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why i think ellie letting abby live was the best choice in tlous 2
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TW// mentions of death and possibly gore!!
i also want to mention that whilst i think that abby sort of grows as a character throughout the game, I can not bring myself to like her and a part of me does wish that ellie had killed her
one last thing, this is by no means hating on the actress or face model of abby!! just the character herself :))
1. abby still suffered and had to live with seeing her father dead on the hospital ground even after brutally murdering joel and so she had to find another way to deal with getting rid of those memories, only causing abby more pain as what she thought would help, didn’t
2. from both ellie and tommy going on their hunts to find/ kill abby, on their way they kill all of her friends which is another thing abby has to deal with, only causing abby to feel regret of her being the fault that her friends are being killed because she dragged them into it
3. along with the previous point, she sees owen, the guy she loves, get killed because of her thirst for revenge of her fathers death. not only this, but because of that thirst, abby loses the relationship she has with owen and has to see him move on with mel, whose pregnant with
his child, and as seen in the beginning of the game, makes abby incredibly jealous. because she was focused on killing joel, she lost the chance at a life with owen and then she has to live with the fact that she’s the reason that he died.
4. throughout the three days that we play her, we see moments of pure terror in her, especially when being chased by sniper tommy, where she realises that joel’s family were out for blood too after his demise. she knew she’d have to watch her back as people wanted her dead
5. i’m not sure if it was stated in the game but with mel and owen dead and abby having betrayed the wlf, abby and lev now have no where safe to go and with the injuries inflicted (by the rattlers and ellie) whilst it most likely won’t be the case, they are set to die a long and
painful death. i really love lev (and yara, :(( rip) so the thought of this hurts but i really just can’t bring myself to like abby.
With all these points concluded l, excluding the last point because I’m guessing they did actually survive, abby living causes a lot more pain and suffering to her than just dying. whilst we don’t know a lot about death and the after life, it’s presumed to be quick and not
painful (depending on the way you go) and if that is the case, death would be way to easy for abby. by ellie choosing to spare her, abby has to live with the consequences of all of her actions and having lost so many friends. if you really wanted ellie to kill abby at the end,
and are mad that she didn’t, abby staying alive causes a far worse fate for her - the mental trauma, the regret, having to find shelter and allies whilst also worrying about any cults that might be out to get both abby and lev. every time i play the game and wish for abby to have
died, i remind myself of this and am able to feel a bit of pleasure with all that she’s going to have to deal with.
I KNOW THIS THREAD WAS KIND OF MESSEY AND MIGHT NOT MAKE SENSES I just really wanted to share my thoughts on her character and the ending of the game.
i also love this game with all my heart and whilst i do understand and acknowledge the reasoning behind abbys actions, i will never be able to forgive her for what she did to joel. yes, he also killed innocent people but i grew such an attachment to him from the first game that
i don’t care for abby, at all really. she and her father were also willing to kill a 14 year old girl for a potential “cure” that wouldn’t even be a cure. it would be a “vaccine” at most but even then, the fireflies were on limited resources and so I highly doubt they would be
able to make the vaccine worldwide. i don’t even think that the vaccine was 100% viable seeing as from the clues and evidence we’re given/find in the hospital, it seems that whilst ellie is immune to the virus, it isn’t in the way that we think as although she’s immune, she’s
still infected, meaning that she technically isn’t immune. I KNOW THAT MIGHT NOT MAKE SENSE but if she’s infected, she can’t be immune right?? meaning that a vaccine wouldn’t work?? i’m not sure but this is just what I think about it. again, i love this game so much and it means
so much to me
