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He looks too tense and too tired. Like a man trying to mentally prepare himself for a battle he has no energy left to fight.
Verso doesn't want to fight him.
“Hey,” says softly.
His copy glances at him, almost startled. Then looks down again. Hesitates. Blinks a couple of times; nervously licks his lips. “I'm sorry,” croaks.
Verso tilts his head. “For what?”
His copy shrugs. “For existing.”
Or: at the end of the world, Verso meets a familiar face.
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16 Feb 2026
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Ink by Aria_Lerendeair for theartsypumpkin (Kuroaloeart), BlairIzSlay
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
02 Feb 2026
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Painter duels were savage, violent affairs, confined to a canvas, torn apart by the visciousness of the Painters.
Writer duels were far more civilized, rational events, with two Writers, sitting behind a desk, attempting to drown each other in ink.
When Gustave challenges the Head of the Writer's Council - Philippe Auteur to a writer's duel - to save the life of Verso Dessendre and his family, he has every intention of rewriting the rules of engagement.
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02 Feb 2026
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"Across the fire, she watched him." On a journey to take down the Paintress, against a backdrop of shattering loss and revelations, Lune found her attention straying to the enigmatic newcomer, Verso. He was a mystery, full of charm and evasive words: an interesting contradiction. She didn't account for his own curiosity and a sparked affection - or for the devastation that could follow. A what-if addressing how the romance aspect in Expedition 33 might have had a more defining effect on the story. Lune/Verso.
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02 Feb 2026
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Le Clair-Obscur de Nos Âmes by Kai (Roxel)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
11 Feb 2026
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In a city bright with the progress of the Belle Époque, Verso lives in the shadows, grief-stricken by the 'written' fire that claimed his sister. He pours his anguish into his piano, hiding from a secret war between those who paint substance and those who write destiny.
As a brilliant structural engineer, Gustave believes a beam fails because of stress, not sorcery. But when he begins to notice a pattern of architectural disasters plaguing Montmartre, his need to fix the flaws inadvertently threatens a powerful faction manipulating Paris from the shadows.
Marked for death because he refuses to accept their narrative, Gustave is pulled into Verso’s dangerous world. The pragmatist and the artist forge a partnership: Gustave provides the logic to expose the lie, while Verso finds the courage to pick up his brush and shield the man who has become his tether to the world. Together, they must dismantle a conspiracy written in stone before the ink dries on Gustave’s final chapter.
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Henry spent a passionate night with Bartosch, the swordmaster of Trosky. After a massacre near Nebakov, they find themselves on opposite sides of the war that is ravaging Bohemia. For a while, it looks like they could avoid fighting each other. But their fates soon intertwine again – in the worst possible way.
This story continues the relationship between Henry and Bartosch, while the first signs of Hansry are blossoming. Spoilers for KCD1 and KCD2!
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- Part 2 of Black and Silver
- Part 2 of Fortuna
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19 Jan 2026
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No One's Hands Are Bloodier Than God's by isnt_it_pretty
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
25 Oct 2025
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Henry was of Skalitz, once. Before it burned. Before he survived. Before he was taken in by the man who murdered his Pa.
Or: The worst thing about Hans' guard in Maleshov is that Hans likes him.
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- Part 1 of Whumptober 2025
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08 Jan 2026
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"And With Him Resteth Lancelot of the Lake" by AkatsukiShin
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
21 Jun 2025
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“I want to look at you for as long as I can. I wish to stay with you like this and speak with you, even if you have nothing but contempt for me.”
The tides of war may tie together enemies to allies or break friends into foes. In an era where the interests of those in power often clash, it is not unthinkable for people who once fought side by side to fall on opposite ends of the warring factions.
Having finally succeeded his late father as the Lord of Rattay and Polna, Hans Capon of Pirkstein has lived through the years to witness the arrival and departure of many around him. Some enemies now fight with him for the same cause; some friends hold their swords against him when their principles no longer align.
Among those who left his side to be with the opposition...was Henry Kobyla, once his best friend and faithful squire.
In the year 1419, Hans, now among the leaders of his faction, leads an army to war, only to find his life nearly claimed by the ruthless battlefield. He wakes that night, however, to find someone already saving him from harm and taking him away from death’s door.
That someone is none other than Henry, who is supposed to be fighting for the other side.
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02 Jan 2026
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Bozhena watches how this boy clings to the corpse and worries she'll have to ask the knacker to dig a third grave in the morning. She's not seen grief like this in such a long time, but she's tended a great many bedsides and soothed the backs of husbands weeping over wives lost to the childbed. She'd recognize the wound of lost love deaf and blind on Judgement Day.
