Looking for Ellie!
Looking for an Ellie to play against my Joel in a Joel/Ellie line. The general idea I'm looking for is this:
It's been a couple of years since Joel and Ellie found the Fireflies. Ellie is almost 17 years-old now, and she and Joel are living together in a house in Tommy's settlement. Joel has never told Ellie the truth about what happened to the Fireflies or to Marlene, and maybe Ellie has never asked. It remains an unspoken rift between them, though: Ellie knows something happened, and even though Joel adamantly believes he did the right thing, he carries a lot of silent guilt around with him about what he did. They remain extremely codependent, however - Joel is able to watch his "daughter" grow up, a chance he never had with Sarah, and Ellie never has to fear being abandoned or alone.
But this unspoken rift is starting to widen as Ellie approaches adulthood. Joel is becoming increasingly aware that Ellie could leave him, and Ellie may be becoming increasingly aware that she could lose the only constant she has in her life. And so, in their mutual loneliness and messed up inability to really deal with things that happened during that year of travelling across America to find the Fireflies, things start becoming slowly but surely unhealthier between them. Ellie starts reaching out to Joel in ways that a "daughter" really shouldn't, and Joel tries to put a stop to it at first but finds it harder and harder to.
What I'm looking for is a slow progression of things and a lot of character exploration and development, while delving into Joel and Ellie's codependency and issues. For Joel, I want to explore his issues with grief and guilt, and I want to explore how taking him down a path of developing feelings for Ellie that are sexual in nature would leave him very conflicted.
I'd love to explore the whole May/December dynamic, Daddy/girl dynamics, Ellie losing her virginity to Joel, sexual exploration, and the emotional turmoil and/or fallout that's bound to ensue for the both of them.
I'd love a strong Ellie writer to bounce this storyline off against. If interested, please drop me a comment here! I've screened the comments for privacy.