Ib: NEW ENDING - A Painting's Demise (Bad Ending) 

Yep. I remember nearly crying of stress while trying to find the key lol.

bro I can't even get past that place where you have to run away from those paintings/mannequins when getting locked in that room (the one with ib parents paintings)

Snow London, well she is supposedly a painting of guertena’s daughter or granddaughter and is his last painting

If you think, that Ib's ending are depressing, it means you never play Witch's House.

Actually...if I am correct she needed to actually get one of them killed,hence why she could leave when Garry is killed if you give Mary his rose,so she didn't do it fully.

​@@danielkiran8174 yes sadly viola can't take her body back ellen take it from her and let her in pain

True, Ib never sees her parents again, Garry will be trapped for eternity, and Mary will never fully fulfill her dream of being outside.

Ib and Garry both starve to death since Garry is trapped in his insanity phase where he clearly doesn’t care about his physical state enough to go eat or drink something and Ib stays with him until she passes away of hunger or thirst (just like in the ending “Welcome to the World of Guertena” but without Mary). And then you have Mary, who stays in darkness all alone to become even more lonely and truly insane if she doesn’t die somehow. So yes, this is the worst ending possible.

Daniel Kiran I have no idea which one could be worse. One thing that they have in common is that they both suck.

Daniel Kiran I have no idea which one could be worse. One thing that they have in common is that they both suck.

Daniel Kiran Why? It's a pretty well handled twist. Not everything has to have a happy end you know.

***** To me these endings are so good that they're bad.

In witch house even the true ending are bad ending 😕

man i really like this theory i hope it's canon

pretty cool and scary theory but how about one where mary and ib got out

I like this theory :D and I remember that, she asked if you could eat the tree in the painting.. I think it would be sweet if Ib taught her about the real world.

Thank you! :) And yes, that's be so cute! Just imagine it, teacher Ib and student Mary!

Gkvfflowergirl that's a good theory....

What about it?

***** Part of my theory is that because she is a painting, she doesn't know about the real world that much. She's stuck in Guertena's gallery. Mary was able to get out with either Ib or Garry because she has a someone to show her the ropes of the real world. And because she's young, it wouldn't be that suspicious if she asked.

I NEVER FEEL SORRY FOR HER ( Maybe a little ) She was mean and she's evil and Garry's not her dad she just thinks he is

kat conrad when Mary says dad its talking about the artist, who created her

Ik ik but I still hate her

kat ib viola Conrad actually she dreamed of leaving the gallery with a friend. She was jealous of Garry because he liked Ib and Ib liked him. She let jealousy get the best of her. Though it may not seem like it but I think Mary actually cares about Garry she just had to sacrifice Ib or Garry and since she liked Ib more she chose Garry as a sacrifice. If she didn't have to sacrifice anybody and could leave with both of them, she wouldn't be jealous of Garry and she'd like him a bit more. She even called out for Garry for his help and that showed a little trust. I don't hate any characters in this game except for the fake mom and the evil paintings. Mary is fine.

Don't care

Oh God.

This blew my mind 🤯

Mary was allowed to leave because she killed Garry.

Quite a late reply, I know, but I humbly think Ellen is the worst. She basically made a deal with a demon and robbed everything from Viola with no shred of remorse at all...Viola being stuck in Ellen's old body is nothing short of utter despair. Losing both legs, can't talk due to the destroyed vocal chord as well as blindness... She's even worse than a demon whom she made a deal with, to be sure... And there's Aya, however.... she's but a victim of a...twisted genealogy: a sociopathic mother and...yeah..a mad father with a murderous instinct. Like Mary (if she was a real girl), she'd become an even better girl if she was raised by someone else apart from her real parents.

You are supposed to feel bad for her.

Well no matter how much you wish it, it won't be possible. It's because Mary is so different from the two, she's a painting not a real girl and there has to be a sacrifice needed. I personally do want a ending where they have happiness together but it always ends up one of them disappearing or being sacrificed. It's sad, this story. T.T

Kise Ryouta I know but you just can't help it.....

***** im pretty sure marys only imagining things, she will never meet her father as she cannot technically die, she isnt real thus she cannot die for real, its quite sad

