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Verso Dessendre needs a fake boyfriend for his family's annual Christmas trip to the Alps.
Gustave Rénier—his childhood crush and the man he hasn't seen in ten years—needs a reason to say yes to something reckless for once in his carefully organized life.
What starts as a week of pretense in a snow-covered chalet becomes something neither of them expected: late-night conversations, stolen touches, and the slow realization that some things were never fake to begin with.
Seven days. One bed. Two people who've been wanting each other for far too long.
Sometimes the best love stories start with a lie.
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something's been unhinged in your mind by Anonymous for rorarosa, HorseSkullTats087
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
23 Dec 2025
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Verso is running a fever, and Renoir, being the caring father that he is, decides to run him a bath. If his mind were a little clearer, however, Verso would realise that some of those helpful touches go beyond how a father would help his son bathe.
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- Part 3 of Pandora's Canvas of Debauchery
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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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“You have a dog?” Gustave asks in lieu of a greeting, unable to distinguish what kind of dog it was. Medium to large in size he would think, his head is about half way up Verso’s thigh sitting next to him. His coat was short, light caramel brown, black and white fur, medium size nose length and pointed ears. ‘Definitely a mutt of some variety, maybe something with a terrier?’
“Good morning to you too, Gustave. Can I help you?” Verso asks, his tone seemingly annoyed but he had an amused tilt to his lips that was on its way to a smile.
AU - In which everyone in the canvas ends up reasonably adjusted, and Verso has a dog.
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Verso sits at the piano and his hands start playing. They summon a melody veiled in dust, rising out of Paris, out of a memory his mother had sealed beneath a thin glaze of shame. He thinks he knows what it means now.
Condemned to a hollow existence, Verso retreats into memories that were never his to own: into the hazy intimacy between Verso Dessendre and a brilliant Parisian engineer. And if the past is already lost beyond recall, what harm is there in letting its ache comfort him one last time?
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Verso didn't expect to meet his soulmate in a bakery. He also didn't expect said soulmate to be the only man in the capital unable to recognize the crown prince by name.
He isn't complaining, this is the first time in years he's been able to exist as himself and not as an extension of his family.
Surely, it won't hurt to keep up the pretense for a little while?
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Like Falling in Reverse by jena_winters
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
22 Dec 2025
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"Who are you? What's with the uniform?" He asked, and Lune met his eyes.
"I, too, am an Expeditioner," she said slowly, repeating the words decades before Verso would say them to her.Or
When the battle with the Paintress goes terribly wrong, help comes from the least likely source: the Masked Woman. Lune is cast back to the beginning to find the truth about the Fracture - and hopefully stop the Paintress and her yearly ritual of death. This puts Lune on a collision course with Verso and his family, before they were cursed with immortality. But the Dessendres have their own secrets, and unraveling them could cost Lune dearly - not just the success and safety of the future, but her own heart as well.
Mainly canon through Act II.
There's only one Paintress.
The world is real (not a canvas).
Everyone is real.
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La Lune de Décembre (December's Moon) by ThatPersonWhoLikes
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
22 Dec 2025
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The story you are about to read, dear reader, is one of many Christmases ; past, present and future – and the story of two determined best friends and their woes in love. As much as our dear Lune and Gustave tried, they were never truly lucky when it came to love, and could only silently pine after their best friends, wishing for things to be different.
But unlike what they both could have foreseen, everything was about to change this year: and for good, this time.
For what would a Christmas tale be without a little bit of magic?
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un train vers de nouveaux souvenirs by aban_asaara for Sucette
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
22 Dec 2025
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Julie laughed, then readjusted her position so that she was lying on her belly, ankles hooked behind her. “And where is that powerful, thundering engine taking us?”
Verso was grinning wide now. Was it the wine? The late hour? Just having Julie with him in his childhood bedroom? Looking at her now, he saw the little girl she had been once: freckled and rosy-cheeked, her blonde hair burnished by long afternoons under the sun.
He sent the toy train wheeling along the curve of the track, towards the books piled up high on the floor, white pages stacked in an approximation of snowy peaks.
“To the Grandis Mountains,” he answered.
Julie and Verso enjoy a train ride to the Frozen Hearts, and make the most of it when their ski day takes an unexpected turn.
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When you Paint, there are rules. In her grief, Aline broke them all.
The crack in the stability of the Canvas was all it took for the Writers to thread their own craft through it, letting them pull out a handful of inhabitants as their tethers to their world snapped. They explain it as a mercy to the confused members of Expedition 33 when they wake up in Paris. They tell them it was a rescue mission, to save them from the whims of the Painters—that this fight is now theirs, too.
But Gustave, Lune, Sciel and a very confused Maelle were not the only ones plucked from the Canvas. Beneath the Writer’s Council, Verso wakes in a locked cell, a new piece on the board of their war. And Clea Dessendre, on the warpath and determined to get revenge on the Writers, ends up with the unlikeliest of allies - one with her own bone to pick.
Turns out their Expedition might not be finished, after all.
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12 days of Christmas by thevalesofanduin for theartsypumpkin (Kuroaloeart)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
22 Dec 2025
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Gustave and Verso are out buying Christmas presents when they run into each other in the busy, narrow aisle of the Lumière bookstore. It's been years since they've seen each other, and their school days when they were friends are even further away.
But they weren't just friends, although neither was brave enough to admit their crush back then and teenage love was buried when their paths diverted when Verso moved to Paris for university.
Yet now that they are both in Lumière for the Christmas season, those feelings quickly rekindle.
Will they finally have their romance this Christmas?
