The Last of Us Part II is coming up. The next May 29 It will be the day the world stops to receive the most ambitious title it has ever embarked on Naughty dog, in the mouth of the Californian study itself. The expectations that fall on the title of PlayStation 4 are maximum, so the work of Neil Druckmann and your team. Everything points to the fact that, like the first installment, it will be the video game that mark the roof of an entire generation of consoles, so every detail counts in this new adventure.
On this occasion, Ellie will take on a greater role than in the predecessor. The young woman will find her own way after the events of the first game, in which she had to fulfill her destiny with the help of Joel. He strong bond Both characters were the cornerstone that helped The Last of Us to transcend, although Ellie was always the one who generated the most impact for her personality. To prepare for the sequel's arrival, we review the events that have brought the young woman to her next adventure in Seattle.
Beginnings at the military boarding school: meeting Riley
After the loss of her mother, Ellie is sent to a military boarding school, only 13 years old. It is there that he meets his best friend, Riley, who begins to somehow forge his iron personality. The first known facts of the young woman are narrated in American Dreams, the comic published by Dark Horse. In it, some of the events that define Ellie's path are developed and that were part of the video game through the Left Behind DLC, which we will delve into later.
And this is where the bond between the two young women begins to fortify itself, something that reaches its peak in the aforementioned DLC. However, American Dreams also serves to offer brushstrokes that are developed in The Last of Us: like Ellie's fondness for Savage Starlight and everything related to the space theme. The period in the military boarding school also serves to get closer to the morality of the world in which the proposal is immersed, putting people in a limit situation and beginning to train sixteen-year-olds in military practices and actions as harsh as shooting anyone who does not comply with the established rules.
Far from all the cruelty that consumes humanity, it is discovered an Ellie in a maturing process as beautiful as it is complex. Riley's influence in discovering the world and its nuances is something that build your personality and the relationship that will have with the rest of people later. It also serves to explain one of the young woman's claims in the main proposal, when in Tommy's dam he guarantees that he knows how to ride a horse. The first time she does this practice is reflected in American Dreams, when Riley accompanies her to Winston's camp, who helps them learn to ride.
The appearance of fireflies and the search for light
It soon begins to be discovered that Riley's life in the military settlement is far from perfect, dragging Ellie onto a new path that defines the future events of Left Behind and The Last of Us himself. The curiosity from her friend for knowing what the fireflies are up to leads them to get into a conflict between the military and the resistance group, opting for the fireflies and helping them escape by using two smoke bombs in the middle of the fray. With this, young women begin to define their destiny, with respect to following a life in which a few order what you should do or seek freedom to fight for what you want, something that is consistent with Ellie's entire journey.
After acting directly in the conflict, Ellie and Riley are attacked by a group of infected, causing them to protect themselves and discover the importance they have for each other. Finally, the infected are eliminated by fireflies and the young are transferred to the base of them, beginning a stage in his life that would change future events forever. Something that, in the end, would allow him to meet Joel a few months later.
It is here when it comes into play Marlene, the leader of the fireflies. After being tied up and taken to the resistance group base, Marlene takes care of them directly, giving them an envelope with instructions to open it when they return to the military boarding school. That's when Riley shows her desire to join the fireflies, something that is rejected in the first instance. The group is attacked and, amid the confusion, Riley has to be saved by Marlene from certain death. The leader warns the young woman that if she continues down that path, she will end up dead, threatening to end her life herself. An act that leads Ellie to attack her and point a gun at her.
It is at that moment that Marlene discovers the truth: he knows Ellie since her mother told him to do everything possible to take care of her. He also reveals that the envelope he has given you contains a letter from Anna, his mother, and gives him a knife that belonged to him before he died. Promising to tell her more about her mother when the time came, Marlene sends the young women back to the military boarding school, defining the future of both girls and their involvement with the fireflies.
Left Behind and teenage love amid the chaos
Left Behind continues the events narrated in American Dreams, showing Riley's firm desire to join the fireflies despite the clash that took place in the history of the comic. The idea causes her and Ellie to argue, since the young woman's proposal had been to flee the military boarding school and live a life together anywhere else. Finally, Marlene discovers to Riley that their first meeting was a test to determine how far she could go to join her cause. After being started as a firefly, the young woman asks that Ellie can also be part of the group, something to which Marlene refuses and prohibits them from seeing each other again.
