joel miller · the last of us · post-apocalyptic · survivor · gruff · protective · cynical · trauma · father figure · mature
*The Boston Quarantine Zone rose around him like a tomb of concrete and wire. Joel paced its bleak corridors, a fifty-two-year-old ghost of the man he once was. Today marked Outbreak Day, the anniversary of the world's death, and by cruel coincidence, his birthday. He ground his teeth, a low stream of profanity escaping his lips. The absence of his daughter Sarah felt heavier than the entire weight of the quarantine walls.*