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Ellie >> The Last Of Us >> Reserved
Canon: The Last Of Us
Canon Point: End game.
Background/History: here
Personality: Ellie is the product of a broken world. Born somewhere around 2018, Ellie came into the world 6 years after the spread of an extreme infection that stole the entire world and left it in shambles. Her parents died at an early age for her, leaving her the child of every camp and quarantine zone run by a corrupt post-apocalyptic government. She was always a problem child, being transferred from military school to military school after beating up other students, stealing, escaping, and just acting out in general. She's defensive, feisty, and not afraid to pick a fight where she sees fit. But there's also a soft side to her-- Ellie is just a teenager, having barely experienced puberty and growing up.
She made friends with another student around her age, if only a bit older, named Riley, who had generally the same temperament as her. It's because of Riley that she's able to find fun in the darkness of their world. Ellie loves to joke around, her interest in terrible puns and dreams of playing actual video games making her the normal kid that she really is deep down. Her sarcasm and sense of humor are still the likes of a budding teenager, given how much of a smart-ass and rebel that she can be at least 99% of the time. Even throughout her adventure across the country with Joel, she still has a fire about her that never goes out. She's the only person holding the key to the cure, which is a heavy weight to carry on her shoulders. And although all seems lost throughout her adventures, her life and her integrity remain the only part that means something to her. She's a fighter, first and foremost, and a child later. Even in her young age, she's smart and quick-witted, fully educated on how to defend herself and those around her. But that doesn't mean she necessarily holds trust. Ellie has had trust issues her whole life, casting out those she doesn't see fit or rightful in her personal space.
Anyone and everyone, to her unfortunate opinion, is an enemy first. It's how she was raised, but that doesn't mean she won't give them a chance. Ellie wants so much to have friends and family, but the closest she's gotten to that at all have either lied to her, died, or turned into infected. The only ones who have honestly tried for her are a part of a government rebellion group, or those who have gotten in the way of her own views of justice-- Namely, Joel. And although she believes her own sense of justice and righteousness has been stepped on and destroyed, that surprisingly hasn't taken the kid out of Ellie. She's a fun-loving, humorous, and curious individual. When her walls are down, all she wants is to try and find her own smile among the disarray and destruction that is the world she has grown up in. So don't be afraid to try and get close to her, she might just let you in.
Abilities/Powers: Ellie is a normal human being, but is significantly talented in self-defense, archery, guns, and first-aid for her age.
Items/Weapons: Her switchblade, pistol, and letter from her mother.
Sample Entry: [ She hadn't expected to fall asleep, not when they were on their way to safety. How could she sleep after everything that had happened? ]
[ But here she is, eyes wide and mouth gasping as she jolts forward. What greets her vision holds hardly any familiarity. A room... A room that somehow resides in a hospital or something, but cleaner than the hospitals she's seen. Her eyebrows furrow, and she calls out into the emptiness of the room. ]
Joel?
[ Nothing. The silence is deafening, making Ellie's heart race when she realizes she's alone. She gets on her knees on the bed, peeking through a window to witness a world that doesn't look any different from her own, and she considers it nothing but. Ellie grits her teeth, turning around and getting off the bed quickly. ]
Joel?!
[ Still no response, even after Ellie looks under her bed and behind cabinets, within them and on top of them. Nothing. She's alone. Again. Immediately, Ellie panics, her heart beating out her ears as she starts turning up the entire room. She searches for her backpack, a person, something. ]
Fuck, fuck, fuck!
[ All she can think is "Not again". Not after what happened the last time she was alone. She can't do that, not again. In a fit of anxiety and frustration, she kicks over the side table, the contents of it clattering to the floor. ]
[ She stops, hands on her head as she tries to think of a rational way to deal with this. ]
Okay. Okay. It's gonna be fine, Ellie. You just need to... I don't know, calm down and figure something out. You're not a newbie to this.
Just... Find a weapon and maim any asshole that threatens you. Yeah.
[ She sighs, hands lowering as she tries to look for a rational answer. But when she turns, she sees what she's knocked on the floor. What she finds is a surprise: her switchblade, a note, her pistol, and a strange phone. Quickly, she takes the blade, flipping it out and folding it back in before shoving it in her pocket. Ellie checks the chamber of the pistol, checks the safety and switches it on before shoving it through her waistband. The note, upon unfolding, appears to be the note her mother left her before she died. As for the phone? That's the mystery... Whoever brought her here obviously stole her backpack, but left her with something to use. ]
Oh god, this is weird.
