3 Works in Insecure Ellie (The Last of Us)
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darling, lean your weight to me by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Sep 2024
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It’s the nicest thing anyone could do in that moment. Because Tommy’s nice. Despite how hard she’s trying not to like him, she does.
And Ellie’s pretty sure he hates her.
Or: Actually that pretty much sums it up. Tommy's a great guy! So why does he seem to hate her?
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adventitious by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
28 Sep 2023
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He finds the little girl–scarcely more than a toddler–huddled with her mother’s already-cold body on patrol that day.
She’s so small he hadn’t even seen her at first, and he about jumped out of his skin when tugging up the edge of the woman’s coat had revealed a little face looking up at him, big eyes looking as startled as he’d felt. He’d caught himself before a reflexive punch, but the near-baby looking at him had still whimpered, pressing as close to her mother as she could get.
Her mother, already going stiff in death.
“Hey there, darlin’,” he says softly, lowering himself from a squat to sit on the ground so he won’t look quite so large to such a tiny little thing. “You’re alright.”
The only response is a whimper as the girl tries to tuck herself tighter against her mother’s body.
(on patrol, joel finds an orphaned little girl) (ellie does NOT take it well)
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- Part 22 of babyverse
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Ellie knows how these things work. She’s not stupid. She grew up in a goddamn FEDRA orphanage, she understands power dynamics. Leaders take what they want. Everyone else fights for the scraps. And there’s always leaders, even where there’s not supposed to be.
Maria is nice enough, but Ellie keeps her distance anyway. It’s clear that Maria’s grudge against Joel hasn’t faded much since they’ve been back. It’s easy to act like her distrust of Maria is all on Joel’s behalf— she’s sure that’s what everyone assumes, anyway. Avoiding Maria is easy.
No. It’s Tommy that’s the problem.
He’s goddamn everywhere.
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Or: Ellie doesn’t trust Tommy as far as she can throw him. Tommy offers to take Ellie shooting anyway. Surely nothing will go wrong.Series