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For Those Who Come Before by Roseriann
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
13 Jun 2026
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For those who came before.
For those who were forgotten.
For those who kept waiting.Reborn again and again within the Canvas, Julie lives countless lives beneath the Paintress' sky: a baker's daughter, a historian's child, an aspiring expeditioner. Each life begins anew. Each life ends in forgetting. Yet some things refuse to disappear.
Such as a handsome young man named Verso who appears in every lifetime.As old memories begin to surface and the truth behind the Canvas slowly unravels, Julie must piece together the lives she has lost, and discover why some stories refuse to end.
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The Avatar is missing, and the Fire Nation wages war on the rest of the continent.
Gustave didn’t plan on joining the Rebellion, but he also didn’t plan on the Fire Nation raid that destroyed his home. And now, after years of training, he’s finally ready to join the Expedition.
Determined to kill the Firelord and restore balance to the continent, Gustave knows that the success of the Expedition should be his top priority. But as his bonds with his friends are tested and the journey becomes more perilous than ever, Gustave begins to question how truly prepared he is for a mission like this.
And what it will cost him before it’s all over.
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In the hopes to settle the war between the Writers and the Painters, a summit between the Factions is organised. An omega and the grandson of Writer Victor Hugo, Gustave is put forward to marry a Painter.
Things don't go to plan and Gustave finds himself pulled into the orbit of a certain Painter family.
*This isn't an abandoned fic, I'm just slow at updating
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Neither of them intends to fall for the other. It’s foolish, downright hazardous – and absolutely unavoidable. In the beginning, their meetings are all cutting words, fiery dances, and lies upon lies. But as the masks between them start to fall, the loneliness they share grows into something more.
He refuses to acknowledge the danger their relationship puts them in until it’s too late. Until the flames come for him.
She knows well that their star-crossed affair will ultimately end in disaster, but she takes the risk anyway. She fights her feelings, defying them – to no avail.
Love, after all, cannot be controlled. It drives the heart to make impossible choices. To trespass into the enemy’s most sacred place. To put life and soul on the line in a last, desperate attempt at redemption.
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- Part 1 of Ink and Blood
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In dark times, should the star also go out?
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Le Clair-Obscur de Nos Âmes by Kai (Roxel)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
12 Jun 2026
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In a city bright with the progress of the Belle Époque, Verso lives in the shadows, grief-stricken by the 'written' fire that claimed his sister. He pours his anguish into his piano, hiding from a secret war between those who paint substance and those who write destiny.
As a brilliant structural engineer, Gustave believes a beam fails because of stress, not sorcery. But when he begins to notice a pattern of architectural disasters plaguing Montmartre, his need to fix the flaws inadvertently threatens a powerful faction manipulating Paris from the shadows.
Marked for death because he refuses to accept their narrative, Gustave is pulled into Verso’s dangerous world. The pragmatist and the artist forge a partnership: Gustave provides the logic to expose the lie, while Verso finds the courage to pick up his brush and shield the man who has become his tether to the world. Together, they must dismantle a conspiracy written in stone before the ink dries on Gustave’s final chapter.
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Gustave gazed at Verso’s profile, which he could see clearly from where he sat. He observed the graceful curve of his nose and his mouth, slightly parted as he breathed between the heavy passages, and felt a strange sense of connection. The man there at the piano was expressing in sound the very same thing Gustave strove to shape in wood and metal: the pain of being misunderstood.
Paris, 1905: In a city defined by secrets, decay, and dangerous narrow-mindedness, Gustave, a toymaker, meets Verso, a pianist, at a chamber concert.
Confronted with Gustave's deep-seated fears from his past, the homophobic vice squad, and crushing expectations, the two men struggle desperately to remain true to their heart's desires - even as the world around them closes in ever tighter.A non-canon compliant tale of longing and loneliness, and of the profound need not to feel alone in an alienated world.
Content Warning: The depiction of violence and sex is mostly graphic. Please mind the tags. Sexual violence will not be romanticized.
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Dérive by Aria_Lerendeair for Anxious_Mask
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
11 Jun 2026
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Gustave Écrivain is a Head Mechanic of the Jaeger program, creator of the Painted series of Jaegers, and a former Jaeger pilot cadet.
Verso Dessendre is one of the pilots of Painted Cypher, one of the fastest and most lethal Jaegers in the world, and currently without a co-pilot.
Both of them have their past, their baggage, and a hundred reasons that they should not work together as Jaeger pilots. Yet the second they step in a sparring ring together, it is obvious from that very first exchange - they are meant to be.
Can they overcome their respective pasts, and all of the obstacles in the present - to end up together in the one place that matters.
The Drift.
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encordés (French, mountaineering, plural): roped together; tied to a partner on the same rope, so that if one of you falls, the other can hold the line.
Gustave is an experienced climber. When a route in the French Alps goes wrong, he expects broken bones and weeks of gruesome recovery. What he does not expect is, instead, to fall, slowly and catastrophically, for the unfairly attractive mountain rescuer who keeps visiting his hospital room.
