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Currently suffering in French Hell. Will do crime for any Dessendre. There's a lot of Raphael BG3 fic here. I will supply terrible opinions. Love me a good jape.

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New Pinned Post

Lemme, tell you. I did this last night. Tumblr ate it. I crashed out. New pinned post to reflect the Clair Obscur brain rot.

You can still find the list with all BG3 Fanfic Here.

Links to longer fic/Ao3 Clair fics are also under the cut.

Clair Obscur Tumblr Ficlets

Dessendre Family: Tree

Dessendre Family: Sign Language

Dessendre Family: Service Jobs

Dessendre Family: Dance

Dessendre Family: Sick Day

Dessendre Family: Francois

Dessendre Family: Treehouse

Dessendre Famaily: Portrait

Renoir x Aline: Fencing

Renoir x Aline: Intimate

Renoir x Aline: Shaving

Renoir x Aline: Aftermath (Post game)

Renoir x Aline: Casino

Renoir x Aline: Tailoring

Renoir x Aline: Ceasefire

Renoir x Aline: Worship

Renoir x Aline: Nostalgia

Renoir x Aline: Observe

Renoir x Aline: Bath

Renoir x Aline: Hedge Maze (Send Help, they're drunk/lost)

Renoir x Aline: Eiffel Tower

Renoir x Aline: Snow Day

Renoir x Aline: Trust Exercise

Alicia & Aline: Middle Ground

Alicia & Aline: Flowers

Renoir & Clea: Waiting

Painted Renoir/Aline: Penance

Painted Renoir & Painted Alicia: Justice

I may have missed some, but hey. At least they are slightly more organized.

Clair Obscur Ao3 Links:

A Life of Loving You - Chapter 1 - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Ongoing longfic revolving around the Dessendre family before the fire. As of chapter 9, Verso and Clea are main PoV characters with dialogue. Begins at Renoir/Aline's marriage.

Scar Tissue - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Post "A Life to Love," Alicia and Aline begin to clear the air.

Lay Your Burdens Down - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Post "A Life to Love," Clea and Renoir have a discussion about the Canvas situation.

Painted Love - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Aline and Renoir have a lot of Canvas sex.

Wanna Try Her On - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Verso knocks on his parent's door while they're on vacation. Renoir answers it. Verso wishes he wouldn't have.

A Toast to Death - Dreamfang, Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Clea finally gets the revenge she wanted. It's definitely not sweet.

Tête-à-tête - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Aline edges Renoir to hell and back, complete with copious sass and trolling.

Come Out from Underneath Who You Were - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Post-Life to Love. Alicia and Aline struggle to readjust to their lives outside the Canvas. They learn to accept each other once again.

Grow With Me - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Scenes from Alicia and Aline's relationship from across the years.

Come Cut Out My Heart - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

An E33/Slay the Princess AU. Renoir and Aline get caught in a Manuscript while hunting down a Writer. They're caught in an endless loop, hurting one another. Alicia has to rescue them.

Early Sunsets - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Verso breaks free of the Canvas to have one final conversation with Aline before the end of all things.

Break, Break, Break - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

A look at Renoir and Alicia's relationship across the years, focused on him reading to and with her.

Alla Prima - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Wet on wet style painting. XD Or, Renoir has a creative way to summon his wife out of one of her Canvas'. Lotta smut.

By the Sea - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Aline is commissioned to paint a nautical themed commission. The Dessendre family use it as a sort of impromptu vacation within the Canvas.

Une Cadeau d'une Mère - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Alicia's first birthday after the fire and the Canvas. Aline is struggling to find the perfect gift for her youngest.

Pictures of You - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Alicia finds a collection of her art and wonders why her Maman has it locked away.

I'll Be Your Guide When You Want to Get Lost - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Renoir is stressed. The answer is really overly intimate sex in the Canvas.

With Her Own Wings - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Alicia struggles to integrate Maelle after her return to the Canvas.

Loves Me, Loves Me Not - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Renoir and Aline begin to reconnect after the events of the Canvas.

Death Won't Hold You as Tight as She Will - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Five times Verso tried to get Aline to leave the Canvas, and the one time he succeeded.

Decadence - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Renoir drinks a wine that has a unique effect on him.

It'll All Work Out in the End (Just Maybe) - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Roughly a year post-Canvas. Renoir and Aline conclusively bury the hatchet.

