33

Knows his memories are fake

Knows the entirety of the plot

Knows the only reason he and his actual painted sister are effectivelyy condemned to suffer eternally is because of Aline's immoral painting of them

Painted Alicia sees that and is able to come to terms with her own role as someone apart from the real Alicia

So does Painted Renoir

Esquiee and Monoco love him for who he is, not for the memory of Verso

Even (actual, eventual) fusion between Real Alicia and Maelle acknowledges him as his own individual

...
...

Nope sorry everyone dies so my ABSOLUTE INHUMAN MONSTER of a mom can feel better.

What's that? This girl that looks like the sister in my memories (who aren't mine, and I know this) may or may not at some point do the same thing as her - a point I have drawn because she is not ready to move on five minutes after having 16 years of contradictory memories dumped into her brain?

Maybe I should sit down and talk to her about this. She IS asking me right now not to make a rash impulsive decision without consulting our friends and family...

Nah.

Sorry everyone, you die again. Actually the whole world dies.

It has to be done, I must cripple her.

There is just no other option.

Like, we tried literally nothing and things didn't fix themselves.

So obviously I must kill everyone so the people who abused me and gave me this cursed existence have one less way to be unhealthy.

Ahead of the inevitable E33 schizo coming to rant about junkies/everyone is not real/NPCs and VR world, etc, etc, I just want to say I have never had the displeasure of putting up with a more infuriatingly stupid plot device shoehorn than Verso and I hope the head writer - who obviously just wanted to fuck him considering she made her self insert his "canon" love interest - gets a flaming dildo up her vagina to calm her shit down and focus better on her next project.
That is all.

dont give a fuck bout yo bing bing wahoo bullshit story, celtics vs knicks bouta come up

plot is good, you're just too fucking retarded

we can’t afford to lose such a pianist

Alicia killed painted Alicia without giving him a chance to say goodbye. In the dialogue afterwards he nearly spits, "You painters just do whatever you want." This is side content but should have been mandatory. Verso glimpses enough of her true, underlying nature before the finale, and makes the right call in telling her to get her psycho druggie ass the fuck out of the canvas.

He loved his mom and his family, so he did what he had to do to help them.
And he could smell Alicia going the Aline route coming a mile away, Renoir too but he's way too kind to her.
AND HE WAS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT

he filtered MILLIONS

No, the best part of that subquest is

kills alicia because she asks him to, because she's also her so her opinion holds weight

my brother keeps asking me to kill him as a final act of mercy? NO I WON'T MOVE ON, PLAY THE PIANO YOU PAINTED MONKEY

Alicia really needed to get the fuck away from the canvas.

if you could play the piano forever, would you smile?

So what you are saying he IS retarded then.
Loving the mother (and father, really, since Renoir did not give a fuck) that gave him the insanity and melties that he cries about every waking second of his life. Oh and that created his sister as an ever-suffering walking crispy bacon out of spite.
And loving the sister that is not even his sister and he has no actual relation to, and even if he wished to believe he did, is no longer the same person because she has fused with 16 years of a completely different individual he has even less to do with.

Amazing. A complete and fucking idiot from the ground up. You don't even need to account for morals or "did he do the right thing", he is just an outright retarded abused cuck that bends over back for a bitch of a mother and someone who is sorta like his sister maybe possibly.

If painted creations don't have free will, how did Verso choose be be such a massive faggot?

Let's ignore the fact he killed Gustave for his own purposes and intended to kill everyone in the party in the same way after using them, and the fact Painted Alicia did not want to say goodbye to begin with since she hated him for obvious reasons,

You painters, doing whatever you want, bastards...

Better kill everyone in my actual world to make sure you are all happy.

The fuck even is the argument here?

Just because he's not an incestuous pedophile like you doesn't mean he's a faggot.

Wait really? The writer is a self insert? Which one? I haven't played the game but reading the shitshow around it is fun.

that's just OP's headcanon because Lune is asian, and the lead writer is asian

The fuck even is the argument here?

the argument is love, empathy and imposter syndrome

The fact they have the same hair color, are the same age and she is literally the only asian female in the entiire game is not at ALL a case of self insertion, gentlemen. Purely coincidental. Whoop dee doo.
Anyway, Lune.

her vagina to calm her shit down

Creampie with shit in her vagina? Sorry, tldr

The whole reason he's so fucked up is because Aline gave him real Verso's memories.
To him, real Alicia and Renoir are every bit as real family to him as the painted ones.
The canvas was destroying them, starting with Aline, so he saved them.

Yeah, so just imposter syndrome, then. Which even his bacon sister got over.
Sorry, it may be understandable and people may be different and heal at different rates, but that doesn't make him less annoying or a less shit point of view as a player character.

since she hated him for obvious reasons,

Do you actually think she hates him? She resents him for his choice but painted Alicia loves her brother, her letter implies as much.

And he is aware the memories are fake. And she gave everyone else in her family the memories of their counterparts. And everyone else was able to make decisions of their own.
What are you not understanding?
This is not a "there is no explanation" post, this is "Verso is a garbage character and an infuriating addition because he would sooner help the literal source of his misery than try to appreciate those around him because his fake memories tell him something he knows by now is fake and bullshit, and has had 100+ years to come to terms with the fact".
His existence is mired in being literally incapable of learning, character growth or self development, this makes him retarded and therefore an annoying character.

Not on that level anon.
Aline manipulated every other painting so they fit their vision, but not Verso. She ported version 1:1 and he knows what's happening to her and her family due to his death.
He loves his real family and knows everything in the world is just his painting, so he at the very least wants to save his real family.
You hate him and that's ok, but missing his writing so hard is retarded.

nooooo you dont understand muh bright colors muh black and white muh horror music

Her letter was before he murdered her dad, hid the information away from Alicia to manipulate her and kicked out the Paintress dooming everyone involved, anon.
It's a "i can see where you are going but I still hope you won't be a fucking idiot" letter, and then he was a fucking idiot and basically decided his not actual family was more important than her and Painted Renoir.
She does not ask Alicia to wait so she can say goodbye. She, HERSELF, guides her to gommage her then and there without directing a word to Verso which she could just do. But doesn't.

Verso is such a next level of lying deceptive asshole that his own father portrays his essence and core of his character as a masked monster.

THEY
ARE
NOT
HIS
FAMILY
It doesn't matter if you were given information in your brain if you KNOW IT IS NOT TRUE. AND THREE TIMES YOUR LIFETIME HAVE GONE BY SINCE YOU GOT THAT INFORMATION.
His writing is clear, it's just absolutely retarded and you seem to be not much brighter for it yourself.

you can't help what you remember

Yes, you literally can.
That's effectively what time does.

Her letter was before he murdered her dad,

She knew her plan, in full.

as a masked monster.

... because he put a front in front of his family that he liked painting.
All his masks are about liking to paint when he doesn't.

Yes and the letter was her last ditch effort to appeal to stop him

And hoped he would not go through with it. What do you think "Alicia please find a better way out of this you who have lived amongst us" stands for?
"I give you my blessing, please murder us all, totes fine"?

Considering he lies about everything in the game, literally everything, I can't imagine him having a mild distaste towards painting was what that entire Axon was based on, anon.

That wouldn't make sense, because adult Verso was very clear he doesn't like painiting. His only canvas was his childhood canvas. So he stopped painting after around 12 years and never painted another until his death at 26. Axons were painted when Renoire fought Aline. So it can't be about Verso's dislike of painting that Renoire and all family clearly knew for ~14 years at that point.

You heard his three masks.
All about painting and putting a front about it.

literally everything

He doesn't lie about anything after act 2.
He fully supported Alicia's decission to fight off renoir and keep the canvas alive.
Then he simply changes his opinion when she lies to her father, but he wasn't lying before that.

after act 2

... So he doesn't lie for the whole trip between the spot the are standing and just fighting Renoir, considering everything else is just side content with no actual input from anyone.
Thank goodness he managed to hold it together that long.

He doesn't lie about anything after Act 2.

Kek still didn't give her the letter and pretended it didn't exist, just so happens Alicia got rebooted AND found the letter by coincidence.
So the only time he didn't lie was effectively by omission. Amazing.

That's the least of what paint Verso deserved after what he did. He killed an ENTIRE WORLD without giving anyone a chance, without even considering telling them, without thinking of asking his friends for help or thinking of another solution. Maelle even tells him "Why do you care so much about your paint sister dying when you literally want the entire canvas to be destroyed" and his only reaction is "b-but you don't get it"
This mong doesn't suffer enough in either ending.

Verso just doesn't want a familly to kill itself for a figment that doesn't really exist, it's not that hard to comprehend. I really don't get the hate

That's because you are autistic.

Middle-of-the-bell-curve-kun...

This game convinced me to grow long hair.

That's the least of what paint Verso deserved after what he did. He killed an ENTIRE WORLD

meh all gone after renoir inevitably gommaged them anyway

He loved his mom and his family, so he did what he had to do to help them

True on the surface but deep down he was just a selfish fuck that wanted to end his suffering by killing himself. He saw his out and took it.
If you do the Monoco relationship he tells Verso that he sees through his bullshit but is such a bro that he helps him anyway even if that means he dies.
Maelle was no better, she saw an opportunity to huff paint and would die for the chance.

We are all hypocrites.

Verso is just mad he didn't get his way yet again, fucker was about to lecture painted Alicia on not killing herself despite himself having planned the death of her family (the reason why she wants to kill herself) for literal decades only to be able to slit his wrists.

The cutscene that happens right after with him admitting he purposefully let Gustave die for Maelle to be easier to manipulate is just here to show how horrible of a human being he really is and how you shouldn't listen to him. He's adept at lecturing people on topic he has no business lecturing them on, playing NG+ and seeing his interactions with his painted father makes it even more painfully obvious.

Fight as Maelle

it doesn't show The Last Stand of Expedition 33.

missed kino

But she kills off her self-insert, even though she wants to fuck Verso?

Wrong, that's only the people of Lumière, Gestrals and Grandis were still alive.

Julie was right, he's just a fuckboy who shouldn't be trusted.

No she doesn't. In fact she clearly thinks of Maelle's ending, because in her ending the song lyrics explicitly state Verso is fucking Lune, even though it's entirely optional to do it.
Bitch went the route of making sure they fuck even if you didn't make them.

Verso ending is still the canon one lol, stay mad.

because in her ending the song lyrics explicitly state Verso is fucking Lune

Lolwut post proof then

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Bait so noteworthily weak it deserves an answer for it, yet not a (you)

To be fair, Maelle has a really good fucking reason to huff paint. Especially since while the game really likes talking about how "Alicia doesn't want to leave the canvas because she grieves for Verso" and dismisses the "Alicia doesn't want to leave the canvas because in the real life she's a cripple condemned to a miserable existance" angle.
There is like 90% chance, she'll just paint another canvas to lose herself in and the story starts all over again.

What's up with all the love this game is getting anyway? The little I know about it, from a thread here and there popping up here, makes me believe this is some sort of Undertale but for chuds

can't deny it

stay wrong and mad

Their whole dynamic is just bizarre. They have zero chemistry, unlike Verso and Sciel who actually share a mindset. They can only have sex once in very specific circumstances, and it's shown as an ego thing because she's pissed at her parents. Her ending death stare is the same no matter what, it's the same "you can't just kill me when I've never even started living". Even in the Maelle ending, painted Verso would be Alicia's toy, he can't just go do whatever, and even if he could, I doubt Lune would want him after learning his plan was to kill everyone and that they had zero worth to him.
Such a weird part of the game.

it's a good game, it's that simple

Get out and flee
I beg you
Dream portrait
Imperfect
Cursed painting
Canvas of a false life

bleak

It's just a good game, it stood out by going against industry trends with a reasonable budget and actual sincerity.

for chuds

I've genuinely heard nothing culture war nonsense related about this game from any side. No journo complaints, no antiwoke grifter tirades, it's refreshing.

broom and rock people

yeah no souls

Chroma is their soul albeit.

