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If you read that and you still have the desire to play as Max, I feel like Double Exposure can be treated as a game that simply explores a different version of events after LiS1. This is how I'm choosing to go about it.
Huh, first time hearing about it, interesting
depends on what you count as cannon, person i think the series died after LiS 1 and LiS BtS i dont count LiS 2 or true colors or DE as cannon by any means
The blue haired chick with BPD who has repeatedly shown a habit of pushing everyone away including Rachael Amber for getting close to Frank and who repeatedly has pouting fits any time Max disagrees with her about anything no matter how minor with lines like, "Everyone abandons me, of course you would too." the second things get even slightly hard for her. That is supposedly the person who'd never abandon Max? She is literally the stereotype of BPD mixed with an avoidant attachment style and they're one of the kinds of people most likely to leave a relationship the second it gets hard.
These posts are all basically, "how to say you have never been in a relationship with a person with an avoidant attachment style without saying you've never been in a relationship with someone with an avoidant attachment style."
The thing is, those with abandonment issues tend to stick it out more than others would since they know what its like to be left behind and/or abandoned.
Chloe has a clear case of it and she likely broke up with Max cause she thought 'she will likely abandon me again, so lets end it now, before she does' understandable, but very sad.
Cause those with abandonment issues tend to push away those that they need most to get over it, its like a form of self-sabotage.
Also, another possibility is, that she felt like she was trapped because Max actually did sacrifice a town to save her, not very logical thing to do, its more emotional and highly immoral....so it could have felt like to Chloe that she was obligated to be with Max cause of what she did for her survival and then wondered if it was why she was with her in the first place, so she left.
So in theory she could return and try to get her back if she realises she WANTS to be with Max and not out of 'she did this for me, so i owe her' type of thing, which is not a mentallly healthy thing for anyone to experience.
Am i saying, this is the case here? nope, just saying, it MIGHT be the route D9 *could* take, stressing the word *could*.
IT honestly depends on how negative feedback about it happens.
What you're describing is called an insecure attachment style. People with abandonment issues that have an INSECURE attachment style are more likely to stick it out, and even allow themselves to take abuse just because their abandonment issues make it so they're so afraid to be alone they'd rather stick with anyone who will accept them. They don't want anyone to ever feel how they do. It's cause they're insecure in their attachments.
Coming from someone with a degree in the subject. Chloe doesn't express the diagnostic symptoms of an insecure attachment style though. She shows an AVOIDANT attachment style. People with an avoidant attachment style also fear abandonment, but their reaction to it is different. They tend to push others away first so that the other person can't abandon them by becoming the abandoner themselves. They tend to be paranoid of others betraying them and take any negative sign as the relationship slipping, and to cope they run away so they don't have to feel the other persons rejection as they just can't take it.
This is made worse with the fact she shows all the major symptom of Borderline personality disorder. A condition that usually stems from abandonment where the person will go through cycles referred to as splitting episodes. Splitting is when a person has a black and white all or nothing attitude towards a person or a thing. Saying something like, "everyone abandons me. Of course you would too" would be the kind of thing one would say as it's very all or nothing. They often get super attached to a single person to an unhealthy degree with the term FP being a word they use to describe when they have a favorite person that they care about almost to the point of idealization, and that they'd be utterly crushed from losing cause they tend to base their sense of self worth around that person. During this period of idealization they can do no wrong. Unfortunately if they ever do anything ever that shows signs that they betrayed or are trying to abandon them in anyway it will switch over really quickly to hatred or anger towards the person.and they can lash out very strongly. They tend to go through these feelings in cycles. We see this particularly strongly with her relationship to Racheal Amber. She shows all the symptoms that she made Rachael her new FP after her old FP Max abandoned her.
People with the condition tend to show reckless self destructive behavior, impulsiveness, have emotional outbursts followed by periods of numbness, etc. They have a poor ability to regulate their emotions. They have trouble forming stable relationships due to their intense fears of abandonment and tend to go through friends and lovers quicker than most people.
To learn more about how Chloe shows major symptoms of BPD, here's an article I saw a few years back about it: https://optimistminds.com/does-chloe-price-from-life-is-strange-have-bpd/
Point all being you're making inaccurate assumptions about her character based on her abandonment with the assumption that all people who get abandoned react the same towards it.