#marshchase

Hot Take: Kate Marsh deserved more than to befriend her abuser/someone who encouraged her suicide. People often forget that Victoria heavily encourages Kate’s suicide and even says something like “I can’t wait for you to slit your wrists” and not to mention Victoria was the whole cause of the video being uploaded. She was the one recording her doing so and not to mention no one talks about the fact Kate could’ve been possibly raped (not by Nathan or Jeffershit.) but because she’s making out with all these boys they probably assumed she was dtf. Which means that Victoria just let a possible rape and or kidnapping happen after she was drugged, which is why I somewhat and harsh on her and can’t imagine her and Kate being together unless an au happens but most people brush over this. I love Kate as a character, she’s super duper sweet and it’s like everyone is against her or out to get her, Victoria, The School, David, etc. I feel that they could’ve written her dealing with her trauma in a much better way than befriending the person who basically caused her suicide and I feel they didn’t go that deep into her in a way that it wouldn’t just happen overnight. Kate would suffer with depression, even self-harm, starving herself, avoiding friends, etc. I also blame the fucking school for simply not caring about Kate Marsh, they didn’t care until she was willing to take her life but even then half the fucking students had cell phones out recording it. Nobody cared about Kate Marsh outside of Max and Warren. Victoria didn’t care about her until she realized I could go to jail for this, she didn’t care until she was in a fucking hospital bed. I wish that you could choose whether Victoria could be forgiven or whether she shouldn’t. The principal didn’t care until she made a scene, until she was moments away from fucking ending herself, no one cared outside of Max and Warren. Victoria encouraged the behavior of bullying her, she doesn’t stop or we never see her hesitate or even just fucking leave her alone for one moment, she picks on her every chance she gets. I wish you could’ve fucking told her off or even brought up Victoria outside of Jeffershit, Nathan, and David. She recorded and filmed a drunk and drugged girl making out and possibly getting sexually assaulted then kidnapped, she proceeded to bully the girl and doesn’t stop until she’s in a fucking hospital bed. Victoria Chase is held too high by the fandom imo, she needs to be held accountable for her actions and people need to see she’s not just a misunderstood mean girl, hell she sounds even worse than Regina George. Makes her seem like an angel in comparison. I feel the game also didn’t see Kate Marsh as more than just suicide or sad christian girl, in a way they don’t understand how bad her trauma can be. They did the same thing with Chloe, she has a lot of trauma but yet they want you to sympathize with her abusers such as David and Joyce. They fucking force David and Chloe to be bestfriends when he caused most of her trauma, her hate towards men, her need for fucking guns, drugs, running away from home. DontNod has a lot of problems with Life Is Strange, I love the game, I just can’t accept the fact they don’t take these characters seriously or their trauma seriously enough to have them make up with their abusers. Chloe is a drug-addicted, bitter, emotional, traumatized woman because of her guardians, because of her parents not being decent enough fucking parents. Kate is the same side of that coin, she was abused and mistreated by everyone, by her family, by the school, she has little to no friends and her life was terrible. I wish there was a scene of Kate losing her shit at Victoria or if you choose to not accept Victoria’s apology then she calls her out on her bullshit and tells her to leave. Either way, Victoria changes but stop belittling these women’s trauma DontNod and making them forgive their abusers for how they have treated them and abused them. You did it with fucking Sean and his mother but you didn’t do it for those who really deserved no forgiveness. Victoria and David don’t deserve to be in their victims lives still, they don’t deserve them at all. Hold Victoria Chase accountable for her actions of causing a suicide, bullying, and stop sugarcoating the relationship she had with Kate. She straight up abused her and emotionally destroyed her, no one bothered to stop her and everyone in that damn school was the reason she was up on the roof. Victoria isn’t that great of person and should’ve been written better if they wanted sympathy from us. I bet you everything I’ve ever written that if Warren, Finn, or Sean did any of this bullshit you guys would be destroying them, having fucking hate pages out for them. One of the biggest problem in this fandom is that you guys uphold these women and fail to see their flaws but point out every flaw and every bad thing their male counterparts have done. It needs to stop. 

Someone on ao3 lost all of their inhibitions and wrote a fic saga about max/chloe/kate/victoria I aspire to this level of not giving a fuck about what I want to ship. Truly an inspiration