maelle ending can somone explain? SPOILERS

[Deviant]

so i picked maelle ending and everyone seems to be alive and happy but i dont get that scene where maelle face is shown and its like crumbling or something whats happening there?

[Jester]

She's getting lost in the painting like the others.

[Deviant]

Originally posted by Jester:

She's getting lost in the painting like the others.

what does it mean getting lost in painting she will eventually dissapear? like die? but only her and not the expedition people?

[Zeiks]

She'll end up sick like her mom in the projection Renoir shows the expedition by the end, right before Verso leaves the group.
Choosing Maelle (aka Alicia) means choosing dellusion by living in the painting where she can keep everyone alive.

[Digger]

Originally posted by Deviant:

Originally posted by Jester:

She's getting lost in the painting like the others.

what does it mean getting lost in painting she will eventually dissapear? like die? but only her and not the expedition people?

She dies if she doesn't take a break. But she is scared Renoir will destroy the canvas and stop her from going back.

[Cataclism7]

It seems that when a painter spends too much time in a canvas, their face will slowly become "hollow", like they just took a rocket to the face.
See, the Curator (Renoir), the Paintress or the fading boy (Verso).

[Deviant]

hmm make sense then i been reading bout the endings and perspectives and there really isnt bad or good ending it just depends on perspective really amazing writing

[Me]

Originally posted by Deviant:

hmm make sense then i been reading bout the endings and perspectives and there really isnt bad or good ending it just depends on perspective really amazing writing

Maelle ending basically sucks for the Dessandre(sp?) family, both real and painted, but is great for everyone in the canvas. Verso ending is the happy ending for the family, but sacrifices everyone else to get there.

[zero]

its like her family said: staying too long in a painting is bad to them, and they were worried their mother would die to it, now shes doing the same, and the injuries are starting to show.

she could leave, but her little speech at the end shows she planned to stay, and die there.

shes choosing to live in the painted world until death, rather then live with her grief, basically.

[Panda Stanla]

as creator daid himself, there is no explain, it's a free explaination to himself, that's why there is 2 ending and no one better than the other, it's open endong, can will be a sequel

[Sildur]

In Maelle's ending she chooses to die in the painted world because staying in it is killing her slowly. Unfortunately the people of Lumiere are screwed either way because Verso's soul is still trapped in the painting (the little boy at the end) and I doubt Renoir would let him rot away like that after Maelle is dead. So he will probably destroy it in the end to let his son rest.

[Kethanid]

Originally posted by Zeiks:

She'll end up sick like her mom in the projection Renoir shows the expedition by the end, right before Verso leaves the group.
Choosing Maelle (aka Alicia) means choosing dellusion by living in the painting where she can keep everyone alive.

She will or she won't, according to Renoir she'll diminish, but according to Clea, they'll all be fine. Even Clea says that Renoir and Alina have spent countless years in paintings without issue, but somehow this one makes Alina sick. I think mostly it's because she has an emotional stake in it because it contains a sliver of Verso's soul., so mentally and emotionally it's draining to her. Even Clea thinks that Renoir should just let her be.

I'm on a 2nd playthrough and I noticed a couple of other things. I kind of wonder if they're actually already in a painting inside of a painting, as referenced by Lune. Because you don't see the markings on the face of Renoir in act 3, only when they're projecting from the supposedly real world.

And Clea is something else, I wonder if she's not actually a biological child of Renoir, because she doesn't ever call him father/dad/papa/pa. She only calls him Renoir. Never refers to him as a parent.

All the other paintings in the house reference someplace in Verso's canvas. Why? According to Clea, Aline and Renoir have made hundreds of paintings, why reference only those places that exist inside of Verso's canvas? Possibly real Verso used those paintings as reference for his world, but it still doesn't really add up.

There's a painting that shows the fire in the manor when you meet Clea, but it doesn't look like any area in the house, or room. And it shows furniture flying around. According to the lore, they can affect things inside a canvas, but not the real world. And in Renoir's painting room, there's items floating around the area also. Makes me wonder if they're actually inside a canvas inside a canvas.

[Ratsplat]

I think the only evidence against the eyes being 'getting lost' is the fact that you see it on Clea at one point, who is the last person to ever get lost in a painting. People need to stop taking the first idea they come up with and running with it. The simplest explanation is that the eye thing is to help show others in the real world who is currently using their painted powers. And the strangest thing of all is... why would Maelle have that look if she is currently inside of a canvas? The one interesting about it is that the eye thing shown on her shows a missing eye, and that would be Alicia for real.