some fantasy shit

I’m thinking about how Verso is the main PC but he’s not the main character. Doomed by the narrative ass character. The end choice isn’t even about him, even though painted verso has equal stake in the consequences of your choice, he is decentered. You’re choosing whether to make Maelle face reality and find healing within her family, or allow her to remain. When you choose to allow her to remain in the canvas, you erase Verso anyway. You don’t erase his agency, because painted Verso never had any to begin with. But you do reinforce that HE is not the one who matters. Only Maelle matters.

𝐄𝟑𝟑 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝 — 𝐕𝐨𝐥 𝟒: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐫

Verso, smirking: Kinky.

Gustave: I think you're sweet and beautiful.

Verso: What-

Gustave: You deserve to be cared for.

Verso: Stop, now-

Gustave: Your feelings are valid and deserve to be heard.

but then half of me thinks about the fact that she’s a perfectionist, and how it feels more in character for her to take anything she struggles with and double down on perfecting it, leading me to believe the body part she actually had trouble with is probably hands, and nevrons like the Noir and Lampmaster are the results of her overcoming that weakness in the most Clea fashion possible. I also think about how the oldest creation in the canvas is Esquie who a) has pointed feet and b) was painted by Verso, and how maybe this could be an old joke between them and/or Clea’s way of honouring her brother through her work

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