#coe33 aline

[gigik33]

mom doesn't support his life choices

[shaken-veil]

[goneadrift]

I wonder how some of Maelle's nightmares work...

The very first one she saw when they reached the Continent was set during expedition Zero time-line and featured Verso and Julie.

How could Maelle get this vision?

It wasn't an interlude happening in real time (kinda like when painted Renoir and Alicia visited Maelle).

And that disastrous situation happened to Verso after the fracture, after he learned about the state of his world. So this couldn’t be a memory that happened in the outside world and got twisted and planted into canvas by Aline. Therefore, original Alicia couldn't have such memory either.

Verso saved Maelle on that beach, but they didn't talk back then, and it is highly unlikely he'd bring up such painful experience anyway.

Maelle met the Curator in the manor, but even if he knew of this event, why bring it to Maelle? He didn't care for the painted family, but Verso's help worked greatly in his favor, so why warn his daughter?

[gigik33]

like mother, like daughter

[gigik33]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83538096

i wrote a fic...

"Gustave bought the painting on a rainy Thursday because it was easier to stand among abandoned things than return to an apartment that never felt like his own. He didn't expect the grand piano on the canvas to play itself at midnight. He didn't expect the white roses to multiply.

And he certainly didn't expect Verso—the man trapped inside the ballroom, preserved in oil and grief by a mother who couldn't let go.

In a world that feels half-erased by the rain, two lonely souls find each other across the edge of a gilded frame. But to truly be together, Verso must confront the memory that painted him into a masterpiece and learn what it means to be a person again, rather than just a portrait."