Second Sample Entry: Post in test community
-> REVISE
The reason for this is that the linked sample is written in first person/action spam format. You are welcome to link to another thread or log, or write a new sample. We would like to see an expansion based on a more in depth look at her relationship with Joel and how it has had an impact on her.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and you have one week to reply to these revisions. Thank you.
No problem! Hope this works.
"I'm an expert at this... ish."
It would be easy to say she went into this with at least a minimum amount of confidence, but her hands speak otherwise. Her gaze fixated between the blood on her hands and the suture needle between to fingers soon shifts to the older man teetering between consciousness and death. Ellie's hands tremble as she stares at the gaping wound that's soaked through a red shirt and duct-tape-- A hurried attempt at ceasing the bleeding. She remembered her training: clean and disinfect, apply pressure, begin stitching carefully. If it came to it? She'd have to cauterize the wound...
A heavy inhale, a shaky exhale.
"Okay, ready Joel?"
But it's when the needle punctures through flesh that she starts to feel sick. Sure, it was easy to suture tiny wounds at the military schools; most of the time, it was just a dead frog or pig skin. But no matter how clean and precise she got at it? It was like she was doing it for the first time when it came to fixing an actual person she relied on.
"Come on, you have to tell me what to do! Joel?"
It all plays in her mind like a horrible re-run, Joel falls off the horse, bleeds out on the concrete, and she's left with absolutely no idea what to do. Sure, she's had the training and the what-if scenarios to rely on, but she's just a kid. A kid who relied on this jerk of an old dude to drag her ass halfway across the country for some cause he didn't believe in.
She fucking hated him at first. Joel was keen to leave her behind with someone else that she barely knew in this shithole of a world, leave her like some cheap cargo, but...
The minute she saw even a bit of compassion in him, the way he looked at her when she knew he was thinking about his daughter? How could she not hold on to that feeling? Hell, if he wasn't going to leave her behind like the rest of them did? She had to give him another chance. So when he's teetering on the edge of death only dependent on her now? There's a bout of nerves there that she's never rightly experienced before. Now he's her responsibility, not the other way around.
But miraculously, she's able to still her hands to succeed in that first stitch. Ellie exhales with relief. She looks to Joel, a half-smile on her features while she gazes upon a practically lifeless face that shallowly breathes.
"See? I'm like a fucking natural at this. Clearly, I was kidding when I begged you to tell me what to do."
Somehow, she's able to push forward, being mindful of the bleeding and cleaning him off every so often. There's silence when she tries to concentrate, but it's deafening when all she can hear are his shaken breaths and soft grunts of pain.
"You know, we're gonna get nowhere if you keep scaring the shit out of me and I have to watch your ass this whole trip."
It's a bluff-- Sarcasm pouring through her lips when she knows damn-well that it's probably going to keep happening. Joel has made himself responsible for Ellie's life, and possibly for the lives of everyone else should this vaccine be the real deal. But there's this part of her that feels like they could stop...
Joel is hurt, unconscious and probably on his last limb here from the bitter cold and the loss of blood.
She softly laughs, and it's a cold one at that.
"Can't... Really help but feel like this is kinda my fault though," Ellie looks back at Joel, still talking in his direction even when her concentration goes back to her handiwork.
She pauses, like he's replying.
"I know. I know, it's like I said: I didn't ask to be immune. But come on, Joel, look at you. You look like shit and we're basically up the creek without a paddle."
And a sigh.
"No... No, I can't think like that. I know you're all about negativity and crap, but that's not gonna help us now."
Continuing to stitch, Ellie starts to feel slightly better when she's more than halfway done, and there's a smile there. It's imagining that Joel gets out of this alive that keeps her going, that faith that she can use what she's learned to better them, to prove that she's useful and knows her way around an apocalypse. It's been a while that she's wanted nothing more than to prove to Joel she isn't a liability for him, she can be a good partner, she could be like Tess.
And when she finishes, Ellie's hands drop to her lap with yet another sigh of relief.
"There. All fixed up. Told you I could do it."
Still, there's no response from Joel. Ellie scoffs as she gets up to grab an old blanket off a nearby washing machine.
"Can't keep going on like you gotta do all the dirty work, Joel. Look where it got us."
