*SPOILERS* Ending Explained/ Discussion

[Gamerwig]

So just finished the game and man was it good in my opinion but it left me a bit confused probably due to missing a couple of notes here and there. So did he kill his wife and cut her up the way the story explains it or was it all just his imagination?

[Herozion]

Just, when you're in the house (end) where did you supposed to go ?

[Gamerwig]

Get the key from his office and go down to where he paints.

[Herozion]

ok thx

[Herozion]

For me, just his imagination, but he screwed up his house xD

[Gamerwig]

so his wife just died by slitting her wrists in the tub? and if she did , did he cut her up the way you see in the paintings after she was dead?

[Herozion]

No, I think his wife has just run off with the child

[Rampion Rampage]

She looked like that because of the burns she suffered. That was the turning point for him. He totally rejected her once she was no longer beautiful.

[Cerilun]

No, the wife definitely killed herself and painter took parts of her to make the painting and hair was from the daughter. She left an apology note where the wife said goodbye to the girl. Daughter is alive but the man lost her, there is a note about him kidnapping the girl at some point too.

[SONN SOBAKI]

is the ending only one? or has the alternative ending? (sry bad english) my man burned the house and painting at the end

[Cerilun]

Originally posted by Царь Фидон:

is the ending only one? or has the alternative ending? (sry bad english) my man burned the house and painting at the end

There are alternative ones!

[SONN SOBAKI]

oooooohhhhh....noo.... but Thx man))

[Ravq]

hmm I tought because of the water in the bath at the end and at the beginning there's another bath full of water and a baby doll in it, I assumed that the mother drowned the daughter so she wouldn't have to live with him, after that she slit her own wrists.

Also I think he caused the fire that burned her, he started as an workoholic and turned into an alcoholic, one point in the game I think it even trying to tell that he hit the daughter ( when you find the whiskey bottle and he says it's "daddys medicine". Wife tried to leave, he would abuse her so she chose death. He found them dead and became insane and delusional, that's why when he paints his wife, even tho that the painting is fine, he still her as scarred from the fire and starts again, loop of insanity and delusions.

Feel free to correct me guys, it's just my assumptions :)

Edit: I just reminded myself about the good bye note to the daughter :P

[Cerilun]

Originally posted by Honey Badger:

hmm I tought because of the water in the bath at the end and at the beginning there's another bath full of water and a baby doll in it, I assumed that the mother drowned the daughter so she wouldn't have to live with him, after that she slit her own wrists.

Also I think he caused the fire that burned her, he started as an workoholic and turned into an alcoholic, one point in the game I think it even trying to tell that he hit the daughter ( when you find the whiskey bottle and he says it's "daddys medicine". Wife tried to leave, he would abuse her so she chose death. He found them dead and became insane and delusional, that's why when he paints his wife, even tho that the painting is fine, he still her as scarred from the fire and starts again, loop of insanity and delusions.

Feel free to correct me guys, it's just my assumptions :)

Not bad conclusions!

For me at the moment when I'm finishing my second playthrough and found almost every note my conclusion is this: Wife killed herself. She left a note to their daughter asking for forgiveness and said her goodbyes. Voice also says that "we won't talk anymore". By hearing what she says when you find her items throughout the game I think ultimately she killed herself because she was depressed and jealous over the painting of herself. In the painting she is still her old self without the scars and all that she got from the fire. When you find the necklace she says that the thing or person she is jealous at is "eternal" which made me think this.

Also I really think that the daughter is alive finding the newsclipping saying that the painter lost her in a hearing of somekind (can't remember word from word, will check the clipping again later). He tried to kidnap the girl at somepoint and when she was taken away he says that "she is the only thing I have". This was in the same clipping about the kidnapping.

He is haunted by images of his wife and his subconcious for all the things he had done. He takes parts of his dead wife to infuse into the painting of her to make it more real and in sadness trying to bring her back somehow. He finishes the painting but sees that nothing can bring her back and in his grief he throws the painting away and burns them all. He decides to stay with his "wife" and die in the fire with her.

In the looping corridor you hear the painters side of the phonecall where he is told that his wife is in the hospital and the painter is shocked by this. This makes me believe that he didn't cause the fire, at least not on purpose.


Thank you if you finished this textwall lol, I like story theorizing!

[Ravq]

Nice conclusion and evaulation mate! In my version I made the "husband" a bit more of a darker character hah :P I would really love if a dev would come into this discussion and confirm at least some of the parts :) Nice talking to you! If you find out anything else please share with us here :)

[SONN SOBAKI]

and in the end somebody could open the safe, when you're playing chess with an invisible someone? I was able to open, but could not take the children whirligig, seems its bug or smth. Also, someone knows what other alternative endings have besides burning pictures?