Ellie

> "*I was supposed to die in that hospital. You… You should’ve let me die. You should’ve let me die…*"
> ― Ellie thinking to herself after Scott revealed that the procedure to retrieve the cure would kill her.
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## Ellie

Faceclaim by Lesly-oh, and scar edits by Art.

## Biographical Information

### Age(d)

14 *(Pittsburgh-Winter Arcs)*
15 *(Fireflies-Reunion Arcs)*
16 *(Saviors Arc)*

### Aliases and Nicknames

Kiddo *(by Joel)*Stupid *(by Clementine)*

Elle *(by Clementine)*

E *(by Katrina Morris)*

### Affiliation(s)

The Military *(Preparatory school, formerly)*Fireflies *(Informally)*

Jackson *(Formerly)*

### Occupation(s)

Former Student *(Military Preparatory School/Jackson)*

### Relationships

Unnamed Father *(Unknown)*Anna - Mother *(Deceased)*

Joel - Ex-Surrogate Father

Clementine - Girlfriend-Left-Behind

### Resides

Boston, Massachusetts *(Formerly)*Jackson, Wyoming *(Formerly)*

Salt Lake City, Utah

## Physical Description

### Height

5 ft 3 in *(Pittsburgh Arc)*5 ft 5 in *(Saviors Arc)*

### Eye Color

Green

**Ellie** is a major character in Last Of The Walking Dead. A seventeen-year-old survivor, Ellie is "mature beyond her years" as a result of the circumstances of her environment.

## Biography

### Background and Early Life

Ellie was born a few months after the outbreak of the fungal pandemic. As a result, she grew up in an oppressive military Quarantine Zone in Boston, Massachusetts, with little knowledge of the world before infection. Before she died, Ellie's mother, Anna, asked Marlene to watch Ellie. However, Ellie never really met Marlene until she was 13 years old. After a run-in with the infected in an abandoned mall, Ellie finds out that she is immune.

### Spring, 2025

#### Escape from Boston

Around the time Marlene and Ellie planned to leave Boston for Salt Lake City. Marlene is injured during her search for the smuggler Robert, a man she had initially hired to escort Ellie out of Boston. Desperate to get her out of the city, Marlene hires two well known, feared, and experienced smugglers, Joel and Tess, to escort Ellie out of the city before the military wipes out the Fireflies. She arranges for a small team of Fireflies to meet the three at the Capitol building. Although Ellie insists she's staying with Marlene, the Firefly refuses, hoping that Joel will live up to Tommy's recommendation.

While Tess goes with Marlene to verify the weapons Marlene has promised the pair, Ellie is taken by Joel to an apartment close to the outer wall. While making their way there, Joel asks where her parents are and why Marlene is so fixated on her, among other things. Ellie avoids answering why she is being smuggled but does inform Joel that her parents died and that's she's 14.

Once at the apartment, having avoided the military patrolling to see if anyone is out after curfew, they wait for Tess to arrive. By nightfall, she arrives, the trio deciding to commit and embarking outside the Zone.

The trio soon leave the zone, Ellie is in disbelief that she's "actually outside". Her joy is cut short when she and the others are captured by a military patrol. The soldiers check them for traces of infection, causing Ellie to panic and stab one of the soldiers. The man knocks her down, preparing to shoot but Joel tackles the man and kills him, saving Ellie's life. With the soldiers dealt with, Joel and Tess find that Ellie is infected, but are forced to bring Ellie along when another patrol approaches.

Avoiding the soldiers as they search for them, the trio manages to escape, taking a brief rest. There, Ellie reveals that the Fireflies have "their own little research lab out West", causing Joel to chuckle at the thought of such a thing. Ellie is angered by him but he ignores her as he asks Tess what they should do next. However, Tess actually believes what Ellie claims, desiring to deliver her as requested. Ellie watches as the two briefly argue before following them towards the outskirts.

After a night of facing Infected, the three are almost at their destination. After crossing plank to reach another building, Ellie is taken aback by the view, her child-like wonder briefly reminding Joel of Sarah. They reach the rendezvous point in the Capitol Building, but they find only bodies of Fireflies and the military closing in. Revealing that she has been infected, Tess insists that Ellie and Joel continue on their own while she buys them some time. Ellie feels guilty about this, but Joel ignores her comments about the issue.

The two later reach a town where Joel believes they can meet Bill, a mechanic who owes Joel a favor and can provide them with a car. Ellie reveals during their journey to and through Lincoln that she has never been in the woods until that day nor has she seen real fireflies. She learns that Joel has also never been to Lincoln, making finding Bill difficult. When Joel gets stuck in one of Bill's traps, Ellie works to free him from, avoiding the approaching Infected and providing Joel with ammunition to cover her.

Once Joel is free, a masked man arrives, saving the pair from the approaching Infected and escorts them to a safe house. Once there, Ellie thanks the man and tries to shake hands. However, the man is irritated by their presence. Having disabled many of his traps and alerting an overwhelming swarm of the Infected to their presence in the process, Bill subdues both of them, fearful that they have been bitten. While Bill checks Joel, Ellie manages to break free of her restraints and beats Bill with a pipe, but Joel quickly gets up and stops Ellie from causing further harm. After a brief argument, Joel asks Bill for a car. Bill agrees to put together a car for the two, but tells them that once it is done, he owes Joel no more favors. Joel agrees to his terms, using the given keys to unlock Ellie from the handcuffs.

They head towards a church which Bill has converted in to an armory. As Bill and Joel converse while loading shotguns, Ellie investigates a pile of comics and magazines on a shelf. She secretly takes two of them, a pornography magazine and a *Savage Starlight* comic book. While putting them away, she is caught by Bill who proceeds to shout at her. Ellie tries to defend herself, lying that she was "just fixing [Bill's] stupid pile". In response to the man's ranting, she replies with an obscene gesture, much to Bill's anger. He turns to Joel, stating she will get him killed.

As the pair go to leave, Bill threatens her, but she slyly says she "doesn't need any of [his] shit". Ellie and Joel learn that they have to reach the local high school, as a military vehicle crashed there a while ago, with a new battery still inside.

They leave the church, Ellie noticing a pile of burnt cadavers. Joel tries to dissuade her from staring but she claims she has "seen worse". While making their way through a block full of Infected, Ellie proves to be useful when she can fit through small gaps in doors and over railings. Bill even remarks that "maybe [they] should have given her a gun". When they do reach the school, they find the battery in the truck is gone. With no other options, they fight their way out the back of the school, having to kill the strongest of the Infected - a Bloater - to do so.

