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Heated Rivalry meets Free! in this slow-burn swimming romance with messy feelings, competitive angst, and two idiots who take a decade to figure out they're in love.
They stared at each other. The anger had shifted into something else, something charged and dangerous that made Gustave's heart hammer for reasons that had nothing to do with the fight.
"I hate you," Gustave said. It came out wrong—not angry, almost desperate.
"I hate you too," Verso said, and his eyes were dark, intense, fixed on Gustave's face.Gustave Augustin has spent his entire swimming career finishing second to Verso Dessendre. At 18, they finally meet at French Nationals. The rivalry is instant. The attraction is unwanted. The hookup is inevitable.
The nine-year toxic situationship? That's where it gets complicated.
Because they have rules: just physical, no feelings, no one can know. They follow them religiously—until they can't anymore.Now they are forced to choose: keep hiding, or risk everything.
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01 Apr 2026
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heat haze by Nicaane for rorarosa, coldblood
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
31 Mar 2026
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After defeating the Mask Keeper, Verso falls victim to a stress heat. Luckily, Gustave is more than willing to lend a helping hand (and something else).
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01 Apr 2026
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Through the Darkness & the Shadows by WanderingAlice
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
26 Mar 2026
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Long ago, the city now known as Old Lumière prospered, watched over by a benevolent sorceress known as The Paintress. Then came the drought. And the famine. And the people began to blame their sorceress for their misfortune. They set fire to her mansion, killing her only son. Unable to heal him, the sorceress did the only thing she could to save him - she cast a curse. From that moment on, he became a terrible creature, the outward manifestation of the worst parts of himself. The city fell, overrun with cursed monsters. And a clock began ticking down. If, within a century, the creature that had once been Verso could find his soulmate, he would be returned to life. But if a hundred years pass without a soulmate being found the curse would take every last descendent of Old Lumière.
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“Surely you know about soulmates,” Monoco says, disapproval clear in his voice.
And Gustave does know about soulmates. The thing about soulmates is that they are incredibly rare. Because not only did both souls have to be compatible, both had to be willing, too. They had to choose each other. No coercion, no ulterior motives, just… choice. And who would ever choose to love a monster?Bookmarked by Pandreore
19 Mar 2026
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Dérive by Aria_Lerendeair for Anxious_Mask
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
29 Mar 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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Shelter from the Storm by Aria_Lerendeair
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
19 Feb 2026
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It didn’t storm in the canvas.
Or at least, before the Fracture it never had. It snowed in the mountains. Rained softly in the forests. It didn’t storm.
Well, there was a first time for everything.
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- Part 2 of Verso Hell Week 2026
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