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ROOMS BY CHARACTER

A Abigail Hobbs Aiya/Gray Nightingale Adrasteius Anor'thalion Ahsoka Tano Alex Russo Allen Walker Anders Anthony Crowley Asteffiel Axel

B - D Belthazar Spellscry Beverly Crusher Bran Stark Caesar Zeppeli Cayde-6 Cheese Sandwich Clay Terran Coil Cole Davesprite Duke Pantarei

E - I Elecman.exe Elena Gilbert Elize Lutus Felix Harrowgate Fenris Finrod Haruka Tenoh/Sailor Uranus Imperator Furiosa Isabela Issac Lahey

J - M Jade Harley James Barnes/Jim James Barnes/Winter Joseph Joestar Katara Katniss Everdeen/Nova Kirito/Kazuto Kirigaya Kurt Wagner Leanne Loki Maladict(a) Max Caulfield Megaman Mordin Solus

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Max Caulfield

[timelapsed]

Welcome to a modern art museum. In general, it's well-lit and fairly minimalism in design, mostly whites and steel railing where needed. A large sign at the entrance describes this particular museum dedicated to the "MAX CAULFIELD EXHIBIT". Speakers seem to be playing a number of American indie tunes softly throughout the entire exhibit.

The ground floor is where everybody enters. It has a large glass wall on the side you enter from, showing a scenic view of a small northwestern town outside. However, no matter how much you might try, those doors you seem to have entered from? Are locked up tight.

The ground floor also contains an information desk, with several informational pamphlets on the exhibit. Comfortable couches and small tables make the area around it almost seem like a lounge. Around there, several visitors mingle, talking to each other in low voices.

There's a staircase leading up to a higher tier, where all of the artwork seems to be. A large number of photographs line all of the walls in the upper area, the bulk of the exhibit. Several visitors mingle in this area as well, looking at the photographs and making comments as they do.

In the center of the upper area there's also a large statue of a punk-looking teenage girl, a girl who's also in a number of the photographs on the walls. None of the visitors seem to even be glancing at that one, though, despite its prominence.

And in the very, very back, past every photograph, Max Caulfield sits on a couch, staring down at a photograph in her hands.

What do you focus on first?

A. Scenic view of a small northwestern town
B. Informational pamphlets at the informational desk
C. Visitors mingling about
D. Photographs in the exhibit
E. Statue in the exhibit
F. Max Caulfield

((Memories might breach into SPOILERS territory up through Episode 4 of Life is Strange. Potential spoiler choices will be marked as they appear. ))

D!

[unfulfilledpotential]

An entire exhibit dedicated to Max, huh? Shawn's not much for art museums - he leaves that to Cory and Topanga mostly, but they also know how much he loves photography. Damn his weakness.

Except this isn't quite the exhibit he expected. For one thing, it seems a bit... off somehow. He doesn't recognize the music, or the museum, or well - anything here. So he makes his way to the photographs in the upper area, and takes a moment to investigate them.

Maybe, he'll find some inspiration for his next patch of photos.

[timelapsed]

The photographs are hung up on the walls in tasteful arrangements. The museum visitors make a few comments around each one, though their voices are muffled unless you're paying close attention - just enough to be considered background noise.

Almost all of them seem to be pictures taken in the same town seen outside of the museum through its glass wall. It seems like that town must mean a lot to Max.

The smaller pictures seem innocuous enough, but the larger ones, the ones that have been blown up, seem to have a different quality to them. And the closer Shawn gets to one, the more the background noises - voices, music - seem to fade away.

Which picture is he going to check out first?

A. A shot of the outside of a school - on old, brick building looking dignified, although there's an intensity, as if something's about to happen. ((Ep 2 spoilers, suicide))
B. A scary shot of a tornado, absolutely huge, approaching from the sea.
C. A photograph of Max and another girl, holding hands while walking down railroad tracks. ((Ep 2 spoilers))
D. A shot of a short-haired girl, covered in paint. ((Ep 1 spoilers))
E. The same girl from the railroad picture, standing with a playful expression. ((Ep 2 spoilers))
F. A beach with a number of beached whales, lifeless in the sun. ((Ep 4 spoilers))
G. A shot of a large amount of medical equipment, cold and impersonal. ((Ep 4 spoilers, injury, suicide))

H. Or choose the smart option and ignore these photos, something seems off about them.

C!

[unfulfilledpotential]

He's most intrigued by the shot of Max and another girl. While he feels a bit weird, looking at what seems to be a bit of a private moment, he also loves the composition. So he squints at it closer, engrossing himself in the moment.

