Jun 9th, 2018, 12:15 AM
So, this theory was actually put forth by Ross Scott on his YT game-reviewing channel "Ross's Game Dungeon", and I'll more-or-less write it down as it is, but adding my own spin to it, because I think it is just too great not to be expanded upon.
Pretty wild, huh?
Please don't hesitate to add your own spins to it -as well as comments-. The more, the merrier!
Basically what he says is that letting Nathan kill Chloe at the start of the game is the best move Max could have possibly taken... because, while losing Chloe would suck, that would send shock waves, change the way Arcadia Bay is run for years and resolve more than a few character arcs right from the get-go.
Because Nathan is very wealthy and his dad is a super influential man, with people willing to overlook pretty much anything he or his relatives do (including bringing a gun to school) so getting convicted thru traditional methods would just be impossibly hard to do. But when Nathan assaults Chloe, he does it with the aforementioned gun and on the women's bathroom, which will make him look like the intruder, and immediately paint him as someone who went out of his way to do the killing. That is super important, because in any other scenario, the legion of lawyers his father would have no doubt gotten to defend him, would have tried to pin the whole thing on an aggression by Chloe, maybe even blaming it off entirely on her track record and reputation.
And let's not forget that Max would be a witness on all of this. That, combined with all of the above, should be impossible to defend against, no matter how renown a lawyer or firm you have got on your side.
If Nathan is convicted (and he really should), that would take his family's name and prestige down with him. The whole face and destiny of Arcadia Bay would be changed as a result of not getting in the way of Nathan's attack.
Because Nathan is very wealthy and his dad is a super influential man, with people willing to overlook pretty much anything he or his relatives do (including bringing a gun to school) so getting convicted thru traditional methods would just be impossibly hard to do. But when Nathan assaults Chloe, he does it with the aforementioned gun and on the women's bathroom, which will make him look like the intruder, and immediately paint him as someone who went out of his way to do the killing. That is super important, because in any other scenario, the legion of lawyers his father would have no doubt gotten to defend him, would have tried to pin the whole thing on an aggression by Chloe, maybe even blaming it off entirely on her track record and reputation.
And let's not forget that Max would be a witness on all of this. That, combined with all of the above, should be impossible to defend against, no matter how renown a lawyer or firm you have got on your side.
If Nathan is convicted (and he really should), that would take his family's name and prestige down with him. The whole face and destiny of Arcadia Bay would be changed as a result of not getting in the way of Nathan's attack.
Pretty wild, huh?
Please don't hesitate to add your own spins to it -as well as comments-. The more, the merrier!