Love in Search of a Word - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

A look at how music has interwoven throughout the Dessendre family's lives.

Hold Me In Your Heart - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Alinoir, nonsexual intimacy, bodypainting/worship. Renoir paints, using Aline as his canvas.

Just Blew in from the Windy City - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Verso and Clea paint a Canvas for Renoir's birthday. The Dessendre family have fun in the Wild West.

So Long, Not Goodnight - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Verso's ghost visits each member of the family.

You Will Never Dance Alone - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Renoir and Aline dance together on their honeymoon.

Lay Me Down in Golden Dandelions - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Aline and Renoir attempt to reconcile, postgame.

For Lack of a Word - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Renoir and Aline enjoy a night at the opera.

For Lack of a Word - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Aline and Renoir get frisky at the opera.

When All Our Firsts Have Run Their Course - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

A look at the firsts in Aline and Renoir's marriage.

In the Shadow of the Monolith - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Renoir character-study, examining his time trapped beneath the Monolith.

We Can Try Changing - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Post-Canvas. Renoir and Aline chat about their family and forgiveness.

Next to Godliness - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Aline is pregnant with Alicia and feeling lovey. Cuddling and snarking with Renoir in a bath.

Love like Ghosts - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Maelle experiencing flashes of memories from a life she never lived.

Do Not Go Gentle - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Painted Renoir has a very bad time.

Private Collection - Sky_kiss - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Aline and Renoir are engaged. She wanders away from a party in their honor and happens across the Dessendre family's private library.

Pretty Art Commissions of Renoir/Aline:

Young Renoir/Aline

Post Game Renoir toting around his tiny Wife

Aline cradling Renoir after saving him from the Canvas

Aline giving Renoir a lil forehead smooch

Young Renoir/Aline relaxing for once.

Post game Renoir and Aline dancing.

Renoir and Aline in chic outfits looking way too hot.

Painted Love.

Aline and Renoir, In Every Life

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There are some cursed things living in my screenshots.

I call this one "midlife crisis."

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) Rating: General Audiences Relationships: Clea Dessendre & Original Verso Dessendre, Aline Dessendre | The Paintress & Original Verso Dessendre, Aline Dessendre | The Paintress/Renoir Dessendre | The Curator, Renoir Dessendre | The Curator & Original Verso Dessendre, Aline Dessendre | The Paintress & Clea Dessendre Summary:

“Oh-ho, maman and papa have come along too.”

“I hope that is alright?” Aline asked.

“Of course,” Esquie responded, crouching down. The seriousness of his tone never ceased to amuse her. Esquie was so many things, but he was, above all else, a reflection of a young boy’s worldview, and everything a boy might assume passed for wisdom. “More friends make for better adventures.”

(Or: The Dessendre family goes skiing.)

[luchael]

[jellyjesterartz]

Ughh she's so pretty

[serdessendre]

happy encounter before everything crumbles in "old Lumière"

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game) Rating: General Audiences Relationships: Clea Dessendre & Original Verso Dessendre, Aline Dessendre | The Paintress & Original Verso Dessendre, Aline Dessendre | The Paintress/Renoir Dessendre | The Curator, Renoir Dessendre | The Curator & Original Verso Dessendre, Aline Dessendre | The Paintress & Clea Dessendre Summary:

“Oh-ho, maman and papa have come along too.”

“I hope that is alright?” Aline asked.

“Of course,” Esquie responded, crouching down. The seriousness of his tone never ceased to amuse her. Esquie was so many things, but he was, above all else, a reflection of a young boy’s worldview, and everything a boy might assume passed for wisdom. “More friends make for better adventures.”

(Or: The Dessendre family goes skiing.)

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[the-dragon-hearted]

I raise you:

[peachymermaids]

Reach out my hand and beg of you,

Come back

[liquidloz]

❗️CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33 SPOILERS❗️

Renoir Dessendre/Aline Dessendre - High Water

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Casino date night.

(Taken mere moments before disaster. Namely, Renoir crashing out at the poker table after losing every piece of chroma he has to his name.)

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time for all the Dessendre to have some fun at the beach

credit for mod:

Renoir: Calicochess (@paintharvest)

Aline: LilliaLuna (@lillialuna)

Cléa: lungblossom (@arancetta)

Alicia with scar: lungblossom (@arancetta)

Real verso: lungblossom (@arancetta)

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WIP Wednesday

Tagged by @laterose13. And it's still actually Wednesday! I'm being good. Uh. Let's see what I have.

