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E-mail: arkhamed [ @ ] gmail [ dot ] com
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Character Name: Ellie Williams
Series: The Last of Us
Age: 20
From When?: From the beginning of the Farm chapter in The Last of Us 2, living with Dina and JJ.
Inmate/Warden: Warden. At her canon point, Ellie's settled down after a murderous revenge streak that ended in failure. She has a partner and a child that she loves dearly, and wants to see him grow up. She raises goats and grows beets on a picturesque farmland. She's buried the hatchet and chosen her own happiness over slaughter. Ellie knows what it is to kill, to be angry, and to be pushed to the limits--and how to come back. She once felt her death would help people, but as a warden, her life can.
Item: Ellie has a journal she writes in regularly. It'll update in between her own entries.
Abilities/Powers: Ellie is a normal human living in a post-apocalyptic world, except she's immune to the infection that decimated the world. She can be bitten (though a fatal wound can still kill her) by infected, and breathe in the poisonous, infectious spores. She's good with firearms and knives.
Personality: Modern society by today's standards is like ancient Rome to Ellie--she's seen glimpses of the past in magazines and heard stories, but it's not a world she was born into and it's hard for her to truly imagine. Over twenty years ago, the Cordyceps outbreak occurred. No one knows how or why people began to become fungal monsters that are violent and bloodthirsty, but it quickly wiped out over half the world's population. Infrastructure and governments fell, and people fled to quarantine zones run by martial law. Outside these zones, the world is full of infected, and hunters that would kill anyone for a pair of shoes. Inside, corruption and military violence. The world is a bleak one with little hope of recovery.
However, there is a glimmer of hope. While out with a friend, Ellie is bitten by an infected. What's a death sentence to most turns into a mere scar for her because she's immune. Somehow. Ellie is handed over to smugglers Joel and Tess to be taken to scientists that can use her to give the world a cure for the infection (how is left vague), though things don't go as planned. Joel and Ellie are sent on a cross-country journey.
Born six years after the infection began and orphaned, Ellie's childhood was spent inside the Boston quarantine zone. That alone molded her into a feisty, opinionated girl that could swear as well as any soldier by the time she was a teenager. Getting by day to day meant she had to be tough, and raise herself. Even before meeting Joel she was tougher than most girls at fourteen and stubborn as hell, and that made her brave. Getting bitten, surviving, and losing her best friend in the same moment changed her entire world. The fact that she, an orphan with nothing but a dull future as a soldier, could potentially save the world becomes the most important thing to her. It means her life can mean something. The burden of being the potential cure grows as more and more people die around her, and each one adds to the guilt that she internalizes, regardless of whether she played a part or not. The fact that she's immune, for some unknown reason, is never far from her mind.
During her journey with Joel, he remains the constant. For a young girl afraid of losing people and carrying a lot of guilt about a thing she never wanted and can't control, she finds it in her heart to trust Joel. They become an excellent team, overcome intense obstacles, fighting side by side, and taking care of each other when times got tough. While a fourteen year old in a wasteland full of people struggling to stay alive and infected monsters might sound like a burden, Ellie is an asset that Joel in turn trusts to cover him in tight spots. But most important is the emotional bond between the two that forms as the seasons pass. Joel finds a daughter after losing his own in the beginning of the outbreak, and Ellie finds a father to confide in and simply joke around with to keep their spirits up. So, while she's adamant about being able to take care of herself (and she can), she easily grows attached.
However stubbornly independent, her biggest fear is ending up alone. When she and her best friend, Riley, were bitten, they decided to sit and wait to turn together. No easy way out. Riley made her believe in fighting for even just one more moment with someone you love. That deeply traumatic day stays with Ellie and is why she fights tooth and nail to protect Joel. It's why her life has to mean something.
When the journey proves to be in vain, Ellie is devastated. There's no relief for the burden of her immunity. She and Joel find a home in Jackson, at a settlement of his brother's, and life was good. Ellie made friends, and lived a fulfilling life. Patrols to kill infected aside, she lives the life of a nearly-normal teenage girl, hanging around the edges of dances, being a little socially awkward, having girlfriends, navigating relationships, and getting tattoos. She's able to collect her comic books and anime DVDs in peace. She finds everything she can get her hands on about space and, despite never living in a time where the space program exists, knows everything about it. She's a little more reserved in her late teens, but she still enjoys art and playing the guitar. And, like any teen, she has her own songs she's written, too. She's more confident in who she is and how capable she is because of the things Joel taught her.
