#dead!chloe

[perversion666]

in honor of halloween- photos of my mum and dad (along with some friends) at a halloween party in the early 2000s

my mum's costume was her interpretation of the song "living dead girl" by rob zombie, and my dad was the guy from american psycho (i forgot his name lmao)

also- mum's friend and chloe sevigny- the woman that played the secretary in american psycho

[mysticalfg]

I'm extremely normal (mentally ill) about chloe frazer and nadine ross actually

[jupiterisaroace]

Well, that's a little fruity innit Disney?????

[barbwillbrb]

Male character in media: *acts like an ass even to people he loves because he is a product of his trauma. He's a grown ass man*

The public: omg hehe *twirls hair*

Female character in media: *acts like an ass even to people she loves because she is a product of her trauma. She's also a teen/young adult*

The public: Man I dunno she's an irredeemable jerk :/ Kinda deserves to die yaknow.

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Anyways I've been watching a lot of Life is Strange playthroughs and the amount of people who just hate on Chloe Price is insane.

Like you want complex female characters but ya'll couldn't even accept her.

[repuls1ve]

source

[pridebicons]

HAPPY LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK!!🧡🤍🩷

made some icons of some of my fav canon lesbians to celebrate!

like/rb if using + credit

[jesterjaxx]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO @pinklemonslices ❣️❣️

Have a Gwidgette drawing!!

[artofmirthos]

How do you know what way is up when your whole world's been turned upside down?

[jennysparksandtheauthority]

The fallacy of realism in Life is Strange Double Exposure. Another more or less analytic rant :)

Okay. I lied. This is the real LAST commentary about Deck Nine's fiasco. Or maybe not.

ANYWAY. I'm reading a lot of discourse of how it's realistic that Max and Chloe would break up.

Even the devs have been on Twitter saying the most basic stuff you've heard a thousand times before:

As someone who’s been in a loving, committed relationship for more than a decade (and we met in our early 20s), that shit MAKES NO SENSE FOR PRICEFIELD. Move forward? Yes. Absolutely. But you can move forward with another person. Moving forward doesn't have to mean leaving your partner behind, and certainly not for these two.

Max and Chloe didn’t create a “trauma bond”. People seem to forget they were childhood best friends. They went through trauma together. There’s a difference.

Each time my wife and I went through devastating shit (cause life is a bitch sometimes), I leaned on her, we carried each other. We went through rough days, of course, we fought sometimes, but we grew together. I fell more in love with her seeing her taking decisions, reacting to me, dealing with her own shit, taking care of me when I didn’t have the energy to take care of myself as I would take care of her when the roles were reversed.

Sure, some relationships don’t survive when they go through bad times.

But Max and Chloe? These two literary broke space and time for each other.

Characters have to be profoundly CHANGED at the end of stories for them to be meaningful, for stories to move us. This has been established since we began to tell stories around campfires thousands of years ago. It's been engraved in conventional storytelling even way before Aristotle gave it a name in his Poetics.

At the end of the BAE romantic path, Chloe was ready to die for Max, and for a whole town of people who mostly despised her. She had changed profoundly. She had understood the meaning of love and loyalty and devotion, because Max showed her.

Max was ready to face the consequences of choosing Chloe. She had changed too. She had understood that loving Chloe made her better, braver, determined, that the past was in the past and that she couldn’t keep rewinding. That she had to accept herself, fight back, take ownership of her destiny.

When they left Arcadia Bay they were both devastated, but ready to fight for each other and move on. The Chloe that gave Max that reassuring touch and that loving look at the end of the game would NEVER, under no circumstances, break up with Max by letter saying all kinds of mean shit. This destroys both their characters' arcs from LIS1. It's an unsuccessful, poorly camouflaged reboot.

Maybe if the break up was presented differently it wouldn’t have enraged so many people. Maybe. We’ll never know. I’d still argue that having a path where Chloe is dead, the decision to break them up was absolutely unnecessary. But to have made that decision, and to justify the OOC behavior and the outcome of their relationship by saying “it’s realistic” (some people have taken the devs' discourse to heart) is just ridiculous and dissapointing, and just straight out unprofessional. This kind of revisionism and lack of understanding of the themes and motivations of the first game is truly baffling, so much so it’s hard for me to believe how NO ONE at Deck Nine or Square Enix with some level of responsibility and proper education in media stopped the madness.

