Ellie returns to Jackson but keeps her distance from him. She knocks Abby away from Ellie and slashes her arms and face. Ellie shows no signs of being affected by the fungus, though her bite does have small fungi growing around the mark. At the time, though, she does not know the exact location of the Firefly lab. She is physically stronger, enabling her to use human enemies as shields and she can craft arrows,[53] as well as use larger melee weapons such as machetes and hammers, which she can also disarm from her opponents[65] though her preferred close range weapon is her switchblade. She leaves the house she is caring Joel within and searches for food in a nearby forest. [35][36] At one point, Joel states he is going to teach Ellie how to play the guitar and how to swim. In his office, Ellie is flippant with his show of authority despite the open reading of her rap sheet in previous homes. Ellie finds the fuel tank empty, so they decide to continue searching the district. After Ellie stabs David from behind once with her switchblade, he throws her off and attempts to shoot her with his revolver, missing as she takes cover. This section is in need of major improvement. The Anti-Body giver her a gun to protect herself. [37][38] Having lost many people in her life, she suffers from severe monophobia and survivor's guilt. [96] Johnson is currently nominated for Best Voice Performance at the 19th Game Audio Network Guild Awards. Ellie continues on and finds Owen Moore's belongings. Joel coaxes her to leave and forget about the group.[52]. [6] An early alternative name for the character was Lily; Druckmann chose Ellie as he had considered the name for his daughter. During a brutal fight, Joel is impaled in the abdomen and leaves the fighting to Ellie.[37]. Tommy understands and offers Joel, and by extension Ellie, a place at Jackson for when they return, indicating that Tommy did grow fond of Ellie in their short time together. After returning to Jackson, Ellie is in a traumatized state after what has transpired, and Tommy approaches her in her room. [19][21], For Part II, Ellie's look underwent years of iteration; the team wanted a logical transition from the first game while maintaining a "practical yet personal" outfit. This is partially the cause for Ellie's sadness and confusion when Riley leaves without notice to join the Fireflies. After the bandit attack, Tommy, seeing the relationship between the two, reconsiders and is willing to take Ellie to the Fireflies. [63] Eurogamer's Oli Welsh felt the characters were developed with "real patience and skill". She suggests various terrible scenarios that could happen to Ellie if he takes her back out into the world, such as death by being torn to pieces by a pack of clickers, sexual assault, and murder committed by thugs. Druckmann also intended for the opening shot to begin with Sarah, and the ending shot to end with Ellie. [13], Though the two resign themselves to the end and chose to wait together until they die, Riley is the only one of the two that succumbs to the fungal infection; Ellie survives.[14]. Ellie is the trueProxyin this story.Its highly probable that this series takes place in the same universe as Marble Hornets, as the Slender Man acts more likethe Operator, and the Operator symbol is commonly used in the series.She bears strong similarities withAlex Kralie.Both are helping the Slender Man (whether it be indirectly or directly)Both seek to murder their friends for what they think is the "greater good. Ellie takes this as a sign Tommy is close. Joel resists but Ellie makes him wear it, insisting he should because it is her birthday. He makes use of broken plates on the floor throughout the building to find Ellie if she steps on them. Leslie and Jess become best friends, and the novel centers on their friendship. [46], Weeks later at Tommy's community, however, the relationship recovers with the two bonding once more when Joel plays a song for her and gifts her a guitar, keeping his promise to teach her how to play. A brave, 14-year-old girl, Ellie has grown up in this harsh world and it is all she has ever known. His first full-length film as writer/director was the horror comedy .more 2 Eli Manning 01-03-1981 15 Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana They find some fresh weed hidden in a jar, and the two decide to smoke and wait out the storm. [20][33] However, as time passed, Ellie establishes not only a daughter-father relationship, but a bond of protection with Joel. Joel starts to tell Ellie about a joke Tommy told him that he thought she would like, but he can't remember it. As the restaurant slowly goes up in flames, he locks the exit and taunts Ellie, telling her that she has nowhere to go and would need to take the keys from him if she wanted to leave. Despite only meeting in person a total of three times, Ellie's relationship with Abby was defined by revenge, animosity and loss. Ellie tries to play it, but her lack of two fingers makes it impossible to play correctly. When Joel was murdered, while Maria was against abandoning Jackson to pursue his killers, she relented and allowed Ellie to pursue them, displaying an understanding of Ellie's conviction and repressed daughterly love for her now deceased father. [68] Neil Druckmann, the game's creative director, spoke of the change, saying "after delving further into the game's narrative over the past few months, we decided to modify Ellie's model to better reflect Ashley's personality, and also resemble a slightly younger teen more