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Alicia would never be able to say for sure where the memories of the girl she was a copy of ended and her own began. There was no dividing line, no way to distinguish them. The memories that she would learn weren't her own were just as clear as the ones that were hers. But the first one that was truly hers…
Life before and after the Fracture, from the perspective of the Painted Alicia Dessendre.
Contains spoilers for the entirety of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.Series
- Part 2 of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
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Verso lived through the fire, as did Alicia, but he didn't wake up. He remained unconscious, and when his family realised that he and Alicia had been found in the atelier during the fire, they realised that Verso has gone into the canvas.
Aline went in after him, believing she could wake him up. She finds Verso, who doesn't remember anything. In his pain addled mind he ended up creating Lumiere, and a painted version of his family, and they were living together happily. Aline helps him remember, but all he could feel was the fire and the burning agony of his body, and so she paints over him and erases his memories again to keep him safe. Renoir then goes in to wake up his son himself, and drag his wife out the canvas, resulting in the Fracture. Expedition Zero goes out to search for their loved ones and rescue them, and inevitably find out what happened from Cleo. Now Verso has to stop his family from tearing apart his canvas, and try keep his mother from constantly erasing his memories to keep him compliant. It goes about as well as you might expect.
(Basically, Verso lived, but is trapped in the canvas by his mother, and now has to deal with the horror of having his family raging war inside his canvas)
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After escaping Expedition 56's torture, Alicia runs to her big sister for comfort.
She does not receive it.
Not because Clea doesn't care.
But because she can't.
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Day 19: “You’re on your own, lost in the wild.” - Dehumanization
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Like Falling in Reverse by jena_winters
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
22 Oct 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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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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Verso Dessendre x F!Reader by TheFanficCorner
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
11 Oct 2025
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After Verso's death, Aline loses herself in the canvas that contains the last fragment of her son's soul. There she creates an illusion of a perfect world. And when a writer comes to her, pleading on hands and knees, she also grants her a piece of this bliss.
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The Canvas was destroyed when Verso's soul stopped painting. The end of a long reign of suffering was over.
And then it came back.
Gustave died. He knows that much. He was dead. But now he's back on the ship on the day after the Gommage of everyone who was 33 years old, and now he's back on his way to the continent to repeat the cycle of destruction. But he isn't alone. It quickly becomes apparent that Lune, Sciel, and Maelle are back, too. And they have a plan to save as many lives as possible. And to defeat the painters. Plural. Because that is a thing, apparently.
To Gustave's worry, this plan revolves around Maelle and a man named Verso. A man who will save Maelle on the beach just as he did last time.
But something about this whole things is strange, and this group of survivors they have gathered slowly begin to uncover conspiracies that extend far beyond the problems of their canvas.
Because for Maelle, it's been four years since the canvas was destroyed, and she swears on her brother's grave she wasn't the one to repaint it.
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Endless suffering behind them, an eternity before them.
___Clea finds Verso after the battle
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What woman carves a window to her lover’s bare, beating heart?
And what man claims to still love her afterwards?
What remains of Julie’s chroma tries to reach out to Verso before the canvas is destroyed.
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У них за спиной – бесконечность страдания. У них впереди – вечность.
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These 'people' Maman wishes us to be. by ArtingDreamers
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
05 Oct 2025
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Grief was a powerful force. Either it rendered one truly unable to act, or served as strong fuel to further one's goals. Since Clea's parents fell in the former category and couldn't act like adults, Clea would have to step up. Since Renoir couldn't handle Aline alone, Clea would have to help him. Since Aline wouldn't stop ruining her Canvas, Clea would have to wash those stains away.
It was her Canvas as much as Verso's. If she had to erase it, she would. It takes several trips into the Canvas to make up her mind and to right things her way.
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Any direction you go, you will be walking toward the dawn by headofporridge
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
18 Sep 2025
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“So believe me
when I tell you
this blessing will
reach you
even if you
have not light enough
to read it;
it will find you
even though you cannot
see it coming.”-Jan Richardson
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On the Nature of Daylight by monocostrap (hanarinhightown)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
17 Sep 2025
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From the shadows, Verso watches the expeditioners. He knows what he has to do, but as he watches Gustave with Maelle, duty is mired with gratitude and jealousy and worse: stolen memories of a different Verso with a different Gustave. Atop Stone Wave Cliffs, he must decide whether to linger in darkness or to step into the light.
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- Part 1 of L'autre côté
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Disparaissons Tous les Deux by phyrestartr
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
09 Sep 2025
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[SPOILERS!]
You are a loved one from borrowed memories, a flicker of salvation, a source of devastating desire; you're a fragment of the man who loved his music, loved his paintings, loved him, and yet you, too, are merely a painted copy of what Verso never had.
Real or fake, you are prepared to live and die for him.
But when the Chroma settles and the Canvas falls into the hands of an idealistic tyrantess, maybe sharing in replicant emptiness is liberation; perhaps you can reminisce together, guiltlessly dream of time shared in life and death, ponder the silver-linings of a miserable future.
Maybe you'll whisper of ways to make it all disappear, too.
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To Try And Break Free by TavertianMind
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
08 Sep 2025
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Before the events of the game Renoir first tries to save his marriage with Aline that he is worried is falling apart and then finds comfort in Verso who was also pulling away from him. Verso, who's already managed to break free from Aline's mind control for the most part and is struggling with both the knowledge of what he really is alongside his growing romantic feelings towards the man he considers his father.
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if that alone might be done by winter_writes
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
06 Sep 2025
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It’s laughable, isn’t it? She, who has the kind of body which many men would envy. She feels stupid to have this perfect body and not to like it. To yearn for something different.
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An exploration of Simon as a trans woman.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 905
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 9
- Hits:
- 66
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For all that Clea hated other people’s depictions of her, especially her parents’, there is one portrait of her that still exists as it was originally painted, unsullied and untouched by her hand. It’s an old one, an imperfect portrait painted by an unpracticed hand, with none of Aline’s verisimilitude and carries none of Renoir’s gravitas.
What it has, instead, is all of Verso’s love.
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Sonate D’après by artistic_connoisseur
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
03 Sep 2025
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A song waits quietly
in the stillness after grief—
not to forget,
but to remember softer.
Love returns not as thunder,
but as the breath before a chord,
a name on the edge of silence.Series
- Part 2 of Oeuvre Perdue (The Lost Work)
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Expedition 33 largely survives the attack on the beach only to find themselves in more and more trouble. As the 33rd falls apart, four unlikely pairs grow closer while they face their identities and desires together. Eventually, they must also face the fate of their world together, good or bad.
Warnings: Yes, you should read all those tags if you don’t rely on filtering. I don’t want anyone getting halfway through just to get hit by something unexpected. Please also be aware the main characters may be perpetrators of immoral actions. Be safe. ❤️
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There were four Dessendre children. With the world slowly being devoured by one family’s tragedy, it will take everything Gustave has to pull the world and both versions of the Dessendre family back from the brink, but he will save them: his world, his family, and his brother.