Rachel: we played with an ouija board and cursed ours
Chloe: and Y/N isn't much help, they doesn't know how to banish spirits, they just throws salt at them and yells "does this look like a hotel to you?!"
When people start to villainize Rachel Amber I just know they wanna be different soooo bad because the worst of Rachel’s mistakes in her eighteen years of life were direct results of being lied to and taken advantage of by the real villains.
I don’t know what it is that people don’t seem to think Frank Bowers was weird af for being in a relationship with a 18-year-old high schooler (because, yes, 18 is legal but still a teenager, thank you) when he was pushing 32. And mind you, if you didn’t play Before the Storm with your eyes closed, you know damn well he showed interest when she was only 15. Fuck that!
There isn’t an alternative reality in which this “relationship” can’t be described as a grown man taking advantage of a teenager’s tendency to be drawn to dangerous shit just to prove something, whether for herself or her jackass of a father. And as strong as Rachel’s i-don’t-give-a-fuck-about-people’s-opinions-about-me personality is, she was still impressionable and somewhat easily influenced like all goddamn teenagers in the world! It’s just how it is! That is easily proven by her claim of finding “someone who changed her life” right before she disappeared. The fact that she gave her bracelet to Frank makes this crystal clear; even if you ask for it on Before the Storm, it ends up on Frank’s wrist at some point. You want me to believe Frank Bowers was more important than Chloe Price to Rachel at any given point? He was not, but Rachel was blinded by her urge to pursue everything that’s prohibited.
Also don’t get me started on Mark Jefferson. His name on itself is self explanatory.
And because I’m forever in the denial phase of my grief for her, I convinced myself this is the last thing I ever saw of Rachel. Never the photos. Those didn’t happen.
What gets me about amberpricefield is that it’s most definitely Chloe and Rachel just absolutely smitten with Max. Like, yeah they love each other as well, very much so, but they cannot stop fawning over their awkward shy photography girly with zero game. Just obsessed.
"Well no one's gonna fix it for us, no one can
You say that 'No one's gonna listen, no one understands.'
And so there's no open doors, there's no way to get through
There's no other witnesses, just us two"
I'm doing an LiS playthrough of all the games in chronological order and man im getting punched in the gut over and over. so is chloe apparently! i tried doing this concept a couple years ago but failed miserably and gave up, and while this is far from perfect i put my whole ass in it and im proud i did it!