#jed lucan

[door-insurance]

Chasemarsh - jealous/being protective

bonus - unrelated but here is alex suplexing jed

[lifeisstrange-incorrectquotes]

Ethan, mumbling: Where's this idiot?

Ryan: Mac's in the shower.

Steph: Jed's at the bar.

Alex: I'm right here.

Ethan: I was talking about a monster in this video game, but thank you.

[shara-dee]

✨ LIS True Colors Characters as "Who's in your group?" Pics

Part 2

includes headcanons

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4

[nicole-ashwood]

We could all use a break and have some fun.

Chris-Gale: Good hearted but wants more.

Max-Wyll: General hero who will do stupid thing to save people

Chloe-Karlach: Soon to be dead life of the party (depending on choice)

Victoria-Lae'zel: Do I have to explain?

Alex-Shadowheart: A good person with a twisted upbringing and buried past.

Steph-Astarion: The universe is just unkind to them and their trauma is deep (Nearly went to Rachel)

Ryan-Halsin: Friendly, Furry, and will make love to you without shaving if you ask. The Dark Urge-Rachel: Were her actions because of birth or choice?

Skip-Minsc: Simple, friendly, easily led on.

Jed-Boo: Seemingly friendly, seemingly wise, has definitely tasted human flesh.

[dalekofchaos]

Things I would change about Life Is Strange True Colors

So after multiple replays of True Colors, I've finally come up with a list of changes.

My other LIS changes

LIS

LIS:BTS

LIS 2

First change would be the logo. This was the original logo and game menu. Just keep the True Colors logo and keep the record in the title and it's perfect.

Compare that to the bland logo we got, it really works better

To help make the game longer, I would've added a prologue chapter where it's about Alex's final days in Helping Hands. We get to interact with Alex's friend Chelsea, see what happened between Alex and Mari, see the reason why Alex wants to keep her power bottled up and tries to get away from strong emotions, get the call from Gabe and end with that final session with Dr Lynn.

In general, I feel like there should've been more consequences to Alex's powers. All we get is Alex beating the shit out of Mac and taking Charlotte's anger away from her turns Charlotte into a husk of a person, and Alex pisses Steph off and of course not telling Eleanor the truth causes her to turn against you. The trailers showed Alex has the tendency to be consumed by powerful emotions and Alex constantly talked about her power like it was a curse. There should've been more build up to Alex learning to control her empathy. High Empathy leading to good choices and good ending while low empathy leads to her friends turning on Alex.

I initially thought there would be more drama like helping Charlotte forgive Ethan. Her pain towards Ethan feels understandable when your loved one's death is indirectly caused by someone who's also dearest most.

Whether Riley and Mac continue their relationship or not, it doesn't feel if there's any impact in it.

Apparently there was SUPPOSED to be consequence for taking away Pike's fear.

"if Alex took Pike’s fear away, when she was down in the mines (apparently in this draft she wouldn’t have been shot by Jed but instead would have found an entrance to the mine another way) Pike would become this “weird emotionless serial killer” and would start chasing Alex around in the mines in order to protect Diane. If it isn’t clear to you by now, the game seemed to have a much darker tone than what we ended up getting in the final game. I’ll leave it up to you to decide if that’s a good thing or not."

Honestly more consequences to Alex's powers depending on our high or low empathy should've happened in general.

I feel like more time should've been spent with Steph and Ryan. To me neither of these relationships are believable. The difference between Alex's relationship with Steph and Max's relationship with Chloe is that we spent a good chunk of the game with Chloe.

And as little time as Max gets with Warren, there is at least some substance with those scenes Max has with Warren. Warren starts up the plot of the game by getting the flashdrive, Warren helps Max against Nathan, Warren offers Max to take mind off things by asking her out on a date, Max can help Warren with his science experiment, Warren helps Max make a bomb, Warren saves Max and Chloe from Nathan, Warren takes the picture that helps Max get back and Warren is supportive no matter what choice Max makes.

Yes Ryan helps Alex in the record store, patches up Gabe, helps find Ethan and we have Ryan dealing with his grief and sorrow of losing Gabe. But that's it. Everything else is obligatory detective work or talking about trails and birds. Ryan is boring.

What we know of Warren

He's a geek like Max

He's into sci-fi, horror and a lot of obscure media

He loves science

He's helpful

a kind and sensitive nature

very shy and insecure and struggles to express and deal with his feelings, so he tries to hide that underneath humor and bad jokes

He's dealt with bullying in the background "knows how to be invisible"

He will ride or die for his friends

What we know of Ryan

He loves Gabe and his friends

He loves his dad to a fault and has good memories of his mother

He protects people

He loves birds n trails

*Cricket chirps*

I'm about to compare screen time between Chloe and Steph. I replayed both games and I counted up all the scenes in their respective games where the player is forced to have an extensive dialogue with them, this discounts optional conversations and interactions that are made of a single choice. I am counting the bare minimum number of times each game forces the player to somewhat meaningfully interact with them. Let's start with Chloe.

