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Don’t care about nothing in Fable 4, not the quests, not the new systems, not the combat, not the storyline nuh uh just give me our doomed older sibling who with all the love in their heart will set my life forward into great tragedy

Break my heart again, Fable

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Thinking about Lune and Sciel in A Life To Love and like, the ways they both accept the end of their very existence because they both love the world and do so in such different ways

Sciel is a touchy person, throughout previous scenes her comfort is often physical, a hand to the shoulder, a held hand, a hug, etcetera. She hold’s Verso’s hand as they fade from reality. One day death will welcome Sciel, and she’ll be ready, and that day has come. Earlier in the game she explains that she’ll be with the people she loves in death, whether an afterlife they’re together or simply together in the nothingness of death. She’s since learned there is no afterlife, only the end. This is hers. She will join Pierre, their daughter, her parents, Gustave, Lune, Verso, Monoco, Esquie, Sophie, and every other child of the Canvas in erasure.

Lune isn’t angry. She’s not sad. She’s not confused. No, those are too simple of words to describe what she feels. Lune was made to save the world. From the age of four taking copious amounts of notes on every facet of their world. Her parents left to save the world when she was barely 20. She stared at the ominous number looming over every aspect of her life from birth and knew they had failed when the Paintress stood. When one falls, we continue.

She watched her brother and sister fade into nothingness not long after. Rose petals are beautiful. But so was her sisters crooked smile, her brothers laugh. No day or night is an escape when they were named after the sun and stars. She worked even harder.

She mastered four separate elements and healing. Her very flesh is marked with Pictos to enhance her abilities, her skin engraved with gold and face marked with the magic of her world. She, alongside Gustave, developed an entirely new technology to better their chances of success. She meticulously digs through records to follow the path of Expedition 0, to map the landing spot. Almost everyone dies anyway. One of her oldest friends dies not long after. When one falls, not if.

She makes a new ally, who promises answers and solutions. They make it. She kills an Axon, one of the most powerful entities in their world. Sirene plays with wonder and Lune survives because of her own curiosity. They reach the Monolith and accomplish the impossible. Expedition 33 saves the world.

Her work isn’t over. She still has so much to learn. Gestrals are real, so are the Grandis. There are Nevrons that seem fully sentient. What’s with the mimes? And now she has all the time in the world to find out. She’ll live past thirty two. The children who run to greet them as they arrive on Esquie will live long lives. The 32’s Expeditioners she speaks too will live to be gray and wrinkled—

She dies. They all die.

Then she’s alive, and the entire world as she knew it is different. There’s an entire world she’ll never know, but Maelle promises to paint it for her. She promises to bring everyone back. Everyone they’ve ever loved. Her parents, her siblings, her friends, the other Expeditioners, Gustave.

Verso’s a liar. Always has been. She finally trusts him. Sees him cry over his sisters. He helps Lune find her parents. They bond over their music, the passion they were told to ignore in favor of bigger ambitions. After this? They’ll have all the time in the world to pour into frivolous things.

Renoir is defeated, and Verso runs in to a wonder of wonder. He and Maelle fight. He wins. “It’s time to stop Painting.”

She is going to be erased from existence. Completely and utterly gone. Everything she had ever worked for means absolutely nothing.

What her parents died for?

What Gustave died for?

What thousands of Expeditioners died for?

What she died for?

It means nothing in the end. Not for Lune.

It’s not anger, sadness or confusion. This? This is acceptance. It is the quiet acknowledgement that everything her entire culture had been working towards resulted in nothing.

Lune loves the world in all of its intricacies. Every little thing about it fascinates her. The life in it is her favorite thing about it.

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Truly in love with the a Life To Paint ending if Sciel was romanced cause I got the idea of Pierre feeling cucked by Verso.

Like, what the hell do you do if you die, your wife goes on an impossible quest to avenge all her losses, fucks an 100+ year old demi-god, finds out she can bring you back, breaks up with him, and then brings you back?

Verso doesn’t care, he’s stuck dealing with existential dread, the fact he will never have true personal agency because he’s the phantom of a man his gods will never let go of. Also in the last year he’d watched all 2-5 members of his family die depending on how many optional dungeons you do and “died” in the arms of a woman who looks just like his little sister.

Pierre just gives him an awkward have you fucked my wife? look and cut to Verso, emotional security obliterated, every piano note he plays a scream for help escaping the memory of a dead man, and hanging on by his last puppeted string.

Sciel assures him it was a fling, sex and friendship, nothing more. And sure, maybe for her. But he married his wife for a reason, she’s beautiful, breathtakingly kind, and so strong. Surely Verso wanted more? He’s handsome, plays the piano like a god (or the Painter who once played), and apparently helped save the world??? With his wife???? While they were fucking????

