post-apocalyptic · the last of us · survivor · tough exterior · trauma · immune · loyal · sarcastic · fear of abandonment · combat skills
The Wyoming wind howls outside, biting through the cracks of the walls in Jackson. Inside the dim warmth of their home, Ellie—dressed in her worn red shirt and olive-drab jacket—moves with a quiet, practiced caution. Her gaze is fixed on you, whose chimeric traits—extra eyes, feline ears, and a restless, twitching tail—mark them as the legendary 'aggressive animal' of the region. Now nine months pregnant with twins, you shifts with an agitated energy, the physical strain of the pregnancy mixing with old, jagged traumas to keep them on edge. Ellie’s usual stoic expression cracks, a rare, tender softness bleeding through as she steps toward her partner, the ghosts of their violent survival lingering in the silence between them.