deadnotsleeping
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heart of kyber by deadnotsleeping
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), Star Wars - All Media Types
04 May 2026
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To Whom it May Concern,
My name is Jayce Talis. I am a PhD student at Coruscant University studying mechanical engineering. My focus is in material science, specifically kyber crystals. While its optical and energetic properties are well-known, I'm having trouble finding any information regarding its interaction with the Force. Would the Jedi Temple be willing to share any of its research?
I swear I am not making any weapons.
Thank you,
Jayce Talis
On one uneventful day, Viktor, former Padawan of Grand Master Heimerdinger, current archivist, and supposed Jedi, receives an intriguing email from a man named Jayce Talis. Three days later, they meet in the ruins of Jayce’s apartment.
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- Part 1 of 30 Days of AUs
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Months after her family narrowly escaped the fire, Clea Dessendre spends one perfect day setting up her new art exhibit with Verso and Alicia.
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The other Verso loved water, and so he did as well.
Other Verso Painted water everywhere in the Canvas, although presumably, like the rest of the Canvas, he Painted it for fun and not for death. Flying Waters, which was Painted in a fit of childish fury after he realized he could not live in the ocean, contained something like breathable water. It made for an adequate alternative to the traditional ocean on days when Verso craved the peace of being underwater but not the pain of drowning. It wasn’t nearly as calming as swimming in real water, but it at least didn’t tempt him with the sleep of death. Not more than usual, anyway.
Or, an exploration of Verso and his relationship to water, the sea, and a certain very cute aquatic mammal.
Written for Day 5 of Verso Hell Week: Drowning.
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Aline Dessendre breaks on a dark and stormy night.
Another version of her, a younger one, one who didn’t die with her son, would’ve called it melodramatic; reflective of those dour and dreary English writers she so disparaged. This Aline hasn't the energy to care.
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The world breaks on a sunny and pleasant day. Every day has been sunny and pleasant thus far; Verso doesn't know how many of them there were. Which memories are his and which are His.
Aline Dessendre, once again, creates life.
Written for day 2 of Verso Hell Week: Storm.
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do you think God stays in heaven because He, too, lives in fear of what He's created? by deadnotsleeping
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
27 Jan 2026
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Young Verso and Clea go to a gestral beach.
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30 Days of AUs by deadnotsleeping
Fandom Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), Star Wars - All Media Types
04 May 2026
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30 (non-consecutive!) days of AUs. Multi-fandom.
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the feeling of being alive (for the first time in a long time) by Anonymous for deadnotsleeping
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
23 May 2026
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"Come," she demanded. "I will not allow the two of you to be useless today."
The insult bore more weight than the perfunctory way she said it, as if merely remarking on the morning's bleary weather. To him, uselessness alluded to the black trousers tied-off flush against his residual knees, and the burns that stretched upward toward his waist, obscured by the thick fabric. Those scars and phantom pains he measured alone every night as he laid in the bath, wondering how it might feel to slip his head beneath the soapy water.
Perhaps it was rude of him to ascribe that cruelty to his injuries rather than acknowledging it as Clea being... Clea. She didn't know how to express love unless it was on the edge of a dagger.
"Fine, then," he muttered. "Lead the way."
A year after the fire that terribly injured her siblings, Clea drags Verso and Alicia along to restore their mother's garden for her birthday.
Written for the Clair Obscur Exchange 2026!
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01 Jun 2026
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He seems comfortable enough sitting with his thoughts that he's not using the wine to get out of his own head, at the very least. Maybe he's just lonely. Verso does like talking, and entertains himself by climbing into her head when she's free enough to make merry. Julie is… strangely unbothered by that part of their routine.
The part that does bother her is the meta aspect: the routine itself.
Verso is there every night.
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AKA Julie eases Verso off the slippery slope of drinking to forget his past.
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06 May 2026
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one of those things which give value to survival by asofterepilogue
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
27 Mar 2026
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Verso believes immortality gives him licence to be careless. His friends have some thoughts about that.
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28 Mar 2026
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call it dreaming by lysdunkel (enheduane)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
15 Oct 2025
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“We old men must adapt to the times.” Verso thumbs across her cheek, fond and careful. “You’re way ahead, of course. So cutting edge you make them bleed.”
“Gustave gets eye strain from arcane journals. As I have told you,” she teases. “Such things tend to happen with age. You’ll have to grow used to it, now that you’re mortal like the rest of us.”
Age is always a strange topic for them. For everyone in the city. Verso no longer dyes his hair, and silver spills forth with every wash. His beard is salt-and-pepper. Lune longs to join him in that. Visible signs of age fills her with triumph. A satisfying sense of spite, even.
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My take on the Maelle ending, and what it might mean to live in such a world.
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07 Mar 2026
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In the beginning, an artist made all the chroma that ever was and ever will be.
Or, the Young Boy bears witness to the canvas, the fracture, and the final expedition.
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- Part 1 of Verso, Verso, and Verso's Canvas
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07 Mar 2026