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we might be hollow, but we're brave . .𖥔 ݁ ˖── .✦

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ang. — ᨳଓ . twenty-four. she. they. butchforfemme. filo. chloe price's girlfriend. daughter of cain. anti-ai.

talk to me about: pricefield. and life is strange in general. yellowjackets. ethel cain. witchcraft. the last of us. twice.

masterlist ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ᥫ᭡. ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ spotify ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ᥫ᭡. ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ao3

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— a love letter to pricefield. from ang.

You don't have to read this, but if you do, please remain kind. That's all I ask.

cw: suicide.

This is my first time writing about a ship like this, which feels kind of crazy. The last time I was this invested in a ship was back in 2016 when Stranger Things introduced me to Mileven. Even then, my love for them eventually faded and I moved on like a regular person. That changed at the end of 2022 when my parents got me a PS5. I told them it was purely so I could play The Last of Us because Ellie Williams was one of those characters who made me feel seen, a lesbian character I really looked up to.

When I told a friend (we’re not friends anymore because he ended up being weird) about the game, he recommended another one full of lesbian characters. He described it as a time-travel story, which immediately caught my attention since I’d been obsessed with Tokyo Revengers around that time. So I downloaded it. The moment lightning flashed across the screen and I saw a girl waking up from a nightmare in her classroom, I think that’s when my life changed. For real.

I’m not gonna lie. When Chloe first showed up, I wasn’t a fan. She was annoying, kind of a brat, loud. I didn’t like her much at all. But I kept playing anyway and finished it and moved on. Not long after, I got into a relationship with a guy. It didn’t work out. Looking back, I wish I had fully settled into the lesbian label then. I was mentally ill, he had his own issues, and I wasn’t even that attracted to him lol how terrible of me and I hope he forgives me for that. But my mom also gave him a hard time because she thought we were moving too fast. I felt stuck in the middle, like I had to choose between him and her. It all left me suicidal. There were times I genuinely didn’t think I’d make it to 2025.

After we broke up, I threw myself back into gaming, cosplaying, writing, and editing. My self-esteem was in the gutter and I was struggling hard with my body image. Cosplaying as Max and Chloe became a weird form of healing. Putting on that brown bob or Chloe’s blue hair made me feel beautiful for once. My cosplays weren’t even the typical thirst-trap stuff, they were silly, comedic lip-sync videos with captions that tied back to the game. Through making those videos, making jokes about them happening in the game, I started to genuinely love Chloe outside of her relationship with Max. So I replayed the game, played Before the Storm, and finally understood her.

Maybe the reason I didn’t like her at first was because I saw too much of myself in her, the absent dad, the school struggles, the rebellious phase. It disgusted me. And yet, even with all her imperfections, you as Max, the main character, have a chance to choose her or save the town. I saved her the first time I played, before I even liked her. Seeing someone choose her anyway, it made me feel so lonely, yet so filled with hope. Because at that time, I did not feel chosen at all. But the more grace I gave her, the more I started giving it to myself.

That's why there's so much nuance to just Bay or Bae, at least to me. I do not speak for everybody else lol.

Still, I wasn’t a die-hard Pricefield fan yet. I started an editing account and mostly did the Wolf brothers at first. Eventually I dipped into Pricefield and Alex edits, but it wasn’t until around September(which is literally my birth month) last year that it became my main thing. While I was posting an edit every week, my life started coming back together, I got a job with coworkers I adore, went back to school and got a 4.0, earned certificates for my career path, and finally felt comfortable claiming my sexuality. I admitted I was a lesbian, and it felt like one of the biggest achievements of my life. And guess who helped me get there? Chloe and Max.

I feel so lucky to love Pricefield this much. It might not be that serious to other people, but it’s very serious to me. I genuinely don’t think I would’ve made it without giving Life is Strange another chance from Chloe’s perspective, learning that you can still be imperfect and still be chosen.

I’m so happy I get to write them as a knight and a princess, as a tourist and a local, as a thousand different versions of themselves. Why love them in one universe when you can love them in many? They’ve even got me falling for Chenrich now (which is such an underrated ship, please make more fanart y’all, I’m waiting /j).

This is my love letter to Pricefield, to how much they mean to the world to me. The day someone takes me to Tillamook, they’ll already know why it matters so much to me, even though I’ve never been there. Because it’s where Chloe and Max grew up, reunited, and loved each other.

Thank you, Max and Chloe. You are why I'm here.

With all my heart,

Ang

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lord listwt is SO funny

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ryan is such a cutie when he isn't FUCKING betraying me

[pricknim]

lazy sunday

[sleepyadorart]

Happy birthday, Alex💛

Thank you Moze for your commission!

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my darlings

[may-i-consume]

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omg 😭😭😭😭

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thinking about the girl that watched me play life is strange and the last of us from beginning to end while on facetime

[danieesketches]

Max Caulfield GT6 is here! 🌅

You have my bestie to thank for sending me a picture of a bikini that made me want to draw Max! 💖

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OH MYY 😯😯

[discordant-tongues]

Jarvis, tickle her pickle

[bupostinwtv]

Cooked sum LiS on roblox

[artyoucereal]

Pricefield sillies :P

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AWIIIIIEEEE :3333

[rangerseriesteal]

I watched a movie last night and now I'm brewing up an AU because my brain is a relentless machine

(Jurassic Park AU where the Isla Nublar incident never occurs; Chloe works for InGen as a chaos theorist and Max is hired to do photography for an upcoming marketing campaign for the San Diego park)

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someone write this abeg please.

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i miss them ouuu

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steph/alex/izzie and i'm not gonna elaborate

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i'm so happy that i'm not the only one who thinks steph is actually a brown woman. that's not stephanie gingrich anymore. that's stephanie de la rosa and she's mexican and she practices brujeria.

oh, and chloe's wasian!

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oomf said she's actually filipino... y'all know i'm crazy, right?

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posting this on here because this did NOT blow up on tiktok. i love alex and her insane face card 5ever.