#Ellery is also the first friend Matt had that didn't treat him like shit because of his identity or past

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Ellery getting his drunken ass dragged off the Strip because he is insanely good at Caravan, a sore winner (he's actually a pretty graceful loser), and was about to get his ass beat for being an ass about winning, but Matt just scooped him up and was all 'peace out 😅' before skedaddling with him like something out of a Looney Tunes cartoon 😆

It also helped that Ellery had so much tequila and whiskey that he literally couldn't walk, and therefore, couldn't fight Matt, and Matt is probably one of the few people he can tolerate being touched by-he'd drank so much because he'd been blowing off steam due to the upcoming Second Battle 🤷

Matt is also pretty damn strong and probably one of the few people that can actually carry him, given Ellery's built like a brick shithouse 😆

Bonus: one of the first photos taken of them together, not long before they both left the NCR; Ellery due to finishing his ten year stint, and Matt for medical reasons-his mental health took a nosedive after the Second Battle and it took a while for him to actually get discharged on this basis because in my canon, the NCR won, but barely had a foothold in the area and wanted all hands on deck

They also tried to persuade Ellery to stay beyond his ten years, but he was left with a lifelong injury due to the Second Battle, was sick and tired of the NCR's shit, and wanted out the moment his time was up