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[recreatable]

character name Verso Dessendre

canon Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

age 100+

elevator pitch superficially charming man from dark fantasy Belle Époque France-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off. cursed with unwanted immortality, has turbo depression about it. evil infodumper who just tells lies. "emotional range: flirtation, guardedness, numb, pragmatic, autopilot, bromance, suicidal despair." described by some guy on Reddit as having "massive whore energy". all that and he's a classical pianist too ✨

first impressions

visual looks to be a rough 35 tbh. wavy, shoulder-length dyed black hair with white streaks on his right side. very light grey eyes. blackened scarring on his face, particularly across his left eye.

clothing dumb Expeditioner uniform / civilian outfit.

demeanor charming but tortured!! vaguely shifty and evasive, but friendly. a good conversationalist who manages not to divulge anything personal.

aural Ben Starr.

olfactory probably not great on account of living in the wilderness for 67 years.

ooc info / preferences

player elle / birdlaw

contact PM is great; happy to add on Plurk or Discord if we've been threading.

availability CST. I try to match tagging speed as best I can. I tag intermittently throughout the day when things are slow, but best hours for me are usually 5 PM - 11 PM on weekdays and whenever on weekends.

formatting mild preference for prose because I'm a phone tag warrior, but happy to do either prose or brackets.

permissions

cross-canon, cross-medium, assumed cr ✅✅✅ aggressively into this, it's my lifeblood. particularly interested in other fantasy or historical canons. I don't mind handwaving introductions, etc. but prefer to thread out juicier developments. I tend toward AUing into the same canon or doing a lil isekai. feel free to cold PM me to work out any details.

fourth-walling does anyone do this lbr?? but no, thanks, unless it's part of a character's gimmick or canon-typical.

shipping ✅ Expedition 33 (sans Maelle), cross-canon, 25+ likely but tentatively open to 21+ with the right cr.

note: VERY enthusiastic about gen dynamics, including with characters I'm open to shipping with. prefer not to assume anything beyond vague situationship vibes for characters other than Lune or Sciel. while I'm generally down to clown, I will never ever tag in expecting shipping unless previously discussed or it's the basis of a meme, etc. any flirtation is without ANY expectation of reciprocation or shippy intentions, he's just French.

smut ✅ I'll write it out or FTB. not interested in non-con, scat/watersports, a/b/o, pregnancy. otherwise the things I'm willing to write will probably send me to hell. he's into casual sex but also has never been casual about anything in his life.

violence ✅ he's immortal though, of the regenerative type.

CONTENT WARNINGS: suicidal ideation, derealization/depersonalization, death by house fire

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interests / hooks.

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GENERAL WISHLIST

• pre-Fracture/Expedition Zero.
  
• 'original'/real world things in 1905 Paris.
  
  • Writer/Painter war things; AUing the Canvas characters; Writer/Painter arranged marriage hehehe.
• meeting Expeditioners in canon-divergent ways.
  
  • a character ends up stranded on the Continent for Reasons; a character is the only survivor of the beach attack; meeting them during one of his trips to Lumière, etc.
• post-Maelle ending fallout.
  
• tropey nonsense.
  
  • memory/emotion sharing, amnesia plots, AUs, h/c, sharing a bed, stuck together, soulmates, I do it all!!

CROSS-CANON INTERESTS

• primarily interested in other fantasy or historical canons. open to other genres, but I'd prefer to do a jamjar/isekai situation instead of a modern AU.
  
• character types:
  
  • fellow artists/musicians, as he is a classical pianist from a family of snobby artists.
    
  • alternatively, characters that are more science-minded over artistic.
    
  • fellow immortals.
    
  • taciturn characters who could use a ✨ sparkling conversationalist ✨ to get them out of their shell.
    
  • characters who are genuinely nice and earnest who he can feel deeply jealous of.
    
  • characters with a lot of issues who don't typically have anyone to lean on; let him be your active listener!!
• I'm also familiar with many popular canons — asoiaf, bg3, critical role, da, grishaverse, fire emblem, final fantasy, the witcher, etc. — and happy to au or isekai him into pretty much anything of a similar genre, familiar or not (provided you're ok with me being a wikipedia warrior).
  
• Verso is essentially a magical recreation of his creator's dead son in a fabricated world! I'm open to different options: if you'd rather your character not have to deal with the existentialism of being fake, I'm cool with making his mother a mage of some sort who's created a simulacrum, etc. or having him be a transplant from his world into your character's. I've come around to AUs/playing him as the original as well, although he'll definitely be a little different/less wet and sad in that case!