hey yes so um 🤣🤣🤣🤣 the exam that i gave was CANCELLED. and im going to give it again in a month or 2 🤣🤣🤣🤣😛😛😛😛 so likeeee 😀😀😂😂😂 im not going to be active here again, for some time 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 bye bye the last of us and by bue tumlbr ppl see u (if i dont kill myself)
I was trying to calculate Abby's exact age by the end of the game.
The only hits we get are from the Art book which says she's in her “early 20s” which could be anything from 20 to 25.
So I did some more research, and in an interview with Laura Bailey, she clocks her age at her fathers death to be 15.
Now I know the words of the voice actors is not canon, Abby is not canonically 15.
But I decided to roll with that anyways.
That would mean End game Abby….
Is 21…
Wow….
Abby is a 21-year-old who is now charged with parenting a orphan with massive ptsd and gender dysphoria in a world with no therapist, moth eaten resources for education, and a piss poor example of a guardian, Isaac…
so she also has to find a way to break the cycle of abuse on top of everything else…..
Forget about being dropped in the deep end of the pool!
Abby has been dumped in the middle of the parenting ocean during choppy weather and now has to make it back to shore! 😭😭
ok now UR TURN your favourite The Last Of Us character and why?!
Ok so I think Abby is the most interesting/ well written character. She has such a well done redemption arc that she really needs to earn, way more than a character with this arc normally does, because we see in full bloody detail what she did. And if you’re willing to empathize with her in her POV, you get the full scope of her guilt and trauma. The narrative doesn’t force us to like her by doing “oh she was actually good all along!” No, she has huge flaws and makes big mistakes, but we see her regret and grow from it. Lev and her work perfectly together from a writing standpoint, and the older, hardened warrior & younger, more naive child relationship doesn’t feel samey. It’s very different from Ellie and Joel, and very different from what you’d normally see in a story like this. Abby is the villain, the antagonist, protagonist, and the hero all over the course of the story (so is Ellie). I could go on for hours about the depth she has, even if you don’t like her.
That being said, Ellie’s my favorite. I have “first character I see bias” I gotta be honest. Also she has Molotovs, so obviously the best choice
What’s your favorite Last Of Us character and why?
WARNING: the yappiest yap ive ever yapped.
okay you may be expecting oh it's ellie of course yay i ❤️ ellie williams. (which wouldn't be wrong)
but honestly, i love dina just as much if not more. hear me out:
dina was shown to be this cool cheerful girl from jackson who was pretty popular, right? but often people just overlook the trauma she's had.
it was her, her sister, and her mother, who i guess tried to survive during the apocalypse and when her mom died her sister was in deep shock. she had to take care of her OLDER sister (talia) while she was the younger one (whereas tbh dina deserved more support being the younger one), only for some stupid hunters to kill her sister. dina was all fucking alone.
and yet? she didn't spiral down like ellie did, and honestly that takes MASSIVE GUTS. she made a space for her in jackson and met all these people and stuff. she fell in love with ellie and im pretty sure she was kinda jealous while ellie was dating kat. wtv wtv.
she saw ellie go through the pain, and she literally helped her so much. she even decided to accompany her to seattle for her revenge tour (well she was pregnant but thats a different story).
and ellie called her a burden? hello? hey?
and yet dina was still always supportive towards ellie. its because it was in her nature to be felt needed by others. she survived by finding meaning in the fact that the people she loves need her. she risked her and her baby's life in order to save ellie when abby ambushed the theatre.
on the farm when ellie is leaving and they have the argument, the "you think this is easy?" line by her breaks my heart so much because all this time we understand what ellie's been going through and all the ptsd and stuff, but like, what about dina?
raising a child is NOT easy and doing that with a partner thats not emotionally available? in the game we could see her doing all the chores and stuff and she probably sacrificed a lot in trying to make a happy family.
instead of chasing revenge for her own family, dina found happiness in jackson with the others; that doesnt mean that her trauma should just be sidelined just because she didnt spiral like ellie did.
she tried so hard, just to be there for ellie and be 'useful' to her (that's a very common trait ive seen in ppl i know irl) and what does she get in return? shes left to care for her baby without anyone in a farm with nobody else. and i feel thats very sad.
the thing is her personality is also so nuanced, shes not just another side character, she has emotion, she has the wit, she has the smarts too. i think she's very human, very kind and very strong.