The only place that tries to bring the culture war nonsense to this game is Anon Babble. And Anon Babble is Anon Babble.

So it's not a real soul then, because Verso's fragment isn't 'made' out of chroma

You quite literally have no means of knowing that howeverthough

So humans dont have souls on the outside but get souls when they enter a canvas lol?

You don't know what the world outside the painting is like or how it works.

33rd of December

oh em gee I'm in a painting!!

lol, is this the extent of the game because that's an Oblivion sidequest

Verso did nothing wrong

Yes, now you can stop giving a shit about it

That's not his argument. He's making an ontological argument.
Lumierians are identical to any other human, they act and feel as such and perceive their reality and existence like we do, except the gods of their world are known, and they're cruel demiurges.
If the existence of a supreme being immediately invalidates your existence as "fake" because you were "created", the same thing applies to you and me, or Renoir and his family. ALLAH could change the world as he wants, or kill you at any moment, how do you know your choices are yours and not divinely preordained or influenced?
That's why the "fakeness" argument shouldn't be involved, it's a bottomless hole.

That's not even that big of a twist. You can figure it out halfway through Act 2. And by the time you get to Act 3, the game just assumes you've already figured it out. It never goes the blunt way by directly saying "OH, BY THE WAY, EVERYTHING YOU DID WAS IN THE PAINTING!".

post that maelle webm from earlier, you know the one

Well, we have zero proof.
Meanwhile they can literally turn into petals and get brainwashed as they see fit by their gods.

the same thing applies to you and me

lol lmao religious schizos are the worst

It is quite literally part of the Lyrics of the prologue. It's basically the first sentence you'll hear in the game.
Not exactly an "OMG" moment.

You will have to argue in a few decades that AI has a soul if we build it a lifelike skinsuit

I'm not saying that I believe in it. But other people do, yet they don't rope immediately because "my existence is fake I will never be God".

This, if you're french the whole game plot is basically spoiled in song lyrics

There is no AI. Transformer architecture hits diminishing returns immediately and only marketeers disagree.
Wake me up when you can conjure people out of clay with magic.

You can't compare the shitty painted world to ours. They literally have horrific monsters and die very early and know they will so they prepare their whole life for death.

Maelle's ending is justified solely due to how Verso deserves it.

I am not even French and I still got spoiled by the lyrics, because the songs REALLY like to talk about Alicia, Aline, Renoir and Verso, so I assumed they are much more important then the game lets on.
Also, the literally first song you hear in the game is called "Alicia".

They literally have horrific monsters and die very early and know they will so they prepare their whole life for death.

They have ritualized the death they cannot prevent but still fight tooth and nail for their existence, that's the whole point of Act 1.

Wake me up when you can conjure people out of clay with magic

god did this already

my sister also chose that ending because she didnt like him, it seems to be a popular choice among women

I first went with Verso ending, but then I started thinking about it and realized how horseshit this ending is to Alicia, so I went with Maelle next. Sure, it's wrong and irresponsible, but it's not as if Verso's ending gives her some alternative.

Ok and? My point is the painted world is a hundred times worse than ours.

Yeah no shit french would make the worst ending canon

but it's not as if Verso's ending gives her some alternative

wouldnt it allow her to go back to her body and then paint any new canvas she wanted at any time

watching old trailers

Gustave squaring up on Dualliste's fight

DEEEEEEEEEVVVVVSSSSSSS

It's already stated there are no canon endings and there never will be, so no cope from either side will ever change that.

How come women dislike the vaguely Mediterranean pretty boy alpha who cucked the nice guy beta, who gets all the women, with a tragic backstory that the game really tries to make us sympathize with?
Incelbros, is our narrative wrong?

I've thought about this recently. There isn't much for Alicia outside. Her family hold resentment toward her for what she did, it hurts for her to even breath, she is forever disfigured and she has to go back to a war against the Writers which may cause more grief and suffering to the Dessendres.

Weird because Verso is the most feminine character with all his victim playing, manipulation, lies and betrayal.

Without the people she loves and the world half her memories are from, that feels like a breeding ground for PTSD.

Women self insert as Maelle and think she's justified in what she does.

He's a nihilistic arsehole, yes

Women are intelligent? Wtf why did you people lie to me

Ohnonononono

Those who chose Maelle's ending only prolong the pain. The canvas is getting destroyed anyway after Maelle slowly dies from painting.

well the people she loves are her brother and her party members for the most part, I don't see why she can't repaint them? Aline initially painted her entire fake family from memories and even made them inherit them, maelle can't just paint sciel, lune etc from memory somewhere else?

Lol Aline and Maelle are the eptiome of overemotional psycho women who ignore family for their selfishness.

verso as a 12 year old boy who doesn't want to paint says they have souls

Clea who is the best painter in the house and is much older and more mature doesn't agree agree with him

why is one option more valid than the other?

Fucking Lune just so he can rub her despair in later is very spiteful female behavior, he was too based for that

Verso really said "i'm going to kill everyone... in minecraft" but instead of minecraft it's the painting

Veros is God of this world and Clea is basically satan

Yes, but this doesn't stop her from getting lost in yet another canvas, this time of her own making, because the issue of her being a self-loathing cripple is still there and just accepting Verso's death is not going to magically fix that. And upon which, the whole thing starts all over again.
I guess if the whole family was supportive of her, maybe it wouldn't suck so much, but throughout the entire game, neither Renoir nor Clea nor Aline can be bothered to empathize with her.
The only people who showed her support were the painted people.

popular choice among women

So, bad ending?

We've no means of knowing whether they would be the same people or simply copies that behave like them.
Arguably, because nobody brings it up, copying and pasting them elsewhere is not an option.

But then the game does this thing where nobodyy ever asks questions or discusses alternatives or even tries anything other than murder, so is it intended? Or is it just bad writing? Who knows.

why is one option more valid than the other

Hopefully not the one who is fully desensitized from years of creating and destroying entire worlds in a turbonigger holocaust without the slightest hesitation.

Just like Verso. Maybe the Painters are faggots and deserve to suffer.

Peak Foidso.

maelle really wants to force what remains of her brother to play minecraft with her until the end of time while ignoring the real world and ignoring what it did to her mother

the game is trying to tell you the story

ima just ignore it

Versofags in denial.
Pottery.

I would imagine the 'rules' of any canvas are alike, I dont see why one would have creations with souls and another canvas painted by a sister wouldn't

Grr grr gr sacrifice yourself for the family!

Why?

Because you just have to, even if you are miserable doing it!

Turns out women were right all along and incels on Anon Babble weren't. Who could have seen this coming?

This dipshit grieving family can't even have a conversation so the entire world of Verso's painting has to suffer as a result.

You are autistic. You are not supposed to have a clear cut answer like in a math book. However, the fact that painters don't have a consensus should tip you off.

on ja this makes Verso so relatable fr no cap

Women in general like a Gustave type man, competent and an amicable leader but not arrogant and will take advice and care for others. The whole sigma male Andrew Tate grift "women don't have rights and men must command them like dogs" is homoerotic as fuck and doesn't work.
Got a few female let's players recommended on my youtube and they all bawled for Gustave's death.

Painted Verso is not a painter and he tried to save the real world family at least unlike Alicia that turned her back on her real family and fake one.

young verso goes on adventure with monocco and esquie

clea creates nevrons as enemies and terrorizes him with shit like lampmaster

Is their fantasyland just MGQ tier onee shota bullying? No wonder Clea is so bitchy toward Alicia, she’s definitely fucking her brother

the game is trying to tell you the story

only a mongrelised american brain could arrive at this point, that the writers have essentially made renoir and cle 'evil' because they are doing what they are doing to people with souls. Having Clea deny their souls is intentional to make it ambiguous but keep trying retard

Doesn't Renoir acknowledge the Painting's inhabitants as valid? Just that he will choose his family over all of them. You have to also remember Clea is grieving too and in her way is forcing a resolution to the conflict so she can get her parents back to fighting Writers.

Game is about destructive methods of grief escapism

Choose to allow Maelle and Aline to consume themselves in the painting

Go to Anon Babble and type 'versofags'

I knew trannies where the ones that keep spamming as Maellefags.

well the people she loves are her brother and her party members for the most part, I don't see why she can't repaint them?

But this is the whole thing the game argues is wrong.

dad, please don't take one thing that makes my entire existance not miserable away from me

NOOOO! YOU'LL LOSE YOURSELF TO THE PAINTING AGAIN, FUN IS NOT ALLOWED EVEN IF IT'S THERAPEUTIC FOR YOU!

Her way of grieving is vengeance against the writers (forgot which side content pretty much spells it out for you), the conflict between her parents is preventing her from fulfilling it.

no consensus

because the only person claiming they do is the echo of a 12 year old boy who painted his best friends into a canvas, you are the retard who is claiming that because Verso is the creator of the Canvas and not Clea that somehow means his paintings have souls

You can't just equate drugs and a fucking living parallel dimension that easily.
There's a heavy cost for every choice.

Verso turns his back on his family and friends for the Painters.

He doesn't acknowledge a soul, he's just aware that they can feel which is why he expresses empathy to painted verso

Doesn't Renoir acknowledge the Painting's inhabitants as valid? Just that he will choose his family over all of them.

No fucking shit.
Completely ignoring the trolley problem issue by copes like "not real" and "VR" just robs Renoir of his agency and convictions.

Games is about destructive methods of grief escapism

Stopped reading there. You didn't understand the game and have the brain of a mentally challenged adult struggling to catch up.

where can i get a decent lore dump/plot explaination of this game from the youtubes, you guys are unbearable

You clearly can, even the characters in the game do it.

Play the game

If they're not sentient and real, why would he empathize? He who is a master Painter and created many worlds?

i dont play video gaymes

His fake made-up family you mean. He still saves the mother that painted him.

Oh my god who the fuck cares about souls except one quote from the kid who states he thinks they have them.
They don't sit around discussing whether they think the worlds are real or not, they all behave as though they were. They just prefer it gone over it killing Aline and Alicia.

Explain the cause of Renoir entering the fracture, the reason Clea entered it to create the Nevrons, and the reason why Alicia entered it without bringing up Aline hiding from her grief in the painting, go

God you are dense. Verso specifically states it's Clea who disagrees with him. Not his mom, who actually taught him to paint and a member of painters council, not his father who is the patriarch of the family. Not even painters in general. But specifically it's just his cold as fuck sister. If you don't get implications of that you are a low IQ cretin.

In Visages and Sirene does it make any difference which order I do them? Because dialogue suggests to do visages first. Also does killing the mask mini bosses vs going straight to main boss change anything? Same with that big nevron with loom in sirene

Renoir fully understands the price that must be paid though?

Game is about destructive methods of grief escapism

And I think this is where the narrative stumbles, because Alicia has different issues to work out not related to grief from losing family member. And the game kinda writes itself into a corner with that one.

Not one person does this. And if you are talking about them using the word "Intoxicating" they are you are an illiterate philistine.

It’s not fucking theurapeutic, god knows how long Aline was in the painting for before Renoir had to put his foot down, and he get sealed under the monolith for 67 fucking years for caring

Renoir is the real fucking victim of this story, he lost the one family member that isn’t female, and every female in his life is just doing their best to make his life miserable

God knows the kind of banal shit Aline made Verso do to make him consider oblivion as a better option, that line of “I don’t want this life” hits so fucking hard

lose the love of your life for years to some gay ass magical painting

now your retarded daughter’s obsessed

for caring

For trying to commit mass murder

just because every other character doesn't specifically say they don't have souls means they do

You are brown. You genuinely believe that human painters (who have souls confirmed) were given souls by presumably an archetypal god, then go on to create their own creations with souls, presumably taking the role of god.

