Name: Gorse Age: 24 Contact Info:gorsecloud, or gorsethewarrior on AIM Other Characters: Frisk (Undertale)
Character Information
Name: Ellie Canon: The Last of Us Age: 14 Gender: Female Canon Point: Middle of the Autumn chapter, after leaving Tommy's Dam headed for the University Background Link:The wiki Inventory:
Personality: For all of Ellie's fourteen years of age, she takes no shit, from anyone or anything. If someone's not being fair or putting up a front, she has few qualms on calling them out. Overall though, this is a tendency she exercises with impunity, including with figures who should be above her, leading to essentially authority problems. She frequently toes lines that Joel sets for her (outright ignoring them at times) - for example when he tells her to "repeat" an instruction he gave her, she refuses to repeat it word-for-word, but instead paraphrases it.
She's honestly a bit of a smartmouth - frequently responding with sarcastic quips, both in serious and non-serious situations. Generally speaking Ellie is not "quiet" unless she needs to be - more often than not she'll exclaim at some of the more brutal kills Joel makes throughout the game, or in more relaxed situations can be heard humming her own music to herself, or pulling out one of her books of lame puns. As another note, her language is one of the foulest in the game - she doesn't swear every other sentence, but particularly when angry, upset, or shocked, she uses swears pretty liberally.
Ellie does not like to be babied. Throughout the Summer chapter she argues with Joel repeatedly about being able to take care of herself and help him out in keeping them safe. This culminated in her taking matters into her own hands and saving Joel's live by taking Joel's gun and shooting a hunter that was trying to drown him. More than that, she proves to be very capable when he does allow her. It helps to have others with her, particularly Joel, but Left Behind and the Winter chapter prove that, when push comes to shove and she's the only one there, she can be remarkably self-sufficient in taking care of herself and others too, especially in the very harsh kill-or-be-killed world that The Last of Us is.
That's not to say she's immediately wary or suspicious. As a matter of fact, as of her canonpoint, she's still reasonably willing to reach out to others, to accept help and work with them, even give them the benefit of the doubt. She's the one who initially proposes working together with Henry and Sam, and defends them to Joel during the disagreement after Henry and Sam abandoned them near the bridge at Pittsburg, but then saved them from the drowning in the river.
Beneath all the attitude and bluster though, there's a girl who's been through a lot, seen a lot. Ellie knows full well the burden of surviving, seeing those around you who don't. Between her best friend (and more) Riley, Tess, Henry and Sam... Ellie has a very deep-hidden but powerful strain of survivor's guilt. Stubbornly pursuing her goals is how she covers it up, finding a cause and fighting for it. But as she tells Joel at the end of the game, she's still waiting for "her turn," and doesn't want everything that everyone suffered on their journey to be for nothing, indicating a sense of responsibility. And certainly a willingness to die, if not an outright death wish at times.
When angry or upset, Ellie can be particularly impulsive and hotheaded, including ignoring previous instructions and advice. She attacks and shouts down Bill when he handcuffs her and nearly attacks Joel, blatantly ignoring that he told her to let him do the talking. Likewise, when she finds out about Joel's plan to drop her off in Tommy's hands and leave her during the Fall chapter, she takes one of the horses and runs off in frustration, causing him to chase after her and forcing him to confront her.
There are some ways that she still very much is a 14 year-old, albeit one that grew up in a very different world. She's very curious, even nosy, constantly asking Joel questions about himself, about the world around her. She shows awe at seeing new things she hasn't had the chance to experience before - such as walking through a forest, the giraffes during the Spring chapter, or even her first sunrise outside the Boston Quarantine Zone. And above all else, Ellie is a survivor, willing to do all she can to see her goals through. She's not someone who will give up easily, or should be underestimated.
Flavor Abilities: Her immunity to the Cordyceps Brain Infection (basically the human cordyceps fungus), which'll do jack shit since it isn't present in game.
Suitability: This girl is such a fucking survivor that even Joel comments on it by the end of the game. She will fight tooth and nail to stay alive despite the odds. And having grown up in a post-apocalyptic environment... well, the primary difference between that and Norfinbury is the snow.
From a different angle, one of Ellie's own biggest self-admitted fears is being alone. She goes off on her own when the one person she trusts might leave her. I think a lot of Snowblind's themes - isolation, psychological horror - might be really fun to explore with her and she has a lot of potential for character growth and development in the environment.
[You found the oddest things in houses. Not even the usual mix of hastily abandoned shit gone dusty or moth-eaten or rotted or whatever, then picked through a thousand times by scavengers that she was used to finding. In some places you got lucky. Others, not so much. Today's house was... a mix. The comb and paper clips weren't exactly great, but there was a can of food and the candle could come in handy too.
Ellie slips her finds into her backpack, keeping an eye out for anything else that might be of use. That was the other odd thing. She'd been to this house not long after she got here, and she could have sworn she'd cleaned it out then. And yet here she was, with a bunch of new finds having gone through it all over again. This place just kept getting weirder by the second.
On the frustrating side of things, it also meant they couldn't mark off a place as being cleared out, or not having anything of use for figuring this place out. If it was always changing... No. She'd figure it out. They'd figure it out. They were going to get back. There was too much left undone back home, all of it important.
Maybe it's a noise - she's not as good as Joel at listening to her surroundings, but still pretty good if she say so herself. Or maybe a change in the air's movement, but she realizes she's not quite alone. She looks over her shoulder, shifting herself into a crouched position, ready to move if need be.]
Hello? [Her eyes sweep the room.] Who's there?
[For all the ease in her words she's still cautious, waiting until whoever it is reveals themselves as friendly or not.]