The truck scene

The scene talking about Rachel

The conversation after Max attempts to fix her camera, Chloe gives Max William's old camera and they reconnect

The Lighthouse conversation

Reconnecting at the diner

Funtime at American Rust

Train track walk n talk

The Chaos Theory talk in Chloe's truck

"Scary Punk Ghost"/Blackwell Ninjas

Pool

The aftermath of finding out about Rachel

Alternative reality Chloe at the beach

Alternate reality at Chloe's home

Returning to Chloe via Warren's picture

There are a total of 14 meaningful scenes with Chloe not counting optional interactions

With Steph.

Black Lantern conversation

Foosball

The LARP

The investigation after the festival

4 meaningful scenes. That's it. There's just a total lack of content regarding our two romantic options in True Colors, now sure the number of times we interact with a character doesn't necessarily dictate how much we grow to like or sympathize with said character, but it's glaring just how few meaningful interactions are had with Steph or Ryan.

Also, really? Steph and Ryan are really willing to run away with Alex so quickly in the amount of time they've known her? "I wanna spend the rest of my life with you" you knew each other for an entire month, calm down.

And I feel like there could've been more time and substance in regards to Steph & Ryan if the game were longer and were developed as an episodic game in terms of being developed like LIS 1 & 2 were. I felt like they just got all the superficial aspects of a young adult relationship, slapped it all together and called it a day. So yeah more time with Steph and Ryan is definitely needed.

In regards to the Jed & Mr Chen Twist. I felt like it was unnecessary.

Jed as a pawn for Typhon works. The whole Mr Chen being one of the miners left behind and emotion guiding Alex was so contrived and convoluted. Also it changed from Typhon to being an evil and soulless corporation to Jed being the guilty party and I strongly hate the notion of changing the perceived big bad to a lame twist from someone you trust. In LIS 1 it was Nathan and his father as the perceived villains but what a twist! It was Jefferson all along! Now it was Jed. Stop. Doing. That!

And boooy don't get me started on how impractical Alex surviving being shot and thrown down a mine shaft is.

Like if Alex can survive all that, Chloe can survive Nathan's gunshot in the bathroom.

So an easy fix would be Jed and Alex going down the mine together and Jed shooting Alex and leaving her for dead.

Just keep to the "Jed doing "Typhon's work for the devil" Add a subplot that Typhon was responsible for the death of Ann Lucan via lead poisoning or some other heinous crime. Jed and Pike were working together to bring them down. But the mining & Gabe's accidents happened. Typhon gave Jed a choice. Either he goes down with them or he gives him and Ryan a chance to live. He's a puppet, but he's being blackmailed into doing Typhon's dirty work instead of being the only guilty party of being judged. Like Pike, you should've been able to turn Jed up against Typhon in the end despite what he did to us. Honestly instead of Jed, Alex's judgement should've been reserved for Diana's boss Lena.

However, the bit I mentioned about Pike being turned into an emotionless serial killer, What we can do is have Pike purposefully screw up his and Jed's investigation and when the mine accident happened, Pike made everything go away and Typhon gave Jed the deal. Pike takes Jed's place as the hands-on villain, where he was always on Diane's side (because ACAB), and Alex thinks she's taking his fear of Diane, but in actuality, she takes his fear of everything coming to light, so that's what sparks him to take Alex to the mines, then chase her through them to try and kill her. Lena the big bad. Diane was a reluctant party and now Pike just doesn't care and wants to kill Alex to save Diane. Also because ACAB

As for the endings. This reddit post sums up what could've been.

After finishing True Colors for the first time, it felt wonderful. But after I finish the game for the second time, I don't bother to play it again as the outcome is pretty much the same. True Colors' endings don't affect me much emotionally compared to LIS1 & LIS2 endings.

Whether you choose to forgive or condemn Jed, he just broke down into tears in similar way. Unlike LIS2, you can spare Lisbeth's life and let her witness her downfall or have your revenge by killing her; you can spare the vigilantes by breaking them out of custody or let them remain locked or even killed them.

Outside LIS franchise, there're other games (e.g Bioshock 1 & 2, Dishonored 1 & 2, etc) that also gave different endings based on how the players play. Kind merciful gameplay -> optimistic endings; Harsh brutal gameplay -> darker twisted endings.

In LIS2, you can actually transform Daniel into a law-abiding citizen or a career criminal based on your morality choices. Your treatment towards your little brother will also affect the brotherhood.

Tell Me Why is another worthy mention because it's a choice-based game developed by DONTNOD. Despite it's not a LIS game, it's still able to capture similar energy with LIS1 and your choices do matter. Since the game focuses on twin siblings reunited after many years of separation, good choices will strengthen their bond; bad choices will strain their relationships -> their conversations become less compassionate but more awkward.

