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foiblepnoteworthy · 1 year

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uhh psa about the last of us

Well I'm replaying The Last of Us and it comes out on Sunday so imma write a little trigger warning list for anyone who might need it bc it is a kinda dark game and the show looks like it's gonna be faithful. Might not all be accurate to the show, but here's how the game goes down.

I tried to limit the spoilers but i did not do a good job, as there were times I thought it best to be very specific. If you read this you will basically know who dies in the game and how (ie i say ‘x’ happens to the gay man, well, there’s not many main character gay men).

I’d still advise checking out the first paragraph or so if you’re the sort to read trigger warnings

feel free to send me an ask if you want more details on anything, and apologies if i forgot anything

also here’s a link to the ‘does the dog die’ page for tlou game, in which people have asked about and discussed triggers in the game. might work better for you.

Preface:

The biggest triggers are gun violence and suicide. They appear a lot throughout the game. There is also an attempted grooming of a child.

If gun violence or suicide are triggers you probably shouldn’t watch it. The grooming will likely be confined to one episode, which you may be able to simply skip. If you don’t think any of these will bother you at all, maybe best leave this list so you can avoid spoilers, as I’m going to go into a bit more detail for anyone on the fence.

The game is pretty diverse, for a video game at least, which means that there are gay characters, women, and characters of colour being hurt. This is more because this is a story where people get hurt than because of biases of the writers I would say, but it's open to debate. If you’re sick of seeing characters who are like you dying horribly, you might wanna leave it. A lot of people die horribly in this story, including children.

(Notes:

There’s a good chance I’ve missed something. I may have forgotten something that happened, or a common trigger. There may be things in the show that didn’t appear in the game.

I’ve included headers to help navigate and skip spoilers if you wanna look more closely at just one of those topics.

There is an ‘other’ section at the bottom if you’ve got something else you’re concerned about, or you can check out the ‘does the dog die’ page. There shouldn’t be too many spoilers there.

I will specify race, age, gender, and/or sexuality of characters when relevant here. I.e. I think it’s relevant to say when a child specifically is harmed, or a black character specifically is threatened with a gun. I hope this is the correct and respectful way to do this, I’m open to critique.

I am being blunt in my descriptions.

I am not trigger starring any of my words.

When I say a character is ‘named’, I mean that they’ve been on screen for a bit and the audience probably cares about them.)

Guns and violence:

There are lots of guns, naturally. Not only are zombies shot at but people too, lots of people, by the protag and his allies, and there is an organised militia killing people.

There is a scene where the character discuss the military deliberately killing masses of unarmed civilians seeking refuge (bodies onscreen).

In the opening scene a soldier shoots and kills a named child. There is a later scene where a named black boy is shot and killed by another named character.

Joel is notably proficient with killing, and has killed innocents in the past. He frequently kills zombies and gangs trying to hurt him. He may fire first or attack people unaware - this is usually out of self-defence, after being given reason to assume they will hurt him if given the chance.

There is a scene where Joel threatens to shoot a named defenceless black man. There is a scene where he does shoot and kills an unarmed named black woman.

A named character once pointed a gun at Joel while visibly very mentally unstable (shock, not mental illness).

There is a scene wherein Joel tortures two unnamed men.

Characters see bodies quite often and find notes from them the player can read. They’re set dressing, they’re just there in the street, a lot of them go unburied, and they also feel like real people due to the notes.

There is a grave of a very small child.

Grooming:

A character attempts to groom Ellie while she’s separated from Joel.

He seems genuinely trustworthy at the start - I liked him when I first played it, and I saw his first untrustworthy moment, wherein he had pretended he didn’t have a gun when he secretly did, as kinda funny/charming. It made sense in context okay

He is genuinely unsettling. Exactly what he wants from Ellie is unspecified. The groomer is also a cult leader and a cannibal, and after she refuses him and breaks his finger he decides to eat her. They have a very violent confrontation.

Suicide:

The named characters committing suicide include a woman (death mostly offscreen, technically was a self-sacrifice but also not really, discussion of her intent onscreen); a gay man (death offscreen, method, body and note onscreen); and a black man (death onscreen).

The first kill of the game, should the player choose to accept it, is a mercy kill of someone who has been infected.

There is a scene wherein an unnamed man leaves a recorder with his note and also some valuable intel and Joel skips past his note, clearly annoyed at the man, to get to the intel. The man’s body has decomposed to a skeleton and there is a clear hole in his skull.

There was a scene where Joel and Ellie saw the bodies of people who had killed themselves and discussed why people might do it in a post-apocalyptic society - fear of a horrible death, essentially, from zombies, infection, starvation, or gangs. Depression was not mentioned but could be considered implied as a reason - it could be taken as an implication that Joel had considered it before.

Joel finds a note from someone who was hiding children from infected. With no way out, they killed the children, covered the bodies with blankets, and killed themself. The bodies are onscreen.

A named character killed himself as a knee-jerk reaction to the death of a loved one.

