#investigating Max’s diary to try and find her absolutely breaks Chloe bc she spent so long hating her for what she did

[snailvibes]

Stupid life is strange au I thought of based off the fact that I’ve seen a handful of swap au’s where something happens to Chloe instead of Rachel, but this is my variant where smthn happened to Max instead!!

Idk if I’ll do anything with it, if people are interested I might make stuff for it, but here’s some various ideas and thoughts I had below the cut

- Au is called the butterfly effect because I’ve always seen the blue butterfly as being Max’s animal imagery thing (the doe being Rachel and Ravens being Chloe’s) and also to show how much things would change with Rachel being alive still and Max being the one to die

- Rachel got expelled don’t ask me how cus idk and that’s how she avoided Jefferson and didn’t know about Max being back

- Max was still there for around a month, like a week before the first day of the game she gets kidnapped and is dubbed as missing. Warren and Kate were probably the ones primarily putting up missing posters

- Kate would be even more depressed and a wreck in this au than canon considering not only did the video stuff still happen but her one main support is just gone now

- Rachel and Chloe would probably find out about Max from being at the bathroom at Blackwell still to deal with Nathan. Chloe only lives because Rachel shoved Nathan off of her when he tries to shoot her.

- no one gets rewind powers but since I am a firm believer of Rachel having powers related to nature and her emotions in this universe she’d actually discover that about herself and they’d utilize them to solve shit somehow

- Rachel’s means of getting away involving Frank would definitely be a major thing as yknow Chloe would find this out with Rachel still alive to talk to her about it and a lot of the story would be dedicated to their bond and figuring out what they mean to each other