Less than an hour for me! Honestly I'm not that excited 'cause my girl Max won't appear, but hey, I'm missing Life is Strange too much to care about that.
So I just played Before the Storm and I really liked it! Chloe is so much fun to play. That's a big issue with mine about season 1. While I liked the story, Max just wasn't fun to play as. I didn't really enjoy playing as Max. Any enjoyment I got was from interacting with the characters around Max.
So back to Before the Storm. It's definitely a very fun experience. For the most part it seems pretty light hearted most of the time and isn't 100% serious the whole time. I gotta say that I like Rachel a lot. She's so fucking smooth! Though I'm not looking for a romantic route with her so hopefully the game will let me just keep their relationship as a strong friendship. I wouldn't mind a possible relationship with Elliot though.
Also, Max is kind of grown-up, introvert. She was also written more bland to let player choose what kind of person Max is. Chloe already had established characteristics, so she barely steers to your choices.
So I just played Before the Storm and I really liked it! Chloe is so much fun to play. That's a big issue with mine about season 1. While I … moreliked the story, Max just wasn't fun to play as. I didn't really enjoy playing as Max. Any enjoyment I got was from interacting with the characters around Max.
So back to Before the Storm. It's definitely a very fun experience. For the most part it seems pretty light hearted most of the time and isn't 100% serious the whole time. I gotta say that I like Rachel a lot. She's so fucking smooth! Though I'm not looking for a romantic route with her so hopefully the game will let me just keep their relationship as a strong friendship. I wouldn't mind a possible relationship with Elliot though.
I keep thinking that there may be a scenario in one of the next two episodes where Victoria will say something shitty to Chloe regarding Rachel that will prompt a major decision as to how to respond.
Walk away. (Just ignore her insults)
Backtalk Victoria. (Use your words to shut Victoria down)
Punch Victoria (Use your fist to unleash your rage on Victoria)
I keep thinking that there may be a scenario in one of the next two episodes where Victoria will say something shitty to Chloe regarding Rac… morehel that will prompt a major decision as to how to respond.
* Walk away. (Just ignore her insults)
* Backtalk Victoria. (Use your words to shut Victoria down)
* Punch Victoria (Use your fist to unleash your rage on Victoria)
If you had to decide, what would you do?
Adult, introvert, whether we can shape her or not isn't my point. The point is that I didn't find Max interesting and it just wasn't fun to play as her.
Though I have to disagree about being able to choose what kind of person she is. She still has the same bland personality no matter what you do.
Well, Max is an adult when you get to play her.
In prequel, Chloe is merely a teenager.
Also, Max is kind of grown-up, introvert. She … morewas also written more bland to let player choose what kind of person Max is. Chloe already had established characteristics, so she barely steers to your choices.
So character appears as bland because when she actually replies to stuff, it's usually because your choices, not her independent personality.
But that's kind of a point of whole "choose from four options" reply system. If Max went too independent then players would complain even more how their Max doesn't act like that.
You can kind of see what I mean in Before the Storm where you control Chloe. Discussions between choices are far longer due she doesn't give damn of what player expect her to act like.
Adult, introvert, whether we can shape her or not isn't my point. The point is that I didn't find Max interesting and it just wasn't fun to … moreplay as her.
Though I have to disagree about being able to choose what kind of person she is. She still has the same bland personality no matter what you do.
I keep thinking that there may be a scenario in one of the next two episodes where Victoria will say something shitty to Chloe regarding Rac… morehel that will prompt a major decision as to how to respond.
* Walk away. (Just ignore her insults)
* Backtalk Victoria. (Use your words to shut Victoria down)
* Punch Victoria (Use your fist to unleash your rage on Victoria)
If you had to decide, what would you do?
I keep thinking that there may be a scenario in one of the next two episodes where Victoria will say something shitty to Chloe regarding Rac… morehel that will prompt a major decision as to how to respond.
* Walk away. (Just ignore her insults)
* Backtalk Victoria. (Use your words to shut Victoria down)
* Punch Victoria (Use your fist to unleash your rage on Victoria)
If you had to decide, what would you do?
Make out with Victoria and fuck her hard until she's sobbing and begging for your tonge and can't remember her name
for some reason i really ship chloe and victoria
Chloe's bracelets:
There were totally better images but I realized just then and I'm too lazy to play again. But really, it's always very obvious, even at ight it's super easy to see, like it's shining or something. That's totally some symbolism there.
