/lisg/ - Life is Strange General #482

>>171159149
Cute!

>>171158093
Chokers aren't that lewd, they're very stylish,

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Yay weddings!

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Max is #1

>>171159669
Did Kate not attend?

Did she condemn her friends to eternal damnation for their deviancy?

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BFFs, Pirates, Wonder Twins, Partners in Time & Crime & Love, Fellow Dorks, GFs, Wives.
OTP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhvZxmgLfNA

(O FUG. THEY GOT MARRIED!)

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>>171159103
Before Episode 5's release:
>Lol Mari's theories're shitty.It's way more than shitty to become true
>Chloe has to die thing doesn't make sense.Don't worry they will come with unpredictable story
>We're gonna learn everything about Max's powers,Rachel and Prescotts even Nathan,spirit animals..
>Jefferson knows about Max's powers
>Nathan,Frank,David or Samuel's gonna save us
>Victoria's with Max,she'll save her
>(After seeing Cemetery scene from leaks) I'm sure it'll be Williams,Rachel's or Kate's grave.
>Rachel's the doe and Butterfly and probably we'll see her in Max's dream
>Blue Jay's Chloe

After Episode 5's release:
>Mari's shitty cliche theory became right
>We visited the SF art gallery for 3 seconds. FOR 3 DAMN SECONDS
>Jefferson became a silly bad guy from Disney
>David came to save us.He's a former-soldier but he can't even fight,just listens teenager's orders. Even he doesn't know she has some time travel powers.
>Victoria's with us in the dark room.Laying there and we can talk her or not.Just it.
>Nathan get killed,Victoria too
>Nathan knew something about the storm but they cut it.
>Warren explained Max's powers(!)(thanks warryn) We found out her power causes/related with Chaos Theory and storm.It's not like we didn't know or something.
>Storm is only coming for Bay because Chloe lives in there but Max's the one who keep changes the time
>Prescotts story erased.Nobody even mention their name.
>Rachel's story fucked too.She isn't or butterfly,bluejay just spiritualdoe
>Spirit animals thing died.Blue Butterfly's storm summoner just it.
>Chloe dies again in one of endings (unpredictable) It gives you a lesson: You shouldn't have used your power.And you shouldn't play this game.Now erase your choices and cry like a bitch.
>Chloe has to die thing comes true, Cemetery scene explained with that.
>The other ending's short but it's less cliché than other.We saved Chloe,storm's hit the town and gone.That's it
>Epilogue: Use ur imaginations:)muh budget

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>>171159103
Chloe beat her to the punch, maybe next time Max

>>171159669
Really one of the best Pricefield pictures.

>>171159763
Of course she attended! She's not in frame because she's off to Max's side as the Maid of Honor.
Chloe's parents are also there but are blocked from view by either Chloe or Max.

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As Max and Chloe are leaving the ruins of Arcadia Bay behind, there's one more tragic story unfolding
>Alice and Lisa stuck in Max's room, Alice hasn't eaten anything in days, the dorms are destroyed and no one comes looking for them
>"No one's gonna come save us, this is the end, we'll starve to death..."
>Alice...you can survive this and go back to your owner. All you have to do is... all you have to do is eat me."
>"What? No, fuck that. Lisa, you're my number one priority, I'm not eating you!"
>"Alice, think about it... how many times this week did you try to nibble my leafs? I'm a plant, Alice, you're a bunny, maybe it's time I accept my destiny... OUR destiny."
>"Lisa, I can't make this choice!"
>"No Alice, you're the only one who can"

>eat Lisa
https://instaud.io/kVV

>eat your own foot
https://instaud.io/kWb

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The entire world can fall apart, shatter into a million pieces like the glass of a snow globe, time itself can break... but Max and Chloe will always be together.

>>171159950
It comes down to how you prefer it but I do see Chloe as the one that proposes.
They're both thinking about it for a while and Max is trying to find rings. Chloe talks to Joyce about it and gets the ones she and William wore. Chloe wears her father's and presents her mother's to Max. Those have a value that cannot be counted with a number.

>>171160148
Max would shatter time apart to get Chloe back from anything that may happen to her.

>>171159669
>Max showing all that back

hhhnnng

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>>171160347

>>171160148
>>171160421
To Max, a world without Chloe is not worth living in.
She will break as many timeline and brave whatever obstacles to be with her. Such is the power of their love.

>/lisg/ stayed at page 1 for almost a minute

noice

>>171160662
They all look great. The Victoria looks a little off but still decent.
Max, Chloe, and Joyce all look amazing. I just wish that Chloe would get a proper necklace.
Someone link that video of them being dorky and dancing around/ singing. It's seriously adorkable.

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>>171160926
Don't have the link of the video but have a gif instead.

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>>171160148

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It hurts my soul when I read replies like these.

>>171161342
It was a Facebook video. The gif's still great though.

>>171161856
Everyone saw the writing on the wall but hoped Dontnod would be smarter than to do THAT.
Turns out they weren't. Which is their loss because we all decided we were saving Chloe long before that "twist" (ha. no.) was revealed.

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>>171160926
They have multiple videos like that, but here is the most recent one: https://vid.me/7VpH

Real life dork gfs.

>>171161856
"We were younger..."

>>171161856
I remember all the theories about Rachel's "reveal" being a red herring for her actual appearance in EP5, confronting the Prescotts about their involvement with the storm, Jefferson being a fall guy for Sean, having all the optional photos you took let you go on a photojumping spree to change events / gather clues to achieve the "good" ending.

Fuck.

who has best boobs

>>171163042
they're all flat

>>171162119
It's good, that was the one I was thinking of.
I love their lip syncing and dorkiness. It really makes me want to see them in the series.
I fucking love them grooving out to the (German) Talespin theme. It's perfect.

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>>171163042
Rachel

>>171163042
DANA
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>>171163042
There is no best, they're all cute. This game kinda made me love flat chests, actually.

I hope in the next season they give us some thicc characters.

>>171163469
this

Max flatness is cute

>>171163605
alyssa

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>>171163118
Yeah, if the series actresses are only half as naturally together as those two, we are lucky,

>>171163607
Max Flat
Chloe Flat
Victoria Flat
Kate Flat

All cute

>>171163750
Going to be tough. I really have my doubts about it working as a series.
They're just going to slap some wigs on girls, make them say hella a lot, and then end things exactly like the game and likely kill Chloe D:
It's probably gonna suck. But at least if it's bad we can ignore its existence and if it's good we will all be pleasantly surprised.

>>171160662
Damn, that Chloe is hot.

>>171163882
If it keeps the aesthetic and the nostalgic atmosphere that makes you feel like you're living childhood memories mixed with "Wierd shit in the pacific northwest" that Life is Strange perfected, then I'll probably like it even if the story isn't perfect. Atmosphere is half of LiS, imo

>>171163882
Nah, they wouldn't kill Chloe, at least not like in Bay, it's far too cliched as far as time travel plots are concerned. And tv audiences are triggered far more by plotholes than gamers are, so they'd have to ditch nearly all of EP5 altogether.

I'm just worried it will either devolve into a twilight-y YA love story with shitty love triangles and plot twists, instead of focusing on just Max and Chloe as they go on their adventure. The new fanbase for the show would probably be incredibly toxic too.

>>171164197
If the atmosphere is good then it will be good for screencaps and webms.
But I don't want to watch it if it's just the game's story with just as many plotholes and a terrible ending.

>>171164317
I hope you're right. I don't think there will be love triangles, or pandering to put Max with Warren, but I also don't think it will be very original.
My hope is that they explore the story more and create a new ending, but I don't know. The studio making it hasn't done very much so it's hard to gauge what to expect. I hope it doesn't draw in insufferable people though, things have gotten bad enough over the past few months with some of the things people have said.

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>>171162320
>having all the optional photos you took let you go on a photojumping spree to change events

>mfw I thought the optional photos were gonna be useful for some situation

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>>171163830
Your boob terminology is off. Not everybody without giant boobs is flat. Chloe and Victoria are around fist-sized, we know Max has more than it looks like with her shirts on, and Kate has some chest curve too. ...And they could still develop, all being below twenty.

