fear of a blank planet

Your ideal environment is:

Hot/Cold

Wet/Dry

Bright/Dark

HWBQ - tropical fish

HWDL - dingy club bathroom hookup

HWDQ - the swamp woman

HDBL - CoachellaBurningmanSouthbysouthwestACL attendee

HDBQ - Lizard

HDDL - Vegas babeyyyy

HDDQ - Trapped in a slot canyon

CWBL - Rowdy Lobsterman Crew

CWBQ - penguin living

CWDL - port angeles basement show

CWDQ - bruminating amphibian/hypothermic mammal

CDBL - ski resort

CDBQ - Christmas in Nebraska

CDDL - mcmurdo station rave

Welcome to the We Go Lower AU!

This is an Expedition 33 AU where Gustave is a painted creation of Clea's made specifically to watch over Alicia, and be a disruption to the painted Dessendres long enough to let the Painters destroy the canvas. He's known that he would need to help facilitate the end of the only world he's known, but the more he lives in it, the more he doubts. Clea based Gustave off of a family friend of the Dessendres, a canvas maker who apprenticed under Aline who sadly died years before the manor fire. He was such an essential part of their lives that Aline still gave the painted family memories of him, Verso especially. Is that messed up of Clea to do? Sure, but Aline already went low making a copy of their family in the canvas Clea and Verso played in as children, so, as the name of the AU suggests....

This is a Verstave AU, since the real Verso and Gustave had a lil thing going that the painted versions now have to deal with. Clea knows a little more than their mother when it came to her brother and Gustave's "closeness". This is also very much going to be canon divergent so don't worry if there are some inconsistencies.

Comics

v being a street kid and seeing goro for the corpo slave that won't change no matter how much he's pushed and shown how rotten the arasaka are

v helping songbird even knowing she lied and led him on and having to kill reed and seeing not johnny but goro in him and doubling down that he can't trust goro and was right to take out reed

v saying goodbye to alex and finding a postcard from monaco from her

that still leaves him river and river's family, but that's the issue, right? river has a family. that man focuses on them, on making sure randy recovers, etc. etc., he doesn't have time for v

that leaves only judy. and they've already been through hell together with Ev. the thing is, if you tweak the circumstances just right, make it just a tad worse where jude won't even leave nc without v... good lord it could be so good 😔 and it's a completely different dynamic from what they have with valerie. that's not what i want?? and i am not making it into het either, just a co-dependent relationship tuned to the max. at some point they're not even FRIENDS anymore

I wonder if Rita's looking at the same moon at the same moment. I like that—connected by light.