Clair Obscur: Broken Canvas.
Chapters: 58/?
ACT I – done ✓
ACT II – in progress
Rating: Explicit.
Category: F/F
Relationships: Maelle | Alicia Dessendre/Original Female Character, Clea Dessendre & Maelle | Alicia Dessendre, Lune & Maelle | Alicia Dessendre, Maelle | Alicia Dessendre & Sciel, Lune/Sciel.
Characters: Maelle | Alicia Dessendre, Clea Dessendre, Renoir Dessendre | The Curator, Aline Dessendre | The Paintress, Lune, Sciel, Original Character(s).
Additional Tags: Post-Canon Verso Ending | A Life to Live, Canon-Typical Violence, Slow Burn, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Drama, Emotional Sex, First Time.
Summary:
After the destruction of the Canvas, Alicia Dessendre retreats behind silence, scars, and the weight of memory. Her right eye is gone, her voice nearly lost, her world reduced to measured days inside the Dessendre Manor. Outside, Paris moves on, while Alicia struggles to find a reason to keep painting, or even to keep living. Then a Writer appears, the last person her family should ever allow near. What begins as wary distance becomes a fragile thread, tested by the thin line between creation and ruin. It is a story of grief and memory, of two souls drawn together by Chroma itself, and of a slow, inexorable bond strong enough to defy the past, challenge what was lost, and reshape the world.
A continuation of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, set after the game’s ending and expanding the world beyond the Canvas. This story is not only about Alicia and the writer Rémi Fosser. It is also about the bond between sisters, Clea’s character growth, and the complicated dynamics within the Dessendre family. There is political intrigue, rival factions, and unexpected turns along the way.