Mother of The Dark Room

by BrightStorm98

Chloe Price is a very different person than Max Caulfield remembers...and she claims that her new best friend, Rachel Amber, is being held by a coven of witches just outside Arcadia Bay. Between witchcraft and Max's new found power to rewind time...life just got a lot more strange...and sinister.

"But the third sister, who is also the youngest! Hush! whisper whilst we talk of her! Her kingdom is not large, or

else no flesh should live; but within that kingdom all power is hers. Her head, turreted like that of Cybèle, rises

almost beyond the reach of sight. She droops not; and her eyes rising so high might be hidden by distance. But,

being what they are, they cannot be hidden; through the treble veil of crape which she wears, the fierce light of a

blazing misery, that rests not for matins or for vespers, for noon of day or noon of night, for ebbing or for flowing

tide, may be read from the very ground. She is the defier of God. She also is the mother of lunacies, and the

suggestress of suicides. Deep lie the roots of her power; but narrow is the nation that she rules. For she can

approach only those in whom a profound nature has been upheaved by central convulsions; in whom the heart

trembles and the brain rocks under conspiracies of tempest from without and tempest from within. Madonna

moves with uncertain steps, fast or slow, but still with tragic grace. Our Lady of Sighs creeps timidly and

stealthily. But. this youngest sister moves with incalculable motions, bounding, and with a tiger's leaps. She

carries no key; for, though coming rarely amongst men, she storms all doors at which she is permitted to enter at

all. And her name is Mater Tenebrarum, − Our Lady of Darkness".

- Excerpt from Suspiria De Profundis by Thomas De Quincy

This fanfiction is a crossover between the universes of Life is Strange (Season 1 and Before the Storm) and the 2018 Luca Guadanino version of the film "Suspiria", a remake of the 1977 classic horror film made by the genre legend Dario Argento. If you know nothing of Suspiria, I suggest you read up before continuing on...otherwise you may find some of the twists and turns this story takes to be highly confusing and highly disturbing.

In this story, Max and Chloe will still be looking for Rachel Amber. during October 2013...only she is not under the earth in the junkyard. She is in a building that is a living, breathing nightmare. Max's rewind power may not be the random gift it appears to be either...and is it Chloe's destiny to die? Read forward if you wish to learn the truth within this universe I have created.