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- Alexandra "Alex" Chen is a character from the Life Is Strange video game series published by Square Enix. Created by American developer Deck Nine, she first appears in the 2021 video game Life Is Strange: True Colors as its main protagonist. Alex has the supernatural power to see, experience, and manipulate the emotions of people around her. At the outset of the game, she moves from Portland, Oregon to the fictional Colorado town of Haven Springs to live with her brother Gabe Chen, who dies in an accident soon after her arrival. She is forced to utilize her power of empathy, the volatility of which has made her life difficult up to this point, in order to discover the truth behind her brother's tragic death and find closure for herself. Several different versions of Alex were originally workshopped during the concept phase, before the developmental team decided to finalize her backstory as an Asian-American character who grew up in the foster care system. The development team did extensive research work on the experience of being in the foster care system, which informed the writing and performance. Deck Nine Senior staff writer Felice Kuan was the primary writer responsible for Alex. She is portrayed by actress Erika Mori through full performance motion capture. Recording artist mxmtoon served as the character's singing voice. All three women drew from experiences of their own cultural backgrounds as Asian Americans in their respective contributions towards the depiction of the character in True Colors. Both Alex Chen and the performance of her actress Erika Mori have been met with a generally positive reception from fans of the Life is Strange series, as well as critical acclaim from video game publications with multiple award nominations and accolades. Several commentators recognized Alex's importance as a milestone for diversity in the representation of characters from minority backgrounds in the video game industry. (en)
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- Wendy Chen (en)
- Gabe Chen (en)
- John Chen (en)
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- "The writers were in the room when we were mo-capping; we definitely found that we could present a situation and, rather than write reactive dialogue, we could just let Erika react and whatever was on her face was often enough to share what she was feeling more than words, perhaps. So we quickly got used to that process of just writing in a more organic way and seeing how much we could bring out of the facial expression to the moments instead of words." (en)
- "From a performance perspective, I’ve experienced loss and grief, rejection and fear, and disappointment – all the strong emotions that Alex goes through, I’ve been there. So I would locate where the sensation for each of those emotions was located in my body and I would access that during those particular scenes. It allowed me the freedom to stay in the scene, accessing that emotion in a genuine way without deviating from the script or Alex’s context. It also made the process of repeatedly going to those deeply emotional places safe, because I wasn’t retraumatising myself by reliving the events in my personal life that had made me feel those emotions in the first place" (en)
- "Seeing the fan response was another occasion. It's hard to say what will make a big difference for each individual person when they see some aspect of themselves represented. Sometimes it is seeing your identity in media, sometimes it's seeing something that is parallel to your own experience that can make a huge difference. So for me, I tried anyway, to put as much as I could across many vectors of Alex's life in the hopes that whatever is out there will resonate with people who are Asian, with people who are a lot like Alex, with people who have gone through what she's gone through." (en)
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- — Felice Kuan, "Life is Strange: True Colors – How Deck Nine Games hopes to create an authentic and relatable protagonist in Alex Chen" (en)
- — Erika Mori, "Life is Strange: True Colors interview – “diversity in art is so important" (en)
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- Alexandra "Alex" Chen is a character from the Life Is Strange video game series published by Square Enix. Created by American developer Deck Nine, she first appears in the 2021 video game Life Is Strange: True Colors as its main protagonist. Alex has the supernatural power to see, experience, and manipulate the emotions of people around her. At the outset of the game, she moves from Portland, Oregon to the fictional Colorado town of Haven Springs to live with her brother Gabe Chen, who dies in an accident soon after her arrival. She is forced to utilize her power of empathy, the volatility of which has made her life difficult up to this point, in order to discover the truth behind her brother's tragic death and find closure for herself. (en)
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