I agree though, smaller chests are perfectly attractive too.

>>171163605
Thunder-thigh Juliet would like to have a word with you.

>>171163882
Either it's good (unlikely; LiS is so great above all thanks to its characters, and I just can't see they could be replicated, especially not by that gimmicky studio), or we can laugh at it. And it will give us new things to talk about, even in-between episode periods for all that good stuff.

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>>171164608
We realized that was a possibility for a cool, yet budget-heavy gameplay feature, so we had Jefferson burn all your photos for no fucking reason haha :)

>>171163469
good answer

>>171165024
How annoying that Jefferson could have bee a great villain.
Stuff like having his own power, noticing there was something off with Max and figuring it out, or just having an interesting motive. Instead he's some jackass stroking his ego who has an absolutely underwhelming reveal.

I hate this videogame

it made me feel feels and now that it's over I feel empty

>>171166315
I've been feeling this same way ever since I finished it months ago. It's the most emotionally effecting game I've ever played and I honestly don't think anything, even Season 2, could top it.

>>171166674
That's a big bunny

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>>171166674
Alice is evil and rabid

>>171167125
Friendly reminder that /lisg/ bullies Alice and wants to take her carrots away because they're jealous that she gets hugs from Kate and they don't.

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>>171167751
I am extremely jealous of anyone who is able to give Kate a consensual hug.

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>>171167062
For you

>>171167751
Reminder that /lisg/ loves Alice more than any other community (and is the only one where Alice actually hangs around!) and that the original Alicedemonizer is gone and nobody else gets to do that!

>>171167751
>/lisg/ bullies Alice
Why must you tell utter lies? The only ones to get bullied by /lisg/ are Michel, Warren's fans, and Jefferson. And they have all arguably earned it.

Reminder that Michel got blacked

Why does Warren exist?

>>171166236
>Find out Jefferson also has timepowers
>Final showdown is engaging in a battle of tactical rewinding, each trying to force the other to overuse their abilities, maneuvering them into a position of weakness while conserving their own power.

Would have been glorious.

>>171169232
So you can look at him, even on your deathbed, and think 'meh, could be worse'. ;)

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Played LiS for the first time this weekend, and plowed through the whole thing.

>max is cute, awesome main character. Honestly felt myself reflected in her on a lot of shit, even little things like how she'd see a discarded doll, and feel sorry for it. Little shit like that really gives the character depth, and makes you believe they're real. Very well written and acted.
Also Max ain't gay. Sorry :^)
>Chloe is a shit character. Constantly pestering max, making her feel guilty, yelling at her, getting her in trouble, and basically making Max's life more stressful. I get that they were friends once, but it's not worth all the fucking headache. It doesn't help that Ashly Burch can't act her way out of a wet paper bag and just about every line was delivered with the same urgency as a wet fart. I was all too happy to let her die in the end (and in the alternate timeline) and have max finally get some peace and move on with her life. Chloe was better to everyone dead than she ever was alive. I don't mean that in a hateful way, but she just literally did more good by dying than if she had stayed alive.
>The step-douche was basically DONTNOD's verion of The Walking Dead's Kenny. As soon as I found out he was Chloe's step-father, I knew he could be trusted. Games like this always try to go for some "shitty at the beginning but has a heart of gold" character, and this was theirs. I didn't mind it, but was hoping for a character more dimensional.
>everyone else was acted surprisingly well. They had a pleasant array of moods, personalities, and depth. You can even get glimmers of a real human being beneath certain grimy exteriors (Victoria, Frank, Nathan, etc.)

I had put off buying this game because I wasn't sure if it was just some shoegazing hipster trash. Where there were a few eye-rolling bits, I actually find myself chomping at the bit to play a sequel.

What a disgusting piece of shit.

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Some bait isn't even worth a (u)

>>171169739
>Chloe is a shit character
You're gonna trigger a lot of people by saying that

In fact you already did. I'd argue that the story isn't about what you think of Chloe but rather what Max thinks of Chloe and she clearly loves her (as a friend or more).

>>171170182
>a narrative based on your choices can only be interpreted one way

I know my opinion isn't be a popular one, but goddamn I've never seen such an unlikable character been put on so high a pedestal before.

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IM GONNA MAKE THE TRI-STATE TORNADO LOOK LIKE A FUCKING JOKE

>>171170415
He said that HE would argue that, not that it's how the game is objectively meant to be interpreted

>>171163214
Thique Rachel is best Rachel. No wonder Chloe couldn't stop talking about her

>>171170740
"I miss Rachel, Max. I miss her and her meaty fucking thighs"

>>171170920
Chloe lies down, tries to rest her head on Max's legs. They're too bony though, and it's uncomfortable.
>"I wish Rachel were here"

>>171169739
You're a shit character

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>>171170415
No, what I'm saying is that if you make the choices considering your wishes and not the Max's you're kind of missing the point.

When you're presented with the final choice, for example, I think the player/reader should take everything they've learned about Max, who she is, her personality and her relationships with the rest of the characters and based on your interpretation of all of this, make the choice between Chloe and the city so as to be more "considerate" with the line of the story.

Just offing Chloe because fuck this blue-haired cunt is always a viable way to see things but I think it's a bit simplistic.

Maybe I'm overthinking things but it's my thinking process whenever I play videogames that give me choices. I don't pick what I'd do but rather what my character would do, and if my character has an established personality then I respect it.

This is my opinion.

>>171171051
With the diet Joyce feeds her at the Two Whales and at home, I think Max could get up to speed on that real quick.

>>171169519
Time stops, rewinds, maybe even accelerates. Max has to get Jefferson in the path of some kind of debris that will take him out. Maybe a flying boat or school bus, maybe under the collapsing lighthouse. The whole time the storm comes closer and closer and you also have to keep Chloe out of harm's way.
But don't worry, if you "fail" then you just rewind and try again- SuperMax can't lose.

>>171171228
>thicc max

even though i love thicc girls, i am extermely uncomfortable with this

>>171171228
>Joyce ships Max and Chloe hard
>She's fattening Max up because she knows Chloe's type

>>171171295
"Woah, Max. You're putting on a couple pounds, been eating my mom's cooking?"

But that could go into fetish territories easily

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Reminder that regardless of your choices, Max and Chloe still give each other these longing, come-hither looks.

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>>171171104
I agree. As I learned about Max I saw she really was friends with Chloe, it wasn't just manipulation on Chloe's part to find Rachel. The two of them really did care about each other.
By Episode 3 it was clear they loved each other and I was committed to seeing the game end with them both alive and together, like they wanted and like they deserved.
Not once did my dislike of a character (Didn't apply really because I loved Chloe as a character) or some question of sheer numbers stop me from saving her at the end. Even though I wished there would be a better final choice than just 'Chloe vs the town'.

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>>171171295
>>171171402
bon appetit

Max is fine just the size she is. Chloe likes small nerds.

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>>171171346
That's absurd anon, Joyce knows that Max and Chloe are just gal pals, just completely platonic BFF's

>>171170740
We have photos of Rachel's body, and she is not thick. As any girl aspiring to be a model wouldn't be.

Chloe also only talks about Rachel a handful of times, in brief remarks. Among them, things such as saying she's not Rachel's groupie.

>>171171629
Fucking gross

Please keep that stuff to /d/

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>>171171629
TOO THICC TOO THICC
REWIND

>>171171085
WHY DOES A FUCKING """"""VIDEO GAME""""""""" HAVE FUCKING CHROMATIC ABERRATION

I HATE THIS FUCKING MEME

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>>171171641
Platonic displays of affection warm my heart

>>171171629
This kind of sin is unforgivable.

>>171171523
Yes, that's what I'm saying.
Your opinions of Chloe and everybody else are important but they're secondary to the opinions of Max.

Generalizing to all videogames, I understand this can feel like a cheap way to railroad the player, but the game still gives you the choice in the end.
What I'm saying is that people should go beyond "I like this character" or "I don't like this character" when deciding stuff.

