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❧ T𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞: 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦

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Guide Index

Overview

Chloe Price

Rachel Amber

Victoria Chase

Nathan Prescott

Frank Bowers

Maxine Caulfield

Joyce Price

William Price

David Madsen

Eliot Hampden

Steph Gingrich

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Chloe Price

Chloe Price is the main protagonist
She was the best friend of Maxine Caulfield until the latter moved to Seattle following the death of Chloe's father
Being left alone in a time where Chloe needed her the most, Chloe drifted into the punk scene in which she met Rachel Amber
The two grew very close and are dreaming of leaving Arcadia Bay together

Personality:

Chloe is fierce, fearless, and sharp-tongued
She won't stop till she gets what she wants
She tries to act cool and tough, but is actually quite insecure about herself.

Nickname:
Chloe, the Unfriended
Chloe, the Journal Boss
Chloe the A-hole
Chloe the Electric Sheep
Chloe, the No Good, Very Bad Person
The Chloe Who Wasn't There
Chloe, The Catch-22
Chloe, Love Doctor (by herself)
Evanis Anne Assclown / Smokeweed D Bear (by herself, determinant)
Barb / Callamastia (determinant)
Karie Price (by Victoria)
C.P.
Price (by Rachel)
The mute (by Drew North)
Debra Borgen (by Armond)

Autobiography:
Chloe wrote about herself in her journal.

My name is Chloe Price, but you can call me ( middle finger )

I am an inmate at Blackwell Academy, currently serving a four year sentence for crimes against maternity. That would be my Mom, Joyce, who seems endlessly disappointed in me.

Which, I get it. I'm no one's image of a perfect daughter. Or student. Or anything, really. But who the f wants to be perfect? I'm surrounded all day by so called "perfection" and it sucks butt. Other things that suck: Mom's new drill sergeant boyfriend David, how hard it is to buy weed around here, having no friends, hypocrites, country music, people who say "chillax", Dad being dead.

It's been two years since he died in a car crash, and I still think about him all the time. I've even been having this weirdly lifelike dreams. Sometimes I think he's trying to tell me something. Other times I remember that he's feeding worms in a ditch right now and anything else is just a fairy tale to make myself feel better.

At least I have two weapons to help me survive this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ town: the pen I use to tage any and everything I want, and my shining personality. If I work at it, maybe I can leave this place just a little less perfect than when I found it.

Rachel Amber

Rachel is the deuteragonist
She was born in Long Beach, California and eventually moved to Arcadia Bay, Oregon
She attends Blackwell Academy and is one of the most popular students and a member of the theater group there
After saving Chloe one night, the two of them grew closer and became best friends
Their relationship is the central plot of Before the Storm
She and Chloe dream of leaving Arcadia Bay together as, according to Rachel, there's nothing keeping either of them there.

Personality:

Rachel has an eye for images and art just like Max.
Considering school performance in the effort put into being a model, she is a very ambitious person.
She seemed to have a caring personality, as she is well loved by those close to her.
She also seems to have been more girly and idealistic than Chloe, reflect by her love of makeup and ambition to become a model

Nickname:
Little Miss Perfect (by Victoria)

Biography:
Chloe Price wrote about Rachel in her journal:
How do you describe Rachel Amber? I've been trying to find the right words ever since we met.
The crazy thing about Rachel is that I really should hate her guts. I mean, she's a straight-A student, beloved by everyone at school including students and teachers. She's super into acting and I hear she even does modeling on the side, which I imagine her District Attorney dad and Stepford housewife mom support her in. It all sounds like a recipe for awfulness.

And yet, Rachel somehow is nothing like the privileged golden child type you'd expect. She's not like any type, actually. She's probably the most surprising person I've ever met. And that's not just because when we met she was helping me take down some skeevy a-holes at a rock show. But it's just this feeling she gives off. Like when you're with her, anything is possible.
F, it really sounds like I have a crush on her, doesn't it? Here's hoping she reveals something really horrible about herself soon, like a stamp collection, or a love for cat memes. Something to make her a little less... indescribably awesome.

