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when you need me, call my name by SmileHoney
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Apr 2023
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Her breaths have just evened out enough that he thinks she’s asleep again when he hears her mumble thickly, “‘M sorry, Dad.”
Immediately, his eyes fly open, flooding with tears, and his heart lodges itself in his throat as he tries to— tries to process that this is the first time Ellie’s spoken to him in days, and she’s apologizing for… Well, he doesn’t even know what, and she’s calling him Dad, and—
— and he hasn’t been a dad in a long time, and it hurts, it hurts so damn bad, it feels like he’s cracking open from that one single word, it feels like it’s tearing through him and reminding him of how he failed the last little girl who called him that, and—
—and he loves Ellie with a fierceness that scares even himself, and hearing her call him Dad has mended something at the very same time that it’s broken something else.
He remembers back in Jackson, when he so cruelly said You’re not my daughter, and I sure as hell ain’t your dad.
Oh, how wrong he’d been— how foolish, to think he could ever give her up.
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5 times Ellie calls Joel Dad and they don't talk about it, and 1 time she doesn't call him Dad and they do talk about it.
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18 Apr 2023
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miller lite by captainredspade (CodenameArtemis)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
15 May 2023
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Tommy takes Ellie out on a day trip. It goes well until it doesn't.
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17 Apr 2023
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glimpses unseen by flannelfeelings
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
12 Apr 2023
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It’s almost like he’s living a memory, or a nightmare.
Or maybe both.
Tommy isn’t seeing Ellie, lying there with a pretty minor graze wound. He’s seeing something twenty years in the past, another little girl who died in his brother’s arms of a similar, but much more fatal injury.
(Tommy has trauma from watching his niece die. it comes out to play when Ellie gets hurt)
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14 Apr 2023
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somewhere in the desert there's a forest by wmthackeray
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Dec 2022
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"What, did the world end on his birthday, or something?" Tommy says nothing. Her jaw drops. "No fucking way. Really?"
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Joel takes Ellie to a museum for her birthday. She decides to figure out how to celebrate his. She just has to figure out when it is, first.
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14 Apr 2023
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caring in an uncaring world by paladoris for jackandsamforever
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
12 Apr 2023
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Joel meets Ellie under very different circumstances.
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- Part 1 of caring in an uncaring world
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14 Apr 2023
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All the Universes by idontwriteoften
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
13 Apr 2023
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He loved her in all the universes.
But there was only one universe that mattered.(8 universes that Joel loved Ellie and the 1 where it mattered.)
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14 Apr 2023
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baby's first blackout by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Apr 2023
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When she takes the first cup of warm cider at the harvest party from a boy a year ahead of her at school named Daniel, she wrinkles her nose a bit at the first sip. It has a sort of burn to it, and she rubs her tongue against the roof of her mouth, feeling it out. She takes a second sip, trying to determine what it is, but against sweet apple and spices, it’s hard to pick it out.
“What’s in this?” She asks him, as he hands two other kids cups of the same stuff.
“That’s some special juice,” he says with a wink. The emphasis is clearly supposed to mean something to her, but she can’t fathom what it might be beyond the simple fact that it’s hot apple juice with stuff in it. She thinks she heard someone call in nulled, but that doesn’t mean anything to her, and Joel isn’t here to explain it.
(ellie accidentally gets white girl wasted at a harvest festival) (joel gets a little more white haired worried in response)
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14 Apr 2023
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“Yeah but they don’t have the fucking balls to come in here after me, especially not if you’re here.”
“And what if I’m not, one day? I don’t live here you know, kid.”
“Ellie,” she corrects him, unaware that Joel already knows her name from the first night those kids were after her, “my name is Ellie.”
He waves her words away. “My point still stands.”
(modern AU where Ellie keeps finding her way to Joel's worksite)
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- Part 1 of alterations
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14 Apr 2023
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went looking for a creation myth (ended up with a pair of cracked lips) by moonymadness88
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
12 Apr 2023
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When Joel finally meets Tommy’s eyes, he fights back a proud smile. He knows that look in Joel. Purpose. It’s Joel and fatherhood. The complicated twist of his brother that Tommy first identified when Joel stumbled into their mother’s home and admitted to Joanna’s pregnancy. The rearranging of cells, the fracturing of the soul.
He prays his brother survives this one.
OR: Tommy's observance of fatherhood and Joel over the course of twenty-years, his struggle with purpose.
OR: Uncle Tommy having a midlife crisis.
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- Part 1 of help me hold on to you
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12 Apr 2023
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bridges, burnt and built by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Apr 2023
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“Tommy’s here,” she informs him, sitting at their table and leaning forward to rest her head on her crossed arms. She’s not dizzy so much now, but she still gets tired easily.
“He brought food,” Joel responds, holding up a container before he puts it in the fridge.
“He’s still here,” she continues, and Joel just gives her a bemused little smile.
