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El Hopper, star of the Hawkins High track team is on a quest to make friends with the resident AV Club members.
Friendship and eventual romance. 80s High School / No Powers AU
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05 Jan 2026
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Joel’s used to not getting enough to eat, with rations being the way they are. And he’s sometimes… not great… at remembering to eat, anyways. But Ellie’s just a kid. The schools have to be making sure they have enough food, right?
So why hasn’t she complained about being hungry?
Or: Joel makes sure Ellie gets enough to eat and also he loves her.
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02 Jan 2026
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baby teeth, block parties by myhomeistheshire
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 May 2023
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In Jackson, he starts to put it all together. Curtains on her windows. A lock on her door. Sugar on berries with milk, all stirred together like cereal-dessert. She keeps asking why, why shoes come off in the house and why dinner is an all-together event and why she has to learn how to swim or grill or play the guitar. He wants to ask her why she spends so much time out in the field, back flat against the earth and looking upward. Wants to ask her what she sees, or thinks, or is.
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joel tries to fix all the years he missed.
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30 Dec 2025
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It's been just over five days since Joel's gotten more than a split-second glimpse of his kid. Other than when he pokes his head into her room at night to make sure she's actually in her bed - more than once a night, if he's being honest - all he's seen is the back of her head, her ponytail whipping around corners. Ellie stays in her room until Joel's left for the day, and sneaks back into it in the evenings. No idea where she's spending her time, what she's up to - but at least she's sleeping in her own goddamn room.
Opening her bedroom door that night to find just a pillow in her place and her bag gone had been easily one of the most terrifying moments of Joel's life.
(whumptober day 8 - self-inflicted injury; bad things happen bingo - self-loathing)
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- Part 3 of whumptober 2025
- Part 7 of bad things happen bingo
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Well, theoretically it starts before Ellie can even remember. Apparently as a kid, Ellie was a biter from hell.
Ironic in the world she grew up in.
It’s not something she really thinks about. Hell, there used to be times with Riley where they’d sit on one of their beds and read or work or whatever, and if Riley’s arm or hand or, once, ankle, was close enough, Ellie would gnaw on it as a joke until they ended up on the floor, wrestling.
So, whatever. Some people love with gentle words and little gifts and some people bite.
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Ellie and Joel navigate the first few months in Jackson. A story told in the gentlest of bite marks.