Milton?

[Talezteller]

Out of all the stories, Milton's, Edith's Brother, was the most confusing.

A couple of sketch pictures depicting him hiding inside his own painting.

What was that all about? And also, why the hell did the Finches just assume he was dead? I don't recall Edith's diary mentioning anything about a search, she just went on about his "disappearance".

That, combined with the fact that he's the only one we know has seen and used the secret passages in the house, makes me think there's more to his story.

Maybe he hid in a secret room and starved to death there? Surely at some point the smell of decomposition would have reached someone in the house.

Then again, since he was the last to... disappear, maybe the Finches just left before finding out?

Answers are welcome.

[Shooble]

I'm surprised no one's responded to this.

One of the devs stated that Milton's disappearance was actually real. He found a magical paint brush, painted himself a magic door, and disappeared into their previous game titled "The Unfinished Swan". I've never played the game before, but the art style of what Milton drew on the walls, and even the picture of him Edith draws in her book are similar to the art style in the game. I've seen screenshots.

What confuses me about it, though, is that I found a regular wide bristle paint brush that was dipped in black paint laying next to the door. Yet the flipbook showed he painted it with the magic paintbrush, opened the door, and went inside. So perhaps this is all wrong. Maybe he found out about the stories of his family members via the secret passages, made a fake flipbook of what happened to him, then ran away in the hopes that whatever "monster" got them wouldn't get him. In the flipbook it even shows him drawing a flipbook and playing it back, and the playback was him drawing the door and leaving through it. It's like flipbook inception.

[starrtennis]

Note: There are search fliars for Milton outside the Finch house at the beginning of the game.