History Fridge / LifeIsStrange

** Thanks to Max's powers, the second of week of October 2013 is littered with weather anomalies foreshadowing an apocalypse for every second that Chloe lives past the time she would've been killed by Nathan. Any rare version of that week in which Max succeeds at making sure Chloe isn't physically condemned to some painful death or another (including the alternate timeline in which she saves Chloe's ''father'') results in Arcadia Bay being destroyed by a supernatural F10 tornado. All the other versions in which this doesn't happen still leave some fallout from his crimes, which are exposed when he and Nathan both end up either dead or in jail and no doubt will at least nosedive the town's faith in the academy. If Jefferson hadn't collaborated with the Prescotts and their ill-gotten fortune, using their resources for his sadistic pleasure and corrupting their unstable scion into his underling dealing drugs and packing pistols on campus grounds, Chloe isn't in the original situation in the restroom that leads to all this in the first place. Ultimately, Mark Jefferson, he who loves grim tones of grey, has ensured that a colorful idyllic town near UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} will leave that week at best emotionally shaken, at worst completely annihilated.

* You'll notice that the alternate timeline still has the weird phenomena that occurred in the main one. Whether or not Max euthanizes Chloe, she's not going to be there for her, which means that it's unlikely she'll ever figure out why the phenomena are occurring or discover Jefferson's secret. The most likely course of action, assuming the phenomena don't stop with Chloe's death, will be that Jefferson kills Max in the Dark Room during the storm, allowing Jefferson to ride out the storm in safety and get away scot-free. That, or Max ends up in jail for assisting Chloe's suicide.

** Thanks to Max's powers, the second of week of October 2013 is littered with weather anomalies foreshadowing an apocalypse for every second that Chloe lives past the time she would've been killed by Nathan. Any rare version of that week in which Max succeeds at making sure Chloe isn't physically condemned to some painful death or another (including the alternate timeline assuming her lungs don't give out in time...holy shit, that is a somber thought) results in Arcadia Bay being destroyed by a supernatural F10 tornado. All the other versions in which this doesn't happen still leave some fallout from his crimes, which are exposed when he and Nathan both end up either dead or in jail and no doubt will at least nosedive the town's faith in the academy. If Jefferson hadn't collaborated with the Prescotts and their ill-gotten fortune, using their resources for his sadistic pleasure and corrupting their unstable scion into his underling dealing drugs and packing pistols on campus grounds, Chloe isn't in the original situation in the restroom that leads to all this in the first place. Ultimately, Mark Jefferson, he who loves grim tones of grey, has ensured that a colorful idyllic town near UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} will leave that week at best emotionally shaken, at worst completely annihilated.

* Chloe never met Rachel in the alternate timeline. Instead, she befriended another girl named Megan Weaver. In Episode 4 in the main timeline, a FreezeFrameBonus in the Dark Room shows a file labeled "Megan", which is implied to be the same girl that Chloe befriended in the alternate timeline. DONTNOD confirmed in the Extra Life stream that it is indeed the same Megan.
* You'll notice that the alternate timeline still has the weird phenomena that occurred in the main one. Whether or not Max euthanizes Chloe, she's not going to be there for her, which means that it's unlikely she'll ever figure out why the phenomena are occurring or discover Jefferson's secret. The most likely course of action will be that Jefferson kills Max in the Dark Room during the storm, allowing Jefferson to ride out the storm in safety and get away scot-free.

** He added emotional hardship unto Joyce Price-Madsen by proxy given everything he did to Max, David, and Chloe, making Chloe's relationship with David, reunion with Max, and general attitude towards life much harder than they had to be. Even the timeline in which Max manages to avert the death of her first husband and Chloe's father William is littered with sorrow thanks Chloe being paralyzed in a car accident and the family's ensuing medical bills putting them on the brink of losing their house. In every version of events, she's doomed to either mourn the violent death of her daughter or be killed in a storm along with everything she knows. Which finally brings us to the last point below.

** He also similarly deflated what goodness was left in Frank Bowers through everything that happened with Rachel, causing his interactions with both Chloe and Max to be laced with a mutual air of danger, with either Max, Chloe, Frank, and/or his dog Pompidou being somehow hurt or even killed at the end of their encounters. Even if Max is able to carefully navigate her words and actions to avoid any of them hurting each other, the revelation that he sold Jefferson's accomplice the means that killed Rachel are shown to crush his spirit.

** He also similarly deflated what goodness was left in Frank Bowers through everything that happened with Rachel, causing his interactions with both Chloe and Max to be laced with a mutual air of danger, with either Max, Chloe, Frank, and/or his dog Pompidou being somehow hurt or even killed at the end of their encounters. Even if Max is able to carefully navigate her words and actions to avoid any of them hurting each other, the revelation that his dealings with Nathan resulted in Rachel being killed are shown to crush his spirit.