Ellie | The Last of Us | Expired Reserve
Name: Gorse
Age: 24
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Other Characters: Frisk (Undertale)
Character Information
Name: Ellie
Canon: The Last of Us
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Canon Point: Middle of the Autumn chapter, after leaving Tommy's Dam headed for the University
Background Link: The wiki
Inventory:
Personality:
For all of Ellie's fourteen years of age, she takes no shit, from anyone or anything. If someone's not being fair or putting up a front, she has few qualms on calling them out. Overall though, this is a tendency she exercises with impunity, including with figures who should be above her, leading to essentially authority problems. She frequently toes lines that Joel sets for her (outright ignoring them at times) - for example when he tells her to "repeat" an instruction he gave her, she refuses to repeat it word-for-word, but instead paraphrases it.
She's honestly a bit of a smartmouth - frequently responding with sarcastic quips, both in serious and non-serious situations. Generally speaking Ellie is not "quiet" unless she needs to be - more often than not she'll exclaim at some of the more brutal kills Joel makes throughout the game, or in more relaxed situations can be heard humming her own music to herself, or pulling out one of her books of lame puns. As another note, her language is one of the foulest in the game - she doesn't swear every other sentence, but particularly when angry, upset, or shocked, she uses swears pretty liberally.
Ellie does not like to be babied. Throughout the Summer chapter she argues with Joel repeatedly about being able to take care of herself and help him out in keeping them safe. This culminated in her taking matters into her own hands and saving Joel's live by taking Joel's gun and shooting a hunter that was trying to drown him. More than that, she proves to be very capable when he does allow her. It helps to have others with her, particularly Joel, but Left Behind and the Winter chapter prove that, when push comes to shove and she's the only one there, she can be remarkably self-sufficient in taking care of herself and others too, especially in the very harsh kill-or-be-killed world that The Last of Us is.
That's not to say she's immediately wary or suspicious. As a matter of fact, as of her canonpoint, she's still reasonably willing to reach out to others, to accept help and work with them, even give them the benefit of the doubt. She's the one who initially proposes working together with Henry and Sam, and defends them to Joel during the disagreement after Henry and Sam abandoned them near the bridge at Pittsburg, but then saved them from the drowning in the river.
Beneath all the attitude and bluster though, there's a girl who's been through a lot, seen a lot. Ellie knows full well the burden of surviving, seeing those around you who don't. Between her best friend (and more) Riley, Tess, Henry and Sam... Ellie has a very deep-hidden but powerful strain of survivor's guilt. Stubbornly pursuing her goals is how she covers it up, finding a cause and fighting for it. But as she tells Joel at the end of the game, she's still waiting for "her turn," and doesn't want everything that everyone suffered on their journey to be for nothing, indicating a sense of responsibility. And certainly a willingness to die, if not an outright death wish at times.
When angry or upset, Ellie can be particularly impulsive and hotheaded, including ignoring previous instructions and advice. She attacks and shouts down Bill when he handcuffs her and nearly attacks Joel, blatantly ignoring that he told her to let him do the talking. Likewise, when she finds out about Joel's plan to drop her off in Tommy's hands and leave her during the Fall chapter, she takes one of the horses and runs off in frustration, causing him to chase after her and forcing him to confront her.
There are some ways that she still very much is a 14 year-old, albeit one that grew up in a very different world. She's very curious, even nosy, constantly asking Joel questions about himself, about the world around her. She shows awe at seeing new things she hasn't had the chance to experience before - such as walking through a forest, the giraffes during the Spring chapter, or even her first sunrise outside the Boston Quarantine Zone. And above all else, Ellie is a survivor, willing to do all she can to see her goals through. She's not someone who will give up easily, or should be underestimated.
Flavor Abilities: Her immunity to the Cordyceps Brain Infection (basically the human cordyceps fungus), which'll do jack shit since it isn't present in game.
Suitability: This girl is such a fucking survivor that even Joel comments on it by the end of the game. She will fight tooth and nail to stay alive despite the odds. And having grown up in a post-apocalyptic environment... well, the primary difference between that and Norfinbury is the snow.
From a different angle, one of Ellie's own biggest self-admitted fears is being alone. She goes off on her own when the one person she trusts might leave her. I think a lot of Snowblind's themes - isolation, psychological horror - might be really fun to explore with her and she has a lot of potential for character growth and development in the environment.
RP Samples:
Test drive
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[You found the oddest things in houses. Not even the usual mix of hastily abandoned shit gone dusty or moth-eaten or rotted or whatever, then picked through a thousand times by scavengers that she was used to finding. In some places you got lucky. Others, not so much. Today's house was... a mix. The comb and paper clips weren't exactly great, but there was a can of food and the candle could come in handy too.
Ellie slips her finds into her backpack, keeping an eye out for anything else that might be of use. That was the other odd thing. She'd been to this house not long after she got here, and she could have sworn she'd cleaned it out then. And yet here she was, with a bunch of new finds having gone through it all over again. This place just kept getting weirder by the second.
On the frustrating side of things, it also meant they couldn't mark off a place as being cleared out, or not having anything of use for figuring this place out. If it was always changing... No. She'd figure it out. They'd figure it out. They were going to get back. There was too much left undone back home, all of it important.
Maybe it's a noise - she's not as good as Joel at listening to her surroundings, but still pretty good if she say so herself. Or maybe a change in the air's movement, but she realizes she's not quite alone. She looks over her shoulder, shifting herself into a crouched position, ready to move if need be.]
Hello? [Her eyes sweep the room.] Who's there?
[For all the ease in her words she's still cautious, waiting until whoever it is reveals themselves as friendly or not.]