#tommy is a little brother first and foremost and he WILL be a chaos gremlin

[roselees]

Tommy takes his duties as uncle incredibly seriously.. and that involves teasing the ever-loving shit out of Ellie, including telling her all about Before so she

a) has material to use against Joel because he'll NEVER give up the opportunity to mess with his brother. It's basically his job

and b) because it's far too entertaining to sow the seeds of harmless little lies that eventually culminate in Ellie coming out with the craziest statements about life pre!Outbreak that have Joel genuinely wondering what on Earth they were actually teaching her in FEDRA school

Would result in some absolute chaos when Ellie says something in passing and Joel just error-404s as he tries to work out where she possibly could have gotten that blatant lie from, while Tommy just cackles in the background knowing full well that it's ENTIRELY his fault