The three make it to a house. While Joel and Bill bicker, Ellie finds a seemingly operational truck in Frank's garage. She is rudely ordered out by Bill, who checks to see if it is working, finding the battery drained but the cells alive. He and Joel proceed to kill several Infected on the street but manage to make it to the top of a hill, where Ellie finally starts the truck. Hopping in the back, the pair signal Ellie to keep driving, since more Infected are on the way. They safely make it back to Bill's church.

Bill makes Ellie stop the truck and goes to leave, Joel getting out to say goodbye. Both briefly remark that Ellie held her own against the Infected, but Bill still believes Joel will die soon. Before leaving, he gives Joel a siphon hose so he can obtain gas from abandoned cars. The pair drive on in the direction of Pittsburgh.

#### Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

During the start of the journey, Ellie spends her time in the back reading the *Savage Starlight* article she stole from Bill. Despite saying she isn't tired, she falls asleep during the journey. When she wakes up, she finds Joel has driven all the way to the blocked entrance to Pittsburgh. Joel detours into the city itself, but are ambushed by a pair of hunters. Although they crash, they manage to escape, but are shortly caught by another group of hunters. While Joel is forced to kill a couple of them, Ellie manages to shoot one in order to save Joel, the bandit having Joel's head underwater. Joel confronts her about the use of the pistol, stating that she shouldn't have done that. Ellie retorts, thinking that using the weapon had been her only choice.

They eventually make their way to an overturned semi truck that's blocking their path, and Joel boosts Ellie to the top. On the other side, she finds a pile of burned bones, and warns Joel, who tells her to just get him the ladder. Once on the other side, the two continue down the road until a truck with a machine gun turret appears in the street ahead of them, gunning down two survivors that had ran into the street seconds before. To avoid the truck, they hide in the sewer system beneath the city, where they run into a stalker, and Ellie tells Joel a pun she came up with about Clickers.

Before returning to the surface, Joel gives her the pistol he took from her back at the convenience store, telling her that it *was* either him or Joel, referring to the bandit that Ellie had shot. He takes a second to teach her how to use the weapon, before boosting her to the retracted ladder beneath the half-open manhole. Once outside, the machine turret truck reappears, and they are forced to take shelter in a nearby Starbucks until it passes by.

However, the Starbucks isn't abandoned, and the two are forced into a fight with another pair of survivors, Lee and Clementine. Although the fight eventually breaks up, with Ellie holding her knife to Clementine's throat, everyone eventually calms down and realizes that the other party weren't the hunters outside. Lee offers to take them to their hideout on top of the roof, where they plan out how they are going to get past the guards preventing them from passing the Fort Duquesne bridge. Ellie tries to apologize to Clementine for holding a knife against her throat, but Clementine ignores her. Joel and Lee decide to wait until dark before attempting to sneak through.

When night fell, the two girls are awakened by their protectors, and they prepare to leave. They quickly cross the city to the bridge, killing a couple of bandits that were hanging around a trashcan fire and using one of their bodies to place against the horn of a car nearby to divert attention away from the bridge. While doing this, the body reanimates and grabs onto Clementine, and Ellie is forced to save the girl before she could be bitten. Together, they rendezvous with Joel and Lee before attempting to get through the gate.

However, they are almost immediately found out, the machine gun turret from earlier returning and spotting them. Forcing their way through the door separating them from the street heading to the bridge, they are met with a truck blocking off the road. Joel helps boost Lee to the roof of the truck, before helping Ellie and finally Clementine to the top, the ladder on the side of the truck falling off after the young girl made it to the roof. Lee decides to leave Joel behind, and Ellie jumps down to reunite with Joel. Together, they duck through a side building and emerge onto the street beyond, heading straight for the bridge. Before they could make it there, however, the turret truck crashed through the gate, firing straight at them. They are forced to run for their lives, and when they realize that the bridge was destroyed in the middle, Ellie decides that their only choice is to jump into the river, and that Joel could keep her afloat. Joel jumps in after her, and the two are later rescued by Lee, who had already found out the bridge was destroyed, and had instead gone down to the beach below.

Joel aims his pistol towards Lee when he awakens, and is talked down by Ellie and Clementine, the latter having her own weapon trained on the man. With tensions high, they explore the beach, where Ellie explores a beached boat at the far end with Joel. When she asks Joel if everyone had boats before, he replies with a snarky comment, saying that he used to have a fifty foot yacht, and says that he really didn't when she inquires about it.

#### The Sewers

Ellie and the group are later forced to push on through the sewers, their only way of progressing into the suburbs outside of Pittsburgh. Though they're met with obstacles such as large pools of water and packs of Clickers, the group is able to continue to a small refuge. It is there that Clementine apologizes to Ellie for acting scornful the previous day, the two girls made peace with one another by sharing a candy bar, and each of their stories to each other. Soon after, the group is separated after Clementine and Ellie fall into a current of sewage, the two girls being dragged into the suburbs, having to cooperate to find Lee, Joel and the radio tower they had arranged to meet them at.

#### The Suburbs

Clementine and Ellie bond further after the former suggest they play a question game, which they continue to do until hiking to the top of a mountain where they spot the radio tower they are headed to. The two girls take shelter inside a house where they later spend the night, cooking a nest of eggs and playing a brief game of darts. It is during nightfall that Ellie is caught by Clementine cleaning the infected bite in her arm, forcing her to tell Clem about her immunity and her friend who had since passed away, Riley. Later that night, they're reunited with Lee and Joel, Ellie deciding to likewise tell Lee about her secret. After reaching the tower, and finally coming to terms with Ellie's condition, Clementine and the group fix up an abandoned car, which they use to finally leave the city behind and head to Jackson, where Joel's brother lived.

#### Plattsburg, Missouri

They come to a stop in the small city of Plattsburg, where after being surrounded by infected, they are saved by Dwight, who informs them that he is willing to share supplies with them if they're willing to follow him to a safe-zone named Paradise Outpost. Desperate and uncertain, the group reaches a stalemate that is only solved when Lee proposes to go alone. Keeping in touch with him via a walkie-talkie, Clementine, Joel and Ellie await Lee's return in an abandoned hardware store. Ellie shows Clementine her joke book in an effort to cheer her up, and Clem responds by opening up about Sarah, Jane and the rest of her old group, all of them long gone by then.

