Which ending did you choose? [SPOILERS]

[SHINRA-CORP]

I agreed with Verso's point of view more but I couldn't help but back Maelle I guess I had grown attached to her character more.

That ending with Maelle was kinda ominous the way she stares into the camera as she just goes on with the charade.

[Revan]

I chose Maelle at the end but wasn't really happy with the ending. I was expecting her to have a few years left in the canvas and that she could just do the thing her mother was supposed to do, close the game, log out and restart it like one week later after she has recovered or so.

But apparently she will die within months in the canvas as I understand the ending

For me this makes Verso's option the only viable one. Sucks to be a Sims character I suppose but that's how it goes. The game made Maelle "our little sister" and that's the only way to protect her, even if it means protecting her from herself. That's at least my opinion.

[Soulgain]

I love Maelle, and I’ve grown emotionally attached to her, but I still sided with Verso’s conclusion, because it reflects the kind of person I am.

The illusion has to end eventually. Wounds can only be treated in reality. A world built strictly as a way to cope might offer comfort, but it's a temporary fix for something that demands real healing.

[Tower Dove]

Imho Verso's ending is the correct one. And it is the best one for Maelle as well. I think it will be the canon one, because Expedition 33 is also a foot in the door for a big franchise and this ending closes the page of that world and open up boundlessly the rest of the universe/multiverse?.

[parent child bowl]

I did chose Verso's ending. But not because I agree with Renoir's reasoning. I just think that the destruction of the canvas is more desirable than Alicia's puppet show and the suffering caused by Renoir coming back to the painting to drag Alicia out.

I'm certain that as long as the canvas exists, Aline and Alicia will always come back in until they are kicked out again, leading to an endless cycle of suffering. They will never use the canvas in a healthy way and Renoir will interfere.

[Revan]

Originally posted by parent child bowl:

I'm certain that as long as the canvas exists, Aline and Alicia will always come back in until they are kicked out again, leading to an endless cycle of suffering. They will never use the canvas in a healthy way and Renoir will interfere.

It would have been nice if Renoir could have just banned them from the server..

[SHINRA-CORP]

Originally posted by Revan:

Originally posted by parent child bowl:

I'm certain that as long as the canvas exists, Aline and Alicia will always come back in until they are kicked out again, leading to an endless cycle of suffering. They will never use the canvas in a healthy way and Renoir will interfere.

It would have been nice if Renoir could have just banned them from the server..

Ayoo

[WjndWalk3r]

As i understand the pre-ending while they let us choose, the whole canvas working with the core is the faceless child (small piece of real Verso) as long as that child still drawing, the canvas is alright. Other family member of him can login to that canvas but their role only are editor, even if Maelle or any of her family member die from exhausted from drawing stuff or not login, that world still live and go on like normal. That's mean Lune, Ciel, Gustave will still live happy.
I choosed Maelle because i am too want to live in my own fantasy more than lonely in this cruel real world :'(

[['w']]

Originally posted by WjndWalk3r:

As i understand the pre-ending while they let us choose, the whole canvas working with the core is the faceless child (small piece of real Verso) as long as that child still drawing, the canvas is alright. Other family member of him can login to that canvas but their role only are editor, even if Maelle or any of her family member die from exhausted from drawing stuff or not login, that world still live and go on like normal. That's mean Lune, Ciel, Gustave will still live happy.
I choosed Maelle because i am too want to live in my own fantasy more than lonely in this cruel real world :'(

Thank you for resurrecting my mood, didn't like the reasoning here, even though those are valid points, I also prefer this world to continue, no matter the cost.

damn still don't get the part, of the real people outside of the canvas, if you chose Maelle, is everyone of her family outside of the canvas dead? Can't they set fire to the paintings?

Only at the monolith right now.

[Zero]

Verso 100%

Maelle lying to Renoir to get what she wants (Saying she'll leave the canvas after just spending a bit more time in it) just shows how immature she is and how she can't protect herself from canvas addiction.

"See things as they are, not as you want them to be."
"Life keeps forcing cruel choices."

The parent really knows best in this case.

[AkumulatoR]

Maelle ending is the junkie ending. You will larp as being happy in fake world and then die. End then the canvas will burn because no way Renoir or Clea will let this thing stay intact after without Alice begging them to keep it.

[['w']]

*Call My Name* naaah closes book, fantasy in yourself dies away.. thinking about never ending story, maybe here everything is far severe

[SHINRA-CORP]

Originally posted by WjndWalk3r:

As i understand the pre-ending while they let us choose, the whole canvas working with the core is the faceless child (small piece of real Verso) as long as that child still drawing, the canvas is alright. Other family member of him can login to that canvas but their role only are editor, even if Maelle or any of her family member die from exhausted from drawing stuff or not login, that world still live and go on like normal. That's mean Lune, Ciel, Gustave will still live happy.
I choosed Maelle because i am too want to live in my own fantasy more than lonely in this cruel real world :'(

This game had you in your feelings bro bro

[['w']]

Originally posted by AkumulatoR:

Maelle ending is the junkie ending. You will larp as being happy in fake world and then die. End then the canvas will burn because no way Renoir or Clea will let this thing stay intact after without Alice begging them to keep it.

maybe time has a different speed in the canvas, in comparison to the outside world, like in narnia

[parent child bowl]

Originally posted by AkumulatoR:

Maelle ending is the junkie ending. You will larp as being happy in fake world and then die. End then the canvas will burn because no way Renoir or Clea will let this thing stay intact after without Alice begging them to keep it.

Clea doesn't really care about Alicia or Aline staying in the canvas. She just wants Renoir outside to fight alongside her.

The world in the canvas isn't fake. It just isn't the painters' world. The painters are essentially creationist gods in the context of canvases.

[Leopanther]

I tried both and overall like Verso's more. But that's mainly because the writters decided to turn Maelle's ending into a bad end lesson about not clinging to fantasies and escaping reality.

I would have liked a middle ground ending. Where Maelle does spend some time to fix the Canvas and say goodbye to her friends, then returns to reality and protects it from outside. Plus points if she left a fragment of her soul to take over maintaining it and let the fragmemt of Verso's soul decide if it wants ro stop. (a fragment of herself that loves the canvas world so much so it doesn't mind staying to maintain it)

My main issue with the two ending options is that they both treat the canvas people like they don't matter. It's all about the real family. Sciel, Lune, Monoco and Esquie and every other being in the canvas just have their existence decided by the outcome of the family drama. With how the game let us get to know them and see their relationships develop, it seems a bit unfair that it denies them a good ending for their world after all the hardship they went through to achieve it.

Leaving out Verso cause he should be allowed to rest without having to damn the entire canvas world to erasure to end his immortal existence.