Been in this place for too long

Pride month countdown day 2: 2023

max literally had to choose between a whole city or saving someone she loved. and that weighed on her so heavily that she actively found a way to not have to do that ever again (life is strange: double exposure). but in doing so, that also gave her the opportunity to right a wrong from her past.

reunion gave max what she deserved. she didn't have to choose a whole town, or the girl she loved. she got an emotionally mature and more grown up chloe, and she can love her freely and peacefully knowing she never has to choose between a town and her girl ever again. she deserved to have both. she couldn't love chloe freely before due to the fact that the deaths of an entire town weighed over her. if she chose the town over chloe, then she couldn't live happily knowing she lost the girl she loved to do the right thing.

she never should have had to choose and she didn't have to, but she didn't know that then. double exposure showed that to us. that it was possible to do both. so giving end game chloe and max with no looming deaths over their heads? just allowing them to live and cope with the memories of alternate universes. and they get to be happy. together.

anyone who hates this game hates whimsy and wants everything to always be complicated and dark. max and chloe deserved an actual happy ending. we don't have a lot of queer protagonists having happy relationships. let us have this. the loose ends are tied up with no guilt sitting there anymore. they deserve that.