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Caught on a rainswept bluff and crushed underneath the weight of a week that will soon be erased, Max Caulfield prepares for one final jump meant to avert the storm ravaging Arcadia Bay, even if it means sacrificing the girl she loves. In the far flung reaches of spacetime, her landing does not go unheard.
Unbeknownst to either of them, something waiting in the shadows of a future much different than theirs has other designs. What Max thought was the end of her journey is now only the first domino to fall in a vast and sinister conspiracy.
Now, stranded in a foreign timeline torn apart by corporate sponsored warfare, she and Chloe are faced with the unexpected chance to once again fight for a future together against an adversary hell-bent on hunting them across neon-lit streets and choking metropolises.
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That's Just The Way Life Goes by yellowclock
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
21 Nov 2025
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Max goes to the roof every night. The reason why changes with time.
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A series of one-shots following Max and Victoria's relationship. Each chapter is a day.
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Your story is over but not for me by Mirracz
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
20 Nov 2025
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After sacrificing her love, Max finds herself lost and alone in a reality she created. Can she make it her home?
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Looking Back to Move Forward by toomanymangos
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
18 Nov 2025
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Nathan Prescott is in his first semester of college after being released from Columbia River Correctional Institution. He’s eager to move forward and push away all things relating to his past. However, the past finds a way to resurface as he crosses paths with ex-high school classmate Warren Graham. With the sudden disappearance of a classmate, the two search for answers before it’s too late.
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The timeline is now secure; the threat of Max from the other timeline has dissipated, leaving Max and Victoria to have a somewhat more certain future - attending University, finding the last remaining Butterfly, and trying to work out what their future role in the world will be.
Unbeknownst to them, outside forces are beginning to circle, full of ill intent. As the net closes in, can Max and Victoria fight for the future, a future which is beginning to slip from their grasp?
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- Part 5 of Butterflies
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Chloe Price is dead, Rachel Amber is dead, the Dark Room has been exposed, Mark Jefferson and Nathan Prescott have been arrested. Tragedy after tragedy has struck Blackwell Academy, but for the most part, it has avoided Courtney Wagner. While trying to support her best friends through their grief, Courtney discovers that she has somehow come into the orbit of the enigmatic Max Caulfield, who has an unexpected favor to ask of her. As Max opens up to Courtney, Courtney finds herself doing the same to Max - and then everything changes when Courtney makes a seemingly-innocent discovery, a discovery involving her treasured heirloom dreamcatcher...
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Take on Me by BenRG
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024), Life is Strange 2 (Video Game), Life is Strange: True Colors (Video Game), Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (Video Game)
06 Nov 2025
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Saving Arcadia Bay was the hardest decision that Max Caulfield ever made and it is very nearly one that she *didn't* live with until an entirely unexpected guardian angel came into her life and helped her make a future. Along the way, she found that the strangeness of life was not hers to bear alone.
This is a fic I've been slowly writing to show who Max Caulfield became after Life is Strange and how she became entangled with the protagonists of the other games in the fanchise.
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Max trusted that Chloe knew what she asked for. Now she has to navigate the consequences of her choice that Friday afternoon. It isn't easy. Elsewhen, a girl realizes that maybe she isn't a very good friend, and tries to change. A look at grief, guilt, and healing. Post Bay-Ending, but only just. Slight AU. Warnings for dark themes. Chasefield. Ongoing.
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It's been 10 years since that hardest choice Max Caulfield had to ever make. Is it worth letting a bay be destroyed to follow her heart and keep her soulmate who made her happy? Or is doing the greater good better, or does it just sacrifice her own well being for it? Well, here she is 10 years on from that day from both sides as it's been 10 years since Polarized released.
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Max just witnessed her best friend die... again. How does she cope with that grief?
Part of the Partners in Zine 10th Anniversary Zine for Life is Strange!
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- English
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- 1,160
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It's Quiet Uptown by boom_butterfly_effect
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
20 Oct 2025
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Joyce finds the news of Chloe's death. How does one grieve their child?
Part of the Partners in Zine 10th Anniversary Zine for Life is Strange!
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- English
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- 1,702
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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The Cost of Living by ProceduralJellyfish
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
19 Oct 2025
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Max picks the Bay, and what comes after. An attempt at a more fitting conclusion to Max’s original character than in any of the licensed follow-ups.
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Summary: What if someone had the power to read minds? What if that person gained it after the death of a person was caused by one of her best friends? What if they used it to see into the mind of a shy girl who so happen to know the delinquent? What would happen if they learned what happened to the messed up Max? What if they decided to help?
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Mechanics of a Heart by Tuupkagtroth
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
03 Oct 2025
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Max has been living in Arcadia Bay for two years since the storm. She got herself a job that allowed her to get a home for herself, and pay the bills. But hurt is still there, and the emptiness.
Jules have moved to the town recently. He is the polar opposite of max, a 9 year older man than Max, ans runs a mechanic shop.
Idk, what to say. Come and check this out if you wanna see Max have a proper relationship without the craziness she don't deserve.
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The Dream of Someone Else by escapefromberlin
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
03 Sep 2025
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Out on his own three years after Blackwell, Nathan is completely in over his head as he tries a new start in university. He’s crashing at Victoria’s place, desperately trying to find a job, and to make matters worse, he just so happens to end up in the same film class as annoying Warren Graham from high school. Through all of the mess, he finds solace in the new anonymous friend he’s made on an online forum, someone who understands him more than anyone else. Too bad they’ll never meet in real life.
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An uncomfortable talk in Victoria's room, about guilt and moving on, in a comfortable position.
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- Part 4 of Flash Photography
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how to socialize a feral cat in the body of a Slayer: by Max Caulfield by MsStarryNightSky
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
17 Aug 2025
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One year, four months.
Approximately.
That's how long it's been since Max used the photograph to go back to the bathroom.
Since Chloe Price died.
Max isn't okay.
She's still here. Still breathing. And she's fallen into an odd friendship with (or been adopted by?) Victoria Chase, which is probably the only reason Max didn't waste away to nothing in the throes of grief. She's doing better. But she's still not okay. Victoria decides Max needs to get away from Blackwell and Arcadia Bay, and drags Max on a road trip to Sunnydale where her cousin lives to give Max some California-sun therapy. Or something like that.
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Faith has been around the Scoobies for a while now and it's not getting any easier. It's clear that they don't really know what to do with her - she's too wild, too out-there. Faith is used to being the outsider - but everything changes when she meets a small, kinda mousey and unassuming young woman by saving her life from a vamp that was planning on making her into his meal for the evening. Max. And when, that same night, Max stops Faith from making a life-altering mistake, Faith can't get the awkward, stammering hipster out of her head.
Even when she tries.
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Break the World by CelestialDrafts
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024), Life Is Strange, Life is Strange Double Exposure
11 Aug 2025
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MAJOR DOUBLE EXPOSURE SPOILERS.
Max sat in that bathroom, waiting for her best friend to be shot. She would honor Chloe's last request and not act, letting her die. No matter how much it broke her.
That was the plan, until a version of her from 10 years in the future dropped out of nowhere and changed everything.
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Han pasado 3 años desde el incidente de Blackwell. Nathan Prescott ha salido bajo fianza. Consumido por la culpa, se embarca en un viaje para redimirse.
En especial para obtener el perdón de a quien mas daño le hizo, Kate Marsh.
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Max sacrificed Chloe, so what is next? What is she to do with all of this? How is she meant to go on, and for the love of God, why does it seem like Victoria Chase is everywhere?