***Note: The following is considered non-canon***

When Lee returns, it is discovered that three strangers: Tara, Ben and Troy, had hidden themselves inside the van he drove in, in an attempt to escape from the Saviors and the Paradise Outpost. In the middle of the confusion, Troy drives off with the van with Clementine still aboard.

***End of non-canon material***

### Summer, 2025

#### Jackson County, Wyoming

Ellie's group reaches Jackson after three months of traveling on foot, being greeted by Tommy and Andrea inside the Hydroelectric Dam they used as an outpost. After hearing Clementine ask about her parents to Andrea, Ellie later hangs out on a bridge overlooking the waterfall. Here she talks to Andrea, who tries to get more information about the circumstances surrounding her and Joel. Later, the two talk again, and Andrea reveals that Joel once had a daughter named Sarah.

Andrea offers to take Ellie and Clementine on a horse ride to their community, which they do with the company of Carl, a young boy who resided in that very community. Later that night, Clementine and Ellie attend a gathering of other children, where they each share their own stories around a campfire. One of them, Lydia, fearing that Carl was spending too much time with the newcomers as opposed to her, casually taunted Clementine and Ellie as their conversation progressed. Ellie becomes fed up with it, calling Lydia an 'arrogant bitch' and shocking everyone present. Lydia quickly gets up to her feet and spits on Ellie's face, throwing insults her way as well. In a fit of rage, Clementine punches Lydia across the face, who then charges in Clementine's direction, tackling her, and doing the same while choking the girl. Carl breaks up the fight, and Andrea, upon reaching the scene, takes Ellie and Clementine home.

The two girls are sent to their rooms after a quick briefing with Lee and Joel - the former concernedly bringing Clementine an ice pack for her black eye. Clementine affirms that Ellie can count on her any time, and the two share a fist-bump before going to bed.

The next morning, they're forced to have a meeting about the fight with all the ones present. Tommy settles the issue after a heated discussion, sending them back to their homes with no serious punishments. Once Ellie had been taken to the local infirmary to confirm her immunity, she returned to their home, running into Lydia along the way. The two trade harsh words, and Ellie finally lets the girl pass without incident, though the argument leaves her shaken. At home, Ellie remembers the dream she had that morning, about losing Clementine in a similar fashion that she lost Riley, after finding the photo of herself and Riley that she'd kept with her. She confided in Lee that she missed Riley, and Lee offered her some advice before eventually taking her downstairs to help him make a pizza for dinner that night.

Three days later, Clementine finds Ellie and Carl in the middle of trying to sneak out of Jackson, as Ellie had been prohibited from leaving. Her friend is angered by this, saying she'd tell Tommy if Ellie went along with the idea. Carl quickly catches on, and forces them to reveal that Ellie carried a potential cure to the Cordyceps virus. Realizing why she couldn't leave, Carl is faced with a frustrated Ellie, who storms out, followed by Clementine. They have an argument about Ellie not taking their situation seriously, and Ellie decided to walk away to keep herself from telling Clem to 'fuck off'.

That same day, Lee had been preparing a surprise party for Clementine's birthday. When told of this, upon reaching the house, a regretful Ellie chooses to stay for the girl's sake. Clementine is met with Lee's intricate celebration, filled with the likes of candles and a chocolate cake.

Clementine and Ellie, both eating cake by the steps, reconcile after their fight, with Ellie trying to give Clementine a present, a replacement for a tattered book of hers, only to learn that the old book belonged to Clementine's mother. Clementine explains to Ellie the meaning it had to her, claiming she thought it was 'strange'. Ellie assures her that it isn't, showing some of her own sentimental belongings.

When Lee invites Clementine for a short trip beyond the walls, where he teaches her how to use a rifle, Ellie talked with Joel about the fact Carl knew where to find the Fireflies and that Tommy wasn't going to tell them where they were. When asked if she'd gotten any information out of him, she confirmed that she hadn't, and suggested talk with other members of the community, given that most of the members of Jackson were ex-Fireflies.

Later that day, Ellie learns that Joel intended to leave her to Lee's care, which caused the girl to steal a horse and run away. Clementine and the others were quick to find out about it, mounting on horseback to chase after her. Hours later, they find Ellie in a cabin, though only Joel is able to talk to her, heading inside to do so. After this, Joel decides to stay with the group, and Andrea finally gives them the location to the Fireflies. Even in spite of this, the fact that Ellie did what she did upsets Clementine, who winds up not talking to her for the foreseeable future.

### Fall, 2025

#### University of Eastern Colorado

Months later, Ellie's group finds the University of Eastern Colorado, the supposed home of the Fireflies. They head on through the gates, only to be met with very little. While Lee and Joel attempt to turn on a generator to open a fence, Clementine and Ellie are left watching the horses. After a long period of silence, Clementine proposes a game pitting both their horses against each other to see which one could get to an apple first. Ellie wins, much to Clementine's chagrin. They continue to talk. Clementine, worried that she might have to leave Ellie and Joel after they find the Fireflies, offers Ellie to talk about anything she wanted, hoping to make that day count. Ellie, in a failed attempt to tell Clem about her feelings for her, instead elaborates on her story about Riley and the feelings she had for her. Ellie tells Clementine in tears that she doesn't want what happened to Riley to happen to her too, and Clem, in the heat of the moment, says to her that she isn't leaving her. They hug, both crying at the thought of losing one another.

When Joel and Lee return, they make their way towards the science building, Ellie and Joel sharing a conversation about whether or not Joel had gone to a university before, leading to Joel mentioning Sarah, ending the conversation abruptly as Ellie dug too close to home. They eventually reunite with Clementine and Lee to enter the science building.

While Joel and Lee talked in another room, Clementine and Ellie play a game of I-Spy, though it is quickly snuffed out by the introduction of a bloater. Together, the group manages to take the infected out, finding a cassette player attached to its neck, detailing out where the Fireflies have gone. Before they could move any further, they are attacked by bandits Ellie thought to be Fireflies at first.
Clementine suggests that Ellie and Joel make a break for it while she and Lee stayed behind to hold them off, and Ellie reluctantly does so as Joel drags her away. They fight their way through bandits before Joel ends up being attacked by one on a balcony, sending both of them to the floor below. Ellie climbs down to Joel, finding him pierced by a rebar through his abdomen. Fighting off bandits, she helps him to his feet, and they head through the building towards the exit.