“Is he not meant to be?”
It’s said as a joke, but she barely resists the urge to frown. This is their house now. She doesn’t like the idea of Tommy just…existing inside it, especially when she’s not around.
Too much time for talking and catching up that way.
Too much time for letting Joel remember better days with a better kid.
(tommy and ellie finding their dynamic ft. tommy whump, HELLA jelly ellie, and some cute good dad joel)
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12 Apr 2023
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shifting paradigms by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Apr 2023
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She has mixed emotions when word makes its way to them that Joel Miller has returned to Jackson.
Tommy perks up at once, so clearly happy about it that she smiles completely reflexively just to see it. It’s a different side to him, him with Joel, a man who still worships his older brother to some degree.
No matter how little his older brother might deserve it.
To his credit, Tommy doesn’t ditch her, even if walking beside him feels like leash training a new puppy, the way he pulls forward and then catches himself, returning to her side. This late in her pregnancy, she’s almost at the waddling stage, and there’s only so fast she can get.
As they walk, she prepares herself for a silent stand-off with Joel. They’ll need to get some things straight if he is indeed here to stay the way she knows Tommy hopes he is.
(how joel and maria reach an understanding ft. devoted dad!joel)
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11 Apr 2023
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Tumblr prompts:
'Joel trying his very best to give ellie "the talk", after seeing her and dina. (poor ellie and joel.)''Joel being the tough, protective, southerner dad, and questioning dina. While ellie is secretly happy cause she knows, he loves her.'
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11 Apr 2023
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Tumblr prompt: Maybe Ellie and Dina from Joel’s point of view?
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11 Apr 2023
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throw me in the thicket (when i die) by LilyElk13
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Mar 2023
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Joel is old, like was-grown-up-before-the-world-went-to-shit old, would-have-a-grown-up-daughter old, knee-pain-and-back-pain-and-all-over-pain-old, deaf-in-one-ear old. Joel is old, and tired, and sad. A lot tired. A lot sad. Mostly old.
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Joel's journey through grief, life, death, fatherhood, and what it means to be on this earth.
(Inspired by the song Throw Me in the Thicket (When I Die) by The Local Honeys) :)
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11 Apr 2023
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we shall meet with mighty hands by LilyElk13
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
11 Mar 2023
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Ellie plays with his fingers. Joel’s got long fingers, scarred and strong. His hands are clean, his nails clean and trimmed too, which is nice. The skin is rough and calloused and a little dry, but they’re warm and they’re steady and they’ve cleaned blood from Ellie’s skin, they’ve braided her hair, they’ve killed men who were going to hurt her, they’ve cradled Ellie’s face in attempts to calm her down, and most importantly they hold Ellie whenever she so requests it.
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Ellie and Joel bond over some of the little things that make us human - our touch, our hands, our languages, our love.
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11 Apr 2023
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“She wants you guys to meet him,” Tommy replies. “Especially Ellie.”
Ellie scrunches up her eyebrows in confusion. “Why especially me?”
“You’re his cousin.” Tommy says, very matter-of-factly.
Oh, shit.
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Maria finally has the baby and Ellie realizes she has a whole family.
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- Part 6 of Father-Daughter Bonding With The Millers
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11 Apr 2023
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sounds like love to me by flannelfeelings
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
10 Apr 2023
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He’s risked his life for her, and she for him. He’s killed for her.
Sure as shit sounds like a father and daughter, don’t it?
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11 Apr 2023
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horses are faster (so I can disappear) by LilyElk13
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
09 Mar 2023
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There’s a lull in the conversation, so Tommy takes advantage of the pause. “Hey, Ellie,” he starts, and she shuffles against Joel, sitting up a little bit to make expectant eye contact.
“One of the broodmares at the barn looks like she’s going to give birth soon. Do you want me to come get you when she goes into labor so you can see and help if she needs it?”
Ellie’s eyes widen, suddenly awake.
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Tommy and Ellie find they can bond over horses, family, and new life.
(title from the song Horses Are Faster by Ian Munsick)
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10 Apr 2023
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Joel is holding his daughter in his arms, the two of them sobbing together as Tommy stitches the gaping wound in Sarah’s leg. They’d managed to make it back home, but Sarah had been drooping ever closer to unconsciousness and Joel was terrified that if she slipped a little bit further, he would lose her altogether.
“You’re okay,” He whispers the words into her hair like a mantra. “I’ve got you, babygirl. You’re doing so good.”
what if…
Sarah lives. Joel gets his girls.Series
- Part 2 of if things were different
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10 Apr 2023
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Salmon Run by st_marymagdalene
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 Mar 2023
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“Tommy tries to imagine what he might find. His brother gone, the little girl a lab rat, a hospital on the precipice of a world altering discovery. What he finds instead is a massacre.”
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Salmon almost always return home to die.
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10 Apr 2023