Well... no, not exactly. But yeah, you told me you didn't have a last name when we first met, and that they assigned you one, so-
[Ellie fidgets with her fingers, looking down at them, missing Glimmer's blush. Her own is gone, lost in thinking about things.]
I never used mine at all, after the military. But Joel's last name was Miller.
[Ellie fidgets with her fingers again, pressing on the side of her wrist with a sigh.]
It's stupid, probably- but nobody I know would know Ellie Williams. But if someone I know saw Ellie Miller on the network, they'd find me right away.
... and I just thought.
I don't know. That it would- make him happy.
[Which is fucking stupid, because he's dead, and he never existed in this universe. How's he going to know? But it makes Ellie feel closer to him, helps her remember. Maybe that's what it really is about.]
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[Ellie fidgets with her fingers, looking down at them, missing Glimmer's blush. Her own is gone, lost in thinking about things.]
I never used mine at all, after the military. But Joel's last name was Miller.
[Ellie fidgets with her fingers again, pressing on the side of her wrist with a sigh.]
It's stupid, probably- but nobody I know would know Ellie Williams. But if someone I know saw Ellie Miller on the network, they'd find me right away.
... and I just thought.
I don't know. That it would- make him happy.
[Which is fucking stupid, because he's dead, and he never existed in this universe. How's he going to know? But it makes Ellie feel closer to him, helps her remember. Maybe that's what it really is about.]