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who you are is not where you"ve been by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Jul 2024
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And he realizes… there are parts of her that are weird because, well, she’s Ellie. She likes space and puns and dinosaurs. She does goofy voices and curses too much and she asks so many questions. He’s pretty sure that if she’d grown up before the outbreak, she would have been screened for ADD or something. And some of her weirdness is being a kid growing up in the apocalypse, like not knowing what a seatbelt is.
But parts of her weirdness?FEDRA did that.
And he hates it.
Or: Thoughts on FEDRA schooling.
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it’s like flying (with an elephant on your back) by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 Apr 2023
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Here’s the other thing about parenting he’s forgotten: sometimes there are no words. There’s nothing your child wants - or even needs- to hear you say. Sometime’s there’s just you and them and all the silence in between.
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It’s August in Wyoming, and Ellie doesn’t know where she belongs.
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lay bare the bones of the earth by marchflower for emooni
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Jul 2024
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Joel sighs, runs his hand wearily over his face. “Baby,” he says, and despite herself, Ellie feels her shoulders relax at the nickname. “This - it’s a threat against all of us. It’s not something we can let lie.”
“I’m not telling you to just let it lie,” Ellie retorts. “Just- why does it have to be you?”
Joel looks away, shifts on his feet. “Ellie,” he says, and the timbre of his voice rakes a claw down her spine. “You know why.”
She does, and that’s the thing- she’s not sure she’s worth it, this kind of love that goes blind with rage in the face of threats, the kind of love that drives people out of their homes and into the night and away from their families. The kind of love that demands sacrifice. It sits uneasily beneath her skin, like an electric current.
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Jackson is threatened - and Ellie steps up.
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it"s gonna take a long time but we"ll make it one day by solicitors
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
04 Apr 2023
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A big loaf of bread pressed into his hands. Ellie beamed some more. Oh great, Joel thought, more fucking bread. I’m going to die at this rate. “This is exactly what I wanted,” he said instead. “How’d you know?”
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30 May 2023
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Being the key to saving humanity is much less glamorous than someone might expect. There’s a lot more bleeding and puking and sweating than she thinks is fair, strictly speaking, and she makes the fun discovery that she loses her shit in an MRI machine when it reminds her of being trapped in a cage, and she has a panic attack so bad Joel almost breaks the machine getting her out.
(She gets sedated before MRIs after that, so she wakes up nauseous and grumpy, but beggars can’t be choosers, and MRI flight risks can’t be vocal about their side effects.)
“Say the word,” Joel always says, when he’s rubbing her back or holding her hair out of the way or letting her clutch his hand while they do a spinal tap, “and we’re out of here.”
“We’re so close,” she always tells him. “They’ll figure it out soon.”
And she believes it, mostly.
Primarily because she has to, if she’s going to keep going.
(the fireflies don"t try to kill her, but ellie still has a Very Bad Time in the hospital)
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