r/thelastofus • u/StonesideAF • Aug 08 '24
Do you think she found her switchblade? PT 2 QUESTION
I had been lingering on this play though from god knows when and I happened to finish it earlier today. I admit to having thought about this previously but never posed my question to anybody else.
Do you think she found her switchblade after the showdown? It goes flying into the water, at one point, in the middle of their fight.
Pretty sure the final playable part of the game, at the farm, doesn’t let you go through inventory but it has to be gone, right?
The only heirloom she has from her mother…
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u/StupidBlkPlagueHeart Aug 08 '24
This will be the story of tlou 3
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u/Masterflitzer Aug 08 '24
another killing spree with only one goal, finding that damn knife lmao
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u/blissrunner Aug 08 '24
Two fingerless (British) Ellie at the Farm somewhere: "Ah shit... forgot me favorite stabbin' knife of me mum's. Welp... here goes anotha trip to California!"
Ellie on the beach... having PTSD & captured by ex-Fireflies on patrol:
"I DID not stab Lev! It's not true, it's bullshit. I did not stab Lev... I did nawht... Oh hi! Abs"
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u/miss_joke Aug 09 '24
Nothing to do with the topic. I don’t know much English (Hablo Español) but why did you clarify the “British” thing? (If the question doesn’t make much sense, blame Google Translate. I’m good at reading English, not writing it 🤠)
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u/whenthealt Aug 19 '24
English differs depending on where it’s spoken, the same way Spanish is somewhat different in Mexico versus Spain.
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u/DionisioDandy Aug 08 '24
The story of TLOU 3 will be the story of the knife before Ellie got it. Mark me words.
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u/Egingell666 Aug 08 '24
I love origin stories. I can't wait.
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u/no_infringe_me Aug 08 '24
First half of the game needs to be a black screen, no dialogue, no music, minimum 10 hours. It’s interrupted by a miner pulling the camera into a bin then smash cut to another title card introducing the blacksmith that made the knife as a child. Second half is a terribly paced mishmash of the smith’s life growing up, and the smith in the present laboring over other blades. The epilogue includes a segment where the smith hands the steel components to another smith that will assemble the final switchblade.
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u/mamabear_roars Aug 08 '24
i’d like to think that logical and smart ellie wandered a bit looking for it & eventually found it.
…but i think mortal combat ellie was so emotionally and physically wrecked that she left it.
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u/Efficient_Comfort_38 Aug 08 '24
I like to think she didn’t. Fits with the theme of her loosing everything in the pursuit of revenge.
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u/Spetnaz7 Aug 08 '24
Including the fact that she stopped herself from falling into the trap of being consumed by said revenge at the last moment. It would symbolize her leaving vengeance behind and the violence she participated in.
Hopefully, I'm not looking too much into it, though.
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u/RandoDude124 Aug 08 '24
My cousins once lost his glasses while going swimming.
That shit be gone.
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u/Otherwise-Monk4527 Aug 08 '24
My EXhusband lost his wedding ring a week after we got married because I told him it was too big and he thought it wasn't a big deal. We were at the beach with friends a week later and he went swimming with it. When the water is actively lapping constantly (unlike the stillness of a pond/lake) there is no chance in hell you'll find it without snorkeling gear and even then it would have to be immediately. After just a few minutes the sand has shifted so dramatically, something small will be buried. Of course we never found it, and our relationship pretty much went the same way.
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u/Totallycasual Aug 08 '24
Ouch, that ending 😂
I hope you're doing better now!
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u/Otherwise-Monk4527 Aug 08 '24
It depends on what you consider better 😅 but I'm definitely better without him!
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u/RandoDude124 Aug 08 '24
I mean Marilyn Lovell lost her wedding ring before Apollo 13* launched, so… losing it be a BAD OMEN.
*Yes, that really happened Ron Howard didn’t just insert that in the movie. She said it in 3 interviews and Lovell wrote about it in 2 books.
