#bae ending

[kindofmax]

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[ohnoafterlaughs]

Pricefield commission for @charles12-13 and @bosterm! A moment of reassurance between Max and Chloe, set shortly after the Bae Ending.

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[essily]

why can’t nathan and victoria be a happy evil cunt serving duo in either ending 😢

[diazmaximoff]

[parking-spot]

This is a second version of the edit I just posted because I couldn’t decide which direction I liked better. You can can definitely catch some of the mixed feelings over Double Exposure in this😭 But I feel like this is a good exploration of the Bae Ending nonetheless imo

[chloe-and-max-forever]

Warning - Spoilers Ahead for:

Life is Strange

Life is Strange: Before the Storm

--------- YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ---------

Okay, the Life is Strange series makes me feel so bad for Chloe, in BTS, we meet David who is sexist and invades her privacy several times, her mom doesn't give a fuck about that and marries him by the time of the first game, her friend is crazy obsessed with her like well past a stalker level, and in the first game, everybody in her life has betrayed her, including Max, her best friend, who left during her dad's funeral and didn't even text or call Chloe after that more then, like, 2 or 3 times in 3 years, she is abused by her stepdouche, her girlfriend was killed, her dad was killed when she was younger, she was almost killed like 100 different times, she has no friends, she learned her girlfriend Rachel cheated on her, she was, at least from her point of view, almost raped by the same man who killed Rachel, and, in order to save an entire town full of people who have treated her horribley her entiee teenage life, she has to tell Max to kill her after they just met up again after 5 days and it would undo the time that they just spent together!

Even in an alternate timeline, her life still sucks ass and she is paralyzed and dying slowly!

I couldn't sacrifice Chloe when everything in her life is already so bad and she wouldn't even remember the time spent with her best friend after 5 years of not seeing each other

Poor Chloe 😭😭😭😭

[tornadoeffect]

The LIS endings aren’t nullifying your choices

One of the biggest complaints I’ve heard regarding the story of the first LIS game ever since it came out is that both Bae and Bay endings nullify the choices the player made and therefore basically render the whole point/appeal of the game obsolete.

I’ve been thinking about it lately though, and I disagree.

While it’s true that the game could’ve given more weight to certain choices rather than creating an illusion of importance, I don’t think the endings are an issue here or undermine the message of the game. If anything I think they support it.

I think we can all agree that the main message of the first LIS game is, among other things, growing as a person, taking responsibility for your actions, facing your issues head on and moving on. While many people don’t make it sound like it, I believe that both endings embody that in their own way, it just depends what kind of Max you play/become. But I’m talking about the storm and final choice presented themselves. In a game where at the end you must choose between rewinding all the way back to the beginning and not commit the first action which kicks off the story and letting a tornado tear down an entire town filled with people you went through hell and back to help or save, it’s evident how someone can feel like the game about choices and consequences is being hypocritical.

But do your choices truly not matter with the storm?

More under the cut

Afterall, whatever Max chooses doesn’t change the fact that the things that happened…. Happened. Even in the rewind ending. Because either way all of those choices, interactions and experiences changed Max as a person and taught her important lessons. The choice you make by the end is still informed by those things and not made in a vacuum. And just that is enough to show that the choices you made in LIS continue to matter. But I can find other reasons too.

In the Bae ending, Max keeps her relationship with Chloe (no we don’t talk about Double Exposure in this household I have my grievances with it) which is really the thing she traded the town for. Chloe also experienced what Max did and witnessed her choices and their consequences, so that alone means that whatever you did in that game still had an impact even with the town reduced to nothing. Furthermore, in LIS 2 it’s basically confirmed that there were survivors with David’s cameo. In fact, he’s someone who was impacted by Max’s choices in one way or another.

As for Bay, you’d think that following the logic I just explained, the opposite is true for this ending. Nobody remembers anything Max did before her big rewind, hell, Chloe doesn’t even get to *meet* her. And yet, through the montage of pictures we can see what Max’s adventure changed in this timeline, namely Mark and Nathan being brought to justice, which is pretty big considering that in the other ending it’s not really as black and white. Max was probably able to help Kate more in this ending as well.

At the end of the day, whatever choice you make, it remains aligned with Max’s development which centres around responsibility and moving on, accepting consequences of choices and learning to live with them. In both endings Max lives with her choices, no matter how bitter the outcomes are. She probably wouldn’t have been able to do that without the events of the game.

While I can see why some people feel betrayed or tricked by the game, or like the endings were cheap cop outs, I believe that it gets us to reflect on what makes a choice or action “meaningful”. Honestly, and maybe this is a tad pretentious, but I feel like we could compare these endings/the storm to death itself. We all die eventually, including everyone we’ve ever known, and very few of us are politicians, celebrities, or anything of the sort so we’ll be forgotten a lot quicker and probably won’t have a huge impact on the world in the grand scheme of things. That’s where the question “What is life’s meaning?” comes from, no? But despite this, does it really mean that our choices and experiences just don’t matter? Was our time here a waste? Is this some big paradox of the human experience?

I believe that with Max’s story, we’re (maybe unintentionally) driven to ponder these questions. Which is fitting for a game called Life Is Strange.

[beautheexpositor]

Is anybody else gonna talk about the doodle in Sean's journal that says "R.I.P Arcadia (Fuck Tornados)" or am i gonna have to be the one to talk about it?