fitting to the story. She apologized to the soldier scanning her moments before stabbing him in the leg and hoped to incapacitate him and Ramirez with non-lethal means. Riley leads them out of a window onto scaffolding. In the DLC "Tiny Tina's Assault On Dragon Keep" however, the player has the option to give her a small metal bikini. He was also reminded of Sarah when Ellie was in awe of the view of the Capitol building, briefly thinking back to her in the moment. [53], Ellie's character received generally positive feedback. She does not show any other significant reactions to her bite. Ellie picks it up and plays it by the window. Joel is immediately opposed and demands Marlene find someone else. She also often wears blue colored clothing rather than her usual red. [52][54], Her years of battling the infected and bandits have made her far more resilient then most people due to her having sustained numerous injuries over the years. [13] She is relatively inexperienced compared to Joel, as she is often surprised when alone and is easily snuck up upon; David remarks she is "easy to track", the man successfully strangling her unconscious despite her drawing her switchblade on him. [12] After they kill the hunters, Ellie both feeling impressive but sinister for having killed them, Joel finally feels Ellie has earned the right to carry a pistol, though he declares it is "for emergencies only". Having wanted to be an astronaut for years, Ellie remarks that it is her favorite room as she plays with the numerous interactive activities and reads up on the various space suits and rocket ships, impressing Joel with her knowledge. [27] Ellie even proved herself enough that Joel spent less time in combat with enemies focussing on protection and more so having her assist him in defeating them. Ellie treats her wound and makes her way to the Rattler dome, fighting some of them along the way. [20] She carries a switchblade, which is her only weapon until she is trusted with a gun by Joel. [11][45] As an NPC, she is also invisible to enemy AI, meaning she can't accidentally reveal Joel's position. Ellie shoots the driver, resulting in both trucks crashing. [39], When they regain consciousness, David is the first to recover. Although they crash, they escape thanks to Joel killing some of the attackers. The conversation starts with Ellie awkwardly asking Joel where he got the coffee, to which he responds that he traded for it with a group of travelers the previous week. After a brief argument, Joel asks Bill for a car. In 2038, Abby Anderson, a former Firefly and the surgeon's daughter, found and killed Joel. The sound alerts a guard dog to Ellie's location, which then pounces on Ellie and tries to kill her, but Ellie stabs and kicks the dog off, killing it. After returning to Jackson, Joel decides to escort Ellie himself. Jesse reveals that he came by himself to help Ellie, but was ambushed by the WLF on his way there. When Abby refuses, Ellie threatens Lev with her switchblade, after which Abby concedes. [46] On the way out, Joel overpowers and kills Ethan, and makes his way through the facility to the operating room where the surgical procedure on Ellie is about to begin. The pair enter the building through the back, avoiding infected. Ellie is touched that he remembered, and accepts the guitar. [30] Some of the team considered Ellie's obsession with Abby akin to a drug addiction, and that Dina left as she felt that the obsession would never end. Ellie Thumann, 21 This also links into her survivor's guilt she expresses to Joel when returning to Tommy's, where she expresses her guilt that they all died from the disease yet she continues to survive. However, Ellie is adamant about stealing a boat and going after Abby at the aquarium, insisting Tommy can look after himself. Ellie is initially annoyed by Joel's surliness, but they develop a bond. Combine the charming heroine of the movie Legally Blonde with supermodel Elle Macpherson and the trend toward all names beginning with "el"Ellie, Ella, Eleanorand you have one hit name. However, before he can harm her, Ellie hits him with a brick. On one of those pillars, she finds Abby, emaciated, tired and dying, but still alive. Shortly after turning 13, Ellie arrives at the Boston quarantine zone on a bus, to the sight of the military scanning a man for infection. Ignoring the question, Riley asks if Ellie ever thinks about her future. Ellie says that she's "just a girl" to which Dina kisses her passionately, claiming that they should be terrified of her. [39][53] It is presumed that if she was properly studied, some form of cure or countermeasure for the infection could be created. Ellie and Dina find Leah dead upstairs and Dina does not find anything worth taking on her corpse. [27], Soon after, The pair encounter the Humvee in person when traversing through the streets, managing to outrun it despite its heavy fire power. [47] Further, when completing the game's main story, in the background of the main menu the player will see Ellie's switchblade lying against the window, displaying this fixation on Ellie rather than Joel. Ellie Goulding - Elena Jane Goulding ( GOHL-ding; born 30 December 1986) is an English singer and songwriter. [57] IGN's Greg Miller compared Ellie to Elizabeth from BioShock Infinite (2013), and felt that the former was a "much more rounded out, full-fledged" character. Recognising her excessive violence, Ellie runs from the boar's corpse and collapses to her knees near the farm. Character List. [20], If the enemy is behind something and Ellie is able to see them they will be outlined in red, showing their location through walls and such. Ellie assumes she is being facetious and inquires if she means future as seen in science fiction. During the trip, she practices her guitar, with Joel encouraging her and insisting she will get better once she develops calluses on her fingertips to make playing less strenuous. Nicknames: El, Els, Ella. He turns to Joel, stating she will get him killed.