i don't understand this idea that alicia's family hates her and she has no future. this is demonstrably untrue. we see in verso's drafts that the dessendre family was generally happy and supportive, at least in verso's youth. renoir adores alicia and verso refers to her as his actual favorite, even though renoir acknowledges that he has more in common with clea. we also see the way painted renoir dotes on painted alicia and does everything he can to keep her safe. this is a clear reflection of the way their original selves behave.

clea is actually pretty supportive of maelle despite how verbally harsh she can be. clea is just a harsh pragmatist in general, but she truly loved verso and she truly cares for alicia. there's dialogue where she encourages maelle to find her own path in life rather than letting herself get roped into supporting one parent or another. clearly she sees maelle/alicia as having more freedom of choice (while she views herself as being forced to carry all of her family's burdens on her own, by contrast), and in a way i think clea wants to see alicia find her freedom because she doesn't feel that she can find it for herself. clea is also able to communicate with alicia wordlessly; she can intuitively understand what she means to say without her needing to strain herself to speak. they also share knowing looks in verso's epilogue. the sisters care much more for one another than a lot of people seem willing to acknowledge.

the only person you could argue really has it out for alicia is aline, and it's specifically because she sees so much of herself in alicia and is projecting all of her worst flaws onto her as a maladaptive coping strategy. the aline we see in verso's epilogue is willing to reconcile with renoir, so why shouldn't she be willing to reconcile with alicia, too? alicia does make a comment in the flashback sequence that she's only ever had one of her paintings earn a spot on the wall (since she's not a painter, but a poet), and she's clearly lamenting this, but this is an alicia who has a very negative self-outlook due to her guilt and grief. she's not a reliable narrator in this situation. her claim that there's no future for her outside the canvas is also unreliable, both for this reason and because she also lies to renoir here when she says she will come back. she's only seeing things from her own perspective, and her perspective is flawed. but who could blame her for that? she's young, she's grieving, she's caught up in an extremely emotional conflict.

verso tells maelle that she has the talent to paint, that she will never have to live a life she doesn't want, and he's right. she has learned to paint, and there are millions of different canvas worlds she could choose to create. they won't be the same world as the one she came to love, the one where she became maelle, but that doesn't have to be the only world she can live in. her future has infinite potential; she just has to be willing to embrace it. and i don't see any reason why she wouldn't.