Theories about the past of Rachel Amber

[ShadowBeak]

I have the answer to some questions in Life Is Strange Before The Storm.

Rachel Amber met Frank Bowers in this episode 3, but there was no romance between them yet. However, we realized that he saved Chloe Price TWO or THREE times and PROTECTED Rachel Amber's biological mother.

Chloe Price probably told her that. Upon hearing this, Rachel Amber wanted to personally thank Frank Bowers for what he did.

Rachel Amber and Frank Bowers would become friends quickly, he is not a bad person at all. He probably allowed Rachel Amber to try the drugs he sold. He might have let her use drugs for free. With this she will lose some of the innocence that was seen in this game and she would be more crazy. As if it were a slightly different person.

Later she would help him sell the drugs, especially at Blackwell and the Vortex Club, which she frequented.

Because of this coexistence, Rachel Amber would eventually fall in love with Frank Bowers and start dating him, without telling Chloe Price anything.

The drugs changed the behavior of Rachel Amber who was more daring. She got to the point of stripping off her clothes and starting dancing almost naked around Frank Bowers. She was probably drunk that day.

Within a few months, Rachel Amber was known as the coolest girl in Blackwell, her popularity increased even more. She started walking around with people who would be a bad influence on her behavior, but she did not leave Chloe alone for long.

As soon as Mark Jefferson arrived at school, Rachel became interested in him because of his intelligence and the way he behaved. This greatly facilitated his approach.

Mark Jefferson managed to seduce Rachel easily and had even a few intimate moments, but nothing obscene. Rachel was in love with him and almost forgot Frank.

Chloe Price was still blindly in love with Rachel and could not see what she was doing.

Frank still had strong feelings for Rachel Amber and did not understand why she wanted to part with him so quickly. The only gift he had of her was her bracelet.


Nathan was a good friend of Rachel Amber. She trusted him to ask for advice to strengthen her relationship with Jefferson.

Nathan Prescott ended up liking Jefferson and saw him as a father figure.


Mark Jefferson barely arrived at school and was manipulating everyone to achieve his goals. It made the principal give him some privileges that other teachers would not normally get.


He discovered that Nathan was the son of the Prescotts and knew how his family was very influential in the city, so he began to manipulate him slowly, making him believe that he was his best friend or a surrogate father.

Jefferson manipulated Nathan and got a kind of hiding place that would later serve as his base of operations. So he could take pictures of girls he considered pure and innocent. All this for a mere Hobby. However, the victims needed to be unconscious in order to discover nothing that happened, otherwise they would be killed.

Jefferson persuaded Nathan to kidnap some girls out of Blackwell and bring them to DarkRoom, they would be unconscious or blindfolded, but they would not know who the kidnapper was. There Jefferson could apply a kind of drug so the girls would get doped and remain unconscious for longer. Nathan watched everything carefully and got excited about the teacher, he started to get interested in that too.

Jefferson persuaded Nathan to get closer to Rachel and as soon as he had the opportunity to bring her to the Dark Room.

Like other girls, Rachel Amber arrived in the semi-conscious Dark Room, but managed to regain her senses quickly. She recognized Nathan and Jefferson as kidnappers, she threatened them and tried to be aggressive.

Jefferson decided to prepare something that could calm Rachel while he was busy, Nathan applied to Rachel an injection thinking that he would be helping Jefferson, but that ended up killing the girl of overdose. Mak Jefferson was furious with what Nathan did.

As the police investigated her whereabouts and other missing girls, Jefferson continued to pretend to be a regular teacher while Nathan became increasingly crazy and aggressive over the drugs he received from Jefferson. He could not remember anything he had done, but he still saw Jefferson as a father figure.

Max's story happens precisely at this time when Jefferson pretended to be an ordinary teacher. It did not take long for him to start the lightning-flashing kidnappings again, Kate Marsh as his next victim. He counted again with the support of Nathan who remained faithful, but a little more disturbed.

Arcadia Bay is a mysterious place, originally inhabited by Native Americans. The town has a strange and inexplicable magic that is somehow linked to the ability to control the time of Max Caulfield. It is believed that totems scattered around the environment are primarily responsible for this.

[Pvt. Martin]

See you didnt need the developers to show what actually happened, somtimes you just let your imagination fill in the gaps.

[elsie]

Originally posted by Pvt. Martin:

See you didnt need the developers to show what actually happened, somtimes you just let your imagination fill in the gaps.

right but people don't want to fill in the gaps themselves. they want answers that are canon to the story.

[ShadowBeak]

You have to interview the developer and look for the answers himself.

