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Take on Me by BenRG
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024), Life is Strange 2 (Video Game), Life is Strange: True Colors (Video Game)
18 Sep 2025
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Saving Arcadia Bay was the hardest decision that Max Caulfield ever made and it is very nearly one that she *didn't* live with until an entirely unexpected guardian angel came into her life and helped her make a future. Along the way, she found that the strangeness of life was not hers to bear alone.
This is a fic I've been slowly writing to show who Max Caulfield came after Life is Strange and how she became entangled with the protagonists of the other games in the fanchise.
Updates to continue weekly.
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The timeline is now secure; the threat of Max from the other timeline has dissipated, leaving Max and Victoria to have a somewhat more certain future - attending University, finding the last remaining Butterfly, and trying to work out what their future role in the world will be.
Unbeknownst to them, outside forces are beginning to circle, full of ill intent. As the net closes in, can Max and Victoria fight for the future, a future which is beginning to slip from their grasp?
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- Part 5 of Butterflies
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Caught on a rainswept bluff and crushed underneath the weight of a week that will soon be erased, Max Caulfield prepares for one final jump meant to avert the storm ravaging Arcadia Bay, even if it means sacrificing the girl she loves. In the far flung reaches of spacetime, her landing does not go unheard.
Unbeknownst to either of them, something waiting in the shadows of a future much different than theirs has other designs. What Max thought was the end of her journey is now only the first domino to fall in a vast and sinister conspiracy.
Now, stranded in a foreign timeline torn apart by corporate sponsored warfare, she and Chloe are faced with the unexpected chance to once again fight for a future together against an adversary hell-bent on hunting them across neon-lit streets and choking metropolises.
Temporarily updating (usually) every other Tuesday
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The Dream of Someone Else by escapefromberlin
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
03 Sep 2025
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Out on his own three years after Blackwell, Nathan is completely in over his head as he tries a new start in university. He’s crashing at Victoria’s place, desperately trying to find a job, and to make matters worse, he just so happens to end up in the same film class as annoying Warren Graham from high school. Through all of the mess, he finds solace in the new anonymous friend he’s made on an online forum, someone who understands him more than anyone else. Too bad they’ll never meet in real life.
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An uncomfortable talk in Victoria's room, about guilt and moving on, in a comfortable position.
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- Part 4 of Flash Photography
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how to socialize a feral cat in the body of a Slayer: by Max Caulfield by MsStarryNightSky
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
17 Aug 2025
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One year, four months.
Approximately.
That's how long it's been since Max used the photograph to go back to the bathroom.
Since Chloe Price died.
Max isn't okay.
She's still here. Still breathing. And she's fallen into an odd friendship with (or been adopted by?) Victoria Chase, which is probably the only reason Max didn't waste away to nothing in the throes of grief. She's doing better. But she's still not okay. Victoria decides Max needs to get away from Blackwell and Arcadia Bay, and drags Max on a road trip to Sunnydale where her cousin lives to give Max some California-sun therapy. Or something like that.
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Faith has been around the Scoobies for a while now and it's not getting any easier. It's clear that they don't really know what to do with her - she's too wild, too out-there. Faith is used to being the outsider - but everything changes when she meets a small, kinda mousey and unassuming young woman by saving her life from a vamp that was planning on making her into his meal for the evening. Max. And when, that same night, Max stops Faith from making a life-altering mistake, Faith can't get the awkward, stammering hipster out of her head.
Even when she tries.
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The Snapping Turtle's Glow by JoCarpenter777
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024), Life is Strange: Double Exposure
12 Aug 2025
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Seeking distance from a life defined by loss, Max anchors herself in the quiet glow of The Snapping Turtle. There, bartender Amanda offers connection, a warmth that makes Max yearn to step out of the shadows. Yet every flicker of hope is shadowed by the ghost of a promise made over a grave – a vow that could shatter this fragile peace if the past ever catches the light.