As opposed to something more logical like, real people have souls, combined with the affinity for painting allows them to create lifelike imitations of human beings with souls.
tl;dr you have no frontal lobe because you're a hispanic american

in my monolith straight up jorking it

her burn scars aren't that bad, I'd still fuck her
just make a makeshift humidifier and some steamed eucalyptus oil and cocaine for her breathing. Laudanum for the pain.

it's the american schizo again

abandon thread

The real victim of the story is Alicia, because she' got fucked over the worst (just like her Painted doppelganger), but every family member keeps making it about themselves.

We the players care because we make the choice.

They just buff and heal the boss.

every family member keeps making it about themselves.

Congratulations, that's the point of the story

>Game is about destructive methods of grief escapism

He went in to get Aline out, he only start gommaging people after Aline sealed him under the Monolith. Painted Verso and Painted Renoir basically manipulated and massacred a bunch of the initial expeditions for Aline’s sake, which eventually broke Painted Verso

You can't deny it so you use namecalling lol. Both Clea and Renoir use words that imply that staying in the canvas is druglike if you get addicted and won't come out.

no response to

concession accepted

She's missing an eye (which y'know is a problem for a PAINTRESS), has respiratory problems and can't speak. It's like telling Anakin Skywalker to walk it off.

but every family member keeps making it about themselves.

Including herself.

NO VERSO DON'T LEAVE ME I NEED YOU WHO CARES YOU'VE BEEN WANTING TO DIE FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS AND YOU'LL LIVE KNOWING I'M KILLING MYSELF

Stupid fucking cunt. A game involving something as a part of its premise does not mean the game is about it and the moral cookie you should be eating is the thing it states at you

Do you want the explanation? Selfishness and bad communication; forcing one's choices on the other.
Aline grieves her son. Rather than see eye to eye with her husband, she selfishly secludes herself.
Renoir is afraid of losing people again. Rather than trust his wife will eventually pull through the painting by venting her grief in it for a while, he goes in and FORCES her to move on because he says she should and doesn't trust her.
This causes the fracture, because they literally did not try to communicate or see each other's points of view.
Clea also dismisses their grief. Rather than understanding the pain they are going through and trying to mediate, she calls them immature, and fuels their conflict so they can go through it quickly rather than in a healthy fashion.
During the process of all of this they stop caring about what the other wants and they all impose what should be done on one another, leaving Alicia entirely forgotten.
Verso then goes on to repeat the same, with Alicia coming to the realization nobody has ever cared about what she wantts and so neither will she.

"Escapism" is the least of the concerns of the game.

allows them to create lifelike imitations of human beings with souls.

Explain what's the difference between the life and experience of a human in neo-Paris and a Lumierian, if no Painters were fucking around in their world

forcing one's choices on the other

she selfishly secludes herself

he goes in and FORCES her to move on

she calls them immature, and fuels their conflict

etc

yep, looks like destructive forms of coping with grief to me, glad I was right

>just because every other character doesn't specifically say they don't have souls means they do

Who are you quoting? If that's your interpretation of my post it's all the proof I need you are an illiterate low IQ moron.

that unrelated muttoid seethe

?
lol

To be fair, he does the same shit to her in his ending, where she flat out begs him not to kick her out, because her life outside is pure misery and she would prefer dying over living like this.

explain the difference but dont use the one difference between them which is that they can have their strings pulled by a creator at any moment

She can always create any fucking painting and live in there within reason, not to mention the entire family is fucking rich and she’d want for nothing anyway. Sucks that she is a burn victim and all, but it’s not an entirely miserable existence that dying in a fake world playing marionnette on Verso is justifiable

Verso’s ending literally had him telling her that he doesn’t have to live a life she doesn’t want to live with her power. He just wants her out of the fucking picture because he doesn’t want Aline or Alicia to die in there

is pure misery

That's what her 16 year old mind thinks.

Verso specifically states it's Clea who disagrees with him. Not his mom, who actually taught him to paint and a member of painters council, not his father who is the patriarch of the family

you are suggesting just because Aline and Renoir didn't say, "they don't have souls" that they agree with Verso and disagree with Clea, retard

Game is about destructive methods of grief escapism

The midwit reading.

Game is about humans being fundamentally flawed and destructive creators who should not be trusted with demiurge powers ever and p**nters should be sent to guillotine

The thinking man's reading.

Yeah. It's very apparent in the finale that Renoir doesn't really take anybody else's point of view into consideration. Alicia keeps bringing up some very good points about how she feels and he has nothing to offer her outside of threats and empty platitudes. And the kicker is the exchange where she says she has lost so much - and she has, of all the Dessandre family, she's the one most damaged by the whole situation. And Renoir just goes:

we've all lost a lot.

Thanks for making it about yourself, shithead.

I knew you were going to retard-out anyways, but I am still disappointed in you.

yeah i dont know about you but I didnt finish the game thinking about how man is flawed and shouldnt be able to control magic, but how they individually handled their own grief, so im closer to the first option

Don't be purposefully retarded. Arguing in bad faith serves nobody.

There is more to her life than living in a cushy manor. She leaves the Painting she is back to being in pain, she has to go back to conflict and possible further loss.

I am going to set you on fire and then tell you to get over it, how about that?

concession accepted

which is that they can have their strings pulled by a creator at any moment

The philosophical question is that this can happen to anyone, yes.

everyone dies

INHUMAN MONSTER of a mom

Actually the whole world dies

I must kill everyone

those terms don't apply to a virtual world. the inhabitants were erased, not killed. the world is shut down, not died. "inhumane" applies to humans, not NPC characters.
Maybe go outside and touch grass as they say, instead of projecting life in video games onto real life.
nothing good comes from living with a VR headset. Alicia is lucky this dude pulled her out before she loses her mind

If it will make you go away, take all of them.

After a brief internal struggle and glancing at the party members, he notices Maelle's eyes have been aflicted with paint in the same way that Aline's used to be. He then returns his attention to the piano and begins to play a melody.

This is maelle's ending. Choosing Verso is 100% the right choice

le infant child spirit says the people are real

le retarded 15 year old girl says she wont get addicted

verso chads winning again

It's not bad faith, she's a stupid teenager who doesn't know shit about life.

Kek, OP predicted you'd show up and do exactly this and here you are.

are french women really that beautiful?

modern french women are brown

Lemme gouge your eye, destroy your throat and lungs and scar the entirety of your body and nerve system. Then we shall speak about the matter again, since you are unable to picture it. Kay?

OP predicted it

therefore it's wrong

lel

Why couldn't we save best girl? Fuck Cuckso, she deserved better.

The crux of the final conflict lies in Painted Verso just not wanting to be another doll for a painter to play house with, he had years of that from Aline already, and Alicia ended up doing the same thing in her ending.

Alicia is a painter, if she wants to play house, she can do it literally anywhere else and not involve this frankenstein’s monster tier of tortured existence that seeks oblivion. His memories of real Verso made it so he can’t risk Alicia and Aline dying in the painting for their retardation

My biggest issue is that everybody keeps saying that she can't just paint another canvas, but fail to realize that she'll most likely lose herself in that canvas AGAIN. Because the issue of her wanting to escape her life of being a miserable cripple remains unresolved. And given how shitty her family is, I also wouldn't have much incentive to go back to them.

That's not what happened to Alicia though. She manages fine in the real world when we see her there.

Maelle was the one who erased her and her family before that.

Are you trolling me by pretending to be retarded?
The point is if painters knew for sure their creations have no souls, his mom, his father, everyone would've taught him that. He would be contradicting generations of painter's knowledge. He wouldn't just say that Clea disagrees with him. He would also say that painters in general disagree with him. He would probably say that his teacher Aline or his authority figure Renoire disagree with him. Or something else entirely. The writing purposefully makes a point that Verso only brings up Clea as the one who disagrees with him. Writers made it ambiguous on purpose and left it up to interpretation. If they wanted to state that paintings have no souls period, they would write that dialog differently with different phrasing. In the simplest case they'd just add "Clea and the others disagree".
Imagine if you would tell someone "earth is flat, actually. but my sister disagrees with me though". It wouldn't make any sense. If you are contradicting common sense you would phrase it differently.
How is this hard do comprehend? You now that Verso doesn't really exist and it's writers who make conscious and deliberate decisions on world building and how to provide reader with exposition?

You mean, outside of the fact that she can barely breathe and communicates with wails and grunts? And her sister keeps making fun of her disabilities?

imagine creating a VR world with your favorite virtual characters. then you sacrifice yourself irl to save your sister, then your whole family goes into the VR world, resurrect some fake version of you, your parents have a huge fight within the VR world, plus deny you of your will to fade away in peace.

Nobody fucking cares about real Verso. Fake Verso is the only humane person in this whole family.

Verso admits he purposely did not savr Gustave when he could have

Maelle doesn't get mad

*their bond is now unbreakable*

This game is fucking retarded. It makes sense why Verso is a massive piece of shit to gwt what he wants but all 3 women in the party just cop it and come back for more abuse.

Maelle was the one who erased her and her family before that.

Because Cuckso led them down that path because he's a suicidal, pathological liar.

You are one of those people who'd actually for real kill billions if any authority figure insinuated they are less than human.

the reason Clea entered it to create the Nevrons

Clea created the Nevrons as part of her and Verso's young adventures. The Clea in the tower tells you as much, doing shit with Verso in the painting from even before Alicia was interested in it. The white Nevrons are basically what the Nevrons were before being modified to be Lumiere people killing, chroma corrupting beasties.

aline and father presumably taught him that they have souls (headcanon)

couldn't be that they were uncertain and never spoke of it

it seems more likely that nobody knows, you have a 12 year old versos interpretation, and you have Clea's interpretation, and its not surprising that the little boy thinks the cartoon characters he drew are real just like him

Its more that its because its Verso's only painting and the last piece of him left. She could just paint again and recreate all of those people she loves but then we get into the whole argument of "are they still them?" Her also living a mirror life of 16 years as Maelle doesn't help at all either. From her perspective she has live equally as Alicia and Maelle and feels that Maelle is the better life.

by that point maelle is alicia and while she cares for her puppets they're still puppets to her

she can barely breathe

Ok so you're making shit up with your imagination, we don't know to what extent but she's not having any problems being physically active. She's not out of breath or choking. She's calm.

Why does Aline even stay in the painting when her painted Verso wants nothing to do with her?

I miss my dead son so much so I'll make a fake one that won't spend time with me!

Women.....

kill billions

again, wrong term. yes i would easily erase a VR world or a game after i'm done with them

She literally says it hurts for her to breathe.

It was Maelle's choice, she was bent on getting her revenge and murdering your precious painted people.

The problem of the ingame painting is that between Aline’s genius and the canvas having Verso’s soul fragment caused painted Verso to be a near-perfect replica of Verso with the real Verso memories who was aware that he isn’t real.

Given no interference from Aline or Alicia forcing him to be Verso’s replacement, he could have lived his life as just a random immortal Lumieran and find his own purpose or joy in life, but as long as those two painters continue to treat him as Verso, he would rather seek oblivion

Had they painted a Verso anywhere else, it wouldn’t be his fucking problem

originally to spend time with her fake family, later on to keep renoir in check in their prolonged power struggle over the painting

autists keep on saying its a computer VR game

Why does this keep on happening? Its literally magic.

aline and father presumably taught him that they have souls (headcanon)

Where the fuck did I state that?

couldn't be that they were uncertain and never spoke of it

It took a roundabout way but you finally got it so I consider it a win.
Painters are canonical not sure whether their creations have souls or not. That's it.