The only real damper on her life is when she trusts her gut instinct and goes to investigate why a cure couldn't be made from her. When she discovers it means she would have died in the process and that Joel killed the people who would have been able to make the cure, even if it was only a maybe, she's once more destroyed. It's one thing for the cure not to be possible at all. It's another that Joel lied to her about it. She feels Joel took her choice away from her, and that even if she died for something that didn't work, her life would have meant something.
(Of course, deep down, she knows her life means something to Joel--but his admission wounds her in a way she's unsure she's capable of forgiving.)
Ellie tells Joel she's done with him. But she loves him, and knows he loves her, and that he simply didn't want to lose her. He fought for her, just like she did for him, even if she feels robbed. So, Ellie tells him she can't forgive him. It's her truth. But she also tells him she would like to try. She's not ready to let go of the man that's been there for her for so many years. Unfortunately, she gets robbed of that, too.
Just like the day she was bitten and left behind, losing Joel sends her on another journey. This time, for revenge. She doesn't hesitate to leave the safety of Jackson and travel weeks through dangerous territory to find his killer. It becomes her only focus and purpose, just as being the cure for the infection once was. That determination comes at a grave cost. She becomes violent. Cold. She tortures people to get answers because Joel told her that's what he once did. She doesn't think twice before killing anyone in the path between her and her target because instead of properly grieving Joel's death, it's easier to get blood. Killing for survival has been her life: it's either them or her. She understands a level of violence is necessary to survive in the world, but this quickly becomes something darker.
Her humanity, one of the things Joel loved about her, slips away a little more each day in Seattle, but even when she's seeing red, she knows when enough is enough. The girl she loves is put at risk while pregnant, her friend is shot in the head, and Ellie is nearly beaten to death. For the second time, Joel's murderer spares her life. It's another failed journey and Ellie knows if she continues down this path of revenge, she'll lose herself entirely to it.
Ellie chooses to stop. She bottles her grief and settles down with her girlfriend Dina, and becomes a mother when she has her baby, and deeply enjoys it. However, it's not that easy to put the devastation to bed. She's greatly traumatized from witnessing Joel's death. A falling shovel can trigger memories of his head being beaten in, and she has to force herself to take care of herself. But she does it, because her purpose now is her family. Despite all her loss, and struggling to come to terms with the fact that she survives while so many people she loves end up dead, she knows she has to cherish what she does have left to her. That means carrying on through the heartache, grief, and guilt. That means suppressing it, as she has been, even if the longer she does it the less good she is at it.
Barge Reactions: Ellie is going to lose her shit in the best way possible. She's a comic book nerd and loves space. Deal aside, the Barge will seem like heaven to her. Jackson is pretty well off for a post-apocalyptic world, but nothing like the comforts of the Barge.
People with any sort of magic or supernatural ability will probably get a hundred thousand questions from Ellie. She's curious by nature and in her world, she's the weirdest thing with her immunity. Anything new, like floods or breaches, will probably freak her out at first but she's quick to adapt. She will probably be writing her own comic book adventure in her down time, inspired by all this cool shit.
Realistically, she doesn't like to sit idle and will get herself involved in as many tasks as possible. Maybe even too many. She's not the most outgoing these days when it comes to making friends, but she's a young woman and does crave companionship even if she fumbles about it a bit. Any characters near her age or with similar interests (horses, comics, music...) or backgrounds (loss, zombie-like encounters) will be easy for her to find some sort of rapport with.
Additionally, realizing Tess is on the Barge will force Ellie to confront just how much guilt she carries about things outside of her control, as she feels responsible for her death years later.
Deal: Ellie is expecting to get Joel back from death. Since she was fourteen, Joel has been her family--her father, in every way but blood. She lost him while they were on rocky terms, and his murder haunts her.
History: Ellie's history on the TLOU wiki.
