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Last winter, after he found her outside that burning restaurant, the most terrified part of him was afraid she wouldn’t make it out of Silver Lake. She was barely functioning and it kept getting colder and colder. And he knew if she didn’t make it, he wouldn’t either.
This is worse.
Or: Hypothermia!
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11 Jan 2026
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the girl in the grit by flannelfeelings
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
19 Jul 2023
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“FEDRA Military Preparatory has an opening for guaranteed two weeks of work,” the official replies, “pays twenty cards a day.”
Joel arches an eyebrow skeptically. “What’s the catch? Good pay and guaranteed two weeks of work, and nobody wants it?”
“Not a lot of people want to work with the kids,” FEDRA guy says nonchalantly, “they’re a sad sight.”
Joel blinks. “The kids are workin’ the job?”
Shit, it’s gotta be a breeze job if they got the little rats doin’ it. Guaranteed good pay for two weeks and a lighter load? It’s a bit tempting.
“It’s all I’ve got for today,” says the official, ignoring his question, “take it or leave it.”
Against his better judgment, Joel says, “I’ll take it.”
(Ellie and a very broken Joel meet in the QZ before she's bitten)
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21 Dec 2025
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staying in by flannelfeelings
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
16 Jun 2023
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Familiar words ring true in his ears, a tone of voice similar to Sarah’s when she would come home from school upset about another little girl’s harsh words. She’d fret and fuss over her looks, try her hardest to fit in even when he assured her she was perfect already.
He has no doubt in his mind when Ellie suddenly starts caring about her hair, or the stains on her jacket, or making sure her teeth are flossed before she goes out on patrol with the others.
Dina is a mean girl.
(Ellie has a crush- Joel is oblivious)
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20 Dec 2025
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watch another angel die by debonairhead
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
27 May 2024
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Ellie knows she’s a grisly sight.
Crowded along her cheekbones stubborn grime loiters restlessly, never adhering to the agitating swipes that come to wipe it away. It follows in muted tones down her sunken cheeks, brushed against the underside of her jaw, following the creases of her calloused palms. The seams of her clothing entwine their strings with grease and dirt, hung off her haggard frame in baggy stretches of fabric, oversized jackets accompanied by shoes that swallow her feet. She stuffs them with leaf litter, uncaring of the sickly browning of her socks.
Tommy-
Tommy looks even worse.
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or, an au where the fireflies faked Ellie’s death and took her to Texas to make a vaccine. Ellie escapes after a raid with the cure, and books it back home- to Jackson, to Joel-
but she encounters a bitten Tommy first.
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20 Nov 2025
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who you are is not where you've been by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Jul 2024
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And he realizes… there are parts of her that are weird because, well, she’s Ellie. She likes space and puns and dinosaurs. She does goofy voices and curses too much and she asks so many questions. He’s pretty sure that if she’d grown up before the outbreak, she would have been screened for ADD or something. And some of her weirdness is being a kid growing up in the apocalypse, like not knowing what a seatbelt is.
But parts of her weirdness?FEDRA did that.
And he hates it.
Or: Thoughts on FEDRA schooling.
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07 Nov 2025