to bloom in darkest night

just when i was thinking why maelle is fine with being on the ride (since she has vertigo) she started puking lmao

why is monoco holding onto the seat???

the cutscene following osquio’s defeat is so freaking cute yet when osquio said verso wouldn’t be a successful musician, and that he would be forced to painted is so sad! remember that was painted by a CHILD. and the fact that osquio is said to be the root of all evil in this world says a lot about real verso’s biggest fear as a child.

it also didn’t help that when painted verso ended the fight by saying it’s fun to experience this fight on his own (instead of just memories given by aline)

just when i was thinking why maelle is fine with being on the ride (since she has vertigo) she started puking lmao

why is monoco holding onto the seat???

this was my team during this cutscene btw [mild spoiler alert?]

i went with maelle’s ending at first, since i think her life as alicia is too miserable without a voice, with a sister and mother who resent her for verso’s death — if i were her i’d definitely rather waste my life away in a world with my loved ones although it screws renoir over by leaving him with an even more broken family (and at the cost of child slavery LOL rip real verso’s piece of soul)

but seeing painted verso pleads to die, maelle bringing back gustave, sophie, pierre etc., and even making verso perform against his wish is so…dystopian. what’s the difference with having the paintress out there “painting death” (though we now know it’s not her doing) and maelle manipulating lives, playing god in the painted world? so naturally i went back and chose verso’s ending. lune’s reaction made me so sad though (especially after she kissed verso?!??!!)

i wish there’s an ending that let painted verso die as he wants, and for maelle to move on from her grief and live as alicia again while preserving the painting somewhere so everyone else could live. but without the painting destroyed i don’t think maelle’d be willing to move on and return to her life as alicia.

i think the twist is somewhat predictable in a sense you could piece together that maelle, verso, the paintress, renoir and the masked girl/painted alicia are all related but not in a sense that some of them are mere “copies” of the real ones.