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While fleeing an abusive marriage, Gustave meets the eligible, but distant, bachelor Lord Verso Dessendre. Despite their instant connection, they are from different worlds: one the heir to the Dessendre estate and the other a servant to said family.
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Loosely inspired by Downton Abbey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë.
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20 Feb 2026
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Unwritten Conditions of Harmony by ATOASTBW
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
18 Feb 2026
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Gustave survives his encounter with Renoir, all thanks to the help of a mysterious (and handsome) stranger named Verso. While Gustave is grateful, he also remains on guard, uncertain about why Verso has so graciously decided to not only help, but also join their expedition. Driven by curiosity, he chats with the man, determined to find out more.
However, with each conversation, Gustave discovers new and surprising depths to Verso. At the same time, he finds himself being drawn closer, both physically and emotionally, something that is as frightening as it is electrifying.
And when it becomes increasingly clear that Verso feels the same about him, how deep is he willing to fall?
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- Part 1 of Another Life, Another Chance
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Ouvrons les yeux, cherchons l’espoir by Etalice
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
18 Feb 2026
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Verso recognizes Gustave at once.
Gustave is standing in a clearing, then, on the continent where he doesn’t have any reason to be. He’s also in the process of losing badly in a fight against a particularly large Cruleur. They’ve not seen each other since the fateful night of the concert. Since the night Verso left Lumière to never come back.
Still, Verso recognizes him at once.
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Verso Dessendre had one person in his life. His inspiration, his sole purpose for living in this facade of a family; his six year old little sister, Alicia. When a fire took over their home, caused by the Writers, and Alicia was nowhere to be found, everyone assumed she had perished. They had nothing to prove it. But she couldn't have. She was too smart for that, too pure for that. She couldn't have.
And he would spend the rest of his days searching for her.
Gustave Auclair wanted kids oh so desperately, but with his girlfriend Sophie not wanting any, despite his best attempts at convincing her, he respectfully took it as a sign that children were not in the cards for him. That is, until, he finds a small little girl unconcious in the snow, her head resting against the train tracks he had helped to build all those months ago. With no memories of her past life, and no family come to claim her, he takes her under his gaurdianship, despite the distress of his partner.
Maelle was family, and he would never go back on family.
Ten years pass, and soon the past, present and future will all collide in a case of lost memories, found family, and even perhaps, a love that transcends all tragedy.Series
- Part 1 of Une Vie a Décembre Universe
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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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04 Feb 2026
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L’Attachement: The Ties that Bind Us by Lucienne_07
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
28 Sep 2025
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Verso is convinced that the expeditioners were growing weaker because they were gradually losing their dynamic. Verso hasn’t sensed another alpha strong enough to be a threat in decades. He has also never met a beta or an omega who could match his dynamic.
Enter: Expedition 33— with his headstrong soon-to-present alpha sister, a strong female alpha that makes Verso’s skin crawl, an intriguing beta who keeps trying to sleep with him, and Gustave, who says his dynamic must be broken because he’s never presented and is apparently immune to alpha commands.
Verso accompanies Expedition 33 and, against his better judgment, ends up saving Gustave, the only person Verso has met on his more than six decades on the Continent who can stand the strength of his dynamic and commands— a development which confuses them both and throws a wrench in Verso’s well-laid plans.
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02 Feb 2026
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In a world plunged into a war conflict between artists, some prominent families from opposing factions seek to encourage a genetic race to avoid further bloodshed.
Unexpectedly, Verso Dessendre is in a mess between his sister and her charming fiancé.
At first, Gustave was merely his kind future brother-in-law; in the end, he becomes much more than that.
Love should be a blessing, not a tragedy.
Alpha! Verso x Omega! Gustave
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- Part 1 of Love in the Time of War
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When Verso learned the truth about his existence, he believed his fate was sealed. He knew what he had to do. What needed to be done.
However, when he regained new memories of the life he believed he didn't belong to, he discovered a new form of torture for his weary existence: a friendly, gentle-eyed man named Gustave, who seems to be everything he needs and has no right to yearn for.
Despite all this, Verso believed he could maintain control of his emotions; his convictions remained firm. However, when Expedition 33 arrives on the Continent, and with them, the kind-hearted Gustave, his plans are shattered.
And yet, the Dessendres' plans for them don't seem to end there.
