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aww yeah it's question meme time
Time to bring back one of my old faves...
Simple and easy! Here's how it goes:
1. POST a top-level with your character name
2. REPLY to other people's top-level with a question for that character
3. ANSWER the question you were asked
4. ASK a question of that person's characters in return!
We go back and forth like this asking questions in a thread until one or both of us runs out of questions!
QUESTIONS CAN BE ANYTHING. Serious or silly as you want! What does Jane think of (x)? What does Sarah have for breakfast? How many times a day does Alex masturbate? What's Tom's dream job? The only limit for questions is your imagination.
Replies can be as monosyllabic or as tl;dr are you want; it's up to you. Go wild kids!
the QUESTION meme
Simple and easy! Here's how it goes:
1. POST a top-level with your character name
2. REPLY to other people's top-level with a question for that character
3. ANSWER the question you were asked
4. ASK a question of that person's characters in return!
We go back and forth like this asking questions in a thread until one or both of us runs out of questions!
QUESTIONS CAN BE ANYTHING. Serious or silly as you want! What does Jane think of (x)? What does Sarah have for breakfast? How many times a day does Alex masturbate? What's Tom's dream job? The only limit for questions is your imagination.
Replies can be as monosyllabic or as tl;dr are you want; it's up to you. Go wild kids!
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For real though, I think his plan would be to basically just to protect as many of his loved ones as he can before he has to make some heroic sacrifice that he is totally prepared to make.
He doesn't blame Joel and Ellie for, like, how they reacted when they first arrived. Because he knows he'd be pretty fucked up if he came from their world. But he is Super Concerned about things like why Joel was apparently trafficking a little girl and like how many people has Ellie killed, anyway? A lot of questions he wants to ask but doesn't really want to know the answers to. Things are better for them now so that's what matters.
What does Ellie think of Jesse's business?
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Spoilers: he was trafficking her for guns!! And maybe a hundred or so... but she hasn't killed anyone in several months so hey, baby steps at being a normal teenager.
Good question! Ellie's so preoccupied with everything around her and the stuff that the money Joel gets from Jesse's business buys, that she doesn't really think about it much. Jesse is rich. Jesse gave Joel a job to do, which keeps Joel preoccupied and active, and therefore relatively content. The meth part of it? She's curious, but not enough so yet to look up anything about it. Any concept of drugs like meth is vague as hell, because who has that in her world?
I think if she saw what meth does to people she'd be upset, but Ellie is loyal as fuck sooooo she'd probably try to convince herself it's not really that terrible, what Jesse is doing :/
Otherwise she just kinda dislikes that it means Joel is away, but at the same time that means
babysittinghanging out with Jesse without worrying about Joel getting grumpy, so she copes. Ellie has learned that money is awesome. Thanks, Jesse!!How would Jesse explain why he does what he does to Ellie? Does he think she understands, currently?
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How is Ellie coping with the life of a regular kid?
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For the most part, she's coping pretty well. Ellie is adaptable and very open to learning. It's been jarring to see the reality of things she only read about, but she's had good teachers--the adults in her life have been teaching her sooooo much it makes her head spin, but she knows some patient teens like Wally who have been having fun introducing her to regular kid stuff, and Sasha who is also a bit out of her element. That helps a lot.
And school sucks. But she knew that before. And a lot of regular kid stuff is stupid and trivial but she knew that, too. Her patience for stuff like shopping for clothes or talking about teen drama is very limited because not too long ago every day was survival survival survival.
The hardest part has been socializing. She was never very outgoing before, more likely to start shit with someone than sit down with them and get to know them. Here, she has to force herself to relax. She's constantly on edge and hyper aware of her surroundings, though she does her best to not show it because she knows that's weird. No one else here starts sweating in the mall or has an urge to clutch at the knife in their pocket when someone is walking behind them on the sidewalk. She's not as nervous as she once was, but it's still a process of telling herself that she's not going to be attacked. Joel might seem a little crazy with the way he acts here, but Ellie's not much better. She's isn't as obvious.