She literally keeps gasping for air in her "introductory" cutscene.

>Verso admits he purposely did not savr Gustave when he could have

>Maelle doesn't get mad

>*their bond is now unbreakable*

Yeah that made zero fucking sense.

As far as I can tell Verso's soul in the painting is represented by the child demiurge, not by painted verso. Painted Verso has Verso's memories but it doesn't seem like he has his soul, at the very least he has no power over the painting which he probably should have if he had any amount of a painter's soul.

She says pain but what kind of pain does she mean? It's all left ambiguous. Is it chronic, occasional or maybe just mental?

Either way I believe more her adult father, that everything would get better in the end and she would get the help she needs.

real Alicia: retarded and almosts gets herself killed by Wriggers

real Verso: saves Alicia

Alicia inside the painting: retarded and almost kills herself inside the painting

Painted Verso: saves Alicia

Alicia almost killed herself twice within a month or so, how much longer does she have to live? Will her father die to save her retarded life in 2 weeks?

Painted Verso didn’t break his programming until Fracture happened and he become Aline’s line of defense and ended up manipulating and killing all the early expeditioners

It's implied from Paintress boss fight she is not right in the head in that time. Presumably from spending too much time inside Canvas. She lived an unspecified amount of time with painted family and then Renoire fought her and caused fracture and she got stuck alone on top of monolith.

It's the same schizo that switches over to call all characters "junkies" when the conversation dries down.
Probably just obsessed with the game and mentally ill enough that even baiting people to fake discussions and arguments fuels him.

Painted Verso has Verso's memories but it doesn't seem like he has his soul

The game literally tells you Painted Verso was created using Aline's memories of Verso. It has neither his soul nor his memories, it has Aline's memories from events where she saw or heard about Verso doing something.

Painters are canonical not sure whether their creations have souls or not. That's it.

Except Clea is more talented than the lot so I'm taking her word over crying verso, ciao

manipulating and killing all the early expeditioners

The late ones too

tranny projecting

Painted Alicia's been trying to get herself killed for some time now. There's one journal entry where she gets captured and a real angry executioner was going to kick her ass for what the family did to one of them.

I don't think it works like that, otherwise Verso wouldn't know stuff Aline doesn't know he knows and that's not something the game wants to touch. There's no mentioned continuity break between the original Lune and Sciel and their repainted versions in act 3 either, so we are to assume it's just magic and it works.

SHE FLAT OUT SAYS IT HURTS EVERYTIME SHE BREATHES.
Also, Renoir is a shithead. "Don't worry about it/it'll get better" it's probably the most dismissive thing you can say in this situation. He's not even trying to put himself in his shoes.

(You) can have whatever headcanon, it wouldn't change the actual lore of their world

So why stay? What does Aline do all day? Sit alone in the monolith crying to herself for 60 canvas years?

souls confirmed

I know what she says and you twist it to fit your delusional narrative. Her father clearly loves her and shows it but she refuses his help just like mentally ill Aline refused it.

I dont think when he says it will get better he is talking about her breathing issues, more like she will get over the grief of losing verso

no, that's the responsible thing an adult should tell a child. It does get better. You learn to live with your circumstances and that there's more to life than the loss you suffered as a child. He's trying to convince her to allow herself to get an opportunity to grow.
Sure sucks to be a cripple but plenty of cripples live happy lives, believe it or not.

She doesn't say "everytime". Play the game again.

I don't think it works like that

It's literally what the game says.
youtu.be/hzPFERJ9AYo?t=183

Renoir is a shithead. "Don't worry about it/it'll get better" it's probably the most dismissive thing you can say in this situation. He's not even trying to put himself in his shoes.

Dad just spent 60 years getting his retard wife out only for his retard daughter to say she's going to do the same thing.

Why is his bulge so big?

I don't mean painted Alicia I mean the real Alicia inside the painting/Maelle

the game makes no mention of how it works

Renoir did nothing wrong :/

Dude is a goddamn trooper, I really felt for him when he hugged her.

He's not Verso. He's a painted copy, built from our mother's memories

Literally timestamped it just before that line for you.

the entire premise of the game is that he is NOT a mature or responsible adult

but surely on this one particular matter he was not at all being the character he was up until this point

What an awkward wishful thinking.

So, the lesson of this game is that a patriarch is needed to keep the self-destructive tendencies of women in check, particularly in times of loss and war?
Also:
His soul, his choice.
DEAL WITH IT, FAGGOT.

and where does it say he's incomplete / doesn't know stuff the real verso would know ? Alicia seems to not believe that to be the case

kek, the need of baiting like a retard only proves OP right

why doesn't a woman just do a logical thing and instead being a stubborn defiant cunt

Jee I wonder

I think you misunderstood something along the way
He's flawed for sure, but he is definitely portrayed as doing his very best for his family. The problem is that the circumstances are so dire he's helpless to make things better.

NTA but this can apply to Verso since there is a part of his existence that exists outside the painting, but that's not true for Sciel and Lune. They're chroma through and through, and that's unchanged when they're repainted.

more like she will get over the grief of losing verso

Yes, but but this doesn't even address the crux of her issue. Her getting over the grief of losing Verso is one thing, her not wanting to live as a cripple is another.

He's trying to convince her to allow herself to get an opportunity to grow

Yes, suffering builds character, great lesson. Especially dished out by people who don't have to suffer as much as you. Also, with how toxic her family is, I don't have much faith in Alicia getting better either physically or mentally. Her best bet would be to get the fuck out of that home and never look back.

He is literally the most mature right after Clea, he wants the family to reunite and support each other.

Everyone suffers anon, thinking your suffering is greater and unique is the kind of hubris a child needs to learn to get over to grow.

Correct.
And all that pair of As (as in assholes) had to do was not use the copium machine suicidally and attend the actual important matters, like processing grief in real life and fighting a damn war.

and where does it say he's incomplete / doesn't know stuff the real verso would know ?

Do you know the inner workings of your dad? His most private, darkest thoughts? His deepest desires? His dreams and aspirations when he was a kid? Do you know all the profound things he said at age 10, all the dumb things he did at that age? His hidden shames?
No?
What makes you think that Aline is that all knowing about his children?
You think her children tell her everything? They didn't even know that Alicia was getting the wool pulled over her by writers until their house was on fire.

Her biggest issue is not having her brother in life anymore. She clearly says it in the end.

I'm hearing a whole lot of headcanon and not a whole lot of textual evidence anon

Bait?
Those are just facts.
Particularly pertaining Verso.

The game can be reduced down to women being fucking retarded child like addicts and the men trying to wake them up, Clea is also written to be logical and steadfast so she is on the boys team

why do people act like Alicias family hates her even though she's Renoirs favourite and we don't know what her Mum and sister think of her when they are not grieving?

Yeah both Renoir and Clea are right

Clea is kinda mean to her

Basically.

wife is a crazy bitch

daughter is suicidal

telling them to come back home is bad somehow

headcanon

Anon it's common sense.
No other person but yourself can know you 100%. The only memories Aline can use to apply in making Verso are memories she was able to form from her life with him.
Anything secret, anything that the real Verso never shared, Aline would have no way of knowing. How would she be able to paint those into Verso if she doesn't know them?

Because she is burnt and has one eye. Shit is gross. Renoir is raping her for sure

he wants the family to reunite and support each other.

And I want a pony. Wishful thinking won't solve this issue. I don't see Clea supporting emotionally anybody but her herself because she has empathy level of a potted plant, Aline will most likely continue to be a control freak and Alicia will keep getting more and more miserable with every day. This family is going to fall apart the second Renoir looks the other way.

that song literally called “Clea, stop pulling Alicia’s hair”

Do you forget the part where he allows Alicia to remain in the painting after Painted Renoir kicks her out, when even dementia Aline freaks out about it and yells that she is too young to be stuck there with them?
Do you forget the fact Clea explicitly states he never even tried talking with their mother and just went inside to do kaiju battles right off the bat shitting everything up?
Do you forget he has been standing around as the Curator and at no point as he attempted to dissuade Maelle or guide her to safety and instead has been using her to systematically get closer to winning their family struggle without regard of all the obvious mental trauma she is enduring from being literally brainwashed?
Are you just willfully ignoring everything because muh waifu loyalty?

So we can all agree that the canvas that Renoir needed to be 'saved' from was probably some sort of harem world right? the one that Aline supposedly saved him from

Aline actually for real hates her guts. Clea just think she is worthless. Renoire is the only one who likes her.

haha yeah me too

I can't apply common sense to fucking magic paintings giving birth to thinking humans anon, that's the problem. You're making assumptions about how this works but the game isn't really interested in going into the specifics. It's fun to imagine how the underdeveloped parts of the plot could have been used to make the story even more tragic but at the end of the day the story is what it is and nothing more, and the story does not give any indication that painted verso is incomplete, he seems to know a whole lot and has such a strong affinity with soul fragment verso that he can tell what he is thinking. That's not what I'd expect the mere fantasized memory of a mother to be able to do, the painters clearly are able to tap into something greater than their own minds somehow.

Damn right.
Clea is the kind of women other women call a bitch. And they are right, but she is not delusional and gets shit done. Could she be nicer and a better person like Verso was? Maybe, but at least she is still grounded in reality, and that is based.

Can non-Painters enter painted worlds? Is it genetic or whatever? Since Verso played the piano and Alicia wanted to write.
If anyone could enter them, can I order a pokemon harem canvas?

Clea is only mad and snarky because her family is stuck in the painting when the situation irl is more important. She can't support anyone if they're addicted and isolated in a fake painted world. What you say is retarded headcanon.

I wonder why the ones most loudly yelling about an ending are the Maelle anons. It’s attracting that strain of rabidness that screams daddy issues.

the painters clearly are able to tap into something greater than their own minds somehow.

Which applies here how?
Verso isn't a painter. Hell, his soul fragment is more of a painter than he is.

he was in a diminished state as the curator, all he could do is support the party so they could free him. He was stuck incapable of acting or communicating for 67 years
He's only himself once aline gets kicked out

Since it’s effectively magic, I’m guessing it’s either genetic or at least learned

Maybe they can get people in there, but a non-painter in a painted world would effectively be at the painter’s mercy

How do you think that family got so rich?

I am assuming that you can.
It would explain how they are so fucking wealthy.

we dont know unfortunately, I always thought the reason they were wealthy is because they might be able to paint a specific canvas to a clients choosing and allow them to enter. Imagine how much people would pay to spend a single night, which could translate to decades in a painting that could be a harem of their own choosing

There is no reason a lineage of magicians who can create perfect escapism world but only for themselves would be filthy rich and not just die out.
They can probably at least help others enter canvases and made fortune on creating the most depraved shit for wealthy clients.

I meant that Aline can make a Verso that is more complete than her recollections somehow, and if I had to hazard a guess it would have to be related to his soul being in there since the game seems to make such a big deal out of it.

Is there anything Aline said before Versos death that indicates she hates Alicia? Aline hates her right now because she is dealing with her grief badly. When she gets over her grief she will not hate her. The mature take if one of your kids accidentally gets another of your kids killed is "I already lost one kid, why am I trying to lose two?" Now if her Mom hated her before she got Verso killed she is fucked

Can non-Painters enter painted worlds?

Possibly, with a painter to serve as a kind of valet or something.
It wouldn't make sense for painters to be a prominent thing in society if their fancy ability only works for them. Moreover, writers seething enough to set them on fire wouldn't make any sense if their powers only work on themselves.

