THE SANCTUM ➨ a p p l i c a t i o n

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OOC INFORMATION
Name: Mil
Contact Information: {aim} supernalprince | {plurk} clowyamma
Personal Journal: supernalprince
Age: 28
Characters Played: n/a

IN-CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Ellie
Fandom: The Last of Us
Age: 15
Canon Point: End Game
Original Universe or Alternate Universe? Original
Personality:

Ellie displays strong traits of naïveté , maturity, experience, innovation, self-preservation, and insecurity. She also can be kind, compassionate, sensitive, as well as defiant and silly.

Through her behavior she advocates for being self-efficient by actions and by telling those around her that she can "take care of herself." While this may be true in some situations it's not necessarily the most honest of her convictions. Ellie is quite afraid of being abandoned, or being left alone in any way, form, or fashion. After Ellie finds out that Joel is going to "dump" her on Tommy she runs away to the abandoned ranch house and is later found by Joel who she escalates into an argument and reveals her anguish over losing people by either being left by them or by them dying. At this point of time she's been with Joel for quite some time and in that time together they have lost Tess, Henry, and Sam -- and the fear of Joel leaving Ellie is unbearable. She shows here a good example of defiance, theft (stealing one of Tommy's horses), recklessness through her act of going off in a dangerous world by herself under a frantic and unclear mind (rashness, impulsiveness, and temperamental), and immaturity of selfishness. Although she knows Joel is by no means bound to her, responsible for her, she still needs for him to commit to her as a guardian and/or friend she still has that child-like expectancy that he will continue to fulfill his role in her life. A desperation is seen here from her to connect with this person, Joel, for their time and effort together to be more than a "mission".

With that being said, Ellie is a loyal friend to those who she does make friends with as the act of making friends for Ellie is indeed difficult. This is supported by the fact that her first good friend is Riley and also in a conversation between the two Riley asks how Ellie's gang of friends were and Ellie responds with: "They're your friends.. not mine." Ellie is the type of girl that focuses all of her effort and attention to one friend at a time. This is seen in the game by the fact that Riley was her single friend and even after Riley left her for a long period of time Ellie did not accumulate any other friend to take Riley's place. Further in the game you see her slowly forming a bond with Joel and he becomes that single friend in which she will be loyal to and keep. There were many other opportunities for her to make friends or to leave Joel behind, but she didn't and she wouldn't. This is seen by his near fatal injury from the University of Eastern Colorado where she fights for his life, drags him to safety, protects their hideout, and risks her life to draw the enemy away from Joel who is bid-ridden to the extent of out of commission. During Joel's healing process and her nursing him, she could have befriended David and his community of hunters and though it may have been a smart, tactful, and a self-preservation move she didn't because of her loyalty to Joel. Also, she could have stayed with Tommy and Maria at the time Joel had planned on leaving her there, but she fought against that plan because Joel was far too important to her and the concept of being with someone new was terrifying to her.

"Everyone I have cared for has either died or left me. Everyone -fucking except for you! So don't tell me I would be safer with somebody else, because the truth is I would just be more scared."

Ellie is witty, sarcastic, sassy, and clever. She loves -absolutely- loves a good joke and a terrible pun. I believe this is a good combination between a coping mechanism and the fact that she still is young and naive. Rather than the gloom and doom all around her she likes to lighten the mood with some good jokes or light conversations. After a long hard day of running for your life and gore with decay for the environment there's nothing like a good laugh or else you risk sinking deep down by the gravity of the world. Although this silliness can be tamed given the circumstances of a situation; Sam asks her if she's afraid and she jokes about being afraid of scorpions but his negative response to her making light of the conversation is something she can detect and soon gives him an honest answer of being afraid ending up by herself.

Ellie has a tendency to pick up and keep sentimental objects / or just objects she wants for one reason or another: Riley's Firefly pendant, her mother's artifacts, Sam's toy, Bill's dirty magazine (a magazine she stole just to spite Bill -- in my opinion), etc. This is a significant point to make being the condition of her world and how room in one's backpack is precious and for her to fill it with items that are not life-preserving (food, medicine, weapons) is something to say about her desire to keep a hold of sentimental objects from people she's known in her life.

Is this character immune? Yes
Background: wikia.
Other Notables: She has a virus of her own, though she is immune she still acts as a carrier for the disease, able to spread it to others. Will she be "cured" by game logics or will she still carry this disease? :D?
Inventory:

Mother's letter
Switchblade
Walkman
Riley's Pendant
Pistol 9mm

SAMPLES
NETWORK SAMPLE:
IC Box: in order these relate to a significant interaction between Joel and Ellie that correspond through one day. 1 2 3
LOG SAMPLE:
musebox continuing the interaction from above samples.