
This serves as the juxtaposition to Joel's wary, morose outlook on post-pandemic life. However, she manages to maintain a particular innocence as she has yet to see the darkest sides of human nature and retains a palpable trust in people. Having been raised in an environment where modern standards and values have deteriorated, Ellie is considerably as a rash, impulsive, coarse and temperamental girl, and isn't fazed by the notion of using violence as a means to an end or profanity as a way of expressing how she feels. She was unable to swim during the events of the first game, but she managed to learn this ability by the events of the second. An example is when a group of cannibals located her back to her hold by following the horse tracks, being locked in a chokehold by David and tracked yet again by the latter. She can also be ambushed, tracked or knocked out. Though she is an equally adept survivor as Joel, her age, size and strength prevents her from physically fighting a human or Infected and has to slash with her knife. She excels at stealth as well, an example was when she was able to creep up on a Hunter while he was attempting to drown Joel and shoot him although this could also be because he was distracted.
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It's also revealed that Ellie knows how to work a car and is adept at horse-riding, being able to ride away from Joel and Tommy's dam by herself. She is also immune to Infection as such spores or bites don't affect her and she also has the ability to Infect other humans via bites as she did with David. Ellie is an equally skilled craftsmen as Joel, being able to create Medical Kits, Molotovs and Nail Bombs. She is also a very good marksman, being able to snipe for Joel while he cleared a path of Hunters. She is also quite good at tracking and hunting as she was able to shoot a rabbit during Winter presumably from a far distance and managed to land a few good shots on a deer she was tracking. The Last of Us Part II Skills, Abilities and WeaknessesĮllie is very skilled with knives and guns despite not being granted one until she saved Joel from a Hunter. Though Ellie is resistant at first since she doesn't know them, she agrees as Joel takes her to his hospital as Tess and Marlene check the guns they were promised by Robert. Three weeks later, an injured Marlene returns with two smugglers named Joel and Tess, and decides to send the two to take Ellie to the Firefly hospital in Salt Lake City. Ellie agreed with Marlene's plan to travel to the Firefly hospital, possibly out of survivor's guilt of Riley's death. Marlene then took Ellie under her wing, and devised a plan to travel to Salt Lake City to reverse-engineer a vaccine to save humanity from the infection.

Riley later succumbed to the infection and was presumably put down, as Ellie realized she was immune to the infection after surviving the bite and not showing symptoms. The two escape and defeat the infected, but are bitten and question whatever to commit suicide or stay alive and try to survive long enough before they succumbed to the infection. Riley decides not to, and the two attacked by infected who were drawn there by the music they played from the walkman. Though the two have a good time, Riley reveals that she won't be returning if she goes with the Fireflies, promoting Ellie to tell her not to go. Riley tells Ellie that she became a member after they first met Marlene, and the two explore a mall and play numerous games with each other. Six weeks later, Ellie reunited with Riley, who informs the former that she had become a member of the Fireflies and wants Ellie to come with her. She was then drafted into the military, and believed that Riley either ran away or was killed trying. Ellie and Riley would have frequently arguments and eventually parted ways on bad terms, as Riley disappeared from the school for weeks. She then met Marlene, who informs Ellie that her mother's name was Anna, and gives her Anna's switchblade after ordering her and Riley to return to the school. The two quickly became friends, and Ellie also met Riley's friend Winston, an older man who tells her of his childhood before the outbreak. Going to the Boston quarantine zone, Ellie was saved by a girl named Riley after a group of boys tried to steal her belongings.

Ellie grew up in the Military Quarantine Zone of Boston, Massachusetts, and didn't learn of the previous life before the epidemic.

Anna entrusted Marlene to protect and watch over Ellie when she died, but Ellie would meet Marlene when she was thirteen years old. Ellie was born between January and April of 2019 to an Unnamed Man and Anna, during the fungal epidemic that was spreading across America.