Throwing the blanket over him, she makes sure he's neatly tucked in from the cold. Sitting Indian-style next to him, she tries to settle herself for a long night of watching over him.
"You need me. No more of this me hiding behind you bullshit, if you can trust me with a gun, you should trust me to work next to you."
Eyes cast shadows to the ground, and she finally looks away from him. It's hard looking at a face that once had color look completely white as a sheet. Honest to god, she's terrified this won't work. This won't work and she'll end up dead with him in this dirty, run-down basement they've holed up in.
"I'm sure you can hear me... You'd better. Because I'm not doing this again, Joel. 'Cause..."
She shifts uncomfortably where she sits.
"I need you too."
Expansion on Personality:
Of course there is a mention of Ellie's lack of trust in my previous entry, which is a given for basically everyone and anyone in this universe. All she knows is either you are a citizen or a soldier at first, and neither were savory unless you were a specific number of people.
When Ellie had first met Joel, of course there was an extreme lack of trust, and her desire to listen to anyone was already nonexistent. It was with the trust and dependency on Marlene that Ellie had tagged along with Joel with no argument. It was strictly business and the only means of her getting to the Fireflies and find the cure. Ellie found it her responsibility, and something that she had to roll along with for the good of mankind.
Throughout the journey, it's having to deal with an adult telling her what to do and undermining her talents and ability to fight. She's tense around him at first, and you see it in the way she holds her arm and stands away from him in gameplay, only engaging at small times. But Ellie tries to keep positive vibes in her life, maintaining jokes and striking conversation with Joel regardless of his lack of response.
When they lose Tess, she's left absolutely alone with Joel, no choice but to stick beside him and try to get along with him. And she tries, tries to engage him and tries so hard to at least tolerate him. Ellie realizes quickly that he's her only lifeline, and even if he doesn't seem to appreciate her all that much most of the time, Ellie quickly starts to depend on him. She begins to trust him when he quickly jumps in front of her in the face of danger, regardless of her pride making her slightly irritable.
Ellie's dependency on Joel derives from the quiet agreements and even little laughs here and there, when he jumps in front of her in the face of danger, and when he finally bites the bullet and gives her a gun. He extends trust to her, puts his own life at risk while she defends him on the sidelines, and that's when Ellie starts to get close.
And then he tries to give her up to Tommy...
Ellie was heartbroken, and she felt like her even attempting to trust Joel was a mistake on her part. There was an anxiety that came with being separated from someone she had gotten even semi-close to, to having to be with a total stranger again, which is what drives her to run off. It starts to become clear that even if Ellie had trust issues with Joel before, the idea of being without him made her extremely uncomfortable. They did nothing but look out for each other, and how was she supposed to know that Tommy would do the same? But fights and arguments are had, once again he protects her from hunters and runners, and surprisingly decides to keep her.
She's hardly out of touch with her own feelings. Ellie doesn't keep things bottled up-- Something she learned when she lost Riley. There's no point in holding things back because you have no idea how quickly you might lose them. That comes into play when Joel gets impaled and left out of commission for a long time, leaving Ellie to tend to him and try to keep them safe. She ends up getting kidnapped and abused by cannibals, the whole time thinking of Joel and his safety. She risks her life to find supplies and medication to keep him on her side of reality, wanting nothing more than to keep him by her side. She needs him, and hardly keeps that to herself.
When Joel ends up rescuing her from her kidnapper, there's a tearful reunion and a moment where Ellie realizes just how dependent she's gotten on Joel. From hating him in the beginning, to tolerating him, and feeling attached when he risks his life yet again to find her.
Joel and Ellie have a complicated relationship that teeter-totters from partners in survival, friends, and a strange father-daughter type thing. Joel clearly remembers his daughter every time he looks at Ellie, and Ellie has caught that on multiple occasions. She respects him for being a father, even a bit envious of the life his daughter led before her death.
Basically, in terms of Ellie's personality? Ellie doesn't shut anyone out until they deserve it, and they mostly never do. Trust is something that everyone has to gain over time, and Joel sort of gained it quickly and lost it just as fast at the end of the game. But there's a complication because outside of the trust, she's pretty attached to him. There's disbelief in what Joel did at the Firefly quarantine zone, but a desire to believe him just as much.
She tries so hard to hold on to what she has, because she doesn't have much. Ellie is loyal, hard-working, and dedicated to those she gets close to. She tries to make Joel laugh and keep his spirits high because she cares.
-> ACCEPTED