Just go back to being a mutilated mute that will never find real love and live with your sister who treats you like shit and your mother who hates you so much she painted you colorless and full of scars on purpose because... it is... the right thing to do!

It took Maelle one look at her painted counterpart to figure out her mother subconsciously hates her and blames her for everything. And Clea is a turbocunt towards her all the way through. I guess it's "tough love" but tough love and guilt-tripping doesn't help in this case.
I guess they can talk it out with one another and it's going to be fine... or, right, Alicia cannot speak, so she can't articulate her grievances.
We'll sucks to be her.

is there a significance to the broken mask painted alicia is wearing ?

She can write. Seems to be her passion as well.

that's the average house before Drumpfs inflation

We don't write in this family anon.

2 possibilities is that either it doesn’t matter and any Verso Aline created would have the same existential issues because she infused him with Verso’s memories and the relevance of the canvas is because that’s the only painting Verso ever made before becoming a pianist, or that the real Verso’s memories bled into him because it’s his canvas and only this particular Verso would have that existential crisis

Yes. Aline wanted her to suffer as burn victim yet she didn't want to have to look at her mutilated face

Yes you can but only because you are a suspiciously wealthy furry

No, he's a man who has lived 100 years and watched a fucked up family ruin everything. That tends to change a person's perspective. All of Lumiere was gone, and Maelle wanted to bring back some puppets because she could not face reality. This is all Maelle's fault at the end. All she had to do was man the fuck up, admit the truth, and step back out into the real world. All she had to be was not a selfish cunt and the world of the painting could have been rebuilt, with love and respect. But no, she had to be a little bitch and ignore whatever autonomy the inhabitants of the painting might have so she can run away from the real world. Verso was right. Better the people of Lumiere stay dead, and the Gestrals, Grandis, and Esquie all meet fates they are already comfortable with meeting anyways, over letting a selfish, obsessed little goddess turn the canvas into a hellscape for her own self-aggrandizement.

A fiery passion, you could say.

wouldn't it be a complete mask then ?

the game seems to make such a big deal out of it.

The game makes a big deal out of this painting having Verso's soul because as the last/only (game doesn't really specify which) painting that Verso worked on it's the reason for why Aline is hell bent on staying in the painting and why Alicia is fighting to not have it destroyed.
It's an emotional attachment to their dearly departed kin.

Nta but how do you know a “God” doesn’t live for hundreds of thousands of years in the reality above ours and is loling at your 75 year lifespan?

it's a bit more than that, there's a child and a young man version of aline/renoir's god form running around and saying stuff only verso would say. Somewhere somehow part of him got trapped here too.

(game doesn't really specify which)

Alicia states it's Verso's only canvas.

I guess it was supposed to signal that Alicia is like a broken doll or something.

why do you guys keep repeating what I already said. Yes I know Aline hates her while she is grieving I am asking if Aline hated her before grieving. If Aline didn't hate Alicia beforehand there is no reason for her to keep hating Alicia after deailing with her grief

In all fairness, they’ll probably still have to destroy the painting the moment Alicia went out because Aline is too far deep into copium that there is no way the family can prevent her from going in and killing herself, and painted Verso would still be fucking suffering as Aline continues playing house

But is it the only canvas he made or the only canvas that survived the fire?

How sheltered you have to be to think Clea is a bad person because she doesn't coddle her sister

75 is way too long anyway, you become old wrinkly and your whole body starts to ache or have issues from the smallest things.

Don't forget that Maellefags are a vocal minority farming (You)s

sciel gets to showcase her life philosophy making her immune to mask voodoo and own a kaiju

lune just kinda stumbles forward and gets handed the win with no elaboration or explanation

that was weird

And she's so supportive of her crippled, despressed sister, she throws her into the very same painting for shits and giggles, because she can't be bothered to deal with her.
No, I don't think Alicia is going to have much support in her.

It’s this jewish world that makes you think 75 years is too long, I’d imagine most of us would not mind living longer if we don’t have to live in this gay earth

Did I miss a scene or does Verso really never just ask Maelle to kill him?

there's not coddling her and there's being a dick for free, she's just kinda being a dick for free

Bro this entire site is full of people escaping their lives by acting hostile to eachother.

He does in Maelle's ending

Only because you were made that way, in a demiurge world you are just a victim of planned obsolescence

is there any deeper meaning to the name renoir or am I just supposed to basedface and point at the screen because thats a painter I know

Painted world is pretty gay as well.

Verso doesn't just want to die, otherwise he'd be happy with the maelle ending. He wants to free the soul of original verso from the painting

It felt like a half-assed way of making them relevant to the plot again in both cases.
Lune was clearly enthralled by Sirene's power when you first enter the dungeon, Verso should've been the one to deliver the last hit.

Writers killed her brother and burned her face, anon.

It's good then that Alicia is her dad's favorite.

You know, the more people talk about the story of E33, the less interesting it seems to me.

She's brusque in her tone but she very clearly loves everyone in the family, even Alicia as you can see from the endless tower dialogue

Just references. The game is full of them, like "this is fine" and "guess I'll die" memes.
Alicia was tricked by writers and one of Maelle's skills, Stendahl, is the name of a French writer. Cars reference, etc. etc.

Clea is going out to murder a bunch of wr*ters, putting Alicia in the painting both keep her out of the way and tip the scale further to Renoir so he can get out faster and help her commit TWD

their bond is now unbreakable, yes. learning why gustave died is exactly the reason why alicia repainted verso back so he can be her personal piano slave. she also repainted kid verso to rub it all in.

Renoir
Twice-Black
Wont accept another loss.

It’s created by french, so unfortunately faggotry is part of the package

It's a reference to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, his wife's name was also Aline.

She didn't know then, you're being disingenuous

Sure anon, whatever theory makes you feel better. Just keep it to yourself.

Cars reference, etc. etc.

I for one wasn't expecting the Lightning McQueen superboss

t.

Marche was right. Verso was right.

From what little we know beforehand, Aline was still a controlling cunt that dealt with guilt-tripping and forcing her opinions on her children. She wasn't supportive of Verso's passion for music and she kept putting Alicia down because she wasn't good enough. That's why Alicia says (heh) that there is only one picture she painted that's even put on display, because her mother thought the rest wasn't good enough. Which is a horrible thing to do to a child.
And a reason why Alicia no longer wants to be a painter.

By the beginning of act 3 maelle pretty much knows everything

is French

Dropped.

I just supposed to basedface and point at the screen because thats a painter I know

Maelle's ultimate skill is Stendhal, you tell me.

Because you’re a faggot secondary who had to get their opinion from some youtube video essay

Anyone who actually played the game care enough about it to argue about it in a mongolian basket weaving forum

She knew who Alicia was and she still erased her. The anon that was whining about painted Alicia dying should be mad at Maelle, no one else.

43 votes

lol

Painted Alicia literally begged her to do this. At first Maelle just wanted to fix her.

all minorities are ends of bell curves

Sure bud. Next you're gonna tell me half of all the woke shit is actually based.

muh painted people aren't real

is probably the dumbest fucking cope to come out of it
if you can create something that is indistinguishable from reality in every single way then how the fuck is it not real?
if we found out that we are in simulation would it suddenly be OK to go outside and start killing people since they are "not real" anyway?

your wife is a master in reality creation

she fucks off to a parallel world to build her ideal utopian life

she's still upset at you

still decides that her ideal husband in her fantasy world is literally just you

How good was Renoir's dick?

I literally don't care, it's some other anon that was crying about her fate.

I mean she doesn't care about getting revenge for gustave by then, yes she erases some of them but that's not her motivation anymore

Not sure why you’re mad, that anon is right arguments from “fakeness” don’t really work if you allow for the existence of entities “above” us in your worldview.

there's a difference between sentient beings and automatons mimicking it, and it's one we are completely unable to perceive.

You are ontologically and epistemologically confused.

It's mentioned painted Renoir is more of a bully than real Renoir, which is based on how Aline perceives him

which is funny considering painted renoir is incredibly chill

What worldview? I don't compare my world to a world from a video game lol, you are doing it and it's very cringe.

Inexhaustible reserves of aura.

And she was all to quick to grant her wish. She would however never allow painted Verso to go. Secretly she was glad painted Alicia is gone.

He's very stubborn and unreceptive to anybody's arguments, which is in contrast with real Renoir who eventually relents to Alicia in the end

No, Alicia says "daddy is kinder and more understanding, mom's painting of him is not flattering", before she goes to him and he does the complete opposite of what she expected him to do, AKA behaving exactly the same way as Aline painted him, because it was an accurate depiction and up until then Alicia had just gotten his nice side.

I mean ok you can do that, but then you can just say “the painted world and real world in the video game are equally fake so it doesn’t matter anyway” which is true but not a particularly compelling way to engage with fiction

do we actually see any of that ? He's unreceptive to Verso's genocide plan sure, but I wouldn't fault him for that

Except painted Renoir straight up executes people without saying anything. He's the definition of a cold blooded bastard unlike real Renoir.

How do you think that family got so rich?

suspiciously wealthy furries living their dream inside a painting by that family is my first assumption

I mean. He relents after you (and Aline) beat the everloving shit out of him into submission (again), not exactly after a nice quiet chat.

there's a difference between sentient beings and automatons mimicking it

There is none, unless you choose to define "human" as those only inhabiting your level of existence, which leaves you gaped open to be invalidated by any existence above you

Ok, go be pretentious somewhere else. I bet reddit will love your take about painted world and sentience.

suspiciously wealthy furries living their dream inside a painting by that family is my first assumption

What would a suspiciously wealthy furry be like in 1890? Some American railway baron? Non ruling European royalty that got really into Beowulf?

He never explains himself, on the beach when the commander asks him who he is and how he survived the gommage he just kills everyone without a word; when Gustave asks him why he's doing what he's doing he doesn't answer and just says he's really doing them a kindness, when Verso tries to reason with him it doesn't sway him even a little bit.
It's basically his way or the highway

... What? Real Renoir is literally gommaging people to get back at his wife(and thus bring her back)
Painted Renoir is killing them to get their chroma to her so she can stay(and thus fulfill her wishes)
They are literally doing the same thing.
Painted Renoir even has the exact same decency of asking Maelle and her crew to go back three times before he kills Gustave as a pity towards her situation. They just happen to ignore him.

nothing to do with humans, any conscious being is having a conscious experience, something an automaton is definitionally incapable of.

He literally hit her with the

TH-THAT'S DIFFERENT!

Put the fingers on the keys, slavey.

A female royalty who wants to get fucked by a real bull.

That's because the last three expeditions he explained things to ended up betraying them and allowing Clea to kidnap her Painted version, after which he assumes everyone is working with her or hiding spies working for her.
Did you not play the game?

That reminds me, were the scars ever explained beyond 'I was in a fight'.

Yeah, that's different because she was a named NPC.

Nigger, you try getting out from under a rock your wife trapped you in for 67 years only to find out that your daughter was planning on doing the exact same thing that led to that scenario, renoir is a goddamn saint for even entertaining a conversation

is having a conscious experience

You think Lumierians do not have an inner mental world of their own?

We already know that they're different though. Maelle says it herself. Besides it's better to disappear into flowers without pain rather than get shot into your chest and bleed out to die.

I'm saying whether they do or not I am incapable of perceiving it, so caution dictates I should assume they do.

