#lis:de

[diazmaximoff]

Saw this on Twitter and tbh, I can't detect any lies🤷🏾‍♂️

[emerynn-art]

she just can't catch a break </3

[fffionnfoxhell]

sorry, but-

[krentle]

I have my admittedly very harsh opinions on double exposure, but one thing I'm happy is coming out of it, is pricefield artists drawing adult pricefield happy and in love in spite of the game

[danieesketches]

Safi / Max / Vinh

[frwalkwithme]

Happy (late) birthday Sean Diaz [playlist] (bonus Chloe under the cut)

Sketch of my design of future Chloe which I don't like enough to make into its own post

[vortexclubreject]

as a chloe stan, yes, the pre-release news about DE disappointed me

but as a multi-shipper (who finally bought the game), max & safi need to kiss each other god dammit 😤 need a safield DLC or i will become unwell

[theonlyvalerie]

Safi should have been a love interest. as for the birthday thing I'm confused about them picking that day and proudly admitting it online. It feels like a troll on purpose

She really should’ve. She was an underutilized and underdeveloped character that had a lot going for her. Say what you want about the story but she and Max *did* have a lot of on-screen chemistry. If they wanna stick with this they better not pussy out in the next game and they sure as shit better have them kiss.

Like COME ONNNN SAFI WANTS THE COOKIE SO FUCKING BAD

[ignacia-redhead-vampire]

I bet you do.

All the inconsistencies with the writing

The character assassination

Being too cowardly to say Max is a lesbian despite "writing her as one" (tbf this could be a Squeenix issue)

This tweet just reads as patronizing a side of the fanbase that is reasonably upset with their favorite characters getting assassinated

I'm aware the full game isn't out yet, so who knows maybe the game is good, but no matter how good it is

It can't avoid the stain it has on it

Especially with some.of the potential leaks I've seen

Anyway fuck decknine

Buy Dontnods new game 🙏

[5ivers]

forgot i also made this

[elderdragonblu]

To be silly for a moment: i do think it would be funny if Max was the oldest person among her friends in Double Exposure because she’s always been somewhat younger or equal to in age of her friends in the og LIS and her ships so the shift in dynamic is probably startling to her but also reinforces the power of her dad jokes/puns, and considering the bullshit she dealt with at 18 I’m sure that’s made her feel much older than she really is

Safi is absolutely bullying her and calls her grandpa, Amanda has called her a cougar, Vinh has asked her what life was like when Glee first came out, Moses has asked her about the Great Depression, her students asked her what 9/11 was like. It’s hell and it’s absolutely wonderful

[grey-marsh]

I think my main hang up on LiS:DE is that it didn't NEED Max as a protagonist - I honestly would have preferred a new character. The message of the game was that you need to acknowledge and work to move on from your traumas which we see in both Max and Safi. But it feels like Max was just used a short hand for establishing a character. Nothing that happened in the game couldn't have been explored with a new character.

This game was obviously a set up for further games, and as Max is the most successful protagonist and the easiest story to reconcile with a plot they set her up as the figurehead.

[stratfordsandthestars]

will ppl hate me if i say i almost prefer double exposure to the og game? don't get me wrong i adore life is strange 1 but it is extremely dated and def isn't the strongest in a lot of ways. double exposure is probably the strongest LIS game i've seen out of all of them - writing, voice acting, & graphics wise, it's all so solid.

[fffionnfoxhell]

love exists because they exist.

i want to be looked at the same way Max looks at Safi.

[nightmanatee]

reasons why it might be safi all along (i mean why not).

disclaimer! i don't THINK i'm going to be right but i have been thinking about this game and all it's characters for so long that i won't stop until the next game is out i guess. do take this with a grain of salt just in case..

so. yeah. in a perfect circumstances the next game is going to be about max again. and safi. again. and many other things that i'll explain below but i also have tl;dr at the bottom bc there's a lot to talk about.

before we start i want to establish a few things about safi: she can turn into anybody she's met irl. she can leave parts of herself in people when she turns into them. these parts act as things that "change" people making them more like safi (something poetic about her losing parts of herself and being more like others she turns into and others becoming more and more like her). and she can potentially manipulate people.

part 1: all the things that happened before.

there are some weird things that are mentioned even before lis:de timeline. max has a part in her journal about how yasmin "was just some hot older lady who seemed to really want to be my friend" and safi CAN become her mother if she wants to. and even if it's actually yasmin it might be safi's part in her that wants max here. max is also promised an apartment where she "could bring friends over if she had any" and then the first day at uni safi comes in and says hi "like we've been friends for years"??? FOR YEARS??