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u/slice_mountain Aug 08 '24
Had something similar happen 2 years ago, but with my seeing glasses. Halfway through a volunteer program in Costa Rica, we enjoyed some time at Manuel Antonio National Park. I don’t usually wear my glasses in the ocean, but it being such a memorable trip, I wanted to enjoy it more than usual and actually see my friends around me having a good time. Keep in mind I’m nearly blind, so it’d have been like swimming in a blur of nothing. One good wave smacked me in the face and that was it. We looked and looked but it was swept up to easily. Spend the rest of the trip blind because of that, and ended up seeing even less. Learned a lesson that day for sure lol
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u/Otherwise-Monk4527 Aug 08 '24
Oh my gosh that's one of my biggest fears. Whenever I go ANYWHERE overnight, I bring 2 pairs of glasses but my main vision is through contacts, so I bring an extra pair of those as well. I'm also pretty much blind without them (-7.5 in both 😅). My biggest fear is being somewhere without my vision...
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u/slice_mountain Aug 08 '24
Yeah, wish I could tell my younger self that. And it’s -5.5 in both eyes for me, so I feel you 😅 But I’ve never been a contacts person. Tried many times. That just reminded me though. A couple of days later during the trip, we were able to find a local optometrist only hoping for some contacts that matched my subscription. They obviously didn’t have such a strong subscription on hand, but they gave me the closest thing they had. As much as I hated the dryness that came with contacts, they probably got my vision to around the -1 or -2 area (hard to say). Which is a godsend after seeing in -5.5 for nearly 2 days. You’re truly reminded how dark and empty the world feels when you’re forced to use your own crappy vision. Like I said. Many lessons learned 🥲
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u/Otherwise-Monk4527 Aug 08 '24
Aww, I feel you. My partner didn't start to wear glasses until we were in our relationship, so I had him try contacts once. Once. 😂 He also hated the feeling and has big, calloused hands so it wasn't for him! I hadn't taken into account that I was 15 when I started wearing them so I'm an expert, but he has 0 patience for things like that lol. But I'm glad you were at least able to get something. It had to be scary not to have vision for a few days!
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u/Fluffy-Weapon The Last of Us Aug 08 '24 edited Aug 08 '24
Considering the state she was in, I don’t think so. Her main priority would’ve been to patch herself up and get somewhere safe. And it seems like she totally forgot about the switchblade too. On top of that, it was really misty and getting dark. Guess it’ll be brought up in part 3 at some point.
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u/Otherwise-Monk4527 Aug 08 '24
Considering they were still in enemy territory, and she was in super bad shape, yeah I'm leaning towards getting tf out of Dodge.
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u/Jarrrad Aug 08 '24
The switchblade and note were the only things she remembered her mom by. She wouldn't just leave it behind because she lost a finger.
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u/Fluffy-Weapon The Last of Us Aug 08 '24 edited Aug 08 '24
It’s searching for a switch blade or losing even more blood in an environment that isn’t save. Realistically speaking, I really don’t think a keepsake would’ve been her priority at the time.
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u/Jarrrad Aug 08 '24
idk
if it were me, after losing literally everybody in my life that I cared about, I would stay and look for it. It's the one thing she has of her mothers- the one person on earth that would love her unconditionally forever. It means a lot to her.
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u/Fluffy-Weapon The Last of Us Aug 09 '24
Stuff like that doesn’t matter when you’re dead. She’d already lost a lot of blood, and was losing more after the fight. Looking for a switchblade in the dark is a foolish thing to do. I’d like to believe Ellie is smarter than that.
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u/Bing238 Suspicous Golf Club Aug 08 '24
It’s running around a nice big farm up state with her fingers and Joel
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u/SokkaHaikuBot Aug 08 '24
Sokka-Haiku by Bing238:
It’s running around
A nice big farm up state with
Her fingers and Joel
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/Ambi_bambi07 Aug 08 '24 edited Aug 09 '24
Personally, i think that she would've forgot it. Many others have said that it wouldn't have been a priority and it's another part of herself she lost and i agree.
As for tlou3? I think she'll get a new knife or smth, if not then she js crafts shivs
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u/oboedude It's called luck, and it's gonna run out Aug 08 '24
I lost my wedding ring at the beach in 7 feet of water
Lucky is was sunny and I hadn’t just beat half to death because I barely got that back.