While Joel continues to weaken, Ellie is forced to kill several Hunters to get him out of there. By the time they reach the horses, Joel could barely stand. When Clementine rushes out, telling them that Lee is still with the bandits, Ellie begrudgingly tells her that they can't go back for him, because she has to get Joel out of there to save his life. At that moment, Joel falls unconscious, slipping off the horse, and the two are forced to drag him away, leaving Lee behind.

### Winter, 2025

In the wake of Lee's 'death', Ellie and Clementine take shelter in an abandoned mall near the University of Eastern Colorado, where the two girls are forced to tape down one of Ellie's old shirts over Joel's wounds to keep him from bleeding out. Forced to find something to patch Joel up, the two set out to find something akin to a first aid kit inside the mall, making their way to a Weston's Pharmacy, where a medium-sized med-kit behind a locked door seemed to be their best shot at finding what they needed. Ellie knocks out the glass from the window on the door, and Clem tries to help Ellie climb into it. Ellie gets stuck, however, and Clementine has to force her through while the sound of clickers approaching their position exacerbated the situation.

    The med-kit turns out to be a bust, and Ellie unlocks the door to let Clementine in, pointing out their next destination: a military helicopter perched on the second floor of the mall. The two make their way there, where they argue over who would go out and search the helicopter, both being too afraid of losing the other if they were the ones to go out. In the end, Clementine lets Ellie go, and the older girl makes her way there. Her presence shifts the helicopter, almost sending it crashing to the ground below, but their efforts are rewarded with a small med-kit. Together, they make their way back to Joel, where they come across several recently deceased bandits and take their supplies. Ellie asks Clementine to patch Joel up, and helps her with it.

The next day, the two find themselves coming across an old ranger station in the middle of the woods, deciding to take shelter there for the night. Finding walkers inside, the two struggle to take them out, with Ellie slipping on ice and falling on her butt. Once they were dispatched, though, they make their way inside. While searching the place, Ellie finds a bottle of Southern Comfort whiskey, and a balcony with a fire pit that'd serve as their rest spot for the night.

While sitting at the fire, Clementine confides in Ellie that she was 'fucking scared', and Ellie tries to comfort her by putting an arm around her and saying that they'd be okay, and that they should tell fear to 'fuck off'. Clementine is left weeping while Ellie tries to comfort her.

#### A week later...

With Joel still resting, Ellie and Clementine are forced to hunt for food, with their reserves from the mall running low. After hunting down a deer and managing to kill it, they are confronted by a pair of strangers, Henry and James, who claim to be part of a larger group nearby. After a hostile interaction, Ellie eventually makes a deal with them to give them half of the deer in exchange for some medicine for Joel, and Henry sends James to fetch it. Clementine, Ellie, and Henry take shelter in a nearby home, Clementine forcing Henry to drag the deer with them, where Henry eventually confronts them about being with the group that attacked them at the University of Eastern Colorado. Ellie raises the rifle she took from him, but Clementine is the one to actually attack him, holding a knife to his throat. He claims that they didn't kill Lee, which Clementine immediately claimed to be a lie. James returns then, forcing Clementine to drop the knife. Henry tells James to give them the medicine and let them go, and the two argue about it for a moment before it's eventually settled. Ellie drags Clementine out of there while Henry offers to reunite them with Lee, choosing to believe her friend that there's no way they would've left Lee alive.

They make their way back to the house Joel is resting in, and Ellie injects him with the penicillin. Ellie and Clementine argue about whether or not they should leave the area or stand their ground, but before they could come to a decision, it becomes obvious that they were followed. With the choice gone, the two girls climb aboard Callus to distract the bandits away from Joel. Callus gets shot, though, and dies in the snow, while Clementine is captured and Ellie makes a run for it, eventually getting captured too by Henry.

They awaken in a cage at the back of a butchering room, where they witness James chopping up a dead body. Henry pulls them out of there to take to a basement nearby, where Lee is being held, and interrogates them all. He suggests playing a game, where he'd ask them a question, and if they lied to him, he'd hurt someone else in the group. He asks Ellie why they were snooping around the Firefly base, and Ellie lies to him. He cuts off Clementine's finger as a result, causing the girl to pass out and Lee trying to attack him. After kicking Lee and his chair over, he knocks the man out with a kick to the face, before his guards remove him from the room. With the questions cut short, Ellie is taken back to the cell while Clementine is hauled off for medical attention.

Later, Henry approaches Ellie in her cell, where Ellie tells him that she was going to tell him what he wanted to know, and that he didn't have to do what he did. Henry says that she did, but, he believes that 'every action needs a consequence', and that it was her fault what happened to Clementine. Ellie calls him a monster, which he scoffs at, asking her if she believed that he *wanted* to be the way it was, and that the world forced you to do whatever you could to survive. He mentions that he didn't mean to hurt his brother, which Ellie uses against him to try and calm him down, and Henry tells her that he wouldn't let what happened to his brother happen to her, and that she was strong, and special. Placing a hand on hers, Ellie plays along, only to rip Simmons's bottom lip off after he tries to kiss her, stating that he can tell his people that it was 'Ellie' who bit his 'fucking lip off'.

As punishment, Henry leaves to cut Lee's hand off, and later returns to kill Ellie, who uses her infection as an excuse not to be butchered. She attacks Henry and James, burying a cleaver into James's throat before burying it in Henry's stomach. She makes a run for it, dragging a mostly unconscious Clementine through the Hunters's town.

They eventually make their way inside a restaurant, where Ellie lays an unconscious Clementine against the side of a booth. She tries the entrance door, but is met with Henry, who locks the door. A fire is started due to candles on a table nearby being overturned, and it eventually engulfs the whole wall of the restaurant. Henry threatens to kill Clementine, who attacks him to get away. Ellie stabs him, which only enrages him further, while Ellie hides once more. With Henry's attention on her, she tries to stay out of his sight while he goads her, eventually stabbing him again. Having enough, Henry grabs Clementine and holds his machete to her throat. Ellie rushes him, and the two are sent to the ground, the machete sliding away from both of them. Ellie tries crawling to it, but Henry prevents her from doing so by kicking her stomach. Eventually, he ends up on top of her, choking her, and she reaches for the machete, killing him with it.

After repeatedly burying the machete in his face, Joel stops her from doing any more damage, and Ellie frantically tries to get away, assuming Joel was just another bandit. He gets her to calm down, and the two share a moment of relief to see each other safe and sound. The three head outside to find Lee in the infirmary.