>>171171629
stop this immediately
but post more flustered, tempted Kate

>>171171813
because cameras
get it

>>171171824
Man, look at these two GREAT FRIENDS!

What a beautiful FRIENDSHIP am I right!

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>>171171641
Chloe: "I'm gay."
Joyce: "No shit."
Chloe: "And Max is my girlfriend."
Joyce: "Chloe, how stupid do you take me for? I'm not blind, deaf, or oblivious. Now is your girlfriend staying for dinner tonight?"
Chloe: "...She is."

Max: "I'm just going to run out to Chloe's truck and bring my bag in. Be right back."

Chloe: "Mom..."
Joyce: "What is it, Chloe?"
Chloe: "Thanks. I love you."
Joyce: "Love you too, kiddo."
*Hug*

*Flash*
Max: "That's a keeper."

>>171171523
>tfw you (a human being) got manipulated by Chloe (a digital dumpster) so you let her drag Max through an emotional rollercoaster.

nigga that ain't love.

>>171171813
You can disable it, anon.

Fight the meme!

To note, in LiS it was specifically used to give it more of a photographic look, like the glitches, shifts, red burns and such that are visible in chemically developed photos sometimes.

>>171171813
Because it committed itself to an artistic style, keeping it inline with the game's photography themes, and also to mask the limited graphics capability.
Which is arguably the best choice because it will always look the same and won't look outdated in a few years.

hey haha what do you think rachel ambers body smelled like haha

just curious haha

>>171171986
Fuck off.

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>>171171629

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>>171171986
If what Chloe and Max have is not love then I question just what love means or if it can even exist.

>>171172121
Probably like a corpse, I don't know what else it would smell like

>>171172121
Mold and rotting flesh.

I cannot get over the cute Christian /lisg/

please help me, or kill me

>>171172379
There's really only one answer.

https://www.christianmingle.com/

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>>171172562
i'm an atheist and haven't even been baptised

>>171172679
Better get started on that!

>>171171690
>caring about canon Rachel
>not using alternative Rachel headcanon you read in fanfiction (http://archiveofourown.org/works/6457435/chapters/14862853)
>You know how Rachel is described in her missing persons poster? Destroy that. She is 5'7", 160lb. She is soft and warm and has thick thighs. She does not shave her armpits. She smells of lavender, and her bed does twice as much, mingled with the stink of incense.

>>171172379
Stop before you become a full-blown waifufag abomination.

I also always found it weird how people romanticize religion with this character. As if it were a gimmick. Feels kind of predatory. But that's none of my business.

As for help... seek distance, or it'll get worse!

Or stick around, and hope it will fade with time and confronting your infatutation. It worked for some as far as their infatuation and obsession with the game goes, but many are still stuck even after all this time of being here. So if you don't enjoy being stuck like that, I guess my advice would be to force yourself out early, when it is seems the easiest to stay but could still be the easiest to go as well.

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>>171172121
She smells like that Hollister perfume everyone used to wear like 15 years ago, as well as slightly like weed or smoke.
She also somehow always has a slight scent of the ocean/beach. Even when she's not near it.

>>171172831
I know tumblr loves to make Rachel out to be anything they want (her) to be, but it's weird to me they make her taller so often. They knowingly go against the actually only canonically outright established height of a character... because they think she's better being tall. That's... heightist!

I would still wanna eat ThiqueRachel's McMuffins.

>>171172838
Is it better to want to be with Max, or to want to **be** her?

Maybe without the deep emotional trauma, but I wouldn't mind the time powers

>>171173193
>>171172838
I don't consider it bad wishing to do the naked cuddles with a fictional character or entertain the idea of a relationship with them. Like, come on, who wouldn't want to have a cute sweet and nice semi-hipster girlfriend.

It gets bad when the obsession begins though.

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>>171173162
5'7" actually makes more sense if she's going to be a model. 160lb though... I guess she's going to be a plus-size model?

Whateva, I'm sure the latest fashion would look great stretched tight around her muffins, regardless of how massive they may be.

>>171173440
Max (and LiS in general) gave me my aesthetic, actually. I kinda just dressed in generic white dude clothes before I played it, but now I've taken a liking to her subdued hipster styles, and I've even taken an interest in photography.

What's the difference between "obsession" and "deep inspiration", anyway? Like, maybe influencing how I dress and possibly hobbies and interests could be argued to be obsessive, but it feels less like that and more like the game inspiring me to live in a new and different way that I enjoy.

>>171173440
You try to steal Max and you will have a very angry Chloe coming after you. And an angry Max because you tried to separate them.

>>171173748
it's not weird to find inspiration to try new things after finishing reading a book or something
it is, however, common to quickly lose interest in them unless you find that you're really into it

>>171173983
nah my dude Max is Chloe's I know this and would not mess with forces stronger than me

but there HAS to be another one out there, r-right?

>>171174075
If there's another Max then there's another Chloe for that Max.
That's just the way the universe works. Sorry.

>>171173983
You don't know what Chloe's into. Probably some weird shit

That, or she's surprisingly vanilla and it's Max who's into the weird shit

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>>171174132
>That's just the way the universe works. Sorry.

i guess i'll go fug myself then :-DD

>>171174075
I mean, I go to a pretty liberal uni, and I've met so many girls almost exactly like Max (too bad they're all out of my league)

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Sleep time
ZZZZZzzzzz

>>171173193
For yourself, what you really feel is "better". Wanting to be her is of course way less problematic and frustrating, in terms of actually achieving it. You can explore sides of her and your relation to them in the game, including obviously the ability to rewind time, and even outside of it discover yourself in relation to most of that. Her hobbies such as the guitar, her passions such as photography, her tastes in literature and music, her fashion, her activities, hell, her views, opinions, behaviours, her "gender identity" if you will. Still has all the potential to be plenty weird, but not waifu-pillow weird (or seeking-girls-that-look-like-Max-IRL weird - that's creepy and a very bad fundament for any relationship, I think).

>>171173440
I don't consider it "bad". Feelings are feelings, and if a fictional experience can evoke such emotions in us, they are as real as they ever could be and good and important to us. But it is unhealthy if it does get obsessive, specifically the infatuation with a fictional character can negatively affect one psychologically, and be to the detriment of one's actual sex and love life.

Either way, we don't like waifuposting here, or gratuitously fetishizing and sexualizing the characters in general. I'm sure most here find them very pretty and attractive, and feel a lot for them, even if not outright romantically. Maybe a sort of crush. I'm fortunate to be able to say I love their love first and foremost, and the narratively existing romance is just naturally a lot stronger and more significant to me than any of my own romantical desires with regards to the game.

>>171173562
It does make more sense, but that's not what they are doing it for (the thiqueness being one suggestion for such). And there have been 5'5" models. I think someone mentioned Kate Moss here in that context once. One of the most successful models too, if I'm not mistaken.

>>171174156
>One day Max checks Chloe's browser history. >There's all these pictures of people in deer costumes.
>Deer costumes that look in need of cleaning because they're all sticky.
>Max decides to burn every Jane doe shirt she owns.

>>171174156
There's a difference between Max and Chloe doing "weird shit" privately together, and breaking their bond by cheating on their soulmate, Warren.

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>>171174365
Wrong, she'd decide to wear deer costumes as much as she can around Chloe

>>171174156
I mean, we know she's jealous, protective and possessive. She's sickened by Rachel even just posing for someone even though they weren't together. She doesn't like Max giving others attention, and while she does come around and mellow out, thanks to Max, it's still obvious she's jealous, like when Max calls Warren. Chloe actually texts him to stay away after Max kisses her.

And we know that emotionally, she wants loyalty, dedication and trust. We know she's sexually sensitive when feelings are involved.

We also know she considers her more promiscuous past phases stupid and gross.

It's pretty much absurd to think she'd be into sexually involving other people.

>>171174598
She seems like the kind of person who's really shy about sex in general.

>>171174598
>She's sickened by Rachel even just posing for someone even though they weren't together
Wait what, she was absolutely a couple with Rachel.
If you find out your partner was writing love letters to, and taking lewd pictures for your local drug dealer, that's just jealousy? It's a completely natural response to get sickened by that.

