Welcome Home (2)

Walkthrough for Life is Strange: True Colors' "Welcome Home (2)" chapter, covering Alex's arrival in Haven Springs, interactions with Gabe and Riley, and early choices.

When you first gain control of Alex, you'll have the opportunity to check her text messages and journal. There's loads of text messages you can read through that give us some insight into Alex's history with some events that have happened to her over the last few years. There are two entries in her journal already (Tessa and Isabelle) that might give some idea of what experience Alex has had with other people through her powers of empathy. More on that later.

To progress, just lead Alex straight forward onto the bridge. A little over halfway across the bridge, a short cutscene will play, in which Alex will lean onto the railing and take in the view of her new home, Haven Springs. Enjoy the music and visuals for as long as you'd like. When you're ready, press B (Circle) to move on and meet someone Alex hasn't seen in a long, long time. This will also lead us to our first...

Minor Decision

Gabe isn't too sure how comfortable Alex is with his presence after so many years apart. Hug him or merely shake his hand, the choice is yours. Either way, it doesn't change things much so don't sweat over this decision. If you want my input though, to quote Chris Farley: "Brothers don't shake hands -- brothers gotta hug!" Or, well, I suppose "siblings" in this case.

Gabe will ask if Alex is ready to see the town. Respond however you wish.

Eventually, Gabe will lead you to the flower shop. You'll have a short cutscene, during which you'll have the opportunity to make another Minor Decision for Riley.

Minor Decision

• Be Honest - In Chapter 3, Riley will be shown to have gotten accepted into her college.
• Be Clever-

As a reminder, highlight the redacted text to read it.

After offering Riley some advice, Gabe will ask Alex to choose which flowers he should take to Char in order to apologize.

• What did you do? - This one just gets you a bit more dialogue with Gabe. You'll still have to choose one of the other two responses.
• Sunflowers. - As Gabe mentioned, these are his girlfriend's favorite flowers.
• Lily-of-the-valley. - And these are for saying you're sorry!

One flower choice will work out just as well as the other with only cosmetic differences, so once again, pick what you want!

As was teased before with Gabe on the bridge, Alex has the ability to see peoples' emotions as auras of various respective colors, and to feel those emotions as if they were her own. Sometimes, particularly strong emotions and memories can become attached to different objects, and Alex can focus on those memories and relive them for herself.

If you want, you can use the left trigger (L2) and hold A (X) to focus on Riley and hear some of her thoughts towards her college admission and leaving Haven Springs, colored purple for anxiety.

While you're here, go ahead and look around. There are several different objects you can check out. For example...

Minor Decision

In the opposite front corner of the store from the door is a particularly notable garden gnome. Feel free to spiff him up a bit with the "Sunglasses" option, especially for some really bad jokes and really funny banter. If you do, the little guy will still be sporting those classy yellow shades throughout the game.

When you're all done, head to the door and hit A (X) to leave Riley to it and carry on with the tour. Follow Gabe as he makes his way to the town's dispensary (legal weed shop), The Silver Dragon. (Unfortunately, no, Char doesn't sell fantasy books here.) Check out the sights along the road. You can use the left trigger + A (L2 + X) to focus Alex's powers on Gabe to hear his nerves at work. Speak to Gabe to move on, and he'll step inside to deliver the flowers you picked out to Charlotte.

Speaking of Charlotte, her son, Ethan, drops by to introduce himself, and he and Alex quickly bond over comics. He's really a sweet kid, and he's shockingly talented to boot. Pick whichever dialogue choices you think would be best (it really doesn't matter much here), and Alex will eventually excuse herself to check out the nearby record store.