This is from a current WIP, set post Life to Love in E33. It's a little after the one-year anniversary of THE EVENT. They're going to take a family vacation to New Orleans. But this is before all that. It'll feature all of the family and their relationships heavily, but this is Renoir and Aline being awkward.

Who can I tag that hasn't already been tagged... @makesometime, @djmorn, @lillialuna, @comickergirl (if you wanna!), @versocidal, @flamemittens. And anyone else who wants to share something.

[kesyrotta]

How can you be this selfish? Aline!

A sketch commission for Anon!

[serdessendre]

The end of an era at the top of "the monolith"

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for the character ask: Aline!!!

/frothing at the mouth. I am normal about her.

Aline: 

Favorite Thing About Them: 

Aline is such an odd one because we are seeing her at the absolute worst moment in her life. I’m going to go with her love and her passion.

I’m also going to say something potentially contentious: I adore how well she knows her family. It’s down to the minute details. You can say “oh, she abandoned them.” You’d be right. But she created a Renoir that ultimately commits to the same course of action as her husband. Her Alicia is still a poet, creating beautiful things and learning to fly again. Her Verso ultimately makes the same decision, down to the same final lines (despite Aline never having heard it). Her Verso still loves sweets, still remembers loving things in his Draft despite not ever having been there. Aline listened to and cherished what her children shared with her. She took those little things and kept them because she adores her children. 

Also, she’s a bad bitch. 

Least Favorite Thing About Them: 

Goddamn, my wife has poor communication skills. Just. Truly egregiously bad. How much of this could have been solved if she just said, “Love, I am horrifically, suicidally depressed. I need some time to solve this. I appreciate that you need support to grieve, but I require space.” But then we wouldn’t have a game. Also, she’s a weird one in that she is DEEPLY FLAWED, but I kinda love her for that. 

My wife is a bitch, and I love her so much.

Favorite Line: 

“Go home, Renoir. Go paint something else.” It is just. Baby girl, you cannot be saying that. You cannot be that petty. (She can. And she is).

brOTP

MY WIFE HAS NO FRIENDS. Again, I had to make an OC for her. I do think she’d be hommies with with Sciel if they’d ever had that chance. 

OTP

Aline and Renoir. This woman loved her husband so much that she couldn’t imagine a world without him. Her perfect man is JUST HER HUSBAND with a gothier outfit. The way they curl into each other in the Verso ending? Perfection. They are the sort of dynamic I adore. She’s the passionate, dreamy, aggressive member of the relationship. He’s her stability and shield. UGH. 

nOTP

I don’t have one lol. I don’t think other Aline ships really exist. 

Random Headcanon

Deals with seasonal depressive disorder. 

Had multiple miscarriages. 

Has a sweet-tooth like Verso and is to blame for all the lattes with latte art around the manor.

Unpopular Opinion

I think it’s mostly unpopular on Tumblr but Aline LOVES HER DAUGHTERS. She’s not a boymom. She’s currently more focused on Verso because, ya know. He just died. She’s depressed about her dead child. Verso also made himself easier to love (they share hobbies, some of the same temperament, etc). Despite the shit she pulls with Alicia, she’s also shown nuzzling up to Painted Alicia (who is under no compulsion to stay at the manor). All of Maelle/Alicia’s places of comfort are associated with Aline. She also smiles when Aline returns to help her at the end of the game. She loves her daughters. She’s just stuck in a shitty place and handles it so badly. 

Song I Associate with Them

Masterpiece-Motionless in White (she would hate this)

At the Beach, In Every Life- Gigi Perez

Favorite Picture of Them

All of them. That is my love. That is my wife. 

It's amazing how much less ancient and how much more adorable she looks when she gets to have some life in her eyes and isn't the default soulless doll model.

Also.

Look. Look at her. Baby.

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For the character ask: Sciel?

Thank you for giving me the chance to talk about my beloved.

Favorite Thing About Them: 

God, I love Sciel. I don’t talk about Sciel enough. Sciel has such a gorgeous outlook. I love this woman. She has endured so much pain and heartbreak, but she bears up under it. She goes out of her way to offer comfort to others. She sees the tasks that need accomplishing, but she doesn’t allow that to take precedence over offering a very human shoulder to cry on. She’s compassionate. She sees others. She accepts them. But she isn’t a pushover. Just because she understands does not mean she approves, and I think that’s a fantastic distinction. 

