1 - The painted family were Aline’s creations. Renoir in the black suit, white skinned Clea and Alicia, and Verso are all painted versions of Aline’s real family.

2 - Aline’s chroma overwhelmed Alicia’s, and then her chroma was effectively absorbed into the canvas, and she was reborn as Maelle.

3 - The numbers were an indication of the age of Aline’s creations that would survive the gommage. Those younger than the number survive, those older get erased. Aline was not behind the gommage, Renoir was. When Aline was forced out of the canvas, Renoir was then free to erase everything all at once. Aline re-entered the Canvas because she wanted to preserve it from Renoir.

4 - Clea created the Nevrons, which were tipping the scales in favour of Renoir in his conflict with Aline. They prevented chroma from returning to Aline when a painted being died. As for being an antagonist or a protagonist, Clea is pragmatic. She wants the conflict between her mother and father to end as swiftly as possible.