Despite being a wonderful episodic series by DONTNOD Entertainment, Life Is Strange™ left many questions simply unanswered:

How did Max get her power in the first place?

Why did she have the vision of the tornado?

What were the reasons behind Principal Wells’ alcoholism?

What was the Prescott’s ‘legacy’?

Did Sean Prescott know about the Dark Room?

If not, how did he not know that it was being used for those purposes?

If so, why was he not prosecuted for his involvement?

Why did William’s death have such a great impact on everything?

Who did the other red SUV that David was tracking belong to?

Why did Nathan try to steal the tobanga?

Why did Samuel have that crate containing women’s clothing in his store room?

What was Rachel Amber’s story?

How did Nathan know that there was ‘a storm coming’ and that ‘everyone was gonna die’?

Why did Nathan have Max’s selfie in his room?

What was Nathan’s backstory in general?

What was the deal with the doe?

Why did Nathan’s sister not want to be involved with their parents, particularly Sean?

Why did Victoria hate Rachel so much?

Why did Rachel seem to be the love interest of Frank, Jefferson, Nathan and Chloe all at the same time?

Why did Rachel send Max an SMS in that nightmare saying that they will meet very soon?

Why is Samuel so strange?

Why is Alyssa always in trouble?

What's gonna happen with the Vortex Club now?

Why did Max receive her powers after the vision of the tornado if the tornado was caused by her using the powers?

Did she still have her powers at the end?

Why wasn’t Rachel in the nightmare scene?

Who was actually on the phone with Mr Jefferson in Episode two if Nathan was in the next room and Sean Prescott apparently didn’t know about the goings on in the dark room?

Why did William have such an impact on Max’s social status?

Why didn’t they just evacuate the whole town?

But more importantly:

This was a story of a girl’s love for another girl.

Her being granted a power to save said girl, given by an unexplained turn of events.

Where every single episode showed how they developed more and more feelings for each other.

Max went through hell and back for Chloe.

Max tried changing time for Chloe.

Max tried leaving things be for Chloe.

Max was there for her, supported her, did everything for the girl who had a world and unvierse against her all the time.

Max had been drugged, threatened, abused and yet the first thing on her mind when she wakes up from that mess is “Chloe…?”

The journal is filled with pictures and drawings of color, where Chloe is always the brightest point, always smiling, always happy - always blue.

Max lives through the nightmare that literally proves how much she cares about Chloe, everything they’ve been through and how much she fears that Chloe doesn’t have feelings for her or ends up with someone else.

To continue quoting the previous tumblr post:

Max Caulfield spent the entire game trying to show Chloe that she cared, that Chloe was the most wonderful person in her life and that she does never want to be without her.

Their fate and destiny together is brought up in ever episode. Journals, dialogue, everything talks about how they are meant to be together forever.

And in the final moments, you try to make it look like the power she never asked for or got an explanation for shouldn’t have been used at all? Then why the fuck did Max Caulfield get the power to save Chloe that day?

The story tells us about two girls finding each other again and falling in love. And what do we get in return for playing and supporting this for a year?

“Ambiguous Gays” vs “Bury Your Gays”

You can fulfill what you’ve been trying to do all the time, finally accepting what the game has been trying to tell you all along - to accept your choices and live with them. You let it go, accept this fate, and AB gets flushed. And what do you get for everything you’ve been through and everything you’ve done? GAYS LEFT FOR INTERPRETATION TO THE VERY END.

Other option? None of your choices matter, you break the girl you’ve been playing as for months, see her break down as the shot goes off. Nothing matters, you choose to redo all your choices instead of accepting them - as was the game’s morale. And you see Chloe Price die, alone, furious, left and kicked by the world, her last breath leaving her lungs without knowing that Max Caulfield came back for her, went through hell for her, and loved her more than anything in the world.

This is not anywhere near “bittersweet grey endings”. This is brutal and out of place and makes no sense at all. And as for the ambiguous Pricefield - how hard was it to make one extra scene for us with “the right choices”, Michel, that would prove it happened for those who would otherwise get a kiss in the other ending?

If you didn’t pursue romance, you’d get what we got originally. If you pursued Chloe, you should at least see this one final choice matter - as it did in the other ending. The ending I’ll never take - because this game was and always will be about Max and Chloe, and their love for each other.

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So how could DONTNOD Entertainment answer all these questions, and bring some closure to Life Is Strange™ fans, especially when the next season won't even feature these characters? Through a novelisation of the story itself, they could very much provide clear answers to many of these mysteries, and perhaps flesh out the central relationship of this story, Max and Chloe, and give them a proper, more fitting closure/ending to this story/relationship, or even some insight as how it developed beyond the game's final episode as well as tackling the "sad ending for LGBT relationships" trope that still has a firm grip over media/entertainment content.