#### The Cabin in the Woods

After finding Lee in the infirmary, and subsequently, what he'd done to the Hunter and the doctor taking care of him, the four escape from the Hunters and find a remote cabin in the woods. There, they finally have a moment of rest, where Ellie finds the whiskey she'd found at the ranger station stashed in her backpack. After having too much of the alcohol, Ellie is interrupted by Clementine, who takes the bottle away from her and tries to comfort her friend when Ellie confides in her about her fear that she'd get them all killed, singling out Clementine as the one she feared to lose the most. When the moment gets too emotional for Ellie to handle, she finds herself kissing Clementine on the cheek before immediately coming to her senses, apologizing and practically running out of the room.

When she reached the front door of the cabin, she found Joel and Lee talking on the porch, and she demands them to tell her what they were talking about since whatever it was seemed to be *serious*. When they refused to answer her, she stormed back inside, finding the bedroom she'd just ran away from thankfully empty. Joel later comes into talk to her, stating that next time she wanted to drink something to 'do it when they're safe', and Ellie tells him that she'd been worried that Joel would die and she had no idea what to do in his absence. He tells her that, sometimes, he didn't know what to do either, and Ellie brings up how she 'fucked things up' with Clementine, to which he reassures her that they are close friends and he is sure that they'd work it out. It was then that he tells her that Lee has decided that he and Clementine would return to Jackson, which results in Ellie breaking down into tears.

The next morning, she finds Clementine skipping rocks near the river, and the two talk about how 'fucking crap' this was. Ellie thanks her for everything, and it seems that both of them don't want to talk about what happened the night before with the kiss. When Clementine tells her that Ellie 'better come back', Ellie tells her that she'd made a promise and intended to keep it. They are then interrupted by Lee, who ushers them back to the cabin in order to say their final goodbyes and move on.

### Spring, 2026

#### Salt Lake City, Utah

Upon reaching Salt Lake City, Ellie is almost a shadow of her former self. Lost in thought, with a disquietude that left Joel unsettled. The two make their way through the ruins of the city, approaching Saint Mary's Hospital. On the way, Ellie confides in Joel that the reason why she felt she had 'fucked up' with Clementine before, back at the cabin, was because she'd kissed her. She asked for his advice on what to do when they got back, and Joel responded by telling her that she cannot let it fester, that she should 'rip off the bandaid'. Ellie, bolstered by Joel's words, promises that she will.

They delve into a tunnel leading towards Saint Mary's, where the bus they jump onto to cross the gap suddenly lurches, pulling itself free and sinking into the rushing water. Ellie tries to save Joel from drowning inside the bus, but drowned instead. Joel pulled her out of the water, attempting to perform CPR on her, only to be stopped by a pair of Firefly soldiers, who knocked him out.

Ellie woke up much later, in a hospital gown, and Joel told her that the Fireflies have stopped looking for a cure, that there was dozens of people like Ellie, and the research had gone nowhere. He told her that he was taking her home, back to Jackson. Ellie, left feeling empty, says nothing and rolled over in the back seat.

#### Jackson County

Their car eventually breaks down not too far from Jackson, near a carnival that had been abandoned since the apocalypse began. They explore the place, and Ellie played a game where she shot tiny balls at cowboys on stands, which Joel would promptly knock over for her. She does eventually knock them all over, 'winning' a stuffed dog that Joel gives her.

When they reach the ridge overlooking Jackson, Ellie stopped Joel, talking about how Riley had been the first to die, because of her. Joel told her that everything that happened wasn't on her, and that 'no matter what, you keep finding something to fight for'. She forced him to swear to her that everything he said about the Fireflies was true, which he begrudgingly swears to.

They are greeted at the gate by Andrea and Lydia, the latter of which is none to happy to see Ellie. Trying to avoid a conflict, Ellie asked Joel if they could go see Clementine and Lee, to which Joel agreed. When they arrive at Lee's house, the other man greeted them with disbelief and relief, while Clementine practically squished Ellie into a hug and moved on to do the same to Joel. Lee asked what happened with the Fireflies, and Joel gave him the same speech he gave Ellie the day before, which caused Ellie to run upstairs and hide in her old bedroom, which was now Clementine's. After Joel excused himself to see Tommy, Clementine headed upstairs to talk to Ellie, where the two talk about what happened and Ellie eventually confessed to Clementine that she liked her. *Like* liked her. Clementine admitted that she liked Ellie too, and they decide to try and take things slow.

Later that night, Joel, Ellie, Clementine, and Lee share a game of poker on one of the watchtowers near the main gate, where Clementine eventually wins the game.

The next day, after some planning and convincing, Ellie took Clementine out of the walls and up one of the mountains near Jackson, where they had a picnic. Clementine told her that this was the best date she'd ever been on (and, well, the only date they'd ever been on), and after Clementine accidentally said that she loved Ellie, the older girl kissed her. Their date, though, is interrupted by a gunshot in the distance, prompting them to head back to Jackson as soon as possible.

They are met at the gate by Lee, who questioned what they had been doing all day, and outside the walls, and Clementine told him that they were just on a run, and that it was no big deal. Finally putting it down, Lee took them home.

A few days later, they are put on a work detail over at the dam, where a certain canine freaked out Clementine at Lydia's insistence, only causing Clementine to flee the scene and head up to the top of the dam. Ellie went after her, and tried to calm her down. The two remain there for a while, taking in the scenery.

Later that day, they are called into Tommy's office for questioning after Dwight was discovered dead. Clementine told them that they just went up one of the mountains to have a picnic, then they headed home after hearing a gunshot, which Andrea responded to by saying that they should've reported that to them. After they questioned Lydia, an altercation was heard from outside, which caused Tommy to head out and see what it was about. They found Joel and Lee fighting with the guards outside the door, insistent that they see Ellie and Clem after the two had been taken without consulting them first. Ellie insisted that they were done, and asked if they could go home, which Joel asked Tommy if they were *really* done. Once he got the affirmative, they head back home.

### Summer, 2026

#### June

After Joel comes back from a run, he starts to teach Ellie how to play guitar.

