The way Canvases work is so intriguing to me. Painters spending literal decades inside? Yeah, their bodies are obviously in some kind of stasis â but it must be so fucked up, like, mentally? Especially for the kids â did they functionally have childhoods that were two (three, four, five..?) times as long as they should have been? Or did they, from an outsider perspective, "grow up too fast" â like, was there a point where we had a ten-year-old Verso with the psyche of a twenty-year-old man? It doesn't seem so, right?..
And Renoir and Aline â they spent 67 years under/on top of the Monolith. Do they even remember how to function in the society at this point? Also, not to be the "time heals all wounds" person â but 67 years seem to be a sufficient time to somewhat process your grief, no? Of course, I can't imagine how painful it is to lose a child â but it feels like it shouldn't be this, um, acute at this point?
Anyway, my headcanon is that going into the Canvas puts not only your body, but your psyche in stasis too. That's why Aline is stuck in her grief so much, that's why she buried herself in the Canvas â because every time she returned into the real world, this unprocessed grief caught up with her, and she couldn't deal with it, and she went back into the Canvas, and it again prevented her from processing it, and the cycle went on and on â not just because of the fantasy she lived in, but because of the properties of the Canvas itself. And that's why I don't really believe in the "Maellicia in her ending will process her grief at her own pace and eventually return home" theory â it obviously didn't work out for her mom, did it?
(i mean, if you're in a Canvas and your body is in stasis, the connections in your brain doesn't form the way they do when you experience things in reality, right? so it might not even be the Canvas Magic (tm), just literally biology? i have no idea tbh)
(or it might be just something like "everything experienced in a Canvas feels like a vague dream when you return back" â but this option doesn't sound as interesting to me, so nah)
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