[10] Depending on the situation, Ellie will need assistance from Joel if she is unable to wrestle herself free from an attack. [64] Philip Kollar of Polygon found the relationship was assisted by the game's optional conversations. Just as Ellie leaves the offices, a stalker ambushes her and pushes her through a window, causing them to fall into the waters below and be carried downstream towards the sewers. [14][49], In the weeks after their arrival, Ellie and Joel settle into life in Jackson. [25][45] She is unable to swim until Joel teaches her how sometime before the events of Part II. When asked how she knows her name, Marlene responds by saying she knew her mother and that the envelope was a letter from her mother. [55], Later that night, Ellie came to Joel's house, finding him playing his guitar and drinking coffee on his porch. [71] Keza MacDonald of IGN wrote that the kiss was "so beautiful and natural and funny that [she] was left dumbstruck". Contents hide. She has read the letter and picks up the knife before hugging it to her chest.[9]. The concept for Ellie began with an unused idea for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009). [92][93][95] Ellie was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Character at the 24th Annual D.I.C.E. He even called her "baby girl" just like he did with Sarah. [37] Through this experience, Ellie earned Joel's absolute trust, the man finally acknowledging her as an equal. 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While there, she finds it abandoned and discovers a tape recording left behind by Mel, a member of Fireflies, that stated she was the only one immune, and that the only doctor who could make a vaccine was dead. Although Ellie manages to stab Abby's thigh, Abby gains the upper hand, breaking Ellie's arm before beating her within inches of her life. With the soldiers dealt with, Joel and Tess find that Ellie is infected, but are forced to bring Ellie along when another patrol approaches. Search. Riley abandons her Firefly pendant when Ellie pleads for her to remain, and they kiss. She encounters a boar that she chases and slaughters, stabbing it to death with her hunting knife. [38] David also tries to keep Ellie alive, but she later kills him. He is lonely and lost in the middle of a family of four girls when Leslie Burke moves in next door. A transmission then comes through stating a lone male trespasser was spotted at "fourteen", an area Dina deduces is Hillcrest. [53] Her reflexes have also improved quite drastically enabling her to swiftly dodge and evade deadly attacks with minimal effort on her part by just barely moving enough of her body out of the way of the attack. Jesse tells her that Dina could barely keep water down, and asks if she is pregnant. 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Along with Eliezer, they make a plan to move to Palestine after the war. Ellie gives Marlene the gun and Marlene tells her that her mother was called Anna, and she would tell her more about her mother when the time is right. Notably, both Nora and Nick were able to pin Ellie down at the Baldwin lodge[50] and Nora successfully fought Ellie off at the Seattle hospital. [9], When Riley finally returns to Ellie after forty-six days, Ellie is somewhat upset with Riley over the extended absence, which caused Ellie to believe that Riley was dead. Inspired by a mute character proposed for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, he created her as a strong female character who has a close relationship with Joel; throughout the first game's development, the relationship between Ellie and Joel was the central focus. What is the Net Worth of Ellie Eilish. Ellie, Tommy and Dina prepare to head out on patrol to relieve Joel and Tommy. [58] Conversely, Game Informer's Kimberley Wallace felt that the game focused too much on Joel, "hardly capitalizing on Ellie's importance",[59] and Chris Suellentrop of The New York Times judged that Ellie is cast "in a secondary, more subordinate role". Coincidentally, both were victims of the fungus and both had gotten infected while in her company. She asks Ellie to come back to bed and discuss it in the morning but Ellie reveals she had made up her mind, convinced killing Abby will end her trauma. Riley reacts by hitting it with a stone before it can do anything, but the runner, having discovered her, begins to attack Riley and pins her to the ground. In the epilogue, Joel makes several comparisons between Sarah and Ellie. [45], One of the strongest aspects of the pair's relationship is Ellie's fear that she may lose Joel, like she lost Riley, Tess and Sam to the world they live in. [22] Seeing her as a hindrance rather than helpful, Bill repeatedly expressed his anger at Joel's decision to escort Ellie. The pair find disused M939 trucks on the collapsed highway, full of areas to explore. After much hesitation, Joel finally reveals the surgeons were willing to kill Ellie to make a vaccine, so he stopped them. [63] She shares a kiss with Riley,[13] and she is romantically involved with Dina, and prior to the events of the game, was with a girl named Cat. Even if her parents had divorced , they make an effort to put aside their differences for her sake . She is married to caring husband and has a baby too. Arriving at Winstons camp, Ellie tells Riley that she heard that Winston had died of a heart attack, a rarity for survivors. [11][45] As an NPC, she is also invisible to enemy AI, meaning she can't accidentally reveal Joel's position. As the pair go to leave, Bill threatens her, but she slyly says she "doesn't need any of [his] shit". Abby bites off two of Ellie's fingers, but Ellie overpowers and starts drowning her; she ultimately lets Abby go after experiencing a happier memory of Joel. Marlene continues to tell her that she has had people watching Ellie as she promised her mother she would. As Ellie catches up to Riley, the shelf she uses to climb tips over and she falls onto the ground. Once done, he asks why she seems uneasy with Joel but she dodges the question. The two bond as Joel answers Ellie's questions regarding life before the disease destroyed the world. Eliezer. The player will have the option to accept or reject the drink. This is similar to Joel's listening mode. She asks Joel to "swear to me that everything that you said about the Fireflies is true." Recovering, Ellie jumps on the back of the infected and slits its throat. An example is when Joel falls