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'There is no way to ever truly be yourself once someone has taken a brush to your story.'
It was supposed to be the end and the beginning. Lumière was a live again, and there amongst the riot of colour and life, Maelle painted. Drawing on a lifetime of memories to bring back the last member of her family, but Gustave is also irrevocably tied to some of her darkest moments, and truth and reality can blur beneath the artist's brush. Not himself in the way he remembers, but cast in her image of him, Gustave has to find a way to redefine himself in this repainted world; and finds an ally and more, in the one person who truly understands what it is to be a painted lie - Verso.
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15 Jul 2026
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Verso is a bored young aristocrat, sailing with his family on the RMS Titanic. Meeting Gustave on board might just be the best thing that ever happened to him.
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14 Jul 2026
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Whispers of the Divine by MsCoffeebear, SilhouettedBowTie
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
10 Jul 2026
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Gustave has served Clea, Goddess of Art and Discipline, for years. He was her dutiful priest, perfect devotee, her chosen champion. When he lost his arm in her trial, she did not restore it. Perfection, she taught him, is found in endurance. In discipline through suffering.
Gustave learned to believe her. Learned to live with incompleteness.
But then something notices him.
Verso, nameless God of Dreams and Desires, has watched his sister's perfect little priest far too long. And he's decided that Clea's most faithful servant would look so much better ruined. In dreams, Verso offers what Clea never would: wholeness. Gustave's arm returns: living onyx veined with gold, beautiful and impossible and wrong.
Night by night, the corruption spreads. And Verso himself, beautiful, terrible, too much, learns to wear a shape that Gustave can bear to touch.
Some Gods are kind. Some Gods are cruel. And some only want to prove that even perfection has a breaking point. But what happens to a God who set out to take, and finds himself wanting to be chosen instead?
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11 Jul 2026