#the unfinished swan milton

[thecrazyandtheweird]

Questions I have surrounding Milton Finch

(if anyone has answers please feel free to share)

1: How did the door only work for him?? We see the aforementioned painted door in his room, but the design is different and worn down. Is it even the same door? Idk

2: Monroe's mother: How did Milton meet her? If he had the ability to return to the real world and sire a child, why didn't he ever use that world-hopping ability to look for his family? Did he just assumed they all would have died? This is the biggest question for me; like how he came back, for what reason, and then why he abandoned both her and his son. How old was he even?

3: How could Monroe's mother have a magic paintbrush that she left to her son if Milton already had it in his kingdom? Were there two? Did he make her one of her own to make up for being an absent father?

4: Hell, he knew about his son, right? He seemed to know who he was. Why didn't you want to be in your child's life?? You gave him another paintbrush, more questions, and a half-hearted admittance to being a crap dad, then told him to leave where he'll never see him again.

5: (Throwaway Question) Would Dawn (before her death) or Edith ever find out about Monroe? Assuming theres DNA in this world, who's to say they couldn't trace the Finch relatives and reunite them. They could even have took Monroe in after his mom's death. Plus it would have been both curious, (now they know Milton didn't die) and therapeutic (having at least a piece of Milton back)

Its just plaguing my mind, I'm deeply obsessed with these games now unfortunately

[tacos-biggest-fan]

One of my hyperfixations from LITERALLY 2012 SO WHEN I WAS SIX has returned. I love the unfinished Swan and now what remains of Edith finch

Anyway have a playlist for a character I vividly remember hating back then but who’s my favorite now :3

[graceandtheidiotsquad]

On the topic of the Lewis ghost

IS ANYONE GONNA TALK ABOUT THIS?? The semi adult sized looking footprints coming OUT OF THE INFAMOUS PAINTING DOOR??

[graceandtheidiotsquad]

I've never read To Kill a Mockingbird but-I DO Have an answer to your question about Milton-Giant Sparrow's previous game, 'The Unfinished Swan'-I know a REALLY good playthrough that points out some details some folks might miss if you're really digging into the lore!

Here's the playlist-! You can skip right past the Edith Finch stuff if you want-it should be right there!

I just finished playing What Remains Of Edith Finch for the first time and you cannot convince me that these Finches and the Finches from To Kill A Mockingbird aren’t the same fucking family.

[sunsetthedragon]

I love the idea of Christopher and Monroe meeting later in life. Like a chance meeting where they happen to cross paths. I feel like it would go something like this:

Monroe: Wait, you’re not supposed to exist!

Christopher: Excuse me, your dad died when he was 11!

Monroe: That was just a misunderstanding.

Christopher: A MISUNDERSTANDING!!!!!

[odetarifunk]

Monroe and Milton Finch

[zer0cyanz]

Happy Birthday Milton Finch!! 🥳

19/05/1992

Today you would have been 32 years old, which honestly, isn’t that old,,,, still, have a nice day :))

[hannahhook7744]

Queenie and Milton Finch Edit;

(Song: Peter Pan).

(Reason: Seems fitting).

[mrsllyziy]

What Remains Of Edith Finch - The Unfinished Swan fanart 👻

[eigengrauone]

So happy to find someone who also talks about Unfinished Swan; it’s a very hard market to find people in :(

REAL THAT GAME WAS EVERYTHING TO ME WHEN IT CAME OUT!!!!! AND NOBODY KNOWS ABT IT DESPITE WROEF LITERALLY DIRECTLY REFERENCING IT!!!!! It’s always so nice to find the five Unfinished Swan fans still around lol

[inbarfink]

have you ever played The Unfinished Swan (2012) the predecessor to WRoEF? Miltons room is an entire reference to it

I've heard of the Unfinished Swan and it's connection to WRoEF, even though I never played it myself. It looks pretty interesting, though.

Maybe I should look a bit deeper into it but right now my main thoughts is that I am Endlessly Amused by the Implied Narrative of having the relatively-grounded game that is about fantasy on some level but is generally constantly teetering on the line of straight-up confirming all of the 'supernatural' elements have simple, mundane explanations exist in the same universe as the game where a Magical World of Magical Paintings undeniably exists.

Like, the so-called Finch Family Curse is probably just a combination of generational trauma, unhealthy coping mechanisms turning into self-fulfilling prophecies, general bad luck and probably some sort of hereditary undiagnosed neurodivergency. And all the supposedly 'supernatural' stuff happening around the Finches is just food-poisoning-fueled hallucinations or ridiculous obviously false tell-tales, or just plain ol' delusions..... Except for Milton disappearing into the Magic Painting World. That one DID literally happened.

I don't think this discrepancy significantly harms the themes or emotional core of either work, but it is VERY FUNNY once you take the time to think about it.

[high-quality-tiktoks]

Milton Finch is one of the biggest mysteries of What Remains of Edith Finch and I’m super excited to play the unfinished swan and find out more

[tacos-biggest-fan]

I knew the unfinished swan as its own standalone game for years. I’d heard of what remains of Edith finch before but only recently learnt the two are connected. I’d like to talk about the best character (spoilers under cut)

Milton finch/the king is so interesting to me istg. The fact Milton escaped the curse by going to his own reality/creaton, being the unfinished swan is such an interesting way to connect the games. Pretend this was a longer post, but have a redraw of a scene from wroef

[graceandtheidiotsquad]

I am once again bumping this because I just really really REALLY want to talk about this with someone PLEASE-

Funny little fanfic idea-

It’s the anniversary of Milton Finch’s dissapearance, and the town is still grieving-still remembering the lost boy who vanished 19 years ago. The main character of the fic, while at one of the little memorials, runs into a stranger-he seems quite confused and looks lost, so they assume he’s probably new to the island and offer to take him on a tour, dragging him along before he has the chance to explain himself-

This wouldn’t be AS much of a problem-..if his name didn’t happen to BE Milton Finch.

Chaos ensues!

[ilovelotsofthings]

Milton and Monroe Halloween Costumes

Ringleader/Lion Tamer and his Little Lion

[sunsetthedragon]

Since I’ve seen some discussion around The Unfinished Swan, what are your headcanons for The Queen/Monroe’s mom/Milton’s wife?