And I think having Ellie agree to sacrifice herself, but find out it STILL doesn't "matter", would force her to confront who she really is as more than just a living wrong answer to a trolley problem, which she is at best just beginning to do at the end of 2
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It's probably good there's no way for Ellie to have a genetic kid, bc they could say it inherited her immunity and just make her Joel again and that would be boring
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I mean "no way" by which I mean they COULD but even the classiest version of this which would be having her sleep with a guy once bc she was trying to piss off Dina is something that I think they know would piss off the fans AND be a little unclassy still so they wouldn't do it
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I mean, she could decide she wanted to have a kid and just never ever share the details But I like fungus power armor more. And maybe doing that creates a new fungus that protectively infects people and keeps them from getting zombified by the bad fungus. Like a vaccine.
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I feel like that was the plan, that's the "specimen" Jerry was going to remove from Ellie If you read his notes in the first game it's clear that Ellie has fungus all over, inside. It's just not making her a Runner
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @muddlewait
And obviously she can't get infected with the regular strain, we've seen her get bit more than once So it makes sense that humans just have to become a human/inert cordyceps symbiosis now
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @muddlewait
What's not clear to me is how Ellie knows she's not transmitting it (and whether Jerry considered this). She knows her girlfriends haven't become Runners; I don't see how she could know they're not infected with her strain
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @muddlewait
Which means that if it's sexually transmitted (honestly unlikely with cordyceps, it infects bone and the game acknowledged this) she might have infected Dina and JJ might have been born immune. Also, Abby could definitely have it, and with her it's more likely
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @muddlewait
I dunno, it initially infected people by them eating it Although there's some implication I guess that this only happened because they'd been unwittingly consuming it for a long time
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Anyway without getting into actual plausible science (which is hopeless) just based on in-story logic I refuse to believe Jerry would've jumped straight to needing to dissect her brain if there was any chance that just making the vaccine from her bodily fluids was possible
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Even if he can't isolate enough of the fungus to get it to reproduced that way and they have to keep Ellie in the hospital forever as a human fungus factory surely that's a better outcome than murder, even in just the practical sense The goose that laid the golden eggs and all
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