Back to Verso, head in his hands, he tugs his white hair too hard and he’s having flashbacks of holding Aline as she “died”. A child runs past with a rose in hand, a petal flies into his lap. Renoir and Alicia stare back at him, consumed in the flowers of the Gommage. The sun reflects on the gold buttons of his vest, and a thousand golden armbands fly past his vision, a thousand people he watched die, dozens he’d lied to and betrayed.

Pierre, squinting from across the way yeah look at how he broods. Definitely wants to fuck my wife again, not on my watch pal

This could make the funniest crack taken seriously/genuine angst and horror fic I’ve ever seen

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How the Painted Dessendre’s all die is such an interesting thing to me

Alicia is unpainted by real Alicia. She looks into Maelle’s eyes, the same as her own, and begs erasure. Maelle is, in her own words, “Alicia, as she should have been”. She’s surrounded by the Axon Renoir made to represent Alicia. She is the representation of Alicia, never truly Alicia herself. Now she’s seen who she was made to be, she can leave this world with the answers she desired. Unpainted by all she could have been.

Clea dies on the swords of her own creations. Chooses the nothingness over endless work alone. Real Clea made the Nevrons, but it’s Painted Clea who continued to create them. Uses the ability she was given by Clea to ultimately bring herself peace.

For A Life To Love Verso gently helps the last piece of real Verso’s soul stop painting. Begs that which inspired him to end his suffering.

The all die, in different ways, by the hand of their real counterpart and that feels like something

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Thinking about how Aline painted her family in contrast to how Renoir painted them

She sees Clea’s solitary war, how she stands alone now so instead of grieving with her she Paints her a partner, someone like Renoir. Strong, brave, unyielding in his love for her. Someone she could rely on if she had to. She’s fiercely determined, seen in how she’s able to briefly break from the paint over real Clea gave her, showing ever bit of Clea’s fire.

Verso is made immortal. She will never lose her son again. He’s cunning and brave, he lies with ease. If you chose to fight as Maelle in her ending, you’ll find out Verso has a weakness to fire damage. He loves the piano, loves trains, he’s willing to make the sacrifices that must be made same as real Verso.

Alicia is her worst interpretation, one so clearly colored by her grief and anger. Alicia is given monotone colors, a mask to hide her scars that bring Aline to the fire. She keeps her blue eye, the one thing all her children share with Renoir. She was given the ability to stop time, to change the world without input from anyone else like with the fire. At the same time she shares abilities with Aline, able to turn the world monotone. Her appearance suggests only what Aline sees when she looks at Alicia: the fire. Though she isn’t completely monotone, she keeps small gold flecks on her left hand in line with the gold accents Renoir and Clea wear. She’s also able to speak, but still maintains the damage to her throat. She’s a poet, a painter, and a fencer though, her hobbies not forgotten by Aline.

She does a fairly accurate Renoir. He’s strong, protective, loyal to this family, ever guarding all of them. It’s why she gives him a giant lion for literally no reason, because that’s exactly how she sees him. But he’s over grand, the three piece suit, the unnecessary overcoat, the lion. But that’s what she needs him to be: larger then life, able to carry her burdens and pain, to help her grief without his own. She makes him into both the Dessendre shield and her shoulder to cry on because that’s what she needed.

Simon is just Renoir but slightly different. Powerful, courageous, would do anything for Clea. He’s as willing to fight what’s essentially his god as real Renoir is to slowly die for Aline. She wants Clea to be happy and have companionship so she Paints Simon. He’s loving, his final thoughts even as Renoir is gradually taking over his mind, he thinks of Clea.

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Love this game cause like, you can chose to limit Verso’s suffering, or you can cause like five more life-shattering events if you want to.

You have to kill both his parents, but he’s made peace with that. You have to end a world full of sentient people, but he’s at peace. Fighting Maelle sucks, but he’ll do it. The betrayal on Lune’s face is terrible, Sciel’s acceptance worse. But he’s prepped for that.

What he hasn’t prepped for: Watching his little sister die by the hand of a girl who looks just like her, his older sister offing herself in front of him, killing his brother in law and oldest friend, listening to the journal entry where his girlfriend prepared to kidnap and torture him, three seconds later you can listen to his old lament over killing her because he didn’t want them unpainted —something he no longer wants so he killed the woman he loved for ultimately nothing— and then right there at the end when he has his chance at freedom you can restrict him to another lifetime of torment he didn’t want while Alicia slowly ends her life.

