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encordés (French, mountaineering, plural): roped together; tied to a partner on the same rope, so that if one of you falls, the other can hold the line.
Gustave is an experienced climber. When a route in the French Alps goes wrong, he expects broken bones and weeks of gruesome recovery. What he does not expect is, instead, to fall, slowly and catastrophically, for the unfairly attractive mountain rescuer who keeps visiting his hospital room.
But Verso carries his own scars, and Gustave has learned the hard way that being wanted means hiding the parts of himself that are broken, and that leaving first hurts less than being left behind.
This is a story about concussed flirting, scars and second chances, about being seen completely — and two stubborn idiots learning that the rope works in both directions.
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Proper Conduct by MsCoffeebear, Shin_PM
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
21 Jul 2026
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1905. The Orient Express cuts through Europe, a world of velvet and steam where propriety reigns supreme.
Verso Dessendre, bored aristocrat and gifted painter, has found exactly one interesting thing about this interminable journey: the train's director, Gustave Virlogeux, whose stern authority and devastating competence make Verso want to misbehave.
Gustave has managed difficult passengers for fifteen years. He knows precisely what to do with one who is asking so desperately to be put in his place.
It's only a matter of time before Gustave's patience for Verso's pretenses runs out. And when it does, Verso learns that some lessons are best taught in private — or as private as a moving train allows.
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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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Thermal Conductivity by MsCoffeebear for theartsypumpkin (Kuroaloeart)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
07 Jun 2026
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thermal conductivity (n.) — the rate at which heat passes through a material; the tendency of two bodies in contact to trade warmth until they settle at the same temperature.
Verso saved Gustave's life at the Stonewave Cliffs and still won't admit why (not even to himself). Now it's freezing, Gustave is too stubborn to say he's cold, and Verso has been quietly, hopelessly gone for him for longer than he'll ever confess.
Or: there was only one blanket.
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Sotto Voce by MsCoffeebear for Shin_PM
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
07 Jun 2026
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Belle Époque Paris, 1913. Verso Dessendre is very good at being wanted. It is, in fact, the only thing the world has ever been willing to pay a ruined aristocrat for, and he has made his peace with that.
Then Gustave Virlogeux — celebrated conductor of the Opéra, one hand of flesh and one of steel, immovable as a closed door — catches him breaking into the rehearsal hall to play a piano in the dark. Instead of calling the gendarmes, he offers Verso a real chance and an honest wage, and commits the truly unforgivable sin of refusing to be charmed.
This is a story about a maestro who won't play along, a brat who won't behave, and a grand piano that did not consent to any of this. It is also, underneath all that, a story about being wanted for the whole of yourself — scars, ruin, and all — by someone who refuses to let you sell the one true thing you've got.
Or: a maestro who conducts in bed exactly as he does on the podium, a pianist whose every seduction technique fails spectacularly and repeatedly (until it doesn't), and one grand piano that did not survive the experience.
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Horny, but horny together by MsCoffeebear, Shin_PM
Fandom Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
12 Apr 2026
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Homecoming by Arumattie, Nyoom (legendecker) for walrusface
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
14 Jul 2026
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After traveling the world to perform, Verso finally returned home to Paris. He was expecting a sweet reunion with Gustave, but his husband had some other plans...
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14 Jul 2026
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The souvenir by thevalesofanduin for MsCoffeebear
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
23 Jun 2026
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Gustave and Verso are in Crete, where Gustave is hunting the souvenir shops of Rethymno for the perfect keepsake like he’s a lion trying to catch a zebra on the Savannah.
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One year after meeting Gustave for the first time, Verso finally tracks down the Writer he's been obsessed with. Verso has spent a year thinking of nothing but the taste of the ink in Gustave's blood. He'd thought he knew how this reunion would go - but Gustave has other ideas.
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- Part 2 of Palate
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The green to my blue by Anivy (Yamimidna) for MsCoffeebear
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
28 May 2026
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After destiny has been cruel to him, professor Gustave Eiffel doesn't believe he could ever be lucky. He will never find his soulmate - and that is fine.
But then another professor helps a student find their way to his lecture.
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- Part 3 of Paris 2026 Shortfics
Bookmarked by MsCoffeebear
03 Jun 2026
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Cheese and Pinot by Arumattie for theartsypumpkin (Kuroaloeart)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
17 May 2026
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Stuck at the airport with a bunch of cheese and a very delayed flight, Gustave was having a terrible time. Thankfully, a rather charming stranger arrived to save the day with a lovely bottle of red.
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17 May 2026
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phi’s Topstave with cheese & wine - do I need to say more?? (Yeah no, I don’t think so ;))