maellicia dessendre's fun expedition vacation (Sicktember 2025) by deepestfathoms: series, Maelle/Alicia whump fics (93k, complete)
maellicia and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad life (Whumptober 2025) by deepestfathoms: series, Maelle/Alicia whump fics (75k, complete)
A Life to Find by calicotales: rewrite where pVerso and pClea swap places (70k, almost complete)
gods and men by rhibbet: already mentioned in part 1 but it's my favourite coe33 fic so here it is again (133k)
Children of the Canvas by vailkagami: pAlicia saves Gustave and they try to catch up with the others with some unexpected companions (78k)
Those who lived...and he who died by YuiUltima: series, set post verso ending, Alicia&Clea centric (27k)
Any direction you go, you will be walking toward the dawn by headofporridge: rewrite that starts with Sciel and pAlicia teaming up, sadly got abandoned pretty early on though I really love it (36k)
Danse Macabre by 1000_Obsessions: 6 times Alicia Paints and one time she Writes, also check out the other work in the series (31k, complete)
Âme-sœurs by Irisen: verstave, soulmate au, interesting worldbuilding, watch verso fail at having a normal human interaction for 30+ chapters (232k)
More recs under the cut:
Clair Obscur: Broken Canvas by RemyHadley: post verso ending, alicia/fem oc (200k)
Come Cut Out My Heart by Sky_kiss: Slay the Princess au with Renoir and Aline (7k, complete)
Cœur á Cœur by Sleeping_Quill: Maelle/pAlicia as an allegory for learning to love yourself, still pretty new (19k)
Fractured, yet Predictable by ArtingDreamers: Slay the Princess au with Clea (10k, complete)
A slave to my fate (ever doomed to repeat this) by Laterose13: Slay the Princess au with everyone (16k, complete)
The Price of Vengeance by ArtingDreamers: pAlicia and Expedition 56 (12k, complete)
Out of the dark by Yrilla: pVerso gets locked away by Clea for 67 years (19k)
Écrire pour exister by Fry_Teck: post verso ending, this made me cry so hard but in a really good way (2k, complete)
a letter to alicia by ladywrites: post verso ending, Alicia-centric (complete, 5k)
Glasses by Ffsuah: post verso ending, Alicia-centric, shameless self rec (5k, complete)
Une Cadeau d'une Mère by Sky_kiss: post verso ending, Aline&Alicia (3k, complete)
(or anything by Sky_kiss really)
Masquer pour révéler by Fry_Teck: post verso ending, Aline&Alicia (4k, complete)
Also some verstave fics that I enjoyed despite not caring about the ship at all:
The Verstave Cinematic Universe (The VCU) by many different people (138k, complete)
Masquerade (Compatible Fractures) by MsCoffeebear (114k, complete)
Colliding By Design by LilacCadenza (117k, complete)
Run With Me by porgthespacepenguin (88k, complete)
The Chroma We Share by didhero (55k)
For those we can yet save by farbsturz (99k, complete)
"life keeps forcing cruel choices" almost sounds deep until you remember that it's not life forcing cruel "choices", it's renoir actively and deliberately manufacturing a situation in which there can be nothing but cruel choices
Suddenly remembered how the idea of Renoir ‘Extinction Event’ Dessendre getting peace and healing after Verso’s ending, as if he doesn’t have an unfathomable amount of blood on his hands, makes me mad enough to spit nails. And also I still want to write the fic where the concentrated malice of hundreds of thousands of lives snuffed out seeps from the ruins of the destroyed Canvas and starts haunting the manor. Alicia is the only one spared from their vengeance, as they recognize her as one of their own. Everyone else is subjected to some real Grudge kinda shit.
Extremely unpolished doodles while I was catsitting and initially thinking about what kind of mindset pClea could have been in after overpainting and when she got her colours back. And then I lost control of the wheel and started thinking about an impossible AU where pClea can be saved but she's just not the same (= most of overpaint is removed but now she has lived two lives too and MOST of them have been basically as a nevron)
I could elaborate but I choose not to because it gives me an excuse to make an even more unhinged text post about it when I get more research done on my actual point (the pClea Monster Condition). Cheers.
Verso’s so funny because he’s Liar™ but he’s like. Miraculously a horrible liar. It takes real skill to lie that much for that long and yet be so horrible at it.
Doing some world building for Lumiere for a self-indulgent au that exists solely in my head, and there's just so many reasons why this city wouldn't/couldn’t exist the way we see in the prologue, last but not least because over time the people would've absolutely dismantled the entire crooked tower for its metal
I genuinely can't imagine how P.Alicia must've felt when Verso chose Maelle over her. Like, ripping her fucking heart out. Genuinely she let him off easy
Happy 100th Birthday David Attenborough [b: 8th May 1926]
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
(I have made quite a lot of gifsets of this man over the years)