A submission for the "From the Den, with Love" fanzine
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28 Dec 2025
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Henry doesn’t allow himself a final look.
He wouldn’t call himself a superstitious man, by any means, but the thought of turning to watch Suchdol recede over his shoulder feels like it would be courting disaster. It’s foolish, really. Henry knows the fortress has endured trebuchet fire and hand cannons, its walls aren’t going to crack from a distant glance, but he can’t bring himself to turn his head.
It’s too close to a goodbye, and he’s sworn those off for the time being.
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Henry spends his journey from Suchdol and back imagining the worst- Language:
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27 Dec 2025
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Scars that Breathe by BeyondtheLiterature for ghostwrittendiary
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
08 Dec 2025
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There was something about him that made Verso dislike him, hate him, abhor him.
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14 Dec 2025
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Chase dies. That's the start of it, anyway.
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04 Dec 2025
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O Brawling Love, O Loving Hate by Arumattie for ThatPersonWhoLikes
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
30 Sep 2025
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It had been a while since he'd last seen Verso—eight months, seven days, and ten hours—and even now, grief ate at him for what could have been. Gustave missed the feeling of his fingers in his hair, and he missed the sound of Verso's laughter; he missed falling asleep in Verso's arms and the heated kisses they once shared. A shuddering exhale slipped past his lips as he checked the time once more, the second hand ticking away his life like a heartbeat in his palm.
Or: On opposite sides of a silent but growing war, Gustave comes to deliver a warning to Verso.
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- Part 1 of Star-Crossed
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04 Nov 2025
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A great flood of emotion, of nonsense, rushes through Robin; he bites his tongue to keep it all at bay. You are life itself, and what a terrible job I would be doing at being human if I did not love you.
(ch 17: an excerpt from ramy and robin’s opium-laden walk back to the english factory in the middle of the night)
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14 Oct 2025
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The night glitters. Robin’s little heart beats in his chest, curdling by the minute. Tonight he is brave. Tonight he rewrites his regrets even if tomorrow will not come.
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14 Oct 2025
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the wallpaper glistens by GreyscaleCourtier
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
13 Oct 2025
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In the aftermath of the performance at the opera house, Verso seeks oblivion from the only person who hates him enough to grant it. the dynamic quickly gets weird.
It's Whumptober once again! coe33 has grabbed me by the throat. speaking of getting grabbed by the throat -- the yaois are toxic. you've been warned. this is not a cozy enemies to lovers work.
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étends ton manteau by lysdunkel (enheduane)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
29 Aug 2025
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Gustave wakes to the sounds of birdsong and the taste of old blood. Breathing aches. It’s instinct by now to turn onto his side and look for bodies.
There is one.
Blurred, he sees strands of black hair, an ink spill across the too-green grass. Above, a silhouetted profile, softly curved. Her eyes are shut, lips parted. Neck at a painful angle. In the faint firelight, he sees a string of symbols spill like tear tracks down her cheek.
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Gustave wakes after Stone Wave Cliffs.
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06 Oct 2025
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the line is covered in jellyfish by staroverlord
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
28 Dec 2025
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When Viktor finally asks why Jayce stayed behind inside the Anomaly with him, Jayce stares at him as though he’s supremely disappointed by the question— as if Viktor has betrayed his own brilliance by asking something so irredeemably stupid. “How could I not? We’re partners.”
Partners, Jayce calls them. Not for the first time, Viktor wonders: Partners in what?
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Or: Jayce and Viktor survive the Hexcore, a blizzard, their own bodies, sharing a bed and all the things they’re too afraid to say. Slowly, they put themselves back together— piece by stubborn piece.
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- Part 1 of the thin semantic line
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06 Oct 2025
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Chase faces the aftermath of his explorations of the mansion.
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27 Sep 2025
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Painted Sunsets and Sunken Sunrises by walrusface
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
15 Jun 2025
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Verso wants to take Gustave out of Lumiere and give him a chance to see the broader continent without the threat of death breathing down their necks - but life on the canvas is more complicated than that.
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04 Sep 2025
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The Autopsy of Harrier du Bois by bajabussyblaster, siliconesausage
Fandoms: Disco Elysium (Video Game)
14 Apr 2025
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A detective, a cadaver, and the entire city of Revachol walk into a room.
“Crawl inside this body -- find me where I am most ruined, love me there.”
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18 Apr 2025