Cathiane

🇫🇷 Mostly original content: videos games and manga fanarts ! I do comic sometimes. Multifandom. Currently in E33. Do not repost please! No commision. No AI Gen. Enjoy !

[cathianemelian]

«Gustave is a borrower. While searching for a new home with his kind, he is saved by a human, their greatest danger.

It is there, within the walls of this immense manor they decided to move in, that an unlikely bond of trust is about to bloom.»

A Borrowers/Expedition 33 AU comic

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Chapter 1: From the Maw / Chapter 1.5: Angel's Fingers / Chapter 2: Against all Odds / Chapter 3: Gustave's Journal / Chapter 4: The Dessendre Family / Chapter 5: He plays Music / Chapter 6: Little Mice / Chapter 7: The Wedding Ring / Chapter 8: Close Call / Chapter 9: Verso / Chapter 10: We can't be seen / Chapter 11: Returned / Chapter 12: Reunion / Chapter 13: In the Cellar / Chapter 14: To the Rescue

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> Links to art of this AU : The Leaf / He's playing / Blueberries / Safe with him / Esquie plush / Fascination

This post will be updated with each new chapter !

Have a good reading !

[cathianemelian]

«Gustave is a borrower. While searching for a new home with his kind, he is saved by a human, their greatest danger.

It is there, within the walls of this immense manor they decided to move in, that an unlikely bond of trust is about to bloom.»

A Borrowers/Expedition 33 AU comic

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Chapter 1: From the Maw / Chapter 1.5: Angel's Fingers / Chapter 2: Against all Odds / Chapter 3: Gustave's Journal / Chapter 4: The Dessendre Family / Chapter 5: He plays Music / Chapter 6: Little Mice / Chapter 7: The Wedding Ring / Chapter 8: Close Call / Chapter 9: Verso / Chapter 10: We can't be seen / Chapter 11: Returned / Chapter 12: Reunion / Chapter 13: In the Cellar / Chapter 14: To the Rescue

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> Links to art of this AU : The Leaf / He's playing / Blueberries / Safe with him / Esquie plush / Fascination

This post will be updated with each new chapter !

Have a good reading !

[cathianemelian]

Chapter 14: To the Rescue

Gustave comes to seek the only one able to help him.

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[cathianemelian]

Hello ! Some news !

I decided to split the next chapter of "Minuscule" into two parts of 9 pages. I've been thinking about it for a while. I really would have loved to make 33 chapters, but I reaIized that it was restricting me and forcing me to make bigger chapters each time, if I want to tell eveything I want to. And with my current schedule, it's hard for me to post regularly when chapters are 15-18 pages long.

So now that I have no more number of chapters to follow, I can stick with my 10ish pages long chapters and post new ones more often.

So the 9 first pages are almost done and the corresponding chapter will probably be posted in a day or two ! Thank you for waiting !

[cathianemelian]

Bonjour🖖 🐮

Le dessin, ce n'est pas mon fort (je suis très rough), mais je tenais à te faire un petit quelque chose (Gustave qui saute sur un croissant) car tes travaux inspirants.

Depuis peu, je recommence à dessiner. Sache que tes travaux me donnent envie de sérieusement m'améliorer, après une baisse de motivation de presque un an.

Aaaaah c'est trop mignon ! J'adore ! Comme je suis contente de savoir que mon travail plaît au point de motiver à dessiner ;A; C'est le meilleur compliment que je puisse recevoir. Tu as déjà un niveau très correct, continue comme ça ! ^-^

[cathianemelian]

Hey I wanna ask smth that has been in my mind in one of your old posts you said that the E33 borrower AU was gonna be 33 chapters long for a reason is that reason I is because the game name is E33 probably but I just wanted to ask <3

It is! I initially planned to make 33 chapters but I'm slowly realizing I probably gonna need more... :') not THAT much more but still more. Otherwise the chapters are going to be very long to do for me, and to wait for you !

[cathianemelian]

Bonjour ! Je tenais à vous remercier pour l'incroyable travail que vous accomplissez avec votre AU Expedition 33. Le style de dessin est précis, très détaillé dans chacune des pages que vous avez publiées, et tout simplement incroyable. Je suis complètement accro à l'histoire, l'attente entre chaque chapitre en vaut vraiment la peine.

Cela m'aide aussi beaucoup, surtout après les événements qui se sont produits dans le jeu (je l'ai commencé récemment et j'en suis à Scilé, et j'ai un sentiment mitigé d'« anxiété » et de peur de continuer l'histoire. Après ce qui est arrivé à Gustave, je suis K.O. et je sais qu'il me reste encore beaucoup à pleurer et à découvrir🥲💔).

Merci encore d'avoir créé une œuvre aussi incroyable, magnifique et si bien développée. Si, comme je l'ai mentionné dans l'un de vos posts, vous publiez un jour une sorte de mini-roman, je l'achèterai sans hésiter. 😁

Bonjour ! Pardon pour le temps de réponse !

Aaaah merci beaucoup, je suis touchée ! Qui aurait cru qu'un UA aussi étrange (parce que ça l'est mine de rien, Borrowers et Clair Obscur Expedition 33 c'est quand assez improbable xD) puisse autant plaire !