[Battlekruse]

Rachel Amber and Mark Jefferson had a sexual affair together and its already confirmed by developers. They are both into photography and modeling so thats why they started dating.

Chloe Price also find some letters where she is telling she meet somebody who "changed her life", which she means Mr. Jefferson

So far I can understand Rachel Amber came willingly to Dark Room, because she was a great actor. But something went wrong during the event.

[MarcoCash]

Originally posted by Battlekruse:

So far I can understand Rachel Amber came willingly to Dark Room, because she was a great actor. But something went wrong during the event.

Except that was Nathan that drugged her and took her to the Dark Room to impress Jefferson.

About Frank: I like the character too, but we shouldn’t forget that he is someone who sell drugs to underaged, even rape drugs, and after BtS we even know that he is killer. So, maybe not really a good person...

[ShadowBeak]

Did Nathan kill Rachel Amber because of the jealousy of this relationship?

[MarcoCash]

Originally posted by DarkRisado:

Did Nathan kill Rachel Amber because of the jealousy of this relationship?

No, I’m almost sure it was an accident

[Jeckenn]

Frank still had strong feelings for Rachel Amber and did not understand why she wanted to part with him so quickly. The only gift he had of her was her bracelet.

Actually he also had that picture of her too the one he dropped on the table when Max went in to get his RV keys...and then he had some more pictures when they found that book in his RV and Chloe got all upset about it when she drove Max back to Blackwell Academy.

For me that was one of the funniest parts of the original game the way Chloe backed out of the parking lot and nearly caused several cars to crash as she did, and Frank casually watching it all out the window as he was eating his beans...lol

[Jeckenn]

Originally posted by MarcoCash:

Originally posted by DarkRisado:

Did Nathan kill Rachel Amber because of the jealousy of this relationship?

No, I’m almost sure it was an accident

Honestly I think Jefferson killed Rachel Amber, if you noticed he tried to blame Nathan for also killing Chloe. I think Jefferson killed everyone and like a lot of serial killers do they try to pass the blame off on to someone else so they can still live with themselves.

[Riddler]

Originally posted by Jeckenn:

Originally posted by MarcoCash:

No, I’m almost sure it was an accident

Honestly I think Jefferson killed Rachel Amber, if you noticed he tried to blame Nathan for also killing Chloe. I think Jefferson killed everyone and like a lot of serial killers do they try to pass the blame off on to someone else so they can still live with themselves.

Nope. Jefferson said it directly to Max in the Dark Room, that Nathan tried to impress him, but gave Rachel an overdose. He has no reason at this point to lie to Max, because he was intended to kill her afterwards.

[MarcoCash]

Originally posted by Riddler:

Originally posted by Jeckenn:

Honestly I think Jefferson killed Rachel Amber, if you noticed he tried to blame Nathan for also killing Chloe. I think Jefferson killed everyone and like a lot of serial killers do they try to pass the blame off on to someone else so they can still live with themselves.

Nope. Jefferson said it directly to Max in the Dark Room, that Nathan tried to impress him, but gave Rachel an overdose. He has no reason at this point to lie to Max, because he was intended to kill her afterwards.

Also, there is no point for the writers to make Jefferson lie and not give us any way to discover it.

At that point of the story, the classic "villain monologue" that Jefferson provides has the function to fill the last gaps of the story, explaining us what happened six months ago, because after that we (as players) won't have any occasion to do further investigation, given that the plot demands us to do the varius time travels, go to to diner etc. Basically, from that point on Rachel's subplot is definitively closed and there is only the final act of the story to explore, the one that leads to the final choice.

Of course, everyone can have the theory he likes the most, but "Jefferson is the real killer" is like saying that the event in LiS are just a dream Max is having while sleeping in class during Jefferson's lecture...

[Dark Angel]

Originally posted by MarcoCash:

Also, there is no point for the writers to make Jefferson lie and not give us any way to discover it.

This game ends with choice of 19 years old girl how many people she ready sacrifice. Come on! Of course they didn't do it, but I will not surprise if they actually mind Jefferson, leave leads to help us figure it, and then they hide truth for years.

[ShadowBeak]

But Nathan and Rachel Amber were friends, why would he hurt her and the other girls?
When Max was driving the car, Nathan told her that he did not want to hurt anyone as if he had to.

[MarcoCash]

Originally posted by DarkRisado:

But Nathan and Rachel Amber were friends, why would he hurt her and the other girls?
When Max was driving the car, Nathan told her that he did not want to hurt anyone as if he had to.

In fact he accidentally overdose her, he didn't kill her on purpose

[ShadowBeak]

Nathan Prescott accidentally killed Chloe Price and Rachel Amber.