Does the blue butterfly represent the butterfly effect?

[Little Miss Communism]

In the first part of the game where your in the bathroom you see a blue butterfly just before you use your time traveling power, could this represent the butterfly effect?

[Brewski]

It's certainly one implication, an a theme that returns to the game over an over. It's also widely considered to represent Chloe's spirit animal due her connection to it via hre tattoo an various artwork we see throughout the game.

[talemore]

The butterfly can represent Max as well. The butterfly is a rare blue Monarch. When you look at the mirror Max is taunted to be the Monarch. The stages of a larva is 5 like the amount of episodes. The first epsiode is called chrysalis, the stage the larva becomes a butterfly. Monarch butterfly is also known as the wanderer or the king. The larva has finished the chrysalis after 3 weeks, the time Max been in Arcadia Bay before she met chloe. During the autumn the butterfly couples with a partner.

It could represent the butterfly effect but the game will break the rules by the end and invent its own physical laws. It's the magical bond of friendship.