Maxine “Max” Caulfield (born 21 September 1995) (Hannah Telle/Kumi Tanaka) is the protagonist of Life is Strange (2015).

Max is a photography student in her final year at Blackwell Academy, and is new in the 2013/14 academic year. She grew up in Arcadia Bay, moved to Seattle in 2008, and is now back in Arcadia Bay for studying. She is quiet and geeky, and would rather observe than participate, resulting in many of the other students seeing her as careless and a cloudcuckoolander. In spite of this, she does have some friends at Blackwell, mainly art classmate Kate Marsh, and science geek Warren Graham.

However, Max also has some foes at Blackwell. “Queen bee” Victoria Chase bullies her, along with her “mean girls,” as a façade to conceal her jealousy and admiration of Max. She also locks horns with rich kid Nathan Prescott from time to time.

While others (particularly Victoria) prefer top-of-the-line cameras and equipment, Max is quite old-school, and prefers to take her pictures with a Polaroid camera. Many of her Polaroids are visible on the photo wall in her bedroom.

According to her student record, Max is attentive and has a lot of potential to excel in photography.

One seemingly normal Monday, Max discovers that he has the ability to rewind time, and later learns that she can do so by transporting through her Polaroids. On that same day, she re-unites with her old friend and matey Chloe Price, who helps Max to become more confident as things go on.