Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
One small word that makes Chloe sound like herself: loud, restless, a teenager who turns every feeling up to maximum. It is not a punchline so much as a signature, and fans use it as shorthand for the whole game. Players still tease the writers about it, and Max's awkward attempt to say it in Episode 3 and Chloe's later "I hate that word" gave it jokes of its own.
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In context
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"Hella" is Chloe Price's all-purpose intensifier, sprinkled through all five episodes of Life Is Strange: she says it to Nathan Prescott in the school bathroom in Episode 1, and shouts "Hella yes!" in Episode 2, when a ricochet shot in the junkyard takes out a bottle while Max rewinds time to guide her aim. Writer Christian Divine, a Northern California native, put the word into Chloe's dialogue because he thought it suited a teenager from Oregon, and he showed it in the writing test he sent the developers, Dontnod. Players soon turned it into an in-joke.
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- Polygon: Life is Strange writer is hella unimpressed by your dialogue criticismswhole articleReference checked
- Life is Strange Wiki: Episode 2: Out of Time scriptjunkyard shooting scene, 'Hella yes!'Reference checked
- Life is Strange Wiki: Episode 1: Chrysalis scriptbathroom scene with NathanReference checked
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