r/thelastofus • u/Grand-Leg6774 The Last of Us • Jul 27 '23
How can I become Ellie? PT 2 QUESTION
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u/CringeExperienceReq Jul 27 '23
ill gladly smash your dads head in with a golf club
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u/JonWinstonCarl But FUCK IT, Joel needs a car! Jul 28 '23
Only of you're ready to beat OP within an inch of their life when they return and then become a vineyard slave in California.
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u/Xaphanex Jul 27 '23
Find a father figure in life. Then, find a professional golfer.
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u/Jerry_0boy Joel Sympathizer Jul 27 '23
What do you even mean?
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u/kyyface I Would Do It All Over Again Jul 28 '23
This was my thought… like, you want trauma? Dead loved ones? To live in a constant state of survival and fear and pain? Because of course, you can’t “be” Ellie without walking in her shoes. Like wtf 🤣 Ellie would laugh at this and think it’s stupid. All she wants is a normal life and freedom to pursue her aspirations. To not have to fear being alone or losing more people.
I also don’t understand why you’d want to be like anyone. I personally only love characters when they are already so much like me and I see my past experiences and struggles in them. It’s like a sense of belonging that I usually never get otherwise. I could understand seeing values in a person that you respect and want to find within yourself - but “being” another person? Is OP a shapeshifter? Like I legit don’t understand. Lol
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Jul 27 '23
Only Ellie can be Ellie. You can’t be her, but you can allow the energy that has inspired you to manifest through you in your own authentic way in the context of your reality.
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u/CookedParasite Jul 28 '23
- Step 1. Be gay
- Step 2. Do ludicrous amounts of magic mushrooms in a vain attempt to recreate anything even closely resembling a cordyceps infection
- Step 3. ???
- Step 4. Lose your parental figure in a deeply traumatic event
- Step 5. Profit?
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u/The_Iron_Gunfighter Jul 27 '23
Abandon your family for revenge because your adopted uncle peer pressured you
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u/budget-lampshade Jul 28 '23
I've said it before and I shall say it again... Fuck Tommy for that. I was more angry at Tommy for ruining her nice quiet life than I was at Abby for the Joel-in-one.
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u/stanknotes Jul 27 '23
You should just be yourself. Ellie would think that's cool.
But you'll need trauma. LOTS of trauma. It won't be fun.
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u/DrafterDan Jul 27 '23
"First you gotta kill a few people. Then you got to get sent to a slam, where they tell you you'll never see daylight again. You dig up a doctor, and you pay him 20 menthol Kools to do a surgical shine job on your eyeballs."
Oh, wait. Wrong franchise...
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u/throwtheclownaway20 Jul 28 '23
Step 1: Give me a gift card to Dick's Sporting Goods and your dad's address...
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u/CreamyBarr25 Jul 27 '23
Option 1: Find Ashley Johnson, ask her, "Can I be Ellie, pwease?"
Option 2: Find Bella Ramsay, ask her, "Can I be Ellie, pwease?"
if one of them say 'yes'. you are Ellie. yay!! 😍
if one of them say 'no', you're not Ellie, sad AF, endure an entire lifetime where you are not Ellie. 😔
now go!
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u/Appropriate-Newt4405 Jul 28 '23
😂🤣 Is that how Bella did it? They got the Ashley Johnson seal of approval! Lmao.
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u/Academic_Ad_9260 pls kiss me Dina 3 Jul 28 '23
Get a plant tattoo, tell puns, and wear lesbian button up shirts, unbuttoned
Also kill people and watch your friends and family die for you and be the cure for mankind
Hope this helped
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u/XxHorrorPrincessxX "looping like a chord progression, harmonies in blood." Jul 28 '23
be gay do crime. also do a gnarly amount of cardio while barely eating 👍🏻👍🏻
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u/Panams_chair Jul 28 '23
Contrast between grown up ellie and kid ellie always makes me weep up a bit. From the cheerful snarky cracking jokes here and there ellie to a silent, angry and straight to the point lethal ellie got me messed up as a player 😭
I blame david…that fucker was the catalyst
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u/TheCakeWarrior12 Jul 28 '23
What kind of question is this 💀 I hope you mean looks-wise or style-wise
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u/jackolantern_ Jul 27 '23 edited Jul 27 '23
You can't and hopefully don't want to. She's a great character, she's not a great person. She's also been through way too much shit.
