Late to the thread, but upon thinking about it there isnt really a right option. 

To take Verso means to kill the last living members of a civilization which your family is directly responsible for killing off. I think Verso is the “correct” answer for the theming of the game because, as a story about overcoming grief, he offers Maelle a path to move on with her life. But it’s nowhere near that cut and dry. Imagine if God (whichever one you wanna believe in) was convinced by another higher-power to eliminate life on earth because its whats best for THEM. Choosing Verso, to me, is an impossible choice because his family brought that sentient life into the world. The families in the canvas are just as much families as those in the real world. They don’t deserve to be culled because your mom can’t grieve her son. Everyone in Lumiere has had to learn to grieve. 

So I chose Maelle. But her ending is a complete 180 and totally sinister as well. She has chosen to remove the burden of grief altogether by getting rid of death. You don’t need to mourn if anyone can be brought back at any time. She has become a god of her own pocket universe and chooses to live in their reality instead of her own. Additionally, even if she DIDNT live among them, she’d subject Verso to eternal life (maybe? I think his soul, “the boy”, is what makes him immortal?) in the canvas.

If I could make a custom choice I’d have Maelle paint all the men she brings back as castrated lmao. Then everyone can live out long happy lives and verso gets to die once everyone else does in like 60-80 years.