(Frankly, he hasn't even noticed how the background noises are fading; when he finds a photo he likes, he's a bit lost in his own thoughts.)

[timelapsed]

As he gets closer, he can really feel himself becoming engrossed in the moment. More than is physically possible, in fact, as the background noises have now faded completely and are replaced by the sounds of nature.

In the picture, Max and her friend are walking. Actually moving! The picture is moving. Pictures are not supposed to do that, are they?

They're each walking on a rail, hands held out for balance. Max's friend's voice cuts in. "I can't believe you basically gave him my gun. 'Here you go, Frank!'" She sounds upset.

Max, likewise, sounds exasperated. Tired of this argument. "You can't keep getting mad at me. Especially for stupid shit." She lowers her arms for a moment, before realizing she really does need them up for balance.

"I'm not mad," her friend insists. "It adds up in my mind as people letting me down. And I just liked having that gun, man."

Max looks over. She just looks at her friend for a second, but then she takes her hand. For a few moments, they simply walk like that, holding hands. Silent. Until Max speaks. "Now you have me to protect you."

The picture stops there. It's the same shot of them holding hands as the photograph initially showed. The background noises rush back in, filling the void of silence.

...That was weird, wasn't it?

E

[digthefuzz]

[The fuzzy man is a bit disoriented as he gets used to his new surroundings. But he ends up heading straight towards the statue first. It's really cool looking, so he gives some applause and cheers with his German accent.]

Whoa, this is too rad! Is this a tribute to the punk rock?

various LiS spoiler warnings go here;

[timelapsed]

As the fuzzy man approaches the statue, he'll notice that things are happening. The background noises - the crowd, the music - will be fading away. And, from the statue, a voice.

The voice is a girl's - the statues? But her lines are coming out fast, almost overlapping one another. It's not one single conversation, but a myriad of conversations coming out in rapid succession.

"Yep, yep! I'm fucking insane in the brain! Let's dance! Shake that bony white ass!"
"I pledge allegiance to Max, and to the power for which she stands!"
"You saved me again. Crazy. Now we're totally bonded for life!"
"You look cute with your hair soaked in chemicals."
"I double-dare you. Kiss me now!"

It seems like... all of their feelings are coming through. Happy feelings. Kurt can feel them - the joy, the excitement, the love. It's not a tribute to punk rock, it's a tribute to the girl.

And then...

"I'm not mad. It adds up in my mind as people letting me down."
"Why does everybody in my life let me down? My dad gets killed, you bail on me for years, my mother gloms onto step-fucker, now Rachel betrays me..."

Anger and betrayal. Those feelings are coming across, too.

The icing on the cake comes next, though.

"I want this time with you to be my last memory..."

Sadness.

And... "Where'd you get that? What are you doing!? Come on, put that thing down! ... Get that gun away from me, psycho!" A single gunshot rings out, and the statue shatters. The pieces are too small to salvage anything, or even to make out any of the girl's features from them.

On the base of the statue, the same message is scrawled in blood, over and over.

"SAVE CHLOE" "SAVE CHLOE" "SAVE CHLOE" "SAVE CHLOE"

And around the room, every single photograph that features the girl has had her face burnt out of the photos.

However, where the statue was standing, there's now a single button. A large one, with the symbol for... rewind? Like from a VCR?

What's Kurt's next move?

A. Press the button
B. Examine the photos
C. Go back and look at your other options again.

[digthefuzz]

[Wow. Now that sure was a sequence of events. He felt the happiness so vividly, there was no denying what this Chloe person meant to... to... the museum?

No, to whoever this 'Max' was. The owner of the 'bony white ass'.

Kurt's heart was left pounding frantically from the shock of the latter parts of the vision, and once the statue was gone he was looking around breathlessly, noticing the bloody messages and the burned out photos.

This wasn't right. Whatever this was, it wasn't right. His eyes focused on the rewind button, and he stumbled as he ran to it. It can't mean what it seems to, right? Time travel should be impossible. But he gets caught up... not just in the idea of preventing a tragedy, but in turning time back to more innocent days. How he wishes he had his own rewind button.

And so, he reaches forth and presses dat button.]

[timelapsed]

When Kurt presses the button, it works just as advertised. The pieces of the statue pick themselves up, putting themselves back together just like a VCR put on rewind. The pictures unburn themselves. In short order, the scene is back to the way it was. The statue is whole. Chloe is alive.

