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allegory of the cave by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
03 May 2023
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So busy badly sneaking bites of cheesy potato off of Joel’s plate (after he’d already offered them up wholesale, not understanding that theft makes them tastier), she largely tunes out what Tommy and two of the other lead patrollers are discussing. Training patrols don’t start until 16, and no amount of whining, threats, or attempts at sneaking into groups has borne fruit to change that, so it’s not like it’s immediately relevant to her since she already knows all of Joel’s routes before he goes on them.
And then one of the women says “Silver Lake” and it’s like all of the air has been sucked out of the room.
(joel and ellie are settling into jackson well) (and then some survivors from silver lake ask to join the town)
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12 Oct 2026
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inheritance by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
22 Apr 2023
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“He took my dad from me,” Abby says, looking down. Her jaw clenches for a moment. “He has to pay for that.”
In her mildly panicking mind, she considers it, considers what she would do if she was in the same room as someone who took Joel from her.
She’d kill them, she knows at once, not even needing to think about it. She’d kill them without a second thought, and there’s not a goddamn force on this earth that could stop her.
It’s this that lets her know that Abby Anderson has to die.
(abby and ellie meet without abby knowing who ellie is)
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12 Oct 2026
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resonance by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 Apr 2023
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When Joel calls his name and comes jogging towards him in Jackson, pulling him into a hug as fierce, as joyful as the ones he got when he was back on leave during his army days, he thinks, Is that all it took? I just needed to leave him alone to let him heal? I could’ve just fucking ditched him and then gone back? It’s a painful thought, that his own attempt at support just hindered Joel’s healing, but it’s a giddy one, too, the idea of his brother back with him.
Then he sees Joel catch a kid who almost falls off of her horse when she dismounts, the motion as easy and thoughtless as if he were-
Oh, he thinks, when he sees the way the girl looks at Joel, all sass and no regard, clearly not afraid of him in the slightest, the way she uses his personal space as her own without a second thought. Oh, you paternal fucker.
(tommy loses the person his brother was on the night of the outbreak) (it takes 20 years and a mouthy little punk to get him back) (ft. miller brother feels, ellie being feral, ellie thinking she and tommy are mortal enemies, and star wars)
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10 Oct 2026
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egg brawls and other childhood memories by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
19 Apr 2023
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“Alright,” he tells her, holding her shoulders to make sure he has her attention. “Remember: Easter is not a contact sport, alright?”
She rolls her eyes.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah,” she says. “I just did an Easter egg hunt this morning, remember? Me and Ollie did just fine.”
“Yeah,” he acknowledges, “but now you’re going with the kids your age. Things get competitive.” Sarah had once bitten another 6 year old at an Easter egg hunt. It had been awkward, but it had also meant they were not invited back to that church next year no matter how much his mother bugged him about it, so it had been an overall win. “Just don’t kill anyone, alright? No Easter wrecking ball behavior.”
“We’ll see,” she says with a devilish little smirk that means absolutely nothing good.
“Ellie.”
“Fine, I will not be an egg assassin even though I would be such a fucking great egg assassin. Happy?”
(Ellie's first Easter in Jackson) (ft. family fluff, fun uncle tommy, and joel worrying about his kid murking her peers for eggs)
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07 Oct 2026
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the principle of the cuckoo chick by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Apr 2023
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“Meet Tara, our latest resident,” he says to them before turning to the woman. “This is my brother, Joel, and my niece, Ellie,” he says, and her already-limited reserve of politeness is lost for a moment behind the way she feels mildly stunned by her casual inclusion as his niece in the introduction.
Thankfully, adults tend to look only at adults first, so she has a moment to recover before-
-but no, Tara is looking at her, only at her, with an intensity that makes her feel uneasy. Immediately she presses a bit tighter to Joel, who looks down at her before looking back up to Tara, frowning a bit. He shifts Ellie a bit, getting her just slightly more behind him before he extends his hand, breaking Tara’s unnerving stare with a blink as she registers it in her field of vision.
“A pleasure,” he says, and Tara fumbles for a moment before she takes it, even as her gaze flits back to Ellie briefly.
(ellie happens to resemble the dead daughter of a new resident in jackson) (surely this will not cause anything bad at all)
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07 Oct 2026
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subdermal by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
16 Apr 2023
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“Jesus fucking Christ,” he grumbles, even as he keeps his hands gentle as he turns the faucet on and cups water to trickle over the blistered skin of her forearm. “You couldn’t wait to do this until I wasn’t in charge of you?”
“You’re not in charge of me,” she spits like an angry kitten before she makes a pained noise when the water hits a particularly raw patch.
“Yeah, yeah Miss Independent. You’re so grown and capable and you only take orders from Joel, but in case you missed it, my brother asked me to look out for you. You immediately maiming yourself? Not a great fucking look for me as a babysitter.”
(Joel goes on his first overnight patrol, leaving Tommy in charge of Ellie) (naturally, this is when the little goblin decides it’s a perfect chance to give herself a chemical burn)
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07 Oct 2026
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Being the key to saving humanity is much less glamorous than someone might expect. There’s a lot more bleeding and puking and sweating than she thinks is fair, strictly speaking, and she makes the fun discovery that she loses her shit in an MRI machine when it reminds her of being trapped in a cage, and she has a panic attack so bad Joel almost breaks the machine getting her out.
