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the gradual shift in joel from being the guy who’s so desensitized that he can carry a dead kid the same way he carried sarah to the site of her death and toss the corpse into a fire without blinking to being the guy who has a massive breakdown and almost nukes his whole life from the fear of ellie being irreparably harmed while under his care……and the way the last few episodes the show go out of their way to specifically test him on that fear…..like hey joel you’re mortally wounded and can’t protect or take care of her, what do you do. hey joel while you were bedridden she went through the worst experience of her life, what do you do. hey joel [insert spoilers for last ep here, you get the idea]. and he rises to the occasion, he pushes through the fear for her, because she asked him to. she wanted him to be the one to deliver her. she didn’t want anyone else. and he’s decided he’s going to give her whatever she wants
it takes time for the realization that he’s gonna have to confront his worst nightmare to really sink in. he’s built up a mental fortress against what happened to him 20 years ago. and you see that when he really starts to care is when all of that comes back up. the time skip between ep 5 and 6 was probably the Joel Quietly Freaks Out with Increasing Frequency and Intensity variety hour
and him telling her she’s not his daughter. aside from being that thing where you say the worst thing you can think of to someone when you’re trying to end your relationship with them so you can’t go back and change your mind later. but also, when you peel back all the layers of pain and fear, that’s him saying “you are not going to die.” up until that moment it’s the most honest and open expression of his feelings that he’s shared with her. his daughter died in his arms. that’s what happens to “joel’s daughter.” so ellie cannot be his daughter
that probably should’ve been 3 separate posts but it’s season finale day and i’m unmedicated, fuck it
this is my formal request for a fic where ellie actually has to have a feeding tube instead of barely dodging it. as much as i like the idea of sparing her the pain, i have never seen a character with a tube literally anywhere and she keeps getting *so close*
LET ME IN AO3 LET ME INNNNNNNNNN
when people mentions r’s name in the same sentence as barty or evan and imply that he would ever spend time with them willingly and he sees these terrible posts and i go and check on him in the jar and find him curled up into a little ball amongst the twigs and the moss with his tiny spindly arms wrapped around his tiny spindly knees and i rap on the jar gently with my knuckle and i say buddy? hey little guy are you alright? because he is hiding his face but then he turns and he is all trembly and his lower lip is wobbling and there are tears brimming in his big brown baby cow eyes and the tip of his big wonky nose is all pink from crying and he hiccups and shakes his head no and i go oh princess. is it because people are telling those lies about you in tumblr? and he nods his little head and his shoulders are shaking and i have to give him a little thimble of warm apple juice to cheer him up. so next time just think about that maybe