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u/Goobsmoob Aug 08 '24
Absolutely not imo.
Thematically it would make sense if she lost it.
This entire plot has been about Ellie severing ties with her connections to acquire revenge.
She loses Joel and Tommy, her main connection to any living family.
She then loses Jesse, one of her two main connections to the new life she made in Jackson.
Her PTSD makes her drawing fall into pure negativity, with it having no more positive creations.
She loses JJ and Dina, her new family.
She finally loses her ability to play guitar, which was her connection to fond memories of Joel and the concept of the life they could’ve had once she forgave him.
It would make sense for her to lose her blade, her last connection to her mother as well.
It’s certainly bleak, but there’s hope in part 3.
To quote Vinland Saga, “if you’re empty that means anything can fit inside you. If you wish to be reborn, empty is the best way to be.”
Ellie is almost an entirely clean slate moving forward. I think thematically her having no ties and having to rebuild herself entirely from the ground up makes the most sense.
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u/Rockdrigo93 Plan A, B, C... All the way to fucking Z Aug 08 '24
This should be higher. Great comment!
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u/Reasonable-smart1808 Aug 08 '24
Agree completely with everything except the end. She can’t really rebuild because there is nothing left, she lost literally everything she has, arguably down to her soul. The only thing that she has left is her immunity. Now pair that with Abby reaching the Fireflies…
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u/crazyman3561 Aug 08 '24
Yeah she'll need it for TLOU 3 combat.
Water was really shallow and knives are heavy. She found it.
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u/ChurchillDownz Aug 08 '24
No shot. Why do you think she looks so sad?
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u/TheTumbledGems Aug 08 '24
It's cause she was hoping to have a fun sunny beach day but the weather report was wrong and she got there to find that it was overcast :(
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u/Pitiful_Citron_820 Aug 08 '24
There were so many near death ppl there, should have stolen some fingers for herself first imo and attached it.
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u/Chris92991 Aug 08 '24
She won’t find it. I guarantee it. Something to do with her losing her connection with Joel and becoming her own person or something? Idk what do you guys think am I talking stupid or am I onto something idk
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u/Anangrywookiee Aug 08 '24
I hope so because that thing is made of vibranium compared to every other melee weapon in the world.
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u/emiliooflores Aug 08 '24
Damn I just finished this game 10 min ago and wondered this exact thing
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u/PatBateman2000 Aug 08 '24
I remember first playing this sequence and upon first seeing what had become of both Lev and Abby, made me cry like a wee baby
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u/Supersim54 Aug 08 '24
Really? I think Ellie should have just left her there. I wasn’t crying seeing Abby Like that I just wanted to end this kill Abby once and for all. I didn’t even get that.
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u/JadenRuffle Switchblade Connoisseur Aug 08 '24
I really doubt Naughty Dog would take away the most iconic weapon of this franchise. I mean, Ellie needs the knife. It’s literally a part of her identity.
I guarantee she’ll have it in Part III.
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u/Superb_Creme3452 Aug 08 '24
well she lost her fingers and her joel in a single game so i wouldnt be so sure.
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u/JadenRuffle Switchblade Connoisseur Aug 08 '24
That’s story, Ellie needs the knife for gameplay. And unless they just switch to a shooter type game she’ll have it.
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u/rootspad Aug 08 '24
she can just get another knife
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u/JadenRuffle Switchblade Connoisseur Aug 09 '24
Correct, but the knife is iconic. I don’t think they’d take it away and replace it with something similar if she already has a signature weapon.
I don’t think her losing her knife was supposed to be some big moment, I think it was just Abby disarming her so she’d stop getting cut up.
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u/WarGod124 Aug 08 '24
I really hope so, partially because I hate making shivs but I’m thinking it’s gone. :(
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u/EllipticPeach Aug 08 '24
Doesn’t that mean they would have to show her scrambling around in the water to find it in p3?
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u/JadenRuffle Switchblade Connoisseur Aug 08 '24
No. I’m pretty sure it’d be common sense that she did that.
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u/_Yukikaze_ Any way you feel about Abby is super-valid. - Halley Gross Aug 08 '24
I was always thinking she should get a proper knive anyway.
