❝ i'll always protect you. ❞
❝ i never meant to get this close, but now that i have i can't let you go. ❞
❝ i live for the moments when you look at me. the rest of the time i'm just existing. ❞
❝ i don't like how you make me feel. but i like not being around you even less. ❞
❝ i wish you wouldn't look at me like that. when you look at me like that i...it makes me wanna do things i shouldn't ❞
❝ there's no line i wouldn't cross for you. don't you realize that? ❞
❝ i did this for you. no one else. ❞
❝ i don't like it, but i'll do it for you. ❞
❝ i wonder how much of myself i'll have to give to you—how much i have to lay bare—before you realize how much you're taking. ❞
❝ i'm not trying to fix you. i'm just trying to be your friend. ❞
❝ i'm not um, real good at thank yous. or sorry's. but if you ever need me, i'm there. i owe you one. ❞
❝ i've seen you at your worst and i'm still standing here. ❞
❝ you've seen me at my worst but you're still here... ❞
❝ you can be mad at me, i can take it. i'd rather you be angry than shut me out. ❞
❝ i'm not angry, i'm just scared. ❞
❝ i know you love me, but do you like me? ❞
❝ do you think i'm a good person? ❞
❝ do you think i care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference? of course i'm helping you. ❞
❝ tell me what i can do to show you how i love you. i will give you anything you ask for. ❞
❝ you don't have to keep apologizing. just be here. day in and day out and prove that you're gonna keep showing up. that's all you have to do. ❞
❝ i only sleep well when you're next to me. ❞
❝ i don't want an apology i just want to understand. ❞
❝ i could actually use a hug right now. ❞
❝ i want everyone else to go away, but you can stay. ❞
❝ i actually do care what you think about. you're probably one of the only people whose opinion matters to me. ❞
❝ you always seem to know what i need. ❞
❝ you always seem to know just what i need to hear. ❞
❝ i want you to call me when you need someone. i want to be here for you. ❞
❝ you're the one i wanna call when i need someone. ❞
❝ seems like i always want you around when everything feels all fucked up. guess that means something. ❞
(Angry and irritated sentences from various sources. Adjust phrasing where needed)
"You playing your whole creepy mystery man routine isn't exactly helping me feel any better!"
"If you want to experiment, you talk to me! You don't just do it!"
"You're enjoying this, aren't you?"
"You are not the damn judge and jury!"
"I don't know about you, but I've had enough of this tedious spat!"
"Do you have to do that? You're staring."
"Tell me the truth; did you set me up to fail?"
"How does anyone put up with you? You're very cocky with your theories, you know?"
"Why are you late?"
"Stop thinking. Stop talking."
"You know conversations are supposed to make things clearer?"
"You can drop the sarcasm!"
"Not everything is about you!"
"Would you mind staying silent?"
"I'm feeling a little attacked right now."
"Patience is not one of my virtues."
"Are you going to be angry all evening?"
"Is that your idea of treading carefully?"
"All you do - all you ever do - is embarass me!"
"Rules are rules! No opera before 8am!"
"Are you being kooky again?"
"Just because you've got a name for something doesn't mean it's not insane!"
"You're a fucking poet now?"
"You have been glaring at me throughout this entire meal."
"Please don't touch that!"
"Stop looking at me. I don't like when people look at me like that."
"Do you have to enjoy this quite so much?"
"Using someone's emotions like this is wrong!"
"Hey! You don't walk away when I'm talking to you!"
"I have said I'm sorry!"
"If I wanted your opinion, I would have asked for it."
"Can we go back to some place that resembles civilisation?"
"You're a very brave man, but so stupid!"
"Everything was alright until you arrived!"
"I'm already in a foul mood - let's not make it any worse."
working list of TLOU muses bc brainrot:
- Joel
- Ellie
- Sarah ( either pre-canon or au where she lives )
- Riley ( same as Sarah )
- Dina
- Tommy
- Maria
- Tess
- Bill
- Frank
- Anna ( Ellie's mother - pre-canon or AU where she somehow survives )
When Hannah takes her hand, Ellie squeezes. Offers a reassuring smile. At this point, Ellie refused to let anyone else stop her from getting the experiences she'd been deprived off growing up in this world, and she was extending that to Hannah. If people were going to stare, Ellie wanted it to be from jealousy because they were having fun.
" Eh, most people would say that it's unnecessary anger or something instead of being cool – but I like that you think so, " Ellie shrugs, huffing out a laugh. She'd never considered herself cool - Ellie had always been the awkward kid, the weird kid, different from everyone else – literally, it was in her blood. Hannah thinking she was cool? That was fucking awesome.
" Come on, Han. Let's get our groove on, " Ellie wiggles her eyebrows at the other teen as she starts to pull her towards the dance floor. Could Ellie dance? Absolutely not. But she wanted to make Hannah feel better, and she'd read about dances before. Proms and parties and weddings - things she'd never get to do. It sucked.. but maybe this would make life suck a little less.
Ellie sounds so genuine - she'd say her friends had sounded genuine when accepting to spend the weekend with her, but had they? Maybe Sam, and just how much she had been involved in that prank was unknown.
The fact that she doesn't give a damn about what anybody thinks is obvious, so that's a point in her favor, but Hannah still hesitates, squeezing her eyes close for a moment to erase the flash of a camera recording her at her most humiliating moment, forget that day that led to the worst night of her life. "Okay," she murmurs, opening her eyes again. They come and go, these flashes, and all she can do is push them away. At least when she's awake.
"Okay," she repeats. She knows how to dance, she and Beth danced and sang together a lot, sometimes Josh would join in for laughs - oh, bad train of thoughts - and people aren't even looking, it seems, so she decides to take Ellie's hand. It feels so nice to touch another person, one she trusts, and her expression softens, even if she can't find in herself to smile. Not ever, if she's honest, but even less so after such a scare. Still, being able to soften up and not panic is a win that she owes to Ellie. "You'd really punch people for making fun of you, wouldn't you?" she asks with a hint of regret, or maybe jealously, because that certainly was not her reaction.
"You are always so cool, Ellie."