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    Eight years have passed since Blackwater, Saint Denis, and the fall of the van der Linde gang. The survivors are trying to make a life for themselves – some moving on to nobler pursuits, some circling back like carrion birds to the scores they left behind.

    And outside a town called Purgatory, West Elizabeth, a man wakes up without a scrap of memory or a name, haunted by a black wolf and a golden stag.

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    03 Apr 2026

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    Where Joel miscalculates the situation with David and the hunters, and Ellie pays the price. Ellie and Joel struggle to cope after Ellie is raped. Thrown into unfamiliar territory-- Will their bond grow stronger, or will the trauma tear them apart? Begins during the winter, and follows the pair into Jackson as Ellie grows up in the aftermath of the decisions that have been made for her.

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    19 Aug 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 17

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    An AU where Joel and Ellie get to have their movie night. Rated M for language.

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    23 Dec 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 33

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    Ellie paused for almost a minute, “You think I was a pawn in their war all along?”

    “Based on everything we know of the Fireflies, it’s really hard for me to believe they would all of a sudden make their priority to take a selfless and altruistic journey across a world full of raiders and Infected to look for innocent people to immunize,” Joel shook his head, “And how could they get vaccines to thousands with the scarce resources they had? Remember how we had to cross the country to get to one place that had proper equipment? They never gave us the chance to think about or ask how they planned on mass-producing and distributing the vaccine.”

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    Rewriting the last conversation between Joel and Ellie from Part II, but here they discuss everything that there was to be discussed about the vaccine that Part II didn't address, including Ellie's trauma from Riley's death, followed by an alternate take on the encounter with Abby.

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    11 Nov 2023

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    “Where are your parents, kid? You need to leave.”
    The girl’s face turns guarded for a moment, then it switches, and she points at the sky silently, a mock serious expression on her face.
    “What type of answer is that supposed to be?” He doesn’t have time for this girl and whatever weird shenanigans she’s trying to pull.
    “It means they’re dead, dumbass. I live in the group foster home down the street."

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    (or: Ellie shows up in Joel's yard one day when she's eight, and she doesn't stop showing up in his life after that. Takes place over the course of six years.)

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    30 Oct 2023