Sample Journal Entry: thread with Arthur
Sample RP: thread with Tess
User DW:
anotherE-mail: arkhamed [ @ ] gmail [ dot ] com
Other Characters: n/a
Character Name: Ellie Williams
Series: The Last of Us
Age: 20
From When?: From the beginning of the Farm chapter in The Last of Us 2, living with Dina and JJ.
Inmate/Warden: Warden. At her canon point, Ellie's settled down after a murderous revenge streak that ended in failure. She has a partner and a child that she loves dearly, and wants to see him grow up. She raises goats and grows beets on a picturesque farmland. She's buried the hatchet and chosen her own happiness over slaughter. Ellie knows what it is to kill, to be angry, and to be pushed to the limits--and how to come back. She once felt her death would help people, but as a warden, her life can.
Item: Ellie has a journal she writes in regularly. It'll update in between her own entries.
Abilities/Powers: Ellie is a normal human living in a post-apocalyptic world, except she's immune to the infection that decimated the world. She can be bitten (though a fatal wound can still kill her) by infected, and breathe in the poisonous, infectious spores. She's good with firearms and knives.
Personality: Modern society by today's standards is like ancient Rome to Ellie--she's seen glimpses of the past in magazines and heard stories, but it's not a world she was born into and it's hard for her to truly imagine. Over twenty years ago, the Cordyceps outbreak occurred. No one knows how or why people began to become fungal monsters that are violent and bloodthirsty, but it quickly wiped out over half the world's population. Infrastructure and governments fell, and people fled to quarantine zones run by martial law. Outside these zones, the world is full of infected, and hunters that would kill anyone for a pair of shoes. Inside, corruption and military violence. The world is a bleak one with little hope of recovery.
However, there is a glimmer of hope. While out with a friend, Ellie is bitten by an infected. What's a death sentence to most turns into a mere scar for her because she's immune. Somehow. Ellie is handed over to smugglers Joel and Tess to be taken to scientists that can use her to give the world a cure for the infection (how is left vague), though things don't go as planned. Joel and Ellie are sent on a cross-country journey.
Born six years after the infection began and orphaned, Ellie's childhood was spent inside the Boston quarantine zone. That alone molded her into a feisty, opinionated girl that could swear as well as any soldier by the time she was a teenager. Getting by day to day meant she had to be tough, and raise herself. Even before meeting Joel she was tougher than most girls at fourteen and stubborn as hell, and that made her brave. Getting bitten, surviving, and losing her best friend in the same moment changed her entire world. The fact that she, an orphan with nothing but a dull future as a soldier, could potentially save the world becomes the most important thing to her. It means her life can mean something. The burden of being the potential cure grows as more and more people die around her, and each one adds to the guilt that she internalizes, regardless of whether she played a part or not. The fact that she's immune, for some unknown reason, is never far from her mind.
During her journey with Joel, he remains the constant. For a young girl afraid of losing people and carrying a lot of guilt about a thing she never wanted and can't control, she finds it in her heart to trust Joel. They become an excellent team, overcome intense obstacles, fighting side by side, and taking care of each other when times got tough. While a fourteen year old in a wasteland full of people struggling to stay alive and infected monsters might sound like a burden, Ellie is an asset that Joel in turn trusts to cover him in tight spots. But most important is the emotional bond between the two that forms as the seasons pass. Joel finds a daughter after losing his own in the beginning of the outbreak, and Ellie finds a father to confide in and simply joke around with to keep their spirits up. So, while she's adamant about being able to take care of herself (and she can), she easily grows attached.
However stubbornly independent, her biggest fear is ending up alone. When she and her best friend, Riley, were bitten, they decided to sit and wait to turn together. No easy way out. Riley made her believe in fighting for even just one more moment with someone you love. That deeply traumatic day stays with Ellie and is why she fights tooth and nail to protect Joel. It's why her life has to mean something.
When the journey proves to be in vain, Ellie is devastated. There's no relief for the burden of her immunity. She and Joel find a home in Jackson, at a settlement of his brother's, and life was good. Ellie made friends, and lived a fulfilling life. Patrols to kill infected aside, she lives the life of a nearly-normal teenage girl, hanging around the edges of dances, being a little socially awkward, having girlfriends, navigating relationships, and getting tattoos. She's able to collect her comic books and anime DVDs in peace. She finds everything she can get her hands on about space and, despite never living in a time where the space program exists, knows everything about it. She's a little more reserved in her late teens, but she still enjoys art and playing the guitar. And, like any teen, she has her own songs she's written, too. She's more confident in who she is and how capable she is because of the things Joel taught her.