Except the messages. "SAVE CHLOE". They're still there, at the base of the statue.

The voice come back, along with a different one. It's not a multitude of scenes, this time. Only one.

"My powers... might not last."
"That's okay, we will. Forever."

F

[preformthisneigh]

[Well, there's no doubting what Max's special talent is. Pictures everywhere, pretty good ones, too. Cheese weaves his way around the human's legs looking around with no small amount of awe at everything here.

Then he notices Max, and trots over, hopping onto the couch beside her. ]

Love what you've done with the place.

[timelapsed]

[ Max looks up from the photograph in her hands. It's a shot of a blue butterfly, although is seems, somehow, out of focus.

She's startled for a moment, but, oh yeah, she does remember talking tiny horses. That was a thing on the fleet, wasn't it? ] Oh, hey. It's, uh, been a while, hasn't it?

[ She looks around the exhibit herself, finally taking it all in. Photos everywhere. The statue - she wishes she could actually do statues, that would be neat. ]

You know, having an exhibit like this has always been my dream. [ Too bad none of this is really real, right? ]

[preformthisneigh]

I guess?

[It hasn't been long for him, but he's always a little confused as to how humans judge time, what with that planet rotation and what have you. It's no surprise to her that she's following her dream. It's a natural course of an Equestrian's life, after all.]

Well, you sure made it something incredible. [He nods at the photograph in her hand. ] The butterfly's pretty.

E

[save_the_souls]

[Allen's only been to an art gallery once in his life, and that was just for a mission- so this? Is a pretty new experience for him. He can't help but feel a little out of place as he wanders around the gallery, trying to figure out what he's supposed to be looking at. Especially when everyone around seems to be talking in artistic terms he knows nothing about]

[However, the statue catches his eye. It seems different from everything else- practically as out of place as he felt. The woman's clothes even reminded him of some of the more modern clothes he tended to prefer (well, when he had access to a wish granting castle that gave you the clothes for free)- so he approaches it to look at it a bit]

various LiS spoilers without context

[timelapsed]

Allen would notice a few things happening as he approaches the statue. The background noises of the museum - the visitors, the music playing - begin to fade. And when all that's left is silence, a voice can be heard.

It sounds like a girl's voice. Maybe the statue's? But it doesn't sound like a conversation - her lines are too close together, with no natural break, more like recordings played back to back with no pause.

"I, uh, know it was your birthday last month. This was my real father's camera, I want you to have it."
"I should've known. The Amazing SpiderMax."
"You saved me again. Crazy. Now we're totally bonded for life!"
"I just don't think anybody is good enough for you... besides me."
"I double-dare you. Kiss me now!"

Along with the words comes feelings. Are they this girl's? Or Max's? There's happiness in there. Giddiness, even. Excitement. A deep bond - more than friendship.

And then...

"Why, Max? You're just bailing on me like everybody else."
"So go, and don't come back."

Sadness. So much. A sense of failure, of betrayal.

What it leaves off on, though - "Where'd you get that? What are you doing!? Come on, put that thing down! ... Get that gun away from me, psycho!" A single gunshot rings out, and the statue shatters. The pieces of the statue scatter, too small now to even make out any of the girl's features from them. What was once a statue is now nothing more than a memory.

And on the base of the statue, the same message is scrawled in blood, over and over.

"SAVE CHLOE" "SAVE CHLOE" "SAVE CHLOE" "SAVE CHLOE"

And around the room, every single photograph that features her, features Chloe? They have her face burnt out.

However, where the statue was standing, there's now a single button. A large one, with the rewind symbol, like you might see on a VCR or a walkman.

What does Allen do from here?

A. Press the button
B. Examine the photos
C. Go back and look at your other options again.

[save_the_souls]

[SWEET JESUS ALL HE DID WAS WANT TO LOOK AT A STATUE. He jumps back as he hears a gun and the statue shatter in front of him. He quickly looks around to see if anyone fired the gun or...noticed the statue shattered. The audio bits had been strange enough, especially the feelings that accompanied them. What...just happened? Was this someone who Max cared for deeply? Did they die?]

[He finally looks closer at the statue's remains and notice the writing in the blood. Messages in blood tended to be nothing but ominous....and so was that rewind button.]

