He warns her not to pull any of her 'old stunts' once she has settled in and tells her that he can no longer look after her. She is approached by a soldier who knows her. Once she is safely inside the gates, she and the other survivors leave the bus.

She thinks nothing of it until the scan reads positive and a man is forced to his knees at gunpoint. Shortly after turning 13, Ellie arrives at the Boston quarantine zone on a bus, to the sight of the military scanning a man for infection. Events of American Dreams Meeting Riley Abel Īccording to Ellie, at one point in her life, she drove a car, and used a BB rifle to shoot at rats. Īs a child, Ellie grew up as an orphan in an oppressive military quarantine zone in Boston, Massachusetts, with little knowledge of the world before infection. However, Ellie did not meet Marlene until she was 13 years old. Before her death, Anna entrusted her closest friend Marlene to look after Ellie.

On the day of her birth, her mother passed away. Her mother was a nurse named Anna, although the identity of her father is unknown. She returned to Jackson once more, coming to terms with Joel's death and his decision to save her life.Įllie Williams was born in the spring of 2019, by which time the Cordyceps brain infection had spread throughout the United States. Unable to forgive Abby, Ellie abandoned her family and pursued her once again to Santa Barbara, only to spare Abby in the end. Her efforts were fruitless, leading her to retire on a farm with her girlfriend Dina and her son JJ. Ellie vowed revenge and pursued Abby to Seattle. In 2038, Abby Anderson, a former Firefly and the surgeon's daughter, found and killed Joel. For the next four years, Ellie came to resent Joel for saving her life. Refusing to allow this, he killed the head surgeon and escaped with Ellie to settle down in Jackson, his brother's community in Wyoming. Upon reaching the Fireflies in Salt Lake City, Joel learned that only killing Ellie could create the cure. The simple drop-off turned into a year-long journey across America, and the two eventually formed a close bond. Marlene tasked Joel Miller, a smuggler, with escorting Ellie outside of the QZ. A friend of her mother's and the leader of the Fireflies, Marlene, believed that she was the key to reverse engineering a vaccine. When Ellie was fourteen, the pair were both infected with the Cordyceps brain infection, where Ellie discovered she was immune.

Įllie grew up as an orphan in the Boston quarantine zone and attended a military preparatory school, where she met and befriended Riley Abel. She serves as the protagonist of The Last of Us: American Dreams, the playable deuteragonist of The Last of Us, and the playable protagonist of both The Last of Us: Left Behind and The Last of Us Part II. Ellie Williams is the central character of The Last of Us series.

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