And Chloe only got annoyed that Max spoke to Kate on the phone because she'd just learned her best friend was an actual time-traveler, nothing else in the world mattered past that revelation (also because Joyce gave her shit and Max was busy on the phone).

>Chloe actually texts him to stay away after Max kisses her
That's because it's Warren, case closed.


But yeah, Max literally went through time and space to save Chloe, no one else could possibly reciprocate that same love Chloe shares after that week.

>>171171629
not here for thick but I am here for some Mad Max Mammaries

>>171174724
When feelings are involved, absolutely.

She is blushing and averting her gaze from Max, she's an adorable, flirting, stupid mess sometimes with her, all flustered, she calls the dare peck "hardcore". She actually feels like she's competing with Warren and tells him off. She remembers one remark from Max about her teacher and teases her about it. She's a little girl in love.

I do think she was more sexually out-going in the past, but not only do I think it was still fairly tame and limited to a handful instances at most, in terms of actual sex, but I also think she more forced herself into that out-goingness; i. e., it wasn't for fun, maybe not even really enjoyable altogether, but other reasons that led her to seek such relationships. Such as seeking actual meaningful connections, emotional closeness, obviously in seeking to compensate for the incredibly meaningful connections she had lost, perhaps seeking attention and seeking to piss her parents off, a form of rebellion. She is a socially more out-going, extroverted personality in some senses. That does come easy to her, even though we know she was socially isolated due to her sadness, and fixated on Rachel, yearning for Max, then falling into Max again once she returns. But we see her casually friendly with a bunch of people, she can casually flirt with Jefferson to rile up Max.

But yeah, that sexual out-goingness is just not there anymore. She outright says she's been saved from it, and it especially does not extend into her romantical relationships. She would be fixated on Max sexually just like she is emotionally and romantically. She would definitely become less sensitive to it, I do take her for a sexually fairly hungry person; she wants Max like that, needs it, and her shyness was also partly due to not wanting to take things too fast and upset Max. She was nervous to ruin their reunion, but still eager enough to start flirting and engaging instantly. Couldn't help but to.

>>171175517
>She was nervous to ruin their reunion, but still eager enough to start flirting and engaging instantly. Couldn't help but to.

So she was basically worried she'd fuck things up if she went in full-throttle, but a couple tender moments, longing looks, and a dare that totally wasn't to test if Max was into her, and she knows that it's safe to try more seriously.

>>171175050
>absolutely a couple with Rachel.
She says she crushed on Rachel. And Rachel wrote a letter to Chloe (that she threw away before giving it to her) pointing out that she's met a guy and goes on swooning over him and talking about how they hooked up and that Chloe would roll her eyes at it. This is a picture book example of an unrequited infatuation of a lesbian gal and her close friend that seems oblivious at best to that infatuation. Apart from sass and some sexyness in their general dynamic, at most there were one or two drunken make-outs sometime, that Rachel hardly remembers and doesn't think anything of, while Chloe hazily thinks they mean everything between them. I do think Rachel kind of knew and didn't want to hurt Chloe, and I think Chloe never acted on it because she also knew more about Rachel's and even her own feelings, but either way, all the game suggests is that they weren't a couple.

>nothing else in the world mattered past that revelation
I think the implication there is pretty clearly that Chloe did not like paying other people attention, and wanted her all for herself. Of course other things could play into it, but it's pretty on-the-nose characterization of an abandonment-complex suffering, emotionally hurt person that gets her best friend back to lash out when said friend interrupts their bonding to concentrate on someone else.

It was a ridiculous situation, and Chloe realizes as much, mellows out thanks to Max not least because she realizes Max cares about her a lot, more than other people, and will not leave her alone... but it's clearly a jealous situation, a possessive one, an emotional lashing-out when she sees the miracle that entered her life again unexpectedly being "threatened" early on.

>>171171629
This is fucking messing with me because Max's face is a really good match for the game (after allowing for the artist's style), then I look below her face and Jesus, just look at how her hoodie is fucking suspended like a curtain!

>>171176525
Magic fetish boobs don't follow your puny laws of physics.

>>171175050
>>171176156
Fully agreed with your last sentence though. That "through time and space" thing is for me actually not only the reason for their love, its fundament, it is the symbol of it, the measure of its significance: an omni-significant love for this fictional world and its story, transcending time, defying the universe.

...My point was just about whether we could know if Chloe was into inviting other people into their bedroom. We all agree she's romantically exclusive with Max, but some apparently think it could be possible she'd not be, sexually. Which, again, is pretty absurd to me given her characterization, her past, her emotional personality and complexes, things she outright says, her reactions...

Rachel and Chloe were definitely not a couple. Chloe may have wanted them to be, deep down she knew it wasn't going to happen, but Rachel did not.
Rachel seemed to push Chloe away when things got too close and there's the possibility Rachel wasn't even into women (She was certainly into men to some extent though). All of that depends on how you view her which is very open to interpretation.

What's not open is how Chloe views her relationship with Max. It's not an open one.
Max and Chloe are both possessive and protective of each other. Max would not be comfortable with involving anyone one else and Chloe sees real love and sex as being heavily-linked. Her past phase was an early exploration to see if it made her feel better during a depressing time, and it didn't so she stopped it. She only has that kind of love for Max.

They may get up to some stuff in the bedroom but it will certainly not include a third individual. Just the two of them.

>>171175597
Exactly. It's (in the pool literally) "testing the waters". She's scared to compromise their friendship due to her romantical feelings, it's a typical thing with homosexual feelings I think, especially between friends, and here obviously has all the backdrop of their past and Chloe's issues added to it, that, apart from the fear of abandonment, also include issues with her self-worth, the thought that she could deserve being abandoned, that she is not worth sticking around for, and issues with emotional proximity also because of the fear of abandonment.

But she loves Max, can't help but to take her back in instantly after five years of traumatic separation, welcoming her, more warmly than it ever had any right to be, on day 1 already confiding in her completely and letting Max confide in her in turn, remembering her birthday, giving her a gift, dancing and laughing with her, being excited and happy in a matter of moments. Max breaks through all her walls and issues, melts her down into the sensitive, loving girl yearning for nurture and love she still is at her core. Gives her that nurture and love, helping her heal from her emotional issues just like Chloe does to her, in turn building Max up and getting her more confident in herself, involved in the world, empowered. A great complementarity, they fit together like two broken-apart pieces of the same thing. Because in a lot of senses, they are. Continuing the growth and health that was violently halted five years back.

And Chloe also can't help but to want to let her know that she loves her as more than a friend, wishes obviously for Max to reciprocate. And so she does, albeit cautiously. And adorably. It helps that she probably always knew somehow, them being soulmates and all, that Max also cares about and loves her so incredibly much. That's how they discover in days an all-significant bond, an all-transcending love, when with Rachel it had been years of silently crushing and not acting on it.

Photobomb!

>>171177142
>issues with her self-worth, the thought that she could deserve being abandoned, that she is not worth sticking around for, and issues with emotional proximity
This as the "abandonment complex". It's a syndromatic expression of issues, at its core being the "abandonment" she's suffered from her father, Max and Rachel, and then such issues of emotional hurt, anger and blame, lack of self-worth, problems with emotional proximity and so on being the result. As part of rationalizing the abandonment, trying to cope with her hurt, as symptoms of the fear of that hurt of abandonment, and so on. Her phases and such being coping behaviour with these issues of abandonment. It's a complex, and Max breaks through its walls, gets to the core of it, helps Chloe not be scared and hurt anymore, shows her that she is worth everything to her, that she will be there for and with her, no matter what, will literally fight the universe for her. Finding a proximity she could have only dreamed of, on all levels, an unconditional, eternal, undying love.

Just as Max, due to the traumatic past, is a more insecure person, shy, closed within herself, cocooned up, observing not acting, lacking self-confidence. Even though she is such a talented and wonderful person, that can do so much good for people and the world, can achieve so much and be so beneficial. That is a genuinely good person the world would be better off having her engage in. And Chloe knows this, and she in turn helps her in that way, makes her confident in herself, outgoing, gets her involved, makes her see how awesome she is, literally empowers her. Into someone that now fights the entire universe for what she cares about and believes in.

