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general marcus acacius ✨️

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The Last of Us by Nicolas Petrimaux

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I guess no matter how hard you try, you can’t escape your past.

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I’m sure other people have thought of this trend with them but I had to do it anyways because ITS LITERALLY THEM!!

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Joel: I hate everyone and everything. I have no sentiment. I serve only myself. Feelings? Never heard of them.

Tess: You can cut out that shit right now

Joel: Yes ma’am

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What if Joel had died instead of Tess?

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 I think I’m gonna love you for a long, long time.

im crying and sobbing so hard

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tlou smols

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Joel ❤️‍🩹

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It’s been a hot minute since I last drew Pedro ♥

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i'm trying to go to bed, but now i'm laughing about the idea of joel in baby!verse or brady!verse having Emotions about the first time ellie asks for a ponytail instead of pigtails

"i'm a big girl now, daddy" does 20 psychic damage IMMEDIATELY

tess finds him facedown on their bed with all of the curtains drawn and is just ??????

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sarah waking up in her bedroom the morning before the outbreak / sarah waking up in tommy’s flipped truck on the morning of the outbreak

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don’t think about how the reason ellie kept trying to talk to joel about tess was because it reminded her of riley and she knew exactly what he was going through… i repeat don’t think about how riley and ellie refused to leave each other so when tess got bit ellie’s first instinct was “i’m not leaving her” and then when they had to do just that when they had to leave tess behind ellie knew how much it killed joel

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They're so damn cute!!

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okay so we know that, to some extent, Joel, at least a little bit, is a note writer. We see in game on the fridge that he wrote a note to Sarah. I’m going to be home late tonight. Go ahead and order food. See you in the morning. Dad

Joel has definitely left notes for Ellie around the house to some degree

Now MAYBE this is super cringey, but I was just envisioning a moment of him writing a note for her, for whatever reason, and the J in his name is kind of wonky looking because, out of habit, he started to write Dad and wrote the vertical line and started on the downward curve of the D before realizing and freezing briefly as he stared at half of the letter. He corrected, elongating the vertical line into the curve of the J and and topping the letter off with the horizontal line across the top

It’s messy and looks rushed and reminds Joel of all the times before when he didn’t have to think about what to write at the bottom of those notes. Dad. It’s always just been Dad.

But now its not. Not anymore. He’s every description of the word. Protector, leader, comforter. He’s honest, dependable, loving

The desire to be called Dad again makes his heart burn, but a part of him believes he failed at deserving that role over twenty years ago.

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shoutout to the little moments in which ellie looks out for/takes care of joel back, even if she has to force him to accept it or be a little sneaky about it

-steals a rabbit for them so he won’t have to hunt

-is ready to take second watch when he falls asleep. such a perfect mirror of him standing guard in the woods in ep4, because even though she’s not worried about the whole river of death thing, he is, so she’ll stay up to make sure they’re safe

-directs him through their escape from the university while he’s in shock and losing blood

-grabs his flashlight from the truck during the shootout

-stops reading the letter when tess’s name comes up and worriedly tries to bring her up again later

-already knows he’s gonna be less than pleased about only being able to make it up 33 floors before he even says anything and insists that it’s good enough

-gets him an extra cushion when she’s setting up their beds because he’s taller

-declares that he will be taking a shower at bill and frank’s, reminiscent of sarah forcing him to drink orange juice, joel is a man doomed to being pestered into taking care of himself by teen girls

-proudly presents him with the hank williams tape because he liked the linda ronstadt one