#lis max

If you sacrificed Chloe, the Chloe who returns seems to have been alive the whole time and is terrified by memories of her dying. As in, this is Bae timeline Chloe in the Bay timeline, the Chloe that Max saved and traveled with for several years as her best friend/girlfriend before breaking up.

If you sacrificed Arcadia Bay, this Chloe is haunted by visions of a storm that never happened in her version of reality. Not only that, but Arcadia Bay and Joyce are totally fine. Now she’s meeting a Max who has massive survivor’s guilt and is grappling with the realization that killing off the whole town was pointless.

Likewise, Bay timeline Chloe, the other Chloe, doesn’t know that Max has been grieving Chloe's death for over a decade. This is the 30-year-old Chloe that unceremoniously broke up with Max via letter and tried to move on with her life, and now she’s meeting a Max who only remembers her at 19 and had absolutely no one to confide in about her powers or trauma.

If done well, that could lead to some very complex and interesting interpersonal conflict. What if Bae timeline Max is resentful of the Chloe who spent the last decade in a “perfect” timeline that she didn’t get to be a part of? What if Bay timeline Max, who’s still mourning her soulmate, is blindsided by the Chloe who dumped her after only a few years together and is scared to try again when given a second chance?

I finally had time to finish it!!