And real Renoir spent 67 years trapped under the monolith and was able to still see his daughter's point of view in the end and let her do what she wanted
Now granted he's biased toward Alicia but he's clearly not the same type of person as painted Renoir

Director’s favorite game include FF8, probably an homage to Squall and Seifer

still waiting for that maelle webm...

there's a fundamental difference in that real renoir is a man in control, and painted renoir is a thrall doing the bidding of a goddess
It's not painted renoir's place to change his mind, he has a mission

Maybe if he had not used her as a tool of war and allowed Aline to boot her out of the canvas like she attempted to do he would not be having that conversation or problem to begin with, you double-nigger. What the fuck kind of sainthood is it when you are clearly the cause of all the ongoing problems just because you are incapable of taking a goddamn chill pill?

when Gustave asks him why he's doing what he's doing he doesn't answer and just says he's really doing them a kindness

He says that to Maelle, not Gustave.

pretentious

Buzzword
This game has the same problem as FFTA where it wants to make assertions about what is “real” but doesn’t do enough to make the fake people fake

She would however never allow painted Verso to go.

Yeah, that's why I feel the writing stumbles in the end. Because it melds two different issues ("I want to stay because my real life is full of misery" and "I want to stay because I miss Verso") into one. And those are not the same.
And for the former, the game really doesn't have a good counterargument.

A single, objectively real soul is more important than thousands of hypothetical souls.

Same point

the game doesn't say anything about "real" or not, the problem is paintings fucking kill you

Maybe that was the point? Who are you to decide how the writing of the game should be? Not to mention you use buzzwords as well to make yourself seem intelligent, but you don't really offer anything compelling.

Why? :)

The remaining Lumerians are literally browns, drunks, and women who doesn’t want to have children. They’re as fake as they come as far as I’m concerned

And those are not the same

they are part of the same equation. Verso is a thing that brings her comfort, so it only makes sense he's part of her comfort world.

Bipolar hypothetical soul manipulates his namesake's real soul

This is ok because reasons

That's so fucking based, bro.

So what's stopping her from painting a Verso on a different canvas?

VERSO IS MY BOTHER!

MINE!

Why are women like this?

same reason her mother is irrationally attached to this specific painting, there's somehow a piece of verso's soul in it

Some things don't have a reason it's simply a choice between what you prefer which is what the game offers

Yeah, he has no issue using her as a meatshield - and keep in mind he made contact with her as a Curator almost immediately, but it's only after she does want he wants from her, he's horrified that she's been too long and don't want to leave.
Motherfucker, you kept pushing her. You could've solved this within seconds yourself if you really cared about your daughter.

kek

Jesus, why does it seem like Verso pissed in your cereal

I get that he was shady and more or less lied through omission on important junctures, but the level of hate people had for him is like if he was Abby or something

Its only a fragment of his soul.

he had to save his wife too and was unable to do so

The fact that's she's most likely going to lose herself on her own canvas yet again.
Because why wouldn't she live 24/7 in a world where she doesn't have to be a cripple?

He literally wanted to destroy that work. Not for an interesting reason either, because he was a little bitch. His breakdown at the end made it clear that it was more about himself than his mother.

No, Alicia. your biggus dickus stepbro isn't real.

and no. you are not the marry sue chosen one jedi master

and yeah. melle is a dumbass name

It just is ;)

If you think he's hypothetical then the rest of painted beings are a tier below that.
Verso was never passionate about painting, doesn't mean he didn't love his canvas

The counterargument is that she is a fucking paintress. She doesn't need to cope about her self/writer inflicted disability by torturing her dead brother's soul after he already saved her life once.

Kicking Alicia out was much, much easier, so he should've prioritized her if he cared about her.

Very true.
Still, would try to save both just in case.

there's somehow a piece of verso's soul in it

yes. a soul that want and need a rest

Aside from real Verso's soul partially bejng in this canvas because he made the world, who knows if she could paint a proper Verso. Alina is his mother and knows absolutely everything about him from age 0 to however old he got, 26 I think. Maellicia might paint him wrong though.

but he had to

No, no he did not. That is the whole point of their situation.
He did not "have" to push their children into the conflict, he did not "have" to manipulate Alicia, he did not "have" to send Clea to fight on her own, and he did not "have" to try to force his wife out of the painting.
He decided to do it, because he is controlling and afraid.
Is it understandable? To a degree, he is emotional, in grieving, and detached from reality - so sure.
But is it okay? Let alone does it make him a good person or some sort of family saint? Jesus no.

And the main reason of the entire conflict. Painted Verso is a perfect copy thanks to him.

why should he have prioritized a solution that didn't solve the main problem ? He supported her and gave her the weapon upgrades she needed to destroy her mother's paintsona, once that's done he can get everyone home. Alicia wasn't in any danger, he was only objecting to her staying for a more extended time period.

We don't really know that he's a perfect copy, he probably isn't

Painted Verso is not a perfect copy. Clea states that outright and has interacted with him, so she would know. You are being retarded and making shit up.

Versoul should stop bitching. He just needs a Gramophone for some entertainment maybe

he did not "have" to send Clea to fight on her own,

She did it on her own.

and he did not "have" to try to force his wife out of the painting.

Yes, yes he did because she was killing herself inside.
He's a genuinely good and caring person unless you have some kind of unresolved daddy issues where you can't see all he does is worry about his family.

She isn't like Aline though. She tells it plainly to Verso along the lines of "here I have a chance to live, there I merely exist".
There is nothing stopping her from giving herself a chance to live on a different painting and making her own Verso in it.

Should he have let his wife rot in the painting alone ? Would that have been better ? He mobilized his family to try to solve a family issue. It wasn't a perfect plan, but it worked well enough.

Agreed on all point but Clea’s, Clea wanted to take her pound of flesh regardless whether anyone else in the family helped her, Renoir didn’t make her do anything

Alicia wasn't in any danger

oh shit the ending is here and my daughter whom I allowed to believe she is someone else for 16 years is now mentally scarred beyond repair

how could I have prevented this?

Yeah him and NotRenoir got into a fight

It was her sister that kicked her in the painting and her mother that mindraped her. By the time renoir meets her the damage has been done and he's trying to make the most of it.

How much of that is her disassociating due to grief and to prevent herself from falling into the same trap as Alicia and Aline thougg?

You are literally the type of "good guy" that will become a toxic blight for his family and children, I can tell. I am not surprised given where we are, but still, I pity whatever spawn you manage to stiffle to death by forcing your view and methods on them until they drive themselves up the walls trying to escape you.
Not that I assume you will reproduce, but you never know.

She does not say that at all, she just states that he's not the real verso and just a painted copy. She makes no claim about the quality of that copy.

0:48-1:40 on "for those who come after" is by far the most beautiful part of the soundtrack
youtu.be/qV4ojbWtELg?t=48
Does it actually have a full track? The other variations of the motif aren't as good

that's aline's characterisation, not renoir

No, he should have talked with her with a levelled head without dismissing her which we know for a fact he never tried to do as Clea says so.
So yeah, rather than this, letting your much more experienced wife handle her own shit rather than throw a tantrum and bring your traumatized children onto your shit is in fact the correct alternative.

he's trying to make the most of it.

And here is the issue, the family are just selfish and manipulative.

It's implied that Aline has created millions of humans, at least 2 million in Lumiere alone if she was true to early 20th century Paris.
Renoir even calls him one of her finest work.
There's 0 reason for Aline to not leave and make another copy of Verso later in a new canvas later if this one isn't a perfect copy.
Everyone who cares about him has to remind him that he's his own person, not actually Verso like his mother created him to be.

She says he's not real, not the same thing.

Zero. Obviously. Considering nothing whatsoever points to the idea that it isn't the case since even Alicia and Aline, at the heights of their cope, can tell he is not Verso at all.

But that's again the issue.
The game one time says:

prolonged living in a painting is BAD.

But when Alicia goes:

I don't want to live a vegetative life of a sad cripple

the answer is:

then create a new canvas and live there

No, you can't have a cake and eat it.

And she also tells him plainly

all I wanted was to live our lifetime together

She's just Aline, because she's killing herself to be with her fake son.

BUT THE PROLONGED EXPOSURE IN A PAINTING IS BAD, THE GAME WON'T SHUT UP ABOUT IT.
That's the circular logic of this argument. And that's why Alicia is so utterly fucked in Verso's ending.

start puking blood from overdosing on canvas life

Renoir showed you what it did to Aline.

aline fucks with alicia when she attempts to enter the painting and forces her to live 16 years in the painting so aline can groom alicia into being on her side and make alicia also want to keep the painting around

aline is a monster. if you sided with maelle, you let the paintress win and aline ends up successfully grooming maelle into another version of herself.

Yeah that's not being a toxic good guy, that's just being a bitch mom.

Anon...

Escapism is bad except you can escape with another painting.

It made for a good conversotion

Verso is very much done with living to give a shit about that. He's pulling a closing time on her.
She doesn't need to go home but she can't stay here.

KEK

Aline was unaware that happened. She tries to remove Maelle when she finds out. Renoir prevents her. Play the game.

They are not mutually exclusive.
Both Verso and Renoir know that neither Aline nor Alicia would be compelled to stay so long in that canvas if Verso/his soul didn't exist.
They are okay with their loved ones doing weed, just not fentanyl.

Cope with your ending being the bad one

if you know anything about toxic moms you know they manipulate you by acting like everything they do is for your own good, don't pretend there's a difference
aline only stopped torturing her family when she entirely gave up on them to play puppets with a family she controlled entirely, she is way more guilty of this fantasy of control than renoir, who openly admits he's second to her wife in experience on the matter or is willing to accept his daughter lie to his face because he wants to believe she's not fucking crazy and he doesn't have it in him to force her, despite all his posturing

Just like Dark Souls...

And don't forget the best part:

blame everything on your youngest daughter, that was also the victim of this accident.

This family's not healing anytime soon.

If she wasn't supportive why is Alicias room filled with books and a typewriter though?

tfw all your family are schizophrenic

I have never had the displeasure of putting up with a more infuriatingly stupid plot device shoehorn than Verso

TRVKE

that maellefag who claimed alicia kills herself in verso's ending because gustave beckoned to her or something

Ignore maellefags

(me)
fogot pic

there's at most 50 people on Anon Babble

Except Verso (he's dead)

They are okay with their loved ones doing weed, just not fentanyl.

Imagine defending Painters when this is their mindset.

because there are two parents in the household and alicia is daddy's little treasure

Based. We are never buying your woke French parry slop

But they start to. "A life to love" shows you the very first step.

nightmare.jpg

i'm convince he lowkey kill himself to get away from his tiger mom

Both Verso and Renoir know that neither Aline nor Alicia would be compelled to stay so long in that canvas if Verso/his soul didn't exist

Which is absolute fucking bullshit, because Alicia would absolutely be compelled to stay in a world where she can live a normal life and not being a mute vegetable that's constantly in pain. That's the false argument the game fails to consider, because it gets so fixated on that Verso thing.
And that's why I think Renoir is a shit parent.

BACK TO THE PIANO MINES WITH YE

this scares the paintressfags

Vegetables can't walk around anon. She'll be fine.

so you think you understand the character better than the writer, that's your arguement ?

If that's what it takes to save my junkie relative from killing themselves then so be it.

Alicia, I didn't know you wanted to be a writer, of course I'll take a loo-

Yeah, nobody even bothers to give Alicia a hug, they are all so preoccupied with themselves.

The whole family is a danger to real society and a bunch of morons, but they sadly get the priority in these situations
You have

A broken, fake society that you created and slowly destroyed year by year

An imitation of your son, created by pure copium who is also self aware that he's at the epicenter of all suffering, from the realworld or otherwise

A world in itself that is poisonous for the people who come in and inhabit it for long periods of time

A history of this family repeating mistakes and using paintings as literal drug abuse, almost losing themselves in the process

Verso's painting had to go. Some sort of compromise would have been nice (as in, let verso finally die, but keep the painting and everyone in it alive; perhaps rebuilding lumiere as it was before the fracture) but these people are too unstable and they WILL relapse

Verso is a massive twat who just needed to accept the life he was given and be nice to his little sister, but no he wants to die and he will take everyone down with him.

samefaggot cuck

Is this the guy who did a cartwheel

I think the writer didn't think things through and lost the plot in the end

Which is absolute fucking bullshit, because Alicia would absolutely be compelled to stay in a world where she can live a normal life and not being a mute vegetable that's constantly in pain

She can do that in a different canvas and that way Aline could help get her out along with Renoir.