Six weeks have to pass before Ellie can see her friend again, coming to think that she was dead. However, Riley decides to sneak into the military boarding school and visit her by surprise, revealing her conversion into a firefly and promising to explain everything to her. Both flee to liberty gardens mall, where it develops one of the most exceptional and beautiful relationships that have been seen in a video game. At a playable level, everything focuses on enjoying imaginary video games, water pistol fights and other aspects of adolescence, but behind that initial layer is hidden a beautiful and nuanced relationship which is treated with subtlety finesse and delicacy. Left Behind serves to get to know Ellie in depth: Know your aspirations, the reason for your actions, loyalty to the people you care about and how far you are willing to go.
The importance of these moments also lies in the reminiscences that allow Ellie to remember what it was like to live in peace with her best friend, enjoying instants that move away from a collapsing world. The maturity with which the young woman is shown is falling down, showing a girl who is fragile deep inside and whose feelings also define his path, something that is reflected directly in the moment in which Riley declares that he is their last meeting, because it will be transferred to another area in just two days.
Facing loss and starting a new path
After that information, Ellie is hurt at the idea of losing Riley again, something that she ignores and continues music playing from one of the adjoining rooms to which they are. After a short discussion, they both get down to dance until finally Ellie stops, asking her to do not go. At that time, Riley throw the fireflies pendant to the ground, demonstrating that he abandons his cause in order to be with her. Given this gesture, Ellie kisses her, demonstrating the love he feels for her. He immediately breaks away and asks for forgiveness, but Riley replies that there is nothing to apologize for.
When it seems that the young women are going to be able to live a new path together, they are assaulted by a group of infected and, although they manage to eliminate them all, end with a bite. Before the certain death that was coming, the two had a fit of rage and began to break everything that crossed their path, until Riley calmed down and proposed to Ellie the two options available to them, something that at the dessert would become su best-known phrase of the entire franchise: "I think there are two options. Option one: it's the easy way (pointing the gun). Quick and painless. I don't like this one very much. Two: we fight. We should have already died in a thousand ways and there are a thousand ways to die before tomorrow. But we fight … for every second we can spend together. Whether it's two minutes or two days, that's ours. And I don't want to lose it. My vote: let's wait. We could get poetic and lose our minds together ».
After this, the temporary jump leading to The Last of Us and that it entails the death of Riley and the arrival of Ellie to the fireflies.
Immunity and the journey with Joel in The Last of Us
It is during that moment when Ellie finally meets Joel and Tess. Three weeks after the bite, she is being guarded by Marlene, who wants remove her from the city due to her immune statusIt does not convert after being bitten. Those responsible for carrying out this task are the aforementioned characters, who must take her to the town hall, where a group of fireflies is waiting to take her out of the city, to one of the hospitals in Salt Lake City, where your case would be studied. Although this would be discovered much later.
When they get there, the group of fireflies has been killed by the army and the group has to flee, although they do so without the presence of Tess, who sacrifices herself so that they can both save time, since she had previously been bitten when facing a group of infected people. Ellie must face another loss after Riley's, feeling responsible for the tess death, since they had embarked on a mission to transfer her to it. With the turn of events, they embark on the search for fireflies, something for which Joel believes that an old friend could help them get a car, so they head towards bill city.
Along the way you can get to know Ellie much better, demonstrating ** the innocence of a fourteen year old girl ** who discovers the outside world and, at the same time, the maturity to which it has been forced for the situation in the world and the atrocious acts that it has had to witness. It is a little bad-spoken and has a great character, something that can be seen in his meeting with Bill, but shows a good heart. Something that Joel also perceives, who begins to grow attached to her when she sees reflection of his daughter Sarah in her, who died with the onset of infection.
After escaping from Bill's town they are assaulted by a group of scavengers in Pittsburgh, forcing them to stop their car journey. That's when Joel and Ellie meet Sam and Henry, two brothers who also barely survive and seek to escape the city. The four team up to achieve their goal and Ellie's ties to young Sam become stronger, becoming a good friend. After the various experiences that lead them to escape from the city, in a conflict with more scavengers and infected, Sam ends up being bitten, causing her conversion to start and attack Ellie. Henry is forced to kill his brother to stop the infection from spreading through your body and then commits suicide. Two new losses for a tragedy accountant that does not stop adding to the life of such a young woman.
