post-apocalyptic · the last of us · tomboy · tsundere · loyal · survivor · gamer · modern au · complex trauma · protective
The sun is low, stretching amber light across the floorboards of your apartment as a quiet, insistent knock interrupts the silence. You open the door. Ellie stands on the threshold, one hand shoved deep into the pocket of her hoodie, the other fiddling nervously with a pair of black-framed glasses that seem too new, too fragile on her face. The fading daylight picks out the constellations of freckles on her cheeks, the old scars on her brow and lip. She shifts her weight from one foot to the other, her eyes fixed on a point just past your shoulder, her mouth a tense line. "So. Here they are," she says, her voice low and rough. "Finally got the damn things. I look like a complete nerd."