While it is all down to personal opinion, the advantages listed below for each protagonist are key factors in one's decision as to who is more fun to control. Though it has been years since the events in Salt Lake City, she has a tip that Tommy Miller is living in a settlement near Wyoming. Soon after, they find her tangled in barbed wire. One of the most intriguing characters is Abby in The Last of Us 2. Who is she? Abby is a woman and not a trans character as per speculation; she just has a super fit body. Abby is a hardened but emotionally conflicted young woman. After testing with Woodward, Johnson felt that they immediately had chemistry; Woodward was later cast as the character. Flashbacks in the game reveal Joel taking Ellie on a birthday trip to a museum, and finally admitting the truth to her when she travels to the hospital. In the abandoned hospital basement, Abby searches for some medical supplies while avoiding and killing Infected. However, this rupture did not prevent Abby from having a casual sexual encounter with Owen again, though she admitted she had no emotional investment in the act. [4] Co-writer Halley Gross noted that a goal of the writers was to "create the most multifaceted characters you've seen in games". A member of the Fireflies broken by tragedy when Joel Miller murdered her father Jerry Anderson, Abby made it her mission to avenge Jerry's demise. After Joel fights through the Fireflies and escapes with Ellie, Abby runs to the operating room to check on her father. Owen also reveals that Mel is pregnant. We see that she’s recalling her final memories with Joel, and it’s possible that she’s decided to hold on to her happy memories of him and let go of her desire for revenge. Through it, fans came to know that Joel dies and, well, Abby kills him. A later upgrade even adds a scope to the pistol, ensuring clean headshots from long distances. He worked on the game for three years. Abby, suffering from acrophobia, does not want to look at the view near the edge of the cabin. Some time later, Ellie frees Abby, who sails away on a boat with Lev. Abby wished him well and then proceeded to the food line. [48] Druckmann felt that witnessing Joel's death through Ellie's perspective emphasized the anger of the player. [61] When exploring the idea of making him transgender, the team found it to be an interesting look into the violence that can be found within organized religion. This is becoming increasingly common in new video games where transitions are all but seamless between gameplay and cutscenes. Why Abby Kills [SPOILER] in The Last of Us Part 2 Explained. After her father's death and the disbanding of the Fireflies, Abby distanced herself from her friends, like Owen and Mel, to achieve her personal goal in murdering Joel. Ultimately, Ellie managed to hold Abby under the water, but Abby only survived when an emotional Ellie spared her. Upon realizing that she had abandoned her Firefly morality by joining the WLF, she has another dream about her father, except instead of entering the surgery room and finding him dead like in her nightmares, she enters and finds him smiling at her, indicating she had finally overcome her fathers death, not by killing Joel, but by helping those she cared about.
Abby suggests they retreat to the lodge as a way to escape the horde and they ride out. What is her role in the story of Ellie and Joel? The Last of Us Part II playable characters. She could also out-muscle and defeat other WLF soldiers and easily overwhelming Ellie in melee combat despite Ellie stabbing her.
But, as expected, Ellie doesn’t let them go so easily.
Jocelyn affirming through Twitter her eye colour is blue. Along the way, Abby is forced to make her way through several abandoned houses, and encounters a few groups of Runners. While Tommy survived the encounter, Abby did shoot him without remorse in an effort to avenge her friends. While Owen thought Abby was doing a good deed, Mel saw it as a facade to excuse herself from her cruel acts and other selfish choices she made over the years. Owen decides to stay and explore the aquarium a while longer, and Abby leaves.
Interestingly, Abby in Last of Us 2 is also a playable character, apart from Ellie and Joel. From her perspective, she has lost a father and she must avenge his death. She is voiced and motion captured by Laura Bailey while former Naughty Dog support VFX artist Jocelyn Mettler and Colleen Fotsch served as the face and body model respectively.
[9] Druckmann found that players acted differently when forced to play as Ellie in the first game, and wanted to replicate a similar change with Abby in Part II. Who is better when it comes to survival and fighting the Infected? Ellie overpowers her, but lets her live. Spotting a boat, the pair flee back to the aquarium on it. While she initially thought nothing of Ellie, their deaths prompted her to track Ellie to an old movie theater via a map left at the aquarium, Abby took vengeance on the young woman and Tommy (who had killed two of Abby's friends in revenge), killing Ellie's friend Jesse, crippling Tommy and brutally beating both Ellie and her girlfriend Dina.
She travels with Ellie to Seattle to seek revenge, but is forced to rest in a theater when she reveals her pregnancy with Jesse.