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Character Name: Ellie
Series: The Last of Us (HBO)
Age: 15! We don't have canon birthdays, so I'm putting her in Epoisode 9, which occurs in Spring and brings us roughly a year from where she started at 14.
From When?: Season 1, Episode 9, "Looking For The Light"! Essentially, "What if Joel hadn't saved Ellie from the Fireflies, and she died for the cure?".
Inmate Justification:
She steals, she fights, she's murdered people... A lot of that murder was in self-defense, but she's done it, and wouldn't hesitate to do it again. Ellie has grown up in a brutal, uncaring, and unforgiving world and it's shaped the person she is even before she met Joel "few moral lines left to cross" Miller. Above all, Ellie isn't really hesitant about these things because they're normal for her. Ellie has a violence in her that could grow if not kept in check.
Arrival:
Against her will! It's my first venture into TLV, so let's do it all around.
Abilities/Powers:
Ellie's good with a gun, and has some training to be a soldier, so she's got some super basic self-defense down. She's used to climbing through ruins and navigating desolate spaces, so she has pretty good endurance. Sharp reflexes. Good shot.
Inmate Information:
cw: violence, murder, cannibalism, pedophilia (mentioned), sexual assault (mentioned).
Ellie's life was been a fight for survival since the very beginning: She was born into the world as her mother was being attacked by an infected, screaming at the top of her lungs at a cold world.
She was a nobody orphan raised by what was essentially a fascist regime, white-knuckling the tatters of what remains of the world. Without parents or family of her own, only indifferent or apathetic adults to bring her up, Ellie was a result of a harsh world's inescapable reality: Either you fight to survive, or you die. You're family or you'recargo alone. She grew up self-reliant in almost every single way. Rations and shelter were provided, yes, but protection from older, bigger kids wanting to steal her food or her scarce few belongings was not. Unfortunately, that self-reliance required violence in a world like hers. Ellie was transferred through over a dozen schools and homes within the QZ , all for fighting, stealing, and disobedience. There's mention of stabbing a kid with a compass.
Ellie is caring, passionate, and obsessed with space. She spent time memorizing puns books and was in perpetual awe of the beauty of the world around her despite its ruin. But this hid a much sadder, angrier, and vastly more afraid person than she let on.
A life characterized by loss and outliving others only intensified when Ellie was 14. In a peak of youthful recklessness, Ellie was convinced to enter a locked-down mall with her best friend, Riley Abel. Tragically, while confessing their feelings and pleading for Riley not to leave her to join a resistance called the Fireflies, the two attracted the attention of an infected lurking within the mall. Ellie and Riley were bitten in the struggle, resigned to curl up together and wait to turn instead of killing themselves. Though they decided to fight for every last second they had together, this event would end even more tragically: Ellie was immune, Riley was not. To defend herself against a freshly turned Riley, Ellie was forced to kill her.
This was only the first of Ellie's losses, and the beginning of a black hole of survivor's guilt and determination to make her continued survival meaningful. Ellie took Riley's words, the insistence that they keep fighting for even one more second with each other, to heart.
Ellie was discovered by an old friend of her mother's and leader of the Fireflies, Marlene. Instead of sympathy or help, Ellie was chained in a room for weeks and tested every day to confirm if she had begun to turn. From there, Ellie was (reluctantly) entrusted to the care of the smugglers Joel Miller and Tess Servopoulos. She would be transported to a doctor capable of using her to make a cure. Tragically, Tess was infected on their trip to bring Ellie to those meant to transport her, ultimately sacrificing her life in an explosion to give Ellie and Joel time to escape a horde of infected.
It's impossible to discuss Ellie's journey without involving Joel Miller, both her protector as well as a large influence on how Ellie handled danger and trauma. If allowed to Ellie could become, for lack of a better phrase, an amalgamation of the worst parts of her "father". Ellie is deeply loyal, a trait that's hard to come by in a broken world. Ellie and Joel have endured, survived, fought, and scavenged together for a year and a deep, nearly unbreakable trust and dependency have developed in them along the way. She tries to model his behavior to become a better survivor, and over time, her darker instincts have worsened.
