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it’s never just coffee by marahope
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
11 Oct 2025
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Chloe’s contact picture appears on her screen a minute or so later—a candid she took years ago, back when Chloe’s hair was still short and electric blue—and Max stares at the answer button for far longer than she should. In what world was this possibly a good idea?
Max’s heart nearly pounds out of her chest as Chloe’s voice flows through the speakers.
“Hey, I was beginning to wonder when you were gonna pick up,” Chloe says, laughing, though it doesn’t really feel like a joke.
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friend make sense of me by marahope
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
22 Jul 2025
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Rachel pulls another disappearing act, gone for days without a single word, and Chloe knows it's different this time. Frustrated by inaction, Chloe is only moments away from tacking up missing person posters herself when Rachel reappears out of the blue.
Something's not quite right with her though, and Chloe can't help but feel that a piece of the story is missing. Is Rachel merely being Rachel, or is there more to it than meets the eye?
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shake this frost off of my bones by marahope
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
02 Jul 2025
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“I’m pretty sure I had a crush on you, too. God, if middle school Max could see us now, I think she would, like, implode on the spot.”
Chloe laughs. “If you hadn’t moved, maybe we both would’ve realized a little bit sooner.”
“Or maybe we would’ve spent even longer pining after each other.” Max smiles as she says it, though she can’t shake the uneasy feeling building in her chest that comes any time they discuss Arcadia Bay.
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- Part 2 of after the storm
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The radio plays a familiar tune, set to some indie station Chloe still pretends to hate. A warm feeling of nostalgia swells inside her, indescribable in its own way, and Max lets herself bask in this almost bliss.
— small snapshots of Max and Chloe’s lives across time and timelines
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wherever the tide takes you by marahope
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
08 Nov 2024
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It feels wrong, in its own way, to even be in Chloe’s room like this. Her vision blurs with tears as she glances around. A small part of Max almost expects Chloe to walk in any second now and try to rope her into whatever asinine plan she’d just come up with. Except... Chloe is dead and it still doesn’t feel real.
Max could have driven herself mad trying to find a way to save them both, the town and Chloe, if only Chloe had asked her. But she knew Chloe wouldn’t want that. Wouldn’t want for Max to suffer on her behalf—even though it’s been over a week since Chloe died and Max still feels like the grief is going to swallow her alive; some days she can barely breathe, the sorrow hurts so bad, and is there any word for that other than suffering?
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- Part 2 of save arcadia bay
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loosely connected snapshots of Max and Chloe's life after the storm; they can be read in any order or separately.
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loosely connected stories set in a universe where, for one reason or another, there was no storm in arcadia bay; they can be read in any order or separately
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vaguely related one-shots following the sacrifice Chloe timeline; they can be read in any order or separately.
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Hooty's Adventures in Love by marahope, thepurpledragon4444
Fandom She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018), The Owl House (Cartoon)
24 Aug 2022
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burn all your old photos, they don't exist anymore by simpslayer_ren
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
03 Jun 2026
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She couldn’t even say it had been impossible, she knew she could’ve done it — she could’ve saved them all. But she picked Chloe. And as horrible, as tragic, as devastating as the choice had been, Max knew it was the only option she would ever choose. Even if she woke up tomorrow and found the date on the calendar was October 7th, she would make the same choice. A thousand times. An infinite amount of times.
To her, to Max, it would always be Chloe. Nothing in the fucking world would ever change that.
Max made it out alive with Chloe at her side, swearing to never use her powers again. But leaving the past behind isn’t as easy as she thought it’d be, especially with the weight of grief and guilt hanging over her shoulders. Luckily, they’re in it together — and nothing will ever tear them apart...Right?
Or, the ups and downs of what happened between 2013 - 2024 as told from Max's perspective.
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- English
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Bookmarked by marahope
12 Dec 2024
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A Question of Taste by CorvidCurse
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
18 Mar 2025
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Max finally gets a candid of Safi.
Almost.
Bookmarked by marahope
17 Apr 2025
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Rewind, Repeat, Bleed by SammyNovic
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
26 Feb 2025
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Max cannot let Chloe go.
So she doesn't.Bookmarked by marahope
31 Mar 2025
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"They have not looked for softness from each other before. Even though they have left the Shadowlands behind at last, both of them are still lost in the dark, set adrift from their goddesses and left with only each other. They have sought solace in rough touches, frantic heat, and it has helped keep the pain of their losses at bay.
And yet… gentleness, Lae'zel said.
What does it mean? Where does it begin?"
Some early-relationship Shadowzel figuring each other out, for the Love in Faerun fic exchange.
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Bookmarked by marahope
23 Feb 2025
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Jaheira and Nine-Fingers do a poor job sneaking around. Minsc does a poorer job figuring it out.
Bookmarked by marahope
03 Feb 2025