***** there pls leave like and give mme support for a revvised full version of ib and the true end, "garry are you okay?" ib said with a face of concern, "dont worry ib ill be fine" "loves me" an almost hysteric voice goes through the hallway as the plucking of ones heart begins. garry feels the shock going through him, and he started to feel, tired. "loves me not" the same voice goes through "dont worry ib im fine" ib stared at garry not with worry but with regret, like she knows that grief is coming "loves me, loves me not, loves me, loves me not, loves me, loves me not" garry had ony mad it a third of the way until he collapsed. "go on ahead ib" he said in a dying voice "ill catch up dont worry" "i just need to sleep awhile" then a dreaded voice came through "LOVE ME! yay she loves me she loves me" ib looked at garry, he waas fast asleep. "garry?" ib waited for a reply, when none came she tried again "garry please wake up its dangerous here remember?" and again "please wake up" and again "please" with tears rolling down her cheeks, ib then hugged him as hard as she could trying to stir something in him, but to no avail, it wasn't a hug to welcome the living, it was a hug goodbye. then something dropped, it was garrys lighter, ib seeing this, knew what she had to. no what she wanted to do, she ate the candy garry gave her to make room for the lighter, though it hurt her so to do that, she felt like she needed to do this, ib went up the stairs until she found mary who greeted here with a smile, ib! take a look she brought over garrys plucked rose. anger glinted in ibs eyes. "i did the love me thing where you pluck a rose to see whether they love you, and it says you love me! you do right ib" mary asked with a still smiling face. "yes i do" ib replied "yay now we can get out together now that we ditched that man!" "but first, can you show me some of your things?" mary eyes glinted "sure!" she then pulled out a toy box and started ruffling through it, while mary was busy ib approached a portrait at the side of her room labelled mary. "hey ib here something!" when mary turned around to her friend, she saw ib holding a flame. below her portrait. with a face of utter hate. mary stared in shock at what her friend was holding, a flame over her portrait. for every human here they have a rose to represent their heart. for every painting a portrait and the painting becomes whatever the portrait becomes, in this case pile of lifeless ashes, and holding that is ib, the calm girl who doesn't express much of her feelings. but is showing a face of pure hatred, of anger, of loss. "what are you doing ib?" ib stared at her with an evil eye and replied "im going to kill you" mary taken aback by the word said "but why i thought we were friends and that we could escape here happily" "i thought that too" ibs voice suddenly went soft almost merciful "i thought we could be friends, but now after what you've done, it is clear that will never happen. goodbye mary i truly liked you" "wait ib please dont" ib lit the portrait "ib please dont! im sorry im sorry!" and ib replied in a tone almost evil voice "i dont forgive you" "haaaaah!" a wailing voice came out of nowhere and a trail of water splashed across the fire, putting what evil it may hold, out. ib was the first to respond "garry?". garry catching his breath let out a sigh. that was a close one, ib you know you shouldnt be playing with fi-" garrys sentence was interrupted by a sudden tackle to the chest from ib. "ib what are you-", "im glad." ib said in soft sobs "im so glad your awake" with tears running down her cheeks. garry looked at her and smiled "you didnt think i just leave you right?" garry then turned to mary who was staring at him with small tears forming. "i guess you want a hug to huh?" he joked. "why?" "how?"garry took some time to recollect his thoughts "heh it might take some time to explain how but. i ca explain why so-" "why?" mary cut in "i tried to keep you here for ever, tried to hurt you tried to kill you! why did you save me i dont understa-" marys sentence was interrupted by garry grabbing her and forcing her into a group hug "you know its rude to interrupt people. i saved you because i found something that i never told ib about." garry took out a book, written in bad handwriting was marys diary, "i kinda read this and saw how you were alone and wanted a real friend. and even though your methods are questionable im sure we can still be friends, so mary what do you sa-" garrys words were once again interrupted but not by words but by guilt and tears "im sorry i so sorry i was scared i panicked i thought you would leave me behind with ib like father did and never come back for me! im sorry for plucking your rose im sorry for threatening you i-" she went on like she was confessing to god."im sorry im sorry i-" this time Mary was stopped, but not by tears guilt words or anger just a close hug "im sorry too i thought you were evil, i thought you were going to hurt ib just because you were a painting so im sorry for that and besides if you can cry tears im sure you can be our friend too and we can go together, is that fine?" mary stared at garry for a while and just clutched him tightly and continued sobbing not in pain sadness guilt jealousy, she cried in happiness, like none she ever felt before. "sigh" "whoever see he day i have to girls crying and sobbing over me, literally" he looked at the two and gave a contempt smile "well i guess we all just have to get out together if we want to be happy and that's a promise." "he he he" a voice of pure spite reached out through the museum. " this has gotten quit interesting indeed, whoever thought he could win over lady Mary." "hehehe" "im gonna have fun with this" and as the peaceful events go on below, an evil presence starts forming above, "even when garry promised that they will all get out, he knows deep inside that may not happen, and if they all cant get out. he will choose to stay" "thats because thats the man he is. like the gentle king, no not gentle. the blue king! hehe that sounds good" the blue king the painted yellow lady and the red princess and the black rose.

There's always Welcome to the World of Guertena, if you consider that "happy"

Promise of Reunion is happy! They promise to meet again, and anime/manga standards means that they will.

+Monique Kalu Still gotta kill Mary, tho, and some like her.

What apart from the ominous footsteps and leaking paint?

The only good thing about this is we get to play as you.

(Crying) MAAAAARRRRRYYYYY DONT DIIIIIIIIIUE UR MY FAVORIIIITE!!!

wait, where is this ending? I haven't seen it, and I'm sure I've seen them all.

