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What if Max met Victoria back in Seattle?

What if Victoria was the one who ignored Max for years instead of Max to Chloe?

Mostly faithful reinterpretation of the canon and events of Life Is Strange based on those two questions.

Arranged chronologically, BUT each story has a self-contained narrative and can be read in any order you want.

I try to stay fairly close and faithful to the established canon in this series.

I do take some liberties, particularly in areas where there's just a bunch of nothing canon-wise, like Victoria's family, and most of Rachel's character. Rachel's basically an OC that I shaped around the clues and hints we have from the canon.

I also set the events of Life is Strange at a college instead senior-only high school since I've literally never heard of those before I played LiS and have never been to one. Also, to me, Max's character and her arc really screams "freshman coming of age story", not "late-blooming senior".

My interpretation of time powers are also different from how they are in the video game, since Max's powers in the video game are, well, video game-y, and not very good for narrative tension.

If you're wondering why my Rachel is still alive, given I said I was trying to be faithful, my time lines are shifted around slightly from canon. The events of Life is Strange were set into motion late in the year; the start of "Diametrically Opposed" starts at the beginning of that same year.

See also the Side stories if you want some stuff that still belongs in this AU but I couldn't quite fit into anywhere quite right.