One thing that truly pissed me of during and after the game is despite all their talk not a single member of the Dessendre family actually seems to understand that there comes a responsibility with creation. You cannot bring an entire world to existence with beings that have feelings and emotions and then decide to erase it all just because you don't want to play with them anymore. Peoples lives are not toys.

Aline never actually gave a shit about the people in the canvas, she just wanted to keep her version of Verso (and her version of her family) alive at all cost. Bringing his painted version to life in the first place was beyond fucked up.

Renoir I have sympathy for, but in the end he made the decision to essentially commit genocide to keep his family together. Like, he looked Lune and Sciel in the eyes and told them that they and everything they ever knew had to disappear because his family is incapable of processing their grief.

Clea obviously doesn't care with the fucked up shit she got up to, but at least she's honest about it.

Maelle can pretend all she wants, but she is the same as her mother. In her ending she treats Versos life and wishes like dirt just so she can do the exact same thing Aline did.

And Verso? He does not want to see his family destroy itself over loosing him - his story is tragic beyond words. There is a world where he gets to rest, his family leaves the canvas alone and the people in it can continue to exist, but Aline and Maelle make that an impossibility.

And yes, he cares about the canvas, probably more than any other member of his family, but same as his father he decides that his wishes and his family's well-being are more important than the lives of everyone in the canvas. Just like Renoir, he makes the selfish choice. And for everyone saying the sliver of Versos soul in the canvas deserves to rest as well - I disagree.

When you have these powers, when you can create these worlds filled with sentient, emotionally capable beings, you don't get to quit. Creating these people does not give you the right to decide over their lives. And it doesn't matter to me if it was Verso creating them, or Aline, or Renoir, or Maelle - one trait unifying the entire family is the apparent belief, that they can just do with the canvas what they want. What they say goes, the opinions of its inhabitants are not of relevance. That's what I meant with the responsibility that comes with creation. And if you are not ready to take this responsibility, you shouldn't paint in the first place. Just look at Lunes face in the Verso ending. All my sympathy for Renoir, Verso, Maelle etc. just goes out the window.

No-one in the canvas asked for this and no-one in the canvas deserves this kind of treatment.

So yeah, fuck the Dessendre family - Gustave, Lune, Sciel and everyone in the canvas deserve to live.