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Father Gustave Moreau knows three things when he arrives at Saint-Élie: his flock is wealthy, his predecessor is dead, and the bishop has warned him about the Dessendres.
Verso Dessendre knows three things when he comes to Mass with blood under his nails and sin on his tongue: he killed the woman who broke him, he wants to fuck his priest, and he's not sure which sin is worse.
Father Gustave has one answer: come to me. Bleeding or whole. Just come.
What they build is a private religion—one where worship happens on knees, absolution is paid in pain, and the only miracle is the moment a sinner learns to let himself be touched gently.
Or : Verso Dessendre didn't believe in God until a priest put his mouth on him and called it prayer.
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28 Jun 2026
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The Dessendre family has ruled over Paris' criminal underground for as long as Gustave can remember. Murder, theft, trafficking, there is no crime they haven't committed, yet their wealth and influence has allowed them to walk free for generations. For Gustave and his allies, taking down the family's matriarch, Aline Dessendre, is the only way to free Paris from villainy.
Unfortunately for him, fighting the Paintress comes with many unexpected challenges, including foiling the plans of the elusive thief Visages, and getting into a fake relationship with Aline's only son, Verso.
An Enemies to Lovers story in which Gustave is a vigilante with a stalking problem and the Dessendres are supervillains.
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17 Jun 2026
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”En gardé, monsieur!”
Verso has a second to register it before he realizes he’s being cornered by three, very serious children. Gustave’s apprentices, to be more precise. Not the threat he first would’ve thought of, but there you go.
”What are your intentions towards Gustave?”
In which the apprentices have had enough of Verso & Gustave’s pining and confront Verso. They might also recruit some help while they're at it, and Verso suffers.
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01 Jun 2026
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When Gustave re-joins his old dive crew, he doesn't expect to find their newest member so attractive, or so irritating. Verso pushes the boundaries of what is safe or practical for a human diver, taking risks that should by all rights have gotten him killed. He's reckless, arrogant, and a show-off. But there's something about him that draws Gustave like a moth to a flame.
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01 Jun 2026
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In Lumière, where the city breathes steam and gold light through fractured streets, engineer Gustave lives a practical life built on calculations, infrastructure, and things that make sense. Then he collides with a stranger who feels disturbingly familiar.
Verso is sharp-eyed, scarred, and impossible to fully understand. He speaks like someone who has seen too much, watches Gustave like he already knows him, and carries an exhaustion that feels older than the city itself.
Gustave cannot explain why being near him feels less like meeting someone new and more like remembering something he was never meant to forget.
And Verso cannot stop looking at him like he is standing too close to the edge of a tragedy only one of them can see.
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31 May 2026
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Sharing my bed with you by Winter_of_tomorrow for Anivy (Yamimidna)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
11 Jun 2026
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"No, I'm not fucking my roommate, if that's what you want to know." - Gustave, 33, unaware of how hard he's about to fall for his roommate he's sharing his bed and a love for model trains with. Learning that Verso has to leave for several months is the beginning of his downfall.
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29 May 2026
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Gustave tried to remind himself that he actually enjoyed showing new people around the wildlife rehabilitation facility. Most of the times he did this, he was able to tell someone something new, and watch a spark light up in their eyes. It even happened with snooty rich people. Sometimes.
That was how the three Dessendre siblings found him.Bookmarked by Burningsecrets
25 May 2026
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Gustave's omega subject to panic attacks, feral behavior, inability to sleep... He tried a lot of different things to calm him down until he found the sweet guy on the radio show with a deep voice and kind words. His omega seems to relax, his brain goes quiet.
Now he can't fall asleep without listening to the Verso's show, this is a problem.
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23 May 2026
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Variables Yet to Align by etteloc (colette)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
04 May 2026
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After the events at Stone Wave Cliffs, Gustave awakens in a liminal space suspended between canvas and reality where a faceless child paints without end. What begins as an intellectual puzzle Gustave cannot abandon gradually transforms into something else entirely: the stubborn effort to save his sister’s life and the fragile canvas she sustains, while also proving—patiently, against every layer of refusal—to a man who has long ceased to believe in his own worth that he is permitted, perhaps even deserving, to have a real, finite life.
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06 May 2026
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'Who else on this Earth would ever be able to find it in themselves to love him; a beast?'
The year is 1904, in Lumiere - society is heavily based around art and artists, in an attempt to try and get the royal family back. Anyone who falls outside that category is simply an outcast. In a family of well-respected writers: Gustave Auclair, an engineer, and his little sister, Maelle, a swordswoman, fall into that category of misfits. Not that they mind, they have their supportive family, as well as each other. What more could they want?
Verso Dessendre, the cursed and lost prince of Lumiere, only has six months to rid his family of the curse that had been set upon them by a sorceress ten years ago. Otherwise, on his 33rd birthday, his whole cursed family will turn to stone. They all had their faults, there were many reasons they were cursed, but Verso in particular has the hardest task of all: to take back a lie he had said. To care and love someone, and have that care and love reciprocated. After an Earthquake and subsequent fracture, their castle broke apart from the main country, forming their own little continent. They hadn't seen a real person in a decade.
It was hopeless... right?
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01 May 2026
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Freshly repainted, Gustave doesn't remember anything about his prior entanglement with Verso - but he finds himself drawn to Lumière's pianist all over again.
With Verso reluctant to tell him the truth, Gustave soon finds himself falling back into the same old patterns: a secret relationship, the hint of something forbidden, and the familiar pressure of a welcome hand around his throat.
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- Part 2 of Unsanctioned
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22 Apr 2026
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“You don’t erase damage,” Verso said; “you learn to work with it. Fill the cracks gently. Help it hold together again.”
