The Girl (Model)

This is the page for the Model! If you are looking for the Painting or the Elder Sister, then please go to the disambiguation page!

## Appearances

### Debut

Day 1+

**The Girl (Model)** is an unnamed, major supporting character in the game Death Palette (Matsuro Palette) may be considered the main catalyst to the game's events. She is shown to have died before the events of the game, and was the Model for the Painting

## Appearance

As shown in the various flashbacks and from the Old Man's notes, the Model is shown to have been the spitting image of the Older Sister and inspired the creation of the Painting (alongside all of the other portraits of her, compiled into a series dubbed 'The Girl with the Blue Flower'). She is also mentioned to have been beautiful by the First Painter.

## Personality

Much like the Painting's personality, the Model's personality was mentioned to be quite temperamental, impatient, and picky. This tended to show in her outbursts, whenever the First Painter did something that displeased her or tried to let some source of light into the room. This personality, however, ended up starting horrible rumors within the artist community in the town that they resided in, and drove away the portraitists that tried to paint her.

However, during the course of the flashbacks, the Model is shown to have a softer, more hopeful side to her when the First Painter managed to understand that her spoiled behavior manifested as a defense mechanism for her fear of being discarded by the Old Man once he manages to get a hold of a portrait that satisfied his desires.

## Backstory

Prior to being taken in by the Old Man, the Model was mentioned to have been a homeless orphan who the Old Man happened to stumble upon. After he adopted her, he started to strictly monitor her appearance, becoming unhappy and disgruntled whenever she did something that was out of line (this is the reason why she hid her seashell earrings, out of fear that he may find them and end up discarding her for it). It is during this time that she found out that she was merely a stand-in for the Old Man's sister, and was never taken in for anything but her appearance.

As she grew older, the Old Man recognized that her appearance wouldn't stay the same forever, and commissioned portraitists and painters from the town to paint her portrait in order to have a keepsake of her appearance before the Model grew up. The Model, understanding that if the portrait were to ever be finished, was fearful of being discarded, and intentionally got in the painters' way by keeping the interior of the mansion dark and shadowed- flying into a rage whenever the painters tried to get some light in.

When the First Painter met her, however, he was able to understand her situation and was enamored by her elegance, and offered the Model a chance at leaving the mansion by asking her to become his model once the commission was over. The Model, unsure of how to react initially, pushed the First Painter out of the room in a harsh manner, shortly before her death by falling out of the window. This causes the First Painter to harbor immense guilt over thinking that he was the one who drove the Model to suicide.

This, however, turns out to not be the case when the credits started rolling in. There, we see from the perspective of the Painting (still an unfinished canvas) how the Model enthusiastically brought out her seashell earrings after opening the curtains and the window, only for the sketches that the First Painter gave her to start getting blown out due to the wind. Although she was able to retrieve the first two sketches, the third one flew out of the window, and in a frenzy to grab it, she reached too far and fell out of the window. The First Painter is shown going into the room soon after that.

Adding on to the story in the perspective of the painting, right after the Model is merely breathing and on the very way to death, she was brought the room that the Model had stayed and was laid on her bed that was soaking in her blood. The Old Man came into the room and reminisced about her sister holding a bird cage, then he dragged the Model and situated her a chair before the canvas. With the Old Man right behind the body of the Model, the Old Man demanded the artist to paint the image of the Model that was dying as the Old Man speaks. The Model's neck, arms, legs were all horribly twisted and limp -just as the Old Man told the story of his Elder Sister and her death. The Elder Sister' described by the Old Man, was very similar to the situation that the Model is in.

"Her neck and limbs bent like a wilted flower. She was dyed dark red like the sunset! And then she turned pale! It was beautiful! But so very fleeting. I need to see it again. I need to see that beauty once more! Paint! Before she--before the color fades!" (Day 6)

The artist is demanded by the Old Man to paint, but the artist is splattering paint across the canvas in colors of yellow, purple, blue, and red. As the artist splatters paint, the Old Man spots the earring that the Model wore before she fell out the window, which he proceeded to rip it off the ear of the Model, saying that his sister never wore anything like this. After the splatters of paints were across the canvas, the Old Man refers that this was a masterpiece.

Afterwards the artist returns to his studio, nothing is known about the Old Man nor the Model. The memories of the Model's red pupil stared at him paint the entire time, pupils as red as her blood and the setting sun.

It is said by the Painting that it was a curse, both the Model and the Elder Sister, which during sunset , died by falling out the window. Though this was only the Painting teasing the artist. "I'm certain it was the sister's curse. They both fell out the window and died, yes? She had the same room, appearance, demeanor... And so she met the same end." (Day 7)