As she continued to travel with Joel, Ellie's losses only continued to stack. Encountering Sam and Henry, a pair of brothers trying to escape the Kansas City QZ, led to Ellie's attempt to save the younger by putting her blood on his bite mark, believing it would be medicine because of her immunity. It wasn't, and the resulting deaths weighed heavily; more people she should have been able to save with her immunity. More people she outlived, with no idea why.
But the real test for Ellie came when Joel was injured in a skirmish with a group of men they encountered at the University of Eastern Colorado. Following a nearly fatal injury to Joel, Ellie was left on her own to survive and try to keep him alive. She hunted, she scavenged, and she survived until, eventually, she was found by the leader of the men who had attacked them. David was a preacher within a cult that had turned to cannibalism and who harbored a disturbing interest in girl's Ellie's age. When trying to groom Ellie into joining his cannibalistic congregation as his co-leader/lover/pet fails, Ellie bites David, allowing him to believe she has infected him in a fight for escape. David hunted Ellie down, trapped her in a burning building and attempted to sexually assault her.
What resulted was a desperate, traumatic fight for her life that ended in David's brutal death by machete and a traumatized Ellie returning to an awakened Joel's protection. But this incident was the final trauma in a long line of suffering, and Ellie walked away from the experience changed forever. Knowing Joel can't truly protect her from everything, and having seen the true darkness within people, something in Ellie was broken by the world outside the QZ walls.
And then finally, after a year of travel through a violent, broken world outside of the QZ and confronting raiders, cannibals, and infected, they reached Salt Lake City, where the Fireflies and their doctor were stationed. It was time for her to be the cure, and Ellie was determined to be it, no matter what.
Under it all, Ellie is terrified of being alone, magnified by a deep-seated survivor's guilt. Tiley, Tess, Sam. They're people who exist within her still, even though she never talks about them. She was cared for and helped by all of them, and she's outlived every single one of them.
Ellie has a desperate need to have a purpose, to make being immune and surviving when everyone has died be worth something. And if that purpose required her to give up her life for a vaccine to be created, she was more than willing to do it.
In Ellie's eyes, it couldn't be for nothing.
Path to Redemption:
What does your character need to change about themselves, and what sorts of milestones do you envision them needing to reach before they're ready for graduation?
First and foremost, Ellie needs to learn ways to solve her problems without resorting to violence. She's always had to fight for herself because no one else will, and if she's going to improve, she's going to need to learn how to use her words and not her fists. A good way towards managing that will be establishing a sense of safety and community.
Unfortunately for Ellie, this also means she's going to need to learn how to trust other people and be open and emotionally vulnerable with them.
She'll also need to work toward learning how to be a kid. For as young and amazed by the world as Ellie can be, she's still growing up in a post-apocalyptic world. She hasn't had the chance to be just a kid and focus on things other than surviving. Ellie will need to learn how to trust others besides Joel to care for her and to have her back.
How will they react to being on the Barge? How will they react to being wardened? What sorts of wardening styles would they be likely to respond best to, and conversely, what wardening styles would likely be ineffective or unhelpful?
Ellie will find being on the Barge cool and interesting, but she's going to butt heads with the wardening system hard. She'll barely let Joel, who she trusts with her literal life, tell her what to do, and even then, it usually involves a lot of attitude. She's going to need to be paired with someone with a strong force of will, who can handle what is likely going to be multiple attempts at sabotage of their attempts and outright defiance and anger.
Anyone acting as a warden for Ellie is going to need to be able to handle stress well. Very well.
What methods can a warden use to get through to them, and what are some ideas for things that might trigger or motivate them to change?
The most important thing is going to be persistence and consistency. Ellie has lived a life of abandonment, whether by death or by people walking away. She goes into relationships expecting it and resigned to the inevitability. She needs someone who will not give up on her, even if she is difficult and makes things impossible for them. She'll expect the same from her Warden if she makes enough of a mess, and having someone who doesn't will be shocking enough to get through to her.
