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How many Supernatural fans are STILL on Tumblr??

“I might be the only one that doesn’t like a SEXUAL relation between the ships. Chloe and max are really more the friend type in my eyes, maybe one sexual experimentation. but I don’t think a “blue is the warmest color” type relation suits them in the slightest.“

Someone wrote this in a Life is Strange fan group and I just couldn’t let it stay uncommented. Here are my thoughts on Max and Chloe’s relationship. 

I don’t know why this ship discussion has suddenly become about sex. Love is more than some sexual road trip. I never thought of Max and Chloe in that way in the first place. In my eyes they are life-long best friends who share a really really strong connection - and who realized they had feelings stronger than just friendship for each other when they grew older and after they were seperated for 5 years.

That doesn’t have to do anything with sex or sexual interest. I don’t even think that Max thought the slightest about Chloe in that way, it’s always been just pure romantic feelings that were expressed by Max during the game. And even if they would become a couple, I don’t think their relationship would soon develop in that kind of direction since Max doesn’t seem to be that interested in sex and is still a virgin too. Although I think Chloe would be interested in more, I think she also wouldn’t want to rush things with Max, because Max is someone she really deeply cares about in contrast to all those superficial sexual flings she had in the past. Max and Chloe’s relationship is way too special to be just reduced to sexuality. 

Be it romantic or just platonic, it’s a special and deep love between those two. I think the game has successfully shown us that neither of them is able to live peacefully without the other one. They need each other immensely, support each other, bring out the best in each other, complete each other.

That’s the central point of their relationship, no matter whether you see it as platonic or romantic, they need each other in their lives by all means, and both realized that the seperation from each other was something that shouldn’t have been. Especially Max is torn by that realization. She even explains it in episode five how she desperately tried to make up for leaving Chloe and to put everything right. 

It’s so amazing how both of them still consider each other their best friends, even before seeing each other again after all those years - especially on Chloe’s side since she’s been so resentful towards Max for leaving her; but she’s obviously never forgot about Max and always hoped for a reunion -, and how they then immediately reconnect and feel like they’ve never been without each other in the first place. They just love each other for what they are. It’s not about gender, or looks, or anything. They are meant to be together.