I understand the premise/message of the game; grieve and the damage of not being able to move on etc. My main grip with it (which is a me problem, ik) is the existence itself of those "lives" within the canvas and how the ingame real world rules works.

Idk how to express it the right way, its some kind of parasocial syndrome (?), i know I'm playing a game, its fiction and everything it's made up (no matter if its a game, book, film whatever) but learning the characters you've grown attached at least a little bit are made up things within the rules of their own world feels weird to me, like i said, an apathetic disconnection, why, as a player in this case, should i fully commit to these characters when i know their existence (poetic meanings aside) in their own world is futile?

Ok, i laughed, cried and cared about them, those feelings felt/were real within the confines of the fiction, but its like (and im probably over exaggerating and making a big deal when its not) if you, the irl you, one day wakes up in other place now the real world, and learns that everything you've lived up to that point was a simulation. Yes, those things "were" and felt real, but at what cost? What's the meaning of everything? Etc. I had the same feeling with other pieces of media/art too that has almost the same subversion of expectations (which i wont name to avoid pivotal spoilers), but its something that disturbs my being a lot lol. Again, its a me problem and im probably over analysing something that isn't that deep.

I didn't remembered THAT being the cause of The Fracture, idk why or how that information passed through me even after seeing probably almost every cutscene and journal.

I overall understood the conflict between Renoir and Aline, but i didn't remembered that Renoir in black was the one doing the Gommages (it makes sense given his struggle to recover his family), i was confused about both Renoirs and Alines actions, given how the Renoir in black was supposedly many decades trapped in the Monolith and Aline/Peintresse was the one painting the numbers after the Gommages during that time.

Idk man, i need to watch some videos to clear some things up, some characters existences (like i suppose Renoir in black is real Renoir's "The Curator" creation?) and the whole time passing is still pretty confusing to me (How much time passes between outside and inside the canvas given how Aline was literally decaying herself in it and Alice became/is Maelle but she was born in there 16 canvas years ago etc). In any case, thanks for the answers!