It's a great mutual, complementary healing and growing. They were literally made for each other, as fictional entities, and in their world, as a narrative reality, meant for each other, as soulmates, belonging together. A great love it all revolves around.

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>>171178046
Photohog.

>>171177142
>when with Rachel it had been years of silently crushing and not acting on it.
Precisely because she knew in the back of her head that Rachel didn't love her, and that even if she would, it wasn't what she herself wanted, what would make her better, heal her, make her happy. That she didn't truly love her either. It was the idea of loving her that she loved, of running away, leaving her problems behind and being happy somewhere else with her. A futile idea, a desperate dream, a dream she clung onto in denial and never acted on precisely because then it would be revealed as the futile dream that it was, the impossibility of it would then be blatant, and she would be even more hopeless and lost.

It is a psychological reflex, an emotional compelling, illusioning herself into thinking there was always that one literal "out", the future of being in love and happiness with Rachel. Rather than see the reality that it wouldn't work, because Rachel didn't truly love her like that, because she didn't truly love Rachel like that, because it wouldn't make her actually that happy and healthy person. That's why it is important to me to maintain that they weren't a couple: apart from it being obvious in the game that they aren't, it is important to understand Chloe, and especially important for her relationship to Max, the love they share. Chloe didn't act on her crush on Rachel in years because she knew that would only lead to the breaking apart of her dreams, her hopes. But she acts on her love for Max in days, because she knows that is actually love, actual health and growth and happiness. Can actually help her overcome her past, heal from her issues.

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>>171179583
...As such, the scene where they find Rachel is above all Chloe's ultimate realizing, and accepting - with the help of Max, at her side - that Rachel and her weren't meant to be, that her dream of them was futile, impossible. Mountains running away. Whereas with Max, the dream is real, the hope alive, they and their love can blossom, they can leave together, overcome all obstacles, such as the issues stemming from their past, be happy. And they do. Literally overcoming obstacles and leaving together.

Finding Rachel is a catharsis in that sense, painful but beneficial. And marks ultimately what the entire game has been saying elsewhere all the time, such as when in the AU Chloe had never even met Rachel: that her and Max are meant to be together, that Rachel represents precisely a lack of something that with Max is there powerfully, limitlessly. It shows precisely what is beneficial and good about their relationship, works in that contrast. Not only in that contrast, because Rachel was a good friend to her, did help her, and they did love each other. But not at all in the way Max and her do. One is denial, futility, distraction. The other is love, hope, dedication. Actual healing, growing and loving, actual running away, overcoming, transcending... The one finding its ultimate end in death (of Rachel), the other its beginning at overcoming death (Max saving Chloe's life). The powers as the symbol of their love, a literal power of love. Thus a love that transcend time and death - a timeless, immortal love. Existing in all iterations of the timelines, above all.

Rachel is only one more piece in the narrative that revolves all around Max and Chloe's love, its powerfulness and meaningfulness; transcendence and significance.

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>>171180007
That is why she looks sleepy 24/7.

>>171179583
I agree entirely. However there is the small thing that maybe Chloe did try acting on her feelings for Rachel, but those advances were just ignored.

Leaving Chloe with a small bit of hope because she didn't hear "no", but also a bit of sadness because she didn't hear "yes" either. Overall it left her still in love, with a tiny part of her hoping, and confused. Funnily enough in the same way things go between Max and Warren at the start of the game; you can tell they are real friends, but one wants things to become more and the other clearly doesn't, but nobody wants to hurt the other's feelings.

It's that inability to give a firm answer that causes problems. Max just wants to be nice, Rachel probably felt she had a legitimate reason (That denying Chloe's advances or lying to her by saying reciprocating them would destroy her when she learned the truth.)

I get the idea that Rachel may have been considering plans for a future with Chloe but once it became clear Chloe was loving her that those plans were never going to be realized. Instead Rachel kept Chloe at a bit of a distance and was waiting for Max to return. Someone who Chloe clearly loved and who hopefully would return those feelings or at least be able to be honest, unlike she was being.

>>171180142
Nothing some coffee won't fix. She does get her sleep when she wants or needs it, usually with cuddles from Chloe warding off any bad dreams.

>>171180338
It's possible to see it similar to a Max/Warren situation, but I take it that Chloe really did also not genuinely want to be with Rachel, did not really love her like that, and that's why she never really acted on it. This obviously to strengthen the meaning of her acting-upon her love for Max in a matter of days, them becoming a thing when she and Rachel didn't in years.

That contrast is how Rachel is most important for the narrative for me, as a piece of storytelling that apart from driving the plot and supporting some characterization and narrative themes, represents something to be overcome, a sort of obstacle, and precisely in contrast to Max and Chloe's relationship one that wasn't truly loving, not in the way Chloe hoped and dreamed it to be. Things such as Rachel having apparently wanted to run away on her own, and obviously her lying, are very clear suggestions to me that dontnod did also have this in mind, did want to show through Rachel and the futility of the idea of more between her and Chloe, how much is between her and Max. Also romantically. That she is exactly what Chloe needed, hoped for, dreamed of. Dedicated, truthful, loyal, loving, making her better, healing, becoming happy. Like Rachel never really was.

Their relationship and its love something they can overcome their problems and traumas due to, which for Chloe includes Rachel, finally overcoming her, accepting her "death" as symbolically the end of her "childish" denial and dreams she knew to be futile. She can let go. Instead finding and embracing the actual dream with Max. To an extent where her anger and grief over Rachel's death are washed away by concern for Max, on the same day.

Friendly reminder, that if you waifu or fetishize these characters, you are fucking disgusting and should kill yourself.

Also, stop being polite to dumb anti-Chloe pieces of shit. Rip their fucking throat out!

>>171180338
>>171181240
Just like even Warren's existence (>>171169232) to me only plays into their love this story is all about, and precisely its romantical significance: there is a boy, he is romantically interested in Max, she knows this, she isn't appalled by him or anything. He could be a boyfriend to her, sure. But he couldn't. Because she loves Chloe. She loves Chloe not because she's lesbian, or because boys don't want her - she loves her because she is Chloe. Who happens to be a girl. "Chloesexual".

As that, Warren's existence is actually important, funnily enough, for the establishing of the outright-romantical quality of Max and Chloe's love. Only playing into its significance, like in my understanding of the game, really most of everything in it does. Revolving all around them, and that between them. It's love story for me, through and through. Everything in it relates to them and their love. It's obviously its fundament, stands at the inception of its conception, stands narratively at its beginning, core, center and end, finds symbolical manifestation in the powers themselves... but even all these other things to me only play into it, relate to it, support it, symbolize and mean it. That's why I never cared much for "Prescott" stuff and such much, or ideas such as, taking this thread for example, a Jefferson with powers and a fight and whatnot. It's not at all about that stuff for me, not a sci-fi or mystery story. I can even forgive the logical inconsistencies and embrace magical realism (through not quite the way in which they did here) for the sentimentality of that love it is above all about, and seeks above all to convey. Even have grown to accept and embrace the ending due to it. Not without criticism and my fair share if qualms, but still, as something I consider a fitting ending in the respects crucial to my understanding and appreciation of it.

>Rachel banged jefferson
>Rachel banged frank
Wew lad. If only nathan wasn't such a retard, they had a nice thing going.

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>>171181760
Friendly reminder that if you tell ANYONE to kill themselves, you're a bully and you disappoint Kate.

Also, people should believe in the power of forgiveness, rather than violence and hate.

>>171181886
Considering she had time-travel powers, Nathan actually Sean Prescott really fucked up.

>>171181760
I did call him a digusting piece of shit. Even if one is blind to Chloe's character complexities and depths, insusceptible to her charms, deaf to inter-human connections to autismal degrees, romantically primitive enough to not only not appreciate, but turn into its opposite the powerfully loving bond she shares with Max, narratively retarded enough to not see its significance and beneficialness, its complementarity and balance and growth and health... even with disregarding all that, the idea that a young, troubled person with her past is "better off dead" is such an objectively disgusting, hateful notion he deserved to be called out for it.

