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Verso hates people pretending to care. Julie pretended to care, and look how that turned out. Verso knows full well that humans can’t really care about an immortal who can just walk off being cut in half. Verso knows full well that he is too different from them to actually evoke empathy. Verso-
Verso desperately, painfully, hopelessly wants it.
Or: a Gustave Lives AU where Gustave is being nice and Verso is having a mental breakdown about it. Act II and the beginning of Act III.
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30 Jun 2026
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— Это ощущение, что мои мысли и воспоминания — что они не мои, а вложены мне в голову кем-то другим… оно когда-нибудь исчезнет?
Вопрос выходит почти умоляющим — растущее отчаяние, которое он пытался подавить последние несколько месяцев, просачивается в голос против его воли.
В выражении лица Версо что-то смягчается.
Концовка Маэль. Попытки осознать новую реальность. Гюстав ищет ответы и идёт к единственному человеку, который может их предложить. Версо чувствует, что обязан хотя бы поговорить с ним.
И, может быть, всё становится менее невыносимым.
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- Part 1 of Память и зеркала
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30 Jun 2026
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Gustave let go of a heavy sigh and nodded his head. Back in the Stone Wave Cliffs, he had come to peace that this was where his journey ended—For those who come after, right?—but it seemed like his story wasn't done just yet. Maelle had, somehow, given him another lease on life, and this time, he could live it. He could grow old. He could do things simply for the sake of doing them; every waking moment didn't have to be dedicated to trying to solve the issue with the Paintress, with preserving their civilization.
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28 Jun 2026
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pi·a·nis·si·mo
/ˌpēəˈnisəˌmō/
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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
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26 Jun 2026
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(learning how to live when your death was the mechanic by which you could succeed.)
Then the assassin says, "I don't know where to go from here."
At first Corvo thinks one of the Whalers must have snuck into the room, that maybe this is a coded message, that that's why it makes so little sense—but no. It's just him, and the assassin on his knees.
"I don't know how to change this," he adds. It sounds as drained as Corvo feels. "I've tried... everything I could think of. Nothing worked. This is how it always ends."Bookmarked by Neare
10 Jun 2026