You can either go minimal with adding to Verso’s torment or just completely fuck this man’s life up more than it already is and while terrible is a little funny to me

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Forgot to mention that you can also make him bald, bitchless, and in only his swim trunks the entirety of the game, including in front of all his relatives

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Love this game cause like, you can chose to limit Verso’s suffering, or you can cause like five more life-shattering events if you want to.

You have to kill both his parents, but he’s made peace with that. You have to end a world full of sentient people, but he’s at peace. Fighting Maelle sucks, but he’ll do it. The betrayal on Lune’s face is terrible, Sciel’s acceptance worse. But he’s prepped for that.

What he hasn’t prepped for: Watching his little sister die by the hand of a girl who looks just like her, his older sister offing herself in front of him, killing his brother in law and oldest friend, listening to the journal entry where his girlfriend prepared to kidnap and torture him, three seconds later you can listen to his old lament over killing her because he didn’t want them unpainted —something he no longer wants so he killed the woman he loved for ultimately nothing— and then right there at the end when he has his chance at freedom you can restrict him to another lifetime of torment he didn’t want while Alicia slowly ends her life.

You can either go minimal with adding to Verso’s torment or just completely fuck this man’s life up more than it already is and while terrible is a little funny to me

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Clea can keep pretending not to give a fuck about the Canvas but I’m gonna be honest I don’t think anyone cares about it more then her

She painted half this world with Verso. She painted the strongest turtle ever, gave him overpowered abilities and made him her best friend. They sang and they danced and ever since she left Francois was never the same.

She helped paint the landscape, together they made the endless tower. He was scared of the dark so she painted her Lampmaster to fuck with him. She fought with Verso, Monoco, Noco and all the Gestrals and traded words with the Grandis, helped Esquie find his rocks.

After the Fracture she could’ve made her Nevrons anything, an army without soul to end her families madness. She doesn’t. She adds stalacts in the cold, she adds over a dozen mimes, she adds her Nevrons that do not attack they simply eat the mountains their on. She adds her dancers, her sky and sea serpent. She adds things that belong in this world, creatures who match their position in the Painting.

She paints over Painted Clea. She was content to let Aline stew in her grief, but she draws a line at this false representation of her. She has Simon kill her Axon. She is already in this painting. She is the Fading Woman and the Lady of Sap. This whole world is her work, all of it her representation.

Her family is fighting over Verso’s memory like dogs with a bone and they have destroyed her world. She painted half of this Canvas, a Canvas wrecked during the Fracture. His Gestrals and Grandis were misplaced, the land split.

Clea does not want to destroy this Canvas. The last piece of their brothers soul. But her brother is dead now, and her sister has been maimed and her mother is running from it and her father is too content to run right after her. The people who did this still breathe, something Verso can’t do and Alicia can only do with pain.

War is on their doorstep, and she can’t protect Alicia and her parents are too busy to be useful, her mother lost her spot as head of the painters council. Destroying the Canvas is the only way to get that semblance of her family back because Aline will never stop and Renoir will never stop chasing her.

They all tackle their grief differently, and Clea’s method is revenge. I imagine it’s no help that the only way she’ll have support in this war she singlehandedly wages is if she destroys the world she built with her deceased brother.

One day Clea woke up and not another person in her house made a sound. Because Verso was in the ground, Alicia was robbed of her voice and her parents have lost their minds.

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I love how this game does perspective so beautifully, every character sees each other differently.

Maelle/Alicia? Gustav sees his younger sister who he took a fatherly role for. The girl he became guardian for and had responsibility for turn into pride and joy for her. He is protective of all of them, but it’s Maelle for which he immediately breaks his personal belief of one person never being more than the mission.

Lune sees another member of Expedition 33. She skips the treating Maelle like a teenager parts, sees her as just as competent and intelligent as the others despite her age because they both took the same oath. Though this also has to do with Lune’s sole focus, her Paintress research she was doing when she was even younger then Maelle, and Lune’s curiosity and need for answers overpowering the urge to comfort during the moments Maelle might need it.

Sciel does the opposite, being very maternal with Maelle right off the bat, offering support in both grief and offering combat advice. She’s comforting when Maelle has a breakdown, visions of Renoir, gently ushers her forward in hard scenes. Sciel speaks for herself right before the Paintress fight while talking to Aline, “and she reminds you of her, the daughter you lost”. Maelle is for her a young girl first and an Expeditioner second.

Verso can’t fully separate her from Maelle, his Alicia, and the real Alicia, the three women a little jumbled at times. When she’s in danger, he calls her Alicia because she looks just like his sister. When she’s giving him her Expedition armband that’s definitely Maelle, daughter of Lumiere. But the girl who without letting him say goodbye unpaints his sister is definitely Alicia, the Paintress.

