Ellie | The Last of Us

The night before Joel died Ellie said she would like to try and forgive him, on the day he died they were going to watch a movie together and rebuild their relationship, it's heartbreaking.

“Forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.”

This game hurt like hell, but loved every second of it.

The first game ends with a happy lie. The second game ends with a sad truth.

I'm just glad Ellie and Joel's last interactions wasn't just the torture scene. I'm glad Joel got to hear that Ellie was willing to forgive him. He was very happy to hear that.

“This path you walk, vengeance, you will find no peace, I know” - Kratos

I'm crying like a small baby... Great work

I named my daughter after Ellie, can’t wait to show her why

When Joel says “If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment... i would do it all over again“ ... this hits me hard.

"im scared of ending up alone" The feels after last of us 2 ending 😭

I think a lot of people missed what the actual goal of the game was. It was never about killing Abby, it was about Ellie grieving Joel and getting over his death. During the whole game, Ellie thinks that she will only get that by killing Abby, but it's only at the very end, when she's about to do it that she realizes that it's not.

As someone with PTSD, I really liked the ending of this game. This is just my opinion, but for me - At the end Ellie was suffering with PTSD, obviously - not sleeping, not eating, the flashbacks, the going off by herself into the woods, and the feeling she HAD to go after abby - is realistic to me. it's difficult to describe anyone without it, but PTSD can often feel like you are physically trapped with no way out of your own reality. That your whole life is closing on you. That the past is forever there, suffocating you. Obviously you relive it through flashbacks, but it's more than that. When Ellie said she had to go after abby, it was because she felt she had to not because she wanted to - She wanted to stay with her new family, but she had to stop her brain reliving the traumatic past again and again. She had to escape the trap, and she felt the only way was to kill abby - the person who really made her feel trapped to begin with. but I think she knew, deep down, it wouldn't help her escape. but hey, desperate times, amiright? When ellie finally confronted abby, what were her words? "I cant let you leave" She could have said anything else "I won't let you leave" or "I'm going to kill you". Those would be words from someone confident, someone making the rules. but she didn't. those words "I can't let you leave" were very specific. they're words from someone not in control - someone who feels they didnt make the decision. A soldier following orders would say "I can't let you leave" or someone feeling like they had no choice in the matter, someone trapped - like ellie. At the very end ellie didnt have to kill Abby. When she was on the verge of killing abby, when abby couldnt fight back and was about to drown, Ellie had basically won at that point. it didnt even matter if abby lived or died past that point, as there was nothing abby could have done to change the outcome, and ellie realized that she probably has "won". And it didn't help. There was no opening of the trap, it didnt fix anything so she let abby go and she wept. still trapped. It wasnt until she came back, sat alone with guitar she could no longer play, and thought about joel and forgiveness that, maybe, she realized that the only way out of the trap was to forgive mistakes of the past. forgive yourself for not being able to change the past. forgive others for being human. I dunno. maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see, see what makes sense to me. But still, I like the ending. People complain about the ending, saying ellie didn't get her revenge against abby. but they miss the fact that everything after the farmhouse - Ellie isnt going for revenge. Shes going because she feels like she has to, to try to fix herself.

Remember when Joel said to Ellie "You have no idea what loss is" Now she does

The saddest thing is when you realise the reason why Ellie couldn't finish Joel's song throughout the game is that she lost herself when she lost him

A cruel game but full of love. A sad story but full of joy. A story of a revenge that turns out to be full of forgiveness and redemption.

Ellie says she's scared of ending up alone. That brought tears.

It felt so realistic I thought I literally lost Joel like he was a loved one in my family. It’s been 1 week since the release day that I’ve played the game and I still have it running through my mind as if I’m depressed with grief like Ellie. I haven’t ever been hit this hard emotionally deep by any game or film. The game is neither good nor bad, it’s a depiction of life. Hold your loved ones close, and always make sure they know how much you love them. This game just breaks my heart man.

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."

Last of us 2 is gonna be one of those games that everyone hates right now but in a few years is perceived as the masterpiece it really is

I can't walk on the path of the right, because I'm wrong ~Ellie