Find out what events marked Ellie’s trajectory before she embarked on a long journey alongside Joel across the USA
Released last Sunday, the 27th, the seventh episode of ‘The Last of Us’, the HBO series that adjusts the story of the game developed by Naughty Dog in 2013 to the small screen, took a break from the long journey taken by Joel and Ellie across the United States United 30 years after a fungus mutation almost caused the extinction of life on earth, as it presents the origin story of the girl who is immune to the infection.
What is Ellie’s origin story?
In the plot that adapts the events of ‘Left Behind’, an expansion of the original game, it is revealed that Ellie lived in a training center where she studied to become a soldier of the Federal Disaster Response Agency, FEDRA, but that, despite Despite her high potential, she has a rebellious nature and always gets into trouble, as well as not having a great deal of respect for authority figures.
In addition, Ellie is also said to have a best friend: Riley, a girl who stayed away from the FEDRA gates for 3 weeks after being recruited by the Fireflies, but who unexpectedly returns in the middle of the night to convince Ellie to escape the dorm and live. the last hours of the day enjoying the “Five Wonders” of a mall after the apocalypse.
Visits to the Carousel, Arcade, and Halloween Goods Shop, combined with a trip to the photo booth, and reading the second volume of Ellie’s favorite book of puns, symbolized the farewell of a great friendship, as Riley reveals that he will stay with the Fireflies from then on and will no longer return to FEDRA’s quarters.
But, more than that, what the two experienced in these spaces marked the last signs of the beginning of a passion, as Ellie revealed to have romantic feelings for her friend before an infected person, waking up by the noises made by the duo, attacked them, causing the girls to bravely fight for their lives until the end was inevitable, as both were bitten and would have to wait for their death.
With this, the public gets the details of the kickoff that led to the trajectory experienced by Joel and Ellie, since unlike their friend and other human beings, she survived for more than two days without having her nervous system dominated by the fungus, revealing that the girl is somehow immune to the virus carried by one infected by the Cordyceps mutation.
Finally, it is here that those who watched the series — or who are reading this text — could find out who was the first human being that Ellie had to kill, since, although it is not shown, it is known that Ellie had to kill Riley before realizing her own immunity.
It is also worth remembering that in the comic ‘The Last of Us: American Dreams’, co-written by the game’s creator, Neil Druckmannit is revealed that Ellie’s mother, Anna, died during childbirth, and that the girl was raised by the best friend of the one who gave birth to her, Marlene.
However, the two would not be together for long, as Marlene sent Ellie to a military school as a baby, believing that she could not take care of the girl. The two would only meet again years later, when Ellie manages to escape from the military school and find the Vagalumes, a rebel group led by Marlene.
Source: Recreio