Is it a meme that Alicia's writing caused the fire or is it actually real

They'll be ok. Aline and Alicia will need time to recover, and it's up to Renoir to be their rock and support them during that time. Clea can keep handling the war with the writers while they heal

I doubt Aline would allow it if she wasn't supportive, maybe if Alicia had the typewriter and some books hidden away you could argue Renoir gave them to Alicia and told her to keep them a secret from Aline but with everything out in the open it's obvious Aline knew about them and didn't want to take them away

In the end he got to play the piano, for his little sister.

She had the chance to stay in Lumiere and live out the happy life with the Lumerians like she claims she wants.
She could've respected Verso's wishes and let him be erased like she did with painted Alicia.
Instead she refuses to let him die and forces him to live out his fantasy. She doesn't give a damn about Lumiere or the canvas anymore if Verso isn't there.

or, alternatively, what Alicia openly admits to is not the entirety of her feelings, as Verso calls out in the ending telling her she obviously lied to her father. Her actions tell the whole story : she is fucking obsessed with her brother and will say any stupid shit to justify spending more time with her fake brother.

Clea claims the writers used Alicia's naivety

live out her* fantasy

and that way Aline could help get her out along with Renoir.

Which means the entire plot starts all over again. Because why the fuck would Alicia want to return to her sad reality of a cripple living with her turbocunt sister and a controlling mother?

Just a theory. She has loads of books and a typewriter in her room. She was always the quiet kid stuck in her room reading. We also know Aline and Clea hold Alicia responsible for Verso's death. We do not know any details other than some fire broke out due to the Writers or at least someone Writing and that it claimed Verso's life as well as disfiguring Alicia, who was saved by Verso.

If anything, that family needed some gommage

AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SAVE ME

The writers tricked her. Canonically she was writing fanfiction in which she and Verso were having hot fiery sex with each other which is what started the fire

Ah yes, the thing that showcases itself in no way other than one sentence must definitely not be an overreaching thought on your part.

I think it's fairly obvious Aline gave up on Alicia somewhere along the way when her paintings weren't shaping up, and her dad tried to fill the hole left by that abandonment by overcompensating. Alicia getting meme'd by the writers is evidence that she was feeling alienated from her family/mother and was easy to take advantage of because of that.

Bitch for making Francious cry

We know that Alicia trusted writers and they used her and it lead to explosion/fire somehow.

turbocunt sister

t. didn't play side quests

She and Verso

Get your story straight,

Renoir and Verso*

It's a NEET girl after all.

writing straight fire fr fr

3 vs 1 would get Alicia out of the painting pretty quickly. Renoir got Aline out with only Maelle inadvertently helping him and would he have got Aline out by himself if he waited 33 more years.

But it's a part of her feelings that gets ignored. She actually does have more than argument to stay in the canvas, but the game only focuses on the Verso part.

Yes let's not take the fact that verso literally begs her to kill him and she still puppeteers his weary soul like a fucked up yandere in the ending where she wins as evidence, that would be inconvenient.

Secretly she was glad painted Alicia is gone

So you can read the minds of fictional characters? She granted her wish to be erased from existence and the only reason she felt this way is because her mom/creator was an asshole who left her scarred and black and white and her brother, ignored her and just wallowed in his own self pity.

Because her father isn't objecting to her responsibly using a canvas to augment her life, he is objecting to the unhealthy behavior she wants to engage in. He has been there, he has made these mistakes, he knows where they lead, he wants to convince her to not commit them.

Renoir would have gotten burned if that was the case

The fuck are you talking about you schizo?
She tries something to make him happy, removing his immortality and letting him experience what is a human, in hopes he changes his mind.
That's literally the entire extent of that ending. Yeah, he is probably bitter about it and not moving on at all, probably planning a coup or to kill himself again. But your drivel is absolutely unhinged, you need to get off your lowbrow anime nonsense for a while.

Sure, but that wouldn't make Alicia more receptive of them. And it doesn't solve the problem. Unless they want to make Alicia even more miserable.

daugther, I need you to find something that makes you happy

ok, I am going to create this painting...

NO, NOT LIKE THAT YOU STUPID CHILD

Gustave is the only person who ever showed care and love to Alicia/Maelle. Ofc the poor girl fucking chose the painting world. She has a family that actually cares for her (not fake unlike Aline), parents who genuinely wish the best for her even if they are no longer around, and she is not a goblina that need can't talk. The only fault she did was chained Verso to the painted world but, that was because she hope Verso could start anew and have hope in the future like her. She was too young to understand Verso's perspective but, the autist just couldn't stop being mysterious and vague instead of explaning shit properly to this already fucked up teenager.

Verso is dead anon. It's time to move on. Let his fake painted copy rest

I'm amazed you didn't get internal brain bleeding from the cognitive dissonance typing this post must have made you feel. I have nothing more to add, you somehow managed to prove yourself wrong without realizing it.

Gustave is the only person who ever showed care and love to Alicia

Wrong

I have no judgement or blame against her. At the same time, the game gives you the choice to decide the fate of the canvas, and Verso's ending is the correct one.

Nigga, pretty sure that Verso is not even aware that he is being forced to be kept around. Pretty sure the pausing before playing the piano trying to convey this.
Maelle didn't paint the Verso that beg and cry for his end, he paint a puppets that dance and sang on her whim.

No, that's true. The only people who ever showed her any support were the painted people, because her real family are self-centered shitheads.

Authority figure? I'd handle the insinuations myself.

I accept your concession. Do a backflip on the way down your cope-hole.

self-centered shitheads.

If you were a literal demiurge and could create civilizations, rule as god then wipe them on a whim, I'd be like that too.

see this thing that goes entirely against everything this whole game, storyline and characterization are about?

THAT is what is going on!

I simply have to assume you are arguing in bad faith at this point because I have no idea what could even compel someone to come to conclusions this moronic. Just nah.

Who else were there for her after the poor girl got burned and blamed for her Brother's dead? Her parents? hell no. they are too busy outschizoing each other instead of directing their grief towards the writter to actually started this whole shitfest

Alicia needs to find herself a loving and understanding boyfriend who is always there for her, so that she has a reason to leave the canvas once in a while.

the autist just couldn't stop being mysterious and vague instead of explaning shit properly to this already fucked up teenager.

KILL ME

KILL ME ALREADY

I WANT TO DIE

KILL ME ALREADY

PLAY YOU FUCKING KEK

Yeah, innocent and confused teenager.

Gustave loved Maelle and her character.
He would have disliked Alicia for being such a weak-minded pussy.

There have been some wild theories going on. Someone said that in Verso's ending Gustave is beckoning Alicia to come to him, and that implies that she kills herself

if you don't let your wife kill herself inside a painting you're a schizo bro

It does look that way though. I wonder if it's an animator fuckup.

Maelle herself would have disliked Alicia, really.

She was going to paint the outside world for Lune and the others to see, so she'd have to leave the canvas from time to time for that.

Verso is understandably anxious at the idea of explaining to a child demigod she has complete control over him and he is a slave to her whims, especially considering he knows how she is and that she wouldn't go along with his plan.

Renoir has to chill the fuck out and realize escapism is based

They're both the same. Alicia is obsessed with Verso, Maelle would have been obsessed with Gustave

How would Lune leave the painting to enter another one though? If you could bring pocket dimensions inside another pocket dimension you'd have problems.

Her dad was there for her whole life and she clearly loves him too. Unfortunately the painting mindfucked her into believing that only her painted life mattered more.

Nigga he could've explained his POV and be CLEAR before just deciding to end it all with him.
he could've tried non the less. but, we all know he is a coward who can't even speak againts his mother
yes. should've used all that energy to get back at the writters

Yes. She explicitly wonders if he would find a reason to smile if she didn't kill him. She is naive and doesn't understand Verso's suicidal tendencies and thinks he just needs a happy life.

You know, there are more efficient ways to do this. But Renoir doesn't even bother to talk things out with either Aline nor Alicia, and instead just bruteforces his way through.
No wonder he meets resistance at every step.

Renoir is reverse maruki and it's so obvious lmao. It's weird because development of this started in 2018 I think and we didn't see Maruki until, what, 2020?

I wonder if Aline's solution to Renoir's negative experience with painting was also to destroy his paintings. You'd think he would have been able to convince her to take a break from the painting, unless she was unwilling due to being aware he'd immediately destroy the painting as she taught him to when she saved him.

No Lune explains it as sort of like an art gallery, a painting within a painting, so they can all see what the outside world is like.

Talk things out where nigger? Aline is already in the painting and refuses to leave and he talked to Alicia multiple times and she refused to leave every single time

he could've tried non the less

no, that would have been stupid because it would reduce his odds of succeeding. He had a plan, and Alicia not being aware of her own powers was a fundamental part of it, otherwise she would have refused to kill the paintress and probably joined her.

Debatable. Maelle had a whole act to grieve about him without succumbing to the tempration of painting him; plus she surrounded herself with loving and caring people
That said, she was on a crusade for revenge until the very end, so I don't know if she completely overcame his death, even after that

That makes more sense then.

get back at the writers by letting them also kill your wife instead of just your son bro!

Nah they were perfectly capable of mastering their power and not succumb to temptation purely because their personal lives in the real world were going smoothly. The moment tragedy hits, as is inevitable in life, is when they could not moderate themselves in the paintings, and only destruction of the canvas would solve it.

Her dad was there for her whole life

Ehhh, it has to be spelled out to Alicia that was her father's favourite, because she herself wasn't seeing it, with Renoir being busy praising Clea.

None of us have a soul since we live in a materialistic universe. Does that mean we're all worthless?

Maelle didn't go "woe is me" when Gustave died. She grieved and honored his sacrifice by pressing forward.
We could've had a Maelle that used her strengths to put Alicia's life back together.
Instead we got an Alicia using her weaknesses to corrupt Maelle's legacy.

Different scenarios I'd guess. The whole obsession with this canvas is that it still holds a part of their son
Aline is way more powerful than renoir. If nothing inside the painting is worth saving, it's very possible that she went in, kicked renoir out and destroyed the canvas so she could teach/lecture him on the dangers of getting lost in there

then why fuck was he joining Alicia go againts Reiner then? Let's admit, he was just a flip-flopping coward who can't decided what best for himself.

You will have a good life outside the canvas, "Alicia" :)

World war 1 is about to begin

lmao

fucking armored titan am I right?

In the painting? Aline threw him under the monolith only AFTER he decided to wipe out the canvas. Also, what he did with Alicia wasn't talking. He kept dismissing her points and telling her to go home. Of course they won't come to an agreement.

No shit, she's dumb as fuck.

will you keep fighting until they finish that film adaptation?

then why fuck was he joining Alicia go againts Reiner then?

brotherly instinct

Sports fags are cucks, But you are a redditor.

Reddit fags are the biggest cucks on the planet. We are not buying your shitty French parry slop.

let's talk

NOOOO not like that you have to let me win the arguement!!!!!!

How do you even know if he didn't try to talk to Aline before deciding on genociding the canvas anyway?

33rd December

I don't think they live in the same universe as us silly anon.

