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Une Vie à Vivre (Part 2 - Beyond the Canvas) by notscarlettohara
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
03 Mar 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
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Perchance to Dream: Act I - Maelle by Bloo_Kitty
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
03 Mar 2026
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*Spoilers for Act II and beyond*
The world is so empty now without her brother. Maelle is trying her best to continue on with the mission at hand, but she misses him so much.
Yet when she thinks that all she wants is to feel him beside her, she gets a lot more than she bargained for. Is it Gustave's vengeful spirit? Or is it just her guilt mixing with her lack of sleep?
Why is Verso acting so strange? Is he hiding something? Or is it just his nature?
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First act of a three act series full of twists, turns, and many secrets.(There is a 280 word prologue that precedes this)
Series inspired by the works of vailkagami, astralmagpie, birdsongbard, and rhibbet.
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- Part 2 of Perchance to Dream
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The Mercy of Those Who Made Us by a_hardboiled_egg
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
03 Mar 2026
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Clea decided to visit her sister in the Canvas and see if she would come home. Much to her surprise, she came across the Painted copy of her brother with his husband. She had never considered that Lumiere was not an exact copy of Paris with all the same laws and customs. Intrigued by the thought of no longer living in shadow and knowing they had homosexuality in common, Clea decided to actually get to know Painted Verso more. After all, the conflict was over and they no longer needed to make desperate choices. Now they could focus on Maelle.
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“You don’t erase damage,” Verso said; “you learn to work with it. Fill the cracks gently. Help it hold together again.”
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Six months after the explosion at the lab, Gustave returns to work with an arm gone and a brain still far from healed. The university told him to take more time. His friends tried to pull him back into the world, but he’s learned how to turn them all away.
On his first day back, he meets Verso Dessendre; quiet, steady, with scars of his own and a beautiful streak of silver in his hair. A man who restores paintings for a living, yet struggles to restore himself.
As they grow closer, Gustave begins to wonder if Verso might be right.
Maybe some damage isn’t the end, but the start of something worth holding together. -
Those Who Strive by toscawrites, Trikucian
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
02 Mar 2026
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Lune and Gustave juggle their feelings for each other during the first part of Expedition 33. The canon divergence is that this the real world: Lumiere is a version of Paris that got blasted into the Mediterranean Sea during the Fracture in the early 20th Century.
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Oh Faded Star! Won't you try again? by InvertedGulwing
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game), Undertale (Video Game)
02 Mar 2026
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The curtain has fallen.
An entire world, your world, brought to ruin and ultimately sacrificed for the well beings of a family of grieving gods. Your family.
You are left alone with no hope to hold onto.
You've resigned yourself to this empty life. Left the wishes of those who are gone unfulfilled.
But. Are you really giving up? Will you let this ending be yours? This ending that was forced on you, won't you rewrite it?
The pen is there for the taking.
It's time to go home, Partner. And remember. Stay determined.
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Maelle is coached into rejecting the reality Renoir and Verso wanted her to see and substitute it with her own. She wakes up in Lumiere once more. A glowing 34 illuminates the Monolith and she vows to get everyone (including herself) their happy ending.
Fortunately. She doesn't have to do it alone.
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Un Chocolat Chaud à la Chantilly by mortypheus
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
01 Mar 2026
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You had two jobs: the socially acceptable one as a bakery assistant at a boulangerie near the centre of Paris, and the socially unacceptable, ‘offensive’ side gig that barely paid, which basically consisted of writing and composing ridiculous plays that hardly anyone watched.
The only way you made any money was by mocking the Painters — and their wealthy associates. Apparently, Writers weren’t the only ones who held a grudge with those bastards, so the plays sold surprisingly well.
Somehow, you managed to keep both worlds from colliding — until now.
Because the second child of the family at the head of the Painters’ council decided to move in right above the boulangerie where you worked. And, to top it off, you had to deal with him showing up every morning for his daily dose of chocolat chaud à la chantilly.
You couldn’t help but wonder if life was having a laugh at your expense.
Putain.
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A dead man suddenly wakes from smokes and ashes to suddenly find himself in a place he hasn't visited ages ago. Confused of how he landed here, he spots a stranger unconscious on the grass with an odd uniform and a armband with the number 33 on it. Unable to leave the painted world, he's on a journey to find out what happened to his beloved Canvas and what lead to it's current state.
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Procedures Not Covered in the Expedition First Aid Handbook by a_hardboiled_egg
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
28 Feb 2026
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It has been 8 months since Maelle kicked her family out of the Canvas and chose to stay. Gustave's friends and family have all embraced their second chance at life but Gustave is struggling to accept their new reality. He has thrown himself into his work to keep his mind off of everything but now he has been tasked with collecting study samples from the Continent. No one else is able or willing to join him on the trip and travelling alone is unsafe. Luckily, Maelle convinced Verso to go so Gustave could have someone to watch his back. Gustave and Verso have never really spoken and barely know each other, but a whole month on the Continent together is enough time to change that.
