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So beautifulšā¤ļø
Read this series if you havenātāitās seriously some of my favorite tlou fic content EVER! Itās absolutely brilliant and heartwarming and occasionally the saddest thing ever!
@bumblepony commissioned this incredible art of Bookshop!Ellie and Bookshop!Joel for me. I canāt believe how fucking lucky I am to call her my friend š„°šš
joel, from demanding ellieās compliance to asking for her trust
Absolutely beautiful (the art and the episode)šā¤ļø
for a long, long time
David and the Infected
David mirrors the infected in The Last of Us HBO. His behaviors, his development, and even his hunting patterns. These parallels are all used by Craig Mazin and Ali Abassi to highlight just how much worse he is.
TWs: SA, Violence/Gore, and Religion
What happens if you donāt resist?
That was a question posed by Craig Mazin, show-runner of The Last of Us, in a discussion about the second episode of season 1. The answer is that the infected are slow, almost gentle in their violation. The same goes for David. In the cage scene we see the same slow, haunting torture that we do in episode two.
Both start out slow and gentle to try and feed off of people, but the more their victims resist the more savage and aggressive they become. When you resist, they fight. They hunt.
But hereās what really put the nail in the coffin. The way they hunt their victims, and the parallels in cinematography is undeniable.
Theyāre both predators that stalk their physically-weaker pray:
They both try to trap them by holding them down:
(Bella fucking Ramsey, folks) (genuinely one of the best working actors today)
3. The Hive Mentality
Like the Infected, David has a hive-mind too. A group of people doing his bidding, like how Cordyceps takes over peopleās minds and connects them to each other. We see how everyone in Silver Lake obeys him, is under his control, just like Cordyceps. We also see how they gravitate towards him and go where he goes like the Infected do for each other.
4. Literally Eating People
Iām not sure this requires further explanationā¦
But this doesnāt mean theyāre the same. Quite the opposite, actually. The creators shatter these parallels to show how much more terrifying David is than the Infected, because heās human. Everything he does is something terrifyingly human. Lying and manipulating his way to horrifying goals. The fact that he doesnāt do what Infected do, he does what humans do makes everything he does so, so much scarier than the Infected.
The clickers use noise to find their pray while hunting, but David uses noise to yell vile, disgusting things to scare his.
The clickers are animals, they just do whatās instinctual of them, but David chooses every second of the story to be inhuman. He manipulates and lies and acts to hurt others. The infected are creatures, but Davidās a monster. Infected only know whatās ahead of them, but David plans ahead. He knows full well what heās doing, but he does it anyway. He manipulates and scares his hive-mind into submission. He makes the conscious choice to eat people. The infected do what they do to survive, like all animals. David does it because he likes it.
And we all knew by the end of the episode that David wasnāt like the Infected in another way, too. He wasnāt planning on eating Ellie.
Itās terrifying and brilliant, like all of episode 8. They use these parallels to make David so much scarier than the Infected, for so many reasons. It shows how much depth and thought is put into the show, and the way that behind every scene thereās so many layers of meaning and parallels.
TLDR; Craig Mazin and Ali Abassi are geniuses. They created parallels just to flip them to show us how much more terrifying David is than the Infected.
ellie, the most lovable girl in the QZ <333
Scenario: hostage situation. It doesn't have to be exactly this, but maybe someone who got bit gets past the defences and lives in Jackson for a day or two and then when symptoms start to show in public and guns get drawn, he grabs the nearest person (ellie) and decides to take her with him to the edge of town so he can leave without getting killed. Negotiation and panic and anger + or - maria and tommy etc. Could be fun
I combined this idea with another and by the time I finished it, it lined up with a Whumptober promptš
Thanks for the suggestion!!
Ficlet request where sometime on the way to Jackson, Joel temporarily loses his hearing in his left ear causing him to be completely deaf and Ellie and him have to adapt.
Sorry this took a second! I combined your request and another, and by the time I was finished it lined up with a Whumptober promptš
Thanks for the suggestion!!
Any day with an lkay fic is a good day!
whumptober day 4 - hallucination
read the tags!!!
Mera this is so good OMG OUCHHHH
Writers, reblog this with your most favorite sentence you have ever written so far
Paige: Tourturing blorbos since 1905 ā¢ļø
From @adhdprincess
Itās been a long 119 years, but itās been worth itš
Thanks!!
Your trademark is thoughtful analysis! š
Awww, stop it! Thatās too nice!
oooooh!! Canāt wait to do this!! Thanks for putting it together!
It's officially spooky season! And what better way to get into the Zone then creating some āØļøspookyāØļø The Last of Us fanworks?
@roselees and I have come up with these broad themes and prompts, but you can do whatever your heart desires in whatever dark art you fancy, feel free to even promote something you've already made that fits the prompts!
Tag them with #tlouspooktacular (or us if you like), get sharing and get creating!
WIP Wednesday!
Thanks for the tag, @adhdprincess and @roselees!!
(Iām 11k words into chapter 2 of Scars!)
If you see this, consider it a tag!
Remember when everybody complained about the giraffe in season one of the Last of Us saying how shitty the cgi was and how it didnāt look like a giraffe at all and then immediately after they showed the bts and it was indeed a real life giraffe used on the show and people had to admit they didnāt realize giraffes are just fucking weird.
