I'm actually so happy to see more LIS, I really loved this game. While LIS 1 is still by OG favorite, True Colors is right up there. I loved my time in Haven Springs.
See... it can happen anywhere, anytime... you sit there one day, our 'Pirate Duo of Arcadia Bae' pops into your head... and boom! ...a doodle of our heroes emerges!
"Once in a lifetime, someone special comes along, whose kiss is your rainbow, when you're feeling blue..."
Wow, these are incredible... love it!!
"Tell us a story, Granny Max... pleeeease..."
"You want a story? What kind of story should it be? A grand tale of adventure, of swashbuckling pirates, with stolen treasure and daring escapes? Full of risks, and rewards?"
"You always tell those.... tell us a story about 'hope'..."
"A story about hope?"
"Yesss... you have a giant 'HOPE' written on the wall over there... we want to know why..."
"Hmmmm... well... hope can be many things... hope is being able to see the light, even when the world is covered in darkness... hope never dies for those who truly love you... hope is the promise of a miracle right around the corner... I know all about hope... having that hope is how I met up with your Granny Chloe again... a dark and exciting tale it is..."
"It all starts one morning in the hallway of my high-school... I had just put in my earbuds..."
"What are ear-buddddsss... granny?"
"You dummy.... ear-buds are those things you clean your ears with..."
"No its not.... stop hitting me,...mooomy... William is hitting me again..."
"Settle down kids... you want me to tell you the story or not?"
"Sorry granny."
"Yes, sorry granny."
"Okay, so earbuds were these wonderful gadgets we used to put in our ears... its how we listened to music before implants... so, where was I ..."
"You were walking down a hallway..."
"Oh right... yes.. yes.... I walked down the hallway, not realizing my life was about to change... that's when I learned..."
"Learned what, granny?"
"That Life is Strange..."
These kind of ones have this natural ability to make me smile. We just love seeing them happy. Must be quite a day to prepare for though, and I always wondered about the little things....
"Maybe...uhh....mffff.....stay there you piece of.....aaaah.... maybe we could make a mount for it... I am sure if we take the screwy bit off the old projector stand, we can attach it to the bottom maybe... I don't know... can't we make some kind of plan?", Max stands back, holding her head with both hands.
Chloe is sitting spread legged on the garage floor next to her, 'violating' a milkshake cup with her tongue trying to lick out the last bit of chocolate sauce.
"I told you, that camera... lick... is not meant... lick.... for this kind of thing, no 'sane' person takes wedding photos with a Polaroid, Max.", Chloe says, finally resorting to spooning the last few chocolate sprinkles out the bottom of her milkshake with her inhumanly long fingers.
Max slumps down next to her, defeated.
"But lucky for you... I'm not sane... and you're not just marrying me for my looks... so don't worry Maxi-Pad... I have a plan... but first, I need a KISS from my belooooooved....", she leans over, and grabs Max's face with her sticky fingers, and starts planting sticky slobbery chocolate kisses all over her fiance's face.
"Chloeeeeeeeee, not with that mouuuuth.... stopppp....I don't know wherrrre it's beeeeen....", Max tries to fight off the taller girl at first, but eventually relents, and accepts her fate.
Chloe leans in, and gently kisses her wife-to-be on her mouth. "Don't worry Maxi, we will make it work... if you want some shots with that camera... then I will make it happen... I promise... do you believe me?"
Max's heart melts when she sees the look of genuine affection on Chloe's face. "I believe you, you big goop... and I love you... thank you... this means a lot to me."
Two weeks later, along the side of the entrance, a small platform has been erected, and its been decorated with huge purple flowers. Mounted in the middle, is a brand new camera tripod, with a special mounting for a Polaroid camera. On the floor next to it rests a huge box of spare film, and a detachable sling, for when the camera is to be carried around the venue.
Kate drags a reluctant Victoria over to the platform, and gives her some last minute instructions on which photos to take as the guests start wandering in.
"I wonder how Chloe managed to afford this set up, its amazing... the spare film alone must have cost her quite a penny..."
"Yeah, who knows... maybe she sold her hair to a smurf or something.", Victoria answers, rolling her eyes.
"Vicky, be nice... this is their big day... now remember, they are counting on you... but more importantly, I am counting on you... you just have to do this until the ceremony is over, and then I will take over...", Kate gives Victoria's hand a soft squeeze, and gives her girlfriend a quick kiss on the cheek.
Victoria tries to hide her red blotchy blushing face with her shoulder as she starts to prepare the camera.
"Yeahwellwhynotgetsomeonelsetodothis youknowhowIfeelaboutthatbluehairedlout andwhointheirrightmindtakeswedding photoswithapolaroidanyway...", Victoria mumbles under her breath. Kate sighs, smiles and sprints off to do her maid-of-honor duties when she hears Chloe's truck roaring into the nature park's parking lot.
Noticing something in the corner of her eye, Victoria slowly walks over to the tripod, bends down, and picks off the small price tag with her nail she had forgotten to remove earlier.
I always pictured Max getting a streak of purple in her hair.
She tried going full pink at first, but that resulted in the infamous "Straw-Crow" incident of '16 ...
Both Max and Chloe fell asleep waiting for the peroxide to bleach her hair, (alcohol to calm the nerves might have played a factor), so instead of 40 minutes, they left it in for 2 hours, (rewind powers could not save the day here unfortunately).
Victoria made the mistake of referring to her as 'Straw-Crow Max', in Chloe's presence... and suggested she should ask for a refund for the "Bad Halloween party wig"... which resulted in a sulking socialite sporting a painful looking black eye.
After a second dose of bad luck for our poor hipster, instead of getting the longish 'Pixie Cut' Max had asked for, in order to fix the issue, all they could manage was a very short 'boy-cut'.
As much as Chloe pretended 'not to care', she kind of liked the almost white short hair on Max, and thought it was very 'Punk', ...but when her hair had finally grown back, they tried a purple streak instead, (which only happened because Chloe can be VERY persuasive when she wants to be.)
Yeah, this is incredible... I don't know why, but purple just makes everything better...
"...I think it would piss off the universe, if you walked past a field of purple flowers and not notice it..."
Our Pirate Captain being all... piraty! (yes that's a word)
"...I'm sorry Max, but everything happens for a reason,... and sometimes my reason is that I'm stupid, and I make bad decisions..."
"They can't give us a manual for 'adulting', Chloe... that's why we Google how to do stuff..."
Wow, these are all fantastic!!
"...you two are practically glowing,... what did you do?"
"...we faced our storm,... so now we shine our light so we can bring the rainbow..."
Whole stream of awesome art again, you guys all rock! Nice to see people are creating new fics/art etc and keeping the fandom going!
"...and you said going to University was a mistake, I told you you could do it!"
"Bah... I never make mistakes Max, ...I thought I did once... but I was wrong..."
ah, love this one... our pirates hanging out... I wonder if Max had a whole bunch of these shirts made up, and just picks one at random on any day...
"Should we turn down the music, Chloe, I think it might be a bit loud..."
"Don't be ridiculous Max, my neighbors love to listen to good music... whether they like it or not!"
No such thing as bad LIS drawings!
"That teacher hates me, Max... she said I was totally useless."
"What did you say?"
"I said I'm not totally totally useless, I can be used as a bad example..."
Yikes! how awesome... this is like a cold winter's day hug... or a mug of steaming hot chocolate... with sugar... lots and lots of sugar!
"All I need for a perfect day is your smile..."