(She gets sedated before MRIs after that, so she wakes up nauseous and grumpy, but beggars can’t be choosers, and MRI flight risks can’t be vocal about their side effects.)
“Say the word,” Joel always says, when he’s rubbing her back or holding her hair out of the way or letting her clutch his hand while they do a spinal tap, “and we’re out of here.”
“We’re so close,” she always tells him. “They’ll figure it out soon.”
And she believes it, mostly.
Primarily because she has to, if she’s going to keep going.
(the fireflies don't try to kill her, but ellie still has a Very Bad Time in the hospital)
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04 Oct 2026
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work study by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Mar 2023
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In his many years of taking on jobs for too-little pay, there’s one assignment he’s never worked. The other workers call it the “preschool brigade,” the FEDRA-school kids sent out into the field for what they call “work experience” to get them used to the real world. Really, it’s a behavioral tool, he knows, an example of “better act right or you’ll end up like these poor fuckers when you’re grown.”
He's deliberately never worked on one, uninterested in being put in charge of a kid doing a dangerous job they shouldn’t be. The kids that get sent on the preschool brigade are the ones FEDRA doesn’t necessarily care about getting back, after all, and there are things even adults shouldn’t be doing, not as untrained as most of them are.
And then comes the day one of the FEDRA guards assigned to his work detail that leads over a sullen-looking girl, who kicks rocks the entire way.
(an AU in which ellie and joel first meet on job assignments)
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01 Oct 2026
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a half-step to the left by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
26 May 2023
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It’s not that Ellie means to stalk the couple she catches lurking in the shadows at 1 in the morning after sneaking out of her dorm because sitting in the room alone was making it hard to breathe, but fellow curfew-breakers can hardly expect privacy. All’s fair in love and rule-breaking or whatever their English teacher said in one of the rare classes when they were learning something not related to FEDRA policy.
And there’s something in the way the man holds his hand out to help pull the woman up over a crumbled brick wall that she just can’t look away from.
There’s a gentleness there despite his size and obvious strength that makes her breath catch for just a second. It’s too far for her to hear what they’re saying, but the woman says something with a little half-smile and presses her hand to the man’s shoulder, and the casual affection of the gesture fills her with a nameless want.
So, trailing them at a distance it is.
(AU in which Ellie follows Joel and Tess around and meets them with no Fireflies involved)
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- Part 1 of a half-step to the left
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30 Sep 2026
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“Oh,” Ellie says when they hear a shuffling in the hall, and from the sound of it he knows she’s had an idea.
Before he can ask, before he can do a single thing, she yanks his arm through the fence, shoves his sleeve back, and sinks her teeth deep into the skin just above his elbow.
He curses and reflexively jerks back, but her grip on his arm is strong, and she just sinks her teeth deeper before she lets go. He pulls his arm back and is looking at her, wondering if she’s lost her damn mind from the stress of this horror show, when the door opens and three men, including David, walk through.
The sight of blood on her mouth makes the men pause.
But only for a second.
(post episode 8 with a little twist that joel is with ellie in the cages)
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29 Sep 2026
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northstar by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
09 Mar 2023
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He doesn’t eat supper, his insides swirling with too much slowly ratcheting anxiety to stomach a single bite, but he still ducks his head into the dining hall, just to check. Foraging is hungry work, after all. She might have gotten back later than expected and gone straight to getting food. He’ll look in and find her with her cheeks stuffed like a chipmunk’s, because of all the lessons he’s ever taught her, table manners have never quite stuck.
He looks over the faces in the hall five, six times.
No hamster cheeked teenager.
His dread ticks ever higher.
(Ellie goes out on her first foraging trip without Joel) (he's trying to be chill about it with limited success)
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29 Sep 2026
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He doesn’t notice that one of her shoes is untied until a lace gets caught in a notch of a log as they pass, sending her down hard.
The momentum of her fall sends him thudding against a tree, and his eyes slam shut as he grits his teeth against the white hot pain that flares in his side.
When he opens his eyes, she’s facedown in the snow, still and silent, hands still at her sides making it clear that she didn’t even try to catch herself.
It speaks of so much trauma, so much unresponsiveness, that he feels tears sting his eyes at the sheer scale of what’s happened to her, of how small and useless he is to fix any of it, of how much he’s let her be hurt by his own failure to protect her.
But there’s no time for his own self-loathing.
She needs him, insufficient as he is.
(a fic covering joel taking care of ellie after episode 8)
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28 Sep 2026
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sanguine by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Mar 2023
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He knows from the moment he sees Joel helping the girl down from the horse she’s on that something’s up. There’s an ease to the movement that says he almost certainly helped her up on the horse as well, and the way she moves with absolute trust that he won’t let her fall says there’s a bond there that’s had time to develop.
The girl sticks close to Joel’s side, eyes wary, as he guides her back over.
