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Weather eye by aesc for what_about_third_breakfast, WanderingAlice
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
12 Jun 2026
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Verso doesn’t bother knocking as he lets himself into Gustave’s workshop. He, the apprentices, Lune, Sciel, and Emma are the only ones allowed to bother Gustave when he's dans l’atelier with the door closed, as close to KEEP OUT as Gustave ever gets. It’s not a privilege Verso takes advantage of lightly, but the weather developing outside the Dome—weather that’s been brewing since before dawn—has him leaning on it now.
Or: Verso helps Gustave forge through a migraine--he's something of an expert at it by now, and he's not sure what that says about him. (Just hurt/comfort and Verso having Verso feelings.)
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Technically Verso doesn’t need to sleep—he might die from sleep deprivation but he’ll always come back. Though deathsleep isn’t as restorative as you’d think, Verso tells himself it satisfies his sleep debt anyway.
(It really doesn’t.)
Or: Gustave is a werewolf, and somehow that's not even the weirdest part of Verso's long nightmare of a life. What's even weirder is that Gustave insists on taking care of him--like now, when Verso is stumbling on the cliff's edge of exhaustion and Gustave is more than willing and more than able to get Verso to sleep.
If it involves some extremely adventurous, shapeshifting sex, well, that's just a bonus.
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He wonders what it is (about him, about Verso) that lets him call Verso back from where CHROMA’s taken him. He wishes he knew, because it’s getting harder. It’s been three times now that Verso has gone out and come back, and three times that Gustave has managed to remind him of who he is: you’re Verso Dessendre, I’m Gustave Auclair. We’re Gundam pilots, we’re on the same side, please—please come home.
He’s not sure if there’ll be a fourth.
Or: Verso and Gustave are Gundam pilots in the never-ending war between the Painters and Writers. Verso and Gustave each want the other to stop fighting that war--Verso because he believes Gustave is meant for better things, Gustave because he doesn't want Verso trapped in the endless cycle of death and rebirth the war and his parents impose on him--and they'll both do whatever they need to do to give the other peace.
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He knew everyone here, some better than he’d thought he would, some faces well-known even if the souls behind them didn’t recognize him. Everything was quiet, unchanging except for the endless shift of the seasons, and he told himself this was what he needed to be happy.
So when Verso Dessendre saw a strange car, road-dusty with a number plate and rental sticker that announced its further strangeness, bouncing down the town’s ancient, cobblestoned main road, he was instantly suspicious.
Or: Verso Dessendre, acclaimed author and illustrator of the Esquie et ses amis children's book series, lives a quiet and isolated life in Vielle Lumière-sur-Mer for reasons he doesn't examine too closely. When a physics professor on sabbatical shows up in his sleepy backwater town, wearing the face of a man he watched die over a hundred years ago, the questionable peace Verso's found starts to become something else.
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He tells himself, as he huddles over the campfire while the others sleep and tries to keep the pain inside, that it's for the best. Gustave was always already gone. Verso will end the Canvas and, if he doesn't, Aline will die and Renoir will destroy the Canvas anyway. The end, whatever form it takes, is close and Verso's lived with worse guilt for longer.
Or: Verso sacrifices Gustave, and his bond, to end everything and free his family. Only nothing (because he's Verso) goes as planned. Maelle wins, Gustave comes back, and so do the bleeding remnants of something that barely existed.
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Nantucket AU by aesc, dogeared, sheafrotherdon, Siria, steammmpunk
Fandom Stargate Atlantis, Unspecified Fandom
09 Apr 2017
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In which John and Rodney live on Nantucket, Mass.
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Charles and Erik are graduate students about to begin their fifth year of studies at MIT. But it's the summer of 1969, and dissertations take a back seat to more important things.
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