Ellie Williams

Ellie Williams is one of the main characters from The Last of Us series.
== Charactah Account ==
Having been born after the fungal infection had already collapsed modern civilization as we know it, Ellie doesn't know a life aside from the high walls of the quarantine zone. She was raised in perpetual fear. This, of course, sparks within her an obsession with relics from the past culture, such as books and music. This, too, leads to troublesome times at the boarding house she resides in. As it turns out, she's actually immune to the fungus and the Fireflies want her to make a vaccine.
Initially, Ellie is fairly unskilled in techniques to survive. She cannot swim, a hindrance to herself since swimming is crucial, given the amount of water bodies in the locations she travels. She carries a switchblade, which is her only weapon until she is trusted with a gun by Joel. Due doubting her ability, Joel does not grant a firearm to Ellie until she saves him by shooting a hunter, and only afterwards does he teach her how to use a hunting rifle. Later on, she becomes more proficient in combat, sporting a number of weapons such as a pistol, rifle, bow, and explosives, along with her trademark switchblade.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* The Last of Us: American Dreams
=== Video Games ===
* The Last of Us
* The Last of Us Part II
* The Last of Us Remastered
* The Last of Us: Left Behind
== Trivia ==
* Ellie is the only known human to be immune to the Cordyceps Brain Infection.
* In Left Behind, during the exploration of the Mall (more specifically, the photo booth), Ellie types her surname. Though it is encrypted, it can be seen that her surname consists of eight letters.
** The Japanese game manual lists her last name as "Williams", which is also eight letters. Although any mention of her last name was removed by Naughty Dog early in development and is not considered canon.
** However, in a tweet for Halloween of 2018, a Naughty Dog employee referred to her as Ellie Williams.
* Ellie has a habit of rubbing her nose and wringing her hands together, especially in situations that could be seen as stressful. This implies towards a nervous tic.
* Players can browse through Ellie's artifacts during the Winter chapter of the game. When browsing, Ellie will comment on specific items, this includes Anna's letter, Riley's pendant, and other interactive objects, such as her own switchblade. She loses only one artifact from her backpack by the end of the game, Joel and Sarah's soccer photo, which is given to Joel.
* When playing as Joel, Ellie is invisible to enemy AI until they spot Joel. This was an intentional design choice made by Naughty Dog so that her own AI would never accidentally give away Joel's position.
* Ellie used to bear a striking resemblance to Canadian actress Ellen Page, who stars in another PlayStation exclusive game, Beyond: Two Souls, (released roughly four months after The Last of Us), but had her appearance altered as an attempt by Naughty Dog to better portray her age and actual voice actress. Page jokingly said that she didn't appreciate Naughty Dog "ripping off" her likeness due to her appearance in Beyond: Two Souls.
* Ellie owns a joke book that she will read aloud during downtime in the hopes of lightening the mood. These character interactions can only be triggered during the second half of the Summer portion of the game. Listening to all will unlock the That's All I Got trophy. Her joke books are available as artifacts in Ellie's Backpack. To find them, players have to play as Ellie in either the winter chapter or the epilogue and check the Collectibles inside her backpack.
* The Sony Walkman Ellie used during the American Dreams series is also available as artifact in Ellie's backpack.
* The ending is somewhat similar to the beginning of the game, albeit reversed. In the prologue, Joel and Sarah start off at home, and then use the car to escape the infected, which eventually crashes, forcing Joel to carry Sarah, who is eventually shot by the soldier. Sarah then dies in Joel's arms. Near the end of the game, an unconscious Ellie (reminiscent of the dying Sarah) is carried by Joel out of the hospital away from humans and into a car. The duo then drives 'home', home being Tommy's settlement.
** Neil Druckmann also stated in an interview that it was intentional for the opening shot to begin with Sarah, and the ending shot to end with Ellie.
** The ending shot for Left Behind also ends with a shot of Ellie's face.
* Druckmann has stated that, while Joel is the protagonist of The Last of Us, he personally viewed the story as Ellie's bildungsroman.
* In the initial version of the game, Ellie was supposed to kill Tess, who was originally the main antagonist.
* In Left Behind flashbacks, she doesn't swear nearly as much as in The Last of Us. This increase could be based on the stress of Riley's death.
* Ellie's joke book was given to her by Riley as seen in Left Behind.
* The picture found in Ellie's room in Left Behind was taken by Riley's camera, we later know that in an optional segment in Left Behind, Ellie had broken Riley's camera sometime after the picture was taken.
* Ellie states that when she was a kid, she had a coloring book, and thought the gnomes in it were cute, but fairies startled her.
* In Left Behind, Ellie has a flashlight when she is with Riley, but in the main game, Ellie finds her flashlight in the "The Outskirts" chapter. It's possible she lost her flashlight between chapters, and had to find a new one.
* If the player stands idle, wastes ammo, etc., Ellie will make a comment on it, such as "Ok... you're standing around and this is awkward."
* The tattoo on Ellie's arm was designed by tattoo artist Natalie Hall. Before being put in the game, it was tested on the arm of UI artist/designer Alexandria Neonakis.
* Red seems to be Ellie's signature color in the first game since her outfits in the main game contain a piece of clothing that is red or close to red.
* Upon completing the game and randomly after that point, in the background of the main menu the player will see Ellie's switchblade lying against the window.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Ellie Williams at The Last of Us Wiki
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