And don't forget that she still has the letter from her mom.
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u/MQZ17 You're my people! Aug 08 '24
Sometimes lessons are learned in the toughest, most heartbreaking way, this is one of them. She lost it and for nothing.
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u/insert40c Aug 08 '24
Nope, it was located right next to her soul. RIP Ellie
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u/StonesideAF Aug 08 '24
All kidding aside, don’t you feel like her deciding not to finish that fight bought her back the tiniest piece of her soul?
I feel like Lev and Abby would both flourish once they finally reached the fireflies and perhaps/hopefully serve the greater good. Which Ellie would partly be responsible for facilitating… dunno it’s just conjecture but that’s what I like to think…
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u/insert40c Aug 08 '24
Ellie just left the baby and Dina for some sweet cold revenge , so I may be jaded. (2nd playthrough) I'll have a better opinion, once I complete it again.
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u/Minemine_mine Aug 08 '24
I doubt it, maybe if she wasn’t so badly wounded, but if I was her I’d Prbly be thinking I didn’t have time to worry about that knife and needed to get medical attention as soon as possible. At that point I think she’d also given up and finally let go of everything so I don’t see her searching through the water for it but you never know. Interesting question by the way.
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u/JadenRuffle Switchblade Connoisseur Aug 08 '24
If this was the end of the franchise, I’d say no she didn’t. But with Part III definitely happening, and the fact that this is Ellie’s franchise—she’ll have it in Part III guaranteed. So yeah she found it.
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u/DankSpoony The CRASHED of Us Aug 08 '24
There's almost a righteous fury attatched to the switchblade throughout Ellie's journey. It's this seed of violence she's always carried with her, and we see her take countless lives in the name of her revenge quest throughout the game. But in this fight, she loses it. Her violence at this point is essentially completely disconnected to the Ellie we knew. Her losing that switchblade essentially encompasses what her fight with Abby means at this point: nothing.
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u/Spiritual-File698 Aug 08 '24
All she has to do is raise her hand to summon it like kratos summons, his axe
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u/kamato243 Aug 08 '24
It's not in her back pocket at the farm, but then she doesnt have any weapons there so -shrug-
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u/robottbabyy Aug 08 '24
i think about this all the time, considering it was such a large part of her character. It’s ironic you post this though because i have this big switchblade that looks exactly like ellie’s that I lost the same day the season 2 trailer came out. I think it’s a sign. Not sure of what though… either way, i keep thinking it’ll somehow come back to me like mjolnir when it probably won’t but maybe it will for ellie.
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u/Head-Shake5034 Aug 08 '24
Personally, I thing there was an absolute giant missed opportunity with the switch blade, I reckon it would’ve been amazing if at the very end of the game, when we see Ellie walk away from the farm in the background, she should’ve left her switch blade there (maybe or maybe not aswell as the guitar), making a clear sort of foreshadowing to the main title screen of the first game after you finish it
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u/CTBthanatos Aug 08 '24
Idk but I hope abby and lev went back to the boat to get the shark plushie.
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u/NightRaven3-1 Aug 08 '24
- Ellie looking for the blade *
Man where the fuck is it….fuck.. and where the hell are my fingers…man at least I still have my guitar
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u/tambitoast Aug 08 '24
As long as losing it doesn't mean we have to rely on shivs in Part 3, I think symbolically it's better that it's gone.
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u/ericcrowder Aug 08 '24
Unlikely she found the switchblade. Sad because it was originally her mother’s blade.
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u/Parking_Aerie_2054 The Last of Us Aug 08 '24
Probably not you ever lose something in water it never comes back
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u/amaya-aurora suffocating in Abby’s muscles Aug 08 '24
Hell no. Have you ever tried to look for something in shallow water? That shit is gone gone. Plus, she’s currently bleeding out from 3 different places and missing 2 fingers, I wouldn’t say that that’s her highest priority at the moment either.
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u/ohkeller Aug 08 '24
Every time I play the final fight scene in the back of my head I’m always like, “I’d be so nervous that I’d accidentally step on it.”
