The Last of Us
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Mizake
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I would go with that she is immune, and not a carrier. She was the rare case where her immune system was able to fight off the virus, so the Fireflies wanted to use her cells to develop a serum to "cure" other people.
It's like chicken pox. When she got infected she got that scarring on her arm. But people who get chicken pox can also get scarring on their skin. Then, when they develop antibodies to chicken pox, they are essentially immune. Furthermore, they can't infect other people once the infectious period passes. It's like if you got chicken pox as a kid, you aren't going to infect other people when you are an adult and coughing around others.
Malakriss
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I was going off the scene where Ellie bites the one cannibal and declares that she's infected and now so is he. There's also the Medical Pamphlet artifact reference that states the two known ways to contract CBI are: 1) Breathing the spores emitted by the Cordyceps 2) Contact with bodily fluids of a person infected with CBI, usually by being bitten. Combined with Surgeon's Recorder that basically says it's still in her body.
Szlia
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Saying it does not make it true though. She could be lying or she simply could be wrong.
Cybsled
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The game did explain why Ellie was immune through dialogue and recorders when you get to the end of the game. They thought she was immune at first in terms of an antibody response, but when they did further studies, they concluded is what happened is the fungus that infected her mutated and basically became benign, but the fungus was still in her brain. That is why the surgery was going to be fatal...they had no way of extracting the mutated fungus without killing her since it was too mixed up with her brain tissue and they wanted a large quantity, but they admitted it wasn't 100% guaranteed they could turn it into a cure.
Prodigal
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I seem to remember them saying after TLoU that Joel and Ellie’s story was complete... After the old trailer where he was talking to Ellie many assumed he might be a ghost/memory talking to her; I’d be disappointed if he isn’t at least in as a narrative element of the backstory, but I can probably get over him not being the protagonist you play.
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Zindan
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Great...
"..That stability means the opportunity for Ellie to explore her sexuality, as reflected in the passionate lesbian kiss Naughty Dog put front and center in the trailer. "Ellie's a gay character and one of the things we're really excited about with this game, as [Last of Us writer] Neil [Druckmann] started with the first game, is to show how complicated and complex and beautiful she is as a character," Gross said. "Of course, she's a 19-year-old. She's gonna have... crushes, right? That's one of the things we're really jazzed to show. It's a part of her character." - Halley Gross, co-writer.
It feels like every studio is on the verge of trying to one-up every other studio in being as progressive as they can be. I couldn't care less that Ellie is a "gay character", but I don't want this story to spend time focusing on her exploring her sexuality, it is not necessary at all.
"..That stability means the opportunity for Ellie to explore her sexuality, as reflected in the passionate lesbian kiss Naughty Dog put front and center in the trailer. "Ellie's a gay character and one of the things we're really excited about with this game, as [Last of Us writer] Neil [Druckmann] started with the first game, is to show how complicated and complex and beautiful she is as a character," Gross said. "Of course, she's a 19-year-old. She's gonna have... crushes, right? That's one of the things we're really jazzed to show. It's a part of her character." - Halley Gross, co-writer.
It feels like every studio is on the verge of trying to one-up every other studio in being as progressive as they can be. I couldn't care less that Ellie is a "gay character", but I don't want this story to spend time focusing on her exploring her sexuality, it is not necessary at all.
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Zindan
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Did I say there was a problem with having a gay protagonist? It could actually be funny if they went all Witcher like and give Ellie to sleep with multiple npc's throughout the game, but that won't happen, right? lol