(ENDING SPOILERS) Why not just make another canvas?

[Lumie]

I understand that this canvas was specifically made by Verso and is a way for them to have a piece of his work left but wouldn't Alicia be able to simply just re-create the world he painted? after all she can simply give them memories that they had from verso's canvas. Or am I not understanding it right.

[Fiesbert]

Originally posted by Lume:

I understand that this canvas was specifically made by Verso and is a way for them to have a piece of his work left but wouldn't Alicia be able to simply just re-create the world he painted? after all she can simply give them memories that they had from verso's canvas. Or am I not understanding it right.

Although they want to escape reality. The canvas in which the game takes place has a piece of versos soul in it (and maybe even some more soul fragments)

[eglepe]

If they took your DNA and made a clone with your memories would the clone be you? Would you be okay with dying because the clone will live your life?

[InstableMonster]

they say in the game this canvas has a piece or verso's soul because he made it, they cant just make another one because he's dead and thus the copy wouldnt have a copy of his soul and it probably wouldnt act the same and they woudnt feel him in the canvas

[Agahnim01]

Originally posted by eglepe:

If they took your DNA and made a clone with your memories would the clone be you? Would you be okay with dying because the clone will live your life?

Exactly... like are Sciel and Lune even the same after Maelle brings them back? Or just very elaborate copies.

But also were they even alive in the first place, or drones created and programmed by Verso.? If not, what does it even mean to be alive? Do the painters create copies, or actual life?

[Ikit Claw]

I feel like the title might be too spoilery lol

[Ogami]

They even allude to it in the story when Noco "dies".
Monoco says they can bring him back and he will look and sound like Noco but will not be the same person as before, that one is "gone" forever.
I suspect it would be the same if Alicia/Maelle would try to recreate this world in a new canvas.
It would look the same most likely and the people too but they would not act or be the same as the ones she knew before.

[Crimsomrider]

For the same reason as why a real Mona Lisa is priceless and why a recreation is completely soulless worth nothing.

True art transcends the brush, it transcends the paint, it transcends the canvas. It gains its very own essence through the very soul poured into creating it and in doing so becomes a creation that transcends life itself.

You can try to recreate it, you can try copying it, even make a perfect one-to-one copy, but you can never copy what the original has - essence, because it can only come from the heart that poured its soul into creating it.

(Talking about strictly the Canvas here, not about bringing people back from within the Canvas).

[Theo]

This canvas has literally a small portion of Verso's soul. This is why Aline is grieving inside the canvas and trying to protect it