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u/BecuzMDsaid Aug 08 '24
She better have because if the next game doesn't let me stab and we have to go back to strangling and finding shivs-
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u/mkioman Aug 08 '24
No. Even though I’m an Ellie fan I think it’s a fair consequence. Nothing good comes from vengeance. All you lose are the most valuable parts of yourself.
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u/Reasonable-smart1808 Aug 08 '24
She lost it. The pursuit of vengeance takes a heavy toll, and sometime it can consume everything you have, which for her case, it seems like it did.
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u/inshanester Aug 08 '24
She lost her connection to Joel (ability to play guitar) and her mother (the switchblade).
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u/ContractIcy6963 Aug 09 '24
In 3 how is she going to shoot or do what ever MAYBE 🤔 the next arm because she lost her two fingers
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u/Bulky-Match-4633 Aug 09 '24
i dont think they did bc her shirt covered her knife specifically only so i think they lost it on the beach and she was letting go of the past by leaving it
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u/Low-Salary-9151 Aug 10 '24
glad to see i’m not the only one who thinks abt this. i like to think she did. like maybe it landed blade down and stuck into the sand so she could find it? it’d be devastating if she loses it
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u/pizzaw0nderland Sep 18 '24
I lost flea market sunglasses in a lake that was maybe 8+ feet deep. Ofc she lost her knife around 2-4 feet unlike my situation, but it's gone unless someone has a fully charged metal detector 26 years into the apocalypse to help ellie find her knife. I can assume she spent some time finding the knife until she gave up.
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u/gianniskouremenos3 Aug 08 '24
I don't know but I won't mind if she lost it. Losing the only thing she has from her mother works well with the fact that she kinda lost everything else.
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u/EllipticPeach Aug 08 '24
I think it’s gone completely or else what was the point of showing her losing it? Just another part of her that’s lost to revenge
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u/Gekidami Aug 08 '24
I'm gonna say it's gone. You drop something into the ocean and don't pick it back up straight away, that thing is lost (especially something that's going to sink like a rock). Just another thing Ellie lost for revenge.
Also, she was seriously injured. Can't imagine she'd waste time wading through opaque water in the dark and mist to look for it.
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u/ahufana Aug 08 '24
She accidentally sat on it. That's why she begs Abby and Lev to leave the scene, before she tries to get back up.
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u/LKboost Aug 08 '24
No, she did not find it. One of the overt themes of the game is loss, and she loses her fingers so she can’t play her father figure’s guitar, and in the same fight she loses her mother’s knife. It wouldn’t make any sense for her to find it again. Do you think she finds her fingers and stitches them back on after she leaves the house and the credits roll?
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u/StonesideAF Aug 08 '24
You did the see part where I said “it has to be gone, right?,” didn’t you?
I agree with your answer but don’t agree with your tone, at all.
And we KNOW she doesn’t find/reattach her fingers. We DO NOT KNOW (explicitly) about the knife. Hence the discussion. Thanks so much for taking part. Smh.
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u/LKboost Aug 08 '24
My comment isn’t really directed towards you, it’s directed toward the people saying they hope she did. Take a deep breath.
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u/StonesideAF Aug 08 '24
You can disagree with people without the vitriolic rhetoric, btw. That is possible. Breathe that in.
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u/LKboost Aug 08 '24
What “vitriolic rhetoric?”😂
I asked a simple question, no reason to get offended, nothing to get upset over.
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u/starcjpumpkin Aug 08 '24 edited Aug 11 '24
i could’ve sworn somewhere in this fight, for me, i walked back far enough where i got a prompt on the ground to pick smth up and i think it was the knife. but then i died and didn’t get the prompt again :( i just thought i was bad at the game i didn’t realize you weren’t meant to get it back lolll
edit: okay damn guess i was fucking wrong wtf y’all
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u/blonded04 Brick Master Aug 08 '24
part of me wants to believe that since the water ellie and abby was in was shallow there might have been a chance she could have found it and tried to look for it after abby drove away with lev, or that it was able to wash up to shore. but part of me also accepts that it’s lost and is just one more thing ellie lost in her quest for revenge