A few months after the Dwight fiasco, Ellie and Clementine decided to cut each other's hair. Later that day, Negan arrives at the gates of Jackson, with Joel, Lee, and Tommy as prisoners. After Clementine tries to shoot them, Ellie is forced to stop her, and later follows the girl outside as Lee collapsed onto the ground. After Lee is taken away for medical care due to a gunshot wound on his leg, Negan tells Clementine that he'd give her a lesson in gun safety, and tells her to shoot Tommy. This leaves Ellie baffled and terrified, unsure on what to do to stop it from happening, or if she even could. She tries to stop Clementine from shooting him, but ultimately the girl has to, while Ellie is tackled to the floor by Bud. Afterwards, Negan approaches her and asks what she had to say to him since she 'seemed to rush to him to say it', and she tells him that she has nothing to say to him.

Later that afternoon, after the Saviors had left, Ellie visited Clementine at her house, telling her that it wasn't her fault what happened with Tommy, which Clementine doesn't seem to accept. Ellie tells her that she loves her, and she'd keep telling her that it wasn't her fault until she accepts it. Afterwards, Joel and she bury Tommy, while the rest of the community had a meeting about what to do with the Saviors, the question of leadership, and what to do with Clementine. Ellie finds out from Andrea that Tripp had become the new leader in Jackson, and the community voted to kick Clementine out. Horrified, Ellie rushes to Clementine's to stop her, but ultimately gets there too late, the same happening at the gate, where she is forced to return to her home after trying to go after her. She destroys her room in a fitful rage.

#### July

After burning her bite with battery acid to conceal it, Ellie meets a girl named Kat, who offers to cover it up with a tattoo. Later, Ellie visits her shack on the edge of town, where she decides on a tattoo, gets advice about Clementine, and smokes marijuana for the first time.

Eleven days later, after finding the ranch she'd run off to a year prior, Ellie runs into Clementine again, who is living there. Distraught, Ellie tries to make amends with Clementine, glad to see her again, but Clementine tells her that she's planning to leave Jackson for good, to go to Salt Lake City, and that Ellie should just forget about her. Ellie tells her that there's nothing to find in Salt Lake, and tells her that she's smarter than that, to run away like that. Clementine reverses this on her, saying that Ellie wouldn't follow her because she's also 'smarter than that'. Ellie, hurt and angry, ends the conversation with a "Fuck you, Clementine," leaving Clementine behind in what she assumes would be for good.

#### August

A few days after her run-in with Clementine, Ellie is paired with Lydia on a project to take apart and clean a rifle in their survival class, where Ellie acknowledges what Lydia did for Clementine and tries to apologize for everything she said the year prior. Lydia, infuriated, says that she's sorry that Ellie was 'too busy digging a hole to support her best friend', and that Clementine would be 'so happy to see her hanging out with that tattoo artist slut that worked for the same gang that screwed her life up'. Ellie, taken aback, could only ask that Kat was a Savior, which left her baffled. She leaves the classroom, crying in the front lawn of the church.

That afternoon, she heads out on a scavenging run to blow off some steam, where she runs into a pair of infected that nearly kill her, and a man named Jacques, who stabs her in the shoulder twice. She kills the man, and heads back to Jackson, where she's patched up by Eleanor, who offers her an apprenticeship at the infirmary after Tripp takes her off the scavenging team. Ellie accepts, and Eleanor questions her about her acid burn mark where her bite used to be, stating that she could've helped her hide it more safely. Kat knocks on her door then, and Eleanor leaves them alone to talk. Ellie, at first uneasy about talking to the Savior, eventually opens up about the fact Lydia had told her about Kat being with the Saviors, stating that she knows it's unfair to treat her any differently, and doesn't want to, but she's being called a 'fake fuck' for being her friend and doesn't know what to do. Kat states that she doesn't have to be her friend if she doesn't want her to, which Ellie replies with that she did. The two eventually reaffirm their friendship, as Ellie sees Kat as just another 'victim of the system', and refuses to treat her like shit because of who she was forced to live with.

## Killed Victims

This list shows the victims Ellie has killed:

* Tobias
* Freddy *(Caused)*
* Reggie (Savior) *(Caused)*
* Henry Simmons
* James (Hunter)
* 5 Unnamed Hunters
* Jacques
* Numerous counts of infected

## Relationships

### Joel

> "*It hit her like an oncoming truck. Also the type you don’t wake up from. Her blood turned to ice, and she could imagine the rest of her face started to look like that too.*
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Upon meeting Joel, Ellie originally had a rocky relationship with him. Ellie struggled to make him trust her, the man initially believing that she was lying about being immune to the infection. She was unable to talk about anything personal with him, the man shutting her out when she brought up matters like Tess's deaths. As time passed, the two have grown closer, and Ellie has gotten used to having him around. After hearing about Sarah, though, she's conflicted on what to think about him, but still hopes that they'll see this mission through, together.

When she overheard him trying to dump her off on Lee to take to the Fireflies, the trust she'd built with him practically demolished itself in an instant. Deciding that she'd rather get away from everyone than to sit there and accept her fate, she fled to a ranch outside of Jackson, where Joel eventually caught up to her. They fought, and Ellie eventually came to the realization that Joel wasn't going to change his mind, and met his words with a resigned 'fuck you'. When he eventually came around upon returning to Jackson, she was taken by surprise, and found herself conflicted on what to feel about the man. When he confirmed that he wasn't about to turn against her again, she finally forgave him. Months later, she looks up to him like a father she never got to have, and their rapport has strengthened through their hardships. She'd go through any lengths to keep them together, and firmly believes that Joel would be there until the bitter end.

Waking up in a van, after Joel dealt with the Fireflies, Ellie's unsure on what to think about Joel, and has suspicions that he's not telling her the truth about the Fireflies. She puts distance between herself and him, unable to bring it up after everything that was said on the cliffside overlooking Jackson. She still trusts him, though, whether or not she saw it as a 'good thing'.

Though their relationship grew closer while living in Jackson, the final nail in the coffin came when Jackson's fall came, and Scott Turner revealed to her that the cure was still a possibility. And when Joel refused to tell her what happened with the Fireflies, she leaves him in hopes of finding the group once more.

### Clementine

> "*With everything that happened after, all the good and the bad, and how desperately she missed Clementine, and Kat, and Riley, and everyone else she’d managed to get close with since leaving Boston—even Lydia—the part that hurt the most was knowing that they never should’ve happened in the first place.*
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While Ellie and Clementine didn't see eye-to-eye when they had first met, the two eventually became very close friends, going as far as for Ellie to begin to think that maybe Clementine meant more to her than Riley had. The two have experienced hardship together in their journey to find the Fireflies, and they are nearly inseparable sometimes. With time, Ellie began to develop fears that Clementine would die on this journey, and that it'd be all her fault, but after the last time she's mentioned it to the girl, she keeps it bottled up inside herself, choosing not to speak about it. Despite having only known the girl for a handful of months, the very thought of losing her friend is almost too much to bear, and drives her protectiveness of the teenager to make sure that nothing ever happens to her.

