WanderingAlice
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Clea decides to destroy Verso, believing him too unpredictable to be left alone. Unfortunately for her, his chroma is tied to the very heart of the Canvas. So she neutralizes him the only way she can, separating his chroma, his spirit, from his body.
Now, forced to exist as a ghost in the Canvas, Verso watches over Maelle and tries to find a way to set things right. It gets worse before it gets better. How can he save his mother or help his sister, when he’s nothing but a fading echo of a man he can never be?
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Verso knows his soul is not original to him. A stitched-up, fractured, and glued-together thing, stained with memories not his own and heavy with the grief of unimaginable loss. His very existence is a farce, a tragedy played out in canvas and ink. He wants nothing so much as to end it. To give the ragged remains of a soul back to the one who created him, let her find someone else to carry the burden and the memory of the man to whom it once belonged. And yet. And yet, still, buried deep inside him is the desire to make this second-hand soul his own. To take the old discarded thing and make it into something new. To live, as they all deserve to live. All he needs is someone to show him the way.
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Through the Darkness & the Shadows by WanderingAlice
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
11 Feb 2026
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Long ago, the city now known as Old Lumière prospered, watched over by a benevolent sorceress known as The Paintress. Then came the drought. And the famine. And the people began to blame their sorceress for their misfortune. They set fire to her mansion, killing her only son. Unable to heal him, the sorceress did the only thing she could to save him - she cast a curse. From that moment on, he became a terrible creature, the outward manifestation of the worst parts of himself. The city fell, overrun with cursed monsters. And a clock began ticking down. If, within a century, the creature that had once been Verso could find his soulmate, he would be returned to life. But if a hundred years pass without a soulmate being found the curse would take every last descendent of Old Lumière.
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“Surely you know about soulmates,” Monoco says, disapproval clear in his voice.
And Gustave does know about soulmates. The thing about soulmates is that they are incredibly rare. Because not only did both souls have to be compatible, both had to be willing, too. They had to choose each other. No coercion, no ulterior motives, just… choice. And who would ever choose to love a monster? -
Sugar and Spice by WanderingAlice for Lurlur
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
20 Feb 2022
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This year's Bake Off is off to an interesting start. With a new co-host with the personality of a wet sponge, two of the youngest contestants ever, and an unfairly attractive Star Baker, host Anthony Crowley might just be in over his head.
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My Breath Become Yours by WanderingAlice
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
30 Jan 2022
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On the seventh day of the seventh month, Jaskier went to wake a god. Just as he had the day before that, and the day before that, and so very many days before that that he had rather begun to lose count. Of course, ‘wake’ was a rather relative term, as Jaskier’s god was an early riser, and always had been. ‘Always’ also being a somewhat relative term, as this particular god was young for a Returned, being barely five years past the day his mortal body died and The White Wolf had emerged.
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Geralt of Rivia died to protect the people he loved. And then, he Returned. Kept away from the outside world, he and the other Returned live as gods, using their divine strength and skill to do the one thing their worshippers require of them - hunt monsters. With no memory of his past life, Geralt is content despite the faces that haunt his dreams. Then he finds out just what Stregobor intends to use the Returned for.
What follows is a desperate run for freedom, a battle to save everything his past self had ever cared about, and a final choice - to give up his life to save the man he loves, or live on without him.
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Fighting the Current by WanderingAlice
Fandom Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
18 Dec 2021
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Fairy-Tales Retold by WanderingAlice
Fandom The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Mar 2015
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Anagnorisis by WanderingAlice
Fandom Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
31 Jul 2014
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There is a god that lives at the heart of the canvas, his paint keeping them alive. Once a year, Lumière sends its best and brightest to ask for his blessing: this year, they've chosen Gustave to make their case.
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19 Dec 2025
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"This feeling that all my thoughts and memories… that they’re not mine, that they’ve been put into my head by somebody else… does it ever go away?”
It comes out almost pleadingly, the desperation Gustave tried to suppress for months now bleeding into his voice.
Something softens in Verso’s expression.
Or: the Maelle ending. Coming to terms with being brought back and repainted. Gustave is looking for some answers, so he goes to the one person who can provide them. Verso is absolutely done with this life, but feels obligated to at least talk to him.
They find that being a copy of a dead man is less unbearable when you're not alone.
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15 Dec 2025
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For those we can yet save by farbsturz
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
06 Oct 2025
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A primal was summoned with an immense amount of chroma and could temper anyone close by. It was like a magical parasite, worming its way into one’s mind until anyone would turn into its thrall, serving it unapologetically. He had read recovered letters of how friends had turned against friends, parents had killed their children, and throats had been cut by their own bodies.
The worst part was that they couldn’t even leave the primal alone.
Lumière was running out of supplies and they had to make the continent livable.
And that just so included slaying an immortal primal that could temper them if they dared to get too close.
God, Gustave needed a drink.
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17 Nov 2025
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protège-moi (protect me from what I want) by hoodedmiho (missMHO) for Amiko
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
10 Nov 2025
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Back when Verso still believed himself to be just another face in Lumière’s crowd, he was becoming quite impatient with waiting for his soulmate to appear so they could bring colours into each other’s lives. Then, Verso learnt the truth and knew that, in a world where no one was supposed to go through life alone, he was a fake made to exist without anyone to complete his soul.
It’s more than half a century later when fate mocks him again.
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12 Nov 2025
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He plays all the sharp, loud notes, he plays and plays until it bleeds, until it reverberates in his skull in a relentless cacophony. Until it echoes in the hall, up to the glass ceiling.
A sharp movement in the audience catches his eye, beyond the halo of the stage light.
At first he thinks it’s Maelle, that she’s spotted him doing something that she doesn’t like, doesn’t fit the perfect image of it in her head, but…
It’s not Maelle.
No, it’s Gustave.
Gustave knows something's wrong with Lumiére. With himself. With Maelle. And he knows he'll find answers with the mysterious pianist. And Verso sees.
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09 Nov 2025