>>718175648
While I agree with you and don't forgive him for his countless crimes and treacheries, I fully agree with him on doing everything he can to protect his mother. The things he does are right and justified, he just goes about them in the complete wrong way. Aline painted such a perfect copy of her son that even he didn't know it. Renoir called him "He who guards truth with lies", someone who lies and deceives to ultimately lead to something true.

You can excuse things like betraying the expedition because he wanted to save his mother. You can forgive him for lying to Monoco and Esquie and trying to kill them because they understand his pain and don't hate him for it.
But the one thing that absolutely can't be forgiven is not giving painted Alicia's letter to Maelle. Maelle learning the truth before killing the paintress was the one and only possible way for a peaceful ending to be achieved for both families, and Verso ensured it did not happen because he was afraid. At that point he prioritised his wish for suicide above the wellbeing of both the painted world, and the Dessendre family.