Clairobscurexpedition33 Stories

Today was Louis' Gommage Day. In Lumière, everyone knew what it meant. It was a chilling, inescapable rhythm that pulsed through the city, marking time not by seasons or holidays, but by disappearances. The thrum of anxiety that accompanied each passing year intensified as you approached your last birthday, a morbid countdown to an inevitable vanishing act. Every person, without exception, simply ceased to be. Harry had lived his entire life in the shadow of this reality. He'd seen it countless times: friends, neighbours, even his own parents - all gone, swallowed by the insatiable whim of The Paintress. She was an enigmatic, terrifying entity, an omnipresent dread perched on her distant island. She was always dormant, a silent, ominous sentinel. But then, on the dreaded Gommage Day, she would rise, brush in hand, to paint the fateful number, a countdown that had started at 100 and was now at 33, erasing another life from existence. Gommage Day. The very name was a curse whispered on the wind, a day universally loathed above all others. It was the day you turned thirty-three. The day you disappeared. And for Louis, today was that day.

With the mission to break the cycle, a new expedition is set to sail after Gommage's Day. Enlisted with people full of motivation and years of preparation, all the citizens of Lumière place again their hopes of a new year in them. Will they succeed in removing their curse ? Or are they heading towards an inevitable death like the previous expeditions ? Who knows. And what would happen if a mysterious young man from another place appeared the day before the Gommage ? Is it going to be an opportunity for him to see the world in other colours than black and white ? It's a story of the mix of two works: "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" X "Ayanokoji Kiyotaka(COTE)". I do not own any character of both franchises. All credit goes to Syougo Kinugasa for the Classroom of the Elite Light Novel character and to Sandfall Interactive for the videogame and the lore.

The Paintress is erasing people of Lumière, expeditions are being sent to defeat her - so she may paint death no more... But in this universe something is different. Lune has a twin sister. Chimère was born possessing a mysterious ability that allows her to bend matter like a puppeteer pulls on the strings. No one knows where it came from. No one knows its limits. One year, not during the Gommage, the Paintress had awakened - no painting any number, no chaos unleashed. An event that horrified whole Lumière. And when that happened - Chimère was born into this world. That is also why her name means 'dream.' Because the Paintress not bringing death was a dream of all the people that are left. Now Expedition 33 approaches. And Chimère will take part in it. Because of that some things will change for the better... and some for the worse. And some will remain exacly as they are. (OC x Gustave as side plot ihihi)

𝐀 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 [𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨 𝐱 𝐨𝐜] As a Writer, Lucy S'élever feels out of her element within the painted world of the Canvas, where the line between reality and fantasy runs thin. Still, much is at stake, for not only must she find Verso's fragmented soul and the missing members of the Dessendre Family within the Canvas before conflict arises between the Writers and the Painters in the real world, but she must also survive in a fractured world torn by lament. However, there is more than meets the eye in the Painted World, and what she finds may cost her more than she bargained for. [Based on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33] Published - 12.30.25 Status - Ongoing 𝑺𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 & 𝑭𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 ⇙ ♥︎ Instagram - @missnightingale.wp Book Cover Credit to @Miss_Nightingale 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒓: I own the original character(s) and their associated storylines. All rights to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and other content belong to their respective creators. © 2025 Miss_Nightingale.

Taking place at the beginning of Act 3 of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Sciel and Lune grapple with old struggles, new revelations, and the meaning of it all.