Since True Colors is about empathy, they should give us different endings depend on how Alex treat people around her in Haven Springs.

High Empathy rewards happier endings like we have in game. Every council members sided with Alex for showing kindness to them. Empathy also increased by forgiving Jed, calming Mac down that earn his respect, helping other people in Haven (e.g a guy who lost his dog, telling two people that they were in love with each other, etc). In the end, Alex would use her power to help people in need, also being kind, merciful and show forgiveness.

The worst ending is nobody believed Alex in the final confrontation, Jed & Typhon got away and Alex was forced to leave Haven and go back to foster care. Harsh reality, some bad people do get away (e.g Chad & Mike in LIS2 EP4; if you chose to hit Hank & steal the camping gear, Hank would be labelled as a 'local hero' in the newspaper in LIS2 EP2). Low empathy would cause Alex abuse her powers to manipulate others, make others look worse like how Alex chose not to calm Mac down.

Second-worst ending is low empathy with nobody believed Alex except Pike. Alex hard-exposed Jed & Typhon that they had to face their crimes in the end. The whole town resent Alex as they were still in denial how their local hero turned up to be a liar, miners losing their jobs in Haven.

Neutral ending is half of the town believed Alex. Jed & Typhon were exposed and the town initially was in denial but eventually accept it. Alex would use her powers to help good people, but manipulate others who are bad (I'll show you kindness if you're kind, I'll give you asshole treatment if you're being an asshole). Neutral may be achieved like Alex calmed Mac down, but condemned Jed.

What bugs me is there are absolutely no consequences for the actions you take in the game. In LiS 1&2, and BTS you can get people killed if you do the wrong thing, you can ruin lives and end relationships if you commit to the wrong choices. There is absolutely no consequences in this game in the end. No matter what you do it ends the exact same way and you get to choose your own happy ending it feels so unearned.

So yeah big things I would've changed.

Helping hands Prologue chapter

Episodes are longer lengths, episodically releases and more development for the game in general.

More negative consequences to Alex's powers

Actual development with Alex's relationship to Steph and Ryan

Keep Typhon as the villain with Jed as a blackmailed pawn

Actual consequences to our choices and endings

[lispolladay]

[thingsasbarcodes]

Life is Strange: True Colors - Chapter 5: Side B

[ravenousgoblin]

Alex: *falls in love with Ryan*

Ryan: *also falls in love*

Ryan’s dad: *attempts to murder Alex*

😒 okay w/e you ain’t do it right so imma fuck your son even harder

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

a very happy Father's Day to all the good dads of the life is strange saga and a very hearty Fuck You to all the shitty dads of the life is strange saga.

[elizaswrl]

"Jed, why are you sad?"

[arcadiabaytornado]

Assigning the LIS characters a Magnus Archives entity because I finished the series today:

The Buried - Jed Lucan

The Corruption - Frank Bowers

The Dark - Mark Jefferson

The Desolation - Rachel Amber

The End - Chloe Price

The Eye - Max Caulfield

The Hunt - Sean Diaz/David Madsion

The Lonely - Alex Chen/Kate Marsh

The Slaughter - Damon Merrick

The Spiral - Samuel Taylor

The Stranger - Rose Amber

The Vast - Karen Reynolds/Steph Gringrich

The Web - James Amber

The Extinction - Sean Presscott

[lifeisstrange-incorrectquotes]

Ryan: Don't worry, we got a plan.

Alex: Okay.

Steph: Traitor say what!

Eleanor: Excuse me?

Pike: Huh?

Charlotte: Hmm?

Jed: What?

Alex:

Jed:

Jed: No, wait—

[shara-dee]

✨ LIS True Colors Characters as "Who's in your group?" Pics

Part 1

mostly headcanons

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4

[carnalapples]

wip wednesday

Thank you @rowanisawriter for the tag!! It is no longer Wednesday, but I have a little bit of a thing for the last Life is Strange game I've been working on here and there...

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She leans back against the counter while they make her drink, watching people cross lazily back and forth on Main. Everything is the same, but different; the record shop has the same sort of stock, but the new jockey doesn’t have half of Steph’s charm; the dispensary has changed hands at least twice, from the mess of signs on the doors. From the outside, Haven looked the same, and she actually believed it would be; but each day, she searches for some familiar comfort and finds it gone, like a phantom pain. 

To her surprise, she catches sight of Ryan, coming out the Black Lantern, or whatever he’s changed the name to, the Cow's Lament or the Shrunken Cat or whatnot, knowing him. But maybe Riley doesn't know him anymore, she has to admit. His tense manner is incongruent with the sleepy mood of the rest of the town as he stalks down the street, his hands shoved in his coat pockets. He always seems tense in a way she doesn’t remember him ever being, but she can hardly blame him.

