(Spoilers) Comparing the two Endings/Implications

[Ratsplat]

Verso | Fake: Quite potentially the best ending. Verso may have been fake, but if his actual soul was in the canvas, it could be said that her big brother protected her for the second time, which also effectively 'kills' him again for the second time. Alicia and her family will heal a bit in the real world, and later on they can safely delve back into other paintings once their heads are clear.

Verso | Real: Easily the worst ending, due to it effectively being genocide. And if Verso himself was real, then he truly was a villain and such. He doomed the painted world, and rid it of the one person that could have allowed it to thrive.

Alicia | Fake: I would rate this ending as being mostly neutral. She'd effectively be living in a land of delusion if everything truly was fake around her. However, it isn't entirely bad due to just how terrible her real life was. You just have to hope that she eventually knows to leave the painting at some point. She can easily make her own special canvas. And if everything is fake, then you have no excuse for showing remorse for Verso. If anything, only the fragment of his soul should be shown remorse, though I don't know if it's entirely shown whether he was truly tired of painting or not.

Alicia | Real: I would personally say this ending is better than the 'Verso | Fake' ending for one very specific reason. If everyone in the painting was real, then that means the rest of the game was not a 'waste' and actually mattered. This isn't something I strongly latch onto in relation to other angles, but I know it has been a major contention for many others. And as such, if Verso truly is real within the painting, we can only hope that Maelle allows him his peace at some point.

[Platapoop]

Well genoicde of Gestrals maybe. Renoir already genocided the citizens. I think they have reiterated many times that entities recreated are the same but different, or to simplify, they are essentially copies of the original.

So even if Alicia recreates the citizens, the original ones are still dead.

Also Sciel being happy and not having her baby is a little sussy because she sees it during Sirene

[Ratsplat]

Originally posted by Platapoop:

Well genoicde of Gestrals maybe. Renoir already genocided the citizens. I think they have reiterated many times that entities recreated are the same but different, or to simplify, they are essentially copies of the original.

So even if Alicia recreates the citizens, the original ones are still dead.

Also Sciel being happy and not having her baby is a little sussy because she sees it during Sirene

I've always understood all of these angles, and agree with them even, but I will likely always go the route of: Everything is up to interpretation, and the last thing we should do is say that everything is cut and dry. There's so many things that can honestly go either way, and we will likely never be able to stop talking about any of it until official confirmations come out. Which we may never get...

In another thread I've gone over some good evidence showing that her Ending may actually be happier than many believe, despite the black and white and other strange fakeness about it.

[Platapoop]

Yes, I'm not going to say 100% that's devs wanted us to understand if the people get recreated they aren't the originals. But it is my assumption.