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  1. Public Bookmark 74

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    “The girl dances like a dream. As she moves she’s every birthday and christmas and good thing Ellie’s ever heard of but never had. She’s the prettiest goddamn thing Ellie has ever seen in her life.

    Ellie wants to dance with her. She wants to be her. She feels her cheeks heating and her breath coming quicker and she doesn’t know why, just that something earth shattering is happening.”

    The rich survived the apocalypse with a hoard of guns and medicine that they dole out to FEDRA in exchange for luxuries. Luxuries like art and pageantry. The FEDRA-run Boston Conservatory hosts everything from ballets to musicals to keep their patrons happy and the supplies flowing. Ellie is chosen as one of the orphans with potential and trains to be a ballerina. This changes nothing, and everything.

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    18 Mar 2024

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    Joel turns and peers cautiously down the alley. In the fading light he can make out three figures, teenage boys if he had to guess, in a semi-circle around a kneeling figure. Their head turns and Joel catches sight of a brown ponytail between the boys’ legs, a flash of a knife gripped in a hand.

    One of them steps forward and kicks her in the shoulder, sending her sprawling backwards. She scrambles back to her feet, knife outstretched in front of her, teeth bared. If she wasn’t so goddamn small, Joel would think she was more than capable of handling herself against these guys, but they’ve each got probably half a foot and fifty pounds on her, and he finds himself walking closer.

    (joel and ellie meet in the QZ months before she's bitten)

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    09 Mar 2024

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    07 Mar 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 81

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    He looked up at her, and an uncharacteristic softness settled over his features. He took a deep breath through his nose and scanned the face of the young woman in front of him. "What the hell do the Fireflies want with you?"

    The earnestness startled her momentarily, and she lifted the cigarette to her lips to calm her nerves back down.

    "I wouldn't worry about it, man," she finally responded. She broke his gaze and returned to the coffee table to drop her cigarette butt into the empty peach can. She laid back down on the couch and massaged her temples.

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    The events of TLOU if Ellie had aged out of military school before Marlene found out about her immunity. Joel and Tess are hired to smuggle a 19 year old Ellie out of Boston, after she's already been hiding her immunity for five years.

    TL;DR: TLOU1 but with a TLOU2 aged Ellie, because I'm in love with the potential for that dynamic.

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    12 Feb 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 80

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    “What the hell are you doing?” He asks, voice sharp in his surprise. He’d expected—well. He hadn’t expected this. The girl in front of him is careful to keep her hands up, only nodding at the pack now on the ground. He’d thrown her pretty hard against the wall when she’d stepped out from the shadowed corner, but nothing he can see looks bleeding or broken, at least.

    “I’m here from Leroy. He didn’t want to come. Said you might, like, cut off his fingers or something. So he sent me.”

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    Sans Firefly-rescue. Ellie stays in Boston as a smuggler, or something similar.

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    30 Jan 2024

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    So adorable