Victoria Chase

Victoria Chase is a student at Blackwell Academy and a minor antagonist.

Personality:
Victoria is a less secure version of herself in the first game, but you can see she is starting to shape into what she becomes because she insists during her senior year, she will change the Vortex Club to be more elitist.

Nathan Prescott

Nathan Prescott is a student at Blackwell Academy.

Personality:

Unlike his appearance in the first game, Nathan is a bit more timid and prone to bullying, as seen with Drew North.
He was also on the school football team due to his desire to fit in. Though still regarded as a spoiled brat due to his family name and wealth, some individuals like Samantha Myers take pity on him and try to help him whether he accepts it or not.

Nickname:
Twitch, Prescott (by Drew North)
Spoiled D Baby (by Chloe Price)

Biography:
Chloe Price wrote about Nathan in her journal:
Nathan Prescott is the golden child of the Prescotts, Arcadia Bay's oldest, wealthiest and most powerful family... as they love reminding everyone.
Nathan's dad does something nautical related. I think it has to do with murdering baby seals and turning them into death rays for the military, but I can't remember the details. Whatever the case, there's a lot of people in this town who hate the Prescotts, including all the fishermen he put out of work. And you do not want to mess with fishermen. They smell.

Nathan is... odd. He's extremely privileged, yet dark and brooding. Even though he's a d, I can't help feeling bad for him sometimes. He's really just a weird little dude trying to figure out his shoot, but he has to pretend to be all this stuff he's clearly not, like an athlete or a "cool" kid. You can tell it f him up inside

Of course, the best cure for feeling bad for Nathan is to actually talk to Nathan. Then you remember what a wonderfully punchable face those Prescott genes gave him.

Frank Bowers

Frank Bowers is a local drug dealer in Arcadia Bay.

Biography:
Chloe wrote about Frank in her journal
For a drug dealer, Frank Bowers is actually pretty chill. He likes to act like he's a tough guy, and I have no doubt that he's a done a few messed up things over the years. But to me he's like a scruffy dog: The tougher he tries to come off, the cuter he seems.

I've been buying weed from Frank for close to a year. I almost never have enough money to pay him, and he always tells me "It's the last f time, Chloe. I'm not your f friend." Then he always gives it to me anyway. Like I said, guy's adorable.

Of course, if I ever did anything to actually get on Frank's bad side, he might not seem so cuddly anymore. I hear Frank rolls with some dudes who are into way darker shoot than keeping high schoolers medicated. It's hard to imagine Frank getting mixed up with anything really bad, but I guess you never know.

For now, I'll just keep hoping that Frank is even worse at remembering who owes him money than he is at being intimidating.

Maxine Caulfield

Max Caulfield is Chloe Price's former best friend.
William Price, Chloe's father, died in 2008, and Max moved to Seattle shortly afterward as her father had gotten a job there.
Chloe and Max remained in contact but eventually Max started forgetting or ignoring Chloe's messages, and they fell out of touch.
During the events of Life is Strange: Before the Storm, Chloe feels abandoned and forgotten by Max, and writes unsent letters to her.
She is not seen in any of the episodes of Before the Storm other than the bonus episode "Farewell", but her texts to Chloe can be viewed anytime during the game, and her presence can be felt in many ways throughout the story.

Biography:
Chloe's journal entry about Max is as follows:
Max Caulfield, MIA ex-best friend extraordinaire. This artsy motherf loves photography more than life itself and definitely more than me. She even uses old instant cameras. It's probably not healthy for anyone to be that stuck in the past, but who am I to tell people how to live their lives?

When we were kids we would dress up like pirates and eat ice cream and write and draw these stupid comic books where we had powers and saved people and shoot.

