Drawing of Castle

[John Outlast]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this before:

What's the deal with the opening drawing/memory showing a little girl looking at a castle? Clearly making this the first image you see upon starting the game/main menu would imply there's some importance here, yet it's never referred to or explained again. Is this supposed to be a memory of Tasi's childhood, or a hint at her first daughter having some connection to Brennenburg?

It really does feel like the drawing is a holdover of some idea where Tasi may have had a more explicit connection to Brennenburg, like growing up in the surrounding village. Maybe that's where her 'hereditary disease' came from? It's just weird considering how every other sketch featuring Alys shows her in a pretty mundane scenario and we don't know much about Tasi's backstory besides her mentioning her dad died when she was 16. Was this an idea that was dropped, or a clue towards something else we haven't uncovered yet?

[tearyui]

Each ending has a different drawing at the end of the credits that all look similar to that beginning picture of the girl and the castle. SPOILERS of the endings ahead:
- The ending where you give up your daughter and become a ghoul gives you a picture of Amari sitting and playing, with the alien tower in the place where the castle is (to the left), and Tasi as a ghoul (to the right).
- The ending where you go through the portal with Amari gives you a picture of the Eiffel tower where the castle was, and Amari and Tasi holding hands. Tasi has ghoulish features but is still mostly human in that pic.
- The ending where you inject the shadow into the vitae and everybody dies gives you a picture of a destroyed version of the castle on the left side, and the monkey stuffed animal is sitting slumped over on the right side.

I think that beginning picture of the girl with the castle is meant to symbolize what Tasi wants for Amari - a picture perfect life, filled with flowers and happiness. The ending pictures show the realistic versions of that castle picture, with the state in which the events of the ending unfolded. Alien tower: alien lady (that I forget the name of) has the baby, and Tasi can only hope that Amari grows up with a decent life. Eiffel Tower: They make it back home, and Tasi and Amari are together for as long as they both have each other. Burning castle: All hope of a future for Amari (and Tasi) is lost.

[John Outlast]

Yeah, I figured it was 'symbolic'. Just can't shake the feeling it's a leftover from an older draft. Much like how once you get the doll in your inventory nothing ever happens with it again, or the the Traveler's Locket being forgotten for the whole mid-section. The Super_Secret files only show a fraction of the development process but even the few design documents within it show the developers intended a lot more than the final product.