You can write graffiti in the second dream. You have two options: Truth or Lie. I both cases, Chloe writes this:
More on that...
Chloe inmediately recognizes William is not real, just a dream. This, plus the feeling that she should be waking up, should put her in Lucid Dreaming state (if you write graffiti, you get an achievement called "Lucid Drawing" or something) and gain total control over her dream. Or wake her up. I have two theories: One, Chloe IS controling the dream, subconsciously. She can see the future, she was the one with the powers all along, she just didn't know it (ok, totally not real but hey, it would be interesting) and TWO: the Raven is forcing her to stay asleep, controlig her dream. It could also be a methaphor to the way other people (Max, Rachel, Ruth?) can alter reality, like a Di Caprio can control a dream)
AND MORE ON THAT
Oh well she totally wrote it for reasoNS AND WHAIT
That's RIGHT AFTER SHE WAKES UP
She didn't have it there before
START THEORIZING
Punish her with... what? Is her father abusive? I swear to fuckign god i'm going to punch someone
For a second, she looks scared before kicking the trash can
aaaaaaaand then this:
Don't tell me that is the look of a father that doens't know his daughter has powers. Specially considering this happens while he's asking Wells and the Police about her.
The Raven is watchign over Frank and his dudebros (see: there is a bonefire or something with fire there)
AAAAAAAAND THEN It goes to find Ruth, Rachel's Father's lover. I don't think I should add that she smiles at the fire WHILE SMOKING A CIGARRETTE. Cigarrettes need fire (duh). I think fire is related to her and that Frank's dudebros work for her, when you consider those guys broke into Chloe's room for... something. Damn, what kind of fucked up shit is Rachel into and what is she leading Chloe to?
And remember that time I said a lot of weird shit about how Ruth's flower tattos represent her control over nature?
Weeeeeeeell.....
I don't know what the fuck is this but it probably has some symbolism or somethig:
AAAAAAND THE GRAFFITI! Probably there is a lot of symbolism there so start digging:
GODS: 1
ME: 0
Uh
These three specially seem to have a lot of symbolism
BURN IT DOWN BURN IT DOWN BURN IT DOOOOOWN
These glyphs remind me of... the wind?
More random stuff:
I'm going to try to find some more weird shit around later bye
Ruth is actually a ghost. She's Rachel's real mother and she couldn't go away from the Evil Tree. Now that the Tree doesn't exist anymore, she's free to roam the realsm of the living!
For the sake of the forest, it'd be best if it was the latter. Though, maybe it's more likely she'd get jealous and burn down another part of the forest. She does the same thing again, when she catches Frank cheating on her with his one true love, Beans. Before Jeffershit can cheat on her though, she is murdered not by Nathan, but by Smokey.
Rachel never saw that shovel coming, and Nathan was too busy tripping balls at the time, so he believed the anthropomorphic bear he saw was an effect of that.
"You're such a badass, Choloe Price. I'm impresse how you made Victoria sweet, sweet love"
Do you think she would get jealous or masturbate while watching them?
For the sake of the forest, it'd be best if it was the latter. Though, maybe it's more likely she'd get jealous and burn down another part o… moref the forest. She does the same thing again, when she catches Frank cheating on her with his one true love, Beans. Before Jeffershit can cheat on her though, she is murdered not by Nathan, but by Smokey.
Rachel never saw that shovel coming, and Nathan was too busy tripping balls at the time, so he believed the anthropomorphic bear he saw was an effect of that.
I believe the wind glyphs are only mesnt to be an easter egg, maybe. They're from the book, La Horde du Contrevent (aka The WindWalkers), which was written by Alain Damasio, one of Dontnod's co-founders and former director of the narrative department (2008-2010).
Some stuff I noticed during my gameplay:
Max's bracelets in the first game:
Chloe's bracelets:
There were totally better images b… moreut I realized just then and I'm too lazy to play again. But really, it's always very obvious, even at ight it's super easy to see, like it's shining or something. That's totally some symbolism there.
You can write graffiti in the second dream. You have two options: Truth or Lie. I both cases, Chloe writes this:
More on that...
