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    In the aftermath of the performance at the opera house, Verso seeks oblivion from the only person who hates him enough to grant it. the dynamic quickly gets weird.

    It's Whumptober once again! coe33 has grabbed me by the throat. speaking of getting grabbed by the throat -- the yaois are toxic. you've been warned. this is not a cozy enemies to lovers work.

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    9/12
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    The Dessendre name is synonymous with color and light, but for Verso, life is lived in monochrome. Haunted by a fire that scarred his family, he has locked himself away, his music a fortress of sound where no one can reach the man behind the melody.

    Enter Gustave, an engineer who sees the world in the light of physics and function, his own heart shadowed by a recent, painful breakup. Their meeting is a collision of two opposing forces: the artist who feels everything and the builder who fixes everything.

    In the artistic fervor of Montmartre, their burgeoning connection becomes a work of chiaroscuro, demonstrating that true beauty is found not in perfect light or absolute darkness, but in the delicate balance of both.

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    34
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    Inspired by Beauty and the Beast.

    Gustave lives in the small town of Lumiere with his sister Emma and adopted sister/daughter Maelle, under the shadow of Château Dessendre. A long abandoned castle with a rumor of La Bete roaming the halls at night. But that's just a children's story and the inventor has much more important things to worry about. Like Maelle getting into a fight, still running into Sophie around town, getting his lumina convertor to work, helping the town survive another harsh winter and keeping what ever lurks in the cold forest surrounding Lumiere at bay. He's much to busy for any fantasy story about a lonely prince turned monster, after all it's just a children's story. Right?

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    5/?
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    26
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    65
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    14
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    When Gustave ends up injured while exploring an abandoned opera house, caught up in a storm with no way to get help, and left to his own devices, he has to find a way to keep himself warm, dry, and unfortunately awake. Enter Verso Dessendre, the shadow that has haunted L'Opera de Lumiére since his passing, and who is a little more than desperate to find a way to pass on.

    But just because he's already dead, doesn't mean he can't enjoy some Earthly wonders while it's still available to him.

    And Gustave is just too cute when he's pushed to the brink.

     

    Essentially a crack oneshot that has been broken into several parts describing how Gustave has some hot and steamy ghost sex with Verso. (God help me.)

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    1/?
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    7
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    2
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    215
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    While Clea continued to feverishly investigate missing persons cases and his mother continued to paint, he is certain that there was nothing he can do to help his family. Until a small act of kindness committed by Verso, when he saved the life of a tiny man, and the resulting acquaintance, could finally shed light on his little sister's disappearance.

    Based on / Inspired by the first two comics by cathianemelian on Tumblr. Branches off entirely afterwards. Can be read without them, but highly recommended.

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    Chapters:
    3/?
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    15
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    32
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    After Verso lost the final duel against his sister, he left Lumière wanting nothing to do with it and whatever she would create.

    Many months later, Maelle comes looking for him, not for herself, she claims, but on the behalf of someone else.

    She insists that he'd come to see "His creation"

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    "It burns," he wailed. The burning spread down his forearm, around his wrist where he had worn a simple brass bracelet, across his palm to his fingers. He could feel it licking across his skin, splitting his flesh, peeling back the charred tegument. A scraping in his bones, in his fingernails.

    He screamed.

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    1/1
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    3
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    31
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    4
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    234
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    The first time it happens, it's a complete accident. The times after that, well... not so much.

    When the line between chance and choice begins to blur, Gustave must decide if he trusts Verso enough to put his life — and his heart — in his hands.

    Again, and again, and again.

    Or: Five times Verso takes Gustave's hand to protect him, from the world as well as from himself — and one time Gustave returns the favor.

    Language:
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    Chapters:
    5/5
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    In the Monolith Year 49, a child of flame is born and branded as a monster.

    Emma and Gustave are determined to see beyond that.

    --

    Day 2: “You’ve got a lot of nerve to dredge up all my fears.” - Prophecy

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    1/1
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    32
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    5
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    Kinktober Day 4, "Spreader".

    In the privacy of her quarters, Emma can she her responsibilities and let her walls come down, submitting to her mistress's firm yet tender touch and being granted with pleasure beyond her wildest dreams in return.

    But is this really happening, or is it all in her head? Or could it be both?

    (Spoiler alert: it's probably not both.)

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    1/1
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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.”

