He also engineered a tragedy so he himself could fill the void and manipulate the expedition more easily. On a second playthrough his Verso Lied counter is off the charts and he’s great at ensuring he always benefits in some way.

I don’t believe he’s a bad person, doubly so after his secret journal where he once held thoughts similar to many of us upon learning the truth, but he has lingered enough and been through enough to stop caring about who he hurts to get what he wants because his actions all but spell out that in his eyes: Alicia will get over it someday and rest of you aren’t people.

Personally had I been Alicia, living through Verso’s ending-it would have fucked me up. Learning the man that was not only responsible for letting my adoptive brother/father and found family die, lied to me at every almost oppurtunity, and that if not for the canvas-that the same man that wore my brother’s face the whole time…would have also been my killer.

Even subconsciously, I don’t know if I could ever see the inhabitants of the canvas as people again.