>>107900161>I mean it does have her enslaving all of Lumiere AND the last piece of Verso's soul to make it into her glorified dollhousethat's an insane misunderstanding of how the painting works and the sentience of the people in it. They're not enslaved, she just gave them their life back after renoir erased them.
>all while her irl body slowly but inevitably rots awayMaelle in the real world is a mute and disfigured cripple, living in a family who removes all autonomy she has from herself at every opportunity, doubly so since her injuries. There's a lot of assumptions that "oh if you just go out of the painting everything will be better" and an idea that living in the painting is inherently inferior even if it allows her a happy life but I think that's pure bologna.
There IS "hope" in verso's ending that she finds happiness but it's not guaranteed.
>>107900181He's undoubtedly the primary one to suffer from her ending. No doubt it's valid to empathize with him and what he sees as best for maelle, but in my eyes that's just another case of everyone constantly trying to decide what's best for her instead of allowing her to make the decision herself. And it's undoubtedly selfish of her to force him and the piece of his soul to continue to paint but that's exactly why there's so much nuance and good and bad in both endings that the black and white view of them really gets on my nerves. They're both selfish in their own ways, Maelle's just doesn't also cost the lives of thousands or tens of thousands of people.