Alpha! Verso x Omega! Gustave
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- Part 2 of Love in the Time of War
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所谓困境，也许正如眼下的幻境一般，不同的筹码逐渐叠加，而最后是自己的作茧自缚，只是他们都忘了，忘了主动权自始至终掌握在他们手上。
（原作S5E09-E18的衍生造谣，不记得也大致不影响观看，因为好多被我改得面目全非orz，不过建议去重看一下因为原著处理得比我好多了
（很混乱很混乱的cp关系，尽管我个人觉得只有艾谜在认真谈
（算是旧文重补，最开始的初衷只是想写点恶俗的剧情，最后却变成了一篇有点阴湿的短篇，还缺几章后续但是最近真的笔力耗尽了，存个档当回顾纪念 -
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On the Stone Wave Cliffs, Gustave stands between Renoir and Maelle and Renoir makes him an offer to trade himself for her. Gustave agrees to go with him and what follows is a divergence on the path he did not know he was walking.
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- Part 2 of Ink and Flowers
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The Pride & Prejudice AU you didn't know you needed.
When he returned to Verso, he did not hesitate.
"She could not go through with it," he said in a rush, keeping his voice low enough that only Verso could hear. "The engagement. I offered to take her place. I know this is irregular, I know you have every right to refuse, but I am asking you—"
Verso's hand tightened on his waist, and Gustave's words died in his throat.
"Why?" Verso asked, his pale eyes fixed on Gustave's face with unsettling intensity.
"Why you?" he clarified, his voice quiet but intent. "Why sacrifice yourself for her?"
The question caught Gustave off guard. He opened his mouth, closed it again, searching for the right words.
"Because she is my sister," he said simply. "And I would do anything for her."In Belle Époque France, an old promise binds two families. When the promised bride refuses, her brother steps forward instead—binding himself to a man shaped by pride and expectation. What begins as duty unfolds into a slow reckoning with choice, restraint, and the dangerous intimacy of wanting what you were never supposed to have.
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Verso's smile widened, and Gustave knew with crystal clarity that the universe had a sick sense of humor. His Friday night blues had just become his Monday morning colleague.
"We've met," Verso said easily, still watching Gustave with those piercing eyes. "Haven't we, Gustave?"
The use of his full name was deliberate. Not a question, not a tease. A claim. It landed in Gustave’s gut like a stone, heavy and cold, followed by the slow bloom of heat at his throat where the bruises still ached.
He was so, so fucked.
Or: they say when you love a character so much you'd inevitably write them taking it up the ass
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Blood on the Cliffs by Winter_of_tomorrow
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
18 Jan 2026
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Reincarnation and meeting again in the next life sounds romantic until the memories of your past life's brutal death crash down on you.
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- Part 1 of Expedition 33: Reincarnation AU
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In Another Life, in Another World by SinfulLuca
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
03 Dec 2025
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He dreams of a different outcome, of a world where Gustave was there to ask questions.
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15 Jan 2026
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When a nevron puts Gustave to sleep and traps him in a dream, it's up to Verso to bring him back.
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14 Jan 2026
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You Made Your Choice by Wishuponaidiot
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
23 Nov 2025
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“What, no speech?” Gustave questions a smirk on his face, standing near the steps leading down into the pier.
“Oh this is far from the death march of the past expeditions," Comes Emma's reply. "Besides, they’ll only be gone a few months, with no Paintress looming over them.”
Gustave sobers suddenly at the thought, looking forward to watch as the team in front of him loads the last of the supplies Emma was able to drag out of the council into funding, onto their ship. His eyes find Verso amongst them, a smile on his face as speaks to a fellow crew member.
He was going to miss that man.
With all of the Painter's out of the canvas, a city left to restore, and a continent to explore, a new type of Expedition is needed. One to gather resources, map and document, research and development. Verso chooses to join, to escape, Gustave chooses to remain trapped in his own responsibilities.
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14 Jan 2026
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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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- Part 1 of Mirrors and Memories
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13 Jan 2026
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Every Book Is a Failure by HigharollaKockamamie
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
11 Dec 2025
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Everything's fine and everyone's happy, except for one person Gustave can't seem to leave alone. And what keeps making such bizarre attempts to kill them?
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09 Jan 2026
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The first time it happens, Gustave can claim it was an accident. The second? The third? There's a pattern.
Or: 5 Times Verso and Gustave Swapped Clothes + 1 Time They Didn't Have To
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Verso, a construction worker, one day caught a whiff of something intoxicating during his lunch break. There was an odd fragrance in that ice cream shop, driving him insane. He couldn't quite pin it down: he's tried each flavor twice. The nice beta behind the counter thought he just had a sweet tooth. But he's wrong. Verso is hunting for something, and it isn't just the gelato.