What would Jesse do if Brock and Andrea appeared?
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He'd tell them not to register and he'd get rid of their communicators and he'd buy them a house far from any of the Porter cities so that they'd never get mixed up in any of the shit the government or imPorts are getting into. And he would call once a week and maybe stop by every couple months to check on them and make sure they never wanted for anything.
And he would do his best to make sure no one knew they were there or that they have anything to do with him.
Will Ellie ever consider getting involved in their trade or will she always be content to just receive all this cash and not think about where it comes from?
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And then maybe she'll make the puppydog eyes at Jesse and ask if there's something she can do. Preferably after getting Joel to crack because what is this drug business compared to infected. :')
What would Jesse's reaction be to Ellie asking to be involved?
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I mean, Ellie's going to grow up eventually but it's as if she's Jake or Brock - he's always going to see her as a little kid. And it doesn't matter to him that she's done way worse stuff than run a few pounds of meth across some state borders. She hasn't done bad stuff because of him, and that'd change if she got involved as a mule.
The whole point of this, for him, is to make sure that the people he cares about get to live comfortable lives without the threat of danger. As easy as things have gone for them so far, he knows this is a dangerous business and shit will hit the fan eventually. Ellie cannot be there when that happens. He'd never forgive himself.
And even the thought of using Ellie makes him feel like Gus, which sickens him. If he's that far gone, he might as well off himself now.
So that's a firm, "Hell no," and he'll cry if he has to.
What does Ellie really want to be when she grows up?
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She used to want to be an astronaut! Which was probably just a random choice for a kid whose only options were military or some crappy job on the wall that would lead to a super early death. Also, for someone that is afraid of being alone, space is scary! She hasn't really given it much thought beyond that because being anything hasn't ever been a possibility. If she did, though, she'd probably want to be a doctor or librarian. She did rounds in the clinic at the military school and likes books. She's a simple girl.
Haha, Joel (while on his deathbed/insanely drunk) tells Jesse he's screwed over the rest of humanity just to keep Ellie alive. What does Jesse think?
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And he wouldn't have told Ellie the truth, either, if it was him.
What will Ellie do if/when she finds out?
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WHICH BREAKS MY HEART but I'd definitely play it as that. It definitely wouldn't be the end of Ellie and Joel, as she does love him more than anyone else and probably could put herself in his shoes and understand why he did what he did--he loves her, too. He couldn't give her up after losing Sarah. Buuuuut the trust between them would be gone. It would take a lot of time for her to want to open up to him again.
and then Jesse becomes the new favorite dadWhat does Jesse think of the government in the game?
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But Jesse has never been one to trust the government in general. Back home, he never voted. He outright loathed federal agencies and law enforcement. If he had a mind to put a name to it, he'd be an anarchist or a libertarian. So the government could be angelic and he'd still be inclined to distrust them. He doesn't like the idea of some giant entity having that much power over people, deciding what's best for them when it doesn't know them on a personal level. That's why he's all about independence, being self-sufficient. When he's acting as a leader, he sees himself as a leader who actually has his people's best interests at heart. Because, when it comes to imPorts and his employees, he honestly does.
He just doesn't see that in a government that so far has only sought to use them as tools. He fully expects them to resort to using force to get the imPorts to cooperate, maybe eventually exterminating them. He hopes to have built enough resources to fight the government by then, militia-style.
What is Ellie's D&D alignment? I'm curious about her moral compass.
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What's Jesse's?
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Now I want to know... What would be Ellie's RPG class? Maybe out of any of these. Or which would she pick for herself?
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How about Jesse?
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If he could choose, he'd be a Ninja or a Monk. Those guys always look really fucking cool. Plus he "knows" kung fu and shuriken techniques. He would strongly argue for this role and be really disappointed if he was made Cleric instead.
NERDS THE FUCK OUT.
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