But Verso carries his own scars, and Gustave has learned the hard way that being wanted means hiding the parts of himself that are broken, and that leaving first hurts less than being left behind.
This is a story about concussed flirting, scars and second chances, about being seen completely — and two stubborn idiots learning that the rope works in both directions.
(Complete; updates twice weekly)
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A Symphony of Music and Ink by Kairens
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
11 Jun 2026
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"This would have never happened if we had not met. All of this, all of this pain, these… feelings, I would not be feeling this if we had never locked eyes, if I never let him into that room with me. All I wish for now is to either turn back the clock and prevent the fire, prevent us from meeting if I had to, or to follow him down into the soft dirt forever."
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The heir to a writers family meets the charming Verso Dessendre. Growing closer, the two realise they can no longer deny their own feelings. Loving each other behind closed doors, they try to keep up with the current conflicts that reign among the guilds of Paris, hoping to god that they will stay with each other until death - and beyond.
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la portée des corps (the bearing of bodies) by river_low
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
11 Jun 2026
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Over ten years after he burned his canvases at the top of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and very publicly went off the rails, Verso Dessendre returns home, a prodigal son trailing rumors of a deeply private family grief. In those same years, Gustave LeClair has built an academic career restoring the aging bridges over the Seine, helping them bear the weight of both history and the humdrum day-to-day. If only he could do the same for his personal life.
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With the fate of the canvas left undecided after an unexpected interference, what’s left of Expedition 33 find themselves expelled away from Lumiere. But they are not alone.
The world still has a story to tell.
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Thorns-spiked love by The_Doctor21
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game), World of Darkness (Games), Vampire: The Masquerade, Mage: The Ascension
11 Jun 2026
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An AU placing Expedition 33 characters in the World of Darkness setting. Verso Dessandre is Embraced into Clan Toreador, causing his family of mage-painters to disown him. He struggles to find balance between his new life as Kindred, reclaiming the family he lost, and his romance with Julie - the daughter of his father's mortal enemies.
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- Part 1 of Dessandre in WOD
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Gustave Audiard is a simple man. He likes his monotonous routine of go to work, go home, repeat. He's content with his life. When Verso Dessendre enters his life that routine is uprooted, and Gustave is left craving more of him.
The more Gustave spends entangling himself in Verso's lifestyle, the harder he finds it to stop.
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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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This Place is Not a Place of Honor by vailkagami
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
10 Jun 2026
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Verso Dessendre never died. He worked with the Writers, specifically with his lover Noah, to fake his own death in a fire, never suspecting that his little sister would get caught in it, or that his family would by destroyed by the aftermath.
But the Dessendre family are not the only ones suffering the consequences of that disastrous plan when Alicia getting stuck in Verso's childhood canvas and an entirely different life leads to Noah getting stuck there as well.
Now Noah is back, bringing with him the memories of dying in a world that no longer exists and an entire lifetime in which Verso meant nothing to him. Meanwhile, Alicia struggles with adjusting back to a life she no longer wants and still doesn't know that Verso is alive - as is Gustave, in a way.But those turn out to be the least of their problems as the conflict between the Writers and the Painters takes a turn for the worse and either side expresses their displeasure with the events that lead to that escalation, and the people responsible for them.
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Out of the Canvas and Into the Fire by Neverending_Rainbow
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
09 Jun 2026
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After a freak accident, Verso, Gustave, Lune, and Sciel are torn out of the canvas and brought into the real world. Caught up in the war between writers and painters, they must do their best to survive and figure out their new lives.
Featuring: Gustave/Verso with a side of Lune/Sciel, Dessendre family drama, attempted worldbuilding, and a bunch of creepy mimes!
Rated M for some violence/sexual themes.
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The Sweetest Treats in all of Verso’s Drafts by Ruvikscube
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
09 Jun 2026
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Verso takes you on a date to his own little corner of the world. It’s a private paradise that’s home to any dessert you could possibly dream of. You sample more than just a few during a trip alone to the hot springs.
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Clea isn't interested in being tied to anyone in marriage. Being the Heiress of the great Dessendre Painter family, all she's concerned about is managing the expectations of her position. That is, until a handsome stranger appears to ruin all her plans.
The sound of footsteps behind her set her spine straight and her teeth on edge. Clea closed her eyes in a moment of defeat. She knew who it was before she even turned around.
“Clea is it?” he asked. His voice was husky with a hint of gravel. It shouldn't have affected her but her stomach clenched to spite her.
“That depends entirely upon who's asking.”
The man chuckled with a lopsided grin stretching over his features, “I'm fairly certain every social elite in Paris knows of the infamous Dessendre Heir. I've just come to see if the rumors are true.”
Clea’s brows pinched. Rumors? That was a new development. But of course, she kept her cool with a dismissive response. “I'm sure whatever they say about me is true.”
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Clea Dessendre didn’t plan to die.
She didn't plan to be stuck in the Canvas.
And she definitely didn't plan for family to be this complicated.It still happened anyway.
Luckily, this time around, Clea does have a plan.
Unluckily, even the best laid plans sometimes go astray.or
Expedition 33:
What if Clea died instead of Verso edition