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More Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 fanfic recs:

(Part 1 here)

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: expedition 33 #alicia dessendre #maelle #clea dessendre #aline dessendre #verso dessendre #lune #sciel #gustave #disclaimer that this obv isn't some definitive list of all the good fics #some things simply aren't for me or i just straight up missed them #I'm not exactly keeping a list here #and I think a bit over 2000 works is still pretty easy to look through on your own #or maybe normal people don't spend several hours a day on ao3 who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#fic rec #fanfic #fanfiction #expedition 33 #clair obscur

asofterepilogue

"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

#clair obscur: expedition 33 #renoir dessendre #<-my least favourite character because of people's perception of him #he loves his family and just wants them safe #<-love DOES NOT automatically exempt you from hurting the people you love #that's a dangerous mindset #and he did make everything worse for everyone #the way he just dismisses his daughter's despair after she comes to him begging him not to destroy the canvas #<-like i fully understand his character in that moment but then i see people act like he's all rational reigning in his wife and daughter-#my guy. not a single person in this family is acting rational or has their shit together in any form

Why was expedition zero's commander a 60 year old painter with a limp?

#clair obscur: expedition 33 #renoir dessendre #they couldn't have been that desperate for people could they?#like yeah a lot of people are dead now #but there must have been better options than old man walking with a cane #maybe aline painted too much Aura into him

acepalindrome

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.

#clair obscur: expedition 33 #oh you do NOT get to go home and live happily ever after you fucker #absolutely not #can you tell i still have a lot of feelings about this #-> fucking same #I'll be living with all the stuff i like about the game #and then randomly remember what's portrayed as the good ending entails and start SEETHING #it's one of the reasons i prefer maelles ending #cause they get to experience some consequences for their actions #ohhh you did all that horrible stuff oUt Of LoVe FoR yOuR fAmIlY huh?#well now you're gonna lose another child bc of it #get rekt #'life keeps forcing cruel choices'#have you tried not committing genocide? or at the very very least not thinking that you have some sort of emotional superiority over family?

sinisterbells

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.

#clair obscur: expedition 33 #pClea #i am always mildly insane about her

orpheuslookedback1

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.

#clair obscur: expedition 33 #man he was sooo lucky that everyone else knew jack shit about their situation #and didn't have a choice but to take his word for it

rhibbet

many such cases

#clair obscur: expedition 33 #fanart #when after the lake lune talks about being honest with each other and is like #'this is the /third time/ we're having this conversation we're. not. having. it. again!'#she was so done #it only took like. divine intervention for verso to be honest #many such cases

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

#clair obscur: expedition 33 #lumiere #*side eyeing exp 78* babes where did the metal for these airships come from #why would lumiere even have airships??#they're an island floatinv in the ocean METAL MUST BE A RARE RESOURCE OKAY

comickergirl

'Yeah just gonna do some quick E33 pose studies' ha. HA HA, even. XD

#clair obscur: expedition 33 #fanart #oh my gaaawwd!!!!! thse are amazing!!!!#expeditioner pAlicia and pClea beloveds<3 #hurt maelle:( but also the curator offering bandaids lmao

It will get better. I promise you.

Okay, sure. Maybe. Possibly.

But from her perspective Alicia has, as far we know, only three people to rely on for that to happen:

her sister, who is mean and calls her a liability and who is rarely home

her mother, who abandoned her to play Happy Family except with her own mirror who she left disfigured

her father, who abandoned her to chase after her mother and who just knowingly and willingly killed everyone she's known for the past 16 years

So, maybe, but in what world could Alicia put any kind of weight into these words when this is what she has to work with?

#clair obscur: expedition 33 #alicia dessendre #renoir dessendre #rewatching this scene and all of his responses to his daughters desperate arguing are some variation of #I Know Better Than You This Is For The Best #yeah yeah i know he's tired and just wants his family safe #but he IS actively making the situation worse #randomly got upset about this again #'the family needs to move on'#-> alicia has been abandoned by everyone in her family in one way or another #or this is what it must like from her perspective at least

r26yz

ladies of tax haven

#rtgame #tomodachi life #fanart

dulciaria

#clair obscur: expedition 33 #baby:(

peachymermaids

Two different approaches to babysitting

+ close-ups

#clair obscur: expedition 33 #fanart

krit-kat

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

krit-kat

'She didn't say bye to me 🥺🥺'

She should've torn out your fucking throat Verso

doe-eye-oswald

YEAH!!!

BuT mAeLLe DiDnT lEt HiM sAy GoOdByE>:(

Have we considered that maybe, just maybe, she didn't want to say goodbye??!

#clair obscur: expedition 33 #maelle #painted alicia #'send me to my family' didn’t sound like it included verso in that moment did it now #and then he was sooo upset like this wasnt partly his fault

tadfools

#what #critical role

Uhhh this might be an extremely dumb question, but what did you think they meant by aquafarm?

Something with fishes/seafood

Something with plants

Voting ended onMay 22

#clair obscur: expedition 33 #gustave #sciel #looking it up it's the former #but i 100 percent thought it was like floating vegetable beds or something

idlesuperstar

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)

#david attenborough #THE documentary voice of all time #i still have the 'adventures of a young naturalist' books #happy birthday

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