History Fanfic / BloomMogatrat

Maxine Caulfield is nervous about returning to her former hometown of Arcadia Bay for her last year of high school. She plans to keep her head down and get through the year quietly, but those plans are interrupted when she meets Rachel Amber, who reunites Max with her former best friend Chloe Price, who Max had been avoiding, primarily because Chloe is one of the only people who remembers her from when she lived in Arcadia Bay, back when she was going by Maxwell. This reunion sets off a series of events that bring Max, Chloe, and eventually Rachel to come to terms with themselves and their feelings for each other.

* {{Asexuality}}: Discussed. Chloe asks if Max is asexual, which she says she isn't, she's just repressed her sexual desires due to her [[InternalizedCategorism internalized transphobia]] convincing her that no one would ever want to have sex with her.

* AlternateUniverseFic: ''Bloom'' makes two major alterations to the canon: Max is a [[{{Transgender}} trans girl]], and Mark Jefferson, the game's BigBad, is AdaptedOut. This second change has a lot of effects, most notably that Rachel Amber is alive.

Maxine Caulfield is nervous about returning to her former hometown of Arcadia Bay for her last year of high school. She plans to keep her head down and get through the year quietly, but those plans are interrupted when she meets Rachel Amber, who reunites Max with her former best friend Chloe Price, who Max had been avoiding, primarily because Chloe is one of the only people who remembers her from when she lived in Arcadia Bay, back when [[{{Transgender}} she was going by Maxwell]]. This reunion sets off a series of events that bring Max, Chloe, and eventually Rachel to come to terms with themselves and their feelings for each other.

* {{Transgender}}: Max came out as a trans girl around the time her family moved to Seattle. She had hoped that starting at her new school presenting as a girl would make it easier [[TransTribulations but it didn't really work]].

* TheGhost: Unlike in the original game, Frank is this. He's important to Chloe and Rachel's backstory, as Chloe discovering that Rachel had been in a relationship with him when she started dating Chloe was a major reason that their relationship fell apart, but he never actually appears. The closest is when Rachel tips off the police that he's selling drugs to Blackwell students, which leads to him either being arrested or leaving town, but that happens entirely off-page.

* TheGhost: Unlike in the original game, Frank is this. He's important to Chloe and Rachel's backstory, as Chloe discovering that Rachel [[YourCheatingHeart had been in a relationship with him when she started dating Chloe]] was a major reason that their relationship fell apart, but he never actually appears. The closest is when Rachel tips off the police that he's selling drugs to Blackwell students, which leads to him either being arrested or leaving town, but that happens entirely off-page.

* YourCheatingHeart: After returning from L.A., Chloe discovers that Rachel had been in a relationship with Frank when she started dating Chloe. This, combined with the stress of their failure in L.A., leads to them breaking up.

* BiTheWay:
** Rachel was in relationships with Victoria, Frank, and Chloe prior to the events of the fic.
** Max also mentions being attracted to men and women, and explicitly corrects Kate when she calls her gay, but in the story she only has relationships with women.
** Dana explicitly identifies as bisexual. Her ill-fated past relationship with Logan is kept from the game, but her rebound relationship is with Kate instead of Trevor.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Nathan Prescott is a simple high school bully, with all of his more heinous actions from the game removed, and when he gets focus in ''In The Night We Trust'', he's shown as a deeply mentally unstable kid who lashes out due to insecurity. The reason for this is likely that [[TheCorrupter Mark Jefferson]] isn't around to manipulate him into acting on his worst impulses.

* YourCheatingHeart: After returning from L.A., Chloe discovers that Rachel had been in a relationship with Frank when she started dating Chloe. This, combined with the stress of their failure in L.A., leads to them breaking up.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8539240 Bloom]]'' is a ''Videogame/LifeIsStrange'' fanfic by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Recourse/pseuds/Recourse Recourse]]. It is the first and main work in the [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/714615 Perennials series]], which also includes the spin-offs ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9742142 Handle With Care]]'' and ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10716213 In the Night We Trust]]''. The fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16994250 Devils in the Moonlight]]'' is also in its continuity, though it's not considered part of the series.