* Jefferson's true nature is that of a grimdark grayscale villain who excessively craves corruption and domination, within a colorful setting that is full of both human and environmental suffering. The contrast in color and light between everything associated with him versus everyone else and Arcadia Bay itself shows not just how different he is from everyone else, but how he poisons the soul of the entire town. Case and point, he has at least some form of hand in the suffering of every single major character in the plot.

** He secretly romanced Rachel Amber behind the backs of two potential lovers who were already troubled in their own right, fanned the flames of her desire to leave Arcadia Bay and become a famous model to the point of deceiving both of them. This was all so he and Nathan could drug her up for use as one of his photography "subjects", resulting in Rachel's death when Nathan accidentally overdosed her.

** He has obviously collaborated with the Prescott family's tightening of their financial stranglehold over Arcadia Bay, as evidenced by the poverty and misery discussed throughout the game as well as his access to their storm shelter bunker as his Dark Room.

* Jefferson's true nature is that of a grimdark grayscale villain who excessively craves corruption and domination, within a colorful setting that is full of both human and environmental suffering. The contrast in color and light between everything associated with him versus everyone else and the town itself shows not just how different he is from everyone else, but how he poisons the soul of the entire town. Case and point, he has at least some form of hand in the suffering of every single major character in the plot.

* Jefferson's true nature is that of a grimdark grayscale villain who excessively craves corruption and domination, within a colorful setting that is full of both human and environmental suffering. This doesn't just show how different he is from everyone else, but how he poisons the soul of the entire town. Case and point, he has at least some form of hand in the suffering of every single major character in the plot.

* Jefferson's true nature is that of a grimdark grayscale villain within a colorful setting that is full of both human and environmental suffering. This doesn't just show how different he is from everyone else, but how he poisons the soul of the entire town. Case and point, he has at least some form of hand in the suffering of every single major character in the plot.

** Thanks to Max's powers, the second of week of October 2013 is littered with weather anomalies foreshadowing an apocalypse for every second that Chloe lives past the time she would've been killed by Nathan. Any rare version of that week in which Max succeeds at making sure Chloe isn't physically condemned to some painful death or another (including the alternate timeline assuming her lungs don't give out in time...holy shit, that is a somber thought) results in Arcadia Bay being destroyed by a supernatural F10 tornado. All the other versions in which this doesn't happen still leave some fallout from his crimes, which are exposed when he and Nathan both end up either dead or in jail and no doubt will at least nosedive the town's faith in the academy. If Jefferson hadn't collaborated with the Prescotts and their ill-gotten fortune, using their resources for his sadistic pleasure and corrupting their unstable scion into his underling dealing drugs and packing pistols on campus grounds, Chloe isn't in the original situation in the restroom that leads to all this in the first place. Ultimately, Mark Jefferson has ensured that a colorful idyllic town near UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} will leave that week at best emotionally shaken, at worst completely annihilated.

** Thanks to Max's powers, the second of week of October 2013 is littered with weather anomalies foreshadowing an apocalypse for every second that Chloe lives past the time she would've been killed by Nathan. Any rare version of that week in which Max succeeds at making sure Chloe isn't physically condemned to some painful death or another (including the alternate timeline assuming her lungs don't give out in time...holy shit, that is a somber thought) results in Arcadia Bay being destroyed by a supernatural F10 tornado. All the other versions in which this doesn't happen still leave some fallout from his actions, which are exposed when he and Nathan both end up either dead or in jail and no doubt will at least nosedive the town's faith in the academy. If Mark Jefferson hadn't collaborated with the Prescotts and their ill-gotten fortune, using their resources for his sadistic pleasure and corrupting their unstable scion into his underling dealing drugs and packing pistols on campus grounds, Chloe isn't in the original situation in the restroom that leads to all this in the first place. Ultimately, Jefferson's actions have ensured that a colorful idyllic town near UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} will leave that week at best emotionally shaken, at worst completely annihilated.

** He became Nathan Prescott's mentor figure as part of the association with his family, nurtured the worst of his creepy tendencies into an accomplice to heinous acts against innocent girls, then killed him once he became a liability so he had no chance of redeeming himself. When Nathan finally realized he'd gone too far for nothing and was about to be disposed of, he last action was to call Max, a girl he'd repeatedly threatened and accosted, and tearfully apologize for everyone he'd hurt while trying to warn her who the true culprit was.

