The King decided to give his paintbrush to Monroe, who became Milton's successor, finishing his mother's swan at the end of the game.ĭue to a line that the King said when giving Monroe the paintbrush, 'I hope it makes you happy, and that someday they will say, he is a better man than his father,' many players also believe that Milton is Monroe's father. However, at the end of The Unfinished Swan, he had a dream about Milton that helped him understand that his work was completed. Throughout the years, the King painted a lot and found it hard to accept that his creations would last forever.

After the swan escapes from its canvas, Monroe goes on a journey that would lead him to Milton. Her favorite painting was of a swan without its neck, which Monroe kept after she had passed away. Monroe's mother was a painter as well, but never finished any of her work. The Unfinished Swan, Giant Sparrow's previous Annapurna Interactive encounter, is about a boy named Monroe who would end up inside the world that Milton, known as the King in this game, painted.

The flip book was not only a story that he made up, but also how he had gone missing in the first place. The reason why nobody had found him was because he really did end up inside his own artwork.

While some players may have thought that Milton died after his disappearance, it was revealed at the end of the game that Edith Finch passed away in childbirth, meaning that Milton was, in fact, the relative in his generation that would live on. As players flip through it, they see Milton receiving a magical paintbrush that he uses to paint a door that he walks into, before closing it behind him. When players arrive at Milton's childhood room, it is revealed that he was an artist who had created a flip book. In the beginning of the game, players will come across a missing poster of Milton, though his story isn't discovered until the end of the game. Players control the titular Edith throughout the majority of the game as she recalls the events of each of her relatives' deaths. The family was believed to be cursed to die in strange ways, often before adulthood. What Remains of Edith Finch tells the story of how a lot of members of the Finch family passed away.

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