The Chaotic Shadow It's kind of at the end. Mary catches up to them and argues some other stuff. Then Ib has the choice of going with Mary, Gary or sacrificing herself. If you choose the sacrifice ending Ib tears up her own rose then pushes Gary and Mary though so they can both live. Mary becomes Gary's sister and they all forget everything. Then Mary see's Ib's painting, the painting was a picture of Ib tangled in some spikey as hell vines with torn up rose petals scattered all around her. This causes Mary to remember everything and then she starts crying because Ib basically dies. In other words she's very sad that Ib died or is trapped or whatever you want to call it and she just falls down on her knees and starts crying while apologizing to Ib while Gary is standing there with a what the fuck is going on look on his face.

lildanial1 It took me a little while, but I did find it. However, it only exists in this so called "Green version" of the game. It's fan made and the original creator denounced it. Supposedly, he doesn't like it.

The Chaotic Shadow Are you positive about that? I thought it was released as a new patch to the game along with the other endings.

lildanial1 Nope. Fanmade version.

If she really died in this ending, it will be better. But, you know what? She WON'T die in this ending. She's a picture. So she will forever be alone with darkness and sorrow again. That's worse...

...What have I gotten myself into?

Mary the flowey...

astaraelsget honestly

I don't even think that is the real world per se. Or maybe, it IS, but she corrupted it by getting out of the painting in the first place. In our eyes she's still nothing. But in her eyes, it's a nightmare as she is the only one to face the real world.

Yo, I'll take this ending over Together, Forever. Letting Mary into the real world is like releasing an exotic zoo animal into the wild: yeah, I feel sorry for it having to stay in a cage, but nothing good will come from setting it free. The game makes it abundantly clear that Ib, without prompting from the player, becomes attached to Garry. There's nothing and I mean _nothing_ in this game that even suggests to me that Ib likes Mary at all. Together, Forever, to me, is the most sadistic ending in the game. Ib is forced to witness her close friend and only protector in the art world die a slow, painful death, and his killer gets off scott-free, getting her (undeserved) happy ending while he's completely forgotten. I just can't fathom how anyone can call that a happy ending.

yeah i think ur right about the balance part. i dont know if this was a false memory of mine or something because the last time i played ib was years ago but i think there was some book or paper (idk) in the gallery that said something along the lines that in order to escape you must take the place of a living being, being either ib or garry in this case. edit: so i looked it up and i was right about the "taking the place of someone" bit being mentioned in-game. there's a book that you can read in the gallery called Theorims Of This World and there's a line in it saying "[v]ia a trading of existences, / the imaginary can be made reality." so it could be concluded that mary couldn't make it to the real world because the balance was disrupted; two people are supposed to escape while one person stays in the gallery, but in this ending one person tries to escape while two people stay in the gallery (mary did not trade places correctly), so that's why she ended up still being stuck in the cursed gallery.

@@corrinonacob3893 omg its been so long since I played I forgot all about that!!! so this ending was foreshadowed a lot sooner in the story which I think is p cool :) this game is good every time I come back to it I discover something I didnt see before or little innuendos, I do feel awful for mary but then again, she shouldve known that it wasnt meant to be :(

@@kiri7010 Yup! Reading a lot of theories here, I assumed they have forgotten about that passage and I don’t really blame them since you have to find it on a shelf or something to read it. I honestly only remembered the book after so many years because that was the first time I became really suspicious of Mary during my first playthrough of Ib. For context, when you read the line with Mary (and I think Garry is there too), Marry’s response to the line is just “...........” with a serious face. I would’ve been less suspicious of her if she said that the sentence was weird or strange, but because of her silence, something was telling me that she has probably already read it or has already knew the concept of paintings swapping with living beings, and that gave me a bad feeling about her lol. (Also adding to make it clearer just in case: The swapping rules only applies to paintings / the imaginary since Ib and Garry can leave the cursed gallery alone with no problem.) By the way, for this bad ending I like to jokingly imagine that Mary probably either forgot there were specific rules to successfully swap or she didn’t read them lol. Either way this ending is pretty sad, especially when she calls Garry out as a kind of “last resort” since she was jealous of him for being more close to Ib. I think I may replay Ib again, which might be interesting because the last time I played the game the new version with the two new endings and extra dungeon did not exist yet

@@corrinonacob3893 god its been years since I played ib, definitely something I’m gonna replay soon!!! I love mary but holy fuck did she give red flags from the beginning 😭😭 but I also love that in that scene she stayed silent as if she was either ignoring the rule or didnt read it which perfectly reflects her character, I just wished she couldve gotten a happier life but I’ll never forgive for all the gary slander, homie was a king he shouldve had a happier life too :(( BUT THANK U FOR REMINDING ME I RLLY WANNA GO BACK AND LOOK AT ALL THE HIDDEN FORESHADOWING AND PLAY ALL THE ENDINGS AAAA :DDD

Same.

all you need to do is ask lmao

Hm, From what I can tell, It doesn't matter how many go in, as long as someone goes out with her, and someone replaces her. At least, that's the best explanation I can come up with

That actually makes a lot of sense and covers the plothole by other theories. The question of why someone needs to leave with her could be explained by the fact Mary is depicted as a little child, thus couldn't live on her own.

Or it could be that to Mary "be set free", the gallery needs a sacrifice. No someone to replace Mary, but to die in the gallery, so Mary can "take" his/her place. Its just a theory, thought. Yours is quite interesting also.

That makes less sense than the other theory; Mary is, theoretically, alive, so the fact someone has to come out with her made more sense.