"did you snoop into my wallet??" seriously how come we moved on from this THIS FAST???? like i get it safi getting into max's house in ep3 to see what max is up to but ep1? why would she want to get to learn about max this way?

i've checked their sms and there's one interesting thing when safi is being like "not to sound like a creeper but are you still at turtle?" or something and it IS interesting how she knows it (max being all alone at thanksgiving at turtle).

what could this all mean? well, 2 things. either safi is really interested in max's life and wants to know her and she doesn't care about consent, personal space and privacy (something max does if she romances amanda btw). or she needs to know not who max is but what, but more on that later.

part 2: max as a character.

although i do think that it's possible for max to be who she is in de given 10 years of growth but also given all the previous things i've said it might be safi's part in her making her act like this. max's freakiness totally comes from safi (remember ep4 dialogue between them), her confidence comes from her too (is it about her having more confidence or max having a lot of confidence through the years before (enough for her to win a few competitions)).

also! remember that max has taken out safi's parts out of moses, gwen and herself? and still safi can turn into her (vinh, yasmin and amanda). i also do wonder if it means that safi doesn't have "influence" on these people she can just turn into them? but then also -

part 2.5: "why isn't it hurting me?"

- also consider this: could it be so that safi lied to max and some part of her is still here. might as well explain why she hasn't replied to chloe's message anyways. or does it mean that safi has "been inside her" for so long that max doesn't even notice it yet.

it is rather interesting how there are a lot of moments specifially with safi that get brushed off and not mentioned again: the wallet thing, safi being too cruel in ep4 confession, her explanation for max not being hurt by her. could there be something more to it?

part 3: the reasoning.

ok. but really like why? why would she need to get max here in the first place? could this be just an accident with the universe being so kind to plot something like this? or could it be safi wanting more talented (like actually talented wink wink lucas) people here and she's noticed max and her work and decided to bring her here?

yeah it can be just it.

it can also be that safi just lied.

part ???: the one where i think safi lies.

ok but also let's imagine for a second that safi just. lied about many things. she did know about arcadia bay (weird how she's ready to snoop into max's wallet but can't google one thing about her? is it really THAT hard to either google who she is and to learn that she's from oregon or to go through her friends online see victoria chase and see that victoria probably posted about arcadia bay. like c'mon guys it can't be THAT hard). she did know that max has powers (just not what kind). she knew about chloe and met her personally.

if you go into the theory of safi becoming "others" who she shapeshifts as then her saying "partner in grime", doing the finger pistols, even her eagerness to "sacrifice herself for a greater good" - might all be from chloe.

she might've lied about not knowing anything to learn just how much max is weak for these things (something she's done for lucas).

part 5: the nightmare sequence.

it starts off pretty realistically with max encountering moses copying safi (one thing she talks about and it being potentially implied that she leaves a part of herself in people and they will act more like safi) but then something weird happens: the nightmare becomes personal. suddenly it's safi being in "chloe"'s position, it's blackwell's bathroom (max told safi about this) max having a weird unexplainable memory of her breaking up with chloe over safi's "coolness" (something she would've never said herself could it just be max). there are memories of her in the darkroom (mentioned in the diary), motels (something safi could've never known). it is kinda weird to focus on these things while the whole "nightmare" is more about helping safi becoming herself again. there's too much chloe for something that shouldn't include her in the first place (bc safi hasn't met her, has she?🤨🤫)

"she was in my head back there, and she didn't think of me at all" and "you know i was in love with her, or i thought i was" are two very interesting quotes from vinh that could mean that safi CAN make someone feel certain things she wants them to feel.

could she also make max feel like she needs to move on from chloe? given how eager she was to make max a move on amanda?

so yeah i do kinda feel like max hasn't finished her job fully and that something's got fixed but not all.

bonus part: aren't they merging already??? wait WHAT.

this thing is written at the very end of the game after safi, after nightmares after EVERYTHING. "something has been restored" and i wonder what, considering that it's not about safi or other peoples' memories. could it be that more that these two timelines merged? i mean it could also mean just max herself being "restored" by being able to save the day with everyone this time around but we'll see.

ok, wait! part 6: bay over bae.

almost forgot it. but yeah how can bay thing be somewhere here? well for once chloe is still important to max in this timeline the only problem is safi not being able to meet her "irl". i mean unless!! she evolves her powers enough to be able to "mimic" not only a person but their power/s as well. and given how she knows both of max's powers she can either timetravel to meet chloe or just travel to a parallel timeline to meet her future self (and to hurt max even more) or both. and now this will be the worst.

tl;dr? kinda?

what could that all mean? it could mean that safi has plotted max getting into caledon (to get what kind of powers max has/to exploit her talent to boost university's fame) and her only way to achieve that would be if max and chloe broke up (given how chloe didn't want to settle in with max yet. or if max wouldn't want to come "home" yet.

OR

it could mean that safi knows max's WEAKEST spot now and might, y'know, use it given a chance and a reason. and oh boy does she has a reason to (esp if you don't side with her). she can turn very fast against someone (did this to gwen and max), one wrong thing and she will want to hurt max in the worst way (remember how she's told all these awful things to robbie despite personally knowing him??? and it's all bc of his dad's actions?).

but only time will tell.

[danieesketches]

high school AU