Getting through to Ellie will take time and understanding, as well as an ability to relate. She'd do well with someone who was willing to indulge her goofier side, who could show her respect without abusing their authority or treating her as lesser or just someone to be ordered around. She'd do well with a motherly type. But they're going to have to understand that if Joel is around that he is the ultimate authority she'll defer to.
She's a wounded, hissy cat who needs someone to laugh at her shitty puns and teach her how to just live and not survive.
History:wiki link.
Sample Network Entry: with Vincent.
Sample RP: with Gemini, with Hannah, with Joel.
Special Notes: none!
User DW:
shuichiE-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact:
Other Characters Currently In-Game: none.
Character Name: Ellie
Series: The Last of Us (HBO)
Age: 15! We don't have canon birthdays, so I'm putting her in Epoisode 9, which occurs in Spring and brings us roughly a year from where she started at 14.
From When?: Season 1, Episode 9, "Looking For The Light"! Essentially, "What if Joel hadn't saved Ellie from the Fireflies, and she died for the cure?".
Inmate Justification:
Arrival:
Abilities/Powers:
Inmate Information:
cw: violence, murder, cannibalism, pedophilia (mentioned), sexual assault (mentioned).
She was a nobody orphan raised by what was essentially a fascist regime, white-knuckling the tatters of what remains of the world. Without parents or family of her own, only indifferent or apathetic adults to bring her up, Ellie was a result of a harsh world's inescapable reality: Either you fight to survive, or you die. You're family or you're
Ellie is caring, passionate, and obsessed with space. She spent time memorizing puns books and was in perpetual awe of the beauty of the world around her despite its ruin. But this hid a much sadder, angrier, and vastly more afraid person than she let on.
A life characterized by loss and outliving others only intensified when Ellie was 14. In a peak of youthful recklessness, Ellie was convinced to enter a locked-down mall with her best friend, Riley Abel. Tragically, while confessing their feelings and pleading for Riley not to leave her to join a resistance called the Fireflies, the two attracted the attention of an infected lurking within the mall. Ellie and Riley were bitten in the struggle, resigned to curl up together and wait to turn instead of killing themselves. Though they decided to fight for every last second they had together, this event would end even more tragically: Ellie was immune, Riley was not. To defend herself against a freshly turned Riley, Ellie was forced to kill her.
This was only the first of Ellie's losses, and the beginning of a black hole of survivor's guilt and determination to make her continued survival meaningful. Ellie took Riley's words, the insistence that they keep fighting for even one more second with each other, to heart.
Ellie was discovered by an old friend of her mother's and leader of the Fireflies, Marlene. Instead of sympathy or help, Ellie was chained in a room for weeks and tested every day to confirm if she had begun to turn. From there, Ellie was (reluctantly) entrusted to the care of the smugglers Joel Miller and Tess Servopoulos. She would be transported to a doctor capable of using her to make a cure. Tragically, Tess was infected on their trip to bring Ellie to those meant to transport her, ultimately sacrificing her life in an explosion to give Ellie and Joel time to escape a horde of infected.
It's impossible to discuss Ellie's journey without involving Joel Miller, both her protector as well as a large influence on how Ellie handled danger and trauma. If allowed to Ellie could become, for lack of a better phrase, an amalgamation of the worst parts of her "father". Ellie is deeply loyal, a trait that's hard to come by in a broken world. Ellie and Joel have endured, survived, fought, and scavenged together for a year and a deep, nearly unbreakable trust and dependency have developed in them along the way. She tries to model his behavior to become a better survivor, and over time, her darker instincts have worsened.
As she continued to travel with Joel, Ellie's losses only continued to stack. Encountering Sam and Henry, a pair of brothers trying to escape the Kansas City QZ, led to Ellie's attempt to save the younger by putting her blood on his bite mark, believing it would be medicine because of her immunity. It wasn't, and the resulting deaths weighed heavily; more people she should have been able to save with her immunity. More people she outlived, with no idea why.