Then my dad died, and her dad got some job up north and she moved away to Seattle. It was probably the moment when I needed her most, and she bailed. Thanks, Max, for teaching me that I can't rely on anyone. I mean it. Life lesson learned.

The worst part is that even though we haven't spoken in months, even though she habitually ignored my texts so much that I just stopped trying, even though I know, deep down, that she doesn't care about me anymore and that she probably has all new friends up in f Seattle... I still miss her. If she came back tomorrow and said "hey Chloe, want to dress up like pirates and be stupid together?", I would take her back in a heartbeat.

In a heartbeat.

Joyce Price

Joyce Price is the mother of the main protagonist, Chloe Price & she work as waitress in a diner.

Biography:
Chloe wrote about Joyce in her journal:
Despite my mom's best efforts, I don't actually hate her. I know shoot's been rough since Dad died. Money's tight, her job as a waitress at a diner isn't exactly glamorous, and I'm clearly not all about the whole going to school thing.
But why does she have to make things so much harder on the both of us? She acts like if I smoke pot, or when I skip out to go catch an awesome show, it's somehow a personal attack on her. She should be happy that I'm self-medicating and not going postal on everyone. She never used to be this way when Dad was around. She could actually be cool.

William Price

William Price is the father of the main protagonist, Chloe Price & the husband of Joyce Price Unfortunately, he died in a car accident.

David Madsen

A new boyfriend of Chloe Price's mother Joyce.

Nickname:

The Mustache Monster From Planet
Dipshoot The Mustache (by Chloe)

Biography:
Chloe Price wrote about David in her journal
But lately there's a hairy d monster she let into the house that's f everything up: David Madsen, a jobless, brainless, d-less little shoot with a hard-on for the military and a promise to "whip me into shape." A-hole.
I've tried to express these...concerns... to my mom. yet every week it seems the virus spreads to yet another corner of her life. I'm starting to worry that the David flu is the kind of disease that kills its hosts.

Eliot Hampden

Eliot Hampden is one of Chloe Price's classmates at Blackwell Academy

Personality:

As of Episode 1, Eliot's personality is somewhat unclear. His love interest is evidently Chloe, frequently texting her and, towards the midpoint of Episode 1, even asking her out on a date.
From his words it seems that he is a kind individual although he is not above making fun of the drama kids for Chloe's attention.
Unlike Chloe, he seems to have a hard time saying what he actually feels.
When Chloe talks to him about the reason she wants to go to the viewing of "The Tempest", he unconvincingly agrees that he was thinking that too, not telling her that he was thinking of it as a date.

Biography:
Chloe Price wrote about Eliot in her journal
As far as Blackwell students go, Eliot Hampden is pretty not terrible. He hangs out with some of the douchers sometimes, but I get the sense that he's mostly a lone wolf. Like this chick.
Similar to my class schedule, Eliot and I have history but no chemistry or drama. We hooked up a few times shortly after Dad died, but there wasn't really much to it. I think I was just bored. Or maybe a little lonely. Weird, I know.

I don't always get where Eliot's coming from. He's constantly asking to do stuff with me, which is nice, but I'm not sure we have that much in common anymore. Sometimes when we talk it seems almost like he's studying me.

I can't tell if he actually wants to be friends or just get in my pants. I guess I should be flattered either way, but I'm also not sure how much I care. Sorry, Eliot.

Steph Gingrich

Biography:
Chloe Price wrote about Steph in her journal:
I can never decide if Steph is the coolest or nerdiest person in all of Blackwell. Maybe both? She's definitely queen of the indoor kids, with all their weird roleplaying games and sci-fi shoot.
I guess her dad is a video editor. She makes some sweet cash by selling bootleg DVDs. Don't knock the hustle. And I'm pretty sure Steph does all the backstage technical work for the school plays, which checks out. Another thing about Steph: she's into girls, and she doesn't give a shoot what anyone else thinks about it.