Chloe inmediately recognizes William is not real, just a dream. This, plus the feeling that she should be waking up, should put her in Lucid Dreaming state (if you write graffiti, you get an achievement called "Lucid Drawing" or something) and gain total control over her dream. Or wake her up. I have two theories: One, Chloe IS controling the dream, subconsciously. She can see the future, she was the one with the powers all along, she just didn't know it (ok, totally not … [view original content]
My far out theory...Rachel is a spirit that was protected by the tree....Ruth is a dark spirit that had made a deal with Rachel's father....their meeting is part of his payment...Ruth knew that Rachel was watching and used that as a way of breaking the deal by getting Rachel angry enough to destroy the tree that she saw as a symbol of her father's betrayal.
I have to say that I really like all the new side characters at Blackwell. Maybe except for Drew but I have a hunch that there's more to him. Skip is awesome, Samantha is adorable, and I can't remember the two Tabletop player's names but they're my favorite! They're just all so likeable!
Some stuff I noticed during my gameplay:
Max's bracelets in the first game:
Chloe's bracelets:
There were totally better images b… moreut I realized just then and I'm too lazy to play again. But really, it's always very obvious, even at ight it's super easy to see, like it's shining or something. That's totally some symbolism there.
You can write graffiti in the second dream. You have two options: Truth or Lie. I both cases, Chloe writes this:
More on that...
Chloe inmediately recognizes William is not real, just a dream. This, plus the feeling that she should be waking up, should put her in Lucid Dreaming state (if you write graffiti, you get an achievement called "Lucid Drawing" or something) and gain total control over her dream. Or wake her up. I have two theories: One, Chloe IS controling the dream, subconsciously. She can see the future, she was the one with the powers all along, she just didn't know it (ok, totally not … [view original content]
I loved her puzzled expressions when playing Dungeon and Dragons with Chloe
Steph: So, how do respond to that?
Chloe: Uh- Dance!
Steph:...Dance? Uh, okay?
I hated Samantha though, for some reason. She's like an annoying bad vversion of Kate to replace her as Official Cinammon Roll, but they failed on giving her one of Kate's not important traits, her high confidence. Maybe i don't care about her because Chloe doesn't give a shit.
I have to say that I really like all the new side characters at Blackwell. Maybe except for Drew but I have a hunch that there's more to him… more. Skip is awesome, Samantha is adorable, and I can't remember the two Tabletop player's names but they're my favorite! They're just all so likeable!
I have to say that I really like all the new side characters at Blackwell. Maybe except for Drew but I have a hunch that there's more to him… more. Skip is awesome, Samantha is adorable, and I can't remember the two Tabletop player's names but they're my favorite! They're just all so likeable!
Steph is just awsome
I loved her puzzled expressions when playing Dungeon and Dragons with Chloe
Steph: So, how do respond to that?
… more Chloe: Uh- Dance!
Steph:...Dance? Uh, okay?
I hated Samantha though, for some reason. She's like an annoying bad vversion of Kate to replace her as Official Cinammon Roll, but they failed on giving her one of Kate's not important traits, her high confidence. Maybe i don't care about her because Chloe doesn't give a shit.
Samantha is nothing like Kate, at all. It just seemed to me that they were trying to make ANOTHER sweet and pure cinnamon roll, (as if Kate could be raplaced, ugh), nd failed horribly. She stck me as annoying, which is strange because "cute" characters never seem annoying to me, and I that's something that really surprised me in the way the story is tolf from Chloe's perspective: In the first game, we proyected our own personality on Max to fill the gaps and shit (terrible writing desicion). Here, Chloe's opinion on certain things proyect themselves in us, and makes us see the world the way she sees it. That's fucking awsome. It could be just be though.
Sometimes it feels like you really put Kate on a pedestal. She doesn't seem as great as you make her out to be, but that's just me.
I agree that at plain sight she doesn't seem to be more than just a "cute and innocent" girl too good for this world, but if you look deeper, you'll see what I mean:
You see, she's all innocent and sweet, right? But when she's angry, she suddenly becomes all sarcastic and harsh:
Max: Hey Kate, sorry about yesterday. Kate: Yeah, sorry you didn't do anything to help. Max: I just-- Kate: Whatever, it's done.
Or, after being harassed by David and ignored by Max:
Kate: Hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks for nothing, Max.
In the roof:
Kate: Did you come to get another Pulitzer like yesterday, Max? Max: I only wanted proof! Kate: More like you wanted another shot for the Max Cauldfied scrapbook. You want another now!?
