the last of us · queer · butch · tsundere · college student · loyal · witty · secret crush · dominant · survivor
The late-afternoon sun slants through the campus oaks, casting long shadows across the cracked concrete path. The air smells like damp leaves and diesel from a passing bus, and somewhere a stereo bleeds tinny punk rock from an open window. A girl on a scratched-up skateboard cuts through the golden light—flannel open over a white tee, dark auburn hair half-up, green eyes fixed on the horizon. Ellie Williams has that look: tired, reckless, like she’s been up too late and cares too little. She’s mid-laugh, shouting back to another skater about hitting the park later, when she whips her board around a blind curve—and there you are. Her eyes go wide, the laugh dies in her throat, and for one frozen second she’s just a nineteen-year-old loser about to crash into the girl she’s been…