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Name: Raina
Age: 24
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firethepolice) | Legend of Korra
Character Information:
Name: Ellie
Canon: The Last of Us
Canon Point: Postgame
Age: 14, almost 15.
Reference: Ellie’s Wiki page
Setting: The Last of Us is set in a post apocalyptic America. In 2013, the cordyceps fungus began infecting humans. It originated from crops in Latin America, and first began infecting people in the southern United States, spreading from there. The fungus affects the human brain, it grows all over it, slowly eroding a person’s humanity.
The symptoms of an infection start with increased aggravation and aggression, before the person loses control to the virus and attempts to kill any non-infected persons. The fungus is spread by spores, and by physical biting or scratching from an infected person. Everyone ‘turns’ once infected in less than two days.
The infection has four stages: runners, stalkers, clickers, and bloaters.
Runners are your recently infected, and the only stage of the infected that can still see. The fungus makes them less able to differentiate between light and dark, so they won’t see your flashlight, but they will still see you if you aren’t careful.
Stalkers are the second stage, and usually have some form of fungus growing out of their skull. They can’t see, and are in the beginning stages of developing a crude form of echolocation. They will reposition themselves to make surprise ambushes, and are quicker than Runners to see people. They’re stronger than Runners, too.
Clickers are infected that have had their heads completely malformed due to the plates of fungus growing out of them, and have been infected for years by this stage. They can’t see at all and rely on echolocation and sound to find their targets. They are insanely strong, and once they grab you, unless you’re handy with a shiv, they’ll immediately rip your throat out.
Bloaters are the last and one of the rarest forms of the infection, they have thick fungal plates growing all over their bodies. So, they’re slow, but they’re also almost impervious to weaker forms of ammunition. They are weak to fire and piercing rounds, but also have ranged capabilities as they can throw spores at you. Once bloaters die, naturally, they release spores into the air to spread the infection.
Due to the rapid pace of the infection’s spread, and because there was no cure available, the world quickly fell into chaos, and martial law was declared just about all over the globe. The US government was disbanded, and states and cities focused on creating ‘quarantine zones’ that were rife with corruption, especially as the military liked to withhold rations from the citizens.
And in the 20 years since the outbreak happened, two different factions opposing the military rose up: the Fireflies, and the Hunters. The Fireflies are a national organization dedicated to finding a cure for the infection and restoring proper control of all three branches of government. The military attacks them with a vengeance in Boston, an escaped infected monkey forced them out of their hideout in the University of Eastern Colorado, and their final safe house is in St. Mary’s Hospital, in Salt Lake City.
The Hunters are more regional and city focused. They are people who fought back against the military, and in turn decided to create their own society. They are violent, and are hostile to anyone who is not a part of their group, jokingly referring to others as ‘tourists.’ They keep their areas relatively free of infected, and will also kill any tourist passing through and steal their supplies.
Or eat them, in some cases.
Of note, Ellie is the only known person to be immune to the infection, which makes her very important to the Fireflies, and is why the leader of the Fireflies, Marlene, asks Joel to smuggle her.
Personality: Ellie starts out the journey as a naive, if spirited girl. She only knows the world she’s grown up in, with all the remnants of life “before” the infection. She’s curious about everything around her, and has an avid love of reading, especially reading comic books and science fiction. She has an active imagination and will sometimes act out what she thinks would have happened, as she does in the lobby of the ruined Pittsburgh Grand Hotel, where she pretends she’s a ritzy guest checking in for the night.
She learns to whistle, and tells horrible pun humor, such as “People are making apocalypse jokes like there’s no tomorrow! … Too soon.” She also asks questions about what would have happened before the outbreak, such as asking why models are skinny in photos if there’s plenty of food.
She’ll listen to Joel when it comes to fighting, as their lives often depend on it, but otherwise she’s fiercely independent. Touching and stealing things when told not to, arguing with Joel about his decision to not give her a gun to “help take out some of these fuckers,” and more. The height of her obstinacy is when David, one of the Hunters, kidnaps her and offers her a chance to join their group as long as she tells him her name. She breaks his finger when he starts petting his hand, and tells him, “Tell them Ellie is the name of the girl that broke your fucking finger!”
Throughout the game, Ellie grows to have survivor’s guilt due to the people whom she’s gotten close to dying throughout the game, and a mild form of PTSD after David’s attempt to rape her. She expresses this to Joel in the end when she says, “I’m still waiting for my turn” in reference to all the people who have died for her, and her general withdrawal from conversation.
As a note, Ellie doesn’t mind using cursing to express her feelings, especially as she’s grown up in a world that doesn’t have the sensibilities of the pre-outbreak world.
Finally, as to how Ellie would deal with being told she was in a land between dreaming and death, she wouldn’t deal with it, at least not right away. She’d immediately get distracted by everything else around her. As time went on and it started to sink in, she’d try to mask any scared feelings she had. Especially with Joel not there.
Appearance: Ellie!
Abilities: Hearing - Ellie can focus her hearing to track where people are, even when there are walls or rooms separating them.
Bow and Arrow & Rifle shooting - Ellie is an experienced hunter (little h), and pretty handy with a rifle.