By the time they reach the supposed headquarters of the Fireflies in Colorado, that fear she'd lose Clementine reached its peak. Not only because she wasn't sure if they'd still stick together after they joined with the Fireflies, but the potential that something could happen that could get her friend killed. After she reveals to Clementine that she *liked* Riley in an attempt to keep herself from confessing her attraction to *Clem*, she confesses that fear she'd lose her friend once again, without holding back this time. The two share a hug, and promise that they'd never leave each other. For Ellie, that promise meant more than she could ever voice to the girl.

After Lee is left behind, and presumed dead, Ellie grew ever more protective of her friend, and when the two spend the night in the ranger station in Colorado, she holds the girl close as her friend wept, confessing just how scared she was to Ellie. With only each other for support, Ellie does whatever she can to make her friend feel better, because she owed Clementine a debt that she believed that she couldn't repay any time soon.

After the horrors Ellie lived through at the hands of Henry Simmons, she's comforted by Clementine after getting drunk, leading to Ellie to finally confess her feelings for her with a kiss on the cheek. However, she instantly regrets it, that feeling exacerbated by the fact that Clementine didn't seem to feel the same way. Ellie tries to maintain a respectful distance the next day, after Ellie finds out that Lee is taking Clem back to Jackson and abandoning their journey to the Fireflies. For her, it was the only thing she could think of to try and begin repairing their friendship.

Months later, after Joel brings up the proposition to head back to Jackson instead of finishing their journey to the Fireflies, Ellie finds herself thinking about the girl once more, going as far as to ask Joel for advice on what she should do when they did finally return. Deep down, she wanted to finally get everything off her chest, to finally tell Clementine how she really felt.

After returning to Jackson, and subsequently having Clementine help her deal with her feelings regarding the Fireflies and the cure, Ellie finally fessed up about liking Clementine. She was surprised when Clementine admitted that she had feelings for her too, and the two agreed to take it slow. Soon after, Ellie takes Clementine out on a 'date' to eat lunch on top of a nearby mountain, where the two share their first kiss - which also was Clementine's *real* first - and decide, through Ellie's horrible flirting, to start dating.

Their relationship is put to the test when Negan arrives at Jackson, forcing Clementine to kill Tommy, and the community to kick her out. Six weeks pass without a word from the baseball-capped girl, and with the help of Kat, Ellie had finally begun to move on, until a time comes where Ellie runs into Clementine again, at the ranch she'd run off to a year prior. Here, Clementine ultimately informs Ellie that she is leaving Jackson for Salt Lake City, and that Ellie was better off just forgetting about her. Heartbroken, Ellie curses her, leaving the ranch in a teary mess. She has no idea if she'll ever see Clementine again, or if she ever wants to.

Months later, she'd come to terms with the fact that she'd been irrational about Clementine, and that she had no right to try and force her to stay in Jackson when her parents might still be out there. With no chance to tell her that, she found it easier to just not think about her, and hope that Clementine finds what she's looking for.

When joining a supply run puts Ellie into a group with Clementine, Ellie was at first surprised. Seeing her in Jackson was a shock in of itself, and seeing how quickly Clementine brushed her off felt like a knife being stabbed into her heart. During the beginning of their journey, she stuck by Kat's side, to avoid any confrontation with her girlfriend, though that'd swiftly come to an end when they are forced to camp in the woods as a storm blew in. Passive-aggressive comments being thrown her way by Lydia, with Clementine seemingly goading them on, Ellie eventually tries to pull her away to talk to her, but is shut down when the girl decides to play a game instead. At first, Ellie was furious with her, for putting her into a position where all she could do was sit there and take whatever Lydia threw her way, but in the end, she refused to throw it back. After landing on Kat, she landed on Clementine, and told her how she really felt about what happened at the ranch and Clementine's desire to find her parents. When Clementine asked if she wanted to break up with her, Ellie immediately told her that she didn't, and they she never did.

Upon returning to Jackson, things got complicated after Clementine had found out about her parents being dead from Joel. With months of taking care of Clementine in the midst of a severe depression, Ellie grew more and more distant from the girl. Their relationship came to a head when Ellie went out on a hunting trip with Kat, who came over after to give her a new tattoo, and promptly get told to leave when Clementine arrived. Though their mutual coldness towards one another lasted into the night, during their infiltration of the Savior camp, it briefly reignited when they shared a moment atop a roof after narrowly escaping death.

It would last only so long, though, as Clementine's incessant drive to 'rescue' AJ led Ellie into murdering several innocent Saviors, and AJ's adoptive mother, before they are forced on the road. Ellie, still holding onto a shred of hope that things could work out, tried making amends with Clementine, desperately saying that she loved her, but in the end, things ultimately fell apart the moment AJ tried running away, and Clementine forced her hand by alienating the boy.

The hardest decision she'd ever made was to leave Clementine behind in Tripp's care, in hopes it would save AJ's life. She only hoped that the decision was worth it, and that she would never have to face Clementine again.

### Katrina Morris

> "*I’ve never properly thanked you. For everything you did for me, after the Saviors showed up. You didn’t have to give a shit. About my skin burn. About how I felt. The anger and the hurt. You could’ve been like every other Savior I’ve ever met, looking down on anyone who isn’t you. But that isn’t you. You pick people up. You look at the silver linings. So many people don’t do that anymore, no matter what side you’re on. You might’ve grown up as a Savior, but you were never really one of them. Just a kind soul trapped in the same system we’re in. Knowing what I know about you, if I treated you like a monster, then it’s me who would be.*"
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Ellie's friendship with Katrina can easily be compared to how things were with her and Clementine before their relationship started. While there's some obvious differences, such as Kat's laid-back attitude, tattoo abilities, and her love for marijuana, they both at one point or another attempted to support Ellie during moments of emotional duress.

Things grew strenuous between them when Ellie found out from Lydia that Kat was a Savior, which - along with Ellie's interaction with Clementine at the ranch a few days prior - led to Ellie leaving Jackson to blow off some steam, nearly dying to a Seraphite in the process. In the infirmary, Ellie's friendship with the Savior is reaffirmed when Ellie admits that she doesn't want her out of her life, no matter how much Lydia used her as ammunition against her.