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Doing CPR on a Dead Dog Just to Say I Tried by Amityy_y
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
12 Aug 2025
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Max really does try
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Break the World by CelestialDrafts
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024), Life Is Strange, Life is Strange Double Exposure
11 Aug 2025
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MAJOR DOUBLE EXPOSURE SPOILERS.
Max sat in that bathroom, waiting for her best friend to be shot. She would honor Chloe's last request and not act, letting her die. No matter how much it broke her.
That was the plan, until a version of her from 10 years in the future dropped out of nowhere and changed everything.
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Han pasado 3 años desde el incidente de Blackwell. Nathan Prescott ha salido bajo fianza. Consumido por la culpa, se embarca en un viaje para redimirse.
En especial para obtener el perdón de a quien mas daño le hizo, Kate Marsh.
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- Part 1 of La Vida sigue siendo Extraña
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Looking Back to Move Forward by toomanymangos
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
02 Aug 2025
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Nathan Prescott is in his first semester of college after being released from Columbia River Correctional Institution. He’s eager to move forward and push away all things relating to his past. However, the past finds a way to resurface as he crosses paths with ex-high school classmate Warren Graham. With the sudden disappearance of a classmate, the two search for answers before it’s too late.
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Max sacrificed Chloe, so what is next? What is she to do with all of this? How is she meant to go on, and for the love of God, why does it seem like Victoria Chase is everywhere?
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a difference of seconds (and an out of place hipster) by MsStarryNightSky
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
27 Jul 2025
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LiS/BTVS AU crossover - What if Max Caulfield was present when Faith stakes Allan Finch and uses her rewind to prevent it?
(Just a single scene of the pivotal moment for now. May or may not turn this into a full-fledged fic.)
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The Golden Hour (Wish you were here) by WolfStargazer
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
26 Jul 2025
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“You always find a moment to stop and live the moment, don’t you, super Max?” That familiar voice, hugging you as it flowed toward you, was enough to make you smile wider. You closed your eyes and tiled your head into a waiting hand, one of your own raising to find hers in that place that had became its home.
Air.
- Language:
- English
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- 388
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
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Discord by imjustabirb
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024), Life is Strange 2 (Video Game), Life is Strange (Comics)
11 Jul 2025
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After the storm that never was, Dion loses themselves in their grief and runs to someone just as lost as them.
Little do they know, someone is looking for them.
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- Part 6 of Reincarnation is Strange
- Part 2 of Bay Over Bae
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- English
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- 1,294
- Chapters:
- 2/2
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10 years ago, Max Caulfield was forced to make the hardest decision of her life: Save the girl she loves? Or save the town filled with thousands of innocent lives? She made the choice she thought was right, and these days, she's all but moved on; an accomplished photographer working to teach others her craft. Her life is simple, normal. There are no more magic tornadoes to prevent or any horrific conspiracies to uncover.
Or so she thought.
The sudden arrival of a strange new student in her class, and the rediscovery of her powers challenges everything Max thought she knew. After somehow sending herself backwards in time, Max is forced to answer one important question:
If she had the chance to fix everything, would she take it?
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Morning photography brings up the fact Max has been having trouble taking shots of people after everything.
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- Part 3 of Flash Photography
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Max Caulfield is an award winning photographer who despite everything made all of her art world dreams come true, then why does she still feel so empty inside? A nomadic life never settling on one place too long, carrying the scars of something that didn’t even happen (at least not in this timeline) and the feeling she can’t get the blood off her hands.
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Nathan Prescott is trying to rebuild his life, turns out prison isn’t very nice to 18 year old art kids no matter how much money you have on the outside. Jefferson is gone. His family wont speak to him. All he has is the only good thing he’s good at, photography. But the photo world is pretty small and he can’t avoid eventually running into familiar faces. -
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Victoria and Max's study session gets derailed by Skittles. Max very much wishes it didn't.
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- Part 2 of Flash Photography
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A small conversation, between two people, on a rooftop that doesn't matter, on a day just like any other.
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- Part 1 of Flash Photography