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Age: 31
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Character Name:
Ellie Williams
Crime:
Personality:
none!
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Age: 31
Current Characters: n/a.
Character Name:
Ellie Williams
Character Canon:
The Last of Us Part 1
Fall chapter, as they're heading to the University of Eastern Colorado.
Age:
14
Crime:
Manslaughter.
Background:Personality:
Endure and Survive.
In some ways, Ellie is every bit her age. She’s sarcastic, witty, and foul-mouthed. The world around her, for all of it's ruins and remnants of what once was, is not wholly horrifying; it's beautiful. It's a look into a world she never got to experience but thirsts for. Like most teenagers, she’s not afraid to speak her mind even against people bigger than her, has little patience for being treated like the child she is, and she’d rather get pissed than admit she’s afraid. She likes puns! And also giraffes, and gnomes. But not fairies, because they’re kind of creepy. Even as she's exploring the ruins of a Halloween store, she wonders simple things: Will she ever play a video game? Will she ever mature and gain the body of a woman?
She can be reckless too. Her entire discovery that she's immune to Cordyceps comes from having been bitten when she and her best friend attracted the attention of infected in a mall because they were too busy dancing to music together to consider the danger.
However, for as young and amazed by the world as Ellie can be, she's still growing up in a post-apocalyptic world overrun two decades prior. She can't be just a kid. The world around her is overrun with infected and hunters and other awful, dangerous people. Ellie was raised as an orphan in a military boarding school within the walls of a quarantine zone, so Ellie’s known how to rely on herself for her entire life. It’s left her self-sufficient and with an innate desire to contribute. She resource hordes, picks up skills when she can, and demands to be treated as an equal by those around her no matter their age. Every bit as resourceful and cunning as she is stubborn and willful, Ellie is a result of a harsh world's inescapable reality: Either you fight to survive, or you die. While she may trust faster than she should if someone proves themselves, she's good at reading people and sniffing out the shitty ones who only want trouble. She doesn't expect anything to be given to her without a cost. She wised up to the reality of life fast, and became a competent survivor and companion to Joel because of it.
Above all Ellie is a survivor who lives by a motto from her favorite comic: Endure and survive. She has learned what is necessary to stay alive outside the precarious safety of the zones through Joel, and she will do it whatever the cost. When the situation calls for it, no matter the conflict they might be having, Ellie shuts up and follows Joel's lead. Thinking on her feet, learning quickly, and being resourceful go hand in hand with her life as a survivor.
Even afraid, she won’t hesitate to charge into danger, though it's usually with a hotheadedness and sometimes a lack of forethought. This best displayed in all the times Ellie has jumped to help Joel, throwing herself on enemies to stab them. When Joel's smuggling supplier handcuffs them, she immediately rips the pipe she's been connected to off of the wall and begins to beat him with it, only stopping at Joel's command.
In fact, there's not much Ellie won't do in defense of Joel. As someone who has lost everyone she's cared for her in her life to either death or abandonment, Ellie is deeply loyal, a trait that's hard to come by in a world so broken. Earlier in her life, when she and Riley get bitten together, they decide to wait it out, and lose their minds together. In Riley's words, they decide to fight for every second they have, whether its two minutes or two days, and Ellie lives by this too. She refuses to make a run for it in Pittsburgh when their new companions abandon them to be attacked by hunters, because she's simply unwilling to leave Joel behind. "We stick together", she tells him, and follows through on it when she leaps off a bridge based only on trust that he will save her and keep her afloat. She will fight for the people she loves with everything she has, even if only for a few more minutes with them.
But being immune means Ellie has outlived those same important people. Under it all, Ellie is terrified of being alone, magnified by a deep-seated survivor's guilt. She has to make that mean something, make every loved one left behind have a purpose. And if that purpose requires her to give up her life for a vaccine to be created, she's more than willing to do it. In her own later words, it can't be for nothing.
In some ways, Ellie is every bit her age. She’s sarcastic, witty, and foul-mouthed. The world around her, for all of it's ruins and remnants of what once was, is not wholly horrifying; it's beautiful. It's a look into a world she never got to experience but thirsts for. Like most teenagers, she’s not afraid to speak her mind even against people bigger than her, has little patience for being treated like the child she is, and she’d rather get pissed than admit she’s afraid. She likes puns! And also giraffes, and gnomes. But not fairies, because they’re kind of creepy. Even as she's exploring the ruins of a Halloween store, she wonders simple things: Will she ever play a video game? Will she ever mature and gain the body of a woman?
She can be reckless too. Her entire discovery that she's immune to Cordyceps comes from having been bitten when she and her best friend attracted the attention of infected in a mall because they were too busy dancing to music together to consider the danger.
However, for as young and amazed by the world as Ellie can be, she's still growing up in a post-apocalyptic world overrun two decades prior. She can't be just a kid. The world around her is overrun with infected and hunters and other awful, dangerous people. Ellie was raised as an orphan in a military boarding school within the walls of a quarantine zone, so Ellie’s known how to rely on herself for her entire life. It’s left her self-sufficient and with an innate desire to contribute. She resource hordes, picks up skills when she can, and demands to be treated as an equal by those around her no matter their age. Every bit as resourceful and cunning as she is stubborn and willful, Ellie is a result of a harsh world's inescapable reality: Either you fight to survive, or you die. While she may trust faster than she should if someone proves themselves, she's good at reading people and sniffing out the shitty ones who only want trouble. She doesn't expect anything to be given to her without a cost. She wised up to the reality of life fast, and became a competent survivor and companion to Joel because of it.
Above all Ellie is a survivor who lives by a motto from her favorite comic: Endure and survive. She has learned what is necessary to stay alive outside the precarious safety of the zones through Joel, and she will do it whatever the cost. When the situation calls for it, no matter the conflict they might be having, Ellie shuts up and follows Joel's lead. Thinking on her feet, learning quickly, and being resourceful go hand in hand with her life as a survivor.
Even afraid, she won’t hesitate to charge into danger, though it's usually with a hotheadedness and sometimes a lack of forethought. This best displayed in all the times Ellie has jumped to help Joel, throwing herself on enemies to stab them. When Joel's smuggling supplier handcuffs them, she immediately rips the pipe she's been connected to off of the wall and begins to beat him with it, only stopping at Joel's command.
In fact, there's not much Ellie won't do in defense of Joel. As someone who has lost everyone she's cared for her in her life to either death or abandonment, Ellie is deeply loyal, a trait that's hard to come by in a world so broken. Earlier in her life, when she and Riley get bitten together, they decide to wait it out, and lose their minds together. In Riley's words, they decide to fight for every second they have, whether its two minutes or two days, and Ellie lives by this too. She refuses to make a run for it in Pittsburgh when their new companions abandon them to be attacked by hunters, because she's simply unwilling to leave Joel behind. "We stick together", she tells him, and follows through on it when she leaps off a bridge based only on trust that he will save her and keep her afloat. She will fight for the people she loves with everything she has, even if only for a few more minutes with them.
But being immune means Ellie has outlived those same important people. Under it all, Ellie is terrified of being alone, magnified by a deep-seated survivor's guilt. She has to make that mean something, make every loved one left behind have a purpose. And if that purpose requires her to give up her life for a vaccine to be created, she's more than willing to do it. In her own later words, it can't be for nothing.
Abilities:
No magic! She is skilled with a gun, as well as a switchblade. If it counts as ability, she's immune to the Cordyceps Brain Infection.
Inventory:Her backpack with her pistol in it and switchblade.
Samples:Because it was noted consistency will be looked at, I just wanted to advise there are gaps in replies for the TDM thread because I became sick after posting it! I have more threads I can share if desired, they're just in a private game so I am using an unlocked thread.
Questions: none!