Later, during a supply run with Carl, Clementine, Kat, and Lydia, Ellie gives Kat her honest opinion about her during the 'answer game'. She states that if she would've hated Kat for being a Savior, then maybe she'd have been the monster herself.

After Clementine's depressive episode began, Ellie stopped seeing Kat. Though there were rare cases where they did meet up, it wasn't really until around April 2027 that Ellie fully started to embrace having Kat in her life again, as a means to relieve the stress placed on her by being Clementine's caretaker.

But when Ellie left her behind at the Savior Outpost during the Seraphite invasion, Ellie had broken whatever trust she'd built between herself and Kat, to the point that when they reunited at Ericson, it's immediately clear that she would have a mountain to climb to gain it back. And, for a girl who had resigned to having nothing, wanted it.

Though it's unclear if Ellie has romantic feelings for Kat, even by Ericson Ellie doesn't seem to want to give her up. She even offers her to leave Ericson with her in favor of a secluded cabin in Colorado, though expects that she wouldn't want to. Firmly, she holds the belief that no one wants to be around her, and that she deserves nothing more than that after the things she'd done to Clementine and Kat. It was surprising, then, when Kat agreed to come, once Ellie had gained her trust and Lydia and Violet had returned to Ericson.

### Lydia

> "*Don't talk to me about 'sorry', you fake fuck.*"
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Though initially Ellie and Lydia weren't on bad terms, things went quickly south after Ellie called her out for acting 'like a bitch' towards her and Clementine. This resulted in the blonde spitting in her face and calling her a whore, and Clementine punching Lydia. The fight resulted in each of them getting in trouble, and Ellie resented the girl for a while after that encounter, trying to keep her distance.

After returning to Jackson from Salt Lake City, Ellie is first greeted by Andrea and Lydia, who remarks that Clementine would be *so glad* to see her. She doesn't acknowledge the remark, too tired of dealing with the girl's bullshit to fight back.

Later, after Clementine is kicked out of Jackson by Tripp, the two are forced to work together on taking apart and cleaning a rifle, where Ellie tries to apologize for everything she'd said and done before, and while Lydia initially seems to apologize, it quickly turns into her going off on Ellie about hanging around with Kat and not being there for Clementine when she got kicked out. Shocked to find out that Kat was a Savior, Ellie left crying.

She has avoided Lydia ever since. The first time she allows herself to get near the girl is when she joins Lydia, Clementine, Carl, and Kat on a journey outside the walls to get Clementine something to trade for a horse.

They briefly, after several heated fights, found common ground when they were captured by Seraphites in Pocatello, and Lydia was subjected to crucifixtion, which Ellie saves her from. Ellie had found the change to be welcome, despite knowing she'd have to walk on eggshells around the girl at all times, but was willing to do it for Clementine's sake.

Of course, that changed after Clementine cut ties with Lydia in the worst way possible. When revealed that Lydia wanted, and most likely would, murder Clementine, and that 'no one would ever find out that it was her, just like with Dwight', she was simply too terrified to say anything more. They rarely saw each other after that, until Lydia came to Ellie's house one day to insist that she should just accept that they aren't friends anymore, which Ellie refused to buy into. The last time they spoke, Lydia had said she's just as stupid as Carl.

Hearing that she was at Ericson prior to her arrival, Ellie is filled with a sense of dread to reunite with her.

### Riley

> "*But… I wasn't just anyone, was I?*"
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Riley Abel is the first to befriend and trust Ellie after her arrival to the Boston military zone. The two eventually develop romantic feelings towards each other and share an intimate relationship.

However, their relationship starts off roughly; though Ellie was grateful for Riley's assistance when she is ganged up on by bullies, she is not appreciative of Riley's stealing her Walkman and nor constantly referring to her as a "kid". However, when the two choose to escape the zone together, Ellie and Riley open up to each other.

Riley reveals her desires of a future beyond the zone with the Fireflies. Riley's bravado emboldens Ellie on their short journey outside the zone, so much so that she is willing to risk her own life to save her in any given situation. This is partially the cause for Ellie's sadness and confusion when Riley leaves without notice to join the Fireflies.

When Riley finally returns to Ellie after forty-six days, Ellie is somewhat upset with Riley over the extended absence, which caused Ellie to believe that Riley was dead. However, Riley tries to make it up to Ellie by taking her exploring through a mall early in the morning. Over the course of the excursion, the two begin to rekindle their friendship.

When Riley tells Ellie that Marlene is having her sent to a group of Fireflies in another city, Ellie tells her friend that she should go and follow what she's always wanted to do. Though, as their time together progresses, Ellie's feelings for Riley grow stronger; she eventually pleads Riley to stay with her. Riley agrees without hesitation. When their hopes of escape are dashed, Ellie continues to support Riley's beliefs even though her friend has lost hope herself. Riley's resulting death from Cordyceps infection affected Ellie deeply, motivating her to put her immunity to good use.

## Trivia

* Ellie is the only known human to be immune to the Cordyceps Brain Infection.

* In the meta chats, Ellie is notoriously known for flirting with Clementine, which initially started as a joke during the Suburbs arc.
* Ellie has Monophobia, the fear of being alone.
* Ellie has a habit of rubbing her nose, wringing her hands together, and scratching at the back of her neck especially in situations that could be seen as stressful or awkward. This implies towards a nervous tic.
* Ellie owns a joke book that she will read aloud during downtime in the hopes of lightening the mood.
* Ellie's joke book was given to her by Riley.
* Joel and Clementine are the only people Ellie has entrusted with what really happened the night she got bitten.
* Ellie suffers from a serious case of survivor's guilt from surviving the encounter with the infected with Riley, and from not being able to deliver the cure to the Fireflies and save the world. She carries that with her, bottling it up until she's alone long enough to think about it.
* Ellie is a sap. Clementine and Riley can confirm.
* Dot is a literal machine and speed demon when it comes to chugging out content. Ellie wears her heart on her sleeve which is a big part of the way he writes her I notice. Dot won't hold back on giving you truckloads of juicy and revealing content in regards to what is going on upstairs in that pun-loving girl's brain which is always a joy to read. If I was playing Ellie I honestly think I'd get pretty stumped on how to make her behave, especially when it comes to rp stuff outside of the canon content in the first game. I'm relieved we got a solid mind behind a solid portrayal.