[23]. She also says that she would rather eat with Ellie than go oversee the generator. She swims into the boiler room and interrogates a distracted WLF Soldier for Nora's whereabouts before killing her.[53]. In exchange for bringing him whiskey, she asks that he teach Ellie how to ride a horse. It has often been used as a nickname for Elizabeth, meaning "God is my oath". [39], Dina and Ellie are close friends for a long time, both having mutual crushes on each other, yet never admitting it. Ellie avoids answering why she is being smuggled but does inform Joel that her parents died and that she's 14. The man knocks her down, preparing to shoot but Joel tackles the man and kills him, saving Ellie's life. ", Ellie, after encountering and killing more infected, makes it back to the gate. [64] Joel was initially not aware of Ellie's interest in women,[53] mistakenly believing she had a crush on Jesse,[54] though eventually learned of (and supported) Ellie's affection for Dina. Riley's help leads Ellie to victory, but Ellie decides it's time for her return to the school, despite Riley's insistence to continue on further into the mall. If either one of them knocks all the windows out of their car (Riley, blue, Ellie, red) they get to ask each other a question. [11], By April, 2038, Ellie has finally learned how to swim, play the acoustic guitar and sing. She rides there on Callus and comes across a deer. Her mother was a nurse named Anna, although the identity of her father is unknown. Ellie's main hobby is drawing, with her skillfully able to draw many points of interests and other people's faces in her journal and her room. She apologizes almost immediately after, but Riley expresses that there's nothing to be sorry for. Bill agrees to put together a car for the two, but tells them that once it is done, he owes Joel no more favors. Riley tells Ellie she turns sixteen in three months and she intends on using that time to find out. 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. The two swim out of the sinking vehicle and up to the surface. With no easy way in, Ellie climbs to the top of the wall. [81] Polygon's Maddy Myers and Wired's Julie Muncy criticized Ellie's development and inability to learn from her mistakes. [27], For Part II, Druckmann recalled the team's excitement to explore Ellie further as a protagonist, particularly developing the loss of her innocence, comparing it to the feeling of the writers of Breaking Bad (20082013) when given the opportunity to explore Walter White. In the HBO TV show, Ellie is portrayed by Bella Ramsey. Ellie is angered by him but he ignores her as he asks Tess what they should do next. [45] In the final moments of the game, Joel makes several comparisons between Ellie and Sarah, even calling Ellie "baby girl",[43] and believing that the girls would have been good friends. [32], Later, the pair came across a small child's grave with a teddy bear on top of it in Wyoming. Later, Ellie finds out that Tommy has left for Seattle on his own, and Maria has locked down the stables. Joel, growing emotional, says he would like her to do that. [fn 1] She serves as the protagonist of The Last of Us: American Dreams, the playable deuteragonist of The Last of Us, and the playable protagonist of both The Last of Us: Left Behind and The Last of Us Part II. Ellie kills the clicker, but Jesse loses control of the truck and crashes into a lake. He is lonely and lost in the middle of a family of four girls when Leslie Burke moves in next door. In the midst of her panic attack, a man shows up from behind her calling her name. They decide to search it for gasoline. Ellie and Tommy argue about Ellie wanting vengeance, figuring out the WLF is from Seattle, but Tommy is nervous about the required manpower for such a mission leaving Jackson vulnerable. When Joel and Ellie grew distant, Maria tried to convince Ellie to forgive him, and generally pushed Ellie to be kinder to other people, even to apologise to Seth for his homophobic remarks. Ellie organizes the original camping trip to Hell before the war, and she convinces all her read analysis of Ellie. Joel says, dramatizing his Texan accent. Ellie, shaken by the events unfolding around her, agrees with Winston, but is ignored by Riley. [42] Whether being selfish, or not wanting to lose another 'daughter' to the whim of another, Joel chose to save Ellie and try and start some semblance of a normal life again. She first appeared in Doubutsu no Mori, and after her appearance in Doubutsu no Mori e+, she remained absent from the series until Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome amiibo. Along the way, Ellie reveals her immunity to Dina, and Dina reveals she is pregnant with Jesse's child. From a note Ellie finds on the ground, she finds that the pharmacist "went crazy", and that one of the employees, unaware of the Cordyceps outbreak, locked him in an American Princess Store next door, and locked away the keys to the first aid kit as well. Ellie executes her soon after. 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