Et dire que c'est parti d'une blague ! Un premier strip que j'avais fait pour m'amuser, partant d'une conversation sur un Discord, et qui a beaucoup plu ! Alors j'ai voulu en faire un deuxième qui a plu aussi ! Et c'était parti xD Même si je n'avais pas vraiment d'histoire, jusqu'à ce que j'arrive au chapitre 9 et que je me dise "Ok, j'aimerais que ça aille quelque part, avec un scénario qui tienne debout." Et c'est là que j'ai voulu en faire 33 chapitres, mais en vérité, il y en aura sûrement plus ! Si j'arrive à tenir le rythme bien sûr.

Ah ça, j'aime le jeu mais qu'est-ce qu'il m'a trauma !!!! Gustave.... Mon perso préféré MDR, il fallait évidemment que ce soit lui qu'on sacrifie sur l'autel du script hein ! J'adore le jeu bien qu'il me fasse souffrir, mais en même temps il est tellement beau et le fruit de tant de passion et d'amour !

Pour la publication en livre de Minuscule, tu es loin d'être la seule personne à me la réclamer et en vrai ça serait vraiment cool comme projet. Le problème étant que je n'ai aucune idée de comment m'y prendre, déjà pour l'imprimer et tout le bazar mais surtout le fait de le vendre, la logistique derrière de potentiels envois postaux, c'est une orga que je sais pas faire xD mais bon avant de penser à ça, il faut que je finisse l'histoire d'abord !

En tout cas merci beaucoup pour ce gentil mot et j'espère que la suite de Minuscule te plaira ! :)

[cathianemelian]

Just wanted to say I haven't even played E33 but I'm so invested in your comic. (Might even have piqued my interest in the game enough to play it) 10/10 great comic :D

Thank you very much ! I'm happy you love Minuscule ! Also, go play the game, you'll be in for quite the ride ! But don't expect it to be as close as my AU obviously. Get prepared for the feelings tho, I hope you have a box of tissues ready ! :')

Thank you again and I hope you'll love the rest of my AU !

[cathianemelian]

thought it might please you to know that every time I revisit your blog, to reread comic chapters &/or enjoy art, one of the best parts is getting to see your banner of flipping AI the bird, and it never fails to make me smile, I love it lmao

Ahah, REAL. I flip AI the bird every day, every minute, every second ! Here you'll never see me use it ! I hope the AI bubble soon explode so we can go back to pre 2022 Internet, that would be so cool... :')

[cathianemelian]

Okay so a lot of things just happened at once, but before any of that: I was wondering if you would be willing to share the name of the font you use for Minuscule? (Love the comic by the way, it managed to single-handedly relaunch my Clair Obscur obsession...) It works really well with comics!

Now to the rest of this mess: I went to your blog to post this ask, saw the french flag, saw the anti-AI art at the top, realised there was a certain energy to the way it was drawn that felt quite familiar, made an educated guess and typed dofus into the search bar and was happy at my good guess for about five seconds before scrolling down just far enough to be jump-scared by the joris fanart that used to be my phone bg for ages back when I was 16/17.

I guess what I'm trying to say is thank you, glad I finally have a name to attach to that image, hope you didn't mind the rambling.

Merci!

Hello ! Sorry for the late reply ! For Minuscule font, I use Mikaelo ! :) I'm happy you like my silly AU and that I was able to re-launch your love for Clair Obscur ! I'm touched !

Also, how were you able to recognize my artstyle with such little things !? :OOO You have quite the intuition ! Are you refering to this Joris art in particular ?

If it's the one, know that it has a funny story behind.

Back when Ankama released the Dofus movie in 2016, they organized a drawing contest to make people win tickets to go see the movie in theaters, and THIS drawing was my participation !

And I WON ahah, so thanks to it I was able to go see Dofus Livre 1 free ! xD

Anyway, thank you so much for your message, and I hope you'll like the rest of Minuscule !

[cathianemelian]

bro these facial expressions are too good, especially Gustave’s lol 💀 always a pleasure to see updates for this story, it’s always worth the wait; keep up the good work 👍

Expressions are the most important language in comics for me, so yeah ! I try to nailed them ! And I also try to do like the game, "show don't tell" as much as I can. Thank you for your patience, and I hope you'll like the rest !

[cathianemelian]

I love anytime Verso appears in your minuscule comic because you always draw him as the most beautiful man in the world

But isn't he ? (no no, actually Gustave is first) :3

[cathianemelian]

Chapter 13 part 2 of "Minuscule" will be 18 pages long ! I can't give any publishing date for now, because I still have a very busy schedule in the next weeks ! So I must ask you to be patient, once again. ;A; I realize I need to make some scenes longer than intended, and the chapters keep getting longer and longer, I'll try to keep a 10-12 pages/chapters ratio for the future but I can't guarantee it lmao anyway have this sneak peak to make you wait !

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"The best brother and father I've ever had."

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Chapter 13: In the Cellar

Maelle, Lucien and Catherine are on borrowing duty, but nothing goes according to plan ! The Borrowers are once again in peril !

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Here is chapter 13 ! I hope you liked it and I apologize for the wait ! Next one is going to take me some time to make too because I have other things I must work on this month !

[cathianemelian]

Hello ! I'm here to give some news about chapter 13 of "Minuscule". Both March and April were really busy for me, so I couldn't manage to work that much on the pages during this period. I'm quite late compared to what I estimated ! May should be better regarding my work schedule so the chapter should progress smoothlier ! It could be done in one or two weeks. I apologize for the wait !