A lot of people forget this bit and it's obvious she'd need to do research to paint various places and things from the world, so she'd have to leave the canvas sometimes.
He was kind to her, but she needed more attention and affection, clearly. Renoir was dealing with a crazy wife who was basically ntring him to live with her created family and that took a lot of his attention away from Alicia. I think the only constant in her life was Clea and she wasn't really open with her feelings, the only time you hear Clea open up is at the end of the endless tower, where she gives Alicia her full endorsement to do whatever it is that makes her happy.

are you retarded? Clea single-handedly held them back while Reinar and Aline were in the painting. They used trick to deal a blow to painters. It obvious they could fight them off. instead of being a cuck and let writters fuck them over.

If I was a cripple with only retarded schizo family members alive I'd also rather live in a painting.

because she herself wasn't seeing it

She openly jokes to Verso that daddy will listen to her because she knows he has a soft spot for her

Clea has already stated Renoir and Aline have neither tried actually talking the matter through.
So your point of "they are irresponsive to his attempts!" is moot; he never tried. He went in and dragged her out the moment he saw fit. And she never conveyed her sorrow and just shut herself away without warning.
This is how it is.
And he did not try to talk to Alicia, at all. He simply dismissed her (after causing her attachment to the area to begin with by using her.)

she didn't do shit nigger, she was just looking for info whie waiting for Renoir

She grieved and honored his sacrifice by pressing forward

Until they got to the battlefield and she went full retard. It took the others talking her through how they're still carrying on for her to actually carry on.

i bet the writters are laughing their ass off seeing how the mighty painters shooting themselves at each other's foot

The gaslighting by alicia was crazy towards the end

n-no but you see, you're doing the same! you want control because you failed!

she even stutters and everything, as if looking for an excuse to talk back

(((Writers)))

in the moment that annoyed me but in retrospect that was pretty good foreshadowing that she would not react well to loss of any kind

it's just standard kid talk trying to tell your parents to back off
honestly all these retards calling renoir toxic it's like they've never seen a child say random bullshit to convince their parents to let them smoke weed and skip school.

This anon gets it.

Where do you farm chroma in the endgame? Looking at all the shops left, I would need about 2mil chroma. How the fuck?

I just amassed it farming lumina in Renoir's draft.

The are only 2 retarded schizos in the family. Aline and Alicia herself.

In the end I simply do not give a shit about this stupid painter family, so the latter half of the game just sucks.

Because Clea says so.

Money is a pain in the ass to come by the whole time. Just do all the side areas and you should eventually make enough to buy everything.

Go back to mentally abusing your children, Renoir.
You already got one down, two to go!

She leaned on the people around her to gain the strength to carry on.
If only Alicia had done that instead of withdrawing herself and turning into a walking ghost.

but they blamed her for the fire

Renoir didn't and she still shut him out.

These retards identify with the child, that's the issue.

Renoir's Drafts like the other anon said. Really easy to make money fighting the merchant there. Although you need high lvl for it.

?
Clea says Renoir literally never tried having a conversation, and neither did Aline. In fact she says if they had only been mature enough to reach out to the other this entire mess would have been skipped altogether.

sex with Luné

Oh no anon can't tell reality from fiction lol. Take your meds.

Verso...

I'd rather she fuck Sciel while I watch

It's a 16 year old with an accidental progeny murder, survivor's guilt and now 16 extra years of life where she has been an orphan preparing to die in a helpless war.
I think her not being emotionally open and needing the adults to reach out to her in a level headed and non-manipulative way is perfectly reasonable.
In fact she is a miracle of stability considering her situation.

Yeah it's pretty ridiculous. They are going to have to contact Sigmund Freud to fix their heads and marital problems.

it's the schizo

Of course it was. My bad for answering.

desu lune is the most disappointing character of the game
starts off as this all business scientist chick, builds up the expectation of her being smart and analytical, she doesn't have a single insightful thing to say the whole game, she fails to piece together the obvious implications of what painted renoir says in front of her, and she doesn't call verso out for keeping important details from them when it's obvious as fuck he does.
I expect maelle to be retarded and Sciel to just take things as they go, but I expected some forward thinking from Lune and got none.

Yes, that's exactly the point I'm making.

Alright I'm glad to hear that Renoirs draft is a good money maker. Only content left for me is the Endless Tower and Renoirs Draft. I was kinda dreading having to farm Golgra 50 times or some stupid shit. Thanks!

Renoir had been there. Aline snapped him out of it by force and taught him the dangers of lingering in your creations
I assume Renoir knew there's no convincing Aline after she was neck deep in grief and copium.
Clea was clearly a moron too. Only because of her help did renoir ALSO spend 50 years on that stalemate situation too

calm down, sophie

projecting this hard

stay mad

Just finished the game. How do i get the 3rd ending?

Gustave...

I thought she was scheming something

start game off, everyone mentions how detached and serious she is the night before

gustave about to end it, she appears literally out of nowhere saying that if he kills himself, she dies too

always obsessed with science and the mission, magic user is already reason enough not to trust her

Wasted potential. She has no role during act 3

It's okay when Verso does it is the national motto of his fanclub.

It's fantasy Paris. The magical powers should give it away already but it they're not enough then the 33rd of December on Verso's tombstone should spell it out for you. The real war is between the painters and the writers, which is already underway

If only Alicia had done that instead of withdrawing herself and turning into a walking ghost.

I wouldn't be sunshine and puppies as well if I were as severely crippled as her. And it's hard not to become a ghost, when you literally cannot speak and everybody has super-easy time dismissing you.

the shitshow around it

Meds.

Clea seems to have no problem understanding her grunts

Clea is the arbiter of truth

Clea is infallible or whatever, I'm tired of reading this

Lune was in the game before the writer got hired.

She is indeed

Verso should've let Alicia die in the fire.

and how the fuck did he cause her attachment to the area retard. Your autism bitch Clea did that dumb fucking nigger

renoir has one

verso has one

Hmmmmmm. A mystery.

The game makes it pretty clear, also through Clea, that Renoir is basically projecting due to his fear.
He knows what it is to be in a state of enthrallment, so he fears his wife will never return. He feared this before there was more than just a few signs of his wife being actually addicted.
However he escalated things. Rather than try to talk him down, Aline zealously ended standing her ground. Then indeed, Clea stepped in, and that allowed them to further escalate the issue so much so that they got stuck inside the painting.
If the woman wasn't a raving lunatic yet, she ended up that way simply because they forced each other's hands constantly in a vicious cycle of fear-induced stupidity.
While in the meantime utilizing their children like tools of course, because that's the way it goes.

I have a feeling this was just for the benefit of the audience, so that they understand what's going on. Otherwise, it would've been a very awkward dialogue.

Kinda glad the sex was blackscreen
I hate sex scenes in movies with a passion and it's not any better in games, if I wanna see sex with characters I can just use r34 sites or make them fuck the wany I want in Blender or whatever.
I can't even describe how hard I cringed during the BG3 sex cutscenes

Verso should've fucked Alicia in the fire

*hits crack pipe*
Gustave wasn't resurrected for the last act because his chroma was missing... because he had already been repainted somewhere else for another mission in the locked part of the map.
Gustave side story DLC soon.

Watch the game in between pressing buttons.

The harem ending is exclusive to Gustave. It's the one where you get Emma, Lune, Maelle, Sciel and Sophie, pregnant.

look at me how much I care about painted Alicia

she wanted to be erased

what she wants isn't emportant, this is all about Verso Verso Verso Verso

Also everybody else is selfish, I get it.

Gustave side story DLC soon.

the dev said there won't be any dlc

Clea is the only one that seems to have an impartial view on things. We have no other narrative tool or third party point of view than her, so what do you want us to argue?
Schizo ramblings, heacanons based on assumption and extrapolation of character traits not presented in the game based on what-if's?
I prefer using the only source in the game that appears to appraise things coldly because her anger is directed elsewhere. Besides the obvious fact she is the narrative tool for filling in the gaps.

the woman isn't right in the head, so why doesn't she do what I think is rational?

You are retarded.

Chat, is this real?

Why are you quoting something from hours ago if you don't bother to read the whole point?

They just said it's uncomfirmed for now though?

YOUR DAUGHTER HAS ACCIDENTALLY ENDED UP IN THE PAINTING

YOU SEE THIS

YOUR MUCH MORE EXPERIENCED WIFE TELLS YOU THEY NEED TO REMOVE HER ASAP

YOU SAY NAH FUCK THAT LOL LET HER STAY

YOUR WIFE FLIPS HER SHIT OUT AND CRIES OUT "NO!" AS YOU PUT HER BACK IN THE PAINTING

How many times do we need to repeat this?
Did you play the game? At all?

that would be a valid point if the game didn't do its best to showcase that everyone involved in the situation has a flawed outlook on it and is presenting a biased version of it. We don't get to see much of Clea, but assuming she's the lone rational agent in the story is probably a stretch.

Shouldn't he have been unresurrectable as he didn't die to the gommage?

I Wrote that.

They never said that.

He didn't die to a nevron which means his chroma wasn't sealed

YOUR MUCH MORE EXPERIENCED WIFE TELLS YOU THEY NEED TO REMOVE HER ASAP

didn't happen
Aline mindraped her daughter the second she entered the painting and made her live 16 as an orphan nobody likes
she only wanted her out when she turned into a threat

'Sir, a second daughter has entered the painting'

The hyper rules autist breaking through emotional manipulation/enthrallment makes perfect sense.

I still think Alicia should just cut ties with her family, because they are all cunts.

she doesn't have an impartial view, she is fighting the iceberg while the passengers are drowning. She's retarded

disfigured, crippled, mute girl whose entire family hates or ignores her

having fun playing VR games

family drags you back out to your sad reality to die in some war even though you're powerless to do anything

If I was Alicia I'd just choose suicide desu.

Which still doesn't remove that there is no other source of information on the matter in the game.
If they cared for her to have a dubious take on the matter, they would have other characters or even Renoir/Aline speak on the matter at some point. Verso-soul sometimes vaguely does, at best, and then the ghosts of Aline and Renoir in the side-content behave in line with what Clea says. Aline is self-centered and Renoir is a control freak, but they both care for each other.
That is what we are shown and that is what she describes.

it would have if she had displayed any resistance to it at all, but in every cutscene she's just as enthralled as the others. Mocoko and Verso are the only ones shown meaningfully resisting it prior to that point.
The moment would have worked if they had foreshadowed it but it just came out of nowhere

I think it's a matter of intelligence and I'm not smart enough to word this in a way that doesn't make me sound like some wannabe enlightened cunt.

They are at war and her being a painter, means she would likely be killed by the writers guild if she left her home.

Okay, you actually did not play the game at all. My bad for assuming otherwise. Have fun discussing things you have not experienced I guess.

She deserved better.
I can fix her.

I have a feeling people are putting too much relevance in this Painter/Writer conflict.

did YOU play the game ? Clea calls out the fact that Aline is repainting Alicia the moment she enters the painting, and the fact that she's about to lose her memories. Sorry that the facts go contrary to your narrative, I'm sure you'll cope with more headcanon

What the fuck is this wall of headcanon literally nothing in your post happend in the game.

i think Alicia is an allegory for vtuber desu. she was a sad friendless NEET who want to write doujin of her brother but, her family hated her for that. so, she became a vtuber, gain a new identity, and fanbase that love her. But, no her dad wants her to go to college and her mom got addicted to VRchat

Gustave is in the terrible ending where not everybody died.

I wanted to become a vtuber, but it turned out my mother was already Usada Pekora?!?!

The moment one of the painters (alicia) showed weakness they took advantage of it and killed someone (who was going to be alicia herself, but verso intervened); it's what sets the whole game in motion too
I'd say it's pretty significant