I have a question. I am not attacking you. Why do you like Jefferson so much? Or why do you ship jefferson x max? You say he changed your life and he is important to you. The most people in the fandom hates him so i would be interested in why do you like him.
Rewinding back to July-August 2016, a reliable friend had told me about LiS, it had just gone free with Episode 1 so I tried it anyway… after much effort from said friend, let’s estimate they were 80% certain I would like it, but I was kinda reluctant at first, they had to bug me a lot about trying LiS.
When I tried it, I immediately fell in love with many things about it. Mostly the ambience, soundtrack, the sci-fi twist to the mundane setting, the mystery surrounding the missing girl, but most importantly, Mark Jefferson.
He is coincidentally very alike a teacher I had during high school (that’s a period from some 15 years ago), from the good looks to the positive attitude towards the students. It felt too nostalgic, yet I did not realize that coincidence until later on – in the beginning I simply felt subconsciously too fond of him.
Too fond. When I did read Max’s journal and saw how she had this absolute worship to him, I knew I had to make him notice her. I made Max talk to him insistently every chance I had, I kept listening to him at his phone in Episode 2, I fought Victoria back, I rejected Warren, Chloe and every NPC at Max’s age I had the chance to talk to. In the end of Episode 4 I was kinda wishing Max would have a chance to finally deliver her homework, but she didn’t, and although Chloe abusively tried to pull Max out of the party, Max stays there for Jefferson, even though she knows she’s not winning it because she didn’t even deliver to begin with, but she wants to see him shining at the spotlights as much as I did want to see it.
Enter the plot twist (refer here for my couple ¢ about it). Jefferson took Max to the coolest-looking secluded safeplace in the entire game. That’s it, he would have her one way or another! He actually reciprocates her admiration towards him, in his own twisted way, by taking numerous pictures of her, forever capturing her beauty through his lenses… on top of it all, protecting Max from the heavy storm outside – the Dark Room is a bunker after all.
…Yet all Max has to say about his efforts on this romantic getaway is “Fuck you”.
But then we are given a first-hand experience inside her mind, and of course her mind reboots itself at the classroom, his classroom, but since it was Max’s conception, of course it became their own private classroom. Of course Max confesses to Jefferson. Of course she would tint the world a bloody red to stay with him.
Now we are ready to get back to the beginning and wrap it up: When I met Life is Strange, I was at a particularly low point in my life. Jefferson not only rang the nostalgia bell, but getting to know his true self actually helped me come to terms with my inner darkness.
I no longer fought my bad thoughts back, I simply embrace them the way they are, and they now leave me as quickly as they come, I don’t get stuck with such thoughts anymore.
That, and Jefferson also helped me understand some other fields of my own brain better, like realizing how restraint is a huge turn on to me.
I think this answers all of your questions? Sorry if it’s too long, I can’t really express how important a character is by using short statements.
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