🦋 OOC Information
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Character Name: Ellie Williams
Age: 19
Canon: The Last of Us
Canon Point: The Last of Us Part 2, After Ellie leaves the farm to go hunt down Abby.
Character History: WikiCanon Abilities: In Part 1, Ellie is very much unskilled - she can't swim, but she is scrappy with a knife and able to use a bow, explosives, and guns. This evolves into a proficiency with weapons as an adult. She can skillfully ride a horse, shooting zombies whether on horseback or hanging upside down, prone, or otherwise. In game she is also shown to be adept at modifying/upgrading these weapons as needed as well. Ellie also is adept with first aid, such as applying medicine w/ a syringe, makeshift stitches, bandages etc. Lastly, she is adept with a guitar which maybe isn't so helpful in a zombie apocalypse, but it drives the girls crazy!
Inventory: Ellie's backpack full of her medical supplies and whatever ammunition or small weapons she carries on her person
Ellie's bow, arrows, and quiver
Ellie's rifle
Ellie's pocket knife
Ellies comic books (part 1) and trading cards (part 2)
Riley's firefly pendant
Clothes for all seasons
Ellie's Walkman
The letter from her mother
A flashlight
Ellie's joke book
Ellie's journal
🦋 Personality
Option 2: You may instead choose words from the following list to expand upon as your personality section. Elaborate on what this word means to your character, specifically their thoughts about it. For Canon Characters, you can choose five words. For Original Characters, you will need to choose seven words. Keep the word count to 100-300 per choice.
- Dead
Ellie spent years trying to reconcile that Joel took away her choice to die. She is someone who believes in doing what is right and she truly believed that by sacrificing herself, a cure could be made. She traveled across the country with Joel, went through so much, only to be told it was for nothing. Part of her probably was suspicious, that much was clear on her face at the end of Part 1, but she chose to trust him. When she found out the truth, it crushed her. Furthermore, the fact that Joel killed every single person in the hospital on his way to rescue her was devastating for her to learn.
Not only did she believe that she should have died, but 'dead' and by extension 'death' can be connected back to Joel. His ghost haunts the majority of Part 2. Ellie became driven by anger and revenge and decided to stop at nothing until she killed Abby. Before leaving the farm, Ellie has become traumatized by Joel's death, having nightmares and hallucinations, barely eating or sleeping. While she tried to find peace with Dina, she walked away from all of that to continue where she left off in Seattle.
- Dance
For Ellie, dancing became a love language. She first started dating after Dina got drunk and kissed her while they danced. After everything that happened in Seattle, they filled their home with music and laughter and dancing. They raised Dina's son, JJ, together, along with some farm animals. It was peaceful and those few months, despite Ellie's trauma, were filled with love.
In contrast, Ellie and Abby became embroiled in their own dance, the never ending cycle of trauma, anger, and revenge. The few times their paths crossed, it became a fight to the death, costing both sides people they loved and scarring those who remained. In the end, Abby's friends all died and when Ellie left to pursue her, she very likely lost Dina and JJ as a consequence.
- Sin
Ellie is severely shaken both by the sins she committed and those committed by Joel on her behalf. When she killed Nora, she went into shock, her hands shaking, blood splattered all over her. It was the same when she became physically ill after killing Owe and Mel, who was pregnant at the time. She was distraught when learning what Joel did at the hospital, and even told Abby later when they met again in the theater that there was no cure because of what Joel did and blamed herself. Ellie very much considers the trail of bodies left behind to keep her alive and for her revenge on Abby her 'sin'. That much is also apparent late in the game when she describes to Dina that she doesn't sleep or eat, that she still has nightmares. She explains this to Joel near the end of Part 1, that she is "still waiting for my turn". That is something Ellie still holds onto even into adulthood, that she lived while others could have been alive were it not for her or Joel.
- Child
Ellie was a child who grew up very quickly. She was born in the middle of the end of the world and subsequently raised as an orphan in what is essentially a military compound. She knew early on that she would become a soldier like other children, but also lived her life apart from other children because of bullying and not really knowing how to interact with them. It is not until she meets Riley, that Ellie opens up. Riley was someone who taught her to have fun and take risks and her death is something Ellie has carried with her for years.
Not only does 'child' relate to who Ellie is but who she represents for other people. To Marlene, and by extension the other Fireflies, she is a chance at a cure. To Joel, she is just 'cargo' until she becomes like a daughter to him, filling the void left behind by his biological daughter, Sarah. When Ellie and Joel begin to open up to one another, they become this duo that works nearly in sync to one another. Ellie is scrappy where Joel is methodical, constantly pushing him to rely on her and not treat her as fragile or with kid gloves. She learns to use firearms from him, she learns how to track and hunt and to fend for herself mostly from things he taught her. Ellie has become his legacy as an adult, after his death. She carries her grief for him like a child who has lost their parent and weaponizes that grief into revenge.
- Door
In Ellie's nightmares, there is always a stairwell and a door, just as when she found Joel. She sees it so often that she doesn't hesitate to run towards it, hoping to change the outcome of his death. There are a lot of doors that close in Ellie's life in her journey both before and after Joel. She lost her mom, Riley, Marlene, Tess, Sam and Henry, and then Joel. Ellie is someone who is afraid of being alone. She doesn't explain why in detail, but watching so many people come and go from her life in a world where nothing is certain comes with it's own baggage and trauma. Ellie is someone who feels her losses acutely.
Her pursuit of revenge is also a door in itself. She closes the door on the possibility of a peaceful life with Dina and JJ when she leaves the farm to chase down Abby again, after both nearly die and after Jessie did die, because Tommy talked her into it. One could even argue her revenge is a door she closed for others, as Joel saving her life was a door that was closed as a consequence. She never fulfilled her 'purpose' to die in the hospital.
🦋 Fae Court
List your top three choices for your characters adoptive court. The mods will choose the one out of those three options that seems the most fitting based on your app.
- Dusk Court
- Dawn Court
- Autumn Court
Ability: Yes, but they either have no ability of their own, or they refuse to trade theirs away; they will buy their court's ability on credit.
🦋 RP Samples
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