Writers choose what to include in a story, meaning they bear responsibility for the narrative choices they make, regardless of whether those choices are realistic. Fiction is an inherently constructed art form. Authors decide what to include, exclude, emphasize, or downplay. Using “realism” as a justification can be seen as a way to avoid responsibility for narrative decisions, especially when those decisions are unpopular or ethically troubling.

This is writing 101, and I can’t believe a supposedly professional game dev studio is acting like children writing their first fics on Wattpad and falling into the realistic fallacy.

In “The Decay of Lying,” Oscar Wilde famously argued that “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life,” suggesting that art should not be constrained by realism. Another example is the philosopher and literary critic Roland Barthes, who in “The Death of the Author,” argued that the meaning of a text is not determined solely by the author’s intentions, thus challenging the notion that invoking realism absolves a writer of their choices.

They CHOSE to break them up.

They chose to villainize Chloe, the canonically queer, fan-favorite character that was at the heart of the story along with Max. Together.

Crying realism doesn’t make it any less senseless, knowing damn well they knew how it would affect people.

So, Deck Nine, Square Enix: please take some fucking responsibility.

BONUS (Michel Koch ❤️):

[deadbytbr]

I just want a found family like those in books and fiction. Is it too much to ask?

[nomtheburritos]

What the fuck Deck Nine?

"I'll be your faithful chauffeur and companion" "My powers might not last, Chloe." "That's okay. We will. FOREVER."

Sacrificing the entire Arcadia Bay, followed by "I'm never leaving you" from Chloe to Max.

TO LATER MAKE A GAME WHERE CHLOE AND MAX BREAK THE FUCK OFF BECAUSE *checks notes* Chloe's a free-spirit and they couldn't make it work?

D9 you're actually dead to me for this. What the fuck DID you get from the first game, you geniuses?

[l3irdl3rain]

How did you deal with Chloe’s death? If I came home and found my cat already dead I would be absolutely RUINED.

I did not handle it well, anon! I can promise you that. It was as unexpected as it could be considering her age / health. I had a lot of scares with her over the years but she was actually doing pretty well at the time she died. It was also made worse by the fact that she was literally right inside the front door. We're talking one more step and I would have stepped on her.

But as awful as it is to find your cat deceased there's also some benefits. You don't have to make the decision for them. And there's no final vet visit, they get to go in the comfort of their own home and on their own time.

[corgiplays]

Someone please see what I'm seeing.

A wing au (The characters have bird wings) for Descendants where the prank on Bridget is actually like a death sentence crime as her one wing gets cut off by Uliana and she hates Ella for not standing up or helping her when it happened and after.

So then once Red is born she clips her wings just like the rest of Wonderland's citizens had to do so that no one else could fly.

So of course when Chloe and Red go back in time they end up bonding and Chloe probably ended up saving Red from falling to her death at some point and the questions of "How come you didn't fly?" come up and Red gets defensive, but they save the day and go back to the present and Bridget is the same happy person with beautiful pink wings (Roseate Spoonbill to be specific), but this Red from the new present never had her wings clipped. So of course Bridget is all confused and concerned as her daughter has never been one to hide her wings.

And in true Red fashion she dismisses her mother's concern (it makes her feel weird that her mom cares for her) and later that day has a breakdown where she plucks her feathers out and Chloe finds her like that and helps calm her down as Red eventually passes out from crying and the long road to recovery and learning how to fly for the first time in 16 years starts.

Also bare with me but Red would be a Red-Shouldered Hawk and Chloe would be a Golden Eagle and she would dye the tips of her feathers blue and she would help Red dye her feather red once they grow back out.

Please someone see the vision 🙏

[somedudenamedanthony]

MADE SOMETHING AGAIN!!!

Bonus: FANKIDS

[longmaxsilvarg]

just think that it's maybe like really kinda a tiny bit cruel that chloe and joyce don't get to be together no matter what ending