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44pistolundermyhead| Ellie Williams |
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 ABOUTNAME: Ellie Williams NICKNAME(S): n/a RACE: Human AGE: 19 IDENTITY: Female; she/her EYES: Green HAIR: Reddish-brown SKIN: Light and freckled, with scars. DETAILSALLEGIANCE: Yearning LIVING: X Marks the Spot PROFESSION(S): Guarding trade/transport carts, hunting, occasional adventuring. RACIAL TRAIT: Wildlander ANIMASNAME: Theseus SPECIES: Coywolf - coyote wolf hybrid. IDENTITY: Female EYES: Yellow BODY: Light brown/orange with black, light underbelly SIZE: ~50 pounds, slightly larger than a border collie FEATURES: The black is stripey and follows body lines. ALTERATION(S): TBA |
APPEARANCE Ellie, while young, easily passes for someone in her mid to late twenties. With broad shoulders, sun freckled face, and scar over her eyebrow, she can almost be intimidating...if it weren’t for the button nose and conventionally attractive face. However, when she’s in a social setting, she tends to withdraw, trying to take up as little space as possible. She prefers to stay on the edge of any crowd, and usually is fairly vigilant of anyone approaching her. When one-on-one, however, she tends to open up; she’s willing to be more expressive. This all changes while she’s fighting. Ellie will be sure of herself while focused on keeping safe, and offers no hesitation whatsoever. When coming off of an adrenaline high, Ellie usually starts shaking hard. On her right arm is a curious moth-and-fern tattoo that seems to be covering a scar. Just below her collarbone is an arrow and the words “endure, survive”. Ellie doesn’t use any scents. Depending on the day, this can mean she’ll smell like leather and oil to blood. Usually, she smells slightly of non-pungent sweat. She usually keeps her hair back, either in a low bun or a loose ponytail that she can pull away easily from if anyone tries to grab it. It has a tendency of getting greasy if she doesn’t wash it often enough. Generally, she tries to bathe every other day, but has and will go longer if she’s travelling away from commodities. Most of the time, Ellie wears tunics and pants. Very occasionally, she can be coaxed into wearing a skirt, though she finds it annoying and likely to chafe. She has no experience with armor, however, and has never bothered to wear anything beyond leather coats. No matter what, she has a dagger that rests on her right hip - even while she’s sleeping. Last bit of knowledge? Ellie has a nasty fucking mouth on her. SKILLSABILITIES |
| PERSONALITY + Determined Despite everything in her life, Ellie still has a strong will to live. No matter how hopeless a situation looks, she refuses to give up. She has no doubt of her own abilities to get her out of a fight, and will persevere through anything - changed but not broken. + Empathetic That said, Ellie is an excellent judge of when to stop pushing in a conversation. While she’s willing to ask hard questions and is often curious, she can usually tell when she’s on dangerous territory, and usually knows how to cheer someone up or make them more comfortable. Granted, just because she knows how to does not mean she will. + Loyal Ellie is incredibly loyal to her people and ideas, though when given the option she still tries to be helpful to others. Up until five years ago, her inclination was to be trusting - but experience has taught her not to let her guard down. At this point in her life, she’s able to take lives without a second thought, but she has certain lines she won’t cross. Torture, cannibalism... none of those are acceptable to her... so far. -/+ Confrontational While this is similar to Ellie’s determination, it is different. Ellie likes to take most problems and situations head on - most of the time, she would rather discuss something - even if the other person doesn’t want to. Depending on how far she takes it, this can be helpful or hurtful for her relationships. While Joel employs avoidance and she’s learned some of it from him, Ellie still prefers to take social situations head on. - Reactionary (...not politically.) So far, Ellie has just reacted to situations she’s been presented with. She doesn’t try to establish a new pattern, but focuses on her needs and the situation at hand - not what will happen in a few days, but the then-and-now. She’s also had a pattern of following other people’s leads, though she’s somewhat worked away from that. While this may have changed given enough time living in Jackson, she’s still going to fall back on reacting to each problem as it comes, and not anticipating them. - Rash All this reactionary, confrontational determination, however? Doesn’t always leave her with the best plans. While she’s good at thinking on her feet, her plans are usually spur of the moment. In canon (and in her backstory, which is the same in this case) David holds her hand, trying to have an emotional connection with Ellie and gain her trust. Ellie could have gone along with it to get out of the cage and run off to Joel when the moment was right. Instead, she opts to break his finger and try to steal the keys away. It doesn’t work. - Distant Since about five years ago, Ellie has become distant. Certainly not shy, and her personality is still intact, but when given the option she often doesn’t engage with people. In most casual talk, Ellie doesn’t open up to others much anymore, and prefers to keep to herself. There are a few people able to catch her attention and draw her out, but she tries to keep people at arm’s length. Ellie does have a sense of humor, and is happy to relax and even joke around her friends and loved ones. However, she’s hasn't been a naive young girl for years, and it shows. KEY EVENTS IN GAME HISTORYThe first word of each paragraph bolded denotes it being a key piece of history. Ellie’s story began with the Fireflies. A pro-Krimnos militia, the Fireflies based themselves in Thalassa and Atrómitos to cause damage and try to take out the other leaders. Marlene was Ellie’s godmother - and the leader of the Fireflies in Atrómitos. When Ellie’s mother died, Marlene decided to put Ellie in an orphanage, being unable to raise Ellie on her own. She didn’t interact with Ellie directly, but as Ellie began to make trouble, Marlene made sure she always had an orphanage to stay in, no matter how many bribes it took. Ellie was an oddly precocious girl growing up who had trouble making friends her own age. She did happily participate in the culture of Atrómitos, being ready to fight at a moment’s notice, but was not very good at following orders. She did make a good friend of an older troublemaker