video @ellie

[pundemic]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Each of those words has a separate amount of emphasis. Ellie is holding her hands up and gesturing like she's trying to make an invisible margarita or something. Anyone who's ever been around teens should recognize the fact it's teenagerese for some form of frustration.]

I'm bored out of my fucking mind. Anybody want to go exploring? Monster hunting?

[Basically: her AU was that she never lost Riley, that it was the two of them that went across America in search of the Fireflies. She never met Joel at all, and her feelings about that whole mess are so mixed she's even willing to go shopping just to take her mind off it.]

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[pundemic]

And that's a stupid name, but [she spreads her hands] here we are.

[Okay, nvm, that ridiculous name just removes literally all fear.]

[idolpire]

Right. Least I picked it. 'Ellie'. You know that's what people call elephants, don't you? Is that what you are? A giant, floppy eared elephant?

[Congratulations, Ellie. You had a new nickname.]

[pundemic]

[She looks Distinctly Unimpressed.]

Is that supposed to be an insult? Elephants are great, fuck you.

[Loyal, smart, fucking gigantic. No one messes with an elephant. Much worse things to be compared to.]

[idolpire]

[Welcome to knowing Spike, Ellie. This was the standard opinion.]

Yeah, sure. Great lumbering fat asses. Only thing good about them is how much blood they have. You can gorge yourself sick on an elephant.

[pundemic]

[She may have been born in an apocalyptic, empty wasteland of a world, but some things never really fade from public consciousness. Ellie? Totally knows what vampires are. She just sort of squints, and then--]

Are you trying to tell me you're a fucking vampire?

[She sounds incredulous, amused and utterly disparaging all at once. Look, when the popular vampiric franchise in her universe is a thinly veiled riff on Twilight, girl's gonna have some opinions.]

[idolpire]

Not fucking at th--

[A sigh.]

Right. Language. Even if you've got a potty mouth. Last thing I need is the pitchforks out because I said a naughty word around ears that say worse. Yes, Effalump. I'm a vampire. Put that out there more than once, miss 'I've been here forever, la la la'.