#Alicia and verso.... dynamic... shaking them in my head

[chujius]

HEAVY E33 ENDING SPOILERS

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People saying the Maelle ending is morally better because it's not "genocide" or "mass murder" kinda kill me like are we SURE that word is being used correctly. I understand after spending the entire game with these people that they feel real to you, but they literally only breathe because of a tiny piece of Verso's soul, and if it was destroyed, they would never exist.

If Maelle is able to instantly bring back Gustave from the dead, is that really Gustave she's bringing back? Did Maelle know absolutely everything about him and brought/painted him back exactly as he was before? I understand that it's his chroma so it's theoretically the same person, but since Maelle's chroma was white when she was gommaged because she's herself lol, wouldn't that mean his chroma must've been created by someone else most likely real!Verso? The person he was before, was he actually his own person or just a creation of Verso? Is Gustave a real person even? There are a lot of similarities between the trio of him, Maelle and Emma vs Verso, Alicia and Clea. So maybe he was painted to fill that role in for her when she was reborn as Maelle. (EDIT: Totally forgot they were Aline's creations MY BAD LOL)

Esquie and Monocco are based on Verso's plushie toy and pets, and the gestrals in general show you just how young he was when he painted this because their love for fighting and simple mentalities are sooo childlike lmao😭 How can they be real sentient beings when they can literally never grow past his childish and innocent mentality because that is how he painted them? Does this even make sense anymore idk lol now I'm doubting if I even understood the concept of the Canvas LOL

And I'm saying this as Maelle's #1 fan btw but if anyone in the Canvas does something 'bad' (whether it be anything from having differing opinions, bothering people she loves, or even hurting and killing people in Lumiere) doesn't Maelle have the power to either repaint them to be a little different with different morals and principals or just erase them completely? If she's willing to ignore painted Verso's wishes so completely and force him to live a miserable life I don't see this being too far for her either. Of course, I know there's probably some law enforcement around but why would Maelle even let people get hurt and the perpetuators be punished when she could just... not have the crime be committed in the first place? Or not have terrible people in Lumiere anymore? Wouldn't she just be needlessly cruel watching terrible things happen and not doing anything to stop it happening in the first place knowing she's the only one with that power?

Personally, I see everyone in Lumiere as just being an extension of real Verso, his art that he pours so much of himself into and hates every second of making it. They are as real as Verso's last surviving sliver of soul in the Canvas, and killing them is absolutely not genocide(😭what a word to use in this current climate) but rather is more of an 'absolute' death for Verso and is exactly what he's been yearning for all these years.

Overall, it's all really interesting to think about but damn I wish there's a DLC to expand more on the real world because I feel like there's soooooo much potential to explore here but also I want a whole DLC about the Dessendre family before and after the fire and also the Painters vs Writers and also also also :>