She waves to him. He nearly doesn’t see her, and she feels that sense of embarrassment creeping up, that overwhelming feeling of lameness—there’s no other way to describe it. Just when she's given up, he glances up, and he blinks, surprised, before his mouth curves into a shy smile. He raises a hand. Riley can’t help but smile at the way he slows down, the moment seeming to stretch out before he finally has to take her eyes off of her and walk away. She lets her gaze linger out the window for a moment more.

That’s something—Ryan’s still here. Though she can’t understand why. 

When she pulls her attention from the window, there’s a man staring at her from one of the tables. Riley stares back. He has the decency to look a little embarrassed, at least. She thinks that’ll be the end of it until he pipes up. 

“If I were you,” he starts, wiping at his lower lip with the back of his hand, “I’d stay away from that guy.”

“What?”

“Jed Lucan’s kid,” he clarifies, as if she’s stupid enough not to hear. “That whole family’s fucked up.”

She blinks, stunned. “I grew up here,” she says pointedly. She’d like to think she knows exactly what’s fucked up in this town. And Ryan doesn’t quite make the cut, or at least he didn’t five years ago. 

He shrugs. Riley resists the temptation to roll her eyes.

“You missed a spot,” she says instead, already hiking her bag back up and moving to take her coffee.

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I'll tag @midmorninggrey, @kesla, and @theluckywizard if you'd like to share something you've been working on!

[dalekofchaos]

Life Is Strange True Colors fancast

My other LIS fancasts

LIS fancast

LIS BTS fancast

LIS 2 fancast

Lana Condor as Alex Chen

Remington Hoffman as Gabe Chen

Kaitlyn Dever as Steph Gingrich

Cameron Monaghan as Ryan Lucan

Clancy Brown as Jed Lucan

Melissa McBride as Eleanor Lethe

Sadie Stanley as Riley Lethe

Keke Palmer as Charlotte Harmon

Ja'Siah Young as Ethan Lambert

Nick Robinson as Mac Loudon

Stig Eldred as Duckie/Reginald McCallister III

Evan Rachel Wood as Diane Jacobs

Jesse Plemons as Jason Pike

Andrew Tinpo Lee as John Chen

Yunjin Kim as Wendy Chen

[valyrra]

characters on which I obsessed over throughout my life (which I can remember rn/random list), kinda wip

Vittorio Scaletta, Lincoln Clay, Alex Mercer, Akande Ogundimu, Siebren De Kuiper, Junker Queen, Gabriel Reyes, Rammatra, Moira O'Deorain, Micah Bell, Dutch Van Der Linde, Vaas Montenegro, Alucard (Hellsing), Garrus Vakarian, Thane Krios, Liam Kosta, Ratonhnhaké:ton (Connor/AC:3), Edward Kenway (AC:BF), Illidan Stormrage, Khadgar, Vol'Jin, Garrosh Hellscream, Nathanos Blightcaller, Lich King (Arthas Menethil), Alcina Dimitrescu, Caleb Quinn (Deathslinger), Carmina Mora (The Artist), Albert Wesker, Ghostface (Billy Loomis/Danny Johnson/Jed Olsen), Homelander, Billy Butcher, Trevor Philips, Johnny Silverhand, River Ward, Solomon Reed, Jackie Welles, Adam Smasher, TF2 Scout, Grand Regent Thragg, Omni-Man, Bi-Han, General Shao, Kano, Sareena, Lord Raiden, Kung Lao, Geras, Sindel, Havik, Quan Chi, Liu Kang (tbh the whole mk rooster), Benny Gecko, John Hancock, The Ghoul, Nick Valentine, Alan Wake/Mr Scratch, Kylo Ren, Gendo Ikari, Vincent Fabron (Chamber), KAY/O, Varun Batra (Harbor), Tala Nicole Dimaapi Valdez (Neon), Erik Torsten (Breach) (Valorant), Fuse, Octane, Revenant (APEX), Jhin, Draven, Swain (before rework tf), Victor (LoL), Troll Warlord, Invoker, Anti-Mage (Dota2), Vergil, Nico, V (DMC), Halsin, Wyll Ravengard, Minthara, The Emperor (BG3), Draco Malfoy, Ominis Gaunt, Sebastian Sallow, Natsai Onai, Miguel O'Hara, Saitama, Ryan Lucan (LiS: True Colors), Anders, Zevran, Dorian (DA), Azog the Defiler, Ichiban Kasuga, Zhao Tianyou, Kratos (GoW), Frank Woods, Ghost (CoD), Negan, Anakin Skywalker, Captain Rex, Aemond Targaryen (HOTD), John 117 (Halo), Lash (DL), Blackwall (DAII), Darius (LoL), Ambessa (Arcane)