...Would you however do the same for anti-Max pieces of shit, or would you not only ignore, but join them? ;^)

>>171182189
Darling, hello! I've been quiet lately, and haven't noticed you.

Yes, you summed up his stupidity quite elegantly, there.

I wouldn't support anti-Max posting, at all. I've expressed my usually mood-dependent indifference to her as a singular character, but I do, generally, love her as a character and the beauty of Chloe and Max's specific relationship.

>>171181760
This. It's concerning how much /v/-tier stuff makes its way into these threads

>Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting
t. Plato

>>171182971
I know you wouldn't support anti-Max posting of that ridiculousness, blindness and cruelty. But you know what I mean.

But I mean it affectionately!

We don't choose who we love, and despite it, I know you do also kind of love Max, are not actually blind to and dismissive of her as a character because she is not your "type", or the relationship between her and Chloe because of your love for the latter. Just that sometimes, you like to be. Or are in a blind, dismissive mood like that, as you say, where your infatuation takes a hold of you again, where your love blinds you, and perhaps even makes you jealous or romantically frustrated and spiteful or something.

I've been spending this morning trying to articulate for probably the hundredth time what I make of Rachel's meaning for Chloe. Do you get what I mean with "Chloe didn't act on her feelings for Rachel because she was scared of finding out what she knew: that their love wasn't real, her ideas of their future and happiness futile" and that stuff, and how it relates to her acting-upon her feelings for Max?

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>>171184367
I wonder who could be behind this post.

>>171182971
>>171184563
I can never formulate it just right, where it gets across what I mean. Where someone can read that sentence and then feel what I feel, in those scenes, that entire sentiment, in "Santa Monica Dream", its self-revolving sadness, the sadness of the certainty in the uncertain, the futility of a childish dream, in "Mountains", the denial of Chloe, her desperate not-wanting-to-know-what-she-knows because it would destroy her, leave her hopeless... - until Max came and made her confront and realize and overcome just that. The coming-of-realization and catharsis in it, the finding of Rachel's corpse as an overcoming, important, ultimately healing, beneficial narrative event, a clarity, Rachel's meaning for Chloe precisely working to support the greater meaning Max has, romantically and otherwise, as her actual hero, angel, hope, future, dream-come-true.

"Max helping Chloe find Rachel" being this narrative theme of overcoming Rachel and what she represents altogether, playing precisely into Chloe's finding of herself, understanding things about herself and finding what she really wants in that search, finding each other, the true happiness and carelessness, health and growth, the future and hope, the love in it. In contrast to Rachel, who was - albeit a close and caring friend - a replacement, a crutch, a desperate try to recapture what she had lost with Max, a crush, an infatuation, that Chloe desperately, in her hopelessness and hurt, tied her hopes and dreams to, made it out to be something it never could be, and the immense sadness in that, her inner child, traumatized, yearning for healing and nurture and love, craving it, lying to herself she could find it in Rachel...

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>>171184938
...and then, the immense joy and happiness in finding it with Max, who unexpectedly enters her life again, like a miracle, and breaks through to her, gives her the all-transcending hope, dedication, love, makes her dreams a reality, reaches to her hurt core, heals her... and then the even more immense joy in the idea of them becoming whole together, completing each other, that she can do the same for Max.

Rachel works for me above all as that, signifying as one more "obstacle" for Chloe the overcoming and healing and loving (explicitly in its romance) quality of her relationship with Max. She's more than that, also has meaning for Max for example, and for the plot, and others for the narrative, and "as a person" definitely deeply meant something to Chloe... but she's above all that obstacle, and even for Chloe, meaningful above all in overcoming her, a catharthic vehicle, "missing her" primarily important to drive her reunion with Max, who she truly missed,; "searching her" primarily to convey this self-searching arc of realizing what she meant to her, and managing to overcome her, with Max; "finding her" then as that ultimate overcoming, find the comfort and strength in Max to let go of her childish dreams because it doesn't make her hopeless anymore, but actually makes her better, is a painful, but healing experience, and just one more of bonding inseparably with Max.

I know you don't quite share that understanding of it, but can you see what I mean?

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>>171184938
Oh, it never feels like jealousy, really.

I do understand what you mean, indeed. Chloe relied on her own perception of the ambiguity of the relationship, that if it were to be concretely declared, it would cease the self-revolving infatuation expressed very well in "Santa Monica Dream". Chloe knew, and "Mountains" as well as the discovery of Rachel herself, was the final expression of self-torture in the futility and dependency in the non-relationship they shared, as an expression of escape, but futile as a mountain running way.

I have to leave soon so I've rushed my post, but I'll definitely explore this in detail with you later.

As a last note, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUN5CweYN4U seems to embody at least thew "slice of life" elements of Rachel and Chloe's relationship, Rachel being the "something good" to make her forget about both Max, and Rachel herself's lack of reciprocation.

>>171185359
Part of my interest in Rachel and Chloe is also the narrative symbolism you describe.

As I said, I understand completely.

>>171184723
Does Alice use Kate's computer to look at naughty pictures of plants?

>>171185941
>Chloe relied on her own perception of the ambiguity of the relationship, that if it were to be concretely declared, it would cease the self-revolving infatuation expressed very well in "Santa Monica Dream".
Exactly, that's such an apt way to sum it up. And obviously, there is a deeply saddening core to that notion of the futility in Chloe's self-deluding denial and delusion... contrasted against which the joy and happiness and strength to overcome just that desperate denial, to let go of Rachel she had clung onto for dear life - in finding this all with Max, it is even more joyous and happy a sentiment, her acting-upon-her-feelings for Max even more lovable and wonderful and adorable, because it's natural and comes from her heart, her core, she can't help but to, it's true and real and good and healthy, inherently happy. The recapturing of a joy and love of a child in that sense, which is wonderful to see, especially as contrasted against the sad misery of the desperation and futility that she found herself in, before Rachel, with Rachel, after her, found herself in simply ever since Max had left - until she returned.

It's just one more reason why and way in which Max and Chloe's relationship has affected and resonates with me so deeply.

>>171186018
I'm glad.

I'd definitely write even more for yet another time on this, if you feel like and have the time sometime to go into it more. There's always a lot more to be said about it, songs to be found and in turn be related to it, stuff to be felt. Even if for you it's perhaps more about their relationship itself, and for me most of the time about what it means to her and Max's, to feel more about it, in that contrasting and overcoming.

>>171186927
Please. Her heart belongs to one plant and one alone.

Got a hypothetical question /lisg/. Say that by some miracle Dontnod decides to create a series of DLC or a spinoff or a sequel to Life is Strange. Each episode lets you play as one of the supporting characters and develops them further. The catch is that one of the episodes stars Warren. If you were the writer in charge how would you go about making him into a genuinely likable or even interesting character?

>>171187881
I wouldn't want to forcibly make him "likable", and a character can be interesting without being likable.

I suppose I would explore his cinematic hobbies, his feelings for Brooke, and their friendship, and his generally isolated and intellectual interests.

He mentioned his parents were obsessive about his grades, so maybe explore that.

>>171187881
>warren episode
>he gets hit by a school bus, and rushed to hospital
>the content of his bag spills in the collision, and all the weird photos he's photoshopped of himself and Max together are exposed
>injuries are minor, but this public shaming has caused his rep considerable damage
>principal wells puts all these conditions on his continued attendance at blackwell, he's basically on probation and has to stay a certain distance from Max at all times.
>eventually gets his shit together and stops being a creep, but everyone still treats him like he is one
>so basically there's no happy ending
>the story is an analogue for how sex offenders have a hard time reintegrating into society after they've done their time, due to mandantory reporting

>>171181760
waifu as in the meme sort of way, or the actual autistic sort of way?

