my bae - ellie willlllliamssss

Ellie williams is such a cutie patootie i love her so much but bro has some issues.
She has a deep fear of being alone which is shown throughout both games as everyone
she knows and loves has either died or left her. (proper sad if u ask me)

Saviour complex (phoebe bridgers reference)

Ellie was always meant to cure humanity, it gave her a purpose to life other than just existing in an apocalyptic world. This weirdly foreshadows Ellie's suicidal mindset to life in the second game and her grudge with Joel for taking away her only purpose at life. This is why she has a doomed relationship with Dina.
The saddest aspect to this is that knowing her fear is being alone, she pushes everyone away from her as she seeks out revenge in arguably sadistic ways. This shows that she can be obsessive when she knows what she wants.

Relationships with other characters

Joely Woely

This is a really sad father figure/ daughter figure relationship parallelling to mannnnnnnnny different relationships throughout the story line (i will get into that ltrrrr). To start, joel and ellie equally don't like each other as they travel across the country, because Joel hates the way that their relationship reminds him of Sarah. As they travel, their bond grows, and is strengthened by their traumatic experience with David and the cannibals. This was rhe moment where joel realised that he sees ellie as a daughter figure and has a deep sense of protection over her. This is why he did what he did, which would have upset ellie less if he just told the truth.

This lie caused the downfall of their relationship and also Joel's own death. Abby parallels both of these characters- In the way that she reacts to her own father's death and seeks out revenge for his killer, and in the way that she carries Lev to safety at the end of tlou2.

Dinaaaa

yall not gon like what i got to say about this one. Bros were doomed from the start. Dina has a serious past of protection issues after her sisters death, combined with ellie's need to be a savipour just dont work for them. They both had their own problems, but having Dina protected Ellie from her biggest fear which was being alone. Also, whenever there was a problem, they would use humour to avoid their actual issues, which comes out to be problematic in seattle with preggers dina.

Other characters

Tommy is like the cool uncle to her except for at the end where hes a massive dick who triggers ellie back into that spiral of revenge. He represents Joel and makes Ellie feel like she can not say no due to her uncompleted revenge.

Tess was the first to die in the last of us 1, whilst on their mission. This was a huge trauma for Ellie, who we see using Tess's hair cut in the second game, maybe as a form of respect or as a memorial thing- its sad either way tho :-:

Jesse is such a cool guy like he's the bestest friend u can ask for. I love how all he wanted was for his friends to be happy- even if that meant his best friend dating his ex girlfriend (theyre so cute). Bro only wanted the best for ellie ans dina but u know what happens to him otherwise u wouldnt be reading this rn ;-;

ellie picters