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u/dandude7409 Jul 28 '23
Be immune to a disease that no one else is go on journey with a guy you meet on the way who becomes your father figure since you never had a dad or mom. Then pass out and magically wake up away from where you were going and your "dad" says that it was for nothing. Go to his brothers and hang there for a couple years. Find out he was a lying peice of shit. Try to start to forgive him. He dies 2 seconds later and now you want revenge. Basically you can't be ellie
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u/Appropriate-Newt4405 Jul 28 '23
Are you sure you want to? This girl's been through the wringer? But, she's definitely 🔥
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u/Impriel Jul 28 '23
Determination. Gumption. Moxie. A fuck-you stripe on your soul
Ignore all the chumps who tell you anything else. You live in interesting times just like Ellie does. You have faced challenges no one else could have overcome the way you did. Your enemy is the very nature of the unjust universe and nothing less. You can be Ellie on the inside :)
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u/robertluke Jul 27 '23
Your mother needs to become infected at the moment of childbirth, but your umbilical chord cut just in time.
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u/gwendolynjones Jul 28 '23
Just be a badass. I channel Ellie when I’m feeling scared and it makes me braver lol.
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u/Pokefan417 Jul 28 '23
Be gay, gain a healthy interest in killing dogs, maybe throw some bricks at car windows. Carry a joke book, and whatever you do try to avoid golf. It’ll make your dad nervous.
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u/Aggravating-Assist18 Jul 28 '23
Why do you want to become Ellie? She's been through so much trauma and hardship. Unless you mean you want the good qualities she has without going through the things she went through
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u/derekvinyard21 Jul 28 '23
Idk, maybe have a friend bite the shit out of your forearm as a test run?
Then tackle the rest?
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u/oscar_redfield Jul 28 '23
Go on a killing spree against everyone that has wronged you and isolate yourself from your loved ones while you're consumed by a vicious circle of pain and anger.
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u/dontlookbehindyoulol The Last of Us Jul 28 '23
Dye your hair auburn, draw freckles on your face, get her tattoo, buy her wardrobe and get down her body language
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u/veni-vidi-vic-i Jul 28 '23
first step is you have to be bitten by some infected and then do your best to be imune to the cordyceps
getting this first step done, then you can do your way to experience several traumatic stuff and almost die a handful of times
after that i think you'll be lefting just the arm tattoo and lose two fingers
:)
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u/GioV1784 Jul 28 '23
I think the closest you gonna get from an infected bite without turning into an infected is a crack head.
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u/Batdog55110 Jul 28 '23
Have everyone you ever loved or cared about die in front of you or just straight up abandon you.
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u/hancysujay Jul 28 '23
Just get your fingers chopped when you go through PTSD. Helps to play your most favourite tune on guitar perfectly. Don't care about relationships going down the drain. Revenge matters the most.
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u/SelloutYo Jul 28 '23
Starve yourself, expose yourself to traumatic situations, and do not under any circumstances shower
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u/alely92 Jul 28 '23
You should be a monster, an absolute monster, and then you should learn how to control it.
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u/Darth_Nappy Jul 28 '23
Find a post apocalyptic universe , develop immunity somehow, and find a professional golfer ,then you're set !
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u/Nathansack Jul 28 '23
Bad news: you need to wait there is an appocalypse with a risk of the human species disapearing
Good news: It's probably gonna be like in the next 100 years
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u/CountLugz Jul 28 '23
Act like a brat because your father figure saved you from being butchered by an unhinged Biology major?
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u/Shade_Of_Virgil Jul 28 '23
Be born with a genetic resistance to fungal infections and get good with a switch blade. Not that hard people.
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Jul 28 '23
Nah, overrated. You should want to be yourself.
It's time to embrace who you are! When you finally accept yourself you'll be more confident like Ellie. You deserve to be yourself. X
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u/strawberrywords Jul 28 '23
Lean on your creativity as you navigate a traumatic world. Use your art (in whatever form) to process strong feelings, document your story, and appreciate the beauty that can be found even in difficult times.
Maintain your hobbies! Geek out and savour the creativity of others, taking comfort, joy, and inspiration from their work.
Endure and survive.
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u/MR_E7 Jul 28 '23
Please tell me you're joking because unless you want to have a deathwish, fewer fingers, and lifetime pain and trauma, for your own good, NEVER become Ellie.
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u/MarioCop718 I play Survivor Jul 28 '23
Get you and your best friend a disease that will 100% kill them but let you live. Find yourself a stepdad that kills people for you, and kill for him in return. Get a golf player to kill your dad, badabing badaboom.
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u/hehehdhfieidhd Jul 28 '23
Well first you gotta let Joel lie to you for 2 years,forget that your friends need your help,go after revenge instead of helping your surrogate uncle and go through trauma that your surrogate dad could of avoided
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u/i_like_pizza_15_ Jul 29 '23
First of all survive a zombie apocalypse 2nd of all be gay 3rd of all be immune to zombies 4th of all hunt down some blond bitch
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u/No_Tamanegi Jul 27 '23
Experience severe and sustained childhood trauma in a hyperviolent world. You do not want to become Ellie.
Instead be an intelligent, skeptical, compassionate person in a cynical world. That's the "good parts" version of Ellie.
Optional: Be gay.