maellicia dessendre's tormentous nightmare (WWE 2025)
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And that’s when she sees her.
Around twenty feet away, half-concealed in shadow, stands the figure peering out from behind a tree.
A girl. Pale-haired. Slight. Masked.
The one Maelle keeps seeing.
The girl is watching them. Has been for some time, apparently. Her single, remaining eye reflects the moonlight faintly, unreadable behind its veil of exhaustion. She doesn’t flinch when Maelle looks at her.
Maelle drops her arm. Relaxes her fingers. There’s no need to call forth her weapon.
Not with her.
“Hi,” Maelle says softly. “Alicia, right?”
A moment of hesitation. Then, a small nod.
“You hungry?”
Maelle finds a watchful ghost at the edge of camp. She invites her for dinner.
--Day 1: Insult To Injury - Hurt and Ill
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and i'm a goddamn coward (but then again, so are you) by deepestfathoms
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
02 Jul 2025
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“You gave them the fire,” Clea says coldly. “You may as well have lit the match yourself!”
In a moment of stress, Clea says something she shouldn't have.
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Day 2: Public Misinformation - Search Party
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“Ah, ah. Sit still. I know it hurts, I’m sorry, but I need to stop the bleeding.”
“But you’re hurting me.”
“I know. I’m sorry.”
Maelle swallows. Her lips are bloody. Her face feels too warm. “Did I…look silly?”
Sciel lets out a small laugh. “No.”
“Oh,” she says again, dazed. “I think I fell.”
“You already said that, baby. That’s okay.”
In which Maelle gets her bell RUNG.
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Day 3: Hard Knock Life (alternate prompt) - Severe Concussion
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water brash
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: regurgitation of an excessive accumulation of saliva from the lower part of the esophagus often with some acid material from the stomachGustave’s death, minutes after.
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Day 4: Like A Kaleidoscope - Dissociation
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the stars are on their side by deepestfathoms
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
05 Jul 2025
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Sciel can’t sleep. She can’t stop thinking about her little girl.
But then, as though the universe is finally dealing her a kind hand, she has the chance to be a mother again.
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Day 5: A River In Egypt (alternate prompt) - “I’m fine. I’m fine.”
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“Papa knows I have vertigo…”
Yes, it was Maelle’s idea to go find her mother’s painted replica of herself. But she hadn’t been expecting her favorite spot to be at the top of a goddamn tower.
She also wasn’t expecting to have to face her father’s painted replica of herself and all the gruesome feelings that come with that.
And then it all gets worse from there.
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Day 6: Doomed By The Narrative - “That was too close.”
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Down by the river, Maelle sees her reflection.
But not in the water.
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Day 7: The Clock Is Ticking (alternate prompt) - "Was I...dreaming?"
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It happens in the middle of a fight.
The Nevron is huge—six-legged, beetle-backed, with a mouth full of shimmering teeth and a long, scorpion-like tail that sparks with Chromatic energy. They’re used to weird side effects by now, but this one is especially weird. It unleashes a pulse of light right before it dies, like a dying star exploding in miniature. They all shield their eyes—
—and when they lower their arms, Maelle is gone.
Gustave is the first to notice. “Where’s Maelle?!”
“I thought she was behind me!” Sciel shouts, scanning the ridge.
“Maelle!” Lune calls. “Answer us!”
Then: a sound.
A squawk.
A cry.
Sciel turns toward the source and drops her scythe. It lands in a clatter, dissolving into flickering light.
“…Oh. My. God.”
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Day 8: Chef Mis-Steak - "I swear, I'm usually better at this."
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Maelle is sick. Her fever makes her loopy. She says some things. Many things.
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Day 9: Schedule Your Maintenance - Sick Day
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The morning after Gustave's death, Verso goes to comfort Maelle.
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Day 10: Boom, Clap - "Shut up, please."
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Baptism by Fire (and soup) by deepestfathoms
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
11 Jul 2025
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Everyone is tired after the first Axon fight. Some more than others.
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Day 11: Can't Stop, Won't Stop - Overworking
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Maelle is good at her job. She's fast. She doesn't stop to chat. She knows her way around the city.
Sometimes, though, things get in her way.
And she doubts herself.
But, even still, she always knows she's good at running. Maybe too good.
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Day 12: How Did We Get Here - "This is not a good place to be."
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She’s fighting a Luster. It moves like an animal, wild and full of frenzy, but she keeps up. She twists around as it lunges, jabbing it in the side, and it roars with pain. As it thrashes in anger, she backs up steadily, but then, one of its pointy limbs lash out, and she can’t move fast enough before it slashes up the right side of her face.
Her scream cuts through the chaos.
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Day 13: A Good Old-Fashioned Beatdown - “Let’s take a break.”
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embers stuck between my teeth by deepestfathoms
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
14 Jul 2025
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She’s breathing hard. Too hard. Ragged little wheezing breaths sawing in and out of her, like she doesn’t know what air is for anymore. Her shoulders twitch. Her neck jerks slightly, like something animal barely caged inside her skin. She turns to face the next one—
But there is no next one.
They’re all dead. The entire group. Cut to pieces.
And yet, she hears movement.
She spins around. Two bodies lurch back, and she almost lunges and stabs, but she just barely restrains herself when she sees human flesh.
Maelle is doing amazing after Gustave's death.
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Day 14: Ripped The Rug Out From Under You - Despair
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Aline is yelling at Alicia again.
Clea just listens. Like always.
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Day 15: Get Behind Me - "You're such an idiot!"
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a pyre, extinguished by deepestfathoms
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
16 Jul 2025
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Maelle hasn't slept in seven days.
Naturally, her mind begins to fracture.
Luckily, there are gentle hands ready to hold her together.
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Day 16: Knock Me Off My Feet - Collapsing In Public
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i will not bury the hatchet by deepestfathoms
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
17 Jul 2025
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“Back at the Stone Wave Cliffs, when Renoir attacked us… Could you have saved Gustave? Could you have stopped it?”
Verso is dead silent for a long time. Maelle doesn’t even think he’s breathing.
“Verso…?” Maelle says softly.
“Yes.”
in which Maelle actually reacts accordingly to finding out Verso could have saved Gustave because what the hell was that canon reaction.
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Day 17: Seeing Red - Bloody Nose
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There's a reason why Maelle said to avoid Bourgeons at all cost.
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Day 18: Breaking News - "It'll be over soon."
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“Gustave!” Maelle sobs, trying to crawl backward with one arm while holding her leg with the other. “It b-bit me! I didn’t— I didn’t expect it to— I—”
He drops to his knees beside her. “Shh, hey, hey—Maelle, look at me. Breathe.”
“It hurts!” she cries. “It burns! It— something’s wrong!”
He follows her trembling fingers to the bite.
Two neat punctures. A small trickle of twin blood streams.
And the flesh around them is already swelling, bubbling up like rising dough under her skin. The whole lower half of her leg is tight and flushed, angry red veins spidering out from the site of the bite. He presses her foot gently, and she screams.
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Day 19: Irresistible - Venomous Snake Bite
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Expedition 33 takes a trek through a sulfurous bog.
It goes about as well as one might expect.
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Day 20: Got The Sniffles - Can't Stop Coughing
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