Reveil Obscur: Gustave's Lantern
Oh Gustave. Our dearest Gustave. A father, a brother and a sincere friend.
Our sharpened blade, a bullet from Lumiere or merely a rock thrown out at sea.
Our David to her Goliath, a star shining bright in a cast out night, a light piercing the darkness.
Soul ablaze with love, it’s fuel an infectious hope for those who come after. A heart worth it’s weight in chroma, yet fate played a cruel joke, stabbed through to protect a warden and the breath of a tomorrow to come. A sacrifice to heavy to bear on our shoulders, the grief banging against our resolve, the tears can no longer be controlled.
The disaster expedition grieved, Verso turned his cheek, yet Maelle grieved for two. Maelle’s heart now twice 16, with twice the adventure, yet dragged down by twice the grief. Once a daughter, a sister and an innocent soul. Now a legacy bearer, vower of vengeance and yet at her most vulnerable. The shoulder she leaned on, cried on and dreamed on, falling right before her eyes. Clouded by hatred, her sword rising against a mother, a father and a brother.
Painted to a likeness, at the hands of a new paintress, many stood where once a city of light once stood. A new city, casting a shadow where once hope lived. History is written by the victors, how will this story be told? Are we limited to the tale spun by a writer drunk on their own power? No, Lumiere is a city of fighters, we never rest, we never lose hope and we never relent. No matter the cost, the sacrifice or even if the task seems outright impossible. When one falls, we continue.
Here we stand, at the end of a story, but our resistance stands. Our final hope to undo the wrongs of this world, the cruel joke’s fate relentlessly paid at our cost. A legacy carried from an engineer, unto his apprentices – in the form of a useless relic. The writer’s weapon of choice, words, written by the hands of the original Gustave. There is a way to send it back and to right this wrong.
Gustave. Oh Gustave. We remember you, we mourn you and we miss you. Now you are our last hope, two families – Lumiere and Dessendre mustn’t collide, help us!
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This is a fan fiction, for the game, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. If you are as much a fan of Gustave as the next person, sit tight. Let's change some fates. However, fate changing needs a cheat/ golden finger. No systems (overdone as a genre, great titles like Solo Levelling already exist), No transmigrators (would no longer be Gustave) & No Regressors (Gustave for obvious reasons). There is already an amazing relic at hand, "Gustave's Journal".
This is Part 1 of a two part, fate defying fan fiction. For Gustave! The 2nd Part is clearly using this cheat code.
Will have same elements as the game; gore, destruction and death etc.