#elsa lichtmann

[rottenlily7]

Some LA Noire tomodachi stuff for the 5 people still in this fandom

[la-noire-shitposts]

Come get y’all juice

[formalfry]

wip study i won’t likely ever finish because life hates me rn so you all must take it from me without question. okay

[aishagrendonart]

Somewhere in the Blue Room..

That one time both Cole and Rusty stopped by at the Blue Room after a long day at work, but then Elsa comes up...Rusty senses that something's up...

inspired by this illustration by Roswell Keller

[scynk]

Is this anything

[lowwqualityyblog]

he can finally see things from a human perspective, rather than the ivory tower he created for himself.

[schokoschaum]

Im playing LA Noire for the first time and got to the point where we were demoted to the Arson department because we got caught cheating with Elsa even though we have a wife and kids.

I THOUGHT THIS WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING AND A PLAN OF A BIGGER PLAN LIKE PLAYING SECRET SECURITY FOR ELSA BUT NOW IM AT THE POINT WHERE THEY BOTH ENTER HER APARTMENT AND HES TOICHING HER LIKE SHE WERE HIS LOVER???!!!

No this can’t be the truth. I’m shocked. Phelps was always so anti-misogynistic and then he just saw something in Elsa?! HUHHHH

Please let this be part of some huuuuuuge plot twist I beg you there were better ways to make the player go into the Arson department

[cowboysanddragons23]

Why Cole Phelps cheated on his wife with Elsa Lichtmann? Even though I despise what he did, I am going to throw some light why he did so;

-Cole was a WW2 veteran who had seen and committed a lot of atrocities during the war, chiefly amongst them ordering Ira Hogeboom into burning a cave he didn't know it was a makeshift hospital and after coming back home, he was so traumatized he couldn't open himself up to anybody, not even his wife Marie, which ended up with Cole burying himself in his work as a cop, exposing himself with more trauma, thus they just couldn't relate to each other, having in all likehood, married on a weekend before Cole having to leave for the war. Marie and their daughters don't appear in the game beyond the introductory cutscene and Cole's funeral, because while it may seem very poorly written, in fact, it's actually very clever and thought out: Marie and their daughters don't belong to the narrative Cole has created for himself, which did end up initally surprising his partners, who didn't think that Cole could be married and with kids.

-And then Cole meets Elsa. Elsa was a German immigrant who escaped the Nazi regime alongside her friend Lou Buchwalter and it's very heavily implied that she was raped in the past, because she refers to Lou as "The only man who ever loved me without putting his hands on me." Elsa is an outsider not only because of her German origins, but also for her drug addiction (with Roy calling her repeatedly a "German junkie whore). Cole felt drawn to her because he realized she can relate to him, as both have very dark pasts and are constantly haunted by the shadow of it, thus eventually end up having an affair with her and end up helping each other: Cole helps Elsa kick off her drug addiction and Elsa helps Cole to see things from a more human perspective, in Elsa own words, rather than "from the ivory tower he built for himself."

-Why Cole didn't divorce Marie? For the main reason Cole is doing what he does at first, reputation, which is a constant in his life and career, as divorce on the 1940s was very socially frowned upon.