not helping, placing bets, and unabashedly shipping it.
A slow descent into mutual ruin ensues.Bookmarked by AlCrevette
23 Mar 2026
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The kind of fic that makes you stay up until 2am on a work night.
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The Pride & Prejudice AU you didn't know you needed // Arranged marriage to love // Slow burn
"Why?" Verso asked, his pale eyes fixed on Gustave's face with unsettling intensity.
"Why sacrifice yourself for her?"
The question caught Gustave off guard. He opened his mouth, closed it again, searching for the right words.
"Because she is my sister," he said simply. "And I would do anything for her."In Belle Époque France, an old promise binds two families. When the promised bride refuses, her brother steps forward instead — binding himself to a man shaped by pride and expectation.
Gustave Virlogeux is practical, dependable, and entirely unremarkable — or so he has always believed. Verso Dessendre is composed, untouchable, and dangerously perceptive.
Their engagement is duty. Their courtship is stolen glances, careful distance, and the maddening warmth of a hand that lingers a moment too long.But what begins as obligation unfolds into a slow reckoning with everything they cannot say — until what was never supposed to be real becomes the only thing that is.
Bookmarked by AlCrevette
16 Mar 2026
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If you love Gustave and Verso, and wish to read incredibly good characterization and reflection on who they are as people, then you should give this fic a try. It was written with an incredible amount of love.
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In Theory, We're Not in Love by EmberPuppy
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
06 Mar 2026
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Verso could use a fake boyfriend to get his mother off his back.
Sciel introduces Gustave.
They agree on a mutually beneficial arrangement.It's supposed to be simple—hold hands, attend events together, survive his family, and be convincing enough.
They're pretending.
They're somehow excellent at pretending—and also terrible at it.
They promise to keep things simple.
Then immediately do the emotional equivalent of lighting the rulebook on fire.Somewhere between "practice," an ungodly late night phone call, and the catastrophic one‑bed situation, the line between fake and real quietly packs its bags and leaves.
Bookmarked by AlCrevette
15 Mar 2026
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Unhinged in all the best ways, 1000/10 amazing use of the fake dating trope
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Verso's smile widened, and Gustave knew with crystal clarity that the universe had a sick sense of humor. His Friday night blues had just become his Monday morning colleague.
"We've met," Verso said easily, still watching Gustave with those piercing eyes. "Haven't we, Gustave?"
The claim of his full name landed in Gustave’s gut like a stone, heavy and cold, followed by the slow bloom of heat at his throat where the kisses still ached.
He was so, so fucked.
Or: they say when you love a character so much you'd inevitably write them taking it up the ass
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- 11/11
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14 Mar 2026
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Just this side of fucked up, in the best way possible.
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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.
- Language:
- English
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- 60,296
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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Bookmarked by AlCrevette
10 Mar 2026
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I'd pay a fortune for more of this writing style, I can't believe I get to read it for free.
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pi·a·nis·si·mo
/ˌpēəˈnisəˌmō/
Music
adverb
(especially as a direction) very softly.
"she played pianissimo alongside the full orchestra"
adjective
performed very softly.
"the final verse was beautifully balanced and controlled in the pianissimo ending"
noun
a passage marked to be performed very softly.Or, Verso is stuck in a time loop. Maybe the canvas has one more story to tell.
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- Part 1 of A Life to Dream
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 50,998
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- 11/11
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Bookmarked by AlCrevette
09 Mar 2026
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If you crave a third ending as much as I do, give this a try.
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Maelle looks at the mirror shards scattered across the floor, a disarray of sharp and jagged pieces that can never be put back together again. "I know you’re not him..." she admits in a shaky whisper. Her tear-filled eyes find Verso, the blues and greys of paint starting to unravel the edges of them, mocking him. "But you deserve to be happy,” she says. We deserve to be happy, she means.
“I deserve to be myself,” Verso says, and it sounds like a plea more than anything else. The skin around his left eye aches, as if it’s waiting for his scar’s return.
Maelle sighs before she sweeps her hand through the air, calling for her rapier. It appears in a flutter of gold petals, glimmering in the dim light of the bathroom. Her eyes are cast in shadow and her disappointed smile is somewhat crooked. "Alright. Let's try again."
or: Maelle wants a happy end for everyone she cares about, and she will keep trying until even Verso gets it right.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 45,915
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- 12/12
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Bookmarked by AlCrevette
08 Mar 2026
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If you want to be emotionally wrecked in all the best ways, this is it.