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bruh drawing dudes pisses me tf off and i prolly didn't do him justice but i TRIED okay, i LOVE HIM!!!

here da og (found off pinterest):

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finally contributing to the supermassive fandom with some straight up real art. here he is ... chris hartley. i genuinely don't think i could choose between jacob or chris (for less heartache jacob helps) but chris holds a very special place in my heart, he's dorky and sweet and i literally just need to tell him he's ok. he's safe man. im not leaving you. annnyways

i specifically drew him in the outfit on the night of the prank, so take that as you will. he's sooo cute 👍 ive finally found a human style i like so do expect more from me!!

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No one ever has any valid reasons for hating Chris. It’s literally always “he’s ugly” (NO HE ISNT and even if he was that’s a dumb reason to dislike someone and you’re vapid) or “his hair is stupid” (ITS QUIRKY AND WHIMSICAL)

Of course I agree with OP if you shoot Ashley that’s on you! By making that choice you’re literally going against his canon personality (ie: he’s protective and he tells Ashely not to be sacred)

Also I love that he looks like he just put on chapstick in this pic I’m gonna KISS HIM

Hating on Chris is the stupidest shit ever.

And it’s usually those goofy ass Until Dawn TikTok accounts hating on Chris because of his hair or because he shoots Ashley.

YOU CHOSE TO SHOOT ASHLEY, GOOFY

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This is gonna be an Until Dawn October!!! ＼＼\୧( ⁼̴̶̤̀ω⁼̴̶̤́ )૭ //／／

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Chris Hartley Playlist! ‎₊˚⊹ 𐦍༘⋆₊ ⊹

I wanted to share my Chris playlist!

It’s mostly songs that I think he would listen to with some songs that remind me of him mixed in there! ♡

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Hi I am the anon Chris asker from before, I am here to ask more questions about Chris because I believe you are the expert :)

At what point in development did they decide to make Chris not apart of the prank?

I think I saw a random post saying Chris’s roll in the prank was that he was supposed to get Josh drunk on purpose to make him be passed out for the prank and that he was drinking energy drinks while getting drunk with Josh to keep himself from passing out too but it didn’t work? Him going to these lengths to prank Hannah when he presumably grew up with her (with being Josh’s best friend and being around a lot) seems so cruel and out of character for Chris. I wanna know what is fact and also what you think!!

Thanks again!!

-fellow Chris enthusiast ❤️

Thank you. That’s nice of you to say. It’s fun to hear that people like all my ranting and raving about him. Chris is awesome. Sorry, it took a bit to collect my answer again.

I’ve looked into this question too.

Developer Statements:

It seemed like Chris was removed from the prank only a few months before release (though nobody can say for sure). There’s early demo footage of him in the prank video and dollhouse, then two devs who worked on the game said during a Twitch stream that they didn’t know why Chris was removed. However, the director has since spoken on it and implied it was quite a bit before release.

In a Crimson-Head podcast interview with the executive director Will Byles, one of the interviewers asked about Chris’s involvement in the prank. Byles said a few things:

“If you had everyone being a part of this group, it makes them a really unpleasant group, whereas if you have a few of them going along with it, it becomes slightly more believable, we thought.”

"So we wanted a little bit of nuance, I think, in that. There was the whole scene in the kitchen, and we wanted to have the fact that Josh wasn’t drunk on his own (Laughs). It made more sense to have them to be friends. And we carried that through into the actual thing. There was even kind of the shipping between Chris and Josh—that became a thing that we hadn’t written in, but we did want to have them to have quite a close relationship. If you had everyone being a part of this group, it makes them a really unpleasant group, whereas if you have a few of them going along with it, it becomes slightly more believable, we thought. So that was the thing about Chris not being a part of it. It wasn’t ‘a tiny bit before’ it. It was a while before we did it."

So the answer as to why Chris was removed is actually three answers:

Having this entire group gang up on one person at her own home was a little too nasty. The dev team decided that if a few people weren’t involved and this was done by only part of the group, it doesn’t seem like one unit of unlikable people.

They enjoyed the friendship between Josh and Chris and decided to carry that more into the main game.

It helped the party seem like a party. At least Chris and Josh are there, proving fun was had during this night lol.

My Thoughts on the "Chris got Josh Drunk" Theory

Now that carries into your next question. The “Chris got Josh drunk” theory was popular, I think, around at the time people realized he was once going to be part of the prank. That knowledge then emphasized the fact that Chris has lines apologizing for the prank or seemingly including himself within it. So the theory became that he was still part of it, but basically keeping Josh busy.

I really hate this theory for a few reasons.

There’s so little in the game proper to support it. We have arguments based on development knowledge and a few lines of apologetic Chris. But, if he had betrayed Josh, it would have come up more strongly. From a writing perspective, you wouldn't have this be a thing without commenting on it at all.

It directly contradicts two of Chris’s core traits: loyalty and protectiveness. “Protectiveness” is on his trait card in both games. “Loyal” is in the remake but also was always stated in his Companion App bio. If Chris directly played with Josh’s trust to intentionally get him to drink enough to be helpless and unable to protect Hannah… This is just SO contrary to what we know about Chris. Why even give him these traits if you violate them more than you show them?

Thirdly, this goes beyond Chris and changes the tone and nature of the prank. The prank was terrible, yeah. But the characters are still redeemable because the prank was depicted as an impulsive (perhaps even a little drunken) joke at a party. Now, what if the group went to Chris ahead of time and said, “Josh is going to try to stop us. We need him out. Just hang out with him and slowly get him inebriated”? This changes the tone dramatically. Now it’s not a group of teens making a mean mistake. It’s teens actively scheming to do something they’ve acknowledged would enrage their host, so they decide to have his best friend betray him by using alcohol to take away his agency. And, for some reason, Chris completely agrees to do this?

The Byles interview about why Chris was removed basically shoots down this theory as at all intended by the devs, at least. They wanted to SOFTEN the prank. And they wanted to better show that Chris and Josh have a close bond.

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Because of the way she looks at him in the prologue when he’s passed out… my headcanon is that she still had a crush on him. Not like Hannah’s crush on Mike. Beth’s feelings for Chris stem from a sense of comfort she gets from him, he feels like home.

Beth had a crush on Chris in the sixth grade (she told no one and she would rather DIE than let anyone find out)

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I wish I had more to offer art wise but please accept this Chris Hartley sketch as I teach myself to draw humans again

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The tags on this are so funny because it’s people saying “I wanna show this post to the people that write Chris x reader fics” like you wanna show the meme I made to me??? HAHAHAHAH

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Definitely both of them convincing him that it would look so cool and he’d get a bunch of girls 😭

Beth wants to pierce it with a safety pin.

Sam is actually here for this and steps in, insisting that if they’re going to do it, she will do it because she has a steadier hand (“from drawing for many years!”) and she upgrades the piercing tool to a sanitized sewing needle.

Hannah/Beth have def waxed Chris’s legs and arms before (they do one pass before Chris makes them stop)

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Chris definitely has been their Guinea pig for a lot of things over the years. Hannah insists on putting mascara on him because: “boys always have longer lashes! Plus yours are blonde so we don’t even know how long they really are!”

Josh calls him whipped for it, Chris just has a hard time saying no.

Beth takes a picture of him in the mascara, using it as blackmail for the next time he hits her with a perfectly-timed blue shell in Mario Kart.

Hannah/Beth have def waxed Chris’s legs and arms before (they do one pass before Chris makes them stop)

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I’m too lazy to finish this so…

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Me, selecting filters on Ao3