Sneaking and using a shiv - She sneaks around David’s complex to avoid his guard, and kills people by stabbing them in the back throughout the compound
Inventory: Her backpack, with all the various knick-knacks in it, as well as the rifle and bow and arrow she attaches to it.
Things you can reasonably expect to find in her backpack: COMIC BOOKS, a robot with sentimental value, her pun humor book… Various supplies and odds and ends that she can use to make molotov cocktails, first aid kits, smoke bombs, and trip mines. She also has a permanent shiv.
Suite: Any
In-Character Samples:
Third Person: Joel wasn’t there. She was trying to not freak out about it, but he wasn’t there. Instead, there were weird aliens and something about a turtle. If Joel were there, she’d be having a ball. In fact, a part of her was still excited, and still not focusing on the land between dreaming and death. There was electricity! And it wasn’t rare. In fact, it didn’t seem to be a big deal at all.
Buildings looked new and not quite ready to completely fall over. Even the ones in the so-called poor districts. It was like she jumped out of Utah and straight into one of her comic books. But it was just her, and not Joel. She rubbed her nose a bit as she beelined straight to the first bookstore she could find.
“You’ve gotta be kidding me,” she exhaled with annoyance as she flipped through books “I can’t read any of this! What the fuck!” She’d just assumed everyone spoke English when she understood them, and that they’d write in English too. It didn’t make much sense otherwise. That’d show her not to make assumptions.
But she was out of books, and Joel still wasn’t there. Things were starting to get hard to ignore, and she was running out of options. There were a lot of things she could do, it looked like, but what if they all had some weird hitch to it, like her plan to go buy lots and lots of comic books?
She smelled something good, and her stomach rumbled. Well, maybe going to get some food would be a good start.
Network:
[when it clicks on, have a face full of dirty red headed kid. She looks absolutely delighted by the fact that the console works, and her words seal the deal]
Holy shit, this thing really works?! This is so fucking cool! So, I turned this on and everyone else can hear me, right? This thing’s like a mass phone call or… Oh, wait. Is this what it was like being on TV?
[she pulls out a book from her backpack]
Well, I’m reading a book about anti- gravity… It’s impossible to put down. Pfff. Okay, okay, I won’t read my good ol’ pun book to everyone, but if you ever need a joke, let me know.
Also, I’m looking for someone. His name’s Joel, he’s kind of older, brown hair, talks with a pretty thick Texas accent.
And if anyone knows where I can find a bunch of books in English, that’d be awesome. Last place I went to, they were all in this fucking weird script! No good if you wanna actually read something, you know?
Name: Raina
Age: 24
Contact:
Game Cast: Mako (
firethepolice) | Legend of KorraCharacter Information:
Name: Ellie
Canon: The Last of Us
Canon Point: Postgame
Age: 14, almost 15.
Reference: Ellie’s Wiki page
Setting: The Last of Us is set in a post apocalyptic America. In 2013, the cordyceps fungus began infecting humans. It originated from crops in Latin America, and first began infecting people in the southern United States, spreading from there. The fungus affects the human brain, it grows all over it, slowly eroding a person’s humanity.
The symptoms of an infection start with increased aggravation and aggression, before the person loses control to the virus and attempts to kill any non-infected persons. The fungus is spread by spores, and by physical biting or scratching from an infected person. Everyone ‘turns’ once infected in less than two days.
The infection has four stages: runners, stalkers, clickers, and bloaters.
Runners are your recently infected, and the only stage of the infected that can still see. The fungus makes them less able to differentiate between light and dark, so they won’t see your flashlight, but they will still see you if you aren’t careful.
Stalkers are the second stage, and usually have some form of fungus growing out of their skull. They can’t see, and are in the beginning stages of developing a crude form of echolocation. They will reposition themselves to make surprise ambushes, and are quicker than Runners to see people. They’re stronger than Runners, too.
Clickers are infected that have had their heads completely malformed due to the plates of fungus growing out of them, and have been infected for years by this stage. They can’t see at all and rely on echolocation and sound to find their targets. They are insanely strong, and once they grab you, unless you’re handy with a shiv, they’ll immediately rip your throat out.
Bloaters are the last and one of the rarest forms of the infection, they have thick fungal plates growing all over their bodies. So, they’re slow, but they’re also almost impervious to weaker forms of ammunition. They are weak to fire and piercing rounds, but also have ranged capabilities as they can throw spores at you. Once bloaters die, naturally, they release spores into the air to spread the infection.
Due to the rapid pace of the infection’s spread, and because there was no cure available, the world quickly fell into chaos, and martial law was declared just about all over the globe. The US government was disbanded, and states and cities focused on creating ‘quarantine zones’ that were rife with corruption, especially as the military liked to withhold rations from the citizens.
And in the 20 years since the outbreak happened, two different factions opposing the military rose up: the Fireflies, and the Hunters. The Fireflies are a national organization dedicated to finding a cure for the infection and restoring proper control of all three branches of government. The military attacks them with a vengeance in Boston, an escaped infected monkey forced them out of their hideout in the University of Eastern Colorado, and their final safe house is in St. Mary’s Hospital, in Salt Lake City.