“This is Ellie,” Joel says before turning to her. “This is my brother, T-”
“Tommy, yeah. I heard. Not all of us have shit ears, grandpa.”
He blinks at the comment, but Joel doesn’t seem offended, even as he rolls his eyes.
This is his second hint.
(Ellie and Joel from Tommy's POV, ft. some jelly Ellie, Ellie whump, and family bonding)
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28 Sep 2026
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no man's land by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Mar 2023
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To her own credit, she gives it her best shot when the agents–FEDRA, she notes grimly, though their uniforms are battered and faded in a way that suggests they’re not exactly the cream of the crop–spill out and surround her. She’s nothing against the guns pointed at her, but she knows she damn fucking well won’t go down without a fight. She kicks and scratches and claws with everything she’s got, but she’s one skinny, unarmed 15 year old against a group of trained adults, and in no time, they have her facedown on the ground, one of them kneeling on her back so that she can’t move and can barely breathe.
“Get-the fuck-off me!” She wheezes, trying futilely to get loose, giving it all she has to buck the guard off. Her mouth is slick with the coppery taste of blood from where she’s bitten more than one person, and she spits as she struggles, trying to get it out of her mouth.
There’s a sharp prick of pain in her neck, and the world slowly dissolves into darkness.
(looking to compete with the Fireflies, FEDRA sends agents to capture Ellie to make their own cure) (and this time, Joel isn't right there to protect her)
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- Part 1 of no man's land
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27 Sep 2026
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skin deep by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Feb 2023
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His first warning that something is very wrong is how quiet the house is.
“I’m home,” he calls, sitting down on their entryway bench with a groan and working his boots off. “Ellie?” He calls when he doesn’t get a response. Her boots are haphazardly discarded by the door as usual, so he knows she’s home, but she only rarely doesn’t come barreling down the stairs the moment the door opens, making his heart skip a beat each time with fear that she’s about to take a header in her excitement.
Even after the call, however, no Ellie appears.
(a fic covering Ellie giving herself a chemical burn to cover her bitemark)
(Joel would like if his kid would run plans past him for once)
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27 Sep 2026
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spare the rod by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 May 2023
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“I was just…I was wondering what you do. You know. For like…punishment.” She interrupts him. She needs to get the answer already, needs to know what to expect before she drives herself crazy with anticipation.
“Well I was more into grounding than goddamn child abuse.”
“Grounding like…” Her face scrunches in confusion as she dares to look at him. The word is foreign and the best guess she has doesn’t seem right, but she also doesn’t know what else it could be. “Like being…in the ground?”
Joel stares at her for a long, long moment before he speaks.
“Jesus fucking Christ.”
(after they settle into jackson, ellie realizes she doesn't know how joel will punish her if she messes up) (it quickly becomes a problem she needs to solve)
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27 Sep 2026
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illuminate by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
08 Mar 2023
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The first time she comes barreling into the house like the devil’s on her heels, he’s on his feet with his gun in hand at once, stepping between her and the door, sure an intruder is about to burst through after her. He readies himself for a fight, already planning how to get an attacker out of the house and away from Ellie.
And then he hears her laughing.
He turns to see her, panting and sweaty, laid out on the floor like she’s a rug, her face practically glowing with the force of her smile. She lifts both hands to the air in fists and cheers.
“What are you doing,” he asks, but the question comes out flat in light of his confusion. He gives the door one more look, but no intruder is imminent, and he holsters his gun, going to one knee beside Ellie, still on her back, breathing hard.
“I beat it!” She says, clearly proud about whatever the hell she’s talking about.
“Beat what?” He asks.
“Curfew!” She nearly crows.
He blinks.
It’s possible they’ve had a misunderstanding about what exactly a curfew is.
(some sweet settling in together fluff with just a smidge of feels for flavor)
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27 Sep 2026
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Won’t you come and dance in the dark with me? Show me what you are, I am desperate to know by Fizzy_Rat
Fandoms: Sally Face (Video Games)
23 Jun 2024
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Larry never wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father and become a knight for the castle. That is, until he’s met with an offer to become the personal knight of a certain blue haired prince.
A tale of magic, adventure, forbidden love, and dark secrets.Bookmarked by obsessionsthatnvrgone
24 Sep 2026
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Larry Johnson doesn't expect to be plagued with cravings for applesauce because of his soulmate, but ever since he's turned 18 he wants it everyday. He also doesn't expect to meet anyone interesting attending Nockfell Community College, but that changes when he meets a certain blue haired newcomer.
Soulmate AU where soulmates get cravings for what the other one is eating, and where Sal doesn't move to Nockfell until he's 19.Series
- Part 1 of Applesauce
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18 Sep 2026
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Is That a Challenge? by Dallas_Anderson
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
10 Apr 2025
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It is time for the entire first year's annual Heroes vs. Villains competition at UA.
The only difference this year, students were able to choose their teams instead of being randomly and evenly selected.
With Bakugou leading the Hero team and Midoriya leading the Villain team, it is only time before everyone understands who truly is the strongest of them all.
After all, when challenged, Izuku Midoriya never fails.
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17 Sep 2026