theawesomestevr posted... I guess the contention here is that the devs intended these characters within their fiction to be people in their own right, and I would still say that if in fact this was the devs' intention, I think they did a poor job of conveying the idea clearly which leads to the disconnect here.
Nothing in the story makes
Lune, Sciel, and Gustave seem like any less of people than Maelle or Renard.ZaziGuado posted... I should clarify that I use reality not in the sense that there is a real world and the Canvas is a fake world. It's moreso a universe to galaxy comparison. If the family itself is threatened, then so are the galaxies within the universe they exist in. It is implied there are multiple Canvases. Are we to judge the erasure of this one differently because they've been made aware of their reason for being? The last piece of "real" Verso is the only thing keeping the Canvas in existence and he is shown to be suffering by continuing to paint. Is it morally wrong to expect their creator to give himself to an afterlife of struggle and potential torture so that Maelle may continue to hide from her own?
Personally I would say
the Painters are doing evil every time they create a canvas with intelligent creatures inside and erase them later.