Least Favorite Thing About Them:

Wait, I don’t wanna say anything I don’t like about her. I love her. If I had to pick, though. It isn’t a flaw, just narrative mirroring. Sciel initially seems like she’s moved on and is representing a healthier approach to loss. However, she’s ultimately as trapped in the past as Alicia and Aline. When she’s presented with a chance to potentially regain a relationship she lost, she tosses aside her current situationship and all it’s potential, returning to that comfortable point in her past. 

Favorite Line: 

Death is a friend who will welcome me home. 

brOTP

With Gustave. I love the teasing. I love the way they check-in with each other and offer support. They’ve both lost a partner. They’ve both dealt with suicidal tendencies. Gorgeous. 

OTP

Versciel. I adore it. They had so much potential. She really sees Verso from the start, and the relationship is deeply sweet alongside its tragedy. I think she both pushes and encourages him in a way he really needs. In return, she doesn’t have to hide her old hurts. 

Crackship, but I can also be here for Sciel/Clea. I can also support Sciel/Lune, it just isn’t an OTP for me. 

Look, I can endorse shipping everyone with Sciel. She deserves it. 

nOTP

I don’t think I have one? Aside from Sciel/Maelle for. Obvious reasons. 

Random Headcanon

I don’t know that I have a ton. UH. She has like four siblings. 

Unpopular Opinion

Reverting to immediately wanting to get back together with Pierre undermined her character development over the course of the game. I appreciate it for the narrative parallels and do think it is absolutely the more human choice (because humans are flawed), but I don’t have to like it. XD

Song I Associate with Them

Motorcycle Drive-By by Third Eye Blind.

Favorite Picture of Them

It's really hateful of me not to have a lot of Sciel photos. This is not my favorite. I just like this look.

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For the character asks, tell me about this Renoir fella 🙏

FLAME, YOU DONE GONE AND OPENED PANDORA’S BOX. @versocidal also asked for Renoir, so I'm tagging her, too.

Renoir: 

Favorite Thing About Them: 

His loyalty and love for his family. We have a lot of domineering patriarchs in different pieces of media. Renoir isn’t that. He’s very emotional, and he’s extremely open about how deeply he loves his family. He rushes to embrace Alicia. He fights for Aline for decades. His methods are deeply flawed, but good lord does he adore his family.

Least Favorite Thing About Them: 

This goes for the entire family, but: poor communication skills. The man is so convinced that he knows what’s right and what is needed that he bowls over the rest of his family. I think there’s also a degree of selective blindness; he gets so consumed by the end result that the horrors necessary to achieve them are secondary.

Favorite Line: 

Andy Serkis brought everything to this role, so anytime he opens his mouth is wonderful. But. “Life keeps forcing cruel choices” or “I treat you as if the shadow of the worst day of our lives will suffocate you and take you from us too” or “For the sake of the living, we must part with the dead.”

brOTP:

My boy has no friends, dude. Cast your eyes over this field of friends. It is barren. I had to create an OC so that he could have a buddy. I do love the banter between him and his son. 

OTP

Renoir and Aline. Their love is the foundation of the game. He’s spent decades fighting to save her. He risks both of their lives to bring her back. She’s his teacher; she’s his muse. They are everything to me. 

nOTP

Any of the incest ships. I don’t personally see it, and I think it undermines the themes of familial love. Also. Renoir/Alan. Sorry, that’s a crackship that exists purely for the sake of yaoi. 

Random Headcanon

Served in the French Cav during the Franco/Prussian war. It’s where he sustained the injury to his leg. 

Unpopular Opinion

He isn’t that controlling. None of the kids are married. All of them are still living at home. Verso is still playing piano. Alicia has a boatload of typewriters and books. After we get the final battle, he backs off and cedes to Alicia. He’s also seemingly willingly to work as the support for his wife but also has no aversion to her being the head of the Painter’s Council, not him. 

Song I Associate with Them:

Father of Make Believe- Coheed and Cambria

Forever May Not Be Long Enough- Live (I’M NOT SORRY)

Favorite Picture of Them

Lemme consult the shrine. All photos of him are my favorite. Also, this is really hard now i have so many modded photos UH. This is also making me choose between EARNEST and goblin again.

One of each, I guess.

Thank you, bby.