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  1. Public Bookmark 51

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    MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ENDGAME. Read at your own peril!

    Post-Painted Life epilogue because I'm still reeeeling and there's nothing I love more than a sad man and a smart woman. Verso asks Lune for help in the aftermath of their battle with Renoir and the remaking of the world.

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    09 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 51

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    Sometimes there is an angry, raging inferno under his skin. All that rage needs to go somewhere or it's going to burn him up from the inside out. That's the thing about a forest fire; it leaves nothing but ash and the bones of what used to be in its wake.

    Verso is having a no good very bad string of days and he's been left to simmer in his anger for a little too long. All that pressure has to explode sometime.

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    09 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 15

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    Gustave has lived a long life in the Canvas, and despite being a creation of grief, he has been happy.

    But now his Verso is dead, the Canvas as he once knew it long gone and the Verso that now inhabits the Canvas with him is nothing but a melancholic, angry replica of the man Gustave loves.

    A man he hates. But for how long?

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    08 Nov 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 91

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    Maelle looks at the mirror shards scattered across the floor, a disarray of sharp and jagged pieces that can never be put back together again. "I know you’re not him..." she admits in a shaky whisper. Her tear-filled eyes find Verso, the blues and greys of paint starting to unravel the edges of them, mocking him. "But you deserve to be happy,” she says. We deserve to be happy, she means.

    “I deserve to be myself,” Verso says, and it sounds like a plea more than anything else. The skin around his left eye aches, as if it’s waiting for his scar’s return.

    Maelle sighs before she sweeps her hand through the air, calling for her rapier. It appears in a flutter of gold petals, glimmering in the dim light of the bathroom. Her eyes are cast in shadow and her disappointed smile is somewhat crooked. "Alright. Let's try again."

    or: Maelle wants a happy end for everyone she cares about, and she will keep trying until even Verso gets it right.

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    07 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 71

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    Verso hates people pretending to care. Julie pretended to care, and look how that turned out. Verso knows full well that humans can’t really care about an immortal who can just walk off being cut in half. Verso knows full well that he is too different from them to actually evoke empathy. Verso-

    Verso desperately, painfully, hopelessly wants it.

    Or: a Gustave Lives AU where Gustave is being nice and Verso is having a mental breakdown about it. Act II and the beginning of Act III.

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    06 Nov 2025