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>neither Verso nor Alicia bother to ask the soul fragment what it actually wants to do.
Verso asks, "you're tired of painting, aren't you?" and babby Verso nods. Young Verso NEVER wanted to be a painter and only as he grew older did he feel comfortable choosing himself to pursue music instead. The fragment of his soul in the painting is from before he gained that confidence - it needs permission from an adult to do what it wants.