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Lorsque la lumière de la lune transperce L’Enfer by TheDwarf01789
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
22 Dec 2025
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“That’s Lune,” Sophie whispered. “You two would make a lovely couple… Or maybe something already happened…”
Gustave didn’t respond.
He would have been lying if he claimed the thought had never crossed his mind. Even Maelle, with her too-perceptive teenage intuition, had already teased him about it. And now, Sophie was joining in.But every time that idea began to take shape in his mind, a shadow would sweep it away. A shadow bearing Sophie’s name.
Why this obsessive loyalty to a story that had ended?
Perhaps because a part of him had never truly turned the page.And now, it was too late.
In a few hours, Sophie would be nothing but a memory. They would leave for Expedition 33.
And both of them would likely be dead within the year.Maybe that was his greatest regret.
What If : in the heart of the expedition, buried feelings could change the course of everything?
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Lorsque la lumière de la lune transperce L’Enfer by TheDwarf01789
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
22 Dec 2025
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— C’est Lune, souffla Sophie. Vous feriez un joli couple, tous les deux...Ou peut-être qu’il s’est déjà passé quelque chose…
Gustave ne répondit pas. Il aurait menti s’il avait dit qu’il n’y avait jamais pensé. Maelle elle-même, avec son flair d’adolescente trop lucide, l’avait déjà taquiné sur le sujet. Et maintenant, c’était Sophie qui s’y mettait.
Mais à chaque fois que cette idée prenait forme dans son esprit, une ombre la balayait aussitôt. Une ombre qui portait le nom de Sophie.
Pourquoi cette fidélité maladive à une histoire finie ? Peut-être parce qu’une partie de lui n’avait jamais vraiment tourné la page.
Et maintenant, il était trop tard. Dans quelques heures, Sophie ne serait plus qu’un souvenir. Ils partiraient pour l’Expédition 33.
Et tous deux seraient probablement morts l’an prochain.
Peut-être que c’était ça, son plus grand regret.Et Si : au cœur de l’expédition, des sentiments refoulés pouvaient changer le cours des choses ?
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Masquerade (Compatible Fractures) by MsCoffeebear
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
22 Dec 2025
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In Lumière, soul bonds are not gifts - they are obligations.
Verso Dessendre has spent years perfecting the art of staying untouched. Once a prodigy, now a soldier, he's learned that wanting anything is dangerous. His hands are scarred. His reputation is carefully constructed. And he has no intention of letting anyone close enough to see what lies beneath.
Gustave Virlogeux is the Academy's most reliable engineer - the one who fixes what the system breaks, who never asks for anything for himself. His prosthetic arm glows with borrowed Chroma. He's useful. Essential. Alone.
When destiny pairs them together, neither is prepared for what their connection will cost—or what it might save. As Lumière's bond ceremony approaches, they—along with Verso's sister Alicia and Gustave's ward Maelle - will discover that the system they trusted might be more fragile than anyone realized.
A story about two people learning that sometimes the most broken things fit together in ways nothing whole ever could.
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It has already been two months since the downfall of Lumiere. Construction and chaos cover the streets, expressing a chance for a better future. A chance to live in peace, without the heavy burden of the paintress lying on the backs of many.
The last expedition has now moved on, continuing to pursue a life they thought they may never have.
Yet disaster strikes as Lumiere is suddenly attacked and Verso and Lune find themselves in a strange situation. One where they cannot leave each other without consequence.
The team must regroup, discover a way to rid of such a curse as Lune and Verso attempt to mend what was once broken.
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When the expedition ends, Lune is left with too much knowledge, too little meaning. Verso is somewhere on the continent, convinced he has no place in the world he fought to unmake.
She goes to him seeking clarity, but what they find are the truths they ran from, the weight of their choices, and a shared question neither knows how to solve: what comes next when the thing you’ve built your life around ends?
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Verso is an up and coming musician who is tired of constant criticism from his father. After a particularly heated argument, he goes for a walk to clear his head and ends up running into the most handsome barista he’s ever seen.
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All the Things I Never Said by MsCoffeebear
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
21 Dec 2025
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It starts with music. A darkened practice room. Pale blue eyes and long fingers dancing across piano keys.
Gustave knows he’s in trouble from the first moment he sees Verso play.
Their love unfolds in stolen moments: behind practice room doors, in empty dorm rooms, anywhere they can be themselves without the weight of expectations. Verso can’t let his family know. Can’t afford the distraction. But he also can’t seem to let Gustave go.
A story about taking it slower - and all the things you wish you’d said sooner.
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A 33 December at Lumière by Katarinashka
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
21 Dec 2025
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'A mere Engineer cannot understand painting. Please leave us in peace, Mr. Dubois.’
The words snapped.
A full stop.
Absolute.
Like the door that had closed on the young man.
Clea took a breath.
She had listened to them, hiding in a corner of the mansion.
Too surprised to see him here to reveal herself.
Too shocked by his words.Gustave Dubois.
Verso's friend.
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Un 33 décembre à Lumière by Katarinashka
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
21 Dec 2025
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-Un simple ingénieur ne peut comprendre la Peinture. Veuillez nous laisser en paix, monsieur Dubois.
Les mots claquèrent.
Un point final.
Absolu.
Comme la porte qui s'était refermée sur le jeune homme.
Cléa inspira.
Elle avait les avait écouté, tapie dans un recoin du manoir.
Trop surprise de le voir ici pour se révéler.
Trop choquée par ses propos.Gustave Dubois.
L'ami de Verso.
Non.
Le fiancé de son petit frère.
Son ami.