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"Hey, Max. This is Chloe. You know, your best friend whom you abandoned for five years. Nevermind. So, what about this weird message, you texted to me yesterday? And how the hell you know about Rachel?"
"Oh, hi, Chloe. Don't know what you talking about. Who's Rachel? By the way I very busy right now. Text you later."
Max in past wouldn't remember what she did when she was possessed by Max from future. So if Max from future didn't convinced Chloe at first try, then any kind of warnings will not works.
It can be winning lottery numbers, the forecast of events for the next month, etc. Of course Max will say that tomorrow she will forget about this conversation. So she would ask Chloe to write down information about the future.
In other topics we discussed in detail the possible options. For example, in a large theme about Rachel on the forum Life is Strange 1.
check the phone in Before the store, they have been texting each other back and forth, so hardly call that abandoning her,, also it's not like she had much of a choice at her age in regards to moving..
And now imagine how Chloe will react if she don't know about Max can time travel, didn't seen Max for years and angry because of this.
"Hey, Chloe. Looks, there is lottery numbers..."
"What are you talking about? What lottery numbers? Are you high? You calling to me after all this years and telling about some bullsh numbers?"
They actually don't. Only purpose of these messages is to showing you how Max start to ignore Chloe. You just didn't get this.
And this was definitely not back and fort. This like one message from Max like "I'm busy/later" and five from Chloe like "Max why you not answering me?"
The point remains that if Max had texted Chloe and let her know what was going to happen using information she would have had no way of knowing, like Chloe's friendship with Rachel, you'd think it would make Chloe listen.. Max could have even reached out to Chloe's mom or even David... David for sure would have listened and potentially kept a closer eye on what was happening..
I just think she had ways to try and stop what happen, but did nothing but whine and sulk around, then either let Arcadia Bay get destroyed or her friend die..
No, I actually don't remember any letters.
Maybe she can forgive. But can she believe?
you honestly don't think if Maxed Texted Chloe with all the information about Prescott, and Mr. Jefferson and gave the information on what was going to happen and when, That Chloe wouldn't have at the very least been curious about why Chloe knew so much about Rachel, Prescotts and the school..
how about hitting up Rachel's DA father, I mean once she was telling him about his daughter being a victim of Mr. Jefferson and Prescott, you don't think he would at the very least have kept an eye on them and investigated stuff.. At the very least prevented his daughter from being a victim?
She would've thought that Max is high. Then Chloe asks Max for clarification, gets no reply (or smth like "sorry, dunno what I wrote to you, busy now, TTYL") and gets mad at her again.
He was in denial and did nothing after Rachel went missing. So yeah, he wouldn't have done anything after hearing some rumors. Or he would've tried to shield Rachel again, she angrily fled away and got abducted.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/life-is-strange/images/7/75/20180310124249_1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180310095011&path-prefix=ru
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/life-is-strange/images/2/2e/BtS_Chloe%27s_Letters_Page_1_HOPEFUL.png/revision/latest?cb=20170917102444
Look, here I put the sample text of a letter that could convince Chloe:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/319630/discussions/0/1836811737987576131/#c3247565033755012057
This one probably can works. Of course James wouldn't believe in time travel stuff, or prediction her daughter in "danger", but at last Max can provide information about crime (Jefferson kidnapped couple of girls and some of them probably can witness he did it against their will). Still it will take lot of time to collect evidences and build a case. And this only help to bust Jefferson.
But Rachel was (will) killed by Nathan, who did nothing wrong yet (except selling drugs but come on! every cop in town know this). Murdering Rachel was his first crime and he did it without Jefferson. And still can do.
Thanks. I read her diary, but not in her dreams.
And if she not interested in sport or crime news? What score did she said? It was Diaz or Lopez? (by the way: how many Diaz lives in Portland?) Mushrooms will be legalized? Lol, tell me something I don't know.
If Max suspects the sports news is taking Chloe out of her comfort zone, she'll cook something else. For example, news of the world of music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_in_American_music
Sure. Plenty of people have come up with really solid methods for Max to do so.
As part of the story we got?
No. We all played the game, at no point did Max really have a chance to sit down and come up with a workable solution to the problems in front of her, particularly by the time they discovered Rachel's ultimate fate. We're all looking at this with the benefit of meta-knowledge and months/years of thinking about it that Max didn't have.
Could Max do this after either of the endings?
Assuming her powers still work? Then sure. Given enough time to think things through, plan and experiment, Max could arrive at some of the solutions fans have presented or some use of her powers never seen in the game.
Would Max do this?
Almost certainly not after the Bay ending, where Max seems to have made peace with Chloe's death and is moving on with her life.
Maybe after the Bae ending, but I could only see her risking it after everything she went through using her powers this way in the game if Chloe asked her to and was desperate enough.
Certainly Max would require some really dire event to push her into trying this sort of thing, with all the suffering and potential consequences, it's not something she would just do on a whim.
Would Chloe ask her to?
I don't think so. I don't see the Chloe that arrived on the cliff at the penultimate point of the game with the way she had grown by that point and the stress and suffering she had seen caused to Max by her powers asking Max to put herself through that again.
Even for Rachel.
TL;DR - Max could potentially leverage her powers to save Rachel, but I don't see any real way she would be influenced to do so aside from some hypothetical world ending or Chloe-destroying threat that required her to do so.
Edit - yeah I posted the same thing on a similar topic on the LiS board, but it's relevant here too.
You have unrealistic expectations of characters. The one power Max gains that could potentially save Rachel the way you suggest is the one that immediately burns Max with the unpredictable consequences (saving William causes Chloe to die a long, lingering death) and she refuses to use it again until she has no other options in the Dark Room and to prevent Chloe's death in the junkyard.
At what point in the game after Max realising that she had the power to save Rachel did you expect her to come up with this plan?
It couldn't be when she discovered the photo-jump ability as she was immediately turned off using it again after experiencing the consequences and didn't know Rachel was dead at that point anyway.
It couldn't be after she discovered Rachel had died as Chloe was immediately on a revenge streak to kill Nathan with Max along for the ride.
Straight after that Max was desperately trying to escape Jefferson and find the one remaining photo she knew could save Chloe and then she's on the cliff facing down the storm.
When exactly in the game did Max have the time to calmly and rationally sit down and come up with a plan to save Rachel, look for a specific photo that would allow her to contact Chloe at the right point in time and get enough information from Chloe/the internet to convince Chloe's past self of Max's reliability and save Rachel?
And what would the consequences be? As saving Rachel wouldn't prevent the storm, but it very well might lead to Chloe and Rachel leaving Arcadia Bay before Max even gets there, leaving an alternate version of Max to deal with everything alone, potentially without her powers as she would never have gained them in the bathroom.
Let me make a quick list of potential events in a timeline where Rachel lived/Max returned to save her as soon as she discovered her photo-jump ability:
Like I said, your expectations of Max as a character in the events she was placed in with the knowledge she had on hand to get the perfect results you desire is beyond unreasonable, particularly as saving Rachel doesn't solve any of the big problems and actually makes some thing worse.
Edit - also Max and Chloe remaining in communication for a year or so after Max's move was a retcon introduced by BtS. The original game is pretty specific that there was no contact between these two characters after Max moved to Seattle.
Playing the first game with the assumption that there was a time where Max and Chloe were talking after her move for future-Max to return to and convince Chloe f something is contrary to the original writer's depiction.