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6/12/2025, 3:27:49 PM
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It can't be brought back to its original form. Verso, Clea, & Aline painted the inhabitants - without them only people Alicia is very familiar with (Gustave, Lune, Sciel, Lumiere in the abstract) can be recreated even somewhat faithfully...and then we have to consider that Alicia is the least skilled painter of the family.
No matter how well intentioned, she lacks the skill or the memories to bring things back precisely.
That said, even if she DID have the skillz this is also a Ship of Theseus. No matter how perfectly you reassemble someone, they're a new person. A star trek transporter copy as another anon put it. The Gestrals and their resurrections reinforce this.
So, Maelle didn't resurrect her friends.
She created a bunch of new people wearing their skins of the ones who died (and where possible imbued with their memories) all to die again once she does and Renoir destroys the canvas.
It can't be brought back to its original form. Verso, Clea, & Aline painted the inhabitants - without them only people Alicia is very familiar with (Gustave, Lune, Sciel, Lumiere in the abstract) can be recreated even somewhat faithfully...and then we have to consider that Alicia is the least skilled painter of the family.
No matter how well intentioned, she lacks the skill or the memories to bring things back precisely.
That said, even if she DID have the skillz this is also a Ship of Theseus. No matter how perfectly you reassemble someone, they're a new person. A star trek transporter copy as another anon put it. The Gestrals and their resurrections reinforce this.
So, Maelle didn't resurrect her friends.
She created a bunch of new people wearing their skins of the ones who died (and where possible imbued with their memories) all to die again once she does and Renoir destroys the canvas.
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