named Riley. Her first friend and crush, Ellie adored her. The two of them managed to discover Ellie’s connection to the Fireflies, and Riley eventually ran away to join, leaving Ellie alone. Riley came back after a few months, coaxing Ellie to have fun in the city with her. When they returned, they found part of the wall broken through, with the orphanage burned down. Soldiers of multiple sides were swarming, and one struck out at the two girls with a poisoned blade. Ellie’s best friend died hours later from the wound. Ellie got sick, but managed to make her way to the Fireflies for help. When Ellie first met the Fireflies, she was given her mother’s dagger, which was a family heirloom, though it seemed to hold no significant power. Soon after, a prophecy was made by a reputable prophet: The dagger curved will see the end of war, if daughter’s pricked with poisoned blade of Shore. Mother’s blood holds bondage to the soul, but daughter’s life must shed to sound the toll. Marlene decided this prophecy represented Ellie, and without telling her more than the fact that the dagger Ellie possessed had the power to end the war. Marlene hired two smugglers to escort Ellie to their camp, north of Didymos. Tess died on the battlefield, prompting Joel and Ellie to make a detour into the Swamp of Lost Souls to pay Joel’s friend a visit, and procure a boat to get them to Thalassa, and escape the majority of the fighting. They managed to get there, and after a stop to catch their breath, continued onward to the forest above. Unfortunately, the Firefly camp had been abandoned. As they tried to leave the forest, the two were caught in a magical labyrinth for around six weeks. They were forced to learn to trust each other. On the way, they met Sam and his older brother, Henry - they became comrades in escaping the magical trap and the people within. Just as they escaped, Sam was hit by a poisoned weapon, and died twelve hours later. In his grief, Henry took his own life. Joel and Ellie continued to the town his brother Tommy was living in: Jackson. Joel tried to push her off onto his brother, wary of the emotional bond the two of them were forming. Ellie challenged this, and eventually the pair were able to make peace and continue on to the next Firefly camp, in the forest to the west, on horseback. Again, they were met with failure - this time, however, they were attacked by bandits, and Joel was speared through the gut. Ellie managed to fend off the remaining party and get Joel to safety, but he quickly passed out. She was left to care for him while fleeing from the raiding party, who were now intent on revenge for their fallen comrades...in the beginning of winter. After a month, Ellie managed to hunt and kill a buck, before coming across a pair of men. They asked for a trade, and she asked to trade medicine for the animal. They accepted, and she was left alone with David while James left to retrieve some medicine. After some time, they were forced to defend their kill from a pack of wild animals, and Ellie became less distrustful of him. As they warmed themselves by the fire, David revealed he was the leader of the group Ellie and Joel had slaughtered a month back. He stayed calm and had his companion give her the medicine despite Ellie's panic and rage, and let her run off, with the promise that he could protect her if she changed her mind. Ellie was able to treat Joel with the medication, but she was left desperate as the Long Night began--and more of David’s men appeared, having tracked her horse. Ellie left Joel as warm and insulated as she could manage, disappearing into the night with her horse to draw them away from Joel. As she managed to get a little distance between herself and the men, something pounced at her horse, sending her and it tumbling off a ledge. When she got her bearings, she saw something glowing faintly in front of her, growling as it bit into her still-screaming horse. Ellie bolted without another word, letting the noises draw the hunters as she bolted for a nearby abandoned settlement. Luckily, she was able to avoid other creatures, though the screams seemed to follow her. She was finally caught by David himself, who knocked her out and took her to relative safety. Ellie awoke an hour later to the sight of butchered people, locked in a cage. David approached with venison and the offer of safety if she would calm down and give him her name. She broke his finger. He responded by trying to butcher her, before she used the distraction of one of the night creatures pawing at the window to kill James and escape into the town, where a few hundred people lived, also taking refuge. There, her suspicions were confirmed as they referred to her as David's pet--he wanted to use her. It didn't take long for David to track Ellie again - he locked her in a building that, after a tussle between the two, began to burn down. After a drawn out struggle, David managed to pin Ellie and began to strangle her, hissing threats into her ears. Ellie managed to get a hold of his machete and hacked into him, continuing until Joel appeared, hauling her off him and leading her away, torch in his hand. After their escape from the cannibals, Ellie was never quite the same. She became quiet, easily lost in her thoughts. The two of them finally made it to the Firefly camp at the base of the mountains. They has to cross a river that Ellie slipped in, slamming her head on the rocks and being swept downstream. The next thing she remembers is waking up on horseback in front of Joel, dazed and aching. He claimed the Fireflies were next to demolished, and had given up finding a way to end the war. While disbelieving, Ellie only challenged Joel once, and then accepted the answer. This led to a distance in their relationship - while she cared for him, she came to realize she could not rely on him to make decisions for her for much longer. (The truth was, with the correct forbidden ritual involving its wielder, the dagger would become much more powerful. While Marlene was convinced it would lead to triumph, the dagger had incredibly strong and detailed divination magic. It could have shown Marlene the future, but it had no sway in the war itself.) The two of them returned to Jackson, where Ellie honed her survival and hunting skills, occasionally guarding passing trading carts for money. Their life was as peaceful as it could be during the war, though Ellie never lost her distaste for winter. Five years later, their town was invaded by a Krimnos army sent to weaken Thalassa, and set ablaze. Ellie was trapped in her house, unable to escape the flames, and died of smoke inhalation. OPT OUT | |