5 times Gustave had to be on corpse management duty + 1 time Verso had to instead
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Le Bonheur et Les Épreuves (Joy and Hardship) by mango_jelly
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
27 Feb 2026
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In the aftermath, they all try to piece together their shattered world. It's more difficult than they expect, but Lune's never been one to shy away from a challenge. Even when that challenge comes from herself.
What becomes of an Expeditioner, when the Expedition ends?
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- Part 2 of Notre Avenir (Our Future)
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heaven never ever heard a word i said by versoburns
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
26 Feb 2026
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i've cried enough to raise the dead
or, five times verso didn’t feel real and one time he knew he wasn’t. (and one time he was proven wrong)
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- Part 1 of an old curse
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Verso Dessendre, born as a rare hybrid of a Painter/Musician, have been a center focus in the family, being the only male sibling and to be the next Heir. Upon learning his Musician ability, Verso plans his desire to be free. The Dessendre Family have been griefing eversince Verso's death. Little that they know, everything has been staged and Verso have been alive since then in secret. Despite the new freedom after his life changing meeting of another Hybrid, Gustave, Verso's sufferings still clinging onto him from both worlds.
Perhaps, being "dead" is not enough....
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Or: Verso have to make a tough decision and won't stay silent to the sufferings.
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What if Verso wasn't the one who died in the Writer's fire... but instead it was his little sister, Alicia? What if 'her' undead soul was the one being tortured in the canvas, thanks to him?
How far would someone go to keep the people they love safe? How far would someone go to finally lay themselves to rest? When do painted fiction and harsh reality begin to bleed together, unable to tell one from the other?
Is love enough of a driving force to stop a group of people from marching towards their own certain death? Or is it the spark that ignites the flame? -
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"Are the voices inside your head still yours, Lune?"
She cut him a withering glare, dozens of truths and memorized speeches caught in her throat. He met her gaze dead on, irises near colorless where they once held a hint of blue. He didn't look away, and neither could she.
"Are yours?"
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Nearly three years after saving the Canvas, Lune is restless. She's uncovered every mystery, solved every problem, and reached the limit of what the world can give her. Never before has she felt the world so small. The only remaining questions all circle back to the man she refuses to see, and who has isolated himself from everyone else. But when a dangerous new Nevron threatens the city and Maelle disappears, Lune has no choice but to go to him for answers.
Verso wants nothing more than to die. He'll settle for destroying any sliver of love between himself and those he called friend. But when Lune brings word of Maelle's disappearance and a Nevron he's never heard of, even he can't ignore the opportunity.
Once bound by respect and something deeper, Lune and Verso have nothing but distrust and loathing between them. They'll need more than that to save Maelle from the Nevron--and herself.
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I shouldn't love you (but I do) by PH03N1X_360
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
25 Feb 2026
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There is a man on the street, staring up at Gustave’s apartment.
He’s dressed well — a sharp suit cracked with gold, wavy dark hair combed back and shot through with white. His cold blue eyes are rimmed red as if he’s been crying for a while. He feels… important somehow, like a missing piece to a puzzle Gustave has yet to uncover.
Or: Gustave navigates resurrection in the wake of Maelle taking over the canvas, and meets a not-so-stranger he cannot place in his memory.
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- Part 2 of far too beautiful to leave me
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The thing that sits in front of him is a bloody mess. A ghost oozing blood in the pale moonlight of the continent, a most terrifying hallucination, one that Verso is beginning to get used to.
It is a manifestation of his guilt, one that is not likely to go away for sometime. The thing, the man, was named Gustave. And his absence is an unfillable void, one that Verso has no choice but to take. He made that void in the first place.
He sees Gustave on quiet lonely nights, he catches glimpses of him through dense trees, and sometimes as a dark sentinel standing far away in the distance.
But tonight the ghost has joined him next to the fire of the expedition's camp.
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"I am a mosaic of everything I've loved, even for a second, even for a heartbeat."
-Tendai Muindisi
Written for Verso Hell Week
Day 8: Fraud | Loops -
Episode 4: A Web of Lies by LePianiste
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
24 Feb 2026
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Five encounters where Verso remained blind to the value of his own life.
A blindness that nearly cost him everything, had a merciful moonlight not drawn him back from the dark.
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- Part 4 of sweet little night owls
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a series of (failed) escapes by A_Confused_Kitten
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
24 Feb 2026
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When you've been immortal for as long as Verso has, it's inevitiable that some of your deaths may have been more purposeful than others.
Picking fights that are impossible for you to win, making plans that are a little too risky, not following medical advice when you really should be following it to the letter; Verso has done those sorts of things thousands of times. Maybe even more than that.
Fuck, that's not even mentioning all of times that he—That's not the point, though.
The point, Verso thinks, is that he wasn't planning for this.
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Alternatively, five times Verso dies and handles the consequences on his own, and one time they were handled for him. -
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Fünf Begegnungen, durch die Verso nicht den Wert seines eigenen Lebens realisierte.
Und beinahe wäre er daran zugrunde gegangen, wenn ein rettendes Mondlicht ihn nicht rechtzeitig aus der Dunkelheit geführt hätte.
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- Part 4 of Nachteulen unter sich
- Language:
- Deutsch
- Words:
- 12,243
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Hits:
- 25