The Hunters are more regional and city focused. They are people who fought back against the military, and in turn decided to create their own society. They are violent, and are hostile to anyone who is not a part of their group, jokingly referring to others as ‘tourists.’ They keep their areas relatively free of infected, and will also kill any tourist passing through and steal their supplies.
Or eat them, in some cases.
Of note, Ellie is the only known person to be immune to the infection, which makes her very important to the Fireflies, and is why the leader of the Fireflies, Marlene, asks Joel to smuggle her.
Personality: Ellie starts out the journey as a naive, if spirited girl. She only knows the world she’s grown up in, with all the remnants of life “before” the infection. She’s curious about everything around her, and has an avid love of reading, especially reading comic books and science fiction. She has an active imagination and will sometimes act out what she thinks would have happened, as she does in the lobby of the ruined Pittsburgh Grand Hotel, where she pretends she’s a ritzy guest checking in for the night.
She learns to whistle, and tells horrible pun humor, such as “People are making apocalypse jokes like there’s no tomorrow! … Too soon.” She also asks questions about what would have happened before the outbreak, such as asking why models are skinny in photos if there’s plenty of food.
She’ll listen to Joel when it comes to fighting, as their lives often depend on it, but otherwise she’s fiercely independent. Touching and stealing things when told not to, arguing with Joel about his decision to not give her a gun to “help take out some of these fuckers,” and more. The height of her obstinacy is when David, one of the Hunters, kidnaps her and offers her a chance to join their group as long as she tells him her name. She breaks his finger when he starts petting his hand, and tells him, “Tell them Ellie is the name of the girl that broke your fucking finger!”
Throughout the game, Ellie grows to have survivor’s guilt due to the people whom she’s gotten close to dying throughout the game, and a mild form of PTSD after David’s attempt to rape her. She expresses this to Joel in the end when she says, “I’m still waiting for my turn” in reference to all the people who have died for her, and her general withdrawal from conversation.
As a note, Ellie doesn’t mind using cursing to express her feelings, especially as she’s grown up in a world that doesn’t have the sensibilities of the pre-outbreak world.
Finally, as to how Ellie would deal with being told she was in a land between dreaming and death, she wouldn’t deal with it, at least not right away. She’d immediately get distracted by everything else around her. As time went on and it started to sink in, she’d try to mask any scared feelings she had. Especially with Joel not there.
Appearance: Ellie!
Abilities: Hearing - Ellie can focus her hearing to track where people are, even when there are walls or rooms separating them.
Bow and Arrow & Rifle shooting - Ellie is an experienced hunter (little h), and pretty handy with a rifle.
Sneaking and using a shiv - She sneaks around David’s complex to avoid his guard, and kills people by stabbing them in the back throughout the compound
Inventory: Her backpack, with all the various knick-knacks in it, as well as the rifle and bow and arrow she attaches to it.
Things you can reasonably expect to find in her backpack: COMIC BOOKS, a robot with sentimental value, her pun humor book… Various supplies and odds and ends that she can use to make molotov cocktails, first aid kits, smoke bombs, and trip mines. She also has a permanent shiv.
Suite: Any
In-Character Samples:
Third Person: Joel wasn’t there. She was trying to not freak out about it, but he wasn’t there. Instead, there were weird aliens and something about a turtle. If Joel were there, she’d be having a ball. In fact, a part of her was still excited, and still not focusing on the land between dreaming and death. There was electricity! And it wasn’t rare. In fact, it didn’t seem to be a big deal at all.
Buildings looked new and not quite ready to completely fall over. Even the ones in the so-called poor districts. It was like she jumped out of Utah and straight into one of her comic books. But it was just her, and not Joel. She rubbed her nose a bit as she beelined straight to the first bookstore she could find.
“You’ve gotta be kidding me,” she exhaled with annoyance as she flipped through books “I can’t read any of this! What the fuck!” She’d just assumed everyone spoke English when she understood them, and that they’d write in English too. It didn’t make much sense otherwise. That’d show her not to make assumptions.
But she was out of books, and Joel still wasn’t there. Things were starting to get hard to ignore, and she was running out of options. There were a lot of things she could do, it looked like, but what if they all had some weird hitch to it, like her plan to go buy lots and lots of comic books?
She smelled something good, and her stomach rumbled. Well, maybe going to get some food would be a good start.
Network:
[when it clicks on, have a face full of dirty red headed kid. She looks absolutely delighted by the fact that the console works, and her words seal the deal]
Holy shit, this thing really works?! This is so fucking cool! So, I turned this on and everyone else can hear me, right? This thing’s like a mass phone call or… Oh, wait. Is this what it was like being on TV?
[she pulls out a book from her backpack]
Well, I’m reading a book about anti- gravity… It’s impossible to put down. Pfff. Okay, okay, I won’t read my good ol’ pun book to everyone, but if you ever need a joke, let me know.
Also, I’m looking for someone. His name’s Joel, he’s kind of older, brown hair, talks with a pretty thick Texas accent.
And if anyone knows where I can find a bunch of books in English, that’d be awesome. Last place I went to, they were all in this fucking weird script! No good if you wanna actually read something, you know?