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Six months after the explosion at the lab, Gustave returns to work with an arm gone and a brain still far from healed. The university told him to take more time. His friends tried to pull him back into the world, but he’s learned how to turn them all away.
On his first day back, he meets Verso Dessendre; quiet, steady, with scars of his own and a beautiful streak of silver in his hair. A man who restores paintings for a living, yet struggles to restore himself.
As they grow closer, Gustave begins to wonder if Verso might be right.
Maybe some damage isn’t the end, but the start of something worth holding together.- Language:
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21 Apr 2026
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Tergiversi A Praetus Suis by HairyEcballium, Lutza_CozyCaligine
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
22 Jun 2026
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Verso, a Parisian eccentric painter, arrives to Lumiere, a hidden Alpine village near Durance to heal his melancholia and acedia. He makes acquaintance with Reverend Father Noah, a respected and well-loved by local community priest with mysterious past, and two men form a genuine connection.
But the village is not what it seems, and neither are its residents. On the Night of Blooming Moon Verso gets a taste of something dark and ancient as he participates in an annual fertility ritual under watchful eye of Father Noah. Nothing is ever the same after this night, and Verso is possessed by desire to seduce the priest — or at the very least to know more about him.
First, he learns Father’s real name. It’s Gustave, and it tastes sweeter than wine on Verso’s lips.Tergiversi a praetus suis — those who fled from their pasts
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06 Apr 2026
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Butterfly Effect by porgthespacepenguin
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
12 May 2026
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After Maelle's victory, Gustave is struggling to adjust. If it weren't so damn pathetic, it might even be funny: the broken engineer, unable to fix himself. But with Lumière in ruins, there is no time for self-pity. His people need him, and he won't let them down.
Never again.
Now if only Verso bloody Dessendre would stop accidentally falling asleep on his furniture…
Or: Verso can't sleep unless Gustave is near. Somehow, it becomes Gustave's problem to solve — and the key to both their salvation. (Complete, updates twice a week)
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31 Mar 2026
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I don't know what I need by LostInForestBound
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
18 May 2026
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"Verso Dessendre?" Gustave slips out before wincing at his own words. Announce to whole world that the Dessendre's prodigal son is here, why don't he. "I'm so sorry, that did not come out right at all. It just surprised me. Verso, it's a pleasure, truly."
Verso, at least, has it in him to look amused as he offers his hand, which Gustave quickly takes for a shake. At least he had the right mind to shake with his flesh hand instead of his metallic one. "A pleasure, Gustave. Sciel has talked about you a lot as of late."
"I hope only good things."
He's not sure how to describe the look Verso is giving him, he's too exhausted to dissect it. His eyes, a cool bluish grey, are observing him, and he can only hope it's in a positive light after his slip up. "You have no idea."
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Gustave Auclair has never been the same after the passing of his wife, Sophie. Perhaps he's never been alright. However, in a growing friendship between him and Verso Dessendre, he finds that his life is easier to bear with that man in it. It will be devastating when he realizes that he's slowly falling in love after all this time.
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30 Mar 2026
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The girl’s shoulders hunch again. An expression is battling on her face. Guilt again, and fear, and shame. And then faintly, in the soft turn of her cheek, commiseration. She watches Gustave for a long, sad moment, and then turns to a new page in the notepad. She starts writing something, and then stops, glancing furtively at Gustave before scribbling it out. On a new line she instead writes in big bold letters:
Maelle.
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Gustave is the local mechanic of Lumiere, an idyllic coastal village far away from the chaos and conflict of Paris. Struggling with his recent injury and the loss of a good friend, he's not quite prepared when a family moves into the abandoned Manor on the edge of town.
He's definitely not prepared for their children.
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30 Mar 2026
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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?
AN: This is the main story, all other fics in the series are bonus content.
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- Part 3 of Toile Déchirée
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27 Mar 2026
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Dérive by Aria_Lerendeair for Anxious_Mask
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
25 Jun 2026
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Gustave Écrivain is a Head Mechanic of the Jaeger program, creator of the Painted series of Jaegers, and a former Jaeger pilot cadet.
Verso Dessendre is one of the pilots of Painted Cypher, one of the fastest and most lethal Jaegers in the world, and currently without a co-pilot.
Both of them have their past, their baggage, and a hundred reasons that they should not work together as Jaeger pilots. Yet the second they step in a sparring ring together, it is obvious from that very first exchange - they are meant to be.
Can they overcome their respective pasts, and all of the obstacles in the present - to end up together in the one place that matters.
The Drift.
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24 Mar 2026
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After the worst day in hardware‑store history, Gustave decides he needs a new career.
Preferably one where he never has to work or speak to another human being again.
He did not want to accidentally summon a beautiful, mildly terrifying man into his life.
But Sciel brought wine, Gustave was tipsy, and the sugar daddy ad looked normal enough.
Now he's in a penthouse, staring at a man with scars and a smile sharp enough to cut glass, wondering how the hell "I hate my job" turned into this.Or : The unhinged Sugar Daddy AU no one asked for
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15 Mar 2026
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Drawing Blood From A Stone by Wishuponaidiot
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
24 Apr 2026
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“You’re not what I expected, Gustave,” She eventually settles on, somehow saying his name exactly as Verso had before leaving.
“I guess we’ll see if that ends up being to my detriment or not,” He replies and she finally relinquishes her hold on Gustave’s chair, who immediately pulls back from the table and stands.
“You will grow to resent meeting him,” She says finally as he turns around.
“You’re probably right,” He replies without looking at her.
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Gustave’s life before meeting Verso had been normal, routine, scheduled. Suddenly after one night everything in his life has become … complicated.
The more he learns about the ways the Dessendre’s operate, the deeper into their web he entangles himself in, the harder it seems to draw himself out.
Mob/Drug-lord AU
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12 Mar 2026