Mar 22, 2024
NOT EVEN A MAGIC TRICK COULD CHEER LEV UP😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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ugh it is just SO cool (in the way of storytelling) that joel blocks the ‘S’ here…
‘LIAR.’ ugh chills
“that’s just the way he sounds, he has an asshole voice”
LEVI CORE
it's the small details w/ the last of us. it's the SMALL details.
for ellie, the giraffes (far right) are symbols of her innocence (and in general across both games). ellie's name means light. "vanishing grace" and "vanishing grace (innocence)" are the names of the track that plays when she and joel make it to salt lake city. at that time, they're the most relaxed they've ever been about each other; joel has overcome his grief over sarah; they're talking about what they'll do when it's over. just innocence and hope.
the same is established for abby and zebras in part 2 (close to the middle). just like ellie, she was beside her father (/father figure); they're relaxed and carefree almost; at that time there's hope, when owen comes and tells them that ellie has arrived (and also the cure to the cordyceps infection). happiness and hope triumphing over pain.
deer (very center) have been closely tied to both of these symbolically. just before the giraffe scene in part 1, the chapter begins on ellie looking at a statue face displaying a deer. earlier in winter, the chapter that ellie loses her innocence, ellie kills a deer at the beginning. (among other examples.) there's gentleness and wisdom about it that reaches far across the whole series thematically. hence why it's in the middle.
to the left, where the mural is still unfinished, is a lion. lev's name means "lion" (or lion and heart). reminiscent of this point in the story, abby's relationship with lev - a parallel to joel's relationship with ellie - is still developing.
the tiger (between the zebras and the giraffes) seems to me to represent the conflict between ellie and abby, or what stands between them. tigers are also largely on par with lions in terms of preditars.
so... i think the point of the tiger specifically is the ferocity that stands between them from connecting similar to abby and lev. there is potential there for a positive relationship but it's currently overshadowed by the opposite of hope and innocence the giraffe and zebra embody.
i don't think it's joel, because he's most often portrayed symbolically has a moose. is it known in the fandom that moose seems to be a pretty obvious symbol of joel? im new srry :P
as someone with anger and ptsd issues it makes SO much sense and it’s done SO well ellie’s mental degradation after joel is murdered in front of her.
not only in front of her, but so so damn violently. tortured for who knows how long then beaten to death.
oh and also, there’s plenty of room for ellie to think herself is to blame. ellie, who already hates herself for her immunity being worthless. she couldn’t make it up to riley, or sam, or tess. by the time she and dina are ready to go to seattle, ellie would LOATHE herself with EVERY fiber of her being. but she hates abby more.
it’s no wonder she has this fixation on violence she can’t let go of, why she becomes so sadistic, with the nature of her trauma
+ what ellie was taught was love. the first time joel ever showed care towards her was by beating the shit out of a fedra soldier that tried to kill her. the same way joel taught her that when bad things happen, you move on, you don’t talk about it. and ellie certainly embodied that lol.
subconsciously, in addition to the thirst for violence and need for revenge, if there’s any way to make it up to joel for ellie, to “forgive” him now, is what she can best define as “love”: protecting him.
anyway… her general pessimism about the world, her isolation emotionally, and then later on with her flashbacks, her skin “hurting” - all amazing depictions of ptsd by the game.
it’s just her anger and fixation on violence that fascinates me. some critics didn’t like ellie because of how angsty/selfish/cruel she became - but that’s what trauma can do to someone. especially a trauma as inherently violent and severe as ellie’s.
Gabi: Look..! Gnomes! :3 I had an art book full of these. I always thought they were pretty cute :3 Not fairies though. They creep me out.
Levi: (trying to be nice) …Alright then.
i would be SO unimaginably FXCKED WITHOUT LEV😭😭😭I WAS SO SCARED
I WAS SITTING THERE IN FRONT OF A CLICKER WHO WAS IN FROMT OF A WALL STALKER MENTALLY PROCESSING LIKE WINDOWS XP HOW TO KILL THEM WITHOUT PISSING OFF THE BLOATER DOWN THE HALL WHEN MF SAID “on your right🤐…” AHHHH
gabi and levi ITS THEM try to convince me otherwise (u can’t)