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Fake Verso already said, they are both hypocrites, doing it all for they own benefit, i agree with you that the real Verso would hate himself if his sister just died in his painting ( another reason for the Verso soul be tired/sad of painting ), we agree in basically everything.Regardless of real fake Verso's motivation he was still doing the right thing. The real Verso sacrificed his life for his sister. He would hate to know that the only thing he did was end up forcing his sister to kill herself as well as his mother in his last painting. Even the last remaining piece of Verso's soul wanted to stop painting. It never gives you a reason why it just says it doesn't want to do it anymore. I would find it more plausible it wanted to stop painting so it wouldn't kill his mother and sister.
That's because she doesn't really see the paintings as real or care about their feelings\thoughts. It's shown several times in the story. When she killed fake Verso's sister she didn't even think of letting him say goodbye or even have a say in it. She repainted over Verso even though he begged her not to, she didn't care how he felt about it.
i really dont think the safety of his mom is his motivation, if he had his Julie he wouldn't give a shit about it, at some point he and Renoir killed every expedition that got close to discovering the truth about the Paintress to protect their Family, so i cant get behind this " i want my mom to be free and everyone cause i m good and dont wanna see no one suffering" type of guy. Once Julie was dead, he and Renoir had a fight and then he started his "i want mom to be free and i wanna die campaign", thats why once you meet him for the first time he says that losing the ones you loves can wear you down" the only person he really lost was Julie.I think that's a plausible way of looking why he was tired of painting.
That raises the question though – would it still be right to ask him to keep painting? When Verso asks him to if he's tired of painting the fighting had already stopped, and I would think that child Verso would be aware of that, but still he said he was tired. It seems at that point he had lost the joy of painting, so would it be ok to ask him to continue painting anyways? His original world that he created has already been very distorted, and you could even say that at that point it's not "his" canvas anymore.
It's a very interesting question.
I thought his main motivation was seeing his mother slowly dying? That's why we get that scene of him being all emotional after seeing the state Aline was in, and that seems to give him the conviction to try and have child Verso stop painting. My interpretation was he didn't want Maelle to end up the same way; not being able to let go of Verso and accepting the fact that he's gone. It's not like he asks her to stop painting; he just specifically wanted this canvas to be erased, because it was preventing Aline and Maelle from getting over his death.
I really don't think his main motivation to die was Julie; seeing as Maelle could just bring her back. He even has dialogue with Sciel at the camp where she asks him who he'd like brought back, and he basically says Julie, and how he'd like to explain why he did the things he did.
I could be missing something of course, but let me know your thoughts!
and Maelle cant bring Julie back, Maelle can bring everyone that she knew back and repaint new ppl, but i dont think she can bring ppl that she never saw back, remember when Verso says, "you need to remember their essences" to paint Sciel and Lune back
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