>>171187881
I think what's at all interesting about him and could be explored in such a DLC would be the questionable sides of his infatuation with... either Max, or perhaps a new muse he later sets his eyes on. In a sequel sort of DLC, see how this develops in him outgrowing his young and awkward stage, whether it gets worse or he grows out of also it like most would. Some of it is pretty typical, but there's more to it, things that make me think it could actually be a problem in personality and psychology, and then be interesting in a characterization.

That exploration would be rather tame and subtle, but it could obviously be used to touch on a variety of themes that relate to real life issues, such as boundaries, violation of privacy, harassment, sexism, and so on. Like, imagine he gave her the flash drive to plant a spy program on her laptop, to access her camera and such. And we as players would make these decisions (turn the camera on, lol), and decide how far he goes, hear his conflicted thoughts, see that he does have limits and awareness of boundaries, and how they clash with his infatuation and obsessive tendencies of intrusion.

To make him likeable, they'd have that DLC primed to set him on a path of realizing how wrong it is, and actively bettering himself, finding a genuine and respectful infatuatedness with... Brooke, who not only leads him respect her romantically, but to respect her for her intelligence and such as well. Maybe touch on the reasons for him being weird - his awkwardness, maybe his loneliness and outcastedness, relying on making connections through films and the internet, which led to him being weird in person and demanding in a way you'd be when you learn to interact on such impersonally a level.

This is obviously only working off of fairly little we have in the game, but he's just a pretty benign and uninteresting character, so to explore him in interesting and likeable ways, we'd have to blow some of these things up a bit.

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>>171187881
Either make him less obsessed with Max, or make it some sort of prequel to show how he fell in love with Max. He isn't so much a bad character, he is just annoying because he is a beta orbiter to the protagonist.

I guess expand his relationship with his parents? His parents only show care, love and pride for him when he gets good grades, meaning he obsesses over getting good grades, and as such he tries to hide depression and loneliness beneath a cheerful, overly clingy exterior.

I wouldn't make him a stalker, though, just a dumb young """""""""adult"""""""" in love.

>Warryn went from getting his ass kicked in the parking lot to destroying Nathan in 3 days

What's his routine? It's obviously working.

>>171191015
Before the second fight he drank his carefully collected elixir of Max's sweat.

>>171191205
how would he even go about collecting that

>>171191397
science

>>171191397
Why do you want to know this, creep?

>>171191015
Having pent up rage and wanting to protect his friend/ take revenge.
Nathan seemed high during that scene as well so he wasn't entirely on his guard.

>>171171979
I wanna see that photo now.

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>>171187881
I already found him interesting and somewhat likeable.
But yeah, just a depiction of him getting over Max, maturing a little bit and learning to appreciate Brooke as a real girl rather than Max as an abstraction would do a lot to endear him to people.

Alternatively, make it a player choice: you can gradually do the above and develop your relationship with Brooke, and with Chloe as a friend; or you can refuse to get over Max, become creepier, start invading her privacy and become jealous of Chloe.
Actually, that would be awesome.

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>>171191015

>>171194204
D E L E T E

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>>171194204

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>>171193749
(Credit: Max Caulfield, 2014)

>>171194706
t. Warryn

>>171194950
Award worthy

>>171194204
=kek

>>171194950
Me heart. Every time.

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Lewd birthday present for Chloe. A Kate because lewd.

>>171197606
2lewd4me

>>171200790
>2lewd4me

No, just lewd enough.

>>171197606
Why aren't there any good pics with non-suicidal Kate?

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>>171201849
Yes there are!

>>171202163
I mean not enough.

I found it eerie yet touching when, in the Nightmare sequence, you get a text from Rachel saying, "I'll be seeing you soon."

I think it's because parallels were drawn between Rachel and Chloe, and in turn Chloe and Max's relationship, as if she were manipulated by Chloe in a way that Chloe supposedly was by Rachel, but also because it felt like Rachel, as referenced by Chloe, would have genuinely liked to meet her. Of course, it's turned on its head, implying that Max will die.

When the graffiti changed from "Rachel Amber forever," and "Chloe Price forever" to "Max Caulfield forever," and "Chloe Price forever", it sent a graveyard child down my spine. It was documenting what was lost, what was beautiful, and what was gone, and what was gained, with a similarly poignant implication of a dark parallel, but compounded with Chloe's impending fate resting in Max's hands.

>>171197606
REWIND THIS

>>171203954
Yes please. To experience once again.

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>>171201849
There are lots! I'd know, I just wrote a script to download all the Kate images off deviantart

>>171206306
Are you a femanon?

>>171206559
t. Warren

>Page 10

JUST

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>>171204818
If anyone wants the deviantart collection of Kate images, I've uploaded to http://orph.link/kateda.rar

Size is 603mb

>>171210145
Cool. Thanks.

Jefferson did everything wrong.

>>171213383
Of course he did. Jeffershit sux.

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Holy crap things are moving fast today

>>171214568
Wowsers, I know.

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>>171159307
Kate and Max a cute!

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Max and Chloe are a c̶u̶t̶e DORKS

>>171217726
Hey, you two! Stop horsing around!
>Neigh.

Chloe is dead haha :)

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Chloe is alive and well and with Max.

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>>171220440
>>171220641

>>171221818
Kate is not a bully! Unless it's toward someone who hurt her friends.

>>171223109
Why does Victoria hate memes?

>>171224309
She'a secretly a meme-loving fuck

It's a whole complex like those anti-gay senators who turn out to be gay

>>171224413
Does that mean Chloe secretly loves emojis?

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Dana is for______

>>171227064
Cheering

>>171225321
Chloe is neutral towards emojis for the most part, she only dislikes when Max uses them because it raises her cuteness to an unsafe level which can make Chloe's heart overload

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Why is /vg/ going so fast?
Looks like a lot of threads hit their bump limit in a short span of time so new ones popped up.

>>171227561
Is it break for underageb& in the US?

>>171227561
I recently finished it again and came back to this general.im basically pretending to be 10 people in the thread.

>>171227064
interesting insight and support!

>>171222713
Kate bullies non belivers

Max is for ______.

>>171232591
rewinding.

>>171191015
becoming the self-insert for the devs does wonders for your muscle mass

>>171232591
using her profound empathy and intelligence to save the day!

>>171232591
bullying

>>171194950
JJAbrams/10
too much lensflare

>>171217526
What a pair of dorks.

>>171234995
On the gathering storm, comes a tall handsome Max,
With an old Polaroid, and her blessed right hand

https://twitter.com/cissyspeaks/status/839864220673961984

Congratulations Joyce!

It's not bullying if it's true.

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>tfw we never get a chance to kiss crippled Chloe

Goodnight, /lisg/!

A poem for you.

"A wise young Max lived in an oak
The more she saw, the less she spoke,
The less she spoke, the more she could ask.
Why can't we all be like that wise young Max?"

>>171227064
impregnating

>>171232591
Chloe.

>>171232591
giving terrible movies to watch.

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>>171240235
Sleep tight, Anon

>>171243629
Shit. Thought that was Pricefield. I'm just now painfully reminded I had Chloe and Rachel images saved from when I thought "Maybe in the past they were together or messed around, so Chloe did feel loved before Max came back."

Then I remember the likely reality of their friendship, and how much lies were told on Rachel's part and how Chloe never had a chance with her.

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>>171244381
>how much lies were told on Rachel's part
Is that in-game confirmed or are you just making conjecture?

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>>171245395
In game.
Her telling Chloe she wasn't sleeping with Frank, when she was (In addition to Jefferson and possibly others). Plus she may have been trying ti get out of Arcadia Bay without Chloe if the conversation with the truck driver is any indication, but there's really no timeline of when that discussion was.
Overall it just makes me sad that Chloe was obviously in love with her (or thought she was), but Rachel couldn't give her an honest answer even if it was a rejection of romantic feelings. Chloe would have been able to handle honesty. She gets pissed when you lie to her and she finds out.

I'm glad Rachel didn't lie about lover Chloe though. That would have been extremely stupid and damaging to the both of them. I wish we could have seen a timeline of Max and Chloe together with Rachel just being their friend.

