The Girl Who Wasn’t There | A Life is Strange Character Analysis
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- Опубліковано 2 лют 2025
- We are finally back in Arcadia Bay to talk about our girl Chloe Price. She’s cool, she’s bad, and she’s kinda sad. I put off this video for so long and instead made the Rachel Amber and Max ones first and I STILL didn’t say everything I feel about this character. Enjoy!
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Chloe has always been my fav character! Such an interesting complex character and I’ve always loved her rebellious personality!
Sometimes I wish Dontnod could’ve given us a third ending option for Max to go back and intervene without powers in the bathroom try to solve the situation with clever dialogue. It would’ve been similar to Ep2’s Roof Dialogues. For players feeling brave, choosing that ending would involve Max not using any powers at all and then that could’ve set course a third more peaceful ending of Max realizing that she doesn’t need to use her powers all the time to solve things and then that would’ve been a great setup to Double Exposure as well or just kept things open between Max and Chloe.
Overall though great video! Loved your analysis.
I love this idea a lot and could totally work. However I'm not entirely sure that would fix the storm completely as the storm is hinted to be more connected to max herself and many other things. Mainly the fact that she would have used time travel anyway, even if she went back to talk it doesn't stop the fact that she used time travel in the timeline meaning it still came down to Max's persist to change the past vs accepting it
I was 14 when I first experienced this game, and a decade later I've finally realised how both LIS and the prequel are ABOUT Chloe. Max's storm and Rachel's forest fire were directly inspired by Chloe's 'don't care' attitude - Max wouldn't even have her powers if it weren't for Chloe - freeing them both from the crushing expectations to be perfect and show no weakness that Chloe's been calling bull on for years.
You can argue Max already had powers. She had visions before saving Chloe
@danieldiazminecraft That just strikes me as time travel being non-linear
Chloe deserves better
Indeed!
She doesn't deserve being ended by a serial deleter trainee. And she didn't deserve to lose her dad or new best friend to an accident and a real serial deleter. But she is lucky how much stock I put into friendships, because when I played the remaster. I saw her in a new light.
I've got friends since childhood and friends that I got along the way. Some are friends whom I'll always share fond memories of but our journey came to it's logical end. Then I got others people I consider my best friends. Time and distance is irrelevant. We pick things of where we left off, I don't get insulted that they have a life and other people in it. I don't get jealous it's my friends I want them to be happy even when I am not present. Chloe doesn't think about other peoples feelings that way at least in the first game.
I love Chloe so much
Chloe is such a complex and interesting character and I really like your analysis on her!! I'm super looking forward to the next one ^w^
I’m so glad you did a video on this!! The Life Is Strange Series is my absolute favorite set of games. ❤
Your character analysis are always so on point ❤️
I thought this was super insightful.
ironically I grew up with loads upon loads of trauma that no one takes seriously. It was interesting to see how much the opposite sucks too.
Now I'm much older I notice that when someone around me is going through something super hard, everyone around them drifts away while I draw to them, as I know exactly how they feel and can genuinely empathize in a helpful way. I alwyas joke that I'm a bad good weather friend (chronic illness will do that) but I'm the best bad weather friend you could ever have.
I can't express how happy I am in seeing that people still write about this game
Loved it, keep it up♡
Thanks. I think I needed this. It's been a hard- well, I was gonna say a hard few weeks, but more like a hard several years. Cheers.
i feel that
@WritingWomen Thanks :)
ive loved these videos so much!! do you think you'll end up doing something similar with lis2?
Thank you for uploading this. I have been wanting to do a film focused on Chloe and your analysis is helpful in my research.
Chloe and I have both lost a parent and a few other smaller similarities I won't get into.
Great video! Your analysis gave me insight that I had never considered before when looking at Chloes character and personality. Keep up the good work!❤
Bae over bay any day
Max was a terrible friend honestly, au her made more effort. I get chole more as I grow older, although some of chole's problems are her fault not trying to make friends in blackwell and only see everyone as a enemies
It's pretty common behavior. She's suffering from depression and probably some other mental illnesses given the meds you can find in the bathroom. Given her abandonment issues, pushing people away to not risk getting hurt again is in her mind a valid response, and the line "It's always easier being alone when it's a choice. I don't want to be alone anymore." solidifies it back in BTS when Deck9 had any semblance of understanding about her character. She's also only like 16 in BTS and 19 in LIS, no matter how you twist it, she's still just a kid and kids doesn't act in neccesarily logical ways. That's why it's hard to have conversations about Chloe with people, because people think they're the pariahs of moral behavior while looking in from an outsiders perspective (not calling you out, I'm referring to some infuriating takes I've read).
Max goes a bit deeper than being a terrible friend, the thing is that her intentions weren't bad on purpose. She didn't ditch Chloe because she couldn't be bothered, she didn't contact her because she's an neurodivergent ball of nerves who eventually convinced herself that Chloe was better off without her (which was wrong, go figure). She too had her life completely uprooted when she was 11. Chloe was her entire support system, and William was a second dad to her. Now she finds herself somewhere completely foreign without Chloe, who was the outgoing of the two, who pushed Max out of her comfort zone. Without her, Max would more than likely retreat into her shell and more or less shut down. Couple that with how enormously guilty she felt for leaving at the worst time possible and you have a pretty clear explaination of what one can imagine happened.
That's the wonderful thing about the girls' journey in the game. They literally make eachother better, together they are complete. Chloe pushes Max to come out of her shell, and Max grounds Chloe, in contrast to Rachel who amplified Chloe's worst traits. For some reason people seem to forget that Chloe that by Episode 5, Chloe is not the same person she is in say Episode 2. It took Max less than a week of being there for her for Chloe to show her true self again.
Bae>>>>>bay
This deserves more views, instantly subbed🫶🏻