What is the “lesson” we get from “the real ending”?, I think that part of it is that we gotta learn to let go and live with the consequences of our actions and the way life is. So, the “canon” ending implies letting Chloe die, Max doesn’t “change anything” and thus, the tornado is never set off. BUT… this just doesn’t add up, she’s letting 1 person die, but she’s getting Jefferson arrested, she’s saving Kate, Victoria, herself, Nathan and even all of the future victims!, I mean, the course of time and space DIDN’T go as intended anyway, and she changed a lot of things, so, in order to that ending to work, she should let Jefferson do his thing, she should let Kate die, etc., so… could that ending be really canon, or is it too flawed to be taken as such?

Now, Bae ending. Here both Max and Chloe gotta learn to live with their actions. Max set the tornado in motion and is accepting the consequences of her actions, INSTEAD of trying to fix everything once again (which the game tells us just doesn’t work). She accepts the consequences and there’s no more changes in the space/time, they just drive away, they keep going forward, not backwards. So, the REAL ending would be that scenario, becuz things actually end there, consequences had happened, while in the Arcadia ending, we don’t really know what consequences will happen for changing that much of the course of time, and I think that, based on what seems to happen for saving one sad girl, are we supposed to expect everyone will be happy and there won’t be any consequence when Max saves that many people?

Now, I loved both endings, but the “real” ending didn’t seem so real to me after I reflected on this, so, I think the most real thing would be to accept that Max’s powers had a consequence, but also happened for a reason, and now people/survivors just have to keep going. I’m not saying this becuz I cannot accept Chloe’s death, but it’s just that I don’t feel like letting her die with all of that uncertainty is logic, it doesn’t get along with the game lesson, I mean, If max could somehow lose her memory, that would work great, cuz that way NOTHING would alter reality, but thats not what’s happening here. So what do you shaka brahs think? I think that this maybe even opens the possibility to a sequel :P, but that’s for another time.