Seconds later:
Max: I care about you! (she said something like that idk) Kate: You're such a liar! You wanted to help by ignoring my phone calls!? Max: I thought it was Warren! Kate: That's how you treat your friends!?
Or in a deleted audio:
Kate: Oh, yeah, Max, you care sooo much about me that you told me to "be strong". Yeah, that helps. [...] If you thought "free hugs" would save me you were totally out of your mind! [...] Jefferson took all those sick photos of me. I bet you wish you could take shots like these, uh!? You may win a pulitzer!
And that is a very strong contrast between the "Sweet Cinnamon Roll" and, well, Angry!Kate. When someone is constantly bullied and harassed, they tend to have low self esteem and even think they deserve the treatment. Kate, however, never does. When you don't help her, she will rub it in you face that you were a terrible friend. That people is entitled to be nice, to her and to eveyrone. She sees people telling her hat she's worthless and she's like "Screw you all, I'm a good person and don't deserve being treated that way".
And, really, that's some very fucking (emotionally) badass thing. Kate is very confident in her own morals and view of the world. Specially when you consider she comes from such an asshole family. Specially her asshole mother. I can tell from experience, mothers can be the biggest treat to their children's mental and emotional health. And yet, she still knows that she deserves love.
This is not only original, since many "Sweet Cinnamon Rolls" have low self esteem and feel like they're not good enough, but also a very important part of her character.
Kate could easily lose all hope in the world and say "fuck it", and become bitter and angry like Victoria or Nathan. I was surprised in how little she cares about the feelings of people that hurt hers. She could just not care about anyone's feelings at all and stop hurting. Innocent people hurt the most, and yet, she still tries to be innocent.
And that's something very badass, really.
Because that's when being not only a good person, but a pure and sensitive person, becomes a choice and not a normal character trait. And I think that her choice of bearing all the pain and live in such a corrupt world in the hard way, doing your best to be a good person, is worth way more than that.
So yeah, Kate is awsome. And way less naïve and innocent that many people think. That's why it's so hard to write her in fanfiction, I guess.
Samantha really isn't anything like Kate, aside from being shy and innocent I suppose. She didn't really remind me of Kate at all.
Someti… moremes it feels like you really put Kate on a pedestal. She doesn't seem as great as you make her out to be, but that's just me.
Comments
There is no in-game option for that.
It's a certain cinnamon roll's birthday today.
source:
Yes I checked it is indeed the classic Chloe from the Life Is Strange first game !
What is this stuff about the horse mask I see since several years , where it come from originally ?
to Miklaus she wont appear in the main story but if you got the delux edition there will be a bonus episode with max
Aw cute!
Well Happy Birthday Kate!
Is what I would say if she hadn't killed herself in my playthrough
Oh, goodness me. I almost forgot.
Happy birthday, Kate. :-D
You are adorable!
oh dear
come to the dark side
we have fucking cookies
damn what a bad day to have your birthday. poor kate
edit: are we seriously wishing a happy birthday to a fictional character
i don't know if that's very sad or very cute the only thig i know is that i'm crying and i don't know why
So I just played Before the Storm and I really liked it! Chloe is so much fun to play. That's a big issue with mine about season 1. While I liked the story, Max just wasn't fun to play as. I didn't really enjoy playing as Max. Any enjoyment I got was from interacting with the characters around Max.
So back to Before the Storm. It's definitely a very fun experience. For the most part it seems pretty light hearted most of the time and isn't 100% serious the whole time. I gotta say that I like Rachel a lot. She's so fucking smooth! Though I'm not looking for a romantic route with her so hopefully the game will let me just keep their relationship as a strong friendship. I wouldn't mind a possible relationship with Elliot though.
Well, Max is an adult when you get to play her.
In prequel, Chloe is merely a teenager.
Also, Max is kind of grown-up, introvert. She was also written more bland to let player choose what kind of person Max is. Chloe already had established characteristics, so she barely steers to your choices.
I keep thinking that there may be a scenario in one of the next two episodes where Victoria will say something shitty to Chloe regarding Rachel that will prompt a major decision as to how to respond.
Walk away. (Just ignore her insults)
Backtalk Victoria. (Use your words to shut Victoria down)
Punch Victoria (Use your fist to unleash your rage on Victoria)
If you had to decide, what would you do?