** His amplified the trouble within Blackwell to the point it triggered David Madsen, making the former veteran and security guard paranoid enough to start treating the school like it was under siege by an enemy at war and needed to be fortified by any means necessary including intrusive surveillance, damaging his relationships with everyone around him, not the least of which being his stepdaughter Chloe. Madsen is both miserable in dealing with Chloe's toxic temper, which gets worse after Rachel's disappearance, and devastated whenever he has to get news of her death, the stage for which Jefferson was the catalyst.

** He caused Max Caulfield's reunion with her best friend upon returning to Arcadia Bay to become a horrifying adventure through the seedy hell that had crawled up and overtaken her hometown, despite his photography class being the main reason she wanted to attend Blackwell in the first place. Everything he did to Nathan and Rachel above resulted in Nathan and Chloe being in that restroom at the same time as Max, awakening her time powers and all the misery that came with them. He's also thus responsible for what happened with Kate, leaving Max horrified both when she saw Kate jump to kill herself (another moment which triggered her powers; Max may or may not have been able to talk Kate out of it after that but the event still left her scarred either way) and when Max and Chloe discovered the Dark Room and saw the evidence of what had done to both Kate and Rachel -- by his hand. (Max may have also seen the picture of the similarly-drugged up Chloe in Nathan's room. She has most definitely seen the alternate timeline in which Chloe didn't lose her father, but got paralyzed instead, and the Price family went financially under taking care of her -- while Max herself virtually abandoned Chloe for the Vortex Club of all people.) And then there's the nightmare sequence. See FridgeSadness below.
** He added emotional hardship unto Joyce Price-Madsen by proxy given everything he did to Max, David, and Chloe, making Chloe's relationship with David, reunion with Max, and general attitude towards life much harder than they had to be. Even the timeline in which Max manages to avert the death of her first husband and Chloe's father William is littered with sorrow thanks Chloe being paralyzed in a car accident and the family's ensuing medical bills putting them on the brink of losing their house. Not to mention, she's doomed to either mourn the death of her daughter or be killed in a storm along with everything she knows. Which finally brings us to the last point below.
** Thanks to Max's powers, the second of week of October 2013 is littered with weather anomalies foreshadowing an apocalypse for every second that Chloe lives past the time she would've been killed by Nathan. Any rare version of that week in which Max succeeds at making sure Chloe isn't physically condemned to some painful death or another (including the alternate timeline assuming she doesn't give out in time) results in Arcadia Bay being destroyed by a supernatural F10 tornado. All the other versions in which this doesn't happen still leave some fallout from his actions, which are exposed when he and Nathan both end up either dead or in jail and no doubt will at least nosedive the town's faith in the academy. If Mark Jefferson hadn't collaborated with the Prescotts and their ill-gotten fortune, using their resources for his sadistic pleasure and corrupting their unstable scion into his underling dealing drugs and packing pistols on campus grounds, Chloe isn't in the original situation in the restroom that leads to all this in the first place. Ultimately, Jefferson's actions have ensured that a colorful idyllic town near UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} will leave that week at best emotionally shaken, at worst completely annihilated.

* One side article about Jefferson informs the player that he was on a teaching tour before landing a permanent spot at Blackwell. He might have created dark rooms all around the country to commit his crimes.

* Why is Kate not present in the alternate universe? With Max in the Vortex Club, she was probably in on the bullying and thus nobody talked Kate out of her suicide attempt.

* At the end of Episode 5, if you choose to sacrifice Arcadia Bay, Max and Chloe leave the ruins of the town behind. Given the implication that the tornado was the universe trying to undo Max's constant saving of Chloe, who's to say it won't [[HereWeGoAgain happen again]] wherever they decide to go?

* In Episode 4, in the alternate timeline, Max's text messages mention that she's getting her submission for the Everyday Heroes contest ready for Jefferson and is fully planning on submitting it. Rachel Amber is still missing in this timelime, which means that Jefferson must be doing the same as he was in the other timelines with the girls. Regardless of the timeline, Jefferson is still going to get his photoshoot with Max.

** [[spoiler:His potential apperance in Life is Strange 2 seems to debunk this.]]

* You'll notice that the alternate timeline still has the weird phenomena that occurred in the main one. Whether or not Max euthanizes Chloe, she's not going to be there for her, which means that it's unlikely she'll ever figure out why the phenomena are occurring or discover Jefferson's secret. The most likely course of action will be that Jefferson kills Max in the Dark Room during the storm, allowing Jefferson ride out the storm in safety and get away scot free.

* If the nightmare sequence is indeed Max's nightmare, then Warren's presence, lines and general behavior during the stealth section is this. Max is most likely so traumatized by what Nathan and Jefferson did to her, Chloe, Kate, Rachel and multiple other girls that she may be developing trust issues towards men in her life, including her ''friend''.