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"I… I suppose I like the daffodils. They appear again after every winter again and again. They remind me of being able to start over…"
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Gustave retreats into Lumiére daily. This city is full of cafés, gardens and inventions he can shape with his mind. Here, he can move freely, create… and spend time with Verso.
Lumiére is more than just a city. It’s a world he chose, he also made it. Because inside Lumiére, he can live, act, and connect, but always at the edge of a system he can’t fully control.
As Gustave navigates these two worlds, he begins to realize that the world he chose is both sanctuary and trap. Every promise, every connection with Verso carries a cost. How much of Lumiere is freedom and how much is a prison he made for himself?Bookmarked by ladykimja
06 Mar 2026
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Dérive by Aria_Lerendeair for Anxious_Mask
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
06 Mar 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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06 Mar 2026
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Look at me, he seems to say, even as he shrinks from the firelight and Lune’s broad, gesturing arms, Look how big and scary I am. I am a big dog. I will bite.
But his eyes catch Gustave’s again, pale blue meeting bloodshot brown, and Verso’s mouth twitches, revealing a hint of fang, and Gustave thinks oh.
Verso’s an Omega.
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04 Mar 2026
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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.Bookmarked by ladykimja
03 Mar 2026
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“He was just as stupid. And just as blind.” Alicia's tongue flicked out to wet her lips. “Neither of you stopped to think about what I’d want—or that we’d have to go on without you. You’re selfish, Verso. And you—"
“—would make the same choice. In every life. In any life.” He smiled. She didn’t return it. “I won’t say I’m sorry.”
Alicia looked away. “You should have lived.”
“I decided otherwise."
(Or: Verso Dessendre's ghost visits every member of his family a final time.)
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03 Mar 2026