I want to say that I'd be the better person and walk away but backtalking is so fun!
Adult, introvert, whether we can shape her or not isn't my point. The point is that I didn't find Max interesting and it just wasn't fun to play as her.
Though I have to disagree about being able to choose what kind of person she is. She still has the same bland personality no matter what you do.
So character appears as bland because when she actually replies to stuff, it's usually because your choices, not her independent personality.
But that's kind of a point of whole "choose from four options" reply system. If Max went too independent then players would complain even more how their Max doesn't act like that.
You can kind of see what I mean in Before the Storm where you control Chloe. Discussions between choices are far longer due she doesn't give damn of what player expect her to act like.
Punch Victoria the way Warren beat Nathan lmao
Warren the Friend Zoned...
Max this is unacceptable...
I bought the Deluxe one... uh, strange.
Make out with Victoria and fuck her hard until she's sobbing and begging for your tonge and can't remember her name
for some reason i really ship chloe and victoria
Unbeknownst to them, Rachel is watching all of it.
Some stuff I noticed during my gameplay:
Max's bracelets in the first game:
Chloe's bracelets:
There were totally better images but I realized just then and I'm too lazy to play again. But really, it's always very obvious, even at ight it's super easy to see, like it's shining or something. That's totally some symbolism there.
You can write graffiti in the second dream. You have two options: Truth or Lie. I both cases, Chloe writes this:
More on that...
Chloe inmediately recognizes William is not real, just a dream. This, plus the feeling that she should be waking up, should put her in Lucid Dreaming state (if you write graffiti, you get an achievement called "Lucid Drawing" or something) and gain total control over her dream. Or wake her up. I have two theories: One, Chloe IS controling the dream, subconsciously. She can see the future, she was the one with the powers all along, she just didn't know it (ok, totally not real but hey, it would be interesting) and TWO: the Raven is forcing her to stay asleep, controlig her dream. It could also be a methaphor to the way other people (Max, Rachel, Ruth?) can alter reality, like a Di Caprio can control a dream)
AND MORE ON THAT
Oh well she totally wrote it for reasoNS AND WHAIT
That's RIGHT AFTER SHE WAKES UP
She didn't have it there before
START THEORIZING
Punish her with... what? Is her father abusive? I swear to fuckign god i'm going to punch someone
For a second, she looks scared before kicking the trash can
aaaaaaaand then this:
Don't tell me that is the look of a father that doens't know his daughter has powers. Specially considering this happens while he's asking Wells and the Police about her.
The Raven is watchign over Frank and his dudebros (see: there is a bonefire or something with fire there)
AAAAAAAAND THEN It goes to find Ruth, Rachel's Father's lover. I don't think I should add that she smiles at the fire WHILE SMOKING A CIGARRETTE. Cigarrettes need fire (duh). I think fire is related to her and that Frank's dudebros work for her, when you consider those guys broke into Chloe's room for... something. Damn, what kind of fucked up shit is Rachel into and what is she leading Chloe to?
And remember that time I said a lot of weird shit about how Ruth's flower tattos represent her control over nature?
Weeeeeeeell.....
I don't know what the fuck is this but it probably has some symbolism or somethig:
AAAAAAND THE GRAFFITI! Probably there is a lot of symbolism there so start digging:
GODS: 1
ME: 0
Uh
These three specially seem to have a lot of symbolism
BURN IT DOWN BURN IT DOWN BURN IT DOOOOOWN
These glyphs remind me of... the wind?
More random stuff:
I'm going to try to find some more weird shit around later bye
But it feels oh so right?
Warren is just a good friend.
"You're such a badass, Choloe Price. I'm impresse how you made Victoria sweet, sweet love"
Do you think she would get jealous or masturbate while watching them?
Hey guys I got a theory:
Ruth is actually a ghost. She's Rachel's real mother and she couldn't go away from the Evil Tree. Now that the Tree doesn't exist anymore, she's free to roam the realsm of the living!
There should be two different bonus options, one leads to the preorder bonus, the other leads to the deluxe ones.
I bought the deluxe one... maybe a bug?
For the sake of the forest, it'd be best if it was the latter. Though, maybe it's more likely she'd get jealous and burn down another part of the forest. She does the same thing again, when she catches Frank cheating on her with his one true love, Beans. Before Jeffershit can cheat on her though, she is murdered not by Nathan, but by Smokey.