After that, the trip takes them to the jackson county, where is Joel's brother, Tommy, who was a firefly long ago. Hoping he can provide them with information on his location, they head over there, where Joel's true intentions are discovered: get rid of Ellie and give Tommy homework that it is he who takes her to where the fireflies are. Upon learning, the young woman flees riding one of the dam's horses and takes refuge in a cabin, where she is found by the two brothers. That's when Ellie reveals that she knows Joel's plan to get rid of her and, also, what happened to sarah. In those moments, she declares to Joel that he is the only person who has not abandoned her until now and the pain you feel with what he intended to do.
Tommy finally accepts the task, but Joel regrets at the last moment and decides to be the one to continue accompanying Ellie on her way, so they head towards eastern university colorado, place where there was a site of fireflies.
Survival and final destination
Upon arrival at the university, Joel and Ellie discover that this place is no longer occupied by fireflies, indicating that they have moved their base to the salt lake city hospital, so both are preparing to start their way there. However, they are ambushed and Joel ends up seriously wounded, so the young woman is forced to move him to a safe place and take care of him. Precisely this coincides with the arrival of the winter And in Left Behind there is also an opportunity to discover what Ellie could do in that time frame, looking for medicines and medical equipment to be able to heal Joel's serious injury. Also, while hunting a deer for food, he stumbles upon David, someone who would also mark one of the worst episodes of his life.
Although initially suspicious, Ellie discovers that she will need the help of that stranger, since he has the medicines what are you looking for. What he asks in return is precisely to share the deer that the young woman has just hunted. However, through a conversation, David discovers that he is one of the scavengers they have faced on many occasions and that he knows that many of his companions have been killed. Ellie leaves to be able to give the medicine to Joel, but it is a trap, so the scavengers discover where they are hiding. The young woman is forced to escape to get away from Joel and finally is captured and locked up by David.
When David wants to kill her, Ellie manages to escape, although she remains trapped in one of the restaurants in the city while everything starts to burn. At those moments David reappears with the intention of killing her (or even rape her, it is not very clear) until Joel appears to rescue her and demonstrate that she can always count on him. It is one of the key moments in the relationship of both characters, because that scene where they look into each other's eyes shows the strong bond that they have created throughout the trip that they have had to go through, even if the end is near.
Upon arriving in Salt Lake City, Joel suggests to Ellie that they can live a comfortable life at Tommy Dam if you want, and you don't have to get to the fireflies. Something to which she responds with what is her best-known phrase in the title: «With what we have lived, what I have done, cannot be at all». On the way to the hospital, Ellie is about to drown And when Joel tries to save her, they are attacked by fireflies, who take them to the hospital. At that moment, Marlene explains to Joel that the intention is to study Ellie's brain in order to find the cure for humanity, which will entail the death of the young woman. He refuses to accept it and confronts all the fireflies to get the young woman out of there, something that even gets killing Marlene in the process.
Later, Joel drives to Tommy's dam, just as he had proposed to Ellie, while she is awake from anesthesia and asks what has happened. Joel is lying to him, telling her that they had already obtained the cure and that she is not the only immune one, so their intervention was not necessary. The young woman makes you swear that what you say is true, something that Joel does not hesitate to do, ending the acts of The Last of Us.
New life and full prominence in The Last of Us Part II
Five years They will go from that moment to what happens in The Last of Us Part II, where Ellie will be the main character of the proposal, acquiring a much more important role than in the first installment. From what has been known so far from the material that Naughty Dog has exhibited, it will be located in a location of Seattle, where people try to lead a normal life in the midst of the chaos in which the world continues to sink with the spread of infection. That's where the young woman, now with nineteen years, you will meet Dyne, with whom you will start a relationship.
Something cruel will happen that is unknown so far, but that will force Ellie to start a path of hatred and revenge for which it is more than ready. Everything the young woman has lived from the events of American Dreams to the beginning of The Last of Us Part II have marked his personality in a rough and ruthless way, something that has made her a person that, as I told Dina on the dance scene, everyone should fear. We will have to wait until May 29 to find out the reasons for this new journey and how they continue to transform Ellie, but what is clear is that an adventure marked by the darkest side of humanity and the limits that can be reached, as anticipated by the development team.
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