A(n implied) gay man killed himself because he was infected, which I don't think was intended as a parallel to aids but it can be read that way.

Other:

There are moments where the zombies are somewhat humanized - the Fireflies wear dog tags, meaning that after killing a zombie you can sometimes find out their name and figure out who they were. Maybe you even read a letter belonging to them earlier. Idk this is just kinda fucked up, creeped me out.

Death of a horse (onscreen, named, violent)

Animal hunting (for food)

The zombies are genuinely quite creepy

idk the university holdout kinda upset me, these kids were waiting for people to come for them and no one bothered and now they’ve been dead for years.

A lot of the architecture is ruined and dangerous, might bother people with a germ phobia (I doubt anyone’s had a tetanus shot in ages), or with claustrophobia or agoraphobia.

I’ve probably missed something.

#tlou #the last of us #joel and ellie #joel tlou #sorry if im spamming the tag (idk the etiquite ngl)#should i blaze this?#i am deliberately not tagging this as triggers bc like. yeah its those people im trying to talk to #pls reblog this it took me like an hour

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apolloskazoo · 11 months

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just got my hands on the ep 3 tlou script and I am going to be putting down my favorite moments because I’m absolutely obsessed and nobody can stop me

starting off . super sad . already . just great, already feeling the superb amount of emotional damage :( joel :(

“like you would a dog” idk why I found that funny. he has a kid sitting right in front of him and his first thought is “toss kid beef jerky like dog”

short legs lmao and joel not even slowing down for her. if she wants to walk beside him she’s gonna have to do it herself

love the fact that she wants to talk about guns. is it a crime to let a give a girl a gun every once and a while

I love the fact that joel (someone who has killed people with his bare hands) gets grossed out by some video game ellie likes. idk it’s just so Dad of him and I love it sm

pretty sure those are called Dad Senses. pretty sure ur showing some symptoms of being a good father. pretty sure she is your daughter actually

bill being every introvert ever

frank:

that’s called being gay actually have you ever heard of it

EPISODE 3 AND SHE CAN ALREADY READ HIM. DENIAL IS A RIVER IN EGYPT SAY YOU LOVE EACH OTHER NOBODY’S BUYING THE “IDC ABT U” ACT

I’M SORRY I HAVE NEVER LAUGHED HARDER IN MY ENTRE LIFE - ELLIE LOML PLEASE

If we don’t get any more full scripts I am going to lose it actually. I’m going to scream and cry and throw up and binge watch tlou to the point where I make my own script bc I could not handle that. even if it’s one more. please. answer my prayers.

personally I request the ep 6 script bc I need to know ellie and joel and tommy’s internal thoughts AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

#Ik some ppl like to analyze these things with like paragraphs and paragraphs of thoughts but #my brain cannot do that #it sees a line it thinks “funny :D” or “sad :(“ and that is the extent of it #I’ll leave the analyzing up to other people #and that is ok with me #tlou #the last of us

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deewithani · 1 year

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Watched TLoU episode 3 with my late 40s husband (never played the game) and early 20s son (big fan of the game).

Some reactions...

Spoilers below, of course.

Son was overall very happy with the episode, especially because Bill was more fleshed out. Didn't care that it didn't follow the game, but did mention Bill's original town a few times. I think maybe he really liked that part of the game, idk.

He thought the government is Nazi's joke was hilarious.

During the dinner scene let out a soft "Oh 😔" when he realized what Bill was doing.

Spoke several more times about how he really liked Bill's expanded character and how Frank was a good addition.

Now for my husband. Knew nothing about TLoU going in except Pedro, and that Joel and Ellie traveled together. Had no idea who Tess was, so essentially zero.

Pretty sure he has a man crush on Bill. Was supremely impressed with his survivalist skills. Chastised him for wasting gas when going to Home Depot.

Did not trust Frank when he showed up. Loves watching cooking shows, so everything Bill cooked was fantastic and beautiful and ✨️noticed✨️. Did I mention he didn't trust Frank? Thought Frank was going to kill Bill when he was playing piano. Until he didn't. "Oh, they're gay."

No comments during the kissing and bedroom scene, but watched intently.

After the bedroom scene: "Is that Zach Galifianakis?" He was absolutely certain it was. It wasn't.

The 🍓 scene: Did not trust the strawberries.

When Bill was shot and laying on the kitchen table he announced that Frank was a doctor in the time before. He's made up a fanon backstory for Frank. I'm proud.

The last day, doesn't comment much until the dinner. Then, whoo boy. Noticed right away what Bill served. Heard him very quietly gasp and say "Their first meal together 💔". Heard him sniffling a bit when Bill brought out the wine and added the pills. Then when Bill drinks his own I hear him say "For eternity" and I just start crying even harder at this point.

The rest of the episode he was happy that Joel and Ellie had things left for them, but his investment in the episode was obviously gone.

TL;DR: Gamer son thought the changes were good. Pretty sure non-gamer husband ships Bill and Frank.

#tlou spoilers #tlou episode 3 spoilers #the last of us #tlou

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