Tragedy of the storm allows him to put his past behind him, accept the horrible actions he performed, and reaches out for forgiveness and growth. And without his paranoia, the truth would have never come out. In the end his paranoia set him at innocents like Max and Kate, but he knew there was something going on with Nathan. Tragedy is what helps David grow as a person. He is simply too paranoid for his own good, and doesn't know how to be a parent. Of course, I don't think he's abusive or a bad person. He doesn't see that Chloe's actions are caused by mental illness and horrible abandonment issues that get worse the more David's abusive actions weigh down on her. He doesn't really think too much about how he treats Chloe, because the stern military attitude worked for him. A deeply complex character David is, and I've talked at length about how his military career affecting his own teenage attitude is how he thinks. I spent a while trying to figure out where to put David, but I don't really consider his character arc complete in the first game, so I felt forced to go and think about the finale of his character progression in LiS 2. In the A-Tier I put David and Kate, and I would have put Joyce here too if the person who made this had remembered. I could go on forever, but just read any of my other posts about them. With realistic growth behind them, and each with the own deep and detailed character arcs that relate heavily to both the overall story and themes of the game, it's hard not to say they are the best characters in the franchise. What else is there to say about them other than that their relationship is one of the best fictional character dynamics I've ever seen. So of course in the S-Tier I put Max and Chloe. Not all of these will be extremely detailed explanations, but if you like what you do see and want to hear those thoughts expounded upon, let me know I can start writing up more full essays and character dives. This will contain spoilers, and of course you're free to share your own tier lists as well and how you feel. Sure enough there were, so I did a couple of the ones I thought were interesting and thought I'd share them along with why I put them where they are. But I was watching the sauce boss himself rank frogs on a tier list, and I wondered if there were any for Life is Strange. You know I never did any tier lists ever.
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