The only real damper on her life is when she trusts her gut instinct and goes to investigate why a cure couldn't be made from her. When she discovers it means she would have died in the process and that Joel killed the people who would have been able to make the cure, even if it was only a maybe, she's once more destroyed. It's one thing for the cure not to be possible at all. It's another that Joel lied to her about it. She feels Joel took her choice away from her, and that even if she died for something that didn't work, her life would have meant something.
(Of course, deep down, she knows her life means something to Joel--but his admission wounds her in a way she's unsure she's capable of forgiving.)
Ellie tells Joel she's done with him. But she loves him, and knows he loves her, and that he simply didn't want to lose her. He fought for her, just like she did for him, even if she feels robbed. So, Ellie tells him she can't forgive him. It's her truth. But she also tells him she would like to try. She's not ready to let go of the man that's been there for her for so many years. Unfortunately, she gets robbed of that, too.
Just like the day she was bitten and left behind, losing Joel sends her on another journey. This time, for revenge. She doesn't hesitate to leave the safety of Jackson and travel weeks through dangerous territory to find his killer. It becomes her only focus and purpose, just as being the cure for the infection once was. That determination comes at a grave cost. She becomes violent. Cold. She tortures people to get answers because Joel told her that's what he once did. She doesn't think twice before killing anyone in the path between her and her target because instead of properly grieving Joel's death, it's easier to get blood. Killing for survival has been her life: it's either them or her. She understands a level of violence is necessary to survive in the world, but this quickly becomes something darker.
Her humanity, one of the things Joel loved about her, slips away a little more each day in Seattle, but even when she's seeing red, she knows when enough is enough. The girl she loves is put at risk while pregnant, her friend is shot in the head, and Ellie is nearly beaten to death. For the second time, Joel's murderer spares her life. It's another failed journey and Ellie knows if she continues down this path of revenge, she'll lose herself entirely to it.
Ellie chooses to stop. She bottles her grief and settles down with her girlfriend Dina, and becomes a mother when she has her baby, and deeply enjoys it. However, it's not that easy to put the devastation to bed. She's greatly traumatized from witnessing Joel's death. A falling shovel can trigger memories of his head being beaten in, and she has to force herself to take care of herself. But she does it, because her purpose now is her family. Despite all her loss, and struggling to come to terms with the fact that she survives while so many people she loves end up dead, she knows she has to cherish what she does have left to her. That means carrying on through the heartache, grief, and guilt. That means suppressing it, as she has been, even if the longer she does it the less good she is at it.
Barge Reactions: Ellie is going to lose her shit in the best way possible. She's a comic book nerd and loves space. Deal aside, the Barge will seem like heaven to her. Jackson is pretty well off for a post-apocalyptic world, but nothing like the comforts of the Barge.
People with any sort of magic or supernatural ability will probably get a hundred thousand questions from Ellie. She's curious by nature and in her world, she's the weirdest thing with her immunity. Anything new, like floods or breaches, will probably freak her out at first but she's quick to adapt. She will probably be writing her own comic book adventure in her down time, inspired by all this cool shit.
Realistically, she doesn't like to sit idle and will get herself involved in as many tasks as possible. Maybe even too many. She's not the most outgoing these days when it comes to making friends, but she's a young woman and does crave companionship even if she fumbles about it a bit. Any characters near her age or with similar interests (horses, comics, music...) or backgrounds (loss, zombie-like encounters) will be easy for her to find some sort of rapport with.
Additionally, realizing Tess is on the Barge will force Ellie to confront just how much guilt she carries about things outside of her control, as she feels responsible for her death years later.
Deal: Ellie is expecting to get Joel back from death. Since she was fourteen, Joel has been her family--her father, in every way but blood. She lost him while they were on rocky terms, and his murder haunts her.
History: Ellie's history on the TLOU wiki.
Sample Journal Entry: thread with Arthur
Sample RP: thread with Tess