QUICK IDEAS:
- What if the fire never happened?
- What iff just Maelle ending instead of Verso ending?
- What ifff she didn't join the Expedition (this sounds boring to me though??)
- What iffff she was just a Creation and had no ties to reality? I mean, it'd just be like Act 1/2 Maelle so that's a bit dull too or is it?
ANNNNNNNNND

- What ifffff Renoir did not Gommage all of Lumiere and they just went back and things were fine.

There are too many choices for a game that has literally 2 endings

There are more. Many, many more

Like if Gustave never took her in. That's literally the only one I can think of where she would be worse off

All the others are like HAPPIER versions in some way almost

I won't do all of these, I will settle on one

If anyone has a preference??? Lemme know.

SO MANY GOOD ONES FOR HER

the fun and exciting experience of finding out that all these other versions of you are just objectively better off than you are

right?

lol anything but this life is better IS NOT a good mindset for her

I am unsure if we need to go further into the 'grass is greener' / 'let's reinforce the reason for escapism' routes hahaha

Then again, girl's in it for the long haul so

gotta get worse before you get better~ (this is not true)

I think she's gonna end up being one of those, needs to hit rock bottom before she can figure out a way up types. Time will tell though

lol what if

The entire game is just a fever dream of getting high af off of toxic paint chemicals

I won't but you can't tell me it doesn't hold merit

Stares at all the historical artists that slowly lost their minds thanks to the toxic chems in pa0int

oop cat *paint

A Plot post COMMENT

Ultimately, the differences for 'no fire' and 'no big gommage' are so great that I couldn't figure it out better

The given options are brainable enough that I can run with them without overthinking

If anyone is like NO YOU REALLY SHOULD DO x lemme know, I am not against a different one

rude unadopted Maelle and Chase could be fun

Ohhh yes, yes it could

I'd be down for that

BUT WE HAVE A LOT OF THREADS did you wanna drop one? Otherwise, this'll be like............ 4

We could wrap up the race one, probably the last event one too, tbh?

I would also be happy to continue both, I just don't want to overwhelm you more cacopheny

I am a little stuck on the breach one, maybe we could drop that one? (breaches are hard for me, I don't often get very like. into to it. and we already got the fun part done XD )

We did do the fun part

Let's drop that one

Also the race one is cute I am enjoying it

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Current plans:
- Ashton's Mage + Maelle Ending
- Chase AU + Unadopted
- Tendi Mistress + ... maybe Maelle ending..?

I MIGHT do a Network post for this flood. Shocking, I know. I think Maelle ending AU would be more sociable - enough to be on the network. She is absolutely still an inmate and she is absolutely less cooperative

To say the Barge has the better ending of the two on a normal day is WILD lol