[But you know, what else is he going to do? Saving this girl, whoever it was, seemed important to Max. So he'll bend down and press that button]

[lightweight]

Hinata doesn't recognize this place, but it sure is pretty. The glass wall and the view it provides catch his attention the strongest by far. He makes the lightest sound of excitement when he sees it, and he dodges whoever might get in his way in order to run out and touch it. It doesn't quite look like Japan; maybe he's in a foreign country?

[timelapsed]

It certainly looks different than Japan. Giant pine trees, a small American town nestled in a bay, an old-fashioned lighthouse. If he looks closely, he can even see the cars moving about, carrying people and cargo to their destinations around town or beyond.

It feels like early autumn, although with mostly evergreen trees around, it's hard to tell.

...It definitely doesn't feel cold enough for that gentle snowfall suddenly coming down outside, though.

There are voices commenting on it. It... doesn't sound like it's coming from anybody inside the exhibit, though.

"What the hell is this?"
"Snowflakes..."
"It's like... eighty degrees. How?"
"Climate change. Or... a storm is coming..."

[lightweight]

Hinata starts looking around for those voices immediately. Someone has to be talking, he can hear them! Is it really that warm? Why is it snowing, then..?

"Ah? Hello?"

He tries, but he's not sure he expects anyone to actually answer him.

D

[delincuente]

Now this is Alex's kind of dream. She hasn't seen an art gallery since Nora put that one up in Paradisa, and something about the sight just puts a sense of calm in her chest. There's a lot to look at, but with a smile she heads for the photographs on the wall, completely missing the sight of her crewmate sitting across the room.

[timelapsed]

The photographs are hung up on the walls in tasteful arrangements, just as in a real art gallery. Whoever's mind this is, they apparently know art good enough to mimic that much.

The museum visitors make a few comments around each one, though their voices are muffled unless you're paying close attention - just enough to be considered background noise. Also, it seems that almost all of the pictures seem to have been taken in the same town that's outside of the museum - whatever town this is, it must mean a lot to this photographer.

The smaller photographs seem innocuous enough, but the larger ones, the ones that have been blown up, seem to have a different quality to them. And the closer somebody gets to one, the more the background noises - voices, music - seem to fade away.

Which one is Alex going to check out first?

A. A shot of the outside of a school - an old, brick building that looks traditional and dignified, although there's an intensity, as if something's about to happen. ((Ep 2 spoilers, suicide))
B. A shot of a short-haired punk girl holding a gun in a junkyard. ((Ep 2 spoilers, gun injury))
C. A photograph of two girls, one of them obviously her shipmate Max, relaxing in an indoor pool at night. ((Ep 3 spoilers))
D. A shot of a different short-haired girl, covered in paint. ((Ep 1 spoilers))
E. The other girl from the pool picture, standing with a playful expression. ((Ep 2 spoilers))
F. A beach with a number of beached whales, lifeless in the sun. ((Ep 4 spoilers))
G. A shot of a large amount of medical equipment, cold and impersonal. ((Ep 4 spoilers, injury, suicide))

H. Or choose the smart option and ignore these photos, something seems off about them.

C

[delincuente]

[Alex immediately recognizes Max in this photo, and stops in front of it. At least now she knows whose dream she's in. Whomever the girl with her crewmate is, Alex finds herself drawn in by her a bit. She's definitely a little jealous of that awesome hair, and the tattoo, and she squints a little as she gets closer.]

E

[versusnurture]

[Abigail can't actually say what draws her to the statue. She's noticed that the girl features heavily throughout the gallery, of course; she's clever and observant, and noticing a motif has become a survival strategy in recent years.]

[But it's not just that. It's something about the statue itself, the look of the girl or the way she holds herself, that's fascinating to her - and the way people are avoiding the statue, too, speaks to some backwards importance.]

[So she crosses the room to stand in the empty space before the statue, craning her neck up to look at her, wondering about her name.]

[timelapsed]

Abigail would notice something happening as she approaches the statue. The background noises of the museum - the visitors, the music playing - begin to fade.

It seems like there's something off about this statue.


A. Examine the statue ((content warning: blood, violence, implied death))
B. Back away and check out something else in the museum

[versusnurture]

So she was right . . . this girl is important. Everything else fades into the background; it's easy enough to tell.

Weird is her standard, at least. She moves forward decisively to run her fingers along the base of the statue.

B

[actsmagnificent]

[ Haruka is not unused to art exhibits. She gives the photographs a passing glance - and notes the presence of the girl sitting in the very back of the room - and then over to the information desk she goes. Are these pamphlets free to the public...?

Well, they are now. She just swiped one.

Where's this claim she is, anyway? ]