Rachel never saw that shovel coming, and Nathan was too busy tripping balls at the time, so he believed the anthropomorphic bear he saw was an effect of that.
Looool! 100% real no feik
I feel sorry for Deck Nine. They really hoped fans would be surprised with an ending no one could've expected.
I believe the wind glyphs are only mesnt to be an easter egg, maybe. They're from the book, La Horde du Contrevent (aka The WindWalkers), which was written by Alain Damasio, one of Dontnod's co-founders and former director of the narrative department (2008-2010).
My far out theory...Rachel is a spirit that was protected by the tree....Ruth is a dark spirit that had made a deal with Rachel's father....their meeting is part of his payment...Ruth knew that Rachel was watching and used that as a way of breaking the deal by getting Rachel angry enough to destroy the tree that she saw as a symbol of her father's betrayal.
I have to say that I really like all the new side characters at Blackwell. Maybe except for Drew but I have a hunch that there's more to him. Skip is awesome, Samantha is adorable, and I can't remember the two Tabletop player's names but they're my favorite!
They're just all so likeable!
Good thing I love Life is Strange bc I wouldn't even read this lol thanks Sherlock
It's mostly pictures though
Steph is just awsome
I loved her puzzled expressions when playing Dungeon and Dragons with Chloe
Steph: So, how do respond to that?
Chloe: Uh- Dance!
Steph:...Dance? Uh, okay?
I hated Samantha though, for some reason. She's like an annoying bad vversion of Kate to replace her as Official Cinammon Roll, but they failed on giving her one of Kate's not important traits, her high confidence. Maybe i don't care about her because Chloe doesn't give a shit.
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Samantha really isn't anything like Kate, aside from being shy and innocent I suppose. She didn't really remind me of Kate at all.
Sometimes it feels like you really put Kate on a pedestal. She doesn't seem as great as you make her out to be, but that's just me.
Samantha is nothing like Kate, at all. It just seemed to me that they were trying to make ANOTHER sweet and pure cinnamon roll, (as if Kate could be raplaced, ugh), nd failed horribly. She stck me as annoying, which is strange because "cute" characters never seem annoying to me, and I that's something that really surprised me in the way the story is tolf from Chloe's perspective: In the first game, we proyected our own personality on Max to fill the gaps and shit (terrible writing desicion). Here, Chloe's opinion on certain things proyect themselves in us, and makes us see the world the way she sees it. That's fucking awsome. It could be just be though.
I agree that at plain sight she doesn't seem to be more than just a "cute and innocent" girl too good for this world, but if you look deeper, you'll see what I mean:
You see, she's all innocent and sweet, right? But when she's angry, she suddenly becomes all sarcastic and harsh:
Or, after being harassed by David and ignored by Max:
In the roof:
Seconds later:
Or in a deleted audio:
And that is a very strong contrast between the "Sweet Cinnamon Roll" and, well, Angry!Kate. When someone is constantly bullied and harassed, they tend to have low self esteem and even think they deserve the treatment. Kate, however, never does. When you don't help her, she will rub it in you face that you were a terrible friend. That people is entitled to be nice, to her and to eveyrone. She sees people telling her hat she's worthless and she's like "Screw you all, I'm a good person and don't deserve being treated that way".
And, really, that's some very fucking (emotionally) badass thing. Kate is very confident in her own morals and view of the world. Specially when you consider she comes from such an asshole family. Specially her asshole mother. I can tell from experience, mothers can be the biggest treat to their children's mental and emotional health. And yet, she still knows that she deserves love.
This is not only original, since many "Sweet Cinnamon Rolls" have low self esteem and feel like they're not good enough, but also a very important part of her character.
Kate could easily lose all hope in the world and say "fuck it", and become bitter and angry like Victoria or Nathan. I was surprised in how little she cares about the feelings of people that hurt hers. She could just not care about anyone's feelings at all and stop hurting. Innocent people hurt the most, and yet, she still tries to be innocent.
And that's something very badass, really.
Because that's when being not only a good person, but a pure and sensitive person, becomes a choice and not a normal character trait. And I think that her choice of bearing all the pain and live in such a corrupt world in the hard way, doing your best to be a good person, is worth way more than that.
So yeah, Kate is awsome. And way less naïve and innocent that many people think. That's why it's so hard to write her in fanfiction, I guess.