    ////

    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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    Chapters:
    10/25
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    His eyes are what she most yearns after: dark, kind, founded on a steel-forged will. It would not do to proceed too rashly, so for him she uses her hands, sketching with deliberation and precision, then glazing in layer over layer of paint, modeling the contours with her finest brushes and richest pigments, until he is perfect: she striates titanium laced with cadmium yellow into his flyaways where the light would catch; swipes in a mustache and heavy brows in broad strokes and stipples on stubble dabbed with just the barest traitorous pinpoints of snowy age; varnishes in washes of ochre-, cinnabar- and azure-touched white turpentine to bring forward the protrusion of his brow from the fold of his hooded lids; and finally, in the deepest seaglass she can mix from her purest indigo and brightest vermillion, pools the warm nadirs of his gaze.

     

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    Maelle paints, and Gustave contemplates Verso's choices.

    Or: a coda to Maelle's ending (but likely quite some time before that epilogue scene in the opera house).

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    Chapters:
    6/8
    Comments:
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    41
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    'A mere Engineer cannot understand painting. Please leave us in peace, Mr. Dubois.’
    The words snapped.
    A full stop.
    Absolute.
    Like the door that had closed on the young man.
    Clea took a breath.
    She had listened to them, hiding in a corner of the mansion.
    Too surprised to see him here to reveal herself.
    Too shocked by his words.

    Gustave Dubois.
    Verso's friend.
    No.
    Her little brother's fiancé.
    Her friend.

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    Chapters:
    3/?
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    46
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    10
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    -Un simple ingénieur ne peut comprendre la Peinture. Veuillez nous laisser en paix, monsieur Dubois.
    Les mots claquèrent.
    Un point final.
    Absolu.
    Comme la porte qui s'était refermée sur le jeune homme.
    Cléa inspira.
    Elle avait les avait écouté, tapie dans un recoin du manoir.
    Trop surprise de le voir ici pour se révéler.
    Trop choquée par ses propos.

    Gustave Dubois.
    L'ami de Verso.
    Non.
    Le fiancé de son petit frère.
    Son ami.

    Language:
    Français
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    5,785
    Chapters:
    3/?
    Comments:
    1
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    11
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    74
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    Gustave got dragged by his sister to attend a business dinner with a sponsor she likes. Is it really a business dinner when she and her sponsor are making eyes at each other? Fortunately, the brother of the sponsor is present too, and Gustave knows him too well. Verso Dessendre, handsome and nice man. Also the one he was crushing on very badly.

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    English
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    1,859
    Chapters:
    1/1
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    5
    Kudos:
    27
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    3
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    Gustave and Emma’s young hybrid ward falls sick after a month of her living with them.

    Day 29: Back Rub (alternate prompt)

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    1/1
    Comments:
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    155
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    When Gustave’s world shatters in an instant, the deep bond he shared with Sophie begins to crack beneath the weight of loss and unexpected change. As he comes to terms with his newfound disability, their relationship struggles and slowly unravels, exposing fractures neither of them could have anticipated.
    Amid the quiet aftermath of everything falling apart, a new presence enters their lives; Maelle, a child searching for a place to belong, just as Gustave searches for a way to rebuild himself.
    All while Lumiere, the paintress and expeditions keep moving forward.

    Language:
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    60,008
    Chapters:
    14/25
    Comments:
    34
    Kudos:
    66
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    9
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    1,462
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    Clea wants to wrinkle her nose and laugh at the same time. Love. How foolish, the only thing two legendary lovers achieved was a couple of lost children and a beautiful cautionary tale.
    “At least now I understand why you're so easy to talk into answering my questions and why your brother drove mine crazy.”
    Emma turns to her and smiles enigmatically.
    “Do you want me to be a more predictable Rose?” Her voice is suddenly lower and filled with honey and poison. “A beautiful, seductive creature who stares at you with adoring eyes while you stand there inflated with your splendour? You know how to play against those, don't you?”
    Clea knows. She is just under five hundred years old, and she knows how to take Toreadors by the neck and shake the truth out of them, how to break and bend them, what to say to make them stop their one-actor theatre and start answering questions directly.
    “I know how to play against you,” Clea says coldly. “You need this deal more than I do, Rose. You will tell me anything I want to know.”

    Series
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    Words:
    1,893
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    8
    Kudos:
    8
    Bookmarks:
    1
    Hits:
    70
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    Clea pulls out a map one day and tells Alicia to point to a spot on it.

    She does, and they circle it with a felt-tip pen, looking the name up online on Clea’s beat up old laptop (which is the only computer they own that wasn’t destroyed in the fire).

    It’s some backwater village named Lumière.

    or: After Verso dies and they lose everything in the fire, the Dessendre sisters leave Paris behind.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    126,583
    Chapters:
    31/31
    Comments:
    177
    Kudos:
    453
    Bookmarks:
    56
    Hits:
    10,569
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    Lune gets so drunk that Emma has to watch over her to keep her from getting naughty.

    But it doesn't seem to be very effective.

    Language:
    ไทย
    Words:
    5,881
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Hits:
    39

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