I regret to inform everyone that my autism has been activated. You will be educated about the clearly very easy to understand timeline of the Life is Strange series.
I elected not to include this because it's never confirmed, but I'm pretty sure the "Chloe and Rachel move to Cali" timeline follows up on the ending of Before the Storm where you choose to tell Rachel the truth about her mother, whereas the ending where you choose to hide the truth from her leads to the original Life is Strange.
In the original Life is Strange, Rachel is implied to have "betrayed" Chloe by hooking up with Frank and all but confirmed to have gone down a self-destructive spiral leading to her eventual fate, and I just don't really see that happening in a timeline where the events of Before the Storm culminate in her getting closure regarding her mother and getting together with Chloe.
... Or maybe I'm not supposed to think this hard about a video game series for teenagers.