on an iron rod. Along the way, Ellie reveals her immunity to Dina, and Dina reveals she is pregnant with Jesse's child. Joel, wishing to change topic, asks if Dina is Ellie's girlfriend. [55], Ellie and Maria first meet when Ellie and Joel attempt to push open a gate. [9] The two eventually develop romantic feelings towards each other and share an intimate relationship. He holds her at gunpoint after throwing her to the ground, asking her how she managed to escape alive. [30], After killing a Hunter that was trying to drown Joel, she begins to take a more active role in combat, particularly helping Joel to kill them by shooting them herself or by stabbing enemies who are grappling Joel. [70] Kotaku's Kirk Hamilton described Ellie and Riley's kiss as "video gaming's latest breakthrough moment", declaring it "a big deal". [39], By the winter months, Ellie is running short on food. Climbing from the pool, she heads inside with Joel and the two look around at all the other dinosaur statues. She refuses to say. She then begins to describe "The Turning," a violent fighting game with a female character named 'Angel Knives.' David proceeded to stalk her throughout the restaurant, taunting her creepily and expressing his disappointment that she did not accept his offer to join the group. [39] Compared to Joel, however, she has limited hand-to-hand combat skills, as she struggles to defeat fully-grown men, having to rely on stunning them with a brick or bottle to gain an upper hand. However, when Ellie and Dina walked away, Seth made a homophobic remark, causing Ellie to round on him. Moments later, an explosion occurs outside the mall, prompting Winston to find his unit. Traveling through the building, Ellie asks how Riley found the Fireflies. When Joel told Ellie to go eat with Maria while Joel and Tommy went to tend to the generator, Ellie showed reluctance. Riley tells her friend that with the Fireflies she is not a soldier like Ellie. She is the first Animal Friend to be a female. She then ties him to a blanket on a sled, and then ties the sled to Callus, and starts to ride him. 31 Episodes 1975. Ellie's path is blocked by a security gate, and the chain for the gate is obstructed by a metal beam. Her character is named Kathleen and is a ruthless leader of a revolutionary group in Kansas City. Moments later, she spots an arcade just a few feet away from them. [30] Some of the team considered Ellie's obsession with Abby akin to a drug addiction, and that Dina left as she felt that the obsession would never end. While inside, they take down numerous infected before a bloater ambushes them. Ellie confirms that she will, as Dina needs care in Jackson. Ellie eventually returns to the Firefly hospital and discovers the truth. Along with girlfriend Dina, Tommy, and Dina's ex-boyfriend Jesse, Ellie travels to the militia's home turf in Seattle to exact revenge. He then mentions her boyfriend, Chris, and how he is dead "even if his body is still alive." Riley, understanding her friend is upset, promises to tell her what happened while she was gone if she leaves the school with her. He carries them to the shore someway from the bridge, reuniting them with Sam. These include her mother Anna's letter, Riley's pendant, her switchblade, her Sony Walkman that she possessed during her time at the orphanage, the jokebooks she read from in Pittsburgh and a photo of Joel and Sarah that she stole from Tommy in Jackson. Ellie provokes them, but is saved by a teenage girl as their leader prepares to attack her. Ellie and Joel overhear Tess being gunned down by the military, and they see her corpse whilst escaping the building. [39], When Ellie regains consciousness in her holding cell, she witnesses James chopping up a corpse on a bench and discovers that David and his group are cannibals. Obsessed with comic books, CDs, and other pop culture, her knowledge base is filled by the remnants of a world that no longer exists.Official description[8], Ellie Williams was born in the spring of 2019, by which time the Cordyceps brain infection had spread throughout the United States. Heading into the back of the mall, Riley explains that the military lied about the power in the city and that there was still power inside the mall. Eventually they start making out. Despite the injury, she proceeded to fight off and kill two Rattler bandits then proceeded to the Rattler's base and killed many inside. Instead of arguing with her, Riley leaves without her. Ellie avoids answering why she is being smuggled but does inform Joel that her parents died and that she's 14. [14], Ellie showed difficulties in positioning herself as a young kid in an adults' eyes, and sometimes even tends to "supervise" adults. He taunts a weaker Ellie as she crawls towards his machete underneath a cabinet, saying that it's okay to give up. Joel detours into the city itself, but are ambushed by a group of hunters. She also lacks the strength to grapple human enemies and infected, meaning she is unable to use the former as a human shield. Maria and her guards confront them before Tommy shows up and diffuses the situation. [32], In the morning, Ellie was attacked by an infected Sam and subsequently saved by Henry, though she later expressed her guilt of surviving over Sam due to her immunity. He lingers a moment longer, then wishes her goodnight and shuts the door. Afterward, she takes him to an abandoned house on a sled attached to her horse and continues to nurse him back to health, while at the same time getting them food, and medicine from David. She cannot swim, a hindrance to herself since swimming is crucial, given the amount of water bodies in the locations she travels. Recognising her excessive violence, Ellie runs from the boar's corpse and collapses to her knees near the farm. As they prepare to leave, Ellie encourages Riley to leave and that they'll see each other again one day. As they travel through the vacant building, Ellie spots a mannequin standing behind a broken window display and takes a moment to mock its posture before she moves to rejoin Riley. [52], At some point between Jackson and Seattle, Dina discovers that she is pregnant with JJ. Despite the sequel's controversy, there's no denying Ellie's place . [33] She also has a unique death animation when killed by Bloaters, whom kill her with a hook-punch to the head rather than crushing her head. [40], Ellie is romantically interested in women. 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