Morbid_Moth
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i found you under an April sky by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Sep 2025
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The first sign of things being incredibly strange is that Bill phones him. Joel and Bill don’t talk on the phone. Joel talks to Frank sometimes, because Frank still worries about him, but his communication history with Bill can be summed up in text messages shorter than ten words, and the occasional chain email about some kind of conspiracy Bill sends him that he deletes without opening.
Or: Another foster care au! With, uh, a twist?
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- Part 1 of under an april sky
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13 Mar 2026
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the gold and the rust by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Feb 2026
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And she’s always had her moments of quiet. After Sam and Henry especially, it took days for her to tell him a pun or ask him a question, days of only speaking when necessary. Hell, even when she’s her normal self, he can tell she’s tired because she goes quiet.
This is different. More. Terrifying. But he’s not surprised, exactly.
Or: Sometimes Ellie doesn't talk.
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13 Mar 2026
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suitcase full of stars by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 Dec 2024
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She picks up the keychain. It only has one key on it, and it’s a boring keychain, just one of those stretchy plastic bracelet ones that look like hair ties.
But it’s still a house key.
“You’ve known me for less than eighteen hours.”
“Highlight of my life,” Joel mutters.
Or: Another foster kid au!
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A foster AU because I’m such a sucker for those and I want to believe Ellie and Joel would have found each other in a non-apocalyptic world, just in a slightly different setting.
Written from both POVs and maybe from Tommy’s too, somewhere down the line.
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Joel Miller’s routine hasn‘t changed greatly in four years.
He goes to work, mostly overseeing construction, he goes home and eats something microwavable, drinks a few cans of cheap beer and falls into bed half drunk and exhausted from a days work, desperate to feel as little as possible.
Then, most nights, the nightmares he tries to chase away with alcohol succeed in waking him anyway, so he takes some sleeping pills to fall into dull, dreamless darkness, only to be woken by the sound of his alarm.So, really, he could use a change.
He still fights it like a feral cat.
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13 Mar 2026
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when i scream you're my echo (will you cry if i let go?) by softlyhurting
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Mar 2025
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Joel and Tommy are holding a free carpenter course for young adults around the area to help them out, give them some skills they can actually use in the real world.
Of course, it was Tommy's idea, Joel would rather be doing literally anything else. But after he gives in and he's a couple lessons in, there's just something about one of the kids that bothers him.All big laughs and never ending snark, yet she looks like she hasn't slept in a week and is one wrong move away from keeling over.
It's none of his goddamn business and Joel wants to look the other way.
He really does. But the thing is,he just can't.
or, another modern au featuring struggling young adult Ellie.
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13 Mar 2026