* SobriquetSexSwitch: Max's given was originally named "Maxwell" but changed to Maxine after coming out. She says that for a few years she insisted that people only call her "Maxine", but by the time of the fic she's comfortable enough to go by "Max", as she had before coming out.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Nathan Prescott is a simple high school bully, with all of his more heinous actions from the game removed, and when he gets focus in ''In The Night We Trust'', he's shown as a deeply mentally unstable kid who lashes out due to insecurity. The reason for this is likely that [[spoiler: [[TheCorrupter Mark Jefferson]] isn't around to manipulate him into acting on his worst impulses.]]

* AlternateUniverseFic: ''Bloom'' makes two major alterations to the canon: Max is a [[{{Transgender}} trans girl]] and the game's BigBad, Mark Jefferson, is AdaptedOut. This second change has a lot of effects, most notably that Rachel Amber is alive.

* TransparentCloset: When the story starts Chloe hasn't officially come out to her parents, but between her [[ButchLesbian butch]] demeanor and the posters of half-naked women covering the walls of her room, she figures it's pretty obvious that she's a lesbian.

** Kate and Dana get together off-page in chapter sixteen. It's detailed in the spin-off ''Handke With Care''.

** Kissing Victoria made Rachel realize she's bisexual.

** Rachel reintroducing Chloe to Max outs her to Chloe as trans. While it ultimately turns out for the best, both Max and Chloe [[WhatTheHellHero call Rachel out for it]] and she later apologizes.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8539240 Bloom]]'' is a ''Videogame/LifeIsStrange'' fanfic by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Recourse/pseuds/Recourse Recourse]]. It is the first and main work in the [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/714615 Perennials series]], which also includes the spin-offs ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9742142 Handle With Care]]'' and ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10716213 In the Night We Trust]]''. The fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16994250/chapters/39949557?show_comments=true&view_full_work=false#comment_198917616 Devils in the Moonlight]]'' is also in its continuity, though it's not considered part of the series.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8539240 Bloom]]'' is a ''Videogame/LifeIsStrange'' fanfic by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Recourse/pseuds/Recourse Recourse]]. It is the first and main work in the [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/714615 Perennials series]], which also includes the spin-offs ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9742142 Handle With Care]]'' and ''[[In the Night We Trust]]''. The fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16994250/chapters/39949557?show_comments=true&view_full_work=false#comment_198917616 Devils in the Moonlight]]'' is also in its continuity, though it's not considered part of the series.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8539240 Bloom]]'' is a ''Videogame/LifeIsStrange'' fanfic by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Recourse/pseuds/Recourse Recourse]]. It is the first and main work in the [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/714615 Perennials series]], which also includes the spin-offs [[Handle With Care]] and ''[[In the Night We Trust]]''. The fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16994250/chapters/39949557?show_comments=true&view_full_work=false#comment_198917616 Devils in the Moonlight]]'' is also in its continuity, though it's not considered part of the series.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8539240 Bloom]]'' is a ''Videogame/LifeIsStrange'' fanfic by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Recourse/pseuds/Recourse Recourse]]. It is the first and main work in the [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/714615 Perennials series]].

** Max and Chloe have one in chapter nine.
** Kate and Dana have one in chapter sixteen, though Max doesn't find out about it until just after it happens. It's detailed in the spin-off ''Handke With Care''.

** Kissing Victria made Rachel realize she's bisexual.

** Kate, despite being fully accepting of Max and Chloe's relationship, is still terrified of the idea that she might be gay, fearing that it would make her a failure in the eyes of her family. Like, Max, her friends help her overcome this.

* OrigunalCharacter m:

** Dana explicitly identifies as bisexual. Her ill-fated past relationship with Logan is Kept from the game, but her rebound relationship is with Kate instead of Trevor.

** At the beginning of the story, Max is convinced that, because she‘ strand, no one will ever find her attractive and has accepted that she will never have a real romantic relationship. Even after getting together with Chloe, she still worries that Chloe will leave her as soon as she has a chance to be with a "real girl". Chloe and Rachel help her see that this isn't true, and by the end of the story Max is a lot more comfortable with who she is.

** At the beginning of the story, Max is convinced that no one will ever find her attractive and has accepted that she will never have a real romantic relationship. Even after getting together with Chloe, she still worries that Chloe will leave her as soon as she has a chance to be with a "real girl".
** Kate, despite being fully accepting of Max and Chloe's relationship, is still terrified of the idea that she might be gay, fearing that it would make her a failure in the eyes of her family.