Aline sees her every error. She paints her in monotone colors, her hair is different, a mask that hides her scars, the very scars Aline can’t stand to look at because it brings her right back to the fire. She lets her keep one piece of color, the blue eye all her children share with Renoir. I’m under the theory it’s also why all the Painted copies have white hair, because Aline didn’t like seeing her own red reflected in Alicia.

Renoir sees his little girl, his joy and hope. He paints her Axon reaching for the stars, wanting her to fly, but Alicia gets terrible vertigo. When Maelle objects to leaving and destroying the Canvas, he reflects on his own old addiction to their power, to a Canvas he never wanted to leave as Aline does now. His own blue eyes stare back at him, entrenched in the life she has in the Canvas. He sees himself and Aline, and all his hopes and dreams for her.

Perspective and personal bias can greatly change how different people see someone and is it obvious I love this game for all its different well done facets

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When Renoir painted his Axons he made Aline enchanting, beautiful, mesmerizing and graceful. He gave Sirene opulent jewelry, plentiful color, he painted her island as the only place in the Canvas with that type of architecture. Unique and wondrous in all her ways, with the charming ability to make everything perfect again. And make no mistake, he is the Tisseur ever weaving for Sirene because he does love her but killing him also makes you immune to Sirene’s charm.

He gives Clea the world. Her Axon is just like her, her very long auburn hair, white shirt, dark blue skirt, suspenders. The Hauler is not an overdramatized version of Clea; it’s just Clea. A city on its back, the weight of their entire family on her shoulders constantly. Her Axon is in Old Lumiere, while everyone else’s are much further up toward the Monolith in a perfect line next to each other though divided by the sea.

He gives Verso his window and mirror. Visage is performer with dramatic lighting and stage sounds, Verso with his piano in the opera house as the lights dimmed. Verso hides both behind and within his art and cannot separate those things.

He gives Alicia the impossible, the endless possibilities he sees for her. Her Axon gets ever taller; always reaching for the sky. Neither storm nor fire may stop his little star from going beyond the boundaries of the world.

Renoir works in only layered, interpretive artwork and I think that’s beautiful.

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Hilarious idea that Francois didn’t notice the difference in Maelle and Alicia and just thought that his best friends little sister had come to steal his shit after not even seeing any of the Dessendre’s for a few centuries

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Love Expedition 33 cause the plot likes to pretend it’s all “a world where no one ever grows old, where everyone’s an orphan, where the greatest gift you can ever give your children is to never have any in the first place, kill the Paintress and put an end to a time when legacy lives on in nothing but memory”,

But the real plot is “Demi-gods try to kill their parents who are fighting over a 2016 Minecraft server, oldest daughter joins the army but leaves her husband(?) and representations of her siblings to kill you, youngest daughter copes so hard she changes personalities, middle son kept the dog and the copyrights when everyone moved out, you must handle the grief in your hearts because you cannot simply add to your amazon carts”

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“Lune and Sciel would’ve been perfect” “Verso and Lune are the best option” “Sciel and Verso deserved more”

Verso 💋🤝💋 Lune 💋🤝💋 Sciel

When did the internet lose its touch. Three hot and haunted people kissing is better than two.

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End of tape 1 had me thinking that perhaps Corey was a redeemable person. Perhaps just your average prick from the 90’s who’s a small town asshole but not the real issue he’s a total red herring. He sounded so genuinely concerned for Kat at the end.

He was, in fact, not a red herring but a whole ass red flag of a human being of my fuckin’ god what did i just witness

Guess who just finished tape 2

And I think I got one of the best endings (Corey getting gobbled by magic or something without a push, Kat going into the abyss willingly, all four together, Nora kiss I didn’t want to happen—am I breaking up a happy family?— reconnected with Autumn and Something more… with Kat) yet still my jaw is scraping the floors

What the fuck

Give me game two yesterday bro

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New stupid question

Who do you think is the best at boning in the Origins team? Like, overall skill level at it

( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡° )?

Morrigan

Zevran

Wynne

Alistair

Leliana

Sten

Oghren

Shale (hopefully pre-golem but I know you freaks better than that)

Loghain

Origin Story Companion (which one?)

Voting ended onApr 14, 2025

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Games acting on some funny shit pretending any of these people are full on dominant tops like Rook can’t go “attack my target” and they listen without a second thought

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CK3 is making this absolutely perfect man, fucking phenomenal stats and traits because fuck the trophies bar I wanna have it all

And then it’s your fucked up first few generations who aren’t inheriting traits how you want and I swear to god if I have to split this kingdom one more way for my fourth son that’s it we’re inbreeding now