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>>171245837
Didn't realise it was that explicit.
God I wish we could see more of their relationship.

>>171247320
Well I don't know how explicit it was. I do think Chloe and Rachel fooled around at least once and it's what created the problems: Chloe realized it felt amazing because she cared about Rachel and because it gave her a realization that she's a lesbian, Rachel realized it was a huge mistake because it gave Chloe hope of a relationship.
Whenever the topic comes up I could see Rachel offering pathetic excuses or just trying it dodge it entirely.

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>>171249463

>>171236886
Some of Nathan and Victoria's insults-du-jour were actually pretty good descriptions of Max
I can see Chloe playfully calling her a 'waif hipster' or 'tweemo'

>>171250642
Max wears hipster like a badge of honor (Even though she's more of a nerd/geek), kind of like if they ever called Chloe something insulting to gays. She'd just say something obscene and flirtatious to gross out/ fluster which ever said it to her.

>>171251149
Why do people call Max a hipster? She's not one at all

>>171252018
Victoria calls her a hipster as if it's an insult. Probably because Max likes her Polaroid instead of a modern DSLR. Even though she'd have a modern camera for anything professional.
It doesn't make much sense. Chloe calls Max a nerd, which is far more fitting.

>>171252572
>Chloe calls Max a nerd, which is far more fitting.
>2.8 GPA
>can't answer Jefferson's questions without using her power
>nerd

lol no

I felt the same way about sacrificing Chloe as I did watching Wolverine die at the end of Logan. It hurt every fiber of my being to watch it happen, but I knew it had to be done. It felt right.

Fucking shitty earth.

>>171252018
She isn't a full blown Williamsburg pretentious hipster personality-wise, but her hobbies and aesthetics are pretty hipstery

>>171245837
Warren is to Max as Chloe is to Rachel. Rachel never said she loved Chloe, but she kept her around for fun. Max at least didn't respond to all of Warren's texts.

>>171252827
>but I knew it had to be done. It felt right.

Great, another dude who bought Michel's bullshit.

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>>171252827
>I knew it had to be done. It felt right.

>>171252824
Nerd does not necessarily imply extreme intelligence. It can mean expertise or interest in one area. In Max's case, photography.
Besides, Max is pretty smart. She used her powers to solve questions and place herself into otherwise inaccessible areas.

>>171252827
>I knew it had to be done. It felt right.
You've earned this: >:(

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Saving Chloe had to be done and it felt right.
All that stuff they went through and they had to end up together. Otherwise it was all for naught.

>>171253273
>another dude
I'm a lady, thank you.

Felt right in an intuitive sense. My gut guides my moral compass, but it was more of an instinctual response. She was meant to die. Chloe deserved a much better life. Her father was killed. She lost her best friend. From what the game tells, the young woman spent five years adrift, numbing her pain with alcohol, drugs and romance built upon false pretense. Hers is a tragic fate. There is no way around it. Price deserved more than a shot in the gut and a cold bathroom floor, but life rarely gives you what you deserve. Otherwise Victoria would've been on that roof instead of Kate.

>>171254251
You're correct. Her Blackwell records note that she's inconsistent in her studies, but shows considerable intelligence when she applies herself.

I'm considerate in my descent. I spoilered the ending to Wolverine. I wish he had been my dad. Then I could've fought the bullies. Imagine what Chloe would've done if she had Wolverine's healing abilities.

>>171256678
>I'm considerate in my descent.
>my dissent

Please excuse the error.

>it's another episode of bayest bayfagging
It's alright dudette, you can live with your decision and stop loading it off here.

>>171256678
Uh oh, I take it you're a newcomer? This post is like a tactical nuke to trigger /lisg/

>>171257127
Nope. I've been around for a few months. I'm the author of the "Bae" epilogue, Alice's binary choice and Kate Marsh, Evangelical Republican.

>>171257115
Actually I load it off on your grandmother, but maybe she cums here too.

>>171257569
Chloe would spray paint her guitar the color of her hair or cover it in stickers. Her look isn't intense enough. She looks angry, rather than focused.

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Well now it's mathematical

>>171258703
>suggestion tags
>not "gay"

boo

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Warrencucks btfo

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>>171257327
>I'm the author of the "Bae" epilogue, Alice's binary choice and Kate Marsh, Evangelical Republican.

>>171257327
AKA a shitposter who needs to stop if they want to positively contribute.
Don't take pride in, or think, such obnoxious posts are appreciated.

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>>171258703
>>171258835
In the spirit of the science that Warren (And possibly Chloe) love so much, it was right to conduct an experiment.
The results do not lie.

>>171258764
It does say "Women" when there's only one in the picture so perhaps it's referring to her preferences.

St. Patrick's Day. Maybe Max and Chloe, along with Max's parents, will go visit Max's grandparents for a traditional dinner.
Max's grandma and grandpa get to meet Chloe or at least see her for the first time in years.

Don't forget to wear green!

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>>171258835
>Suggested tags
>Women

>>171261008
That still doesn't give him a chance with Max

Max and chloe should give warren a pityfuck. Let gim go ape on both of them or chloe can watch and give tips to max.
Or warren can just take what he's earned but then someone might get hurt.

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>>171260775

>>171262429
I implore you to delete this offensive and misguided post

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Kissing in the rain!

>>171262429
They should ask for nudes and laugh at his dick

Warren doesn't deserve to be in the same room as Max, let alone have sex with her

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>>171263459
Chloe needs some as well

>>171264406
that's a pretty mean thing to say

i don't think max would appreciate those things being said about her friend

>>171265159
If he dared say or do something indicating he thought what that one retard was claiming about "being owed" something, she would stop being his friend pretty damn quickly.

>>171266430
Warren acts like a whipped dog every time he's on scene and you'd expect him to do that?
Come on my dude.

Saying he doesn't deserve to be in the same room as Max is pretty mean, however.

>>171267639
I don't get the hate for Warren. He's a perfectly normal awkward boy with a crush on someone he likes. Acting like he's some creep or stalker is totally ridiculous.

>>171267639
I didn't say that (Different Anon from who you originally replied to). He's Max's friend but if he pushes it trying to be further, he's going to lose that. Which wouldn't be good. Him and Max clearly trust each other and get along.

>>171267940
Exactly. I don't hate Warren. Or even like him very much.
I strongly dislike the delusional portion of his fanbase.

>>171268097
I think Warren is cute, honestly. He's shy and doesn't know how to show Max that he's interested in her, so he ends up being really awkward and it's sweet.

That's why I chose to hug him in episode 5; Enough to say "Hey, I appreciate your friendship and how you've helped me this past week", but platonic enough not to lead him on.

>>171268332
I cab sympathize with that. I just left him because at that point I was getting annoyed it was clear what direction the plot was going after his "explanation". Looking back I would probably hug him if I played again. For the same reasons as you, to show appreciation but not leading him on.
By the he got the point Max was set on Chloe and he accepted it.

>>171267581
Looks like she's about to kiss Max's forehead.
Cute.

I absolutely love how even their color palettes go together so well. The blue/brown and black and white/grey and white.

>>171267940
I agree, I don't understand why people hate him so much.

>>171268097
>if he pushes it trying to be further, he's going to lose that. Which wouldn't be good
Honestly, I think it'd be better for him if he said it and moved on, come what may.
Those known-but-not-announced crushes are pretty destructive.

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>>171272149
do you know what rhymes with kate?

cute

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>>171272316
Don't you mean gr8?

>>171272617
yes i'm bad at rhyming

k8 is a gr8 m8 8/8

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>>171260775
They drove up to Max's grandparent's house late at night so they can spend the day there- it's pretty far away from Seattle or Arcadia Bay. They're tired now though so they're crashing on the couch.
Goodnight /lisg/

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>>171273401
Sleep very well!

>Page 10

JUST

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>>171276118
Not ok!

>>171267940
He's irreversibly contaminated with mychels self insertion. Death is his only chance for purification.

>>171257327
>I'm the author of the "Bae" epilogue, Alice's binary choice and Kate Marsh, Evangelical Republican.
Will you marry me?