But the real test for Ellie came when Joel was injured in a skirmish with a group of men they encountered at the University of Eastern Colorado. Following a nearly fatal injury to Joel, Ellie was left on her own to survive and try to keep him alive. She hunted, she scavenged, and she survived until, eventually, she was found by the leader of the men who had attacked them. David was a preacher within a cult that had turned to cannibalism and who harbored a disturbing interest in girl's Ellie's age. When trying to groom Ellie into joining his cannibalistic congregation as his co-leader/lover/pet fails, Ellie bites David, allowing him to believe she has infected him in a fight for escape. David hunted Ellie down, trapped her in a burning building and attempted to sexually assault her.
What resulted was a desperate, traumatic fight for her life that ended in David's brutal death by machete and a traumatized Ellie returning to an awakened Joel's protection. But this incident was the final trauma in a long line of suffering, and Ellie walked away from the experience changed forever. Knowing Joel can't truly protect her from everything, and having seen the true darkness within people, something in Ellie was broken by the world outside the QZ walls.
And then finally, after a year of travel through a violent, broken world outside of the QZ and confronting raiders, cannibals, and infected, they reached Salt Lake City, where the Fireflies and their doctor were stationed. It was time for her to be the cure, and Ellie was determined to be it, no matter what.
Under it all, Ellie is terrified of being alone, magnified by a deep-seated survivor's guilt. Tiley, Tess, Sam. They're people who exist within her still, even though she never talks about them. She was cared for and helped by all of them, and she's outlived every single one of them.
Ellie has a desperate need to have a purpose, to make being immune and surviving when everyone has died be worth something. And if that purpose required her to give up her life for a vaccine to be created, she was more than willing to do it.
In Ellie's eyes, it couldn't be for nothing.
Path to Redemption:
First and foremost, Ellie needs to learn ways to solve her problems without resorting to violence. She's always had to fight for herself because no one else will, and if she's going to improve, she's going to need to learn how to use her words and not her fists. A good way towards managing that will be establishing a sense of safety and community.
Unfortunately for Ellie, this also means she's going to need to learn how to trust other people and be open and emotionally vulnerable with them.
She'll also need to work toward learning how to be a kid. For as young and amazed by the world as Ellie can be, she's still growing up in a post-apocalyptic world. She hasn't had the chance to be just a kid and focus on things other than surviving. Ellie will need to learn how to trust others besides Joel to care for her and to have her back.
How will they react to being on the Barge? How will they react to being wardened? What sorts of wardening styles would they be likely to respond best to, and conversely, what wardening styles would likely be ineffective or unhelpful?
Ellie will find being on the Barge cool and interesting, but she's going to butt heads with the wardening system hard. She'll barely let Joel, who she trusts with her literal life, tell her what to do, and even then, it usually involves a lot of attitude. She's going to need to be paired with someone with a strong force of will, who can handle what is likely going to be multiple attempts at sabotage of their attempts and outright defiance and anger.
Anyone acting as a warden for Ellie is going to need to be able to handle stress well. Very well.
What methods can a warden use to get through to them, and what are some ideas for things that might trigger or motivate them to change?
The most important thing is going to be persistence and consistency. Ellie has lived a life of abandonment, whether by death or by people walking away. She goes into relationships expecting it and resigned to the inevitability. She needs someone who will not give up on her, even if she is difficult and makes things impossible for them. She'll expect the same from her Warden if she makes enough of a mess, and having someone who doesn't will be shocking enough to get through to her.
Getting through to Ellie will take time and understanding, as well as an ability to relate. She'd do well with someone who was willing to indulge her goofier side, who could show her respect without abusing their authority or treating her as lesser or just someone to be ordered around. She'd do well with a motherly type. But they're going to have to understand that if Joel is around that he is the ultimate authority she'll defer to.
She's a wounded, hissy cat who needs someone to laugh at her shitty puns and teach her how to just live